As everyone can see (and Pie commented on), ZARDOZ stole my thunder. I couldn’t seem to get it through his thick head that I had already claimed that story. I was holding fine against his threat of cleansing, but then he produced some pictures of that time I went as Zed for Halloween. Meth is a hell of a drug and I was assured those pictures were destroyed.
At any rate, as ZARDOZ said, we are going to keep hosting files and posting links that make the idiotic pointlessness of trying to ban information from being posted on the Internet. Here is a link to CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, which has CAD files of guns available to download. Here is a link to ZARDOZ’s post, where you can find the same set of files hosted separately.
And now… the links
You’ll be surprised to find out that corners of the Internet have more crazy than the day room at your local mental institution. And of course WaPo is reporting on this because it is a gripping issue affecting everyone. No, just kidding, it’s just a chance for them to associate crazy people and Donald Trump.
Good news guys, commercial fusion is only 20 years away!
Ruh, roh, Sloopy. #metoo is coming for Urban Meyer. For not firing a wife-beater coach. IMO, who else is going to teach those kids the line between correcting your woman and punching her out in a casino elevator?
If you’re OMWC, 911 is a joke. (Because he’s in Chicago, not because he… oh never mind)
That gave me the act, I picked a different song.
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Make like Robert Hooke and while gawking at these hotties.
http://archive.is/b21iK
H/T LATW.
SHIT. The Pisces symbol didn’t show up!
Linked earlier by Leap.
https://hookeslondon.com/2012/06/02/single-restoration-scientist/
You can figure it out.
*sulks*
1, 59, 90.
Guess my request not to lead off our article or links posts with pasting in tit or ass pictures was… DENIED!
?
I shall comply, but I was unaware of such a request.
I saw that post. I saw nothing about posting camel toe pics… Camel toe loophole!
*narrows gaze*
Tis easier to pass a link to a camel’s toe through the narrow gaze than it is for a wealthy man to post first in the comments.
Are you saying Switzy got kicked in the head by a Dromedary?
After all that time in the desert, he’s got a “thing” for camels.
Bravo
Charlie?
Delta.
United
1, 57.
There’s some fat asses in there.
“‘We are Q’: A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour”
No boob pics? Wapo is fake news.
Shhh. Don’t blow his cover. The posting of titays is protective camo.
I’ve been following the Q conspiracy theory some online and find it fascinating. It’s even better than the OJ got framed because he was going to expose the fake moon landing thing. The sad part is, I’m not sure the idea that a cabal of kiddie-diddling globalist politicians and Hollywood types is all that far-fetched.
So if Q is Tulpa, and the rest of us are also Tulpa, then that would mean WE are Q, right?
WWG1SGWA ( I think I got that right)
Next glibs meetup
Where’s the ass sex and pot?
Here and…
Here
¡Gracias!
That insufferable twat is only reason #997 why TNG was the absolute worst sci-fi show ever created.
I assume you’re referring to Picard shaking his head and being a buzzkill.
Q was one of the BEST parts of TNG
Even if that were true (which it most certainly is not) he’d still be the tallest midget.
Why so much TNG hate? Did you forget how fucking terrible every other show on television was in the late 80’s and early 90’s? TNG had a very low bar to clear to be the most interesting show of its era.
TNG is the second best Star Trek after DS9; and as far as TV sci-fi goes, pretty damn good. Obviously there are many movies and books that are superior, but TV sci-fi has always been lacking IMO.
For the life of me, I could never understand the hardon people had for Firefly. That show sucked.
“For the life of me, I could never understand the hardon people had for Firefly. That show sucked.”
No.
Just…no.
You, sir, are a bad person with bad ideas.
Firefly was a western.
For the life of me, I could never understand the hardon people had for Firefly. That show sucked.
I didn’t think it possible but you’ve maybe looked at too many boobs, man. You’re talking crazy.
It wasn’t so bad as to be described as sucking. But it doesn’t deserve the rabid accolades people throw at it either. It was merely… okay.
Imma call The Expanse the best space based Sci Fi on television ever.
Fuck SyFy for not picking it back up.
Good job Amazon for taking over (hopefully you’ll do it right).
I haven’t seen The Expanse so I will not pass judgement on it.
So for now I still rank B5 as the best sci fi television series ever
I watched the 1st season on Amazon Prime. I was loath to purchase the rest of the seasons.
Q, the glib responsible for so man ‘I’ll be in my bunk’ replies from other other glibs doesn’t like Firefly? You can’t stop the signal.
TNG>TOS
DS9 is a ripoff of Babylon 5 which is, in aggregate, better than all of the above.
FTFY.
Fun fact: John De Lancie voiced a character on My Little Pony called “Discord”, which is basically just a cartoon version of Q.
The only one I ever liked was DS9.
The humorless one.
I would have guessed Battlestar Galactica because… well, you know.
It always seemed to me that TNG’s characters were Practically Perfect in Every Way. DS9 had imperfect people and messy situations/relationships. Also, the Ferengi were funny.
When I was a kid, I watched the 70s BSG. I wasn’t interested in the reboot.
The original BSG was the only worthwhile one because Anne Lockhart’s posterior in tight white pants.
No, What?
/Diss my Tauran Roots will ya?
Watch the original version, it is called Babylon 5 and is superior in all regards.
^This.^
Well, allrightythen!
+1, although the last season…
That’s a different Q–not ours. My favorite part about this conspiracy of “white hats” has always been the info on a huge number of sealed indictments that will be unsealed at a certain time. And then perpetrators will face military tribunals.
“That’s a different Q–not ours”
Very good…. just like we rehearsed…
Qanon is some fourteen year old 4Channer larping as an intelligence agent and laughing his ass off that anyone is taking him seriously.
By the way, Q comes from his supposed Q clearance-that’s Dept of Energy, not State Dept or DOD. Anyone thay takes that seriously is a chump.
^^^What he said.
The Lockheed Compact design project is not news. The main thing it had had going for it is cheap, faster prototyping stages, which don’t cost nearly as much as the tokamak colossi to build.
*Not news as in it was several years ago that they announced it and the intention to rapidly iterate the prototypes to address engineering issues as they were uncovered. Whether or not they make the final developments required is another question.
I have no doubt that commercial fusion power will come about, but the question is always when the engineering issues will be resolved.
I can hardly imagine the catastrophic lefty meltdown that would occur if abundant nearly free energy is ever realized. Their entire world would implode. It will be like Donald Trump times a zillion
No, they’d promptly shift to the need to conserve seawater.
“Humans are destroying maritime habitats and threatening the creatures therein with their endless thirst for seawater-derived energy!”
That’s easily remedied by diverting even more of California’s fresh water to the sea.
It’s cool how nookyuler energy and running out of oil have both been 20 years away for about 40 years now.
State standards require fire departments to provide advance life support assistance within six minutes.
A fire engine arrived nine minutes after it was dispatched with a paramedic on board, but by that time…
I’m certain having the government take over medical care will solve all of these problems.
Of course. Then the standards will be adjusted to meet the needs of the agency, and they will always meet them.
Naturally. Good news comrade, we met our quotas for the 5-year plan!
The socialist system has no need of more hospital beds. When they get full, the sickest must make a sacrifice for the good of the rest.
“But….but this isn’t what we meant!”
According to the article, the city operates the ambulances already.
Which proves it is just those wreckers and kulaks keeping the government from taking it all over and solving the problem!
I’m sure they could get there in 6 minutes if only they were able to get another 300 million billion dollars in tax money.
