Howdy, howdy. I hope everyone is enjoying the WAWR post. Today it was “Desigining Great Azure Solutions” by M$. Gotta keep up with the certifications for one more cycle and then I can hopefully retire to management where I won’t be the type who says “the way we used to do it is…”. The good news is, I didn’t make any major mistakes with the way I did the one that got me the experience. The bad news is, I still have to pass stupid M$ tests. On the homefront, I got the makings for a NYE barbecue. 7.5lb of brisket, 2 racks of baby back ribs, 2 sausages. I will be doing black-eyed peas instead of the more traditional (to the Texas barbecue I will be cooking) pinto beans. Holy meat coma, Batman.
Jezebel writers gather in FL near me. (I’m goin’ to hell for that one)
Its crazy how the world has changed. A tour bus full of Vietnamese tourists was bombed in Egypt. I’m glad I got to see it when I did, although all too briefly. My driver for one excursion was a Coptic Christian. He had an interesting take on things (in 2010). My favorite part was when we were driving back to the hotel, there was a big rally?protest? I asked him what was going on, he says, “Oh that’s a thing for Mubarak. Even if he steps down, it’ll just be his son who takes over.” I said deadpan, “yeah, we never have sons take over for their fathers in America.” He laughed his ass off at that.
Well, the bad news is Florida Woman will be leading the House panel on climate change. The good news is, I can be certain that Citizen’s Insurance (insurer of last resort in FL, and my insurer) will have the full faith and credit of the HoR.
Trump’s EPA moves to lower American IQs.
Let’s see if I can get you an actual music video today.
IS can go lower? Here in the US noooo.
IQs, damn autofill
Ultimate Poe’s Law or just bad luck?
QED
Start your last weekend of 2018 out right with beaucoup T&A!
http://archive.li/zLcrS
7 is my new Handle Lady.
4, 41, 66.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
But, but… FREE HEALTHCARE!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/749468/fidel-castro-cuba-prisoners-eat-excrement-homosexuals-tortured-revolution-anniversary
It’s the good kind of torture because commies are the ones doing the torturing.
Trump doesn’t break off relations with Saudi Arabia. And remember all the shit that Obama got from the progs when he made nice with the Castro regime?
FIF !
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Chili dogs and Tall cans,
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“Jezebel writers gather in FL near me.”
That’s insulting to manatees.
Manatees are both more attractive and less prone to calling for death camps.
And smarter
Hey MikeS, saw your post last night about Gimp and your project to rasterize an image to ultimately cut using a laser CNC. Recently, I had something similar – in that I needed to rasterize an image to cut with desktop CNC router. The tool I found really useful, was potrace – you can find it at potrace.sourceforge.net. It will rasterize and produce output in different formats including SVG and DXF. It has many options that will probably suit your needs.
Hope this helps.
I appreciate that. I went to the Sourceforge web site and found this info:
I must be using it without realizing it…?
This discussion reminds me of Rasterbator, which I’m pleased to see still exists 15 years after I first found it.
*Despite name, goes to Rasterbator.com*
Huh. Looks cool. Does it work? I mean, image quality is decent?
Something sounds off. I thought rasterization was turning a vector image into a non-vector image, that is away from SVG.
Yeah, he meant to say vectorize.
Okay.
“Mark Wahlberg’s wife Rhea Durham shows off her model figure in a black bikini as she joins the shirtless hunk for a day at the beach in Barbados”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6536231/Mark-Wahlbergs-wife-Rhea-Durham-shows-model-figure-black-bikini-Barbados.html
Model figure? I figure he could do better.
foot model, maybe?
Yeah, I mean, she isn’t bad looking or anything, but as the wife of rich, famously ripped actor? You’d expect him to be with an ACTUAL model, a Miranda Kerr type.
Hell, over 90% of the women in Q’s links are better looking.
Ah, the photo kinnath posted down below explains more. Maybe the Daily Mail just had bad pics.
She is 40 now.
My impression of Wahlberg is that for an actor he is a smart, reasonable, down to earth guy. He married a real woman, not a plastic doll/arm candy. Seems consistent with what I have heard about him. He and his brother own a hamburger joint and work in there when they aren’t acting.
