Man, am I tired. Wife and I had what appears to be the 2nd best meal of the night (behind the Glib meetup in Chicago), but stayed up waay too late indulging her obsession with some cook dude who’s good at cooking things… I don’t remember his name, but I’m pretty sure he said he had tongue cancer but got better. I’m amazed by the precision of it all, that’s for sure.
Giant mosquitos invading Houston. Or as Minnesoda’s call them, “the little ones”.
Venezuela raises minimum wage, unemployment “unexpectedly” rises as well. Not to worry, comrades, that only happens in State Capitalism. When True Socialism is implemented, no running dog capitalist lackey would dare to fire a worker.
Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.
Carolina isn’t the only royalty-named location to get hammered by a tropical cyclone this weekend. That’s a big fucking storm, I hope the Filipinos have a Cajun Navy.
It’s been a while since I posted the theme song. Because Fuck you, that’s why.
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Screw you, hurricane!
Swiss yelling at the storm.
No chance – I stay native.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uz_dehG2M8
Calling for backup.
*Averts gaze*
Oh, rat farts!
And they wonder why they have a credibility problem
What do the Swiss know about hurricanes? Virginians know what’s up.
those Flips sure cook up Big typhoons
They’re called typoons.
I’m pretty sure Article 13 is how you get Skynet.
Will there be robotic rub, sodomy and the lash? If so, sign me up! I love me some robo kinkiness!
Rub?
You know…anywhere in this town a guy can get a rub and a tug?
…
Oh, rum.
If there’s a massage place that has limo tints on the windows, pictures of Asian women, and/or really odd hours, that’s probably your best bet.
Prepare him to kiss the gunner’s daughter. Take him below for the makings.
In addition to the robots on aircraft carriers, they are working on droid copilots.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnFHPIhV4AA8Gcs.jpg
Awwwww
Giant mosquitos invading Houston.
DDT. Lots of it.
Napalm. Screw half measures.
Two sizes of mosquitoes in Minnesoda. The ones small enough to fit through the holes in the screen door and the ones big enough to open the door themselves.
I thought Houston was already know for mosquitoes. Wasn’t it built on a swamp?
The toxic waste from the chemical plants wiped out most of them
Pasadena – where the grass is green and the air is greener.
They should be replacing the pilots with robots first. Why not replace all those fighters/bombers with drones?
They’re actively working toward that.
I imagine you can really increase the G-load if you take the pilot out of the equation. Probably much lighter and cheap.
Twice the range too, if you make them cheap enough.
By that I mean, you don’t have to worry about them needing gas to come back. Once they have delivered their payload you can kamikaze them into somthing.
I’m sure there is some bean counter running the numbers, then picking the more expensive option.
My fear is that all the upper brass who came up as a pilot will fight that shit tooth and nail. It will drive them insane to be replaced with some kid sitting in a control room.
Same dynamic as when the battleship generals refused to see the power of carriers between the wars.
There is always some of that. The long term goal is manned aircraft as relatively valuable and highly capable air platforms that serve as network and control hubs for flights of less expensive, less capable, but highly maneuverable armed drones. Drones then extend the reach of the platform’s sensor network and weapons delivery.
Hey, {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>, would you please shoot me an email? website at thiswebsite.com
Like this: http://homeworld.wikia.com/wiki/Hive_Frigate
Let me know if I’m crazy:
Last Tuesday I finished a fourth round of interviews with a company, and haven’t heard a thing since. The total process had taken around 10 hours of my time (4.5 in interviews,5.5 in preparing a mock project for my final interview). Am I insane to expect some contact, good or bad. It seems super disrespectful and I’m pretty pissed.
I’m trying to craft an email to see what’s going on, but I can’t help but want to rage.
They have also invested a lot of time in you. They should have contacted you by now.
I’ve had the same thing happen a few times recently, but I haven’t gotten to that many interviews. I hear a lot of job seekers are “ghosting” potential employers, but it looks like it goes both ways.
Last Tuesday the 11th or the 4th?
If it was the 11th, I would give them more time. If it was the 4th, you should still give them more time, but should start thinking of how to re-engage.
Sadly, if one person happened to be on vacation, the whole process is going to grind to a halt.
Also depends what kind of employer: it takes us weeks to get HR & other offices to sign off on things like diversity considerations.
Diversity considerations.. is the one where the hiring manager pulls their hair out while trying to make HR understand that the candidate with 15 years of experience backed up by solid successes is a better choice than the diversity candidate with 1 year experience?
My former boss received 67 credible applications to a job posting. The HR approver (of a certain race/gender) pulled 8 applications (of the same race/gender) and told my boss she was required to hire from among these 8 choices, none of which had competitive experience. My boss, who is female and raceblind, was livid.