I live in the old people capital of the US. I was just thinking, I see an ambulance on the road almost every time I drive more than a mile. I have no idea what their response time is. Although I can walk to the nearest fire station in 6 minutes.
/You can, but the old farts can’t.
If you’re going to make a gun, you’ll need this.
Does that make me a criminal?
Visiting this site makes you a thoughtcriminal.
WaPo: a tableau of delusion and paranoia.
that’s worth continuing until they knock off the democracy dies in darkness shtick.
Crime Scene: do not enter
Q was one of the BEST parts of TNG
I concur.
A useful warning for all of us.
Ordinarily I’d say let Darwin sort ’em out, but anyone that needs to be reminded of that is far too stupid to be reproducing so I support this message.
Fusion is, and always will be, the energy of the future!
Just 20 years away. Just like it has been for my entire life
Torrey Smith:
Ed Werder:
Deadspin;
Oh Piss Off, Ed
that’s it? that’s the whole Deadspin “article”? he could’ve tweeted it.
one of the more hard-hitting (for me, anyway) rules in Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules book is don’t let your children get away with behavior that will make you resent them. just throwing that out there.
pointlessness of trying to ban information from being posted on the Internet
09 F9
Gesundheit.
I am disappoint
Oh good. I was starting to feel either really old or really nerdy that nobody else knew what I was referencing.
Sure you can shoot children and dogs without being suspended, but draw a penis with your plane? A step too far!
Also, why the fuck do they need a spy plane in the first place?
Because shut up.
/NYPD
Because fuck you, that’s why?
How many people will read that and never bat an eye?
They’re just trying to be as cool as the Navy.
Question: When you describe glibertarians.com to someone who has never visited, how do you do so?
Show them this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zwjCZ1vE8
It’s like masturbating. Only worse.
Well, it’s impossible to be any better…
Unless you’re doing it wrong.
I don’t.
Imagine going into a mental institution with a 24 pack of cheap light beer and a stogie. Now get rid of all of the women. That’s glibertarians.com
Hey now, we drink good beer here.
Tulpa replication facility.
Usually it is trying to describe one of the many, many perverse in-jokes and simply trailing off in the middle as I realize it is an impossible task.
Or, alternately, “If I have to explain it, you won’t understand”
The whole point of an in-joke is to separate the people who get it from the people who don’t.
I understand that. But generally the only time I talk to people about Glibs is when I’m laughing my fool head off and my wife or g/f asks what I’m laughing about.
“my wife or g/f”
Nobody likes a show off.
Same person – they’re not sure if they live in a state where common law marriages are recognized.
/snark
It’s like fight club…1st rule is you don’t talk about glib club.
What’s glib club?
Exactly.
Dammit. Wrong thread.
I don’t.
i read Hat + Hair aloud at random on the subway.
Why in the hell would I do that?
The last time I did, I just said, “I think you’d fit in there.” I trust he will lurk for an appropriate amount of time to get the lay of the land. Or he won’t.
I tell them first there was TOS. Then I tell them TOS was too touchy-feely. So they made a new site, that wasn’t all touchy-feely.
So they made a new site, that wasn’t all touchy-feeling.
*quietly withdraws hand from ms’s ass*
His ass has no feelings.
Unfortunately, Jesse’s experiment as to whether making ms’s ass fall asleep would make it feel like he was fondling a different person was an abject failure. Ms just sat there and pretended not to notice, like usual.
Nice historical reference to a previous thread.
Now I see why MS’ beer reviews seemed familiar. It was you all the time Jesse from Puppet town!
STEVE SMITH TOUCHY-FEELY. BY TOUCHY-FEELY, MEAN RAPEY.
The real question is, how do you describe it?
Because if SF is at a loss for words on how to describe something, that’s all the description that is needed.
I tell people I help run the least erotic, least profitable pornographic website on the internet.
Well, at least you’re still in business unlike the porn site a relative of mine tried running.
Content creation or strictly distribution?
Content creation is much riskier but has a better payoff.
Catching a shot to the face while holding the camera is isn’t all that great a pay-off.
Content creation. It was a long time ago (early 00s) and I think my relative found a place to host/distribute the content.
The libertarian equivalent of a Baptist church scism when the congregation doesn’t like the preacher.
Usually on the witness stand, being handed an anatomically correct doll by a prosecutor.
“Gliberwhat?”
The not-wife knows about it and thinks it’s pretty gottdamn cool, but I don’t tell anyone else about the site. I don’t run in social circles that would really grok the site or its culture. Most likely, they would just be massively offended by it.
On the advice of counsel, I can neither confirm nor deny that I visit glibertarians.com
With dolls and hand puppets
Me: “Hey, I’ve been published!”
Person I’m Talking To: “Cool! Where?”
Me: “Glibertarians”
PITT: “What’s that?”
Me: “Well, it’s a kind of libertarian blog. It’s a bunch of like-minded people who don’t like either Democrats or Trump”
PITT: “Don’t like Democrats? So it’s like right wing?”
Me: “Look! A squirrel!”
… Hobbit
The thread invited “requests to Q,” an anonymous user claiming to be a government agent with top security clearance, waging war against the so-called deep state in service to the 45th president.
More T&A?
Also, why the fuck do they need a spy plane in the first place?
I suspect it dates back to Bloomberg’s private army fantasies.
fantasy? From the NYPD wiki:
“The NYPD’s current authorized uniformed strength is 40,000. There are also approximately 4,500 Auxiliary Police Officers, 5,000 School Safety Agents, 2,300 Traffic Enforcement Agents, and 370 Traffic Enforcement Supervisors currently employed by the department. “
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MAYBE SOME OF YOU DO WORK?!
I am at work – which is why I’m able to comment.
I’m at PNC Park listening to the line ups and reading glibs comments. Life is okay once in a while.
When you describe glibertarians.com to someone who has never visited, how do you do so?
Something something hive of villainy.
Damnit, you said that 20 years ago!
I remember 20 years ago when fusion was only 10 years away.
That sounds like some kind of conspiracy.
Accidentally posted this in the wrong thread. Edit fairy help?
@ SP re the 3D printed concrete houses: I saw that on Dezeen, I think. Years? ago, probably. I love the idea of a) super-affordable housing and b) efficient building.
Just blame it on P Brooks.
YES!
YES!
“Ban kitchens from the houses of San Francisco supervisors
When San Francisco supervisors cook food in their own kitchens, they are taking business away from local restaurants. These restaurants are a cornerstone of the city’s economy, and giving them more business will create jobs and improve working conditions for everyday San Franciscans. Pushing our supervisors to patronize San Francisco small businesses will give our economy the jump it needs.
In addition, San Francisco supervisors’ propensity to eat in their own homes isolates them from the residents they govern. As policymakers who have control over city laws, they should interact with the residents they govern, so this proposal will end the scourge of home kitchens which deprive San Francisco supervisors of the pleasure of mingling with the rest of the city.”
https://www.change.org/p/san-francisco-government-ban-kitchens-from-the-houses-of-san-francisco-supervisors
TROLOLOLOLOLOL
That has to be a guy pulling everyone’s leg.
No one can be that damaged in the brain.
It is a reaction to this: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-proposed-employee-cafeteria-ban-not-to-13121402.php
Ah. Makes sense.
“While supporters see the proposal as a way to reinvigorate the local economy by forcing employees to step out of their offices for lunch, critics say it will just cause an unnecessary squabble with the tech industry.”
