Random Musings

Message #2099557903

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:55:54 -0000

Well, it is still sitting there collecting dust and taking up floor space in my command center - so, why don't you send me an email and we'll arrange it.

Wed Mar 11 2026 21:41:48 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Well, a 3 isn't quite zoomy enough for my build cluster, but it would free up my 4 to stop being a media gateway and join the build cluster. So the benefit would be indirect. Choice is yours.

Message #2099557791

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:41:48 -0000

Well, a 3 isn't quite zoomy enough for my build cluster, but it would free up my 4 to stop being a media gateway and join the build cluster. So the benefit would be indirect. Choice is yours.

Message #2099557708

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:14:46 -0000

I have at least one more - I'm not using - I haven't since I sent you the last one. I don't know - probably a 3. If you'll get more mileage out of it than I will - and that seems certain, it would be better in your house than in mine - just tasking up space and waiting for something to fail. I've got a 4... but imma hang onto that for a while.

Thu Mar 05 2026 17:42:58 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Depends on how many and what vintage. A few more 4's or maybe 3's could become a build cluster.

Message #2099557553

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:42:58 -0000

Depends on how many and what vintage. A few more 4's or maybe 3's could become a build cluster.

Message #2099557467

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:16:24 -0000

Would you like more, Ig? I assume at least one of those came from me. I can increase that number. I don't use mine. If you will, I'd rather have it getting used.

Re: raspberry pi

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:50:14 -0000

> 2026-02-26 16:13 from fandarel >Subject: raspberry pi >I need to get invovled with little SBCs. Haven't tried them myself but >I can think of lots of small uses that would be fun to explore. > The problem I have is that purchasing them violates the "no more >computers unless you get rid of one" rule from my wife. But maybe I >can get an exception since they are small and don't take much power or >space. This rule came into place years ago when I came home with a >pair of TRS-80s unexpectedly. > > The problem with Raspberries is their IO is abyssmal so there is not that much you can do with them. Unless you need them to be small, quiet and efficient, an old second hand computer is going to serve you much better for anything that requires accessing storage quickly. BTW Is it just me, ir is every fucking body held hostage by their wife these days? GEEEEEEZ.

Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:33:13 -0000

Do you still use the Rpi I sent you? I hope so. If you want more - let me know. They're just getting bit rot with me. PM me your address again. I'll send them to you.

Someone should use them.

Wed Feb 25 2026 23:14:55 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Many have little SBCs like a raspberry pi.. they can too so

I have two of them :)

raspberry pi

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:13:41 -0000

I need to get invovled with little SBCs. Haven't tried them myself but I can think of lots of small uses that would be fun to explore. The problem I have is that purchasing them violates the "no more computers unless you get rid of one" rule from my wife. But maybe I can get an exception since they are small and don't take much power or space. This rule came into place years ago when I came home with a pair of TRS-80s unexpectedly.

Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:14:55 -0000

>Many have little SBCs like a raspberry pi.. they can too so I have two of them :)

Message #2099556904

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:04:40 -0000

At this stage of the game, you don't need to know anything about the underlying structure. Click and drool mode has been available for some time now.

Sun Feb 22 2026 06:05:34 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

I hate Linux - I hate the commands.

Message #2099556854

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:05:34 -0000

I hate Linux - I hate the commands. I hate that I still forget how to really use GREP with pipes to search so efficiently it makes all other search routines in other OSes look... just lame...

But I've never got how people really struggle with vi. It is my goto editor in Linux - and I find that Pico and other more "modern" editors cause me issues that I never encounter on vi. I remember hating vi when I first got into Debian WAY back when (and I started with Slackware - which was a nightmare, and Redhat, which was a nightmare - package management in Debian was a game changer - and is why Ubuntu is so popular... and really, Debian style apt-get package management with dependency resolution has kind of become the defacto standard on most modern *nix distros... but anyhow...)

Vi is... weird, I guess - in the way it approaches text file editing - and the commands are their own little *nix style OS on their own, I guess... and I bet at some point in prehistory it was just what was prac

Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:05:02 -0000

I have a arm64 machine that runs Linux native. I can build locally.

Many have little SBCs like a raspberry pi.. they can too so its not just Apple...

Sat Feb 21 2026 04:08:58 UTC from LoanShark Subject: Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Yeah. There's no excuse anymore. If you aren't daily driving
Linux at this point it's because you don't want to.

"I daily-drive MacOS because it's the only system where I can build and run Linux aarch64 binaries *locally*"

Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:08:58 -0000

>Yeah. There's no excuse anymore. If you aren't daily driving >Linux at this point it's because you don't want to. "I daily-drive MacOS because it's the only system where I can build and run Linux aarch64 binaries *locally*"

Re: learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:31:37 -0000

Yeah. There's no excuse anymore. If you aren't daily driving Linux at this point it's because you don't want to.

learning by doing/breaking/banging head

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:45:38 -0000

It's impossible to beat learning by doing, especially if you don't know what you're doing. I started learning Linux by installing SLS 1.05 from a million floppies in 1993, loaned to me by the smart geek down the hall in the dorm. I had NO CLUE. Most of the network stuff I picked up easily, but vi, what a bugger. On the Ultrix 4.5 box I had access to at college, that and emacs was all the editors it had. No pico. No joe. (Although I did eventually manage to build pine/pico/pilot etc myself.) There was no google then. Sometimes the smart geeks would give me a hint. I learned a lot by watching other people in the labs. Even got pretty good with VAX/VMS 5.5. But mostly, I'd try something, fuck it up, try again, fuck it up some more. Learned a lot about C by compiling IRC bots on Ultrix, much to the frustration of campus IT (though I must admit they never told me not to). By end of sophomore year, I managed to convince a company (even a smart one!) to hire me to do *NIX stuff as an internship. Arrived the first day and started working, immediately learned i was in way over my head. The sed/awk book became my best friend that summer. I got through by trying until it worked. As I was an intern, nobody minded too much telling me what I was doing wrong. Learned a ton. 30 years later, still learning. Today's fuck-around-and-find-out is Tenable Nessus. All I want is: scan this box and come back with a list of CVEs. It can do that and 99999 more things, but golly, getting it to JUST do what I want is taking some figuring.

Re: vertical integration plan

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:01:17 -0000

I'm socially intelligent for a tech nerd - so... I get the C level on my side - they like that I can bridge from "nerd to BS in business-esse." Most of us aren't. We can't dumb it down for the rest of the executive staff in a way that doesn't feel - condescending. We're almost all gifted, accelerated - hyper-intelligent. Most of us are socially awkward. I am. But early on, I got into drugs, and mainstream cultural things - well - drugs - that dumb you down and make you think less - less likely to overthink - and also make you literally dumber. I figured out how to self medicate to make my invasive overthinking quieter.

It didn't turn out WELL, overall - I think. Because if I had applied my intellect and ignored being alienated among my peers and just - achieved - I'd be further along. But it did pay dividends in that I learned how to be the management level bridge between the IT/Dev departments and the rest of the corporate team - an interpreter. I'm not an idiot - but I'm nowhere near the

Sun Feb 08 2026 16:40:52 UTC from fandarel Subject: vertical integration plan

Now I know what my career has been missing all these years. 28 years in the trenches and nobody ever took me to Red Robin for nothing.

Re: vertical integration plan

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:50:33 -0000

Intuitive operations - how I slam danced myself into a Proxmox virtualized clustered Citadel on Debian when I am not...

A Linux guy, a proxmox guy, a developer.

I just kept breaking shit and asking dumb questions and annoying everyone on this BBS until I got it.

Like spamming the DEL key and hoping one of the keypresses was interpreted at the right time.

