So, just asking for a friend… if you were to find a person’s work computer open, and this person daily made your life annoying, and you were in Dearborn, MI; would it be wrong to enter a bunch of jihad search terms in their browser and start just clicking links at random. And if so, how wrong? Is this the equivalent of SWATting or just, you know, a fun prank between co-workers? I need to know in the next couple of weeks because this idea is very attractive to me today, but I may not be my best self.
Oh boy, here’s the TRUTH on vaping. It may not be “completely” safe. Much like eating, or using fitness equipment for exercise, if you do it an infinite number of times, eventually it may be fatal. God forbid that peasants without multiple medical degrees be able to judge their own risk tolerance (even if wrongly).
I also “hope” John Brennan sues Donald Trump. Its the ultimate no lose situation for me.
Add me to the list of people who think “Confidential Mode” in Gmail is not confidential to anyone that matters.
TOP. MEN. in Venezuela tie currency to oil-backed blockchain that many think is a scam. Remember, folks, this is where Elizabeth Warren wants to end up with her Supervised Capitalism or whatever she is calling it.
My three year old asked if he could listen to the end of this before I dropped him off at daycare. I figure we’re about eight years from “…and that’s how the band that wrote ‘Lost in the Supermarket’ ended up selling Jaguars to a song about London after a nuclear strike.” But you gotta start with the catchy ones.
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Are you in Japan with Straffinrun?
From Straffinrun’s perspective, we are all in Japan with him.
*Gets morning coffee and decides to check out morning lynx*
Am I still dreaming?
Or is this burning an eternal flame?
Sorry, it’s gonorrhea
Gorrammit. Now I’m just going to leave it there.
It wouldn’t have changed the URL anyway, would it?
They sold Jaguars to a song?
They sure did.
I’d take a Jaguar if they were selling it FOR a song.
Get two so that you can drive one while your mechanic works on the other.
Beat me to it. They might go for that deal as they’ll make up the price on the maintenance charges.
You actually need three, since one needs to get stripped for parts.
http://obswww.unige.ch/~wildif/cars/tech_talk/electricals_frame.htm
Lucas Electrics: on/off/flicker
I don’t know. The F-Type is so cool I might just take my chances.
I would give away body parts for an E-Type.
They are spectacular. Probably cost you a kidney, though.
[sells one of Tundra’s kidneys to get the money for an E-Type]
I’ll sell his other kidney and we’ll get a matched set!
Take a close look at those kidneys…
You’ll be lucky to get 2003 Toyota Corrolla money. One with 250K miles on it.
Just like those kidneys.
Well, Ted, I guess we picked the wrong week to harvest Tundra’s kidneys.
They’ve got some mileage, but they still seem to run ok…
It is a thing of beauty. I’ll take the coup.
Definitely.
I passed up chance to buy a Jaguar for a song, and luckily that song was “White Christmas”, and I made billions.
Since no once else did it: Old joke.
Q: Why don’t the Brits make computers?
A: Because they can’t figure out how to make them leak oil.
*Readies basket for flying vegetables
Lol. As the owner of one, we call that ‘rustproofing’.
Oh boy, here’s the TRUTH on vaping. It may not be “completely” safe.
It’s safer than government.
“To characterize chemical exposures during vaping, the researchers recruited five e-cigarette users. They collected saliva samples before and after a 15-minute vaping session and analyzed the samples for chemicals that are known to damage DNA. To evaluate possible long-term effects of vaping, the team assessed DNA damage in the cells of the volunteers’ mouths. The researchers used mass-spectrometry-based methods they had developed previously for a different study in which they evaluated oral DNA damage caused by alcohol consumption.”
You set out to evaluate possible long-term effects with five people for 15 minutes?
And how do they know the damage wasn’t caused by all the previous cigarette use?
Do I get first, second, and third GIFs?
You’ll get nothing and like it, buster.
BRETTLY K. SUGGINS! How dare you countermand me!
Me today.
Engage at own risk.
#metoday
You call that a splatter zone?
This is a splatter zone.
BRETTLY?
I’ve been thinking it was short for Brettholomew this whole time.
Woo-hoo, Ted wins the trifecta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjN-W64xwg8
one man triple play
Hat trick!
Hat trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCvAZT0Xktw
Another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlAvc7Z7hc
Defense Distributed publishes a call to arms. Either host the files, or pay the tax to those who do.will.
In case anyone missed it — download yours today!
God damn, Cody Wilson is so awesome.
I just threw in $200.
That makes it JUST AS DANGEROUS as smoking cigarettes.
To be funded by a combination of tobacco companies, nanny-statists, and various killjoys.
The Precautionary Principle in action.
Even though we know damn well that vaping is a whole lot safer than smoking, under the Precautionary Principle it must be banned until it is proven that vaping is not harmful.
Yeah, well, they can take that “principle” print it on an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of paper, roll it into a tube, and shove it up their ass.
Even worse, it APPEALS TO YOUTH!
Peak California?
https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/1030511317990273024
There is no such thing as peak California. We can always get even more retarded. Just you wait and see what happens tomorrow.
Now banning plastic straws seems slightly less absurd.
It’s not like they can give them juice boxes anymore.
The graph is assymptotic. We’ll never reach the peak.
Thank you
Tragically no, this is California only getting started.