Rhea Durham is an American model. She has appeared on the cover of several major fashion magazines, including French Vogue, Marie Claire, British and American ELLE. Rhea has also walked in the 2000 and 2001 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
She may not be aging as well as some but t sounds like he married plastic doll/arm candy at the time.
On the flip side, she’s also aging better than some others. Would.
He also beat a guy within inches of his life when he was young.
Multiple guys, if I’m not mistaken. Straightened himself out, at least, which is more than you can say about many other young thugs.
Oh. I had him mixed up with his brother.
Exactly.
If this article is true it raises any expectation I might have had of him based on my lack of knowledge of him and the fact she gave him 4 children and has maintained a nice body for a woman who has given birth to 4 children.
It seems glibs should celebrate this kind of woman instead of ragging on her.
She still looks way better than an Amy Shumer type who only admits to molesting her little sister.
Despite her many failings and offenses, it wasn’t Schumer who molested her sister.
Hear, hear.
I’d “would” her before that Rose chick you post all the time.
In game shape:
https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/photo-gallery/20246186/image/20248069/Mark-Wahlberg-now-wife-Rhea-Durham-walked-2001-runway-sexy
So 17 years ago, she was a runway model. That would put her late 30’s to early 40’s now.
The original link says she’s 40.
Who reads the links. 😉
The “shirtless hunk” has aged in 17 years, too. Good on them for staying together, I guess.
Thing about models is, ironically, they’re often not all that attractive. It’s about the physique: they’re supposed to be skinny and tall, because it’s easier to fit clothes to people without curves, and tall, skinny people display clothing well without being distracting. Also, there are a lot–and I mean a lot–of models, so being one isn’t that much of an accomplishment.
Many of them have serious cases of butterface. Gisele Bundchen being the best example of that – fantastic body, rather mannish face.
True. They are a blank canvas so they need to be mostly generic looking. Makeup and hair style makes the look.
Yeah, when they do have both, they can become the superstars of the profession. Heidi Klum and Marisa Miller come to mind.
crap: https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/marisa-12.jpg
Or Kathy Ireland and Elle Macpherson
Since we no longer have Firearm Fridays, I just wanted to remind the world that “shall not be infringed” is pretty damn clear and unambiguous language.
Well, not every Friday.
Good point, i’m just being facetious since it’s been a couple weeks. I really enjoyed your pieces about wheel guns by the way. very interesting stuff. I’m looking to possibly get a cap and ball revolver when (if?) my year end bonus comes in
They can be a great deal of fun. But do pay heed to the cautions concerning accidental ignition of other cylinders.
In days of yore it was not uncommon to see men with missing fingers, usually from loading powder into a recently fired barrel with cinders in it. Black powder can be a bitch.
On the hunting channel there is (was?) a show named “Sasquatch Mountain Man” where the host uses a traditional blackpowder or a handmade traditional bow. Not a bad series because I also enjoy hunting with a .54 Hawkins.
But I always disliked that he liked to carry his slingless rifle like a baseball bat (over a shoulder with his hand grasping the muzzle area and the trigger hanging free behind his back). Well one episode the inevitable happened. He was walking that way through brush and the weapon hung up. He yanked the rifle and shot his finger off.
That was stupid on so many levels. Carrying a weapon like that is inherently dangerous, he shot himself, he could have shot anybody walking in front of him and it meant he probably was hunting with the hammer fully back. Stupid stupid stupid.
The point being is respect black powder. Just because it is older it doesn’t mean a black powder weapon can’t kill or main effectively.
SASQUATCH MOUNTAIN MAN? STEVE SMITH NOT NEED WEAPON TO HUNT. BY HUNT, MEAN…
The brush probably cocked the hammer as well. Yeah, that was dumb and completely foreseeable.
When I was much younger I saw a story about a man that was preparing to leave home to hunt. His rifle was under his arm pointed at the floor. I dont remember what he did to discharge it but the bullet glanced off of the floor and killed his very young son. He broke a lot of rules too but the lesson I got was that pointing up is safer than pointing down, especially if you are on a hard surface.