Yeah, pretty much. Had a similar situation although we were able to get the person we wanted.
The boss should have told the other 59 applicants that HR was rejecting them for being the wrong race.
The company shouldn’t be liable; the HR person herself should be on the hook.
(This, of course, is why I am not in management.)
My son was rejected from a charter school we tried to get him in due to, pretty much explicitly, his whiteness.
He got in two years later and it’s slightly less shitty than public school.
But I was pissed they denied my baby based on his skin color.
Yes the 4th, and I hadn’t thought of the vacation angle. Calms my nerves a bit.
All sorts of things can happen. A big operation crisis can cause huge delays. Someone has to sign off on it but is spending all their time working on some critical issue.
I’d do like Neph says below. Next Tuesday send them a polite email and see what happens.
Last Tuesday as in the 4th? I’d send a polite follow up and ask if there was anything further they needed from you. It’s always a pain to get jerked around by companies when you’re interviewing. I’ve told the beer distributor sales job story before, but another one was getting through three rounds of interviews, trying to schedule a face to face interview to be abruptly told that the position was eliminated.
It takes very little time to say no.
It takes a long time to say yes. Delays generally mean that you are in the running, but that does not guarantee an offer.
You may also have been the first in a group of 2 or 3 candidates for the 4th interview. By the time the last finishes, the department decides, and then has to bend a knee before HR to grace their choice, I can easily see it taking that long. I know it has for final candidates in my department before receiving an offer.
It’s not so much the time, as the complete radio silence that is bothering me.
As Kinnath said, I’d take it to mean you’re still in the running. They’re not going to want to contact you without some decision (offer, rejection, another interview round).
I don’t know where you are interviewing, but in a big company, the hiring manager cannot tell you anything without prior approval from HR and upper management.
The last “internal” job I applied for took about 2 months to get a final rejection (the position went to someone else inside the company).
External hires can take several months of approvals up the management chain plus arguing with HR about compensation before an offer goes out.
You will hear nothing until a final decision to reject or issue an offer.
The wait is the hardest part but it doesn’t sound like that long a time to me.
Yes indeed
Every day you see one more card.
You take it on faith,
you take it to the fart.
Fuck ’em.
If this is how they run their shop, working there ain’t gonna be a treat.
^THIS
Thanks everyone, I’m a bit calmer now. I understand that it takes time, but being left in the dark never feels good. But there have been a lot of good points. I’m going to wait till Tuesday and then just see if they had I timeline on any updates.
Another point – how big of a deal are you? Are you someone that they would have to do actual due-diligence on. Like with a real-life accountant/attorney/investigator/etc? Are you in a heavily regulated industry, working on a government contract, or working with security clearance? Is it an academic institution (classes just started, yakno)
I’d like to think i’m a big deal. But no i’m just another worker drone.
I’d stand outside of the building with a boombox over my head, playing the mix tape I made for them.
“Venezuela raises minimum wage, unemployment “unexpectedly” rises as well. Not to worry, comrades, that only happens in State Capitalism. When True Socialism is implemented, no running dog capitalist lackey would dare to fire a worker.”
In socialism the state ensures you take more time off of work!.
Has the new currency inflated to the worthlesness of the old one yet?
It’s getting there. I give it a week more until Maduro comes up with the Super Bolivar.
Moronic socialists are morons. News at 11.
Brett, a very happy (belated) anniversary to you and your wife. Also, I’m quite curious, what was your favorite Asian place in Tally? I’ll vote Lucy Ho’s for Asian Asian and International House Of Food for BBC Asian.
Is that a Pornhub category?
I live there part time. What about one of the Thai places?
Lucy Ho’s. Out on the parkway.
YAY! I absolutely love that place. Their green tea cake is stupendous and they have flaming drink called the Fuji Volcano of which I am not unfond (by which I mean, on my 25th birthday, I drank 5 of them and don’t know how I made it home safely).
You probably made it home safely because the flame burned all the alcohol out of each drink.
I saw a Netflix documentary on the guy with tongue cancer. I don’t remember his name but he seemed nice and really dedicated to his craft.
There’s a brewer in Youngstown who faced cancer and lost an eye, sense of smell, and most of his sense of taste. He’s still brewing, and I keep trying to convince the girlfriend that we should swing by the brewery.
Stuff like that reminds me my problems are small.
T. W the Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/paul-manafort-trump-mueller-trial/570331/
I’m interested to see how this pans out. I have a hard time seeing what manafort could provide Mueller that Mueller didn’t already know.
Bonus: love the headlines “Manafort pleads guilty to collusion”. And then burried in the article, “the collusion occured years before the Trump campaign and was in Ukraine
That merits a sad trombone.
“Oh, THIS time we totally got him!”