I would out of principle bring my own lunch. You’re gonna tell me where I can eat? I don’t think so. Plus I make a mean cold cut sandwich. I mean, mean.
I make my own lunch mostly because I’m a cheapskate.
Seriously though, at a dollar or two a day that (and no Starbucks or even convenience store black coffee) adds up quickly.
My Kroger had Kahn’s garlic bologna on sale for $1.99/lb.
I was besides myself with joy.
Apparently as a result of some PBS show Paul Ryan found out that he’s one of (((us))).
Can we like, disavow him? Like, I really don’t know, does Judaism have some form of excommunication?
a pogrom?
Nah, that’s what the Tsar was doing to us, which is why a bunch of Jews ended up as Bolsheviks (or fled Russia in the first decade of the 20th century, which is how the majority of my ancestors got here).
Looking it up, it exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herem_(censure) Most famously used against … Trotsky and other Jewish Bolsheviks.
Huh. Learn something everyday.
well sure that’s one way to get rid of a jew. my way works too though
Plenty of Jews turned up Commies in countries without pogroms.
It was all part of (((our))) conspiracy.
Or we’d been fucked over so many times by various governments we decided to try to get in on the ground floor of one we thought might fuck us over less … until it fucked us over worse.
The Munsters were Jewish?
Unfortunately I don’t think so. If you have a direct maternal ancestor anywhere along the line, you’re a Jew forever whether you like it or not.
Hotel Jewifornia.
My mom had one of those genetics tests done, and it showed 1% Jewish ancestry on her side.
Does this mean I’m one of (((them))) now?
He’s dead to you?
Paul Ryan
My grandparents think he is a libertarian because Rachel Maddow told them he read Ayn Rand once.
A chink (RACIST!) in the asset forfeiture armor?
https://freebeacon.com/issues/federal-judge-declares-albuquerques-vehicle-seizure-program-unconstitutional/
It’s about damned time.
“Journalists Spread Conspiracy Theory That DHS Document Contains Secret Nazi Code
The press release went largely unnoticed until months later, when a tweet accusing the document of being a dog whistle for Nazis garnered nearly 7,000 retweets. The viral claim suggested the headline was a reference to “Fourteen Words,” common white supremacist credos. The most widely known variation states, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
“This is an actual story on an official government website with a 14-word headline starting with ‘we must secure,’” Twitter user Lauie Voss noted. “This is not an accident. There are actual Nazis-who-call-themselves-Nazis at DHS.”
Voss likewise pointed out that the press release also had 14 points and that it contained an unnecessary use of the number 88, often used as Nazi code for “Heil Hitler.”
In actuality, the press release only has 13 bullet points. When called out on the inconsistency, Voss said she added an unbulleted paragraph to reach 14.
Despite Voss’s claim there “was no good reason” to use the number 88, there’s an easy explanation for why DHS used it when discussing immigrants who file credible fear asylum claims. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data indicates that “U.S. asylum officers accepted nearly 88 percent of the claims of credible fear,” as reported by Reuters, and the press release clearly refers to that context.”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/journalists-spread-conspiracy-theory-dhs-document-contains-secret-nazi-code/
And the Q thing is the delusional conspiracy theory?
Wilson had 14 points, which I suppose made him a Nazi, too.
Well Wilson’s 14 points pretty much created the conditions for the Nazi rise to power. Sooooo….. yeah.
So… the trick is to go back and kill baby Wilson, because baby Hitler is what everyone tries to do?
“Qualifications?”
“Stampeding Cattle”
“That isnt much of a qualification.”
“Through the Vatican?”
“Kinky.”
If you kill baby Wilson make sure you kill both baby Roosevelts while you’re at it. then who cares what happens in Germany because America would be awesome.
“everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what’s the harm?”
Well, in that case it works.
“Fourteen Words,”
They had the words to activate the Winter Soldier angle, they got greedy by linking it to the Nazis.
This stuff is on the same level as thinking that Barry is a secret islamofascist Manchurian candidate instead of just an incompetent Chicago machine pol.
Is this like that “wear blue on Friday to support Nazis” thing that keeps coming up at work?
People go to the office on Friday?
“Good news guys, commercial fusion is only 20 years away!”
Again?
+1 Stan Pons
ok, wtf
why would a file search in windows return the first part of a word, but not a latter part?
I did a search for a recording by “The Feed-back” (and couldn’t remember if i spelled it/file it as “feedback” or “feed back” or its ridiculous italian name (“gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza”)
for whatever ()#*@()* reason, “back” yielded nothing, but “feed” found it. (i’d made chops which were labeled “The Feedback”)
why would that happen? i don’t get it, it seems to me that any partial should have returned same results
Look, the oders at MicroSoft know better than you that you only ever rememebr the start of the word you’re looking for.
…the start of the word…
i think it get it….
they can’t search WITHIN a word. the algo just filters by the data that starts each unit of text
My guess is lazy optimizing. Searching within each string probably took too long by their metrics, so they figured they could trim down the duration of the search by only checking the start of words and most users would never really notice.
i think i also disabled indexing in the OS… like immediately after i installed it.
it was on a list of things to streamline win 10. i probably crippled the !()#&*! search function, which is fine, i don’t really care, but still… seems like a pretty retarded search m.o. regardless.
I’d guess it wasn’t done searching yet. Try searching for “back” again and see if it comes up this time.
I think this joke would have been funnier if you said, “turn it off and then turn it on again, that should fix it”
Their indexing is shit. If I search outlook (which uses the same index) I’ll get random ass emails popping up, and the one with the exact search phrase in the title will be buried 40 messages in.
yeah its absurd.
you’d think of all the things for MS to have smartened up about after getting their ass handed to them by google, was “improving search functionality”
I don’t use windows, but there are freeware for OS X that are better than the search in the “Finder”. And if you go commend line, you can use grep or whatever.
“go commend line”
I commend you on your …
wait a second, so did you ever find anything wrong w/ that dorks’ audio-analysis argument?
Um, “command line”.
Yes, there are few things he ignores. One is that some of it only applies to audio if it’s one channel. Another is that even though the digital data could represent inaudibly high frequencies that could cause distortion in theory, they don’t in practice as neither recording nor reproduction pass such frequencies in practice. Even if they weren’t designed that way deliberately, there is no avoiding reactance.
Now, if his argument was 24/192 is largely unnecessary for playback, and isn’t work the space, he’d have a point. But he seems to be arguing that even given the increase cost of storage and equipment, it sounds worse. Which seems especially dumb since most cd’s nowadays are made from masters that are 24/192 (or some other same sample rate greater than 44.1).
um, “worth the space”
explain
still doesn’t make 6x file size ‘greater fidelity’
i think his argument was “it CAN sound worse, and CANT sound better”
the fact it magnified storage + equipment demands into infinity was just icing on top of that basic cake
He went on at length about how everything in the recording->mastering process benefits from higher sample rates.
the entire point was that nothing @ the consumer-format level does.
i think that’s my echolalia at work
Additionally:
my “already sort of knew this shit” claim in the previous thread was based on my own basic awareness that “hearing is pretty shitty” and that the gap between the practical and theoretical is so enormous that “theoretical” it becomes irrelevant at certain points.
the fact that, in 500+ tests, not a single person could reliably distinguish SACD from undithered 16bit, should at least give people pause.
The gap between the practical and theoretical is also widens because most cd’s are over-produced and crushed to shit. So the theoretical advantage pretty much only applies to simple pristine recordings of acoustic music.
