"Be brutally honest - does the non-sentimental value of that exceed the ever-growing costs of keeping her around?"
Let's see how you feel about that once you've reached an age of costing more than you're worth. I bet you'll gain a whole new philosophy and become a total hypocrite. I doubt you will be the first in line at the Euthanasia Center.
Spoken like a true (young and healthy) conservative.
My nose! It burns! Mt. Dew all over the screen......
If only I had mod points....But I would be torn between: +1 Funny +1 Insightful I think Insightful wins....even though you coated my screen with Mr Dew...
Now that was cool. Of course the dueling robots were cool too, but in a "I'm freezing to death in the mountains and I can feel the frostbite setting in" sort of cool.....
Because media has always responded well to conspiracy theories from the "Red Scare" onward. It's easier than actual reporting, and technology has advanced to the point where anybodies sane or crackpot opinion can be voiced. (Remember when we thought that would be a good thing?) However, sanity's boring, conspiracy is interesting, and people are stupid.
Now to press 'Submit' and instantly see every grammatical and spelling mistake I missed in the preview...Fuck it, back to da bong...
More like criminal than lame. After all, they are saying that ONE MAN was responsible for deploying patches on systems worldwide.* That must be one overworked, exhausted zombie of an employee. After all, he is apparently a team of one, with no assistance, supervision or accountability until the shit hits the fan.
The other 224 were responsible for making sure the coffee maker got cleaned once a month, along with, as mentioned by an earlier AC...writing his schedule.
*Equifax employs approximately 9900 employees in 24 countries. So this one guy is responsible for thousands of systems in multiple languages, on multiple continents. Motherfucker must be Ultra-Caffeine powered Supernerd!
Or, he's the Argentinian that used Admin, for the Admin account, convenient scapegoat there!
Unfortunately, their security re-write consists of: "Improve processes to prevent revealing our fuck ups to the media, government and customers."
They spent $250 mil and had 225 people in 'security theater,' but only ONE GUY actually doing security, as you always need a reliable scapegoat to justify spending more money on looking secure than being secure.
At least that seems to be what they are saying, as none of the rest of the 'security theater' team is being blamed. He must be the Argentinian that authorized using Admin as the password on the Admin account......
Uh, after writing that I have a question...as I am not a systems administrator, is it even POSSIBLE for one man to patch systems on a worldwide basis? I was under the assumption a sysadmin would be responsible only for his portion of the network, or am I mistaken and it is possible to patch worldwide by a single person?
I have seen those 'forests' so many times. They are the weirdest looking things, strait rows. They put up a big sign when they harvest one, I don't recall exactly what it says, I haven't been on that route for several years. A grand sight, the poster child for renewable resources.
And beautiful in their own right as well.
Now I've a desire to head down to Multnomah falls next weekend as I love the drive down US30. Top off, wind in your hair...maybe up Mt Hood the next day....sorry, off-topic daydreaming, but it's so damned pretty.
"The other option thinks that it's OK to use violence to silence political opposition."
Most disingenuous statement ever. Since the (White Nationalists, KKK, Alt-right, insert favorite right leaning extremist here) advertised in advance they would be armed. They came looking for a confrontation. Trump endorsed it, then condemned it, then endorsed it. It was funny watching the Creamsicle Charlatan's head nearly explode as he tried to defend the indefensible. Great comedy troupe, shitty government.
I loved Jarts. Every family Bar-b-q out came the Jarts. As for caps, an entire box smacked with a hammer made quite a boom and fire. Piece of pipe, some black powder or firecrackers and some tissue made a pretty cool bee-bee shotgun too! (although sometimes it was closer to a pipe bomb than a shotgun)
Sigh, my grandkids will never know the fun and terror of coming home all bloodied and trying to explain what happened to your mom without admitting you were making ant hill bombs in the woods... Then she cleaned you up, plucked the broken glass out of your face and sent you back outside with a stern warning not to do that again.
Bought my first one (called a 'Magic Cube' at the time) in 1974 as a sophomore in high school.While the craze peaked in the early '80's they were extremely popular from the mid '70's on.
'97? All of those items are WAY older than that. The Clackers were pulled off the market in the '70's as they had a tendency to shatter. Yo-yo's date to ancient China. Rubber wristbands....those might be newer,but Rubik's Cube is from the mid '70's, Hula Hoops, late '50's, and marbles date to at least the Roman Empire. By the time Tamagotchi's appeared, I was in my 30's, and I had played with all of the listed stuff except the rubber wrist bands by the time I graduated in '77.