All the progs are saying that this clause :”shall cooperate fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly with the Government…in any and all matters as to which the Government deems the cooperation relevant.” Means he will cooperate re Trump investigation. Now I haven’t read the agreement, but I could see there being a challenge to make the government show how it thinks something is relevant. But then again FYTW, is always a justification.
What does “cooperation” mean, exactly, though? Isn’t it possible that he could be saying, “Look, I’m cooperating, but I just don’t have much of anything of interest regarding supposed Russian collusion.”
Here’s an explainer from Popehat. Tl;dr: We have no fucking clue.
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1040694607669948416
What happened to his blog?
He’s ashamed of it, with good reason. He’s now trying to be a TV pundit.
This is it, we got Trump, just a matter of time before the election is overturned, here comes President Hillary, etc. Sigh.
So we have to stop Kavanaugh’s nomination over an unsourced, anonymous allegation of an attempted crime that happened over 30 years ago, right?
I ASK YOU AGAIN, “PROGRESSIVES”. STOP MAKING ME DEFEND THESE ASSHOLES.
I wouldn’t call Kavanaugh an asshole.
I’ve already expressed my objection to him because I think he’s shit on the 4th amendment. I may be proven wrong (I was with Justice Wise Latina, who, through all of her many, many, many faults, does actually recognize that there’s a 4th amendment), but I don’t trust him. The 4th is already mostly dead, which is slightly alive. One more tiny move to the wrong side will kill it for good though.
The 4th is one of those special amendments that Progs and Cons hate equally.
Indeed, the State must not be hindered in any way. A pox on both their…oh never mind, you already know the rest.
I understand the disagreement, but “asshole” sounds rather hyperbolic, even if you just limit it to federal judges.
As I said earlier today, it bothers me that such a nothing allegation was sent to the FBI. Because it unabashedly shows that the Dems are used to using the fist if government for politics. And no one cares.
He bumped his teeth against his prom date’s when he kissed her goodnight.
I’m amused that the Team Players™ in the Deepstate could not even carry that leaky water bucket
What are the hottest rumors of what he allegedly did?
The one I heard on the radio was that he and another guy locked the girl in a room.
If that is it, I can see why even DiFi was embarrassed to bring it up.
Well, it does fit the narrative that every man is a rapist…
No. No sex involved at all. Just that they locked her in a room.
…meaning, he raped her.
I read one “report” that the guys turned up the music and one of them put a hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming.
I don’t remember where I read it, but I remember thinking it was bullshit.
Apparently the woman in question talked to Ronan Farrow about it, (anonymously) so that’s where the story comes from.
Worse than I thought then.
I’m not sure that is even correct. The Farrow/Mayer piece says “The woman declined a request for an interview”.
The way I read the Farrow/Mayer piece, perhaps incorrectly, is that they have seen the letter, gotten the timeline from someone in Feinstein’s camp, but NOT spoken to the accuser.
Though, they did find Kavanaugh’s accomplice who said “I have no recollection of that’ (Very weasley non-denial-denial IMO).
That would have to be my answer to any number of things I was accused of doing at high school parties.
That would have to be my answer to any number of things I was accused of doing 3 or more decades ago, period.
The New Yorker piece says:
So a drunk 17 year old did something a drunk 17 year old is likely to do, and in the end nothing happened.
Let’s assume, for purposes of this hypothetical, that what she alleges is completely, totally, 100% true. This happened 35 years ago. Since then, Kavanaugh has, by all appearances, led a good life, has not committed any other crimes, and has worked his ass off to get where he is.
I know we’ve reached the point where a single allegation means you’re shunned for life*, but there has to be some room for forgiveness, right?
* Does not apply to Keith Ellison or others on the left
…or that it took her 35 years to say anything at all. Apparently people only get the courage to come forward when the accused becomes a household name.
I can get it. If the someone wronged you, you would want to get back at them.killing their chance at SCOTUS seems good. The only problem is that the allegations are serious enough that it doesn’t seem like something you would forget about and only remember when that guy who raped you was trying to be on the SC.
It worked against Roy Moore, so they’ll keep trying it and trying it.
There was a helluva lot more on Roy Moore than this, though. This is a single accusation, made for the first time after 35 years, corroborated by absolutely no one with no evidence whatsoever.
” there has to be some room for forgiveness, right?”
This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I think American politics has used ‘justice’ when I think mercy is the ideal American attribute. Maybe I’ll write something up to clear my thoughts.
Last I heard, he supposedly tried to force himself on a girl at a party in high school.
Beautiful, busty blonde babes busting out boobs and butts.
http://archive.is/rs8Bb
1, 5, 14, 22, 26, 29, 36, 38.
My weakness these are.