“He went on at length about how everything in the recording->mastering process benefits from higher sample rates.
the entire point was that nothing @ the consumer-format level does.”
That seems a bit contradictory. Granted people playing back cd’s don’t have to worry about converters clipping (which is the huge practical advantage of recording at 24 instead of 16).
“i think his argument was “it CAN sound worse, and CANT sound better””
I’m not buying the the first argument. If it made things sound worse, you couldn’t make a better 16/44.1 out of it.
I do agree that given human hearing, the dynamic range of reproduction systems, and the use of oversampling, 24-bit isn’t worth it for playback. But I don’t see how it would sound worse.
However, an argument can be made that higher sampling rates can sound better because of the differences in phase between channels.
not at all. all the benefits of higher bit-rate (more headroom, lower noise floor) applies in the recording process. All the benefits of high-sample-rate happens in the processing and mastering process.
after downsampling, you’ve already gotten all the benefit of high sample rates. there’s literally no audible improvement listening to 96K (or higher) vs 44.1. hence the empirical test results.
because (as above) all the benefit of high-sample-rate is in digital processing, not listening; and, per his arguments (if you want, you can test your own equipment using the tests he provides) the effects of supersonic interfrequency modulation are audible
the best case you seem to offer is, “well its still not worse”. which seems to concede most of the guys point. I still hear many people saying, “BUT MORE DATA IS BETTER” as tho its supposed to be a slam dunk, when it obviously isn’t.
re: “differences in phase between channels”
would be interested in hearing why you think this is significant. I think he gives that pretty-short shrift, if i recall, pointing out that you can get more phase modulation effects by moving a listener’s head 4 inches in either direction than you can via differences in digital formats. iow, its sort of immaterial in any practical sense, because no one listens to music while holding their head in a vice. at best it amounts to “but there’s a tiny difference” which no one can hear.
But I don’t see how it would sound worse.
That’s entirely right.
However, an argument can be made that higher sampling rates can sound better because of the differences in phase between channels.
That’s entirely wrong.
Let me explain further: for the past 30-35 years, CD players and DACs use separate DACs for each channel. The DACs share a common clock. So the interchannel timing differences are unrelated to sample rate and are basically zero. It’s an easy thing to measure.
*confession:
i have confirmation bias because
i tend to like any arguments which seem to fly in face of what seems to be received wisdom
i have always disliked audiophiles ever since an otherwise-smart-guy tried to sell me “digital speakers” (to which i responded “they just go 1 01 0101 0101001 010101 10101”?)
I thought his article was well written for a fairly nerdy topic, and writing-quality tends to convince me more than ‘sound theory’. or at least i give the guy bonus points for getting to the point.
“per his arguments (if you want, you can test your own equipment using the tests he provides) the effects of supersonic interfrequency modulation are audible”
As I said above, ultrasonic signals are filtered out in practice.
“the best case you seem to offer is, “well its still not worse”. which seems to concede most of the guys point. I still hear many people saying, “BUT MORE DATA IS BETTER” as tho its supposed to be a slam dunk, when it obviously isn’t.”
Yes, that’s pretty much my point. You asked me if I found anything wrong with his argument. And that’s one of the things I found wrong.
I am not arguing that more data is necessarily better in a replication medium. Because that would be silly.
“Let me explain further: for the past 30-35 years, CD players and DACs use separate DACs for each channel. The DACs share a common clock. So the interchannel timing differences are unrelated to sample rate and are basically zero. It’s an easy thing to measure.”
It’s matter of how much of a difference between channels it can express, not how accurate the word clock is between channels.
“iow, its sort of immaterial in any practical sense, because no one listens to music while holding their head in a vice. at best it amounts to “but there’s a tiny difference” which no one can hear.”
That isn’t true, because humans can detect tiny differences in phase while moving. It’s part of how we can determine the direction and distance of sounds while walking. Our brains have amazing post processing.
It’s also based on my experience in being able to hear the difference between masters on PCM and reel-to-reel.
yes, i know, and studies regarding this have been trotted out by the audiophiles to ‘prove’ that higher-resolution perceptions are real
i think Paul McGowan @ PS Audio (high end audio company) tried making a lot out of that point, and he gets cited a bit. I read something from him recently but lost the link.
that no one could actually document these perceptions in double-blind tests undermines the case that it matters particularly. there are lots of people who make $ off the “Well, *I* hear a difference!” posturing.
the idea that “actually, CD audio is as good as it gets” is not exactly welcome news for a lot of people in the “sell you more-expensive shit” crowd.
Isn’t this a compliment in her circle?
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2018/08/01/andrea-mitchell-compares-trump-joseph-stalin
Don’t they mean Andrea Greenspan?
At this point, I can’t tell Alan or Andrea apart, so yes?
https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1014974099930714115
Stolen.
ZARDOZ to the white courtesy telephone please.
https://slate.com/business/2018/07/why-trump-hates-brutalist-buildings-like-the-fbis-headquarters.html
I can’t blame him for hating brutalist architecture. No offense to ZARDOZ.
Shitty authoritarians love brutalism. Trump has his faults, but hating on brutalism is a tic in the he’s-all-right category.
This brutalist bus stop which is designed to look like a faceless, unfeeling concrete frog butt-fucking poor people while waiting around for government services is the most truthful expression of government I can think of. And it was designed, paid for, and installed by government. The fact that this style was in vogue in both the USSR and the USA says a lot about the similarities of government. Any government.
Wow, where the hell is that?
I’ll guess New Mexico.
Wrong.
I thought it was too. Vaguely reminded me of this.
Former USSR, somewhere between London and St. Petersburg. Not sure exactly where.
That is… Um… smdh
You are so right about it being in vogue in the US and USSR at the same time. It LOOMS over you.
I kinda wish googie would make a come-back.
I love those googie buildings. America, fuck yeah at its finest.
They make me happy.
My childhood. They were the future, man.
I have a soft spot for brutalism. It’s just so… honest. Its intent often seems to be to terrorize the visitor so what better design vocabulary is there for government buildings.
Correct. Supermax prisons have to look a particular way. Intentionally making your building look like this when it doesn’t have to says a lot about the psyche of the decision makers.
It certainly is that.
I have a friend who has rhapsodized about the philosophy behind Brutalism and it’s never really sunk in. I’m occasionally impressed by how wild some people got with concrete, but I think some of the hopefulness of a future where man dominates nature with concrete gave way to “huh this is pretty fucking bleak, can we get a tree or a garden here?” right around the time a lot of these buildings finished going in.
I’m a big fan of modernism, and see it as an expression of taking putting human usage at the forefront while still working within the constraints of mass production (which, you know, I also see as an expression of human achievement.)
I get so worked up over brutalism because its mid-century modernism twisted horribly, horribly wrong. Like Darkseid took everything good about Helvetica or Braun shavers and replaced the life affirming bits with the anit-life equation. And out pop these dull, abrasive, one-off monuments that announce “We don’t adjust to your humanity. You adjust your humanity to us.”
The architecture of rebuilt-after-WW2 Le Havre is often described as brutalist. But I actually liked it a lot when I visited the city.
I kinda like that, seems too light to be brutalist, it was aimed at a modernist sculpture but I always think of the criticism “technological excrescences deposited by a giant concrete dog with square intestines” when I think of brutalism.
This brutalist bus stop which is designed to look like a faceless, unfeeling concrete frog butt-fucking poor people while waiting around for government services is the most truthful expression of government I can think of. And it was designed, paid for, and installed by government.