I don’t think you ought to be searching for jihad stuff on a coworker’s computer, but there’s no reason you can’t take a screenshot of whatever’s up on their screen, save it as the desktop background, close everything, then giggle your ass off as they struggle to make anything work.
Evil genius!!
I have a colleague on vacation…I wish I could login to his desktop and do this!
Once one of my co-workers wrote a little app that did nothing but show a dialog window that said “Your computer’s clock has been adjusted for daylight savings time.” Every day I’d log in and that would pop up. At first I ignored it, then day after day it would show up and I’d get more and more pissed, and he’d just quietly laugh in his cube. Simple yet devious.
I remember the one that would play “I’m a stupid idiot who can’t be trusted with internet access” on a loop and bounce around the screen whenever your mouse moved inside the border of the close prompt.
That is diabolically brilliant.
The question is, are you going to mess with transparency for the UI or hide the taskbar while doing that? There are pros and cons for both options.
I once made the background on my dad’s computer the TI-99/4A start screen.
Many years ago, when VAXes were the thing, we had programming wars where we would overlay a crude operating system on top of the standard one in someone’s account. Most commands were passed through and executed normally, but a few were not. Sometimes something subtle like logins into remote computers A and B were switched. Or some commands were made to do nothing.
Once the mark realized what was going on, he would have to quickly hit escape when he was first logging onto his account.
Many, many, years ago I was taking a class for work in another city. We each had our own desktop computer running Windows NT(!). In between sessions I poked around on the computer and found that I could set the screen saver. I made the message “Drive C: formatted. Press any key to continue.” The class instructor grabbed me later and said, “You got me. I’ve seen everything that the students have thrown at me but that was the first one that made my blood run cold.”
I count that in my “Win” column.
… Hobbit
Monday Morning Links
Maybe in commietopia but not in the US of A.
I am… in a world… of SHIT!
John Candy in his finest dramatic role.
Hehe
Wait.. WUT?
Why are you not stomping Private Pyle’s guts out?!?!
Because we’re still on Parris Island even though we graduated in the last scene. And we still have rifles even though we would have turned them in a week before graduation. That’s why
SirGunnery Sergeant!It was sad seeing him get shot, but if there is one thing to take away from that scene, it doesn’t matter what rank you are, the guy with the rifle is in charge.
There was, decades ago, a television doc. about the USMC Mountain Warfare School. The instructor/cadre really drove that point home during the field exercise – “The man with the rifle is in charge. If he is offering to trade with you, it might be wise to do so as he could just as easily shoot you and take your stuff.”
“Good. Bad. I’m the guy with the gun.”
Groovy link bro
Played for me.
The whole point of Marine Boot Camp is that the guy in charge is the guy in charge regardless of guns. I always thought that the scene didn’t belong in the movie and was written and directed by guys who knew nothing about the experience.
The whole movie was kind of silly but the way Kubrick ended both halves was really strange.
Agreed. I hate that scene too. Because in real boot camp, Private Joker would have tuned up Private Pyle with that night stick immediately.
I liked a lot of the other boot camp scenes though.
You and your “facts”!
The morning of graduation, our senior drill instructor snuck in before lights on and told us to stack our mattresses in front of the door to the DI house. Which of course resulted in a torrent of cursing from the drill instructor inside, while our SDI laughed his ass off. It confirmed the suspicion I’d had that they hated each other.
Drill Instructors were some of the funniest bastards I ever met.
Yep. I still chuckle thinking about my drill sergeants.
Now hit my mother-f’in th……well, dang.
Brett was just planning ahead to the next time Sloopy needs coverage.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/the-dismal-frontier
Star Trek Discovery bashing by a colleague of Nathan Robinson. Pick your poison…
Those are fighting words.
Cue Pon Farr fight music.
And deeply shadowed sweaty faces.
*grabs Vulcan Lirpa*
(It’s hilarious that the linked video is considered possibly inappropriate)
(their algorithms suck balls)
This seems more appropriate. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
That’s not an entirely inaccurate statement. It’s also what makes Shatner so awesome.
+1 TJ Hooker
I’ve recently concluded that Alan Alda and other who were in M*A*SH were terrible over-actors.
This dolt must be one of those weirdos who thinks that the motion picture was better than the wrath of khan.
So Red Letter Media?
Never going to be satisfied. Never.
She’s kind of an anti-hero, if anything. Kirk was the main character in season one of TOS, and Picard was in Season one of TNG – the ensemble evolves into its role.
‘Star Trek Discovery’ is not ‘Star Trek’. ‘The Orville’ is the new ‘Star Trek’.
You agree with Nathan Robinson’s rag?
I guess that was what I liked about it – the TNG especially, was an ensemble of Mary Sues (qualifier, I love Star Trek, and loved TNG) – they may not have always been at their best, but they always had the best intentions. In Discovery, even the good/competent people make selfish asshole or just stupid decisions sometimes, and even the really evil people can be charismatic and interesting. It was silly at times (as are all of the past Star Treks at times), but for the most part it felt pretty real.
The Orville is wonderful; knowing that the vast majority of critics hated it makes me like it even more.
Get ready for the Truth Force
On Monday, Neil deGrasse Tyson, professional scientist and amateur philosopher, signified that he wanted a new force: Truth Force! He tweeted this bit of genius to the world at large:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
✔
@neiltyson
I’m okay with a US Space Force. But what we need most is a Truth Force — one that defends against all enemies of accurate information, both foreign & domestic.