My favorite Clackers were the ones coated in a thin layer of gunpowder. They sparked and popped when you used them, and burning them or crushing them with a sledgehammer was a 'blast!' Needless to say, they were not on the market for very long at all.
Hahahaha, yeah, Trump golfing in a city where he only got eight percent of the vote. And Kim Jong Un took a stroll through Seoul this morning as well....
Let's see, Dems managed to get 22 million people health insurance. It's not perfect and needs work but it's a start. Republicans want to make it so that 20 to 35 million people lose that insurance. All to give the already wealthy another undeserved tax cut. They could of, instead of sabotaging the law with over a hundred amendments, worked toward making it a good law, as it was based on a Heritage Foundation plan for the R's in the first place. Instead they chose to obstruct their own plan because they vowed from day one to vote against anything O wanted, regardless of value to the country, steal a SCOTUS seat, and generally fuck every one of us in the process. Both parties are blinded by partisanship but who really hates the working class? And remember D's TRIED to get the R's to work with them on O'care, They CHOSE not to. When the R's got total control they shut out everyone including most of their own party to try and get the repeal they wanted so badly until it actually had a chance of passing. Then their balls shriveled up. The dog caught the car, now it has no idea what to do.
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"Be brutally honest - does the non-sentimental value of that exceed the ever-growing costs of keeping her around?"
Let's see how you feel about that once you've reached an age of costing more than you're worth. I bet you'll gain a whole new philosophy and become a total hypocrite. I doubt you will be the first in line at the Euthanasia Center.
Spoken like a true (young and healthy) conservative.
My nose! It burns! Mt. Dew all over the screen......
If only I had mod points....But I would be torn between:
+1 Funny
+1 Insightful
I think Insightful wins....even though you coated my screen with Mr Dew...
Genital Recognition?
NOOOO!
Hearing Siri do a five minute belly laugh would just be too much......
Now that was cool.
Of course the dueling robots were cool too, but in a "I'm freezing to death in the mountains and I can feel the frostbite setting in" sort of cool.....
The sad part is, your description was far more exciting than the actual "fight."
"Arkansas", " socialism."
I've never seen those two words in the same sentence before.
You had one hell of a creative writing instructor in school didn't you!
"Why do people take hearsay as fact this day in age."
Well, I'll just quote myself from earlier in this thread...
"Sanity's boring, conspiracy is interesting, and people are stupid."
I think that pretty much sums it up.
" [snip] Then, why look for a conspiracy?"
Because media has always responded well to conspiracy theories from the "Red Scare" onward.
It's easier than actual reporting, and technology has advanced to the point where anybodies sane or crackpot opinion can be voiced. (Remember when we thought that would be a good thing?) However, sanity's boring, conspiracy is interesting, and people are stupid.
Now to press 'Submit' and instantly see every grammatical and spelling mistake I missed in the preview...Fuck it, back to da bong...
They don't need to run a PR campaign. They have lobbyists, and Jeff Sessions..
The 70's kid in me just needs a quarter for the payphone...but I spent them all in the Pong machine...
More like criminal than lame. After all, they are saying that ONE MAN was responsible for deploying patches on systems worldwide.* That must be one overworked, exhausted zombie of an employee. After all, he is apparently a team of one, with no assistance, supervision or accountability until the shit hits the fan.
The other 224 were responsible for making sure the coffee maker got cleaned once a month, along with, as mentioned by an earlier AC...writing his schedule.
*Equifax employs approximately 9900 employees in 24 countries. So this one guy is responsible for thousands of systems in multiple languages, on multiple continents. Motherfucker must be Ultra-Caffeine powered Supernerd!
Or, he's the Argentinian that used Admin, for the Admin account, convenient scapegoat there!
Unfortunately, their security re-write consists of:
"Improve processes to prevent revealing our fuck ups to the media, government and customers."
They spent $250 mil and had 225 people in 'security theater,' but only ONE GUY actually doing security, as you always need a reliable scapegoat to justify spending more money on looking secure than being secure.
At least that seems to be what they are saying, as none of the rest of the 'security theater' team is being blamed. He must be the Argentinian that authorized using Admin as the password on the Admin account......
Uh, after writing that I have a question...as I am not a systems administrator, is it even POSSIBLE for one man to patch systems on a worldwide basis? I was under the assumption a sysadmin would be responsible only for his portion of the network, or am I mistaken and it is possible to patch worldwide by a single person?
Nah, the Klingons differ from Trump in too many ways.
Klingons are:
Warriors,
Honorable,
Physically fit,
Tough.