17 with the crazy eyes. 25, 35, 37, 41.
“Norm MacDonald, #MeToo, and the Fatal Flaw in the New Morality
By mentioning forgiveness, MacDonald reveals the biggest flaw in our new woke morality. The Church of Social Justice has more rules than a monastery during Lent and the list grows daily. But unlike traditional morality, there is no path to redemption.”
https://ricochet.com/552381/norm-macdonald-metoo-and-the-fatal-flaw-in-the-new-morality/
Norm has a Netflix show? I shall be watching.
David Spade is impressive for putting up with Norm’s shenanigans. He’s the jester among jesters.
Norm is*
I love him
What’s the gender of the robots? Will there be enough robot diversity? Are robots a form cultural appropriation?
And I figured that this might be our theme music. NSFW due to language, lots and lots of offensive language.
Nope, it’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUsM00VS8X8
same language disclaimer applies.
Posted yesterday but fun anyway.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Typhoonsizes.jpg
SUPER TYPHOON TIP
Tip also holds the record for the lowest surface pressure (870mb) recorded on earth. It’s not the strongest storm ever (in terms of wind speed) though, because of the sheer size of the storm.
Wow. That’s just the tip?
TW: WaPo
Some conservatives are threatening to boycott Willie Nelson because he’s playing a concert at a rally for Beto O’Rourke.
I’m sorry, people, but… do you even know who Willie Nelson is? I mean, his politics have been pretty clear for decades.
While I prefer celebrities keep quiet about their politics, if I started boycotting every celebrity for being derpy, I’d never listen to another song, see another movie or watch another TV show.
Well yeah, I agree, but it’s not like this is new. His politics have been known for decades. You can’t be so out of touch that you’re just now realizing he’s on the left side of things (and has never exactly been ashamed of talking about it).
Yeah, there’s been no question he favored the left. I remember thinking years ago that it made no sense, given how screwed over by the IRS he was.
People are stupid, man. You show them the ways in which government takes away their freedoms, and their response is to want more government……just the right kind of government this time.
I wonder what issue it might have been that made Willie lean to the left 40 years ago?
That’s not true, we still have Lou Reed.
Yes, this is rather bizarre. I don’t pay the slightest attention to Willie Nelson and even I know he’s a hippy lefty type.
I think some people are confused because Willie was friends with Hank Hill.
Even if they are well aware of his politics, maybe they feel the time has come to escalate matters. (I know, I know, pox on both houses, it is SUPER unhip to fight the culture war, etc.)
“Mysterious posters showing up around LA. ”
https://twitter.com/Tr1663rB41t/status/1040027389944844288
“#CensorshipKills Posters in LA Say ‘You Next’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4buZOJ0CHKo
I remember that crazy lady.
So, let me get this straight, according to the AspieRight, we need to socialize social media in order to prevent schizophrenic vegans from committing suicide?
Sounds legit.
I’m guessing this might be another example of Sabo trolling.
I’m certain they’re expecting help from the US Navy.
I need some advice. We want to fire our contractor because they aren’t showing up consistently (2 weeks to a month gaps), don’t communicate and haven’t given us a timeline for the project. Very little work has been done and nothing completed. We contacted the owner of the company with our issues and haven’t received satisfaction. My question is should I hire a lawyer before telling them we intend to cancel or cancel, try the BBB and other non-legal remedies first before hiring a lawyer if we aren’t refunded our deposit?
Did you pay a deposit?
Yes. 1/2 upfront ($35,000). In hindsight I can see that was a huge mistake. But spilt milk and what not.
That’s enough that you should probably talk to a lawyer. I can ask around and see if anyone here knows of someone that can give you a consultation if you like (can e-mail our lawyers in Orlando)
Do you think I should start with a lawyer before giving notice to cancel? not tipping my hand so to say or see if they will agree to refund my deposit before engaging a lawyer.
Start with the lawyer. Initial actions can have huge influence on how any legal battles play out.
You could try writing a letter laying out the issues and asking for a refund. Either it gets them off their ass, you get your $$$ back, or you know you have to go to a lawyer.
If it was me, I’d pay a lawyer a few hundred bucks to write that letter (probably more likely that they’d respond to that). But that’s up to you.
+1 but I come from a legal family…
I’ll talk about it with my wife over the weekend. If we decide to hire a lawyer I would really appreciate a recommendation.
Do you have any lawyer relatives named Vincent?
Just let me know. Should be able to get a recommendation pretty quickly.
I really appreciate that.
I texted the wife. I’ll take that recommendation whenever you can get it to me. The admins have email
Alright. Will e-mail the Orlando group Monday morning (the partners are all at a retreat right now) and will let you know once I hear something.
Thanks JB. I owe you a 6 pack or bottle.