A soft copper leaf bladed dagger can, and many many times has, kill someone. Before we figured out how to beat copper sharp we figured out how to beat each other dead with rocks. Weapons are weapons, just because we make better ones now doesn’t make the old ones harmless. This is why when people here start bleating about proportional response and not shooting rock throwers I get mad. In a self defense situation only one question really matters. Who initiated the use of force. An average man can easily kill someone with their bare hands.
An average man can easily kill someone with their bare hands
It’s a tad harder than you’d think.
Bullshit. It takes less pressure to crush a larynx than to open a pickle jar. Knocked out and hit your head on the ground? Subdural hematoma kills people every day. Is any given attack likely to kill you? No. Does any attack have the possibility to kill you? Absolutely.
Average men get into fistfights every day, the times one kills the other with his bare hands are rare. People are beaten ‘half to death’ for a reason, beating someone all the way there ain’t picking posies. If it was ‘easily’ done men wouldn’t have a need for rocks and clubs and garrotes and knives and guns.
In 2015 (most recent year I can find stats for) 595 people were killed with bare hands. For comparison 252 were killed with rifles. Almost identical numbers for 2014. Your argument is simply wrong
595 deaths out of how many beatings? 252 deaths out of how many rifle (did they not have handgun stats?) shootings? I never said you can’t beat a man to death with your bare hands, just that it’s not easily done. If it were easy, if humans were as fragile as that then every other bar brawl would end in multiple homicides.
I’ve never killed anyone, bare-handed or otherwise, but from what martial arts and practical fighting experience I have, the tricky part is getting the other person to stop moving around. Once they’re knocked out, the killing part is pretty academic. And yeah, people take an unlucky punch or get their heads knocked into something hard and die often enough. But I think Hyperbole’s point is sound in that lots of people get into fights, some on a nigh-regular basis, and don’t kill each other despite beating the tar out of each other. It takes at least a deliberate effort to kill someone with your hands, and I’d guess it’s most common where someone else is incapacitated, if it isn’t accidental.
Of course you are much more likely to die from any specific gunshot or knifing than a specific beating. The point is that if you are minding your own business and some asshole decides you need a beat down he is putting you at a significant risk of death or serious injury, and I believe you should be allowed to respond accordingly. I base this opinion on years working at a very violent bar and seeing several people curbstomped after losing a fist fight.
Trust me on this, if you are fighting someone vicious and lose the fist fight your life is over. Don’t want to get shot? Don’t attack people.
TLDR Obviously weapons increase the chance of death per incident. How much chance do I have to put up with because you are a violent asshole?
I believe you should be allowed to respond accordingly
No argument there, although I’d make a distinction between some asshole tossing half a brick 200 feet at prepared, armored national guardsmen and some biker threatening to feed me my teeth at the local. But as I haven’t witnessed several murders I’ll defer to your experience.
No murders, just several people permanently disabled/disfigured by asshole rednecks who thought it was acceptable to kick/stomp people who were on the ground.
Ah, I only know curb stomping from that Ed Norton movie.
You just broke the first rule
The ‘Other’ Ed Norton Movie!
Ed Norton made more than one movie?
Yes, he also made an unimpressive remake of the Italian Job.
Primal Fear, Rounders, AHX, The Score, 25th Hour… I may need to change my John Cusack T-shirt!
OMG – I almost just named two John Cusack movies by mistake. Are they really two separate people?!
My favorite mistake of all time is shooting your ramrod into the enemy line. Easy solution: borrow one from the rifle formerly used by the corpse to your immediate right.
While we’re talking about black powder safety:
What’s the deal with people who put their mouth on the muzzle and blow after firing?? I’ve heard rationale for it, but it still seems… Appallingly unsafe.
What happened to Vhyrus?
Vhaccinated
Richard Overton, America’s oldest veteran, dies aged 112
Gotta respect a man who keeps slugging whiskey and smoking stogies into his 12th decade.
So…who is the new oldest veteran?
Not me (yet) but following along with the whiskey and cigars angle.
Yes. Anecdotally speaking, it seems to be the secret to long life.
I dunno, but I saw a guy wearing a WWII Navy hat the other day that has to be in the running.
It appears to be this gentleman at 109.