Yes. What we need is a ministry of truth. And we need it to be run literally figuratively Adolf Drumpfenfurher and his white-supremacist government. Leftist logic continues to astound me. Neil should stick to physics because government and philosophy are not his thing.
“A good start: The National Academy of Sciences, which “…provides objective, science-based advice on critical issues affecting the nation.”
We want to provide advice. With force.
Question for Neil and Bill Nye – so if a climate “scientists” predicts increased hurricane activity due to global warming and it doesn’t materialize for 10 years, does the ministry get to strip them of their credentials and have them jailed for causing a public panic and pissing away tax dollars? Because if so, I’m in.
+1 Italian Earthquake
A government ministry would only be upset at saving tax dollars.
Neil should stick to physics because government and philosophy are not his thing.
My understanding is that Tyson’s physics was mostly pretty workaday stuff. Nothing bad. Just nothing Earth shattering. He real forte is as a showman.
You Know Who Else’s real forte is as a showman?
PT Barnum?
Paul Stanley?
Luó Zhìxiáng?
Liberace ?
David Lee Roth?
Tesco Vee?
Don’t these people get that what they are advocating is exactly what 1984 was warning us about? Talk about clueless.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlAZ79xUcAANn4A.jpg
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Huh. I even have a good song for that.
But you gotta start with the catchy ones.
I couldn’t agree more. You are a good dad.
For tomorrow.
For tonight
Fuck my IT department with a rusty spoon! They’ve been knowingly circulating a defective model of computers, wiping them clean when somebody complains about a hardware issue and sending it off to the next person complaining about another hardware issue. I’m on my second one of this model, and they’ve both been awful. I took it to IT while I was in CA last week for an occasional crash issue, and now it crashes multiple times per hour. I asked them whether a trip down a few flights of stairs would fix my issues, but they said that the global IT group would just send me another of the same model.
Isn’t it in the firm’s best interests to buy you a top notch machine to keep you up and going so you can bill 73 minutes each and every hour?
I’m in house, so they don’t give a shit about my productivity as long as I get my work done.
they don’t give a shit about my productivity
as long as I get my work done.
Not sure how you get the latter without the former, but whatevs.
Dell Inspiron? Dell anything?
Let’s talk about the Deep State. The big problem with the Deep State is that these guys absolutely loathe libertarianism, not necessarily for ideological reasons, but for practical reasons that reducing their power and money is something they don’t want to happen. This is why even a smaller spending increase is met with such fervent opposition. This is why cocktail parties and TOP MEN will not save us. And now Big Tech, Big Business, Big Science, Academia, the Public Schools and the MSM are all allied with the Deep State so what are we to do? The only guy really willing to stand up to the Deep State is Trump only because the Deep State doesn’t like him personally and he is arrogant and thin-skinned enough to attack them.
Why should America be the exception to the rule?
Given enough time, every other empire collapsed under its own weight. Ours is the Empire of the Dollar. When it fails, we fail.
“Stevie Wonder links Aretha Franklin’s cancer to ‘global warming’
“We have to celebrate her life and continue the legacy by letting people of all the various genres hear the music that influenced us all,” Wonder told CBS This Morning’.
Wonder drew a line between the increase of cancer and the ignorance of global warming. “I just feel that all these various diseases that we have and all that is happening in the world in part is because there are those who don’t believe in global warming, don’t believe that what we do affects the world,” he said. “Heat affects the world and affects us. I just hope that people will grow up out of the foolishness and know that we all, by how we think, how we view, how we treat others, we will never unlock the key until we truly let go of the hatred, the bigotry, the evilness, the selfishness. We do that and we can unlock some of those things that keep us in this place”.”
http://www.climatedepot.com/2018/08/20/stevie-wonder-blames-aretha-franklins-cancer-on-global-warming-all-these-various-diseases-that-we-have-and-all-that-is-happening-in-the-world-in-part-is-because-there-are-those-who-don/
I wonder if he links his blindness to global warming, too.
This strikes me as very superstitious.
I see what you did there.
Stevie didn’t.
Stevie Wonder for Redfield Palma: get the same gear I shoot; all my target rifles have iron sights.
Mr Wonder is a paid spokesperson for Redfield; YMMV.
Correction, he linked it to the lack of belief in global warming. Literally, Gaia killed Aretha because people don’t believe in climate change.
He’s looking for higher ground.
Because of the rising seas.
The credentials of Dr. Stevie Wonder are unimpeachable.
I can’t trust a guy who fakes being blind…
…you know what? I’m gonna give Stevie a pass on this one. I think Stevie Wonder gets to advocate one ridiculously stupid notion and still not be mocked into oblivion, by me at least. I’m just gonna file this with advanced age, drugs, and bein’ rich and weird.
Malachi Hogg.
“he also seriously believes in Congressional age limits.”
You know who else believed in age limits?
God?
Pederasts?
The Sandmen?
That’s the one I was going for.
OMWC?
damn your nimble fingers
Not really. Brett covered it up there ^^
OMWC?
OMWC?
Richard Basehart?
Your Mom?
The Catholic Church?
Menudo?
Outlander! Outlander! We have your woman!