God damn, that’s a massive deposit. Did you have a contract in hand executed by both parties?
For a job of that size it always pays to have your own lawyer make a custom contract if they review the other party’s contract and it’s dogshit.
Also, a little hot tip for next time on a job that big: always have your contract outline clear completion milestones. A job that size shouldn’t warrant more than a 10k security deposit no matter what. It should be the job of a GC to act as a short term financier of the project until completion.
I’m paying for an expensive education in contract law. Because I’m not a piece of shit, I tend to think other people aren’t. I guess I was wrong.
Shit man, verbal contract too? Get that lawyer.
I have a contract, just not with me. It’s their standard contract. I’m going to look at it over the weekend with the wife and decide to try to get them to refund the money minus materials/work completed or just let a lawyer do it. My concern is how much legal cost vs recoverable money.
Tell you something, my wife and I began the process of a home addition via general contractor int a serious capacity back in August 2017. Fortunately, despite the excellent reputation, my GC’s standard contract was a half page embarrassment. I have an affordable lawyer that I always run personal and business law matters by as a default. He created a better contract, my GC wasn’t offended. Having a go-to lawyer like that really comes in handy for generic life stuff.
My point is, though, our project broke ground in October, we are basically 8 months beyond the original planned date of completion. Unless you design in penalties for delay, this shit can drag on forever.
Its really frustrating, Pomp. It says in our contract the project will be completed in a reasonable amount of time. Well, what’s reasonable? I hope you addition gets finished soon.
Yeah that’s the trouble with bad contracts. “Reasonable” is flowery and not concrete.
FWIW, the amount of work done that you described, in that much time, isn’t reasonable and I think a judge would agree.
Does your local news have a problem-solving segment where they name names and shame people?
Orlando is a big enough city I’m sure there is.
BBB won’t do shit. Unfortunately, you’ll probably need a lawyer, because as soon as you tell them you’re not going to pay, they’ll put a mechanic’s lien on your property. Document the shit out of everything.
FWIW, I’m not a lawyer, but I do contract shit all the time and inlaws have dealt with the same issue when building their house.
As I understand it they can only place a lien if they’ve done work and not been paid. Also I found this: https://www.boatman-law.com/blog/florida-contractor-disputes-involving-unreasonable-deposits
If true they broke the law. I paid them in February and they didn’t start work until 6/2. To date all they have done is demo 2 small bathrooms and not finished them.
The only thing I worry about with bad contractors is that they’ll say they did start the work, and point at the demo. If the contract isn’t clear (or statute doesn’t mandate x work by x date) they may try to use that against you. I’m heading out of office so I can’t reply again, but good luck!
Since there is a significant amount of cash involved, get a lawyer. BBB is a scam.
I say that as someone who is intimately involved in the construction business.
“I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Trump rallies and then asked it to write a Trump rally of its own. Here is the first page.”
https://twitter.com/KeatonPatti/status/1039889888961880064
Great, now we have robots trying to take SugarFree’s job. Fortunately that’s something AI will never be able to replicate.
Dr. Clayton Forrester wrote that?
Haha. I’d like to know what text generation algorithm he used. They’re not too terribly difficult to make.
China steals our milk
We only had one glass of milk left
Obama drank it.
That’s poetry….
Ben Shapiro slams David Hogg calling for Nikki Haley to resign over a ‘lie’
Sadly the main issue will be overlooked. Why the hell is the government spending $52k on curtains!
I do think it’s hilarious that that the NYT were gotcha’d by their own gotcha.
Piglet actually manages to sound like even more of a shitheel than usual when he’s outside of his usual bailiwick.
Point me in the direction of starving children in the United States, dipshit. They don’t exist.
Weren’t the folks at the compound in New Mexico starving children?
I haven’t paid much attention to that fiasco, but that’s irrelevant. The point is that no one starves in the US due to poverty – any children starving would be due to deliberate cruelty from their parents/guardians.
Surprisingly, he did delete the tweet.
It’s kinda cute how a 17-year-old NPD case signs his tweets ‘America.’
I didn’t overlook that. Right, I don’t count either.
Maybe it’s a big house, they’re special anti-surveillance curtains, or no one gives a shit because it’s not their money.
Patrick Kennedy, a top State Department official under the Obama administration, defended the purchase of the curtains to the Times and noted that Haley only has one part-time staffer at her residence.
“All she’s got is a part-time maid, and the ability to open and close the curtains quickly is important,” Kennedy told the newspaper.
The fucking Kennedys.
The ability to open and close the curtains quickly is important? Wha?
Time is money. The curtains will actually save money in the long run.
Look, when they bought those drapes, they assumed HRC would win, the office would belong to a True Stateman ™, and the press would be supine.