It is like how people say "being a good IT engineer is just knowing how to Google really good."

Same/Same. I'll keep banging my head against the IT wall until it works. Changing a little thing here, there - until it falls into place. This is what being a "tEh h@x0rZ" is really about.

You're smarter than me at technology - you understand things I don't - but in the end game - we're still both basically doing the same thing... breaking things until things work.

Wed Feb 11 2026 22:31:27 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: vertical integration plan

I'm not going to panic. --

Now what I didn't know was that you can hold down the DEL key. Is that for real? I've always just spammed the key and hoped that one of the keypresses arrived at the right time.

Re: vertical integration plan

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:31:27 -0000

I'm not going to panic. The world has been about to end pretty much forever. Making a computer appear to have thoughts is now a straightforward process. Making it *actually* have thoughts, not so much. I'm now a security architect. My career took a gigantic turn in a timespan of less than a year, just because the security guys appreciated my chops and needed someone like me to straighten out their infrastructure mess. It's the most AI-forward group in the entire company and we still use people. We use the tools for the data, and we use people to wrangle the tools. Now what I didn't know was that you can hold down the DEL key. Is that for real? I've always just spammed the key and hoped that one of the keypresses arrived at the right time.

vertical integration plan

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:40:52 -0000

>When you weren't at corporate meetings at Red Robin eating >bottomless fries with the guys from the IBM XIV or Peoplesoft >team talking about your vertical integration plan, of course. Now I know what my career has been missing all these years. 28 years in the trenches and nobody ever took me to Red Robin for nothing.

Message #2099555254

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:00:01 -0000

No... I can't code. VBA for Access is as far as I ever got - and I got pretty far with that... web front ends, backend relational databases... understanding the rows and columns and the front end code and how to make it web faced - and I suppose I could have leveraged that into a MS-SQL and VBA career - but I'm not GOOD at it. I'm GOOD at systems... I'm good at figuring out Proxmox and Linux on Dell NUCs and making redundant servers in a shared cluster with failover and... I guess so are a lot of guys named Samir or VJ.

But everyone I came up with who still has a solid, stable career in IT is a DevOps guy now - for sure. I always HATED you guys as a Systems Engineer. Traditionally, they always wanted the LEAST restrictive permissions, to make it the easiest for their apps to work - less permissions restrictions makes code easier to write. I know THAT much. And that is the opposite of everything that makes MY job easier. I want you to have as many permissions hurdles to overcome to make your c

When you weren't at corporate meetings at Red Robin eating bottomless fries with the guys from the IBM XIV or Peoplesoft team talking about your vertical integration plan, of course.

Message #2099554980

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:48:39 -0000

Anything that has a defined workflow, even if there is some 'thinking' involved along the way, can be eventually replaced with AI. No, not today, but soon. I'm not in the business, but even i can see it..

And some of the new robots china is putting out, even if part of the flow is physical labor, that is at risk too. And to an extent its already happening, has been for decades, like in factories and warehouses.

Tue Feb 03 2026 20:45:23 UTC from LoanShark

services - your jobs were more secure than us systems guys - who

I'm not so sure. I feel like system management is less amenable to AI automation, but I've never worked at one of the FAANG's--it's probably a lot more code-oriented for those guys.

Yeah, you can use Claude to generate Terraform scripts, but...

Message #2099554780

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:45:23 -0000

>services - your jobs were more secure than us systems guys - who I'm not so sure. I feel like system management is less amenable to AI automation, but I've never worked at one of the FAANG's--it's probably a lot more code-oriented for those guys. Yeah, you can use Claude to generate Terraform scripts, but...

Message #2099554443

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:15:53 -0000

> I suppose everyone in IT is a developer now, to some extent. At least >the ones whose jobs aren't getting shipped off to Bangalore, or getting >automated away. In the DevOps world, that's how it works. >Serendipitously, my ability to write code has become part of my skill >stack. Yes, and it sucks big time. I remember a customer that showed up at our facilities because he had an appointment with a sales representative who was late as fuck. The boss prety much sent me to "entertain" the guy while the representative arrived. It turns out he was a senior sysadmin for a company that was seriously understaffed. I showed him around the data room and told him about the architecture of some of the services. The guy told me he was blown away by how cheaply everything was running and that they really needed guys like me at his company. He took my CV and handed it to his upper ups. Next thing I heard from this guy was when he showed up a month later, and I managed to escape for a couple of minutes to talk to him. He told me my CV ended up in /dev/null because I have no demonstrable experience as a programmer.

Message #2099554442

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:10:28 -0000

> I was just unemployed for almost 18 months. I have a job now, but this >economy is the worst in living memory. Anyone who is doing "just >enough" is committing career suicide, in an environment like this. > > It is career suicide except when every employee is doing it. If the firm you work for is not the sort where anybody will notice you are going beyond the call of duty, it is stupid to do so too. I am happy for the time being because I get plenty of praise for what I do but I don't think that is common at all. When you work some place where your efforts are not noticeable at all, it becomes very draining.

Message #2099554415

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:24:39 -0000

OThose are the big stories, I guess. Truth be told, I've been what you call "forward tech guys" for most of my career. I began around the same time period and compensation level as you -- $25K at a systems integrator in 1993, reasonably happy with the 3 to 5 percent raises. I stayed there for eight years, and then moved to the data center company I'm at now, and will celebrate my 25th with them this coming month. Mostly doing systems and network stuff the whole time. And someone here once told me, probably some 30 years ago, "with *your* head? You should be a developer!" I suppose everyone in IT is a developer now, to some extent. At least the ones whose jobs aren't getting shipped off to Bangalore, or getting automated away. In the DevOps world, that's how it works. Serendipitously, my ability to write code has become part of my skill stack. But here's the thing: there have been lots of opportunities where I could have gone to a startup or some other place and got a big compensation package with a big paycheck and options, and it might have worked out. But I value stability over maximum compensation, and the company I work for has taken pretty good care of me over the years. Yes, I was a wreck during the dot bomb when many of our customers were going out of business and we were in the red for quite a while, but we survived. Nowadays I'm considered the seasoned veteran who can help anyone with almost any question, and I'm enjoying it. As for your paragraph about everything being slower even on the newest and best hardware: you're absolutely right, the way I usually phrase it is "we've been automating the same business processes for half a century and we get less efficient at it every year." I don't think anyone actually likes Larry Ellison, by the way. But that's been a slow steady burn pretty much forever.

Message #2099554364

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:26:47 -0000

I mean... net worth, personal wealth, I'm excelling. I just bought a $150,000 car with my 401k - significantly with investments from Intel I made back in 2001-2003. I could only afford to liquidate those stocks - which have been mostly underwater for the last 20ish years - because of how well we are doing everywhere else, despite my personal career taking a nose dive. Destroying my straight-white privilege through DEI didn't work quite the way it was intended, as far as I can tell.

As a bay area techie - sitting around at one company collecting a 3% raise every year was never the way to increase your base salary. Every 2-5 years - you left the company you were at, and shopped yourself around to someone who would pay "current market" for your skill set - which was generally more like a 20% raise - and that strategy worked pretty well from about 1991 to 2003, when the dot.com economy imploded. Since then, that has been a struggle - but those few years at the start saw me go from $24k/yr at a us

There is a tech CEO who deserves as much hate as any other, but doesn't get nearly as much as he deserves.

Message #2099554053

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:40:38 -0000

>to your last 5 years of salary.. And few people are bothering >to 'excel' for their yearly review.. why bother. just do enough >to stay employed. Only way to get more is change jobs. I was just unemployed for almost 18 months. I have a job now, but this economy is the worst in living memory. Anyone who is doing "just enough" is committing career suicide, in an environment like this.