Piglet’s gone off-script!!!!
*Begins popping popcorn*
Great idea for a cocktail hour snack today. Thanks!
His hero is Occasional-Cortex.
L.O.L.
Its Gauleiter Hogg, dammit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6079929/Inside-Cara-Delevingnes-star-studded-birthday-Model-celebrates-lavish-French-mermaid-bash.html
It’s like the last aisle at Home Depot.
Wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood.
Sorry man, I wouldn’t kick them out of bed for eating crackers.
Beckinsale seems so intelligent….articulate. Normally I ignore actresses.
Kate and Margot can abuse me anyday.
Underworld is proof of that…
I could take or leave any of those broads, but Kate Beckinsale has a cot reserved in the bunker when the zombies happen.
Look, if you think you’re getting into my bunker with me and Kate, you’re crazy.
So is Twitter and Facebook evidence that the libertarian technophilia over the internet was a bit misplaced? Surely you guys never thought that Silicon Valley would want to censure anyone and actively ally with the government to do so…
Gee, I don’t know Winston.
Good answer
I don’t know that technophilia was as widespread as you describe. Dorks like Gillespie and Bailey probably believe that every new device brings us closer to Utopia, but I would think most libertarians recognize social media, and most of the people that use it, as merely tools.
Affordable, global social media is mob rule.
Ten years ago I believed in democracy…at least republics….as ideal. Now I’m with Satre: hell is other people……having the right to vote. I’m stocking up A/C components and praying for the apocalypse.
Who are these TOP MEN who should be ruling us then Don?
Winston’s mom for dictator! So long as you’re getting fucked, vote for someone with experience!
Text to image generator:
http://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com/
I typed “Fart Box” and nothing happened!
China drinks more Budweiser than the US.
Well, there ARE three times as many of them.
Do they rebrand it as “The Party Chairman of Beers”?
That’s because it’s made with rice.
Explains the taste and headache.
OT: I’m leaving for my vacation tonight – a couple of days in Athens followed by a week’s sail in the Ionians. Has anyone ever flown Emirates? Are they any good?
Also, does anyone have any interest in my ramblings about sailing as an essentially libertarian sport?
Is that you Nick?
Count that as one “No”.
I’d be interested in that. I sail and know that the USCG loath private sailors/boaters because they can’t force us to use tracking devices.
Don’t drink the complimentary wine.
Emirates is excellent as far as airline experience goes.
International waters FTW.
Depends, are you doing the champagne & caviar showers or sitting in the back of the bus?
Emirates? First is great, business is sub-optimal with angled seats. I know nothing about coach.
^Spoken like a true Sheiklord.
My parents were boat hippies. From birth to about 13 years old I lived on a 32′ schooner, sailing around the Florida Keys and Caribbean islands. So… yes, yes please with blow-boat stuff!
The blow-boat is where you get your cocaine on the high seas?
Oh the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see.
Im late, but what you just did there……I saw it.
*shuffleboard applause
Emirates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
Was expecting Jennifer Anniston.
Sure, I had a Catamaran for many years, I would love to hear your take…
The flight attendants wear burkas in coach, but belly dancing silks in first class.
Yes, please do write it up for us.
Have a great vacation!
I know you are but what am I?
ov. Cuomo on Sunday stepped up his attack on President Trump, blasting him as “un-American,” “King Trump,” the “great divider-in -chief of this nation,” and someone whose moral compass points to “sexism, racism, bigotry and intolerance.”
“It’s un-American for this President to be spreading the division among us when it was his job to bring unity to all of us,” Cuomo said while speaking at a service at the First Baptist Church of Crown Heights in Brooklyn.
He compared Trump, a native New Yorker, to a neighborhood racist.
“Every neighborhood has it, the scared small man in the house with the high fence and the shiny mailbox, afraid of people who are different. Afraid of people who are a different religion, who speak a different language, who come from a different place,” Cuomo said. “The person is threatened by diversity and uses anger to hide the fear.”
Um…sure, Whatever you say, Andrew.
I’m sure he’d much rather blather on about Trump than have to address his lousy record as governor.
Gov. Cuomo on Sunday stepped up his attack on President Trump, blasting him as “un-American,”
He should form a committee.
Afraid of gun owners….
Says the guy with a personal security detail.
Any of you guys built a kit car? I’m looking at the factory five mk4 roadster. Is it something you can do in a garage with standard tools?
Nope, but a buddy of mine built a Lancair kit plane. The vast majority of the work was done in his garage.
Factory Five has been around forever. Gotta believe they have their shit together. Still building them on Mustang chassis?
The complete kit is built on a tube frame. The partial needs a donor car.
The majority of kit car builds are never completed. Owners vastly underestimate the amount of work that needs to be done. This is not something you’ll bolt together in a few weekends. This is something that will take months and months, perhaps years, even if you work on it every single day. Talk to other owners of these things first and ask them how much trouble it was, what their biggest frustrations were, what kinds of tools they needed, what would have made everything so much easier if they’d had one, etc. They are your best resource.
Hmm. I’m not sure I want to put years into a project. 6 months to a year sure. Thanks.
Find something fun that only needs some TLC. A kit sounds an awful lot like a resto.
This. Way more fun to drive than to build (build being different than tinker with).
This probably makes more sense, but I like the idea of a retro roadster that is all new.
