I wouldn't be so sure. Trump has been considering what he would do in the white house for a very long and now he is there for real. He is surrounding himself with some very seasoned and capable professionals who have little fear of saying "No" to pretty much anyone. These are not a bunch of 30-something Ivy League grads and think tank wonks. Donald himself is a tireless worker and doesn't seem to have much interest in either golf or surrounding himself with mindless or conniving sycophants. Much remains to be seen.
Some of my friends on Facebook experienced 'exploding head syndrome' when they heard about this. I take that as a bellweather that good things are coming.
Nauseating that such a thing would even be considered by a crowd that once prided itself on both doing and thinking for yourself. Who fact-checks the facts, for fsck's sake?
Almost every IT person I know, when queried in private or in groups sympathetic to their political views, would happily 'fix' voting software if given the opportunity.
I don't trust ANY of these bastards farther than I can throw them. Nor any of YOU for that sake!
Time is money and Apple saves me time. I would rather spend money at this point then time figuring out how to do something in Linux or removing malware from Windows. I loved learning and hacking Linux in the past when I was single and had plenty of empty hours where I could do as I pleased, but nowadays not so much. With OSX I get a stable and consistent desktop experience, tons of software compatibility without a goose chase of broken dependencies AND a UNIX command line that is integral to the system and not just tacked on as an afterthought.
After switching to OSX/NextStep for day to day use, I must say it is the most comely and consistent UNIX window manager I've ever experienced. More than happy to pay for the privilege of using it. Windows is a great gaming system and that's the only thing I will ever use it for.
Apple is there because Steve Jobs managed to put together a UNIX based OS that developers, hackers, artistes and grandmas alike can use and enjoy with relatively little fuss.
But they have to pay a bit extra for the privilege. Worth every penny in my book.
Amazing how nicely this theory dovetails with the whole Global Warming Armageddon / Endless Folly Of Mankind narrative. Apparently the Venusians didn't embrace global Marxism quickly enough and the rest of us can now bear witness to the results of their woefully greedy and misguided Capitalist ways.
Honestly, it amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of Twitter data happens to orbit our networks, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same interface accessible to us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! REST? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Learn Python In Less Than A Day have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance apps that the liberals have sent into the interwebs to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Twitter, Inc., these code snippets have the ability to detect browser cookies from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, Jack Dorsey will see it as a string of JSON! These recursive algorithms are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a key and a value! And when they detect you with a message, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt.45 and a.38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
Well said. My guess is that the AGW data follies will continue in much the same way that the videos damning ACORN did. One batch of data is released, creates a small furor which the AGW fanatics scramble to contain and explain. A little while later another batch will magically appear, contradicting directly much of what the fanatics said previously in their defense. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Whether this will do any good or not remains to be seen. The entire mass media and university and public education crowd are in with the fanatics, hook line and sinker, but the playing field is changing more quickly than anyone can effectively keep up with.
If / when the AGW scare tanks, the greens will go back to moaning about the dangers of overpopulation. Stop having children, for the children's sake, and so on.
Whatever lip-service Obama has paid the idea of 'net neutrality' falls by the wayside in the face of overwhelming Dem support for the so-called 'fairness doctrine'. Couple this with his team's attempts to threaten opponents with litigation, wholesale attempt at ballot-box stuffing via his pals at Acorn, 20 years of worshipping and supporting racist hate at the heels of Rev. Wright, close friendship and affinity with unrepentant native terrorists intellectuals (Ayres) and background 'experience' of nothing but 'community organizing' (radical agitating by any other name) does not indicate to me that Obama is by any stretch of imagination the free speech candidate.
In his dreams the net is 'open' only to those who support him and his dreams of the ultimate Tellytubby state, making all of your choices and spending all of your money for you.
You think this is fine, perhaps, so long as your side wins. Whatever. Good luck to all of us.
The first time anyone subscribes to your list, it should by default be for a limited time only. After that time passes, they recieve a final email informing them of how to continue their subscription, otherwise it will expire by default. Re-subscibing for a longer (but still finite) amount of time should be an easy, 1-click procedure. Re-subscribing for permanent membership could be available, but should involve jumping through a hoop or two.
This is a very simple way for mailing lists to take control themselves. It practically guarantees that your total subscriber base will consist of interested, active participants.
It also guarantees that your (apparent) subsciber base will often be a great deal smaller than it was under the old format. TANSTAAFL.
If you don't do this and just want to keep acreting more and more subscribers into a lobster trap that's not easy to exit, that's fine, but nature will take it's course with whatever options are or appear to be at hand, with or without your approval. Right now, hitting that 'SPAM' button is too easy for many to resist.