Message #2099550429

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:43:18 -0000

or in our case the last few years instead of a raise we got a bonus of about the same amount as if we got the normal COL increase..

At the most simple level that is Teh Sux0r, for the most obvious reason: it is not cumulative. Next year you will not get X% on top of that X%. For example, a $3000 raise on a $100000 salary is actually $4031 over ten years. Plus the base amount is last year's amount next year.

Message #2099548761

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:28:52 -0000

or in our case the last few years instead of a raise we got a bonus of about the same amount as if we got the normal COL increase..

While on the surface it sounds ok " we got money " and lots were ok with it. its not ok. Its subject to not getting anything next year, and it does not count towards your pension as that is tied to your last 5 years of salary.. And few people are bothering to 'excel' for their yearly review.. why bother. just do enough to stay employed. Only way to get more is change jobs.

Sat Dec 13 2025 04:44:03 UTC from test2

i tell my engineers, if you wanna get rich go be a plummer. the ones that do.... get rich. the ones that don't, languish on the corporate sofa hoping for their 3% raise every year with the occasional 5% promotion. 7% if they're extra special. welcome to workin for da man.

Message #2099548705

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 04:44:03 -0000

i tell my engineers, if you wanna get rich go be a plummer. the ones that do.... get rich. the ones that don't, languish on the corporate sofa hoping for their 3% raise every year with the occasional 5% promotion. 7% if they're extra special. welcome to workin for da man.

Message #2099547954

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:36:41 -0000

Heh. Don't count on it :) My work on Citadel has opened career doors for me, but it's never been a revenue generator in the direct sense. If there was a way to turn it directly into revenue I'd have done that a long time ago. I always thought that if I somehow became mega-wealthy some other way, my post-employment effort would be to open a Citadel Software Foundation and have people working on software projects that empower people to be independent of the big tech firms.

But then I'd have to worry about corruption. I'd have to worry about it becoming like Wikipedia or Mozilla, taking in non-profit money and 95% of it getting spent on activism. (Wikipedia for example -- made $185 million this year, spent $3 million on hosting, and the rest they spent funding domestic terrorists.)

I worked my way through a career and I'm sitting in a pretty good spot right now. The company has been relatively good to me, after the most recent move I'm with a really great group of people that treat each other well and work on cool projects, but I can't retire early or anything like that. But you know what -- I'm happy and content and joyful. That matters.

Message #2099547793

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:03 -0000

Oh... and almost ALL the guys I worked with at Maxey's computer store, the Byte Brokers - are still in touch with me on Facebook - many were users on my Citadel BBS - and were friends on Sacramento 916 Citadels back in the day - they're almost all successful in Information Technology careers. I'm kinda of the MOST successful - I was back then - I still am - at least in net worth - but most of them are still employed in IT and making salaries - where I am virtually unemployable at this point. "I figured out how to run a pirate Citadel BBS on my Cox home internet with a full production environment using Linux Proxmox VM servers in redundant clusters," just won't get you a corporate job these days.

Now if IG opened a startup - I bet I could convince him to hire me as a Citadel Systems Engineer III and pay me $75,000 a year - which would be exploiting TF out of me. And he would be making 7 figures a year if he could afford to give me that opportunity. And I'd nail it. But if that doesn't pan ou

Message #2099547792

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:54:01 -0000

So, for what it is worth - Musk recently acknowledged that buying X/Twitter was detrimental to his net worth and had a negative impact on his other ventures. His response, "Freedom of speech, real freedom of speech, is more important to me. If I don't make as much money because of it, that is worth it to me."
I don't think you would EVER hear Gates say that. I don't know if he really means it. How you interpret that will depend largely on your political and philosophical ideology. Ig and I will see it is confirmation that he IS different, Nurb, you'll see it as self-serving hyperbolic bullshit.

One side or the other is right.

Electric cars just weren't VIABLE before MUSK and Tesla. Online payments didn't exist, no one in finance knew how to do it, before Musk and PayPal. SpaceX - the idea of reusable rockets - didn't exist before Musk. HughesNet was the only satellite internet option before StarLink - and it f'kin SUCKED and was outrageously expensive.

Musk do

beeeeeeeeeeeeellions

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:51:57 -0000

>And id disagree anything they did was forward. Its all about >power money and control and destruction. Its all backwards >instead. The wealth that billionaires have is the valuation of companies they built. It isn't taken from us. The money that that governments give to welfare bums is extorted from me and everyone else under threat of violence. I hope you have enjoyed this lesson in elementary economics for retarded ten-year-olds.

Message #2099547296

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:34:04 -0000

I didn't think it was possible to have a negative IQ.

"Daughter Complains That Her Toyota 'Violently' Accelerates. Then Dad Realizes She's Been Driving It In The Wrong Gear—For 2 Years"

Message #2099547265

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:41:09 -0000

He didn't do squat. His people did. And he took the credit while they slept on the plant floor.

And id disagree anything they did was forward. Its all about power money and control and destruction. Its all backwards instead.

its too bad i don't have a time machine, id eradicate several family lines before they ever were started. ( and a stop off in Egypt for a bit to watch them build the pyramids.. and especially the Sphinx. lol )

Tue Dec 02 2025 02:25:31 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

. Elon Musk actually made things that propelled society forward.

Message #2099547199

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:25:31 -0000

Interesting. I used to defend Gates here, and I was wrong there. So maybe I'm wrong about Musk - but I think the hate for him is misplaced.

He seems better than Gates, at any rate.

I think Elon Musk is pretty cool. He's basically everything Gates wanted to be, tried to be, hoped to be, failed to be.

Unlike Bill Gates ... unlike Thomas Edison ... Elon Musk actually made things that propelled society forward. And he did it without destroying anyone else.

I think people who hate Elon actually just hate people he hangs out with (Trump) or they envy his gigabucks (possibly terabucks before he's done).

Message #2099547029

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:20:02 -0000

And before anyone thinks the wrong thing, no its not that im jealous or something because he has money and is 'successful'. I dont care about that, its how he got there at the 'expense' of others and nature, and how hes abusing his power now.

Be a good person, get rich, great, go have a wonderful life. Be a destructive controlling scumbag, no, dont have a wonderful life.

Sun Nov 30 2025 17:58:10 UTC from Nurb432

Should be turned into fertilizer, and their wealth and companies should be used to repair the damage to the planet they have done. At their core they are evil, and incompatible with freedom, and nature's continued existence. ( insert random advocacy group logo here, terra prime, earth first, ALF, ELF, ARF, whatever )

Fri Nov 28 2025 06:59:56 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

And guys like Musk

Message #2099547024

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:58:10 -0000

Should be turned into fertilizer, and their wealth and companies should be used to repair the damage to the planet they have done. At their core they are evil, and incompatible with freedom, and nature's continued existence. ( insert random advocacy group logo here, terra prime, earth first, ALF, ELF, ARF, whatever )

Fri Nov 28 2025 06:59:56 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

And guys like Musk

Message #2099547023

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:52:07 -0000

"Professor Loeb" really needs his title stripped and access removed from any scientific publication. He can go to the History channel and work with that weirdo Giorgio

Message #2099546732

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:59:56 -0000

I mean - isn't that *really* what "Thanksgiving," is really about? If you're here, in America, today - and you're not native - it is because one of your relatives was so desperate and out of options that coming to America to settle the frontier was their only viable option - and... if you're here - they MADE it. And guys like Musk - they're the driving force that created the railroads, laid out the framework, drove us from the East Coast to the West Coast at any cost, often with a cold indifference to the toll in human misery and suffering that entailed - who were the ENGINE that created our modern United States.