There are quite a few for sale here in various states of assembly.
If you haven’t done anything like this before imagine the worst it could possibly be, multiply by 10 and you’ll be underestimating it. Mad Scientist is right below – most are never finished.
I won’t admit to myself, nevermind a bunch of internet randos how long it’s taking me to not finish restoring a pretty simple car and I’d done a lot of wrench turning before I started.
It’s still one of the best looking cars ever, though.
I also recommend building via montage. Cue up some Kenny Loggins music, get a few friends, you’ll have that thing built in a weekend.
Not me, but I’m interested in the responses. The original is my all time favorite car. I saw a replica in FL this spring in a parking lot at Publix. Thing was awesome and the dude was quite nice. I can only imagine what a real one is like.
I can only imagine what a real one is like.
Too valuable to drive.
If you can afford one, you can afford to drive it. But I get what you mean and unfortunately more folks are doing just that. They were meant to be driven!
I’ve encountered a handful of real ones and, honestly, the replicas are nicer cars. Every blemish in a real Cobra is considered part of its patina. The replicas handle just as well, if not better in some cases, and you don’t have to be terrified about wrecking a million dollar car when you wring its neck.
I understand, but that is what I like about them. I much prefer driving my low mileage 1977 Ford van to the newer vehicles. Plus VENT WINDOWS FTW!
Vent windows yes, flipper windows no.
/still traumatized by growing up in the back seat of a Pinto wagon
Can’t you just pay them to put it together?
If they deliver a finished car to you, they are an automobile manufacturer, with all the attendant regulatory bullshit. If you assemble it yourself, it’s homemade and exempt from that rigmarole.
I’d have to hire a mechanic because no way.
21 months, but damn is that thing beautiful!
Way cool build!
More reasonable and day-to-day for me is fixing up old cars. Pick what you really want to do, buy the old bucket job, get it going, and then slow progress towards heaven as cash and time allow.
The question for me is what do you value:
a/ cruising in a classic just for the sheer stock, retro nostalgia of it
b/ quarter-mile muscle
c/ handling / cornering
d/ touring
e/ badge loyalty ( eg: dedicated Hupmobile man )
f/ utility fetish: jeeps, panel vans, Nomads, minibus, Corvair, semi tractor, deuce and half
g/ older the better: T-model, etc
If you’ve got cash to burn on a car, the fun news is you can always sell your mistakes at a loss and just start over.
This is what I started to type. Don nailed it.
A,C and D. Also the experience of building something yourself.
I like handling, but that’s hit and miss: I can’t calculate what I need on the back of an envelope; I’d hate buying-and-trying to find my way to a good chassis. So I’d buy the handling I need
and get on that engine! I’m all about the mill. Cams and rockers and bores and strokes and compression is straight-up math…gimme.
There’s a tiny part of me that would like to learn transmissions, but those always seemed like commodities to me: buy, plug, and play.
If anybody needs Quadrajet advice, shout out.
Handling has nerd stuff too. Spring rates, compression, rebound, centers of gravity, etc.
I just started cracking open my engine after getting my handling and brakes dialed in. Even then I’m still adjusting things on the coilovers.
Buy a car that you will enjoy working on, buy some track time with an instructor, then figure out if you need to address handling or power.
Always address the brakes first…
Hang on a minute. Why is Florida Man interested in handling? The only curved roads you have in Florida are highway entrance ramps.
I did four fast laps around a roundabout the other morning. Fun is where you find it.
Around the island, I drive the speed limit, and all the bad-asses rip past me the second it goes four lanes wide.
A half mile later I’ll blow by them on the outside of the roundabout, again, doing the speed limit…in an old crew-cab work truck.
I’m amazed at the folks who think driving means stomp the gas, then stomp the brakes, then stomp the gas. I’m also amused at passengers who start praying anytime I approach 20% of a vehicle’s performance envelope. These people do not deserve to roam free or rule themselves.
h/ all of the above.
https://m.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2160397/just-how-much-free-speech-can-we-afford
There is nothing wrong in principle to regulate or even ban some speeches, even for societies where free speech is legally protected.
Except for the principle of law and equality under it. . .
Free speech is not binary
Yes it is, period. Also, it is not “free speech”, it is the “freedom of speech”, and you either have it or you don’t.
They sampled 5 vapers. GTFOH
One of the biggest fiascos of my career came about because my buddy left his work station unlocked and I was going to fuck with him.
Back in those days we used Lotus Notes for everything. All company email ran through Notes. We had just upgraded from version 3.3 to version 5.
When I saw my buddy’s work station unlocked, I was going to change his signature to something stupid. So I went in and made the changes that worked for v3.3. But the signature didn’t change! So my buddy returned and I went back and fucked around with my own email signature to see if I could find out how you changed it in v5. I made a bunch of changes with some pretty juvenile edits. I never figured out how to change it for v5 and moved onto something else.
Fast forward about 6 months. One of the cute secretaries came to me to ask how I had changed my signature in Notes because she wanted to change hers. The conversation went like this:
Her: I want to modify my signature line in Notes
Me: Sorry. I don’t know how to do that anymore.
Her: I’m talking about in email where you customized your sig.
Me: I knew how to do it in v3.3, but that doesn’t work anymore.
Her: NO. I want to change mine. Why won’t you help?