Uffda. I’m not a sissy who reads articles, but is there a chance that he was killed when he fell out a window?
“Trump’s EPA moves to lower American IQs.”
The article fails to mention how much mercury it is. For all we know, it could be less than the amount released by broken thermometers.
You would think the legacy media would want IQs to drop so more people would buy their BS.
Shhhh.
The mercury scare pisses me off. They never mention where the mercury comes from. It leaches out of the ground, that’s where. It is naturally occurring. Fresh water plants and critters concentrate heavy metals.
I remember seeing the results of a mercury analysis of a trout that had been hanging on the wall of a Scottish hunting lodge since the 1500’s. Same concentration as trout today.
No doubt that mercury is in the soil and regularly released by a million natural mechanisms.
However, consider this publication https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp2644
In 2010, anthropogenic mercury releases to air, land, and water were more than 9,000Mg compared with natural emissions of 76±30tonnes/y
IOW: a recent global human emission rate was out-producing nature about 100 to 1.
Who is doing the releasing?
Sorry, I cant keep up. Dog tending, wife tending and firewood stocking for the night.
Most of it is power gen; the good news is that US emissions are a tiny fraction of that (50 – 150 t/y) and already being reduced.
That site has an interactive map so you can click country by country to see what the local sources are (as best as anyone understands these things).
Michael Wilbon likes to say about athletes that Father Time is batting a thousand against everyone.
Not to bang the Malthusian drum, but we are losing the battle with the second law of thermo every day: like slot machines, to play is to lose; this is a simple fact of being. The libertarian urge to resist regulation is a good one, but it shouldn’t blind us to the real damage being done to us by chemicals emissions (so says the chemicals plant guy) every day. I don’t know what the right answer is, but it’s worth thinking about, and breathing and eating mercury is much more like being punched in the face than being frivolously regulated; if there is such a thing as a micro-aggression that makes tangible sense in NAP terms, this is it.
Hg is highly, highly toxic; a little dab’l do ya. Somewhere in the moms can eat0.2 μg/kg/d range enough to damage a fetus (I think that’s in the methylmercury formation). So even though elemental Hg is a tiny contaminant in coal, our power plant distribution is essentially the perfect distribution of engines for the spraying of Hg exactly where the people are. So even though maybe only (depends on who you ask, what you50 to 150 tons a year were emitted measure, and I’m under the impression that this has been greatly reduced lately), power gen emission is still the fairly ideal vector. And it’s not going away; it builds up where we’re spreading it on soil and water, so the background level is constantly rising which is documented in both crops and fish.
I don’t have a PhD in all this and apologize for not commanding all the data, but at some point we will pay some price for this. For me, the chance to easily amortize the costs to minimize the damage should be heartily considered, not scoffed at; the science is infinitely more real, present, and manageable than, say, the climate wrestling. My other notion is that peak natural gas is much closer than peak coal: at some point in the next 400 years (before we could possibly run out of coal) the US will move away from NG, and the easy cure of just burning the right stuff will no longer be a viable coping mechanism.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/e-p-a-proposes-nixing-obama-era-rule-on-mercury-from-coal-plants.html
The concluding paragraph from Slate:
Some however have been pushing the EPA to act and correct what Hal Quinn, head of the National Mining Association, characterized as “perhaps the largest regulatory accounting fraud perpetrated on American consumers.” As Quinn sees it, there’s no way the health benefits to Americans outweigh the cost of the necessary upgrades in equipment. According to the EPA, the cost of complying with the regulation was between $7.4 billion and $9.6 billion per year, while the clear benefits added up to somewhere between $4 million to $6 million.
Is Slate going soft? Who give the opposition that last say in any argument.
I think there’s was a happy mashup both at Slate and in the BHO44 admin between particulate emissions in general and Hg emissions in particular, so there’s a lot of confusion between sets of costs and sets of benefits. My understanding is it’s days of school and work missed due to asthma. FWIW, the reduction potential is small today: we’ve already fixed a lot of this, especially in transportation emissions.