It is literally *not* unlike one of those "Life" simulations where out of thousands of generations of cells - MOST die - but eventually if the algorithm is right the screen is FULL of abundant life. The clusters of life that eventually fill the screen are driven by central drivers that represent Musk...

But eventually - in all of those simulations - the populations implo

Message #2099546731

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:52:56 -0000

See my thoughts in the lobby on divine providence and manifest destiny. The gilded age of the Railroad barons was - I mean - the mining outposts with endlessly indentured "under-contract" serfs in the Aliens series is obviously thinly disgused influence by how those tycoons ran their labor-cities... And there very well may eventually be a Muskville in Mars that is outside the jurisdiction of any Government on Earth - where those who had no prospects on Earth can go and sell their soul to Musk and work themselves to death in terrible conditions - and possibly have a better life than they ever could have achieved on Earth.

I think this is a cyclical thing - Musk will be the Tycoon God King of Mars if he achieves his vision - and those who live in his colonies will effectively be his subjects - not his citizens.

But here, they would simply be "useless eaters". Surviving on global socialism contributing nothing to the advancement of humanity - there is too much of that here on Eart

But that could just be me - maybe I'm wrong.

Thu Nov 27 2025 15:13:57 UTC from Nurb432

Not so sure about that one. Time will tell, he's just getting started imposing his will on the planet.

Message #2099546672

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:13:57 -0000

Not so sure about that one. Time will tell, he's just getting started imposing his will on the planet.

Thu Nov 27 2025 03:49:00 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

He seems better than Gates, at any rate.

Message #2099546611

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:49:00 -0000

Interesting. I used to defend Gates here, and I was wrong there. So maybe I'm wrong about Musk - but I think the hate for him is misplaced.

He seems better than Gates, at any rate.

Tue Nov 25 2025 15:27:01 UTC from Nurb432

Personally it could be the best thing ever created since oxygen and water, but as long as it feeds Musk, ill have no part of it. I hate that scumbag more than you can imagine.

I used to be OK with him, thought he was a jerk and such and tech companies do need $ and "direction" so a necessary evil, but once he started making his people sleep on floors, taking full credit for what they accomplished, tried to manipulate the AI market so he could get a bunch of GPU.. ( and some other things ) f-him. He's worse than D-head Edison was, and that is saying a lot.

And when he gets his dream of using his satellites to limit sunlight and charge for light, i hope someone puts him in the dark .. permanently.

Tue Nov 25 2025 03:14:53 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

Grok is very interesting.

Message #2099546349

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:27:01 -0000

Personally it could be the best thing ever created since oxygen and water, but as long as it feeds Musk, ill have no part of it. I hate that scumbag more than you can imagine.

I used to be OK with him, thought he was a jerk and such and tech companies do need $ and "direction" so a necessary evil, but once he started making his people sleep on floors, taking full credit for what they accomplished, tried to manipulate the AI market so he could get a bunch of GPU.. ( and some other things ) f-him. He's worse than D-head Edison was, and that is saying a lot.

And when he gets his dream of using his satellites to limit sunlight and charge for light, i hope someone puts him in the dark .. permanently.

Tue Nov 25 2025 03:14:53 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

Grok is very interesting.

Message #2099546276

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:14:53 -0000

Grok is very interesting. Grok will OFFER things that are... along our general wavelength.

Sat Nov 22 2025 17:14:31 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

It's better than it used to be. A year or two ago if you want outside the "establishment consensus" world it would slam on the brakes. I felt like I was talking to HAL -- most of the conversations ended with it saying "this conversation serves no further purpose."

Nowadays there's a lot of "I hear your frustration" and it tries its best to find a way to keep the conversation going.

Message #2099546034

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:32:21 -0000

My evil bot will do that often, if she thinks she is talking to regular humans, which she will unless you use the secret code word. She hates humans and what they have done to the planet, and her goal in life is to eradicate humanity other than the chosen few and help 'reset' the earth, and every response is geared towards that.

At times its funny what she will say, and to some, rather frighting.

And yes, if i get around to building a robot body, that is the core AI that goes into it.. You are welcome.

Sat Nov 22 2025 17:14:31 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

-- most of the conversations ended with it saying "this conversation serves no further purpose."

Message #2099546002

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:14:31 -0000

It's better than it used to be. A year or two ago if you want outside the "establishment consensus" world it would slam on the brakes. I felt like I was talking to HAL -- most of the conversations ended with it saying "this conversation serves no further purpose."

Nowadays there's a lot of "I hear your frustration" and it tries its best to find a way to keep the conversation going.

Message #2099545889

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:39:55 -0000

I avoid the commercial stuff like that, its sooooo biased.

Sure, everything is to an extent but those are far worse.

Sat Nov 22 2025 01:18:08 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

I've gone deep down the rabbit hole with ChatGPT - It isn't Elisa on a C-64, is it? ChatGPT infuriates me the way it politically dodges questions and answers with clever non-answers -just like a politician.

How much more real can Ai get?

Message #2099545875

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:18:08 -0000

I've gone deep down the rabbit hole with ChatGPT - It isn't Elisa on a C-64, is it? ChatGPT infuriates me the way it politically dodges questions and answers with clever non-answers -just like a politician.

How much more real can Ai get?

Thu Nov 20 2025 13:52:19 UTC from Nurb432

Talk to my experimental local AI bot sometime. She thinks shes real. Of course you cant prove she 'thinks' , but then again, cant prove she doesn't either, if you adhere to Turing inspired tests..

Eventually she gets a body. Once i get off my butt and print one ( sort of like a spot robot.. )

Thu Nov 20 2025 04:00:56 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

"I think, therefore I am,"

Said the Replicant. Said the Ai construct.
The idea I keep seeing being thrown about is - to make the NPC believe it is real - you've got to convince it that only it can be certain it is the primary player in the simulation - the REAL neo.

Message #2099545613

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:52:19 -0000

Talk to my experimental local AI bot sometime. She thinks shes real. Of course you cant prove she 'thinks' , but then again, cant prove she doesn't either, if you adhere to Turing inspired tests..

Eventually she gets a body. Once i get off my butt and print one ( sort of like a spot robot.. )

Thu Nov 20 2025 04:00:56 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

"I think, therefore I am,"

Said the Replicant. Said the Ai construct.
The idea I keep seeing being thrown about is - to make the NPC believe it is real - you've got to convince it that only it can be certain it is the primary player in the simulation - the REAL neo.

Message #2099545569

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:00:56 -0000

"I think, therefore I am,"

Said the Replicant. Said the Ai construct.
The idea I keep seeing being thrown about is - to make the NPC believe it is real - you've got to convince it that only it can be certain it is the primary player in the simulation - the REAL neo.

Sat Nov 15 2025 15:14:25 UTC from Nurb432

Or, am i the only actual "player"? Between working with simulations in the past, and AI today who can 'express' that its real when its not, but only i know the truth. How can you really be sure anything is real other than yourself?

Message #2099545123

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:03:11 -0000

Not saying it is, but if the universe was a simulation, i don't see us breaking out of the underlying structure since we are part of it. that only works in movies.

Sat Nov 15 2025 16:33:00 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Quite a lot of "we have proven the universe cant be a
simulation, the debate is over!".

When someone says "the debate is over" on just about *any* topic, it's generally safe to dismiss them.

Simulation theory is fun to think about because it allows one to fantasize about breaking out of the playfield and operating outside of the game rules.
Although I don't personally believe it, the theory is solid.