Me: Because I don’t know how. I can’t change my sig anymore.
Her: I’m talking about in email, you know how you have your sig that says “Jimbo – Smart Ass”
Me: I don’t know – wait. What did you say?
Her: Your email. You know where it says “Jimbo – Smart Ass”, I want to modify mine like that.
Yup. After frantically checking my email folders, I had been sending out a custom sig with my name and “Smart Ass” to everyone. What had happened is that the modifications had been moved from bottom right to upper left of the email form. I hadn’t been looking there and so didn’t notice.
When I was running around the office worried I was going to be fired, it was a 50/50 split between people laughing hysterically because they hadn’t noticed it yet, and the other half saying, “yeah, I noticed, but it seemed like something you would do.”
I finally calmed down because I realized that if I was going to be fired over that, it would have already have happened. But fuck, I sent email to our CEO, to clients, to just about everyone with that stupid shit in my email.
So my advice is to ignore the temptation to fuck with your coworker’s unlocked work station. It will only go bad.
Tiger High FTW !
We were working long and late to meet a deliverable deadline. To ease the tension one guy wrote a joke section. He was about the smartest person I’ve ever known and had an incredible sense of humor. The section was hilarious. Nothing mean or vulgar, just really funny (and true). The Book Boss said “Marty,make sure you delete that before we deliver.” “Yeah, Boss.”
Two days after delivery the customer PM called our PM and said “You might want to look at Section 3.2.x and resubmit.” We deleted that section, resubmitted and nothing else was ever said.
I was laughing hysterically just imagining it.
*ponders changing email sig*
“Hooters Is Shutting Down Locations, Restrategizing After Recent Study Says Millennials Aren’t That Into Boobs
Another day, another opportunity to blame millennials for the demise of… well, anything. This time, you can shit on the group for causing the potential downfall of boob-friendly bar and restaurant chain Hooters. According to a recent study from the fine folks over at Pornhub, millennials are less interested in breasts than their elders. To get specific: “Pornhub visitors between the ages of 18 to 24 are 19% less likely to search for breasts when compared to all other age groups, but visitors aged 55 to 64 are 17% more likely to search.”
Millennials’ porn preferences appear to be indicative of a wider trend. To use a fire portmanteau, “breastaurants” like Hooters and the more risque Twin Peaks are dealing with a loss of interest in breasts, which is affecting their business. The number of Hooters locations in the U.S. had already dropped by more than 7 percent from 2012 to 2016, and sales had stagnated, according to Business Insider.”
https://www.complex.com/life/2017/08/hooters-shutting-down-because-millennials-arent-that-into-boobs
I am picturing Q with a single tear on his face.
Is it lack of interest, or more competition? The Houston area hasn’t (AFAIK) lost any Hooter’s locations, but it’s added several Twin Peaks locations, and there’s a place near me called Tight Ends that appears to be part of a smaller chain. Heck, they opened a boob-themed coffee shop in League City (southeastern ‘burb of Houston).
There are several Tilted Kilts about Texas, but the website does not list the one in Bedford….closed?
I am afraid there may be nothing that millennials can’t ruin.
Do they do the hourly dance routines at Hooters in the States?
I don’t remember it, but then again I was drinking. The girls were not as attractive as those though.
Thats another thing, they advertise with girls that are 10’s and in reality my average waitress at hooters is typically a 6 and that’s being generous. Over promising and under delivering is not a good business model.
Millennials are the worst.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s because their food is shit and beer selection suck. But yes, it must be the millennial lack of interest in boobs. Also I can look at boobs all day on pornhub, getting to google girls I can’t have isn’t as big a thrill as it was in 1995.
*oogle damnit oogle!
Yeah, I prefer Tilted Kilt. Hooters’ food sucks.
Yep, I can get teh boobs from Q right here on my laptop. My house wings and other foodstuff are far superior to what I can get there.
concentric titillation
first they won’t show their ankles, then we get hot when we see a little
then they won’t show their boobs, but they make an industry out of shaping them and producing peek-shows out of them
Now there are boobs everywhere for the asking; old guys still care because that was the fall-back trench chicks held when they were in high school. Millennials have seen everything already and probably can’t get erect unless they’re watching nuclear fetish stuff: gril-on-gril anal electro torture throbbers in anime puppy play Hermione costumes, not that I know anything about that.
*closes DuckDuckGo*
How…how did you know?
Back in the day there were no shirts. Still happens in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea. Think about that my friend.
I trust the statistics from Pornhub about as much as I trust the statistics from China.
OK, but no one is going to open a restaurant called “DVDA”
Guess who wrote this?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1914/11/the-mailed-fist-and-its-prophet/306393/
Gee Winston, who?
His mom.
She doesn’t really write, she’s more into dic…tation.
After reading that he comes across as little more than an Edwardian Thomas Friedman…
It was Edward Scissorhands.
Where is Vincent Price when you need him?
Edward Scissorhands.
https://twitter.com/JodieHogswood/status/1031524637862232064
She seems nice.
I smell troll/parody but what do I know, nothing sunrises me anymore when it comes to feminism.
Your meaning is just now dawning on me.
Breast feeding is for poor people.
I suddenly feel poor
Uh … circumcision doesn’t really do that, Jodes.
Tariq Nasheed posting black on white violence like it must be a good thing.