The chance to easily amortize the costs to minimize the damage should be heartily considered. What I meant by that was that $30 per head per year is chump change compared to what damage Hg can do. The US needs about 4 quads a year (quadrillion kilowatt*hours) in the grid, so remediation costs somewhere around $2 per million kwh; my vote is that’s a tiny amount of regulation, market inefficiency, government picking winners and losers and so on to endure for the happy result.
That said, no one would like more than me for improvements in consumer knowledge and the retail commoditization of electricity to create market opportunities that could fix this without regulation.
Some of the very few environmental regulations I tend to support are limits on heavy metals. They just do not go away once released.
Litium, neodymium, you know, all the metal we use for phones and Teslas
Don’t forget the cobalt
It helps to keep the numbers in perspective.
For example, for many, many years Albuquerque tested the water for arsenic to the ppb level with no arsenic detected. Technology caught up with the testing and it was found that there is something like 50 parts per trillion in the water. Massive pearl clutching, OHMAGAWD we’re poisoning the populace! The arsenic levels never changed, just the ability to detect it. I don’t recall stepping over any bodies in the street as the result of the new measurements.
“Jezebel writers gather in FL near me.”
Apt analogy. Manatees are corpulent mammals that constantly emit an enormous volume of hot, smelly gas.
“Watch Miley Cyrus Update ‘Santa Baby’ With A Feminist Message
Miley Cyrus visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to perform the holiday classic — with a 2018 spin. In the skit leading up to the performance, Cyrus tells Fallon that she’s changing a few lyrics to reflect her own Christmas list, and Fallon agrees to let her go with the changes. But it turns out Cyrus doesn’t want material goods at all (she sings, “I can buy my own damn stuff!”). She just wants Santa to shut up and listen to her, and to treat her like a capable equal.”
https://uproxx.com/music/miley-cyrus-feminist-santa-baby/
Knock it off, Miley, no one with $200M is oppressed.
Shut up and listen to her? Why in the name of God would anyone do that?
Besides, I dont remember Santa being all that chatty.
I thought the original Santa Baby was pretty feminist. “Bring me shit because I’m hot!”
I mean, the song’s basically about a sex kitten strongly implying that she’ll introduce her sugar daddy to a carnal paradise just as soon as he puts a ring on it, and that otherwise she might go shopping around for a replacement. If we’re talking about “power dynamics” and shit, it sounds like Eartha Kitt is the one calling the shots in that relationship.
Earth Kitt == Georgia Satellites
Gosh, I can’t for the life of me figure out why so many people see feminists as humorless, joy-sucking scolds.
Is she actually saying that feminists don’t want free shit?
Can she fit down a chimney? Can she travel in a flying sleigh? Is she immortal?
No?
She needs to shut the fuck up then.
“Can she fit down a chimney?”
Probably
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DveQ_Y5U8AAoFjK.jpg
LOLOLOLOLOL
I’m all in for Groundskeeper Willie 2020
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dvejk7OWkAADezI.jpg:large
This.
*Ding Ding Ding*
We have a winner
Other than AFG should be under Bush as well.
Right. I noticed that too.
True, although in terms of the left’s reaction, few of them said much about Afghanistan.
Yeah, but there weren’t really complaints about that.
I still can’t stop shaking my head at the idea that we will soon be sending soldiers to Afghanistan who weren’t yet born when that war began.
Yeah. Vietnam at the extreme was twenty years (deployment of MAAG 1955/1st combat death in 1957 to Mayaguez incident in 1975). Does anyone think we’ll be gone before 2021?
I’m all in for Groundskeeper Willie 2020
I’ll second that.
Trump’s Amerikkka is a shithole
Boy, 2018 has been a tough year for the United States.
No, I’m not talking about the onslaught of news detailing Russia’s interference in our democracy (though that should make anyone sick). I’m talking about something deeper — the wellness of America. Because, if you take a step back a look at the totality of trends facing our country, it’s clear something isn’t right.
——-
[insert litany of doom, gloom, blah blah blah]
————
There are many things contributing to these trends, but if we pull one takeaway from 2018, it’s that rising inequality is deepening fissures within American society. This divide has afforded those doing well to sail forth in the booming economy and escape the headwinds facing our country, but the rest of America — especially low-income households and minorities — haven’t been so lucky.