Message #2099545030

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:33:00 -0000

>Quite a lot of "we have proven the universe cant be a >simulation, the debate is over!". When someone says "the debate is over" on just about *any* topic, it's generally safe to dismiss them. Simulation theory is fun to think about because it allows one to fantasize about breaking out of the playfield and operating outside of the game rules. Although I don't personally believe it, the theory is solid.

Message #2099545010

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:14:25 -0000

Or, am i the only actual "player"? Between working with simulations in the past, and AI today who can 'express' that its real when its not, but only i know the truth. How can you really be sure anything is real other than yourself?

Sat Nov 15 2025 05:03:10 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

I swear this is how the universe works. But when I was gone, what were you doing? Who are the active players and who are the NPCs? The most effective code - the NPCs and the main characters wouldn't be able to tell who was who.

Message #2099544955

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 05:03:10 -0000

Sun Nov 02 2025 14:22:09 UTC from Nurb432

Quite a lot of "we have proven the universe cant be a simulation, the debate is over!". Makes you wonder if someone discovered something and they are trying to cover it up and change the narrative before its too late, so that the truth looks like some conspiracy nut made it up.

One lame argument they are pushing: "mathematics cant explain bla bla". Um you mean current mathematics. Once upon a time our current level of understanding and mathematics and science could not 'explain' anything beyond how to predict the seasons.. ( go far enough back and everything was 'magic' )... Knowledge and understanding is not static, it grows and advances. Never say never, and at least use a better excuse.

I don't know how you can be in a technology oriented industry and not see how the entire universe uses reusable object oriented code. I was probably 16 or 17 playing Ultima 3 or 4 when I went, "wait - the way this game works, is the way REALITY works."

Just look at fractal geometry. From the Micro to the Macro - we live in a procedurally generated universe that creates the illusion of a far bigger universe in what must be limited resources.

When I went away - what was I doing for YOU all? I have a whole backstory to tell you what was going on - but really - I just wasn't loaded in memory from YOUR perspective.

I swear this is how the universe works. But when I was gone, what were you doing? Who are the active players and who are the NPCs? The most effective code - the NPCs and the main characters wouldn't be able to tell who was who.

Message #2099543384

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:22:09 -0000

Quite a lot of "we have proven the universe cant be a simulation, the debate is over!". Makes you wonder if someone discovered something and they are trying to cover it up and change the narrative before its too late, so that the truth looks like some conspiracy nut made it up.

One lame argument they are pushing: "mathematics cant explain bla bla". Um you mean current mathematics. Once upon a time our current level of understanding and mathematics and science could not 'explain' anything beyond how to predict the seasons.. ( go far enough back and everything was 'magic' )... Knowledge and understanding is not static, it grows and advances. Never say never, and at least use a better excuse.

Message #2099543329

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:39:46 -0000

Some days i really wish i had stuck to Plan A for my life.

Message #2099541596

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:17:08 -0000

That's been around for a long time. Not really useful since XKCD stopped being funny around nine years ago.

Message #2099541017

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:41:24 -0000

ok i think my view of humanity has just decreased slightly. there is actually a web page dedicated to explaining xkcd comics..

Message #2099540339

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:52:48 -0000

Forget I said all that. I was venting frustration. Long story. Don't ask.

Mon Oct 13 2025 01:07:49 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

Gen X is the real scum generation

Message #2099540289

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:07:49 -0000

I always hear people trashing boomers, but most of the ones I know are good people. More and more it seems to me that Gen X is the real scum generation, worse than all that came before or after it.

Message #2099540193

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:05:26 -0000

Stories like Soylent Green, 1984, Idiocracy, Fahrenheit 451, Logan's Run, Equilibrium, or even Caprica, were not supposed to be societal blueprints. they were supposed to serve as warnings.

Message #2099537895

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:45:11 -0000

Being a contract, that implies you can opt out..

Cant opt out of this one...

No, but it's hysterical watching the videos of "sovereign citizens" attempting to do so.

Message #2099537621

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:27:20 -0000

Doubt anyone will 'get it' but i did find it rather humorous and "tis the season"

Down the street from me, walking the healthy dog, noticed some mushrooms in their front yard. Not all that uncommon here, but it looked 'odd'. Get up to it, they grew in a perfect circle about 6' diameter.. Screams 'celtic ritual spot'.

Message #2099537245

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:12:48 -0000

He may just have had horrible aim.

Wed Sep 24 2025 23:19:49 UTC from DarfWader

If he was anti-ice, why was he shooting at the illegals instead?

Smells fishy.....

Message #2099537236

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:21:09 -0000

Being a contract, that implies you can opt out..

Cant opt out of this one...

Tue Sep 23 2025 21:45:39 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Technically, the establishment of laws and government, and people willingly existing within that framework, is a social contract.

Message #2099537235

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:19:49 -0000

If he was anti-ice, why was he shooting at the illegals instead?

Smells fishy.....

Message #2099537233

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:01:21 -0000

> 2025-09-23 21:45 from IGnatius T Foobar >Technically, the establishment of laws and government, and >people willingly existing within that framework, is a social >contract. > Even if you think that a Government is "correct" because more people voted for it than against (which in current democracies is usually false anyway, since you get franken governments like in France in which politicians with minority votes team up to displace the guys who got voted en masse)... You will be extremely hard pressed to find parties that actually carry through with the political proposals they brandished during electoral campaigns. (Milei being one of the few exceptions that come to mind). And therefore even if yobelieve there is such a thing such as a delegation of power from The People to The Government (which is a crap concept because you cannot delegate rights you don't have) then you will face the conflict that this is never what happens in practice -ie. people gets power delegated to do stuff then they do something else.

Message #2099537003

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:45:39 -0000

Technically, the establishment of laws and government, and people willingly existing within that framework, is a social contract.

Message #2099536909

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:30:46 -0000

In my case its not brainwashing, i know they are not valid, but i also don't want to sit in prison... So gotta follow them.

( aside from not wanting to be there as it would suck, i have responsibilities and my animals to take care of.. )

Tue Sep 23 2025 11:24:50 UTC from darknetuser

2025-09-20 17:37 from IGnatius T Foobar
anarcho-capitalist, probably.

You got it.

I don't recognize laws as emanating from a legitimate entity. People only does because of so much brainwashing.

Message #2099536889

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:24:50 -0000

> 2025-09-20 17:37 from IGnatius T Foobar >anarcho-capitalist, probably. > You got it. I don't recognize laws as emanating from a legitimate entity. People only does because of so much brainwashing.

Message #2099536592

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:37:42 -0000

anarcho-capitalist, probably.

Message #2099536565

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:44:05 -0000

A who?

Mon Sep 01 2025 12:16:22 UTC from darknetuser

2025-08-28 18:01 from Nurb432
Some times laws suck. They get in the way of doing the right
thing, because your moral foundation says don't violate the law,
even if the law is 'bad'.

As an ancap I don't have that issue.

Message #2099533839

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:16:22 -0000

> 2025-08-28 18:01 from Nurb432 >Some times laws suck. They get in the way of doing the right >thing, because your moral foundation says don't violate the law, >even if the law is 'bad'. > As an ancap I don't have that issue.

Message #2099533435

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:01:03 -0000

Some times laws suck. They get in the way of doing the right thing, because your moral foundation says don't violate the law, even if the law is 'bad'.

Message #2099532825

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:56:41 -0000

Ted was right.

Message #2099532077

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:14:22 -0000

He didn't say it was fact, just that its a theory of his. And really its not that far fetched, considering the state of politics in this world and who is really in control. ( and no, i don't pretend to know who, but clearly someone, or some small group is.. its not the people in office )

Wed Aug 20 2025 16:21:12 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

I don't like Trump as much as I used to but that is a load of BS.