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1031607961716703232
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1031587275728211969
Violence against white people isn’t violence because shut up racist.
This is in essence what the people retweeting and replying defending Nasheed are saying. Maybe we do live in a world secretly controlled by a white supremacist system because Nasheed and company make some pretty great controlled opposition. If their like keeps it up the only thing they’ll accomplish is breathing life back into the Neo-Nazi groups and the KKK.
I still think he’s performance art.
Barbarians…..
Well those threads are shitholes
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/andrew-gamble/hard-right-and-open-left
From the same asswipes that were accepting rationing a decade after WWII ended, rather than putting heads on spikes.
“Decentralized.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Re: the open computer, back in the day, one of the guys who worked for me made that mistake. We were using Macs, and despite my general ineptitude with computers, I knew how to use ResEdit. So I turned all of his icons invisible. He got back to his desk, saw that every goddam program and folder he had was GONE, and went into a total freakout. “THERE’S MONTHS OF WORK MISSING!”
“Don’t you back up?”
“Uhhhh…”
“Heh, heh, heh.”
After he was nearly in tears and despondent, one of my brighter young engineers figured out exactly what must have happened, fixed it for him, and sourly commented in my direction, “Apple should not make ResEdit available to civilians.”
So he learned an important lesson about backups!
https://www.thecrimson.com/column/after-the-fact/article/2018/7/24/levin-leftward-ho-libertarians/
Looks like that Reason Troll “Openborders libertarian” is actually too accurate.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1031400006769471488
Thirsty.
Welp looks like we are on our own: Florida Man Apprentice steals evil black objects from enforcer’s squad car
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/20/florida-teen-arrested-after-stealing-police-weapons-flaunting-it-on-social-media-officials.html
The cop will, of course, be disciplined for not securing his weapon and equipment properly.
Hmmmmm it looks like we didn’t QC the memory wipe on this one, oh well. Your problem now
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/402686-miami-herald-endorses-house-candidate-who-claims-she-was-taken
Remember, this is Florida Woman. You probably didn’t actually get to her. It’s just a combination of the heat and various hallucinogenic products that makes her believe such.
‘“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” Rodriguez said in the interview. She said she was visited by three large, blonde beings.’
I think it was Abba.
Don’t be silly. Everyone knows Abba is four people.
But one is brunette.
See! See!
IT’S ALL TRUE
#bluewave is coming. The buyer’s remorse a few years later ought to interesting.
TW: wonkery
Yeah, I’ll believe the blue wave when I see it. State dynamics are influenced by national politics, sure, but for one thing they’re also oftentimes uniquely local affairs. As a case-in-point, the governorship of Maryland will come down to the incumbent, a Republican, and Ben Jealous, a lunatic. Ben Jealous, despite being a black Democrat promising free everything for everyone, will almost certainly lose. I wouldn’t be surprised if “establishment” Democrats in blue-as-blue-gets Maryland rally to Hogan’s side. Because he’s a working-class Republican, and that locks down the Eastern Shore and Frederick, but he also does stuff like ban fracking and send money to the schools, so the hippies and teachers love him. He’s pretty much a conservative Democrat, if that makes sense, or maybe an old-school Dem pre-Progressivism.
For another thing, Trump. You can’t treat these elections as the usual Red vs Blue seesaw anymore. There’s a third and fourth side: the radical leftists like Karla Marx (Occasional Cortex, if you will) and the MAGA Republicans. They’re threats to their own party establishments, which makes them a backlash vote against establishment candidates while still keeping the vote in the party. The mindset that put Trump in office didn’t go away after he got elected, he was just the first major election it influenced. It’s still going strong, I think.
No one has linked this yet?
South Africa gets right down to Business
Enjoy the coming starvation.
Yes but worth Relinking, the White SA people are well and truly fucked if they don’t bail out soon…..
This isn’t Race, it’s Communism, plain and Simple,
It’s tribal politics and communism. Pretty lethal mix.
It’s tribal
politicssavagery andcommunismbarbarism.Yes, it’s both of those, and you’re right. Tribal politics is the motive and communism is the preferred excuse.
“You’re our people and we’re going to help you”
Of course they leave out the starvation that comes with the free land.
The question is where can they go?
Leave the country. Go to the UK or some former colony thereof.
The question is whether I’d burn the farm to the ground before leaving.
I really can’t understand how a country can look at what happened to Zimbabwe when they did the same exact thing and thing ‘Boy, I sure want some of that!”
They are of Dutch Descent
Russia is offering Land
Australia is giving Refugee status
and a Shit ton of SA Black Farmers are pissed Because they know they can’t run a Farm on Unicorn farts, and Welcome the help from the White farmers
I would hate to wake up in the morning and think “Hm, Russia’s looking attractive about now”.
Well, they could go back to the homeland and grow Tulips. Trump should also offer them refugee status, as they actually deserve it because their lives are really being threatened. Then the media can call him racist. Oh wait, nothing changes.
Nah. I’d leave it in tip top shape and photograph every square inch. Nothing beats a good before and after picture.
California?
“California?”
Why do you want to punish them, they already lost their land?
The family of a buddy of mine moved to Australia. My friend moved to central Europe, married well, and now has citizenship in that country. He attempted to get citizenship in the UK but was rejected because his ancestry is Dutch.