David Hoog is daily proof that no road is too low for progs. Half the time this shithead doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and the other half of the time he’s asleep.
My favorite Twitter account, which started years back in 1939, made its way through the war to 1945, and then started over again September 1 of last year (tweeting “real time” from the same date (currently in 1940)).
Thank God there was no Twitter during WWII.
There was a twitter.
http://www.diggersmotorradadventures.com/2010/08/day-25-bethany-ok-to-rolla-mo.html
General George S. Patton
@GenGSP
1h ago
The way you win a war is by making the other poor bastard die for HIS country! #likeshitthroughagoose #3rdArmy #OperationCobra
So you’re saying commies have always been annoying asshats?
Sometimes they’ve been murderous annoying asshats.
This morning the radio told me that Nike stock hit an all-time high in the wake of their Colin Kaepernick ad stunt. Maybe companies bathing in politics is what America really wants. Or maybe virtue signalling carries over to the stock market.
My guess is that it’s a result of a SJW buying spree. I month or so it will return back to normal when everyone forgets about it.
If a controversial political position motivates half of the potential customers who agree with the position more than it alienates the other half then the company increases its profits. Whether this strategy remains profitable in the long run remains to be seen.
Well, no. The highest it’s been this year was 83.90, the low this year was 50.35.
It’s 83.49 now. It dipped after the cap thing, and returned to previous levels a few days later. So it didn’t help them, didn’t really hurt them.
Sounds like a pretty smart way for insiders to buy stock on the cheap.
I made that point the other day. No way a company might do this to buy back stock on the cheap.
I bet Siberian mosquitoes are terrifying.
OT: my daughter is now playing my Casio SK-1 keyboard, the finest synthesizer ever conceived.
My friend and I used to “produce”* a “radio show”** with my Casio keyboard.
*winged it
*recordable cassette tape in a boom box
HAHAHAHAHAAA! You make me Laugh !
“Nasty leftists then post a pic of Kavanaugh & his daughter in her school uniform. To make him look like a pedophile.”
https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1040311838221582336
Fucking assholes.
*shrugs*
I’m not seeing it.
Well, at least he still has a penchant for coaching girls’ basketball.
Mini-Sodans call mosquitoes “the State Bird”.
Any guess as to the State Tree?
Paul Bunyan’s…er… ax?
Marihuana?
Karl-Anthony Towns?
Pete Rose moving closer to HOF elgibility
No TW for sloopy?
I thought he might appreciate it…provided he read the link.*
* Nobody reads the link
But he *GAMBOLED*
I wouldn’t bet on it.
“Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China
A senior Google research scientist has quit the company in protest over its plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China.
Jack Poulson worked for Google’s research and machine intelligence department, where he was focused on improving the accuracy of the company’s search systems.
In early August, Poulson raised concerns with his managers at Google after The Intercept revealed that the internet giant was secretly developing a Chinese search app for Android devices. The search system, code-named Dragonfly, was designed to remove content that China’s authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political dissidents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest.
After entering into discussions with his bosses, Poulson decided in mid-August that he could no longer work for Google. He tendered his resignation and his last day at the company was August 31. ”
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns/
Good for him although it’s been clear to most for a while that Google really has no values. Still, it’s good to see someone stand on principle.
Oh they have values. They couldn’t stop talking about their values in that company meeting. Their values are “We’re smarter than you”.
I’m always happy to see someone stand on principle. It is always a hard decision. Even for a guy like that i imagine it will be hard to find a comproably paying position elsewhere
He could always go work for Apple. Whoops, maybe not:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/28/17055088/apple-chinese-icloud-accounts-government-privacy-speed
Probably the only thing that would limit him finding comparable works is an NDA/NCA
I don’t understand why “building a search engine for China” is such a big deal when I betcha the original already has the ability built-in. All they’re doing is feeding it a larger set of taboo words provided by the Commies.
Skynet. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? The first picture pretty much sums it up.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a23133118/us-ai-robots-warfare/
If war no longer requires people to be put in harms way, there will be much less restraint over going to war.
“If war no longer requires people to be put in harms way, there will be much less restraint over going to war.”
Yep, hence the current unending dronings.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
Was that an assault turtle?
I like turtles!
I don’t know, Spud. There has never seemed to be much reluctance to go to war ever.
As always the entertainment class of your species is quite prescient
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kd642Ix5ks
“I have received information concerning Dianne Feinstein.
I will not inform you of the nature of this information, the source of the information, or pretty much anything about it.
Suffice it to say she eats small children.”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1040290682416447488
I wish the Republicans were clever. I get that DF is dumb, but the whole “reversal” schtik is old and it doesn’t work. Liberals don’t care about their double standards.
True.
