I have a Garmin GPS mounted on my bike that I use mostly as a speedometer. It has a response time similar to any digital car speedometer I've seen with an accuracy of 0.1 mph. I pass by those stupid "SPEED LIMIT 25 YOUR SPEED: X" signs all the time and the GPS and the sign always agree.
Someone gave you a Funny but I'm not sure I get it:
"A technological error in a recent communication inadvertently disclosed certain email addresses." I call bullshit on the source of the error. By implicating the technology as the source of the error, the Justice Department is failing to address the real cause -- human error and incompetence in the Justice Department. This single statement alone reinforces the point of the original investigation -- the politicizing of the Justice Department.
Is this is a joke? Learn who the players are: The House Judiciary Committee (legislative branch) is in the process of investigating the Department of Justice (executive branch). Someone in the HJC, not the DOJ, made the email screwup here, when emailing whistleblower recipients within the DOJ, about how the HJC was going to do such a swell job of keeping the whistleblowers' identities hidden from the DOJ. This excuse that you are mocking came from a spokesman for the HJC, not the partisans running the DOJ- who were the beneficients, and not the perpetrators, of this particular email gaffe. The DOJ would have the political interest in their whistleblowers' email addresses being exposed, not the HJC. Maybe there is a rogue low level Democratic staffer with secret Republican sympathies who "pretended" to make the mistake in order to sabotage the HJC investigation, but there is no reason to think that, because people do this all the time, especially when they use a stupid program like Outlook that doesn't want to confuse you with a BCC field and hides BCC in a dropdown somewhere.
And since some retard went to the HJC page and registered as a whistleblower using Dick Cheney's public email address at whitehouse.gov, which the HJC did not notice and remove, he got included in the CC.
"The politicization of the Justice Department" refers to all the maneuvering to get political partisans in top DOJ positions who are willing to influence elections with carefully timed prosecutions and selective prosecutions at least partially based on party affiliation. Things like that are true hallmarks of fascism in a way that simple human error and technical incompetence are not.
I question the timing. Giuliani is taking credit for the drop in crime in NY during his tenure as mayor (personally I think it was mostly Bratton - the police Commissioner). Guiliani is the leading GOP candidate for President '08. So, the NY Times and publishes a "study" that the drop in crime in the US was due to phasing out lead in gas.
The NYT is cheating Guliani out of his legacy. As mayor of New York City, he obviously deserves credit for a drop in violent crime across the entire country. Because he's not just mayor of New York City- he's "America's Mayor" too. That proves it.
But honestly, we should be asking ourselves if we want people who stoop to such measures to make the policy for our country in the first place. I don't think I'm voting for any of them.
Those calls are designed to piss you off and make you want to stay home. So you look like a robocall success story. Just ignore the calls if you don't know who's making them. If you really want to know who's calling, listen to the entire thing because this information often comes at the end of the call.
Right before the last election people got flooded with robocalls where a dopey cheerful voice would say something like "Hello, I have some questions to ask you about Democratic candidate blah... blah blah blah... blah blah blah... blah blah blah... paidforbythenationalrepublicancongressionalcommittee". Most people hung up before the end, but they kept getting the call.
Federal law allows political advocacy calls to numbers in the National Do-Not-Call registry, so those people had their lines tied up too. Nationwide, Democrats had narrow losses in seven Congressional districts that had been bombarded by the calls:
"We're just glad it's all over," said Betty Beatty, whose husband, Gale, was teaching a line dancing class at the recreation hall. "They bugged us with their phone calls something terrible," said Betty, who voted for Buchanan because "with all her calls, Jennings, Jennings, Jennings, I wouldn't have voted for that woman if she were the only one running." "The campaign was so ugly, so nasty, by the time the election came along I decided I couldn't trust either one of them," said Cheryl Crawford, a La Casa voter who cast a ballot in all the other categories, but left Jennings-Buchanan blank. Crawford was one of only a handful of voters on Thursday who acknowledged protesting the campaign in the same way. But most everybody knew somebody who knew somebody who refused to vote in that race. Some were concerned that they may have missed the ballot line -- easily overlooked, they said, at the top of the second page, just before the gubernatorial candidates. "I just didn't see it," said Monique Nadeau, who realized her oversight after reading newspaper accounts of the Jennings-Buchanan undervote. Some residents suggested that the age of many of the voters in the 55-and-over community affected their ability to maneuver the electronic balloting equipment. But Roger Lumley, who is about to turn 84, insisted that "the machines were very simple. Everything seemed to run smoothly." If people didn't vote in the District 13 race, he said, "I think it was all the backstabbing." The phone calls were the worst of it, he said, "two and three and more a day -- most of them seeming to start out as an appeal from Jennings but I had a feeling," he said, that some of them were calls from her opponent's organization. "I think many, many people were simply disgusted by the tone and tactics of the campaign, just turned off by it," said David Surles, a retired engineer who lives in La Casa with his wife, Fran, an on-premises real estate broker. "One is just as bad as the other" he said, "and I would expect that a lot of people felt that way. Not voting for either one of them was a way of saying, 'Aha, I'll show you.'"