You can navigate around this reality or wave your arms and rail against it. Good luck.
Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the dimly lit chamber is a "vision of the future by the Democrat Party: The lights are out, there's no power, and the air conditioning is gonna go off soon."
My wife loves to gab and 'live' on the phone with endless pauses between bits of conversation, and when I'm in the car driving it's dangerous. It's always frustrated me that I can simply 'voice mail' a message to her. "Honey, I'm on my way home and I'm going to stop and get some milk. If you want anything else, give me a buzz, otherwise I'll see you in forty minutes."
Send, Done and Thankyou.
Because I don't currently have that option, I end up not often as not not calling at all.
Give me the damn option to communicate however the hell I want, and let ME bear the fsck'ing responsibility myself if my communications with others 'erode' in any way, shape or form.
It was low budget, but it was the first science fiction movie in which everything in the 'world' on screen looked real.
Robots looked (and sounded) like they might actually be robots, with a purpose and 'life', if you will, beyond simply looking 'cute' or cool or whatever.
Jawas, brilliant. Sandcrawler, more brilliant still.
Sand people. Cool and 'in tune' with their environment in the movie. This is very rare indeed.
Vehicles, from the landspeeder to the mill falcon looked used, and not all shiny, hollywood tinfoil nonsense
The ships looked cool, and very much gave the impression that they were huge, fast, whatever
Space looked like space, or I should say what most of us think space would look like. It never looked like, "Oh yeah, I guess those are supposed to be stars and that's a planet". For the time it was perfect, and when a scene was in space, you WERE in space.
Even speach was realistic, with terms like 'droid', 'light saber' or even 'power converters' tossed off in a way that, while we may snicker now, was perfectly convincing then.
It was the first movie of its kind to pull all that together. A great achievement in a time when most (not all) science fiction movies looked quite silly and dated poorly. Star Wars still looks cool. It's in it's own time and space completely.
Oh, and the 'blasters'. So much better than the usual 'long beam of light' variety used in almost all other movies up to that time.
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I wouldn't be so sure. Trump has been considering what he would do in the white house for a very long and now he is there for real. He is surrounding himself with some very seasoned and capable professionals who have little fear of saying "No" to pretty much anyone. These are not a bunch of 30-something Ivy League grads and think tank wonks. Donald himself is a tireless worker and doesn't seem to have much interest in either golf or surrounding himself with mindless or conniving sycophants. Much remains to be seen.
Some of my friends on Facebook experienced 'exploding head syndrome' when they heard about this. I take that as a bellweather that good things are coming.
Nauseating that such a thing would even be considered by a crowd that once prided itself on both doing and thinking for yourself. Who fact-checks the facts, for fsck's sake?
Almost every IT person I know, when queried in private or in groups sympathetic to their political views, would happily 'fix' voting software if given the opportunity.
I don't trust ANY of these bastards farther than I can throw them. Nor any of YOU for that sake!
Time is money and Apple saves me time. I would rather spend money at this point then time figuring out how to do something in Linux or removing malware from Windows. I loved learning and hacking Linux in the past when I was single and had plenty of empty hours where I could do as I pleased, but nowadays not so much. With OSX I get a stable and consistent desktop experience, tons of software compatibility without a goose chase of broken dependencies AND a UNIX command line that is integral to the system and not just tacked on as an afterthought.
After switching to OSX/NextStep for day to day use, I must say it is the most comely and consistent UNIX window manager I've ever experienced. More than happy to pay for the privilege of using it. Windows is a great gaming system and that's the only thing I will ever use it for.
Apple is there because Steve Jobs managed to put together a UNIX based OS that developers, hackers, artistes and grandmas alike can use and enjoy with relatively little fuss.
But they have to pay a bit extra for the privilege. Worth every penny in my book.
It's almost as though putting that thought in your mind was the ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE. Weird!
It really isn't all that amazing. People who sublimate their own common sense to an imaginary scientific clergy say so.
Great post. This is where the GRITS hit the PANTS, man!
Amazing how nicely this theory dovetails with the whole Global Warming Armageddon / Endless Folly Of Mankind narrative. Apparently the Venusians didn't embrace global Marxism quickly enough and the rest of us can now bear witness to the results of their woefully greedy and misguided Capitalist ways.
Honestly, it amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of Twitter data happens to orbit our networks, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same interface accessible to us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! REST? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Learn Python In Less Than A Day have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance apps that the liberals have sent into the interwebs to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Twitter, Inc., these code snippets have the ability to detect browser cookies from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, Jack Dorsey will see it as a string of JSON! These recursive algorithms are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a key and a value! And when they detect you with a message, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
(moralistic tirade forthcoming)
The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
This is very encouraging!