It looks like somebody cut up some angle iron and welded it together.
Did I ever mention I am a terrible person to take to an art museum?
Are big white columns racist yet?
There’s always some asshole explaining why ‘ackchyually, Brutalism is great’.
I hate those guys – they should be forced to live and work in one of those damp, light-less piles.
That is every dystopian nightmare ever.
To make it worse, they razed the West End, one of the oldest parts of Boston, to put that POS up (e.g., the Custom House off to the right goes back to the 17th century [though the tower is newer]).
It just squats in the middle of some of the oldest buildings in the country, with that awful, empty brick plaza in front.
Not you, Rhywun – your “truth in advertising” argument is valid.
No worries. And yeah, that is the canonical example of the style. It is really quite impressive in its own way.
I can picture the North Korean army doing exercises in that plaza.
Crossing that plaza in the winter is a life-threatening experience.
Slate tried hard to find something that would endear its readers to Trump.
OMG. Trump hates it therefore brutalism is the architecture of the people or something. That’s just… SMDH stupid even for Slate.
The gf “Jugsy” manages Section 8 properties. The buildings on every single one Ive seen looks like its directly from some 50’s Warsaw Pact country.
“Jugsy”
Pics?
More fun with refugee crises due to wreckers and kulaks fleeing socialist paradises:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article215911855.html
I thought borders were racist?
Repost with feeling – my long overdue movie review: https://youtu.be/HWoJP_DVIEc – hopefully less than a month before the next one.
Peak Vox?
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/first-person/2018/8/1/17637028/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cynthia-nixon-democratic-socialism-jacobin-dsa
This story is so full of fail. If I was at a desk, I would put my head on it.
“Almost 2,400 North Carolina elementary school teachers have failed the math portion of their licensing exams, which puts their careers in jeopardy, since the state hired Pearson publishing company to give the exam in 2013, according to a report presented to the state Board of Education Wednesday.
Failure rates have spiked as schools around the state struggle to find teachers for the youngest children. Education officials are now echoing what frustrated teachers have been saying: The problem may lie with the exams rather than the educators.“
““I am confused as to why I am being tested extremely above the math level of my degree,” said Duda, who says CMS didn’t hire her for 2018-19 because of the failing grade, even though she got “great evaluations” during her first two years of teaching.”
“Tomberlin agreed: “It’s too simplistic to say, ‘I’m a kindergarten teacher. I don’t need to know middle school math or high school math.’ ””
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/education/article215848065.html
““I am confused as to why I am being tested extremely above the math level of my degree,”
,” ‘I’m a kindergarten teacher. I don’t need to know middle school math or high school math.’ ””
The first quote would indicate that being tested on high school math is appropriate.
The second is saying you don’t have to graduate high school to teach kindergarten.
Well, symbolic logic is part of high school math (usually back-doored through programming), so…
They should give examples of hard math questions that are too difficult for kindergarten teachers.
Giving examples would belie their complaint.
When your godson had me go over his science homework from Pearson, I was so appalled, I wrote a long and annotated letter to his teacher pointing out all of the basic errors in this part of their curriculum.
She was not impressed.
Union.
My room mate at Memphis State was an education major. He would ask me to proof his essays and I was always stunned at how bad they were. He literally would have a college essay with multiple sentences with no verbs. What really was surprising though was the fact that he would get B’s on his papers and thank me for the help (I should point out that all I’d do is point out a few of the more egregious misspellings).
The only mitigating factor was that he wanted to be a music teacher and he could play just about any instrument around very well and was a nice guy.
How hard exactly is it to be able to be proficient in high school level math? My kids were all scoring high enough in math by the end of grade school to pass the Minnesota basic proficiency test.
Ex-MrsTres was (is to my knowledge) a high school English teacher, and BritLit is kinda her concentration. When she was going through her undergrad, I had to tutor her and a couple of her friends (also education majors) in basic statistics, and science classes for non-majors. I was astounded that any of them managed to acquire a high school diploma.
“I had to tutor her and a couple of her friends”
Go on…
Oh, it was horrible. 2 of her friends were twins, which routinely creeped me out to the point that I affectionately referred to one as “Cunt”.
They were wholly incapable of grasping even the most basic math functions, to the point that 1 referred to the ! used for factorials as “loud sign”.
I wish that were hyperbole.
Ahem, some education majors can do the math. Not many, I grant you.
There were a few Math Education majors in my higher level math classes I took for my math minor. The Math Education majors weren’t smart by any stretch of the imagination.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach, teach gym.
My hometown high school was littered with ex-hockey coaches. The hockey parents were convinced that we should be winning state championships every year (despite us not being super in any other sports). So they would run out the old coach and hire a new one.
Since my hometown is a beautiful place to live a lot of the ex-coaches remained on as regular teachers. Some were OK, some were absolutely horrible. Our english teach was one of the horrible ones. Everyone had great stories about his ineptitude.
“Mr. E, why is the answer to question 4 and adverb and not an adjective?”
“Ummmmmmmmm. Because that is what it says in the answer key in the back of my teacher’s edition. Next.”
Our gym teacher’s name was, no shit, Mr. Hurdle. Mr. Hurdle was a nice fellow but, ummm, not smart. It entertained us endlessly (in those pre-digital days) to ask him what time it was. He’d look at his watch and say, “It’s… uhhh… it’s… uhhh… what’s the matter, ain’t you got a watch????”
Hired as a teacher, fired as a coach.
I still tell the story of my 10th grade math teacher doing a class on imaginary numbers, me asking the question, “If i is the square root of -1, what’s the square root of i?” and him looking totally baffled.
I figured it out that weekend, then had someone in each of his classes ask him the same question.
I was not a nice kid.
(((you people))) and your fixation on an i for an i brand of justice.
Couldn’t you just leave the guy alone?
And the answer is?
10th grade math teacher, are ya?
The good teachers invariably had one quality, a degree in something other than education.
I had a triple major, that way I got a BSEd. I did my student teaching and kept on walking…
South Africa Amending Constitution: White Farmers’ Lands To Be Seized And Given To Blacks
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Tuesday that the African National Congress will move forward in amending their constitution to permit the seizure of white farmers’ lands without compensation. The stolen land will be “redistributed” to poor blacks in the name of righting the inequities of apartheid some 25 years ago.
Earlier in 2018, as reported by News.com, South Africa’s parliament voted in favor of a motion brought forward by radical Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) seeking to begin the process of taking white-owned farmland without compensation. “We are taking the future into our own hands,” said EFF leader Julius Malema. “Shoot to kill! Shoot to kill! Pow, pow!”
It is estimated by the farmers’ union that some 47 farmers were murdered for their land in 2017, though civil rights group Afriforum contends the real number is much higher, at 84.
Trevor Noah could not be reached for comment.
Zimbabwe is busy holding the ANC’s beer, I suppose.
Isn’t one of the core functions of the UN supposed to be preventing genocide? You’d think that constitutional amendments and political leaders advocating for it might be enough for it to get on their radar…
But who am I kidding, they’re far too busy writing sternly worded condemnations at the Israelis for refusing to get blown up by Palestinian rockets.
I guess that “trumps” naming a street after a mass-murderer.
[seinfeld throwing up hands and leaving theater-done.gif]
And nobody bats an eyelash at this stuff anymore – it is completely typical of the lunatics infesting city hall and the state house. One of them is our mayor now.
On the “he sought to stop those who were evil”. Nah. They killed pretty much everyone who was white and French. Even the foot soldiers didn’t want to do it, and they didn’t really do much until he showed up to supervise.
