"In response to the janitor's behavior, the management of the observatory, without input from the FBI, shut it down and evacuated its personnel."
"Janitor's behavior" constituting babbling about "a serial killer" in the neighborhood. Given what they already suspected of him, that may be an overabundance of paranoia. On the other hand, if the janitor had shot up the observatory, there'd have been Hell to pay for not taking his babbling seriously. (Kiddie porn vs. mass shooter... hard to say which one destroys all prospects for having a future life more.)
Clarence Thomas got on the court because he forecefully fought back against the charges. The charges weren't exactly credible for several reasons, and besides, the worst that he was even accused of was talking dirty in the hearing of the virginal ears of Anita Hill.
Meanwhile, Ralph Ellison is still in Congress, and was handily re-elected in the Democratic primary in spite of charges of abuse with medical documentation against him. He will almost certainly be elected in November; his district would vote for the Democrat if videos existed of him committing multiple rapes.
Basically, whenever I've looked at one these psychobabble personality classification things, they've demanded yes/no (or at best, multiple choice) answers to questions that require at least a paragraph to properly answer. I get about as far as the first or second of these questions, shout "Oh *HELL* no!" and fling the test across the room. (Or wish I could.)
A valid evaluation would require... oh, I don't know... maybe actually talking to and interacting with someone, rather than flinging an op-scan form at them.
Hey, Regions Bank responded this time! An actual human, not an auto-responder. Maybe they can convince this guy to be more careful about entering his email address in the future.
If not... you're going to find out that in a few years, they'll shut down access to the online service for your console. If you want to keep using an online service, you'll have to buy the newest whiz-bang. But it won't play the old games that you have enjoyed playing. (They did that to the Wii online games.)
Somebody with the same name back east has been occasionally giving out my gmail address for years. He used my email address for his GameStop account. When I told GameStop, they said "If you cancel your account, you will lose all your points." Well, duh, I just told you I'm not your customer, idiot, how about contacting your actual customer and letting him know he gave the wrong email address. Or cancel his account and take away the points he's earned over his very active game-buying habit and tick him off, I don't care.
His daughter sent me several "Hey, dad, the kids at school are..." type emails. I replied with a carefully worded "Wrong email address" email.
Grocery store "customer loyalty" card. NFL fan site. (blargh) Olan Mills photography studio appointment confirmation. A FedEx delivery notification. (Yeah, FedEx delivery notification phishing is rampant, but this was a specific product to a specific address in the general area of the person. That, I printed out and snail-mailed to the address, with a "Please correct your email address on all these accounts" note.
Lately, I've gotten several Regions Bank Popmoney "Money transferred to your account" notifications. I've tried to notify Regions Bank several times, but they do not respond and the notifications keep happening.
Presumably, this guy is wondering why he's missing some important email, but I haven't figured out how to contact him.
actually there is, its called fiduciary responsibility.
Pretty much.
There's a huge number of lawyers and law firms that specialize in searching for some company that they can assert is failing in its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to maximize profit, so they can file a lawsuit and rake in big bucks. While the actual shareholders who were supposedly owed that fiduciary responsibility get diddly squat, plus the money raked in by the lawyers sucks down the value of their shares.
Those vultures should be on KoKo's "Never would be missed" list.
Mass transit needs to reliably take me from where I am to where I want to go, when I want to go there, and it needs to do so without taking grossly longer than it would take me to drive there.
I've taken mass transit to work a few times when I had a 50-mile commute. One hour driving, or about 3 hours driving to the train station + train + walking to the office. Four... dang... hours... out of my life, every work day that I used it.
Now, I work 12 miles from home. Driving time, about 35 minutes according to Google Maps.
Trumpite? I didn't vote for the SOB. He's an <expletive deleted> embarrassment. The only thing more embarrassing is the "Riot until we overturn the results of the election" gang. Though a lot of the hard-core Trumpunists come close.
I don't think I have ever posted anything positive about Trump.
Not knowing who it is, all we know about him or her is that the editorial board of the New York Times likes what he or she has to say. For all we know, it's some random blogger, or someone entirely made up, like the Jayson Blair thing.
Several states have passed laws or regulations that have the same effect, but which are pretty much immune to the inevitable lawsuits -- Just ruling that the state will not do business with companies that are non-neutral.
California could have gone this way. But no. They pass a net neutrality law which is very likely going to lose to legal challenges, after a huge expense in court.
Up until the recent changes from Congress, every single one of those countries had lower corporate tax rates than the U.S., and by a wide margin as well.
Up until the recent changes, the U.S. had the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Our corporate tax rate was higher than Cuba's.
In Venezuela, being "politically reliable" was the only factor that mattered in being handed control of the expropriated companies. Actually having anything approaching a clue about running the business in question, or any business whatsoever, wasn't remotely a consideration.
This worked as well as it always does. Despots never learn.
I will agree to a certain degree, but when Russians are given profit motive, they perform as good or better. I know too many ex-USSR people that now highly paid engineers in most fields here in the USA.
I'm thinking of a quote from Cryptonomicon, which I suspect was based on some actual quote from the setting of that part of the story (WWII).
"Ask a Russian to design a shoe, and the box it came in will make a better shoe. But ask a Russian to make something to kill Germans, and suddenly they're Thomas <deleted> Edison."
Several of my very left-wing Facebook friends are constantly shrieking that Trump is GUILTY OF TREASON GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY.
Some of my right-wing Facebook friends say the same about anyone who disagrees with Trump about anything.
It gets... very tiresome. I don't want to block them; I just want to block any mention of Trump on Facebook by anyone, right, left, or center. There is no sane dialog any more, just rabid foaming at the mouth partisans on each side shrieking incoherently at each other.
For the people shrieking "Treason!", I have one question: Who are we at war with. Actual state of declared war? Name the country. If you can't, I think you're an idiot.
The thing is, the online services have already taken that first step by agreeing together to remove Alex Jones from all the major social media sites.
The fact that Alex Jones is a reprehensible conspiracy-mongering nutburger is beside the point. Of course he is. Anyone with two neurons capable of achieving a synapse can tell that.
But he's far less of an evil than Holocaust deniers and actual Nazis. If they can remove the lesser evil, whey are they hesitating to remove the greater evil?
They've already passed the "That's already been decided; now we're just haggling about the price" point with the Alex Jones thing.
The only way to win this game is to refuse to start playing it in the first place, but that horse left the barn a few weeks ago.
Seriously? The IBM 360/50 mainframe was introduced when I was 10. A computer that a family might own wasn't a thing until I was out of college, or almost out.
He did what none of the writers of the other Bermuda Triangle books ever bothered to do: He went back to the original news items and historical accounts of what was going on at the time of each of the "disappearance". Lloyd's Registry of Shipping. Weather reports. Original newspaper stories. Later newspaper articles after the first ones.
Each chapter starts out with "The Story As It Is Usually Told", then compares it with contemporary information, and results of investigations at the time.
Contrary to the myth, it was not a clear, sunny day, it was in the middle of Hurricane Iona.
The Marine Sulfur Queen was a horrific death trap, the real mystery is that it stayed afloat as long as it did. (Molten sulfur tank penetrating all previously watertight bulkheads; the tank leaked, and there were constant sulfur fires between the tank and the ship's hull.)
Some ships were just delayed; next week's newspaper reports it arriving in port unscathed.
Some stories, there's no record of the ship ever existing, so there's nothing to check.
I would take the climate alarmists more seriously if they would consider investigating climate engineering methods which could cheaply and quickly reduce world temperatures. But no, this is NEVER discussed. The only solution they ever suggest is the infinitely more expensive and painful "shiver in the dark". It makes you think their core motivation is for human beings to feel guilty for existing, not to actually solve the climate change problem.
Exactly. I call this "Hair Shirt Environmentalism". We must all be PUNISHED for the horrific crime of existing. It's more about inflicting pain for the sake of penance than for actually providing the energy necessary to maintain civilization.
Would y'all please stop? We already have to many of your people in Texas now... This will only bring more of them!;) (Just kidding... Y'all come on. Just remember why you left...)
Don't worry -- Texas is high on my list of retirement options. (Bonus: Total eclipse in 2024 passes through Fredericksburg and Waco). I lived near Houston for a couple of years back in the 70s and liked it then -- though it (and Austin) seems to have gone wacko lefty since then.
If you want to teach your kids empathy with the lower classes have them do some physical blue collar work, the working class is the better class of the lower class.
I think Mao's Red Guard tried this back in the 60s. Also Pol Pot.
It's generally considered not to have ended well, but some people seem to have different opinions.
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"In response to the janitor's behavior, the management of the observatory, without input from the FBI, shut it down and evacuated its personnel."
"Janitor's behavior" constituting babbling about "a serial killer" in the neighborhood. Given what they already suspected of him, that may be an overabundance of paranoia. On the other hand, if the janitor had shot up the observatory, there'd have been Hell to pay for not taking his babbling seriously. (Kiddie porn vs. mass shooter ... hard to say which one destroys all prospects for having a future life more.)
Clarence Thomas got on the court because he forecefully fought back against the charges. The charges weren't exactly credible for several reasons, and besides, the worst that he was even accused of was talking dirty in the hearing of the virginal ears of Anita Hill.
Meanwhile, Ralph Ellison is still in Congress, and was handily re-elected in the Democratic primary in spite of charges of abuse with medical documentation against him. He will almost certainly be elected in November; his district would vote for the Democrat if videos existed of him committing multiple rapes.
Basically, whenever I've looked at one these psychobabble personality classification things, they've demanded yes/no (or at best, multiple choice) answers to questions that require at least a paragraph to properly answer. I get about as far as the first or second of these questions, shout "Oh *HELL* no!" and fling the test across the room. (Or wish I could.)
A valid evaluation would require ... oh, I don't know... maybe actually talking to and interacting with someone, rather than flinging an op-scan form at them.
Hey, Regions Bank responded this time! An actual human, not an auto-responder. Maybe they can convince this guy to be more careful about entering his email address in the future.
If not ... you're going to find out that in a few years, they'll shut down access to the online service for your console. If you want to keep using an online service, you'll have to buy the newest whiz-bang. But it won't play the old games that you have enjoyed playing. (They did that to the Wii online games.)
Somebody with the same name back east has been occasionally giving out my gmail address for years. He used my email address for his GameStop account. When I told GameStop, they said "If you cancel your account, you will lose all your points." Well, duh, I just told you I'm not your customer, idiot, how about contacting your actual customer and letting him know he gave the wrong email address. Or cancel his account and take away the points he's earned over his very active game-buying habit and tick him off, I don't care.
His daughter sent me several "Hey, dad, the kids at school are..." type emails. I replied with a carefully worded "Wrong email address" email.
Grocery store "customer loyalty" card. NFL fan site. (blargh) Olan Mills photography studio appointment confirmation. A FedEx delivery notification. (Yeah, FedEx delivery notification phishing is rampant, but this was a specific product to a specific address in the general area of the person. That, I printed out and snail-mailed to the address, with a "Please correct your email address on all these accounts" note.
Lately, I've gotten several Regions Bank Popmoney "Money transferred to your account" notifications. I've tried to notify Regions Bank several times, but they do not respond and the notifications keep happening.
Presumably, this guy is wondering why he's missing some important email, but I haven't figured out how to contact him.
actually there is, its called fiduciary responsibility.
Pretty much.
There's a huge number of lawyers and law firms that specialize in searching for some company that they can assert is failing in its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to maximize profit, so they can file a lawsuit and rake in big bucks. While the actual shareholders who were supposedly owed that fiduciary responsibility get diddly squat, plus the money raked in by the lawyers sucks down the value of their shares.
Those vultures should be on KoKo's "Never would be missed" list.
Mass transit needs to reliably take me from where I am to where I want to go, when I want to go there, and it needs to do so without taking grossly longer than it would take me to drive there.
I've taken mass transit to work a few times when I had a 50-mile commute. One hour driving, or about 3 hours driving to the train station + train + walking to the office. Four... dang... hours... out of my life, every work day that I used it.
Now, I work 12 miles from home. Driving time, about 35 minutes according to Google Maps.
Oh, let me click "Transit". Two... Hours...
Not happening.
Trumpite? I didn't vote for the SOB. He's an <expletive deleted> embarrassment. The only thing more embarrassing is the "Riot until we overturn the results of the election" gang. Though a lot of the hard-core Trumpunists come close.
I don't think I have ever posted anything positive about Trump.
Not knowing who it is, all we know about him or her is that the editorial board of the New York Times likes what he or she has to say. For all we know, it's some random blogger, or someone entirely made up, like the Jayson Blair thing.
Several states have passed laws or regulations that have the same effect, but which are pretty much immune to the inevitable lawsuits -- Just ruling that the state will not do business with companies that are non-neutral.
California could have gone this way. But no. They pass a net neutrality law which is very likely going to lose to legal challenges, after a huge expense in court.
Also, if you keep hearing dog whistles that no one else can hear ... maybe you're the dog.
Up until the recent changes from Congress, every single one of those countries had lower corporate tax rates than the U.S., and by a wide margin as well.
Up until the recent changes, the U.S. had the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Our corporate tax rate was higher than Cuba's.
In Venezuela, being "politically reliable" was the only factor that mattered in being handed control of the expropriated companies. Actually having anything approaching a clue about running the business in question, or any business whatsoever, wasn't remotely a consideration.
This worked as well as it always does. Despots never learn.
I will agree to a certain degree, but when Russians are given profit motive, they perform as good or better. I know too many ex-USSR people that now highly paid engineers in most fields here in the USA.
I'm thinking of a quote from Cryptonomicon, which I suspect was based on some actual quote from the setting of that part of the story (WWII).
"Ask a Russian to design a shoe, and the box it came in will make a better shoe. But ask a Russian to make something to kill Germans, and suddenly they're Thomas <deleted> Edison."
Motivation matters.
This whole case so much reminds me of the PGP and DeCSS cases, and if printing them in books was protected speech or not.
I still have my "This T-Shirt is a Munition" shirt, with the machine-readable RSA algorithm barcodes on it.
Several of my very left-wing Facebook friends are constantly shrieking that Trump is GUILTY OF TREASON GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY.
Some of my right-wing Facebook friends say the same about anyone who disagrees with Trump about anything.
It gets ... very tiresome. I don't want to block them; I just want to block any mention of Trump on Facebook by anyone, right, left, or center. There is no sane dialog any more, just rabid foaming at the mouth partisans on each side shrieking incoherently at each other.
For the people shrieking "Treason!", I have one question: Who are we at war with. Actual state of declared war? Name the country. If you can't, I think you're an idiot.
The thing is, the online services have already taken that first step by agreeing together to remove Alex Jones from all the major social media sites.
The fact that Alex Jones is a reprehensible conspiracy-mongering nutburger is beside the point. Of course he is. Anyone with two neurons capable of achieving a synapse can tell that.
But he's far less of an evil than Holocaust deniers and actual Nazis. If they can remove the lesser evil, whey are they hesitating to remove the greater evil?
They've already passed the "That's already been decided; now we're just haggling about the price" point with the Alex Jones thing.
The only way to win this game is to refuse to start playing it in the first place, but that horse left the barn a few weeks ago.
Seriously? The IBM 360/50 mainframe was introduced when I was 10. A computer that a family might own wasn't a thing until I was out of college, or almost out.
If you doubt it, check out Lawrence Kusche's masterpiece:
https://www.amazon.com/Bermuda...
He did what none of the writers of the other Bermuda Triangle books ever bothered to do: He went back to the original news items and historical accounts of what was going on at the time of each of the "disappearance". Lloyd's Registry of Shipping. Weather reports. Original newspaper stories. Later newspaper articles after the first ones.
Each chapter starts out with "The Story As It Is Usually Told", then compares it with contemporary information, and results of investigations at the time.
Contrary to the myth, it was not a clear, sunny day, it was in the middle of Hurricane Iona.
The Marine Sulfur Queen was a horrific death trap, the real mystery is that it stayed afloat as long as it did. (Molten sulfur tank penetrating all previously watertight bulkheads; the tank leaked, and there were constant sulfur fires between the tank and the ship's hull.)
Some ships were just delayed; next week's newspaper reports it arriving in port unscathed.
Some stories, there's no record of the ship ever existing, so there's nothing to check.
Etc. The book is definitely worth checking out.
I would take the climate alarmists more seriously if they would consider investigating climate engineering methods which could cheaply and quickly reduce world temperatures. But no, this is NEVER discussed. The only solution they ever suggest is the infinitely more expensive and painful "shiver in the dark". It makes you think their core motivation is for human beings to feel guilty for existing, not to actually solve the climate change problem.
Exactly. I call this "Hair Shirt Environmentalism". We must all be PUNISHED for the horrific crime of existing. It's more about inflicting pain for the sake of penance than for actually providing the energy necessary to maintain civilization.
And the representative from Comcast appears...
Would y'all please stop? We already have to many of your people in Texas now... This will only bring more of them! ;) (Just kidding... Y'all come on. Just remember why you left...)
Don't worry -- Texas is high on my list of retirement options. (Bonus: Total eclipse in 2024 passes through Fredericksburg and Waco). I lived near Houston for a couple of years back in the 70s and liked it then -- though it (and Austin) seems to have gone wacko lefty since then.
It'll feel like moving back to America.
If you want to teach your kids empathy with the lower classes have them do some physical blue collar work, the working class is the better class of the lower class.
I think Mao's Red Guard tried this back in the 60s. Also Pol Pot.
It's generally considered not to have ended well, but some people seem to have different opinions.
(checks link) ... Oh... According to a story in Drooling Stoner. Never mind.