“NYTimes on Samantha Power: “…penthouse atop the Waldorf Towers, the official residence of the United States ambassador to the United Nations…” (I included extra photos of the residence!)”
https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1040584849227165696
“If you think it’s ridiculous that taxpayers pay so much to house diplomats, make that argument. Have that debate. But Vogue didn’t have a peep of criticism over Samantha Power living in the Waldorf-Astoria, just fawning coverage.”
https://twitter.com/KSoltisAnderson/status/1040630750763261952
https://twitter.com/gourdnibler/status/1040678572262916096
FAKE NEWS!
Shades of this classic
“THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH”
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/the-jewish-people-have-suffered-enough/news-story/5b9e331da324bcf25ddc44bb89dfe983
Say what you will about Islamism, but the Caliphate would never allow such an abomination.
OT: but following up on leonadasiv posting about job stuff: I have an interview for a “real job” (in other words, one where someone else pays me, and I get a w-2), on Monday.
I am not thrilled about this job but it has 1. benefits and 2. the regular paycheck. The other two jobs that have my resume are a regular civil litigation firm, and the city attorney’s office.
So wish me luck (I guess? ) on Monday. I am totally qualified to do it, but I am sort of using it as a practice interview in case the other places call.
Either way, I’d miss those criminal clients (like the dude who has called me -4 times now! collect from jail).
Good luck! It may turn out to be better than it looks at the moment.
Good luck!
Good luck. I find I interview best when I don’t care about getting the job.
Good luck!
Good Luck to You
Ahhh! Lord H.’s long term plan becomes clearer– make the missus bring home the guzzoline.
Good luck!
Hurrah! Kick some ass! If it will make you feel better, is Glibs could always call you from jail.
More proof of what an asshole John Lennon was
The Beatles confirmed for gay as fuck fag music for buggers and poofs
Fuck Off Tulpa!
Huh. A literal circle jerk. I’m sure drugs were not involved.
Potfudgepackers
Funny, as many drugs as we took and as many times as we ended up naked in the hot tub, I can’t remember even once thinking, “Hey, I have an idea, let’s start jerking off!”
Of course, we always had that “at least one naked female between us” rule.
Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Although, you’re the fucking Beatles; go find some groupies.
Sad day. It appears the Irish did not invent the Wake.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/09/14/worlds-oldest-brewery-discovered-was-making-beer-13000-years-ago.html
“Experts believe that the Natufians brewed beer as part of ritual feasts that honored the dead.”
I always Liked Natufian Ale, used to get it the the Drive thru Dairy as a kid
No hops, so not a bitter IPA.
Fer fuck sake, it’s like the English language, the Irish didn’t invent it, they just perfected it.
Being Irish, I completely concur with that sentiment.
I’m out of cheap bourbon, so I had to bite the bullet and make the evening cocktail with a Barrel Proof bourbon. I’m approaching the proper loading dose to cruise through a Friday night. Downside? I still have to cook dinner.
Go forth Glibs and shove something up your ass.
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a19537319/prostate-massage-health-benefits/
The Beatles recommend a dick
^^Relevant^^
Well then, maybe it should be covered by my health insurance that I pay out the ass for!
Loading up my nephew’s outdoor play set for the move… and found half a dozen widows nested underneath. He and another couple’s toddler had been all over the thing on Sunday. Yech.
“FBI mum about sudden closing of solar observatory. Conspiracy theories fill the silence”
According to the Daily News, Benny House, the sheriff of Otero County, said the FBI was involved in what he described as an elaborate shutdown process and said “the FBI is refusing to tell us what’s going on.”
“There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers, but nobody would tell us anything,” House said, according to the newspaper, which reported the observatory entrance was marked off with yellow crime scene tape on Friday.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, House said his department got a call from “folks that work at the laboratory” who asked “if we could send a deputy to stand by while they were evacuating. All the employees were packing up and leaving.”
Bureau spokesman Frank Fisher would neither confirm nor deny FBI involvement, according to the Journal.
“Some say the evacuation could be part of a government effort to cover up a discovery involving aliens, an impending solar flare or something else extra-planetary,” writes CNET technology website. “Others on Reddit and elsewhere think the security issue may involve a foreign power attempting to use the observatory’s antennas to spy on nearby White Sands Missile Range.”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article218345090.html
Alex Jones gets banned, and now this.
I’ve been following this. It’s a strange one.
I’m sure there will be a complete and accurate report very soon.
Perhaps they were trying to turn the frogs gay.
Well, they turned the Beatles gay.
The Beatles were totally gay. Yoko Ono was a beard and Chapman was a spurned lover. FACT.
https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/1040622702078373888
Christ, what an asshole.
She must be one of those “always believe the woman” types.