This is the new gilded age — to borrow insight from Mark Twain. It appears gold from the outside, complete with stunning economic growth and opportunity. But beneath that shimmering layer are social problems that are only getting worse. Until we address that underlying inequality, it’s tough to see the coming years getting any better.
Kill yourself, you useless sanctimonious windbag.
Goddamn do I wish Mueller would go ahead and release his report. This mass psychosis based on debunked evidence has got to end.
And that would be why the report has only a 50-50 chance of ever being released.
It is astounding to me that a complete fabrication has been the basis for the appointment of a special council, a 2 year investigation and endless prattling on by every news outlet.
They had to know it would end with a fizzle and they would be outed. I am guessing they thought any pretense for a fishing expedition, banana republic style, would find something, anything. Yet they haven’t.
But we have proof of collusion.
https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Collusion-Trump-Betrayed-America/dp/1982116080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546038081&sr=8-1&keywords=proof+of+collusion
Come on Suthen. They totally got him nailed for spending his own money to keep a porn star’s mouth shut. That could land him behind bars for life. Ha! Ha!
The fucking WaPo? They make old timey Pravda blush.
Envy + a list of dysfunctions brought on by leftism, reported by some punk who wrote a term paper on Dickens last year.
Oh, so it’s going to be an era of technological innovation, unprecedented medical advances, lower commodity prices, higher worker productivity, and rising standards of living for all classes? Sweet!
Corn was $0.60 before WW1; it closed at a whopping $3.75 today.
If not for government interference, that should probably be the normal price for it. It didn’t get above $5.00 for the first ever time until Jan. 2008
Don’t forget mass immigration.
Missed the wawr thread, but thanks to whoever linked the free Monster Hunters International book.
I enjoyed it, my only criticism is that if the monsters are that tough to kill, how haven’t they won? How did the older generations of hunters every kill any off?
Ever, not every.
I am also reading A Splended Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World.
That’s a good book.
I realized a long time ago that the scariest real monsters, the scariest movie/mythical monsters are no match for us. We are a lot scarier.
Well for a scary white guy like you maybe.
I never should have told y’all that.
*hangs head*
I enjoyed the series too and am currently rereading them. I’ve wondered the same thing.
Try Son of the Black Sword. It’s another Correia book.
I’m reading the first of those books right now, actually. Here are my guesses:
1. Monsters are disorganized. This seems to be a common theme in various stories: powerful beings are also arrogant and/or not given to cooperation, so they fight amongst themselves. Humans, while weak, are numerous, work together, and will sacrifice themselves to save each other.
2. The gamut of human capability extends further towards the powerful end than you’d expect; for monsters, same thing but in the other direction. So, you’ve got a significant overlap where there are humans who are better at killing monsters than those monsters are at killing humans.
3. The narrator is unreliable and exaggerates, maybe even lies. I doubt this one, but like I say I haven’t gotten through the first book yet so I don’t know if that’s a thing Correia would incorporate.
#1 is hinted at. #2 maybe, but its not enough. #3 isnt the case, imo.
But even in the opening scene, the werewolf heals too fast. Werewolves with have dominated middle age Europe.
Paint drying too exciting? Across The Years 6-day race has live tracking.
Looked at the YTD withholdings of last paystub of the year. Thought I was totally fucked with low amounts. Did estimate in turbo tax and somehow it’s right. Effective total fed tax rate dropped from 13.5% to 10.4%. I expected to need to make a catch up quarterly payment to avoid an underpayment penalty.
When Mueller releases his report proving that Trump is an illegitimate traitor and Hillary is appointed Queen, you’ll have to pay all that back with interest.
We all need to pay our fair share otherwise we won’t be able to create an utopia.
I’m still worried I fucked up somewhere. I can’t believe this is right. And everyone focuses on marginal tax rates, which doesn’t really help.
trshmnstr on December 27, 2018 at 5:19 pm: I can’t forgive your SEC affiliation
Auburn beat Purdue by 50 who beat tOSU by 30, so, by UCF logic, Tennessee is suddenly a top five team.