Genocide is ok, so long as it’s done for the right reasons?
There’s an argument that a debt is owed to Haiti, but honoring that man isn’t a way to do it.
Wonder what Trump’s view will be on admitting refugees from the violence in South Africa?
It’s a trap!
This sort of shit breaks my heart. For decades the brutal apartheid government preached that if you let the Black Africans vote or have equal rights, things will eventually go to shit…..and the ANC is unintentionally proving them correct.
I can sympathize with the fact that Apartheid put a lot black South Africans at a huge disadvantage, but to think that by merely seizing the Afrikaner’s wealth piece by piece and chasing them will create equal results is stupid. But then again the ANC whole purpose is to enrich themselves and maintain power at the expense of the South Africans.
“But then again the ANC whole purpose is to enrich themselves and maintain power at the expense of the South Africans.”
So pretty much any political party on Earth.
IOW, ANC = National Party.
Huh, it’s almost as if all politicians are corrupt, irrespective of ethnicity, and thus should not be entrusted with power. What a nutty notion.
And then when the Afrikaners eventually leave South Africa and the country experience a brain/economic drain, the ANC and their idiot followers will cry racism. “How dare they leave and not take our abuse?”
Meh, I’m sure the white farmers will get a fair shake:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOaLIIxxQlQ
You can just feel the love.
An acquaintance of mine has always wanted –just for curiosity’s sake– a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook (not picky…paper or digital), but they’ve always been afraid that looking for it online would put them on an extra naughty list.
*pictures Mel Gibson and Cather In the Rye in Conspiracy Theory*
Is that catcher or catheter? It makes a difference.
Dammit!
I’ll let you decide which is better.
Willa.
catcher or catheter?
I thought the important distinction was between pitcher and catcher.
Wait… who’s the bat boy?
We’ll be needing a couple ball girls
Shut your mouth Q! There is only one Bat Boy
“Perhaps the most notorius How To manual on the market. This is the most asked for book that we know of.”
The naughty list must be pretty long.
Huh. Apparently my friend was worrying too much about it.
From the reviews:
I had a copy in the 80s. Even as a high schooler it was apparent that the book was mostly bullshit. I remember seeing errors so egregious in the areas I knew something about that I couldn’t trust it in the areas I knew nothing about. I gave my copy away.
Did he co-write it with Myrna Loy?
Failure rates have spiked as schools around the state struggle to find teachers for the youngest children. Education officials are now echoing what frustrated teachers have been saying: The problem may lie with the exams rather than the educators.
Schoolteacher Barbie says, “Tests is hard.”
By strange coincidence, bodybuilder barbie says “Test is great.” Often is a suspiciously deep register.
Porno Barbie sez “hard is great.”
Underachieving Barbie sez “great is hard.”
I just finished Job by RAH. Really enjoyed it, but what is his deal with father-daughter incest? Was he just ahead of pornhub by a couple decades?
In his later years (post-stroke), he went sort of funny in the head.
I didn’t care for Job, it badly needed an editor.
Really? I guess it could have been trimmed.
I liked the central conceit(s) of it, but yeah, it needed an editor.
As for the father / daughter stuff…who knows. There wasn’t really anything in the biography I read of him that would indicate why. Though his later works, esp. the World As Myth cycle, all heavily feature various shades of it. Probably the brain-eater OMWC mentions.
The book kept me guessing right up to the end. I’ve liked all the RAH stuff so far.
I’m a huge RAH fanboy. So don’t get me wrong.
Wait til you get To Sail Beyond the Sunset and the opposite sex clone twincest. That’ll really, as they say, bake your noodle. (I think I have the right book for that one.)
I don’t have my next RAH book picked yet. Do you recommend “To Saul beyond the sunset?
So my favorites are:
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Starship Troopers
Stranger In A Strangeland
Farnham’s Freehold (There’s a scene that always makes me cry like a baby)
Citizen of the Galaxy
Job
The Day After Tomorrow / The Fifth Column partly because simply reading it is enough shitlord behavior to trigger all the right people.
I really think the whole World As Myth cycle should be read in order together (Time Enough For Love, Number Of The Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and Sunset). But that’s just like, my opinion, man. For Us, The Living or whatever the title is for his first novel that was published after his death is interesting for the way it sort of hits the themes that he spent 40+years writing about.
My favorites in order are
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Citizen of the Galaxy
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
Job
Yes I would recommend To Sail Beyond the Sunset. It is certainly not one of his best works but it is interesting and thought provoking
It’s been too long since I’ve read “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”, so I don’t know if I’d recommend it.
I remember not hating it.
Stranger In A Strangeland is the best.
I liked Friday.
I think that was Number of the Beast and possibly Time Enough For Love. To Sail Beyond the Sunset was the one was was essentially all about incest in many varieties
Neat. Full disclosure; I don’t really care about the incest, just noticed it because it was in the last two books I read and was curious if there was more to it.
That’s one of the more unusual Heinlein hangups I’ve never understood. It seems to be a theme in a lot of his books too.
It was in Farnham’s Freehold too. Came out of nowhere.
I remember mother-son incest in “Time Enough for Love” (and brother-sister incest), but I don’t remember any incest in “Job” or “Farnham’s Freehold”. I guess I’ll need to re-read them. It’s been a long time since I read them.
It wasn’t an actual act. In FF the daughter ask if incest or miscegenation is worse. The father thinks she is talking about the brother, but she says she meant him. She decides on the black guy, but only because her dad turns her down.
Hmm… I thought the daughter was already pregnant when the story began? The reason her friend was there was to provide moral support when the daughter told her father she was pregnant.
Or maybe I should just re-read the book to jog my memory.
She was pregnant, but this is after the nuke attack, but before they get picked up and are trying to rebuild society.
Hmm… OK. I’ll reread the book.
In Job, Jerry’s wife says him and his daughter need to bang to sort out their relationship and Marga agreed like it was very normal.
I don’t remember that bit at all. I’ll have to re-read the book.
Given that “Jerry” was the devil and his “daughter” was in reality a Succubus and they were just playing a family I don’t know that it counts, and as far as Margrethe agreeing, remember she came from a dimension ruled by the Norse dieties which never had Christianity and it is often made clear that she has VERY different sexual mores from what we would consider normal as a result
I always thought that she really was his daughter for whatever that counts as for a supernatural entity capable of shaping reality. But both of those are valid points.
Spoilers! Yeah, at the time of the convo they’re a family.
+1 Number of the Beast
Which RAH book is your favorite?
Starship Troopers – I realize this is somewhat trite, but I found a first edition at age 12 (my older brother’s – I am adopted so 18-yr gap).
I don’t know that you could say it was a hangup of his.
He made it clear in his personal letters and essays that what he wrote in his books did not necessarily mean he advocated for or supported it. What he was going after in those books was poking at as many sacred cows as he could, partially to see what he could get away with and still get published, and partially to get people to think beyond and question their biases.
That said as far as Job goes the incest thing was barely a part of it, Basically mentioned in the afterword and unless you consider the devil and a succubus to be an actual father daughter relationship it never really came up anywhere else.
The only one of his books that had a lot of incest, of both the father daughter and mother daughter and mother son varieties was To Sail Beyond the Sunset. It was mentioned in a couple of other books (Number of the Beast, Time Enough For Love)
I think this is pretty spot on too. He was sort of following where his ideas about sexual freedom led in the fiction. IE: if it is voluntary among adults with no chance of ‘defectives’ (Lazarus Long mentions that at some point when giving the Howard Family history) why would that be taboo? And as you mention with the books you name, he’s basically dealing with it among Zarathustrian uber-mensch.