Relevant response:
Retsoow
@Retsoow8
5h5 hours ago
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Replying to @JessicaValenti
Imagine being found guilty without a trial because “women don’t lie”
Via Iowahawkblog:
https://twitter.com/gourdnibler/status/1040678572262916096
Q is just trying to help everyone stay healthy.
Is Pan Z still around this week? I have some pronunciation questions to run by him….then again…maybe Pie is better with Czechoslovakian names.
Anyhoo, this is a solid vid – long presentation by UKIP on how the EU actually functions – dirty details and all – worth a watch or a listen if you want to put it on in the background.
https://youtu.be/RbUGej05bLA
Last side note…I’m putting together my own letter to the local rag (gotta get a friend to look over it for local reference validation on Monday) – would it be worth sharing here as an article?
Sure!, if nothing else, for doxxing yourself.
I was a Russian major; I might be able to help.
If you tried harder you might have made colonel.
Совсем не смешно.
Thanks. May email you a list of names tomorrow.
BTW: Did you look up Czech orthography?
We’re only going to encourage you.
Why I want a DVD or Blu-ray
This is why I don’t “buy” streaming movies. I can burn the music I buy from Amazon, and I have a way to crack and save my Kindle books, but I don’t have the tech know-how to pull a movie off, say, Amazon, and burn it.
Ouch yeah I am tied to Kindle. I haven’t, uh, investigated any way around that.
Do you have a Paperwhite or other Kindle device? Or do you read on your phone? I can possibly liberate those for you for permanent storage.
I use my iPhone.
If you ever get the urge to offload and crack your collection, let me know.
Food for thought. But I really don’t want to be the one that gets made an example of. (Hi, Preet!)
Oh, no. It’s called “format shifting,” approved by the Supreme Court. Taking what you’ve bought in one form and putting it into another form for your personal use is totes kosher. I’d just guide you through the process.
I’d like to see proof of that, specifically for Kindles (not from you per se, just in general). I have a suspicion that the contract you sign specifically prohibits this.
Hm, some quick searching seems to indicate that it’s legal to copy an ebook to your computer for your personal use. Cool. I’m pretty computer savvy so when I get the urge I’ll look into it.
“Thank you for bringing this to my attention.”
That could be an interesting post.
Which thing? Format shifting or storing your ebooks?
The more I dig, the more conflicting info I see. I think the legality of format shifting would make a good article. I’m working through a textbook recently that is only readable with Adobe’s garbage software and I have had enough of that.
IANAL, so the best I would be able to do is explain how I understand it.
As I understand it, format shifting is fine. The TOOLS used to do it are legally iffy, though. And yes, I have tools to crack those PDFs and EPUBs, too.
#metoo
I think you can technically do it by recording the stream with a screen-recorder, but it’d be a massive file initially – and if you moved the mouse around, you’d capture that as well. Nothing easy though – that’s the whole point of this stupid streaming thing.
I’ve seen some songs disappear periodically but I’ve been able to re-download them. But yeah, conceptually it sucks if Itunes loses their rights/contract with an individual company or something else and then the albums aren’t available if you need to redownload them due to computer failure, etc.
That’s why at this point I’m yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
(Although I was going to drink the rum anyway.)
Seems like an issue with distributors. If you sell content on a store, shouldn’t be able to withdraw that content from people who have already purchased the stuff.
^^^THIS^^^
Same reason I don’t stream anything if there is any chance I want to see it or hear it more than once.
Wave of the future my ass.
I don’t mind renting a movie for $3.
One-offs, OK. But I tend to only watch stuff I think I want to own, if that makes any sense. (I watch very few new movies, mostly old stuff.)
If I have to either buy the DVD or “buy” it streaming but I don’t know if I want to see it more than once, I get it from the library.
If it’s a beloved movie or I know I’ll watch it more than once or it’s on the $5 rack at Walmart, I’ll buy the DVD.
I’ve got a couple of dozen out-of-print movies on my DVR that I haven’t gotten around to watching. Most of them aren’t available on streaming either, from what I can tell.
Mosquitoes the size of a quarter plague Houston area amid heavy rainfall
“Deep Woods OFF” doesn’t work in the city.
Stick a fork in the UK – it’s well and truly done.
How reliable is The Daily Mail, I’m reading this and it sounds like a National Enquirer piece, no names, very few locations, and it just defies belief, sensational doesn’t cover it. Are there other accounts/reports or whatever the Limey equivalent of 911 calls and police records that back this up? I’m seven or eight paragraphs in and have yet to read about any collaborating evidence. The whole thing read like a torture pron fantasy.
Robot Sailors
But do they go from port to port?
Thousands evacuate as Typhoon Mangkhut
Except for the guy with the casting net. Charles Darwin moment approaching.