Last month I kicked around this idea that the SEC and AAC should have a relegation/promotion relationship where one team moves up each year to replace the bad team moving down. If the Big10 did that with the MAC, Buffalo would be replacing Illinois next season.
Buffalo lost the title game to NIU.
thanks….I had only noticed the regular season
Also the AAC overlaps more with ACC. SEC can have Sunbelt.
Ok why can I suddenly not see any comments?
Your eyes are closed?
Did you accidentally click the “Hide Old Threads” button at the bottom? I’ve done that before.
So I’m finally looking to get a smart phone.
I’m considering an iPhone 8. Anyone reason to not get one?
Lack of headset jack? 1/1.5 model cycles behind?
I replaced my 6s with an 8 a couple weeks ago and I’m happy with it. I’m not ready to go without the home button & holding the phone up to my face to unlock it.
I got one earlier this year and like it. It came with headphones but the problem is you can’t have a charger and headphones plugged in at same time.
I bought a pretty nice Bluetooth adaptor with a headphone jack off of Amazon for around 12 bucks and it works great. It is something else to keep track of and charge though.
Same with my AirPods but getting rid of the !@#$%^&* wires is totally worth it when out and about.
You bought a “headphone jack off”?!? How, physically, does that work and how does Amazon get away with selling it? Asking for a friend.
Other than the fact they are overpriced? Love my Motorola.
Verizon will upgrade me to one for $150 with a 2 year contract.
So you’re saying money is no object?
Ha-ha. Hard to say no to that. Still, I love my Motorola. And I payed even less than that, IIRC.
Isn’t data around $100/month for unlimited everything?
If so, that’s $50×25 ~ $1200 for a smartphone ?
Employer sponsored plan.
I pay $40/month for 2GB data which I never come close to using. But I don’t watch movies or play games or stream anything on it – not sure what else might require lots of data.
That’s my plan,cheap
I use my iPhone as a personal hotspot when I’m in the field. It’s easier than waiting for the IT guy, or getting the guest wifi password from the secretary. I use alot of data that way. I also get reimbursed $50 a month by my employer.
And go Bluetooth earbuds. Way better. JLab make very nice ones, as well as Beats.
My ex-employer contributed $60/month to my phone bill. That was nice, especially while I was still paying off the cost of the phone.
It’s an iPhone?
Care to elaborate? I thought Apple was better than Android for privacy/security…
I currently have a dumb phone.
I’m just being facetious. I told my mom to buy an iPhone actually.
My next phone is a pixel 3 xl because the camera is amazeballs.
Oh, so your nutscapes are the best?
?
Seriously, I have a coworker with the pixel 2 and the pix he gets especially in low light are amazing.
How do I make Monocle stop hiding old threads? I do not see the setting that has gotten corrupted and this is annoying
“show old threads” is under (in the same button as) “hide less (sic) threads”
in the black bar at the bottom
Button at bottom of the screen next to the ‘# Unread Commen’t button cycle through it..hide old threads, show old threads, etc..find the setting you want.
Perhaps you have hidden the controls. Look for little arrow pointing up in the lower-left corner.
Thanks, (to all of you who answered)
re our recent envy chat
Lol.
“7.5lb of brisket, 2 racks of baby back ribs, 2 sausages”
I’m a little hard right now.
You can always depend on a rent-a-cop to jerk around a minority
Shouldda stayed at the Benson, bro!
I’ve seen regular cops and rent-a-cops fuck with black dudes many, many times. That’s what pisses me off about Black Lives Matter: You have a legit point IMHO and then you go and weave Marxist ideology in with the movement. Sorry, but that shit is a million times worse than racial profiling by itself.
My son called this morning to say a similar thing: just get rid of most laws and most cops, that’s good for all colors.
I still fail to see why every one of these stories is an International Incident. Or, at least, has been since around the first week of November 2016.
It’s the intersectional aspect of it that ruins the entire movement. Jim Goad makes the point that poor whites, latinos, blacks all are getting abused by the cops and they should be natural allies. BLM intentionally ignores abuse of certain people and so it automatically alienates people. Disgusting racism being used to fight disgusting racism.
It isnt about racism and never was. Remember the Antifa guys screaming ‘racist!’ in the faces of the black cops a while back? Just like feminism is Socialism with tits, BLM is socialism in blackface.