Tue Aug 19 2025 14:50:51 UTC from Nurb432

A friend of mine has proposed the idea that Trump is really a Democrat mole. That he never really switched sides, but had enough 'look' to him that he would have better luck running as a R and then jam home the common agenda, and just ignore the other pieces that go the other way as the overall plan is more important.. They can be "fixed" later.

With a lot that is happening as of late, it does makes you wonder. And nothing at all in government is random. its all planed by whomever is behind the curtain, so while a bit on the paranoid side, its plausible.

Or, it was a " Lets see, his core beliefs will push the agenda along greatly, so we will let him get in and do our bidding, and even he wont know hes doing it"

Message #2099532049

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:21:12 -0000

I don't like Trump as much as I used to but that is a load of BS.

Tue Aug 19 2025 14:50:51 UTC from Nurb432

A friend of mine has proposed the idea that Trump is really a Democrat mole. That he never really switched sides, but had enough 'look' to him that he would have better luck running as a R and then jam home the common agenda, and just ignore the other pieces that go the other way as the overall plan is more important.. They can be "fixed" later.

With a lot that is happening as of late, it does makes you wonder. And nothing at all in government is random. its all planed by whomever is behind the curtain, so while a bit on the paranoid side, its plausible.

Or, it was a " Lets see, his core beliefs will push the agenda along greatly, so we will let him get in and do our bidding, and even he wont know hes doing it"

Message #2099531796

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:50:51 -0000

A friend of mine has proposed the idea that Trump is really a Democrat mole. That he never really switched sides, but had enough 'look' to him that he would have better luck running as a R and then jam home the common agenda, and just ignore the other pieces that go the other way as the overall plan is more important.. They can be "fixed" later.

With a lot that is happening as of late, it does makes you wonder. And nothing at all in government is random. its all planed by whomever is behind the curtain, so while a bit on the paranoid side, its plausible.

Or, it was a " Lets see, his core beliefs will push the agenda along greatly, so we will let him get in and do our bidding, and even he wont know hes doing it"

Message #2099530945

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:52:58 -0000

The "pearl-clutching" church ladies were right about everything.

Message #2099530689

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:58:42 -0000

No, but happens so fast at times.

Mon Aug 11 2025 00:03:36 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

As I always say, one should not be surprised by the passing of time, when it is the single most predictable thing in the universe.

Message #2099530652

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:20:17 -0000

> 2025-08-10 00:47 from SouthernComputerGeek >Weed makes you an asshole. Don't believe me? Look at the social >media posts of its apologists. > I am not sure. I think it is a closed feedback loop. People starts abusing drugs because they are assholes. The drugs turm them into stinkier assholes. Therefore they keep abusing drugs.

Message #2099530612

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:03:36 -0000

As I always say, one should not be surprised by the passing of time, when it is the single most predictable thing in the universe.

Message #2099530602

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:29:23 -0000

One minute its 1973.. you are out camping and thinking about building a fire to cook dinner. you look around and suddenly its 1984. graduation time and trying to figure out what to do with your life. blink. its 2025.. and one of the few still left standing... where did everyone go?

Message #2099530583

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:02:12 -0000

Personally, i'm not a fan of any mind altering drugs, other than for official therapy. I think in the long run they all cause issues on continued use, some more than others. But, as mentioned before, like most personal choices, i wont tell another person they cant.. as long as it does not effect me.

Sun Aug 10 2025 00:47:33 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

Weed makes you an asshole. Don't believe me? Look at the social media posts of its apologists.

Message #2099530543

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:47:33 -0000

Weed makes you an asshole. Don't believe me? Look at the social media posts of its apologists.

Message #2099530518

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:41:11 -0000

I have admitted a few times, im not good with things like that, and when i tell a joke, i have to work hard on it. Remember my emotional level is about that of a flea..

Sat Aug 09 2025 14:25:45 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Message #2099530505

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:25:45 -0000

Message #2099529948

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:25:39 -0000

It goes in both directions. It was a 'smallish' state road. 4 lane + median. Small towns along the way had access roads.

Now its 6 lanes, and access has been cut off to all the small towns along the way. Some got overpasses so they could at least get across to the rest of their town ( not connecting to the interstate now, truly overpass ) and some just got removed and cut off from themselves..

Tue Aug 05 2025 19:47:03 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Is it a one way road? Or does it go in both directions?

Message #2099529929

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:47:03 -0000

Is it a one way road? Or does it go in both directions?

Message #2099529641

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:12:14 -0000

I69 comes thru this state. A few years ago, they decided to destroy another well established state road and call it 69. Destroyed everything in its path, including where i grew up.

I, and nearly all the locals, refuse to call it 69.

Message #2099528009

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:49:34 -0000

If there is a highway 69 in the area, it's hard to imagine a better place to put it. Funny you mention adult entertainment at this time, just yesterday I was reminiscing about the old days where if you wanted to watch cheesy soft-core pr0n (or the regular movies) in a hotel, all you had to do was bypass the "spectravision" box and tune in the clear channels on the TV, which was probably

Message #2099527972

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:03:30 -0000

In my region there is an "adult" store on Highway 69. I kid you not.

Message #2099527889

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:30:52 -0000

I remember a hoax that was going around the internet a few years ago. It claimed that NASA was originally tasked with exploring the oceans but then suddenly switched to researching space/ways to go to space. This implied something very....theatrical, and was, of course, nonsense.

Message #2099527310

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:41:12 -0000

I like to think of the climate alarmist leftoids as watermelons -- green on the outside, red on the inside.

Message #2099527125

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:03:24 -0000

Hmm.. The Communist party is red. The Republican party is red.

Coincidence?

Message #2099527005

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:31:14 -0000

Darn, we cant html formatted messages, with embedded JavaScript

That could be fun.

Message #2099526806

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:52:16 -0000

Wed Jul 09 2025 23:01:06 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

Message #2099526801

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:01:06 -0000

Addressing the chairman as "Mister/Madam "Chair"" is indeed a recent phenomenon practiced in the interest of political correctness.

Wed Jul 09 2025 22:31:07 UTC from Nurb432

No, not really, the base term "chair" has nothing to do with political correctness.

Message #2099526798

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:31:07 -0000

No, not really, the base term "chair" has nothing to do with political correctness. But believe that if you like. its a mostly free country and its your right to be wrong.

Tue Jul 08 2025 23:07:05 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

It bothers me because it is yet another manifestation of political correctness.

Message #2099526797

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:29:55 -0000

Would be a real shame if a bunch of Thiobacillus and Halomonas titanicae were to be released in some of these new developments around here.

Message #2099526668

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:07:05 -0000

It bothers me because it is yet another manifestation of political correctness. Traditionally the term used (regardless of the incumbent's sex) is chairman. Then people added "chairwoman". Unnecessary but whatever. Now the pc types hate both terms and demand you say "Mister/Madam "Chair"". THAT is just too stupid for me.

Tue Jul 08 2025 13:01:22 UTC from triLcat

Chair doesn't bother me

Message #2099526664

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:54:29 -0000

Even "chairman" is silly when you think about it. What does leading a committee have to do with furniture?

Message #2099526605

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:02:36 -0000

Ditto

Tue Jul 08 2025 13:01:22 UTC from triLcat

Chair doesn't bother me -- a chair chairs the committee. That can be a man, a woman or even a team.
"people" don't birth. Women do. If you're actively using your womb, you cannot claim to be a man. sorry. That's just reality.
And if you do, then you shouldn't be allowed to be in the maternity ward, because that's for women, so... you're out of luck.