Rasilio, I agree with most of what you say. I think Heinlein also wanted to point out that sexual customs might just change over a long span of time, given changes in knowledge and mores.
Pornhub only seems to feature mother/son or sister/brother. Haven’t seen any father/daughter. Also, ew.
Also, I haven’t seen any of that, because I’m not on pornhub.
But also, ew.
Me either, my uh…roommates told me about it.
Did they also tell you about all the spitting and choking? Somebody told me there’s a lot of that, too.
…really?
*unzips*
*takes notes*
I imagined you more with an old time hand crank film camera and a director outfit to match.
Man, these euphemisms.
Totally unrelated: there was an off-board discussion of interrobangs and I went digging for where I’d posted the HTML for them on TOS and found it was all in conversation with you.
I remember that conversation.
Glad to see the essence of libertarianism has remained intact during the move here.
I remember that conversation.
I do too. I still can’t figure out which article I completely broke the formatting on though. I think they may have nuked it.
interrobangs and I went digging for where I’d posted the HTML for them
What’s the alt code for the percontation point?
Hmm lemme test
⸮
Let me enact your labor: ⸮
(maybe?)
⸮
ampersandhash11822semicolon apparently
This could get out of hand: ☞
You can also use hex codes, so ampersand hash x2e2e semicolon
Thanks, although I just like the words interrobangs and “percontation point” wasn’t really looking for an answer.
They should give examples of hard math questions that are too difficult for kindergarten teachers.
“Two plus two equals patriarchy? I’m sorry, that’s not the answer we were looking for.”
The really hard questions are all about pension funds.
“You contribute $300K to a pension fund over 30 years, after retirement you are paid $60K a year in benefits. What is the required tax rate on private sector workers to ensure that your retirement benefits never run out?”
*applause*
I have nothing interesting to say.
That’s very meta.
Hmmm. Very interesting.
You don’t count Mike. You are a NoDak. You think anything, anything at all is interesting.
Dude, Grand Forks.
I mean, c’mon.
Which is interesting.
Tell me more.
“Donald Trump, as explained by Alex Jones”
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1024297185251405825
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6dM-MKV-Ms
Isn’t she dressed a bit provocatively for a physic? Aren’t they supposed to wear long gypsy gowns?
Physics read your quantum emissions.
It’s things like this that shake my faith in psychic phenomena. I’m so upset I need a Reiki session.
Urban is getting a short vacation.
It’s going to end up being permanent. There’s no way they bring him back.
I’d be shocked if they don’t figure out a way to keep him.
THE Ohio State University has placed Urban Meyer on paid leave due to his whole “let’s ignore this shitty coach’s beating his wife, and lets more than ignore it and pressure her not to press charges” thing.
Too much stupid to summarize
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/08/the-problem-with-bezos-billions/566552/
She’s married to Ezra Klein….what do you expect?
And also, is this the best that our prestigious universities are producing? I went to a fucking third tier university in the Midwest and know that what she is writing is pure nonsense.
“But his fortune is also a policy failure, an indictment of a tax and transfer system and a business and regulatory environment designed to supercharging the earnings of and encouraging wealth accumulation among the few. Bezos did not just make his $150 billion. In some ways, we gave it to him, perhaps to the detriment of all of us.”
That’s what commerce is all about. Someone makes a product or provides a service and if it’s good enough, people will give that person some money.
Jeebus H. Chrisos
It’s just envy dressed up in nice language to make the lefties feel superior. She makes one good point about Amazon shopping around for government subsidies but it’s buried in so much “not fair!” that nobody reading that would notice it.
In some ways, we gave it to him
Yea, when you contracted his service when it was offered. Strikingly no threats were involved.
Never forget:
Ezra Klein was too dumb to get into UCLA. He had to transfer.
I would laugh, but I transferred into UVA from Pepperdine, although I didn’t apply there out of high school. Who knows if I would have gotten in at that point.
Complete disclosure: Pepperdine, accepted; USC, accepted; Boston College, accepted; Claremont-McKenna, accepted off the waiting list; Washington & Lee, waiting list; Notre Dame, rejected. As you can see, I really wanted to go to California back then for some reason. Had to transfer because I lost a scholarship, long story.
He went to Uni High in Irvine. One of the biggest feeder schools to the UC system. And his dad is a math professor at UCI. His admission to UCLA was all but guaranteed unless he was a complete fuck up.
Disclosure: Deferred by Yale, rejected by Penn and Northwestern.
Needless to say, Berkeley was not my first choice, but it built (some) character.
He turned WaPo into the headquarters of #resist. What more do they want?!
“Its not fair that Jeff Bezos doesn’t let other people swim in his giant bin of money!”
Mostly it’s the misconception that Bezo’s $150b net worth means he has 150b $1bills stashed somewhat
IOW the Scrooge McDuck school of economics
Hahaha.
I rarely used to lose my shit in my econ classes but some jackass said some bullshit comment like, “The rich are hoarding their wealth,” and I immediately went on a tirade and said that in his brilliance he created the Scrooge McDuck School of Economics.
I have fond memories of Duck Tales.
My kids watch the new DuckTales revival. I’m lukewarm on it. Don’t like that Huey, Dewey, and Louie have human voices rather than Donald-like duck voices now.
I haven’t seen the revival because I figured they couldn’t improve on the original.
I don’t know why Scrooge gets such a hard time. The guy was ok in my book, gave lots of anti commie lessons
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has accumulated a fortune worth $150 billion. That is the biggest nominal amount in modern history, and extraordinary any way you slice it. Bezos is the world’s lone hectobillionaire. He is worth what the average American family is, nearly two million times over.
Literally none of that matters unless he got any of it through fraud or theft. And “policy failure”? Meaning “not adequately stealing enough of what someone presumably earned”.
The only policy failure was Sears Roebuck’s policies of not taking credit cards (other than their own) and shitcanning their catalog.
“How America Played Right Into Maria Butina’s Hands”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/01/russia-recruit-americans-mariia-butina-spy-intelligence-219079
Interesting article although I can’t figure out what she did that was illegal for the life of me. Is being Russian and cultivating political relationships illegal now?
The mistake they made was arresting her. The proper procedure for any sort of undeclared foreign agent not engaged in active sabotage, insurrection, or assassination is, and long has been, to return them to their country of origin, declare them persona non grata, and tell them to never return. Putting her in the American legal system is stupid move.
With Rico and conspiracy charges around any 2 individuals having a conversation that is even remotely political can easily be considered a crime.
You can literally be convicted of a conspiracy to commit an act which is otherwise legal and well, if there is any exchange of money or any other thing of value that is where RICO comes in
Is that right? I’ve seen various lefty outlets saying Mueller will push the conspiracy to collude angle on Trump rather than charge him with collusion (which I’m not sure is even a crime). Interesting…
Well for all intents and purposes legally conspiracy and collusion mean the same thing.
Typically collusion is used in the economic arena and conspiracy is used in the criminal arena but bother are in essence being charged with talking about verboten topics with unapproved people.
So here is the thing, to prove a conspiracy charge no actual crime need ever be committed. You just need to talk about it. Agree to do it and then take any action, including totally legal ones to further that agreement. Sure the agreement needs to be something that is illegal in some way but it does not take a very creative prosecutor to dream up an interpretation under which an act never carried out somehow would violate a federal law if it were.