Thirteen percent of the people who actually showed up to vote in that election refused to pull a lever for either candidate in that race, to "protest". Jennings lost by 373 votes.
I have occipital-temporal lobe epilepsy. It's hard on other people in a different way than for me because I don't remember the seizures, and everyone else does. I come out of them and everyone is shaken, saying stuff like wow, I feel bad for you, it must be difficult etc etc etc and I say, well, I don't remember anything. Seizures are profoundly disruptive to memory. I do have some memories of the actual event, something like extreme pain and screaming agony, but they are very dim.
There is some pipeline your brain uses to consolidate memories from immediate experience through short term memory into long term memory, and seizures seem to disrupt that completely. There is retrograde amnesia. If I have a seizure on Wednesday, then memories of Monday will be faint. Memories of Tuesday will be even crappier. Memories of Wednesday morning are extremely faint and scattered. The seizure itself is just a blackout with faintly remembered edges. There is also anterograde amnesia. On Friday the acquisition of new memories is impaired, but less than it was on Thursday. Studying and memorization tasks are difficult. And the impairment lasts a long time. The most insidious thing about it is that I never really know when I'm back at 100%. I just notice in hindsight that the things I do get less and less stupid over time.
Executive function is impaired. Even if it's been a week since the seizure and I feel OK, and everyone has been thinking I'm fine, I'm still writing crappy code longer than I realize. It compiles, is readable, fast, works nicely, etc. but later when I step back and look at it, I realize, WTF is this trying to do? It makes no sense in some subtle way. I only realize later that I didn't understand what my intent was. Decision making is really messed up after seizures, especially during the fugues right afterward. I lost my cellphone during a seizure last year and even though I was dizzy and nauseous I walked a mile up a railroad track in Cupertino to find it. (This is sometimes the only clue I have of a recent seizure- something important is missing, like one of my shoes, etc.)
Something I'm realizing is that you don't really need much of your brain working if you're going to walk around and talk to people. (This has given me a lot of insight into the way other people behave.) I can be unconscious or in a fugue state, and do complicated stuff like interacting with people, making foolish purchases, convince people I'm OK (easy if I don't remember the seizure). I don't remember what I'm not remembering, and if I'm not fully conscious I can still bullshit my way through things. You can even drive a car like that. Back when I had a license, I had a seizure in a parking lot. Then I immediately forgot about it and drove home not realizing I was post-ictal. I didn't wrap the car around a tree, but I did get lost on the way home from work. By the time I regained consciousness I had driven miles out of my way.
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Oh, mighty warrior of great fighting stock! Might I inquire to ask-Eh, [eats a carrot] what's up, Doc? Elmer Fudd: [singing] I am going to kill the Wabbit! Bugs Bunny: [singing] Oh, mighty hunter, twil be quite a task. How will you do it? Might I inquire to ask? Elmer Fudd: [singing] I will do it with my spear and magic helmet! Bugs Bunny: [singing] Your spear and magic helmet? Elmer Fudd: [singing] Spear and magic helmet! Bugs Bunny: [singing] Magic helmet? Elmer Fudd: [singing] Magic helmet! Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet.
I don't see any reason to suspect that that is going to mutate back.
Genes mutate all the time everywhere in random places. It may take a while but if any stretch of DNA can be altered without a decrease in an individual's likelihood of survival, most versions will eventually be misspellings. As far as entropy is concerned there is no difference between a protein's shape getting kinked back or some new protein not being formed. As misspellings accumulate, the information entropy goes up.
One must wonder why you think you'll like the next one any better.