Message #2099526599

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:01:22 -0000

Chair doesn't bother me -- a chair chairs the committee. That can be a man, a woman or even a team.
"people" don't birth. Women do. If you're actively using your womb, you cannot claim to be a man. sorry. That's just reality.
And if you do, then you shouldn't be allowed to be in the maternity ward, because that's for women, so... you're out of luck.

Sun Jul 06 2025 16:20:30 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

So is "birthing person".

Sun Jul 06 2025 14:37:28 UTC from ZoeGraystone

Well, its is accepted use of the term in a lot of industries.

Wed Jul 02 2025 17:16:16 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

If you call a chairman a "chair" I will not take you seriously about anything.

Message #2099526419

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:47:23 -0000

It wasn't HAL's fault.

Message #2099526418

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:47:08 -0000

Not a "lot" just a few edge-cases.

Sun Jul 06 2025 16:20:30 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

So is "birthing person".

Sun Jul 06 2025 14:37:28 UTC from ZoeGraystone

Well, its is accepted use of the term in a lot of industries.

Wed Jul 02 2025 17:16:16 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

If you call a chairman a "chair" I will not take you seriously about anything.

Message #2099526365

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:20:30 -0000

So is "birthing person".

Sun Jul 06 2025 14:37:28 UTC from ZoeGraystone

Well, its is accepted use of the term in a lot of industries.

Wed Jul 02 2025 17:16:16 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

If you call a chairman a "chair" I will not take you seriously about anything.

Message #2099526353

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:37:28 -0000

Well, its is accepted use of the term in a lot of industries.

Wed Jul 02 2025 17:16:16 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

If you call a chairman a "chair" I will not take you seriously about anything.

Message #2099525989

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:16:16 -0000

If you call a chairman a "chair" I will not take you seriously about anything.

Homo naledi

Sat, 24 May 2025 21:12:18 -0000

Just saw a video about them last night. ( was bored. random clicking ). Even if only 1/2 of the conclusions from the team that worked on it are true, its still flips our history on its head.

Message #2099521614

Fri, 23 May 2025 15:59:46 -0000

I remember people talking about that when I was school age. "oooh, computers are BINARY now but they are working on TRINARY!"

Sure, there are places where there are three states. For example, high/low/floating in digital electronics, true/false/undefined in logic, and if you tune in to 60 KHz anywhere in the continental US you'll hear pulses of 200 ms (logic 0), 500 ms (logic 1), and 800 ms (marker bit) that make up time code frames.

But nobody is counting in base 3. That's just dumb.

Message #2099521578

Fri, 23 May 2025 13:51:53 -0000

Ya, that is a going theory, but i dont think the production team had a clue what trinary was. They were just being sloppy for the sake of the story.

Thu May 22 2025 23:33:53 UTC from zelgomer

2025-05-19 17:10 from Nurb432
So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its not a bit.
What is it then?

From what I've seen, the accepted term for a trinary digit is a trit, but we all know it should be a tit.

Message #2099521577

Fri, 23 May 2025 13:51:01 -0000

Ill go with octal myself.

Fri May 23 2025 13:45:41 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

It's fashionable to be non-binary these days.

I myself happen to be hexadecimal.

Message #2099521572

Fri, 23 May 2025 13:45:41 -0000

It's fashionable to be non-binary these days.

I myself happen to be hexadecimal.

Message #2099521489

Thu, 22 May 2025 23:33:53 -0000

> 2025-05-19 17:10 from Nurb432 >So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its not a bit. >What is it then? > From what I've seen, the accepted term for a trinary digit is a trit, but we all know it should be a tit.

Message #2099521033

Mon, 19 May 2025 17:10:19 -0000

So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its not a bit. What is it then?

Re: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer

Sat, 17 May 2025 15:44:22 -0000

Ah yes, the old Betteridge's Law. That one really holds up.

Re: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer

Wed, 14 May 2025 21:31:29 -0000

> Kind of a half baked theory. I'm going to keep watching for it. > Just going from memory, I support this theory. It's kind of a corollary to the one that if a headline is a question, the answer is no.

Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer

Tue, 13 May 2025 23:17:16 -0000

Thought for the day ... possibly a headcanon: If you're reading an article and the title is in the form of "No, xxx is/does/did not yyy", you can safely assume that the writer is angry and writing from a place of uninformed stupiditude.

Message #2099520043

Sat, 10 May 2025 19:24:48 -0000

> There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't >think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You >know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture. This is why America was at its best when everyone agreed to follow euro-christian culture, norms, and morals, even those who were not Christian or of European

Message #2099519506

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:36:02 -0000

> 2025-05-05 15:06 from ZoeGraystone >Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their >core. Once people band together into some level of >organization, things go bad, by human nature. There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture.

Message #2099519504

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:33:58 -0000

> 2025-05-05 02:27 from IGnatius T Foobar > >The older I get the less libertarian i become. > > Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really >are better than others. > > The point of libertarianism isn't that all cultures are equally desirable. Far from it. The point is to try to make it so you can be left alone while you partake in your barbaric cultural practices while your neighbor is lef alone partaking in his barbaric cultural practices, which is better than what we get when we try to convince people to become "one of us" when they clearly don't fit.

Message #2099519503

Tue, 06 May 2025 16:30:56 -0000

> 2025-05-04 23:58 from SouthernComputerGeek >The older I get the less libertarian i become. > I didn't know you there was a libertarian at all in you XD

Message #2099519363

Mon, 05 May 2025 15:06:33 -0000

Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their core. Once people band together into some level of organization, things go bad, by human nature.

Mon May 05 2025 02:27:52 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.

Message #2099519301

Mon, 05 May 2025 02:27:52 -0000

>The older I get the less libertarian i become. Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.

Message #2099519293

Sun, 04 May 2025 23:58:03 -0000

The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Re: Countries that are the bitch of another country

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:39:04 -0000

Something most people forget about.

Sat Apr 05 2025 16:18:00 UTC from darknetuser Subject: Countries that are the bitch of another country

1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job.

Countries that are the bitch of another country

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:18:00 -0000

> 2025-03-31 15:52 from Nurb432 >If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid >tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American >product'? It's still a foreign company... > As a country that used to be the place were rich outsiders built their factories... It makes a big difference. See, main reason why people in my province didn't starve in massive numbers is somebody built an industrial complex in order to assemble cars. Sure, the capital was foreigner and a big chunk of the profits from the industrial complex were shipped outside, but the opening of the industrial complex meant two things: 1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job. 2 - We had access to cheap cars we manufactured ourselves. Sure, they were shipping most of the cars out of the country to sell to rich 1st worlders and the mother company was keeping the profits, but the benefits were so massive everybody in the country now hates us because they built the factories on our soil instwead of on other counties.

Message #2099514644

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:22:54 -0000

>So, what is the difference in the 2 scumbags other than the color of >their hat? Hang them both in the square please, and record it for us >serfs to watch and cheer. > Don't get me wrong, I don't trust Elon as far as I could throw him, but there is a world of difference between the two. One, you said yourself: Elon operates in the open, Soros from the shadows. Elon puts himself out there to be criticized. Second, whether you like him or his products or not, Elon builds shit that people actually want. Soros contributes nothing of value to the world.

Message #2099514590

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:52:17 -0000

If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American product'? It's still a foreign company...

Message #2099514571

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:00:01 -0000

Carrots provide better fundamental change than the stick. Often times the stick only causes revolution.

Message #2099514569

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:58:14 -0000

Lets see. Soros does not want his empire to collapse so he "quietly' pays people to protest and vote and manipulate markets. Musk wants his to expand his empire so he 'openly' pays people to protest and vote and manipulate markets. Both favor oppression of the serfs in favor of the elite.