They’re too busy admitting Pakistanis anyway.
And Somalians, etc. It’s hard to commit national suicide otherwise.
“The question is where can they go?”
I think the Aussies have already offered them immigration. The thing is, they’ve lost their land and most of Aussieland is bone dry, baking hot, and full of poison bitey things. Maybe they can go into opal mining?
“This isn’t Race, it’s Communism, plain and Simple”
Did you figure this out by the dude in full red Che get up?
What’s Afrikaans for “Kelo”?
Obama was there a month ago. I read his speech. Not a word about it. No mention of property rights. Some lip service to “why can’t we all get along”, but a lot of talk about managed capitalism and reducing inequality.
What I really want is Bob’s (not Yusef) racial angle on the matter.
We are Many. we are Legion, We are Bob. so Which one?
HEY YUFUS!
Sup Tres! got the Talls out Today
/Cobras in the Air!
You two get a room already. NTTAWWT.
This Bob.
Or maybe the one formerly known as Sally.
I thought Sally went the way of OMM?
Cryptic statement.
“On vacay & I swore I’d stay off political twitter. But damn, girlfriend’s lack of self-awareness & any sense of shame for her husband’s use of the Presidency to bully others, is hard to ignore. Only plausible explanation here is, Melania suffered oxygen deprivation to the brain.”
https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1031556883654627333
Nicaragua is not sending us their best.
Is that journalist speak? I was under the impression that they command a mastery of the English language.
“Political twitter”.
*shudder*
So civil.
Holy shit is that one poisonous thread.
Hard to ignore? Just turn of the computer, you obsessive little troll.
I hate that I clicked that.
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“randy haddox@Randersllc
2h2 hours ago
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Paradoxically, your TDS addiction goes personally undetected.”
LOL
Here’s a question – before she became a professional Ex-Republican Trump Hater, had any of you ever heard of this Ana Navarro in your entire lives?
Yes, on an episode of Anthony Bourdain. Besides that, never. But she has an all woke name and some tats. Also not American, so to the virtue seekers, she’s a brown people, despite that all Europeans are actually caucasion. No one accuses them of being smart outside of the media.
https://www.vox.com/explainers/2018/8/20/17674910/conservatives-republicans-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-2018-midterms
A zipper down the front?
She’s a delusional leftist being pimped as some sort of rock-star by the Vox crowd. It isn’t that hard to understand.
Hispanic Olive Oyl. By the time she’s Pelosi’s age after being in Congress for 45 years, she’s going to make Medusa look purty.
Yeah, I mean, she’s a dim bulb with terrible ideas and a large segment of the popular left points to her as their thought leader and political savior. Of course people who don’t read Variety or Mother Jones are at least bemused.
Not sure which is more common, they are just really that stupid, or they hate even somewhat successful people that much.
“A democratic socialist most Republicans have never heard has become ubiquitous in conservative media.”
That’s quite the headline. She’s everywhere in conservative media, but Republicans have never heard of her.
Oh my god, look at the virile examples of red-blooded American men in that picture! HAHAHAHAHAH!!! I’ll bet the local Starbucks ran out of soy milk that day. God forbid anybody got a flat tire, they’d all be trapped.
The Dude is having a really bad night.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/beating-king-pop-eagles-have-no-1-album-all-time-n902151
Ugh, fuckin A.
Dead media counting up past History, Fuck the Eagles…..
MJ was WAY more talented than all the Eagles Combined
Truth.
I mean, Thriller. I’ll Be There. Billie Jean. P.Y.T. Really, the whole damn Thriller album.
Yeah, the “classic hits” station here plays every piece of shit the Eagles put out, and so much of MJ’s stuff is ignored.
God do I hate the Eagles’ middle of the road crap rock. THEY SUCK!!!!!!!
Sounds like Ohio State is going to shoot themselves in the foot and suspend Urban Meyer over some real nonsense. I get offended by lack of loyalty – so I’d be quietly looking for a new job right now.
I may have to skip the AM links tomorrow. I don’t know which is worse: Sloopy having a hissy-fit, or Sloopy gloating and having a double standard regarding the actions of tOSU and Michigan coaches.
No, what is worse is having to go to the office of a client and spend the day there, so no AM links. Get with what is bad, you overly privileged shitlord.
Well, I only have a 15-minute break at 8:30 to read the AM links.
This story bores me, honestly. They were never going to fire him, but they’ve got to get ahead of the #metoo mob, so they’re going to suspend him for like the first game or two–which are against schools they’ll easily beat, IIRC–and never mention it again. It’s also a pile of doodoo, because we’re still talking about allegations, and it’s pretty horrifying to imply that the standard practice ought to be to fire someone in disgrace the second that someone else claims they’ve done something wrong, without even a whisper of due process.
Wake me up when we start talking about the UMD football program, a.k.a., the smoking pile of rubble that won’t be able to recruit for another four years.
People have got to learn or face certain destruction. You face the mob, what do you do? You tell them to fuck off. When you do that, your chance of survival is good. So what happened to Kanye West? Nothing. What has happened to Trump, despite the mob hounding him 24/7 for 18 months? He’s now more popular? Why can people not learn? Why are everyone cowards now? I would rather be driven from polite society and forced to live off the grid like it’s the 18th century that kowtow to those scum.