Trump is more like Ferengi,
Cowardly,
Dishonest,
Money grubbing,
Maybe with a touch of Lokai and Bele from Cheron,
(STOS, Let that be your last battlefield)
Fascist,
Racist,
Warmongers,
And, of course, the orange skin coloring of the Edosians.
He's sort of an Edofercherub. A fat, orange, delusional corperatist xenophobe.
"Will someone show this guy a weasel's ass?"
If you so insist.....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDDzrqZU0AAYQuV.jpg
To show my humanitarian side, and soothe the bleeding eyes.....
http://www.eyebleach.me/babes/
God dies.....??
Hey, Mister Break My Wallet fanboi, your nose must hurt like hell scraping on the ceiling so much.
BMW's drivers tend to be pretentious snobs who don't mind paying $200+ for a starter and couldn't turn a wrench if they had too.
I have seen those 'forests' so many times. They are the weirdest looking things, strait rows. They put up a big sign when they harvest one, I don't recall exactly what it says, I haven't been on that route for several years.
A grand sight, the poster child for renewable resources.
And beautiful in their own right as well.
Now I've a desire to head down to Multnomah falls next weekend as I love the drive down US30. Top off, wind in your hair...maybe up Mt Hood the next day....sorry, off-topic daydreaming, but it's so damned pretty.
"The other option thinks that it's OK to use violence to silence political opposition."
Most disingenuous statement ever. Since the (White Nationalists, KKK, Alt-right, insert favorite right leaning extremist here) advertised in advance they would be armed. They came looking for a confrontation. Trump endorsed it, then condemned it, then endorsed it.
It was funny watching the Creamsicle Charlatan's head nearly explode as he tried to defend the indefensible.
Great comedy troupe, shitty government.
I loved Jarts. Every family Bar-b-q out came the Jarts.
As for caps, an entire box smacked with a hammer made quite a boom and fire.
Piece of pipe, some black powder or firecrackers and some tissue made a pretty cool bee-bee shotgun too!
(although sometimes it was closer to a pipe bomb than a shotgun)
Sigh, my grandkids will never know the fun and terror of coming home all bloodied and trying to explain what happened to your mom without admitting you were making ant hill bombs in the woods...
Then she cleaned you up, plucked the broken glass out of your face and sent you back outside with a stern warning not to do that again.
Damn but childhood was fun back then....
Bought my first one (called a 'Magic Cube' at the time) in 1974 as a sophomore in high school.While the craze peaked in the early '80's they were extremely popular from the mid '70's on.
'97?
All of those items are WAY older than that. The Clackers were pulled off the market in the '70's as they had a tendency to shatter. Yo-yo's date to ancient China. Rubber wristbands....those might be newer,but Rubik's Cube is from the mid '70's, Hula Hoops, late '50's, and marbles date to at least the Roman Empire.
By the time Tamagotchi's appeared, I was in my 30's, and I had played with all of the listed stuff except the rubber wrist bands by the time I graduated in '77.
My favorite Clackers were the ones coated in a thin layer of gunpowder. They sparked and popped when you used them, and burning them or crushing them with a sledgehammer was a 'blast!'
Needless to say, they were not on the market for very long at all.
Hahahaha, yeah, Trump golfing in a city where he only got eight percent of the vote. And Kim Jong Un took a stroll through Seoul this morning as well....
Thanks, needed a good laugh after work today!
Well that makes a certain games sequel obvious:
Viscera Cleanup Detail Hyperloop Edition.....
Year of the Linux Desktop, proudly brought to you by Microsoft.
We are living the old curse..."May you live in interesting times."
Let's see, Dems managed to get 22 million people health insurance. It's not perfect and needs work but it's a start.
Republicans want to make it so that 20 to 35 million people lose that insurance. All to give the already wealthy another undeserved tax cut.
They could of, instead of sabotaging the law with over a hundred amendments, worked toward making it a good law, as it was based on a Heritage Foundation plan for the R's in the first place. Instead they chose to obstruct their own plan because they vowed from day one to vote against anything O wanted, regardless of value to the country, steal a SCOTUS seat, and generally fuck every one of us in the process.
Both parties are blinded by partisanship but who really hates the working class?
And remember D's TRIED to get the R's to work with them on O'care, They CHOSE not to.
When the R's got total control they shut out everyone including most of their own party to try and get the repeal they wanted so badly until it actually had a chance of passing. Then their balls shriveled up.
The dog caught the car, now it has no idea what to do.
Republican math, cut taxes, spend more.