As I like to say, we can’t start being post-racial until everyone starts being post-racial.
In Memphis, it’s black cops and black perps, so the BLM stuff is fairly muted even in a town with one of the most dubious racial histories of any place in the country.
Agreed. Moreover, a lot of this crap is just people talking past each other. It’s getting damn tedious.
Scored eighty bucks unexpectedly. I won’t say how, but let’s just say it involved some vigorous work outdoors using my hands.
STEVE SMITH PAID YOU?
Handjobs.
I wouldn’t call that “unexpected”…
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I’d pay ya $80 to shovel my driveway until I can get my ATV fixed! Hell, I’d even go to $120.
Hold on. First off, you’re going to have to state how much driveway you’ve got, the expected amount of snow, and when the ATV will be fixed.
Meh, technicalities, I trust the Hobbit to be fair, I’ll do it. Do I need to bring my own shovel and rock salt?
If you have a spare 2 hours this long holiday weekend, and want to watch an amusing little movie with comedy, action, a deranged retired Marine tranny, and low production values; watch “London Betty” on Amazon Prime. It’s funny and stupid, and the actress who plays Betty is a cutie.
Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the Trump administration was taking a “stunningly immoral and completely unnecessary” step to undermine the mercury standards.
Fred thinks it’s necessary to be stunningly immoral. Just not in this case.
Going down to the 30s tonight with Santa Ana winds, brr
*blank stare*
I pay $40/month for 2GB data
I pay
$20 for base
$45 for 3G
$ 6 in taxes etc
$71
I don’t do games but am live on maps and internet a ton . . . 2.5G average
I like Verizon coverage and billing and figure I could spend a lot of time screwing around with my service and still not save $100 a year.
I get the prepaid plan, $55 for 7GB.
I use my phone as a hotspot for when I need the lower latency, so I use a fair amount of data but not the full 7GB.
Thirty-five years ago Isaac Asimov predicted the world in 2019. He had some hits and misses but overall a tolerable effort.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/35-years-ago-isaac-asimov-was-asked-by-the-star-to-predict-the-world-of-2019-here-is-what-he-wrote.html
His main failing was to assume we’d actually exploit spaceborne resources or that teachers give a damn about getting student to learn.
DOOOOOOM! Oh wait… not really?
Was there really any chance of this happening by the early 80’s? Or was Asimov one of the “Reagan is a reckless cowboy” crowd?
The odds were low, but there was a very large portion of the populace who still believed it to be possible. Especially after having lived with the nuclear sword of damocles for decades.
Here is one incident where it supposedly came close. (This is the framing story for the fun series Deutschland 83, BTW.)
I’ve read about and seen documentaries on that. That is insane. IIRC the public had no idea of that until years after the wall came down.
Will check out Deutschland 83
I loved the first year of that series, particularly because of my own experience in Germany.
The second year we haven’t started: more subtitles than NewWife was in the mood for, but I’ll try again.
If you enjoyed 83, 86 is well worth it, though IMHO slightly less fun because there’s too much South Africa intrigue and not enough Deutschland. (I spent 1986 in West Germany myself.) On the plus side, there’s a lot more Schweppenstette (Martin’s father), though – that actor steals every scene he’s in.
I never really bought it. Mutually assured destruction was a real thing and a hell of a deterrent. My concerns were getting mired down in stupid pointless wars where we could not win, like say, the Middle East. Even dumber would be invading the USSR. Thank goodness we dodged those bullets as well. I suppose I worried about war with china but with the economic entanglements we have with them now that seems unlikely. Besides, we aren’t matched with them on the level we were during the Korean war. We would wipe them off of the map now but to no good end.
We need to pull out of those shitholeistans, protect trade routes with the navy and bring most of our people home.
We were strongly economically entangled with Japan before we were at war with them too. It’s not the deterrant people seem to think it is, especially when it can be the instigator of the fight.
exactly correct: Germany and France were each other’s principle trading partner before WW1
When the countries are very similar commercially or the trade is a small part of GDP (the usual case), it’s just a matter of arranging for strategic supplies before unveiling the forthcoming belligerence.