Basically Conspiracy is one of the catch all charges, right next to obstruction and resisting arrest. It is what they charge you with when they have nothing else because it is so easy to prove and you can use one element of the crime as circumstantial proof for another…
The tough one for Mueller is going to prove that there was an actual agreement between Russians and Trump. Meeting the 4th criteria should also be a pretty tough hurdle but the mainstream media has already handled that for him. If he were investigating anyone but the President even on a case this devoid of evidence getting a conviction on conspiracy charges would be a fairly trivial matter for any prosecutor.
So when Ted Kennedy offered a quid pro quo to Andropov to interfere in the 84′ presidential election, that was CONSPIRACY, not collusion.
Nice to have that cleared up.
Welcome to the Space Force Academy
WTF?
Tesla stock is up in after hours trading on news of its largest quarterly loss in history.
The way Elon’s been acting lately I wouldn’t trust him to manage a lemonade stand and I certainly wouldn’t buy the stock. It doesn’t make any sense.
What doesn’t make sense is Tesla’s projected market for these cars. I understand why the others are doing it – the cache and because everyone else is – but I guarantee you none of them are protecting mass market adoption.
They should have stuck to selling ultra high end vehicles to an ultra high end market. People who own five or six cars won’t care so much about the reliability of their fashion statement or how well it’s put together.
BUT, they burned less than expected.
Dumb.
They made up for it in volume!
Jinx.
Buying at discount?
He’ll make it up in volume this time!
*opens trading app*
WTF. It IS up 9% afterhours. I don’t get it.
There was a an entertainment mammal who hosted a traveling bizarre of creatures and people who explained this quite succinctly
The mammal whom you are referring, did not say that.
Please don’t vaporize my house.
Apple stock always tanks after they report another record quarter of earnings. These guys are smarter than us, who are we to question it.
Sour Pear Cider for tonight. Something a bit different.
I should have paid more attention when I uncorked the bottle. The cork and cage flew off with a loud “POP” and almost smacked me in the face.
These euphemisms.
Aloha Sculpin because I’m a creature of habit.
Pineapple?
Re the Scrooge McDuck school of economics for the financial folks here. How much cash would someone like Bezo’s have on hand?
Control of the company is more important to him.
Shorter answer: Maybe 1% of his alleged net worth.
That would be 1 and half billion dollars. In cash. I have a hard time believing he has anything more than a million laying about.
Chump change
A few mill maybe. Almost everythingnis going to be in investments of various sorts.
Larry Ellison is the only one who seems to be enjoying his money to the fullest extent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalker_Ranch
I see your ranch and raise you the island of Lanai.
Also, at least a dozen beach houses in Malibu (I’m not kidding) and this little gem:
https://www.curbed.com/2011/2/9/10483038/larry-ellison-buys-249acre-golf-estate
I wonder if he even knows he bought it?
Fuck, I hate it when people use the word “ask” as a noun.
Yeah, he’s there a lot.
My best friend is general counsel for one of his vanity companies. He and a few other execs were invited there for a weekend. They walked right past the guy holding the sign at the airport and took an Uber.
Somehow, they ended up at the service entrance (which is pretty big, they have a staff of at least 30).
Larry found out, got mad, and made them come in the main entrance so they could be properly wowed.
Oracle – One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Yeah, I get the impression that with folks like that it isn’t really about the money or what the money might buy.
If I had to guess, $250,000 which is the FDIC insurance limit. Large enough for any impulse buy, and easy on the book-keeping. I can’t imagine he needs much liquidity day to day, so it could easily be less.
Oh, unless you mean paper cash. Then my guess would be $0.
I meant liquid.
I’d bet Bezos carries $0 cash money.
He has minions for that sht.
I personally don’t carry more than $100. That’s just me.
The only time I ever have cash is on the way to my no-plastic-no-check barber, or the roll of quarters I have at work for the vending machine.
You forgot Rick’s.
Haven’t been to a strip club in a long time, but I find it unlikely that a place that runs on desperation and liquor would make it hard to pay with plastic.
Lol. You’d run out of cards quickly tucking them in g-strings.
I’m actually kind of shocked that my 30 second search of Etsy didn’t turn up anyone selling a garter belt with an integral Square reader.
Market Opportunity!!
Know anyone who could write up a patent? Let’s go!
Contactless/NFC authentication would be faster and smaller. Just gently paddle the stripper’s ass with your phone anytime you want to add a predetermined value to the exchange. Like ExxonMobil Speedpass or Apple/Google Pay
Apple-bottom Pay
^^^^ WINNER!
Same here.
aka Sally in accounting
I used to have to pay a shady landlord $750 rent in cash every month. For seven years. It fucking sucked.
You didn’t negotiate?
Sure, lady, I’ll pay in cash, but I want free cable.
In NYC? Yeah, right. “Fuck you, I’ll take one of the hundred other people in line behind you.”
Ah, yes. I forgot about that.
I always have at least 500 in cash. Just in case.
I just can’t sit on that many $20s and nobody ever has change for $100.
This, I have a grand stashed away somewhere in my spacious abode, and I always have a least three bills on my person. Fuck that “your credit card has expired”, “our machines are down”, bullshit. Cash is king, right up ’til it isn’t, and at that point your plastic is worthless as well.
Plus, sometimes you need to get stuff done that doesn’t leave a paper trail.
I’m not going to 1099 the guy who hauls my junk to the local landfill.
If he is like me, none
Huh, see, I would have picked you as a cash-only guy.
He trades jugs of muscadine wine, instead of fiat currency.
I just rely on my good looks.
SciFi/Anime fans 2 days only
Cool. Thanks. My bil said 1986 transformers is being shown in theaters too
Damn, it’s on a Wednesday. Can’t make it.
Since you all were discussing brutalist architecture, I work here
Jesus. “Come on in – if you dare.”
What kind of evil experiments do they do in the basement?
Check out this monstrosity, it’s perfect for Airstrip One:
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/06/brutalist-buildings-national-theatre-london-denys-lasdun/
People love to be viscerally shocked when they enter a building.
Homemade sin created by unskilled labor.
My former offices
i don’t know if it qualifies
the only thing special about it was this, which i still think is super-fucking cool and wish more places did. i think there are only a very few of those in NYC
Ah, classic Art Deco. Love it.
“When you describe glibertarians.com to someone who has never visited, how do you do so?“
There’s a reason why my username here has absolutely nothing to do with anyplace else I frequent on the interwebs.
So much this!
Not even that potato fucking website?
Picked up a new pistol today.
It’s so small. SA 911 .380
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/UAMgJVkoZHJ68y6IPdTdfGwoXkBA4T9IQIszaH6EFJ5
Nice.
I think about “downsizing” from my CZ-75 Compact (which is barely compact at all) for greater comfort and concealability. But I can’t bring myself to give up the 14+1 capacity and soft recoil of an all-steel pistol.
Cool!
Damn that is sweet. I’ve had my eye on this S.A. MC Operator for awhile.
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/24299/Firearms/Handguns/Springfield+Armory/Springfield+Armory+PX9105ML+1911+Loaded+Operator+MC+Single+45+ACP+5+NS+Black+S
Let us know how it shoots.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1023860516597317633
You might have a lot questions about that image. But I just want to know why Jordan Peterson is talking to Kermit the Frog.
Ben Shapiro close to Ayn Rand? Uh-uh.
Chomsky needs to go further up