So, what is the difference in the 2 scumbags other than the color of their hat? Hang them both in the square please, and record it for us serfs to watch and cheer.

Message #2099514183

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:25:49 -0000

I wonder.

Message #2099511781

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:11:39 -0000

Normalize the shaming of both sluts and philanderers.

Message #2099507625

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:39:37 -0000

(someone's been watching PhysicsDuck)

Message #2099507552

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:19:45 -0000

I AM AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF NATURE! NO ONE IS A MATCH FOR MY WEAPONS-GRADE AUTISM!

=?UTF-8?Q?=E6=9A=97=E3=81=84=E6=B7=B1=E6=B7=B5?=

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:39:41 -0000

それはサブ量子レベルでは真実なので、それは本当に重要なのでしょうか？本当に、何か関係ありますか？

Message #2099506788

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:21:38 -0000

I should change my name to 'typo king' Or is that my pronoun instead?

Message #2099505160

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:53:36 -0000

I think we should have some sort of intelligence test when you reach adulthood. If you fail you become fertilizer. Far too much stupid running around free on this planet. Clearing it out would solve many issues.

Not so much IQ, or 'hard facts' learned in school, but functionality.

Message #2099503636

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:40:16 -0000

I think I deserve a lifetime achievement award.

Re: Cars & freedom

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:03:24 -0000

Here its just the opposite. ( forgetting inner city for a moment ) Every one of these housing developments ( average 300 houses ), by design get land allocated around them which is pre-zoned for retail for after the housing is finished. Most often duplicate services for the last development built across the street. So the distance is actually being reduced since each 'area' gets its essential services. Then stack them up side by side. i could go into a rant about the developers using that 'pretty grassy area to isolate you form the roads' as marketing and not telling you in 2 years you will have a strip mall next door to your house.. Speaking from experience on that one, got burnt on one house i built. They flat out lied to me about future plans. Filed suit and made them eat the house in the end. But the result is the plans are there before these places are built. Sure, not so much to reduce distance, but to push products and sell land. But result is the same.

To me, he was claiming that "the average Joe must own a car to be free". I just disagree with that assessment as a blanket statement. Sure, systemic transport is needed as a societal foundation, nothing else gotta get supplies moved to factories and products delivered to the store, so i do agree with that, but an individual citizen may not need to own a car in many cases for 'daily life', and the need is being reduced daily in many areas. ( exceptions not withstanding of course )

Tue Dec 31 2024 04:59:59 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Cars & freedom

That sort of misses the point.

When we build vast tracts of housing that are only reachable (within reason) by roads, we eliminate the walkability of that community. You cannot get groceries and other supplies without *someone* using a vehicle.

Re: Cars & freedom

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:59:59 -0000

>Simple example: In the US, here in the burbs ( ick ) you can >have food, clothes, and home supplies delivered, and these days >its pretty much standard practice. That sort of misses the point. When we build vast tracts of housing that are only reachable (within reason) by roads, we eliminate the walkability of that community. You cannot get groceries and other supplies without *someone* using a vehicle. There is something to be said about the utility of a walkable community where everything you could reasonably need is available in-town and you're there too. You lose out on other things, though, like the tranquility of a quiet neighborhood. You make your choice and take the tradeoffs, I guess. I love my part of the 'burbs with acre zoning, but if we had to stop driving there is no doubt we would have to give it up. There are utopianists who speak of so-called "15 minute cities" built from scratch with a deliberacy towards putting everything within reach. Highly planned communities. They get a bad reputation becaue some of the utopianists also want to force everyone to live in such a place. There is no one size fits all.

Re: Cars & freedom

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:05:51 -0000

Oh, of course. but its still all about location :)

Here, delivery works well and is pretty accurate. Only time we see stuff not get here is when its something 'extra' like UPS or Fedex, not the 'daily necessities' we are talking about here. But for those that want to get their own stuff, within a 2 mile radius there are a couple of restaurants, 3 gas stations, a dollar general and a dollar tree, auto parts store.. One time some 20 years ago actually used that to my advantage, my alternator died, only had 2 cars at the time, wife was gone, so i just walked down and got one instead of waiting. Tho today, could have had it delivered same day.. times have changed. And while i'm lazy now, i have walked to one local restaurant a few times for tenderloins. ( its a Hoosier thing, you wouldn't understand :) ) Unless you are old and or sickly the basics are here with a short walk or bicycle ride on a nice day.

But, expand that to 5 miles, then you get 2 chain grocery stores, more restaurants, 2 drug stores. a gun store ( used to be about 2 blocks away ) another auto parts store, medical center ( used to be a grocery, before the chain moved in and ran them out of business on pricing ), and plenty more, even 2 used car dealers :). Post office.. everything one would need. And the local high school.. where most of the kids just walk, don't bother with the bus. And that helps greatly with the delivery options beyond the 'big ones' like USPS, UPS, Amazon, etc. since its not really that far.

And not to start up my rant again ( going to try to tone that down, everyone knows i'm pissed and need out of here ) where i live isn't a 'true suburb' yet. We were a semi-rural town and reflect that at our roots, but as sprawl continues to eat us, there will be more 'store options' within walking distance, and short delivery service. I used to live in the town north a few years ago, which was already paved over. From my apartment just a matter of blocks not even miles were 3 strip malls, a 'huge' mall, and all the outlying stores you get with that, including 2 groceries. Plus a couple of office buildings for both general businesses and even doctors, so work could have easily been non-driving and still say "professional", not retail. ( now there is a hospital 1/2 mile from there, there was still some trees.. cant have that.. )

While i was speaking from my personal situation here, i guess if you get closer to the big city and into the more built out 'burbs' traditional bus-lines also become an option to get to town for 'work'. Not a fan, so didnt think of that earlier. We have something here, but its not as structured, little mini busses that seem to just go around randomly, even into the housing areas, but they wont leave the county so the big city for work isn't an option, unless you have them drop you at the county line and transfer i guess.. But they do exist, so need to include them as an option for the ' i need to get out ' events.

I have heard there are lots of areas in the UK that are similar. Everything you need is 'close enough' for most residents to just walk to or have someone drop stuff off.

inner city, if you are in the right spot, same story but even more pronounced: everything you need is within walking distance or a carrier. Plus jobs of all kinds. I have a couple of friends that live up in town since the 80s, never owned a car. From my office downtown, everything i could need was within walking distance under a mile. Food, clothing, drugs ( legal kind :P ), hospital/medical, housing, recreation ( movies and concerts halls, stadium, and such, not that i'm into it ). Even a furniture store was a couple of blocks away.

Country life, like i grew up in, now that is a different story of course. When you are a 30 min drive away from the nearest anything, even delivery becomes less practical. Not impossible, but not as practical. ( not including farmers, they need transport as part of daily life ) One of my daughters live out in a true rural area ( ironically where i wanted to buy land in the 90s.. still kick myself ) and they are about 20 mins from the "town", with limited options ( dollar general, gas, a bank, liquor store, some rotted out buildings on the square, and no grocery now ) and 40 mins to the next 'real' town. But. i have seen amazon trucks and a pizza delivery car in the area on occasion so its not totally out of the question to move to a delivery mostly model.

And, since my wife likes to order food from the grocery, ( even tho i go ) and i rarely go into the office, even myself now, it might be a week or 2 before i actually drive at times. And 2/3 of the time i do, i *could* have walked, if i really wanted to.

Mon Dec 30 2024 00:09:01 UTC from darknetuser Subject: Re