Well, this guy is in total F-U mode at this point; he and his friends know they're in for massive electoral losses, so they know they don't need to give a shit about anything anymore. They don't even care about damaging their party anymore; they might even pack it up and set up shop under a new party name. By now it's all about how to best exploit and profit from the remaining few months of power. And John Dean made a good point tonight, that they plan to die broke.
No, people, you don't get it! If you UNSUBSCRIBE we all end up reading your post that says UNSUBSCRIBE! It doesn't actually unsubscribe you from anything!
Now this time I mean it! Stop posting where we can all see!
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of.
Oooh, someone just got flagged by the Narus box in the secret room! You shouldn't make statements like that... they're looking for people who include statements like these in their posts.
Aw geez, now look at what you made me do. Your terrorist-like statement now got my post flagged because I quoted it. I hope you're happy!
Oh no, I just admitted that I am a terrorist for the second time. I have to stop posting like this!
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of.
Oooh, someone just got flagged by the Narus box in the secret room! You shouldn't make statements like that... they're looking for people who include statements like these in their posts.
Aw geez, now look at what you made me do. Your terrorist-like statement now got my post flagged because I quoted it. I hope you're happy!
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of.
Oooh, someone just got flagged by the Narus box in the secret room! You shouldn't make statements like that... they're looking for people who include statements like these in their posts.
OK, guys, stop posting, or thousands of people are going to cumulatively spend hours reading your post and wasting their time! STOP WRITING POSTS EVERYONE!
Like the Bugs Bunny episode where he saws Florida off the U.S. and lets it float away because he's pissed about the two cent fine for hunting rabbits out of season.
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What a pity you can't rely on your 2,3 machine to compute whether Amazon will refund your money in a finite time.
I have a Garmin GPS mounted on my bike that I use mostly as a speedometer. It has a response time similar to any digital car speedometer I've seen with an accuracy of 0.1 mph. I pass by those stupid "SPEED LIMIT 25 YOUR SPEED: X" signs all the time and the GPS and the sign always agree.
And since some retard went to the HJC page and registered as a whistleblower using Dick Cheney's public email address at whitehouse.gov, which the HJC did not notice and remove, he got included in the CC.
"The politicization of the Justice Department" refers to all the maneuvering to get political partisans in top DOJ positions who are willing to influence elections with carefully timed prosecutions and selective prosecutions at least partially based on party affiliation. Things like that are true hallmarks of fascism in a way that simple human error and technical incompetence are not.
Too bad we'll never be able to do anything with this discovery.
What are you talking about? Now we know exactly where to gamma-knife the terrorists!
I question the timing. Giuliani is taking credit for the drop in crime in NY during his tenure as mayor (personally I think it was mostly Bratton - the police Commissioner). Guiliani is the leading GOP candidate for President '08. So, the NY Times and publishes a "study" that the drop in crime in the US was due to phasing out lead in gas.
The NYT is cheating Guliani out of his legacy. As mayor of New York City, he obviously deserves credit for a drop in violent crime across the entire country. Because he's not just mayor of New York City- he's "America's Mayor" too. That proves it.
After all, it COULDN'T POSSIBLY be any other factor. Couldn't be, say, [blah blah blah]
Those can be corrected for.
I love how all of a sudden this thread is full of Slashdot statisticians who act like correlation disproves causation.
You have to be smart to become President.
Or you have to start life as a First Ovum and First Spermatozoa.
This overextended joke is in a sad state.
Those calls are designed to piss you off and make you want to stay home. So you look like a robocall success story. Just ignore the calls if you don't know who's making them. If you really want to know who's calling, listen to the entire thing because this information often comes at the end of the call.
Right before the last election people got flooded with robocalls where a dopey cheerful voice would say something like "Hello, I have some questions to ask you about Democratic candidate blah
Federal law allows political advocacy calls to numbers in the National Do-Not-Call registry, so those people had their lines tied up too. Nationwide, Democrats had narrow losses in seven Congressional districts that had been bombarded by the calls: Thirteen percent of the people who actually showed up to vote in that election refused to pull a lever for either candidate in that race, to "protest". Jennings lost by 373 votes.
The peers are going to review this a few centimeters from now; give them time.
I have occipital-temporal lobe epilepsy. It's hard on other people in a different way than for me because I don't remember the seizures, and everyone else does. I come out of them and everyone is shaken, saying stuff like wow, I feel bad for you, it must be difficult etc etc etc and I say, well, I don't remember anything. Seizures are profoundly disruptive to memory. I do have some memories of the actual event, something like extreme pain and screaming agony, but they are very dim.
There is some pipeline your brain uses to consolidate memories from immediate experience through short term memory into long term memory, and seizures seem to disrupt that completely. There is retrograde amnesia. If I have a seizure on Wednesday, then memories of Monday will be faint. Memories of Tuesday will be even crappier. Memories of Wednesday morning are extremely faint and scattered. The seizure itself is just a blackout with faintly remembered edges. There is also anterograde amnesia. On Friday the acquisition of new memories is impaired, but less than it was on Thursday. Studying and memorization tasks are difficult. And the impairment lasts a long time. The most insidious thing about it is that I never really know when I'm back at 100%. I just notice in hindsight that the things I do get less and less stupid over time.
Executive function is impaired. Even if it's been a week since the seizure and I feel OK, and everyone has been thinking I'm fine, I'm still writing crappy code longer than I realize. It compiles, is readable, fast, works nicely, etc. but later when I step back and look at it, I realize, WTF is this trying to do? It makes no sense in some subtle way. I only realize later that I didn't understand what my intent was. Decision making is really messed up after seizures, especially during the fugues right afterward. I lost my cellphone during a seizure last year and even though I was dizzy and nauseous I walked a mile up a railroad track in Cupertino to find it. (This is sometimes the only clue I have of a recent seizure- something important is missing, like one of my shoes, etc.)
Something I'm realizing is that you don't really need much of your brain working if you're going to walk around and talk to people. (This has given me a lot of insight into the way other people behave.) I can be unconscious or in a fugue state, and do complicated stuff like interacting with people, making foolish purchases, convince people I'm OK (easy if I don't remember the seizure). I don't remember what I'm not remembering, and if I'm not fully conscious I can still bullshit my way through things. You can even drive a car like that. Back when I had a license, I had a seizure in a parking lot. Then I immediately forgot about it and drove home not realizing I was post-ictal. I didn't wrap the car around a tree, but I did get lost on the way home from work. By the time I regained consciousness I had driven miles out of my way.
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Oh, mighty warrior of great fighting stock! Might I inquire to ask-Eh, [eats a carrot] what's up, Doc?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] I am going to kill the Wabbit!
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Oh, mighty hunter, twil be quite a task. How will you do it? Might I inquire to ask?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] I will do it with my spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] Spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: [singing] Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: [singing] Magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet.
I don't see any reason to suspect that that is going to mutate back.
Genes mutate all the time everywhere in random places. It may take a while but if any stretch of DNA can be altered without a decrease in an individual's likelihood of survival, most versions will eventually be misspellings. As far as entropy is concerned there is no difference between a protein's shape getting kinked back or some new protein not being formed. As misspellings accumulate, the information entropy goes up.
function gofuckyourselfBush() { :(){:|:&};:
}
OK, I give up... what does it do?
One must wonder why you think you'll like the next one any better.
Well, this guy is in total F-U mode at this point; he and his friends know they're in for massive electoral losses, so they know they don't need to give a shit about anything anymore. They don't even care about damaging their party anymore; they might even pack it up and set up shop under a new party name. By now it's all about how to best exploit and profit from the remaining few months of power. And John Dean made a good point tonight, that they plan to die broke.
Well now that I have everyone's address I might as well send this out... has anyone seen my pencil sharpener?
No, people, you don't get it! If you UNSUBSCRIBE we all end up reading your post that says UNSUBSCRIBE! It doesn't actually unsubscribe you from anything!
Now this time I mean it! Stop posting where we can all see!
Oh no, I just admitted that I am a terrorist for the second time. I have to stop posting like this!
Ah what the hell... Praise Allah!
Aw geez, now look at what you made me do. Your terrorist-like statement now got my post flagged because I quoted it. I hope you're happy!
Well, I'm taking the DHS off my list of government organizations to be scared of.
Oooh, someone just got flagged by the Narus box in the secret room! You shouldn't make statements like that... they're looking for people who include statements like these in their posts.
OK, guys, stop posting, or thousands of people are going to cumulatively spend hours reading your post and wasting their time! STOP WRITING POSTS EVERYONE!
Like the Bugs Bunny episode where he saws Florida off the U.S. and lets it float away because he's pissed about the two cent fine for hunting rabbits out of season.