We are like *this* close to...FREE BEER!
Well said. My guess is that the AGW data follies will continue in much the same way that the videos damning ACORN did. One batch of data is released, creates a small furor which the AGW fanatics scramble to contain and explain. A little while later another batch will magically appear, contradicting directly much of what the fanatics said previously in their defense. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Whether this will do any good or not remains to be seen. The entire mass media and university and public education crowd are in with the fanatics, hook line and sinker, but the playing field is changing more quickly than anyone can effectively keep up with.
Interesting times!
If / when the AGW scare tanks, the greens will go back to moaning about the dangers of overpopulation. Stop having children, for the children's sake, and so on.
No. Ignore the 'leak in the hull' and STOP bailing. Stop wasting others people's time and money and get back to doing something useful.
Whatever lip-service Obama has paid the idea of 'net neutrality' falls by the wayside in the face of overwhelming Dem support for the so-called 'fairness doctrine'. Couple this with his team's attempts to threaten opponents with litigation, wholesale attempt at ballot-box stuffing via his pals at Acorn, 20 years of worshipping and supporting racist hate at the heels of Rev. Wright, close friendship and affinity with unrepentant native terrorists intellectuals (Ayres) and background 'experience' of nothing but 'community organizing' (radical agitating by any other name) does not indicate to me that Obama is by any stretch of imagination the free speech candidate.
In his dreams the net is 'open' only to those who support him and his dreams of the ultimate Tellytubby state, making all of your choices and spending all of your money for you.
You think this is fine, perhaps, so long as your side wins. Whatever. Good luck to all of us.
We'll see how this turns out. Until then,
BIIIIG HUUUUG!
Where are the GRITS?
The first time anyone subscribes to your list, it should by default be for a limited time only. After that time passes, they recieve a final email informing them of how to continue their subscription, otherwise it will expire by default. Re-subscibing for a longer (but still finite) amount of time should be an easy, 1-click procedure. Re-subscribing for permanent membership could be available, but should involve jumping through a hoop or two.
This is a very simple way for mailing lists to take control themselves. It practically guarantees that your total subscriber base will consist of interested, active participants.
It also guarantees that your (apparent) subsciber base will often be a great deal smaller than it was under the old format. TANSTAAFL.
If you don't do this and just want to keep acreting more and more subscribers into a lobster trap that's not easy to exit, that's fine, but nature will take it's course with whatever options are or appear to be at hand, with or without your approval. Right now, hitting that 'SPAM' button is too easy for many to resist.
You can navigate around this reality or wave your arms and rail against it. Good luck.
Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the dimly lit chamber is a "vision of the future by the Democrat Party: The lights are out, there's no power, and the air conditioning is gonna go off soon."
My wife loves to gab and 'live' on the phone with endless pauses between bits of conversation, and when I'm in the car driving it's dangerous. It's always frustrated me that I can simply 'voice mail' a message to her. "Honey, I'm on my way home and I'm going to stop and get some milk. If you want anything else, give me a buzz, otherwise I'll see you in forty minutes."
Send, Done and Thankyou.
Because I don't currently have that option, I end up not often as not not calling at all.
Give me the damn option to communicate however the hell I want, and let ME bear the fsck'ing responsibility myself if my communications with others 'erode' in any way, shape or form.
Did John Katz write this article?
Too true. We put him up there, and we took him down.
Better late than never!
It was low budget, but it was the first science fiction movie in which everything in the 'world' on screen looked real.
Robots looked (and sounded) like they might actually be robots, with a purpose and 'life', if you will, beyond simply looking 'cute' or cool or whatever.
Jawas, brilliant. Sandcrawler, more brilliant still.
Sand people. Cool and 'in tune' with their environment in the movie. This is very rare indeed.
Vehicles, from the landspeeder to the mill falcon looked used, and not all shiny, hollywood tinfoil nonsense
The ships looked cool, and very much gave the impression that they were huge, fast, whatever
Space looked like space, or I should say what most of us think space would look like. It never looked like, "Oh yeah, I guess those are supposed to be stars and that's a planet". For the time it was perfect, and when a scene was in space, you WERE in space.
Even speach was realistic, with terms like 'droid', 'light saber' or even 'power converters' tossed off in a way that, while we may snicker now, was perfectly convincing then.
It was the first movie of its kind to pull all that together. A great achievement in a time when most (not all) science fiction movies looked quite silly and dated poorly. Star Wars still looks cool. It's in it's own time and space completely.
Oh, and the 'blasters'. So much better than the usual 'long beam of light' variety used in almost all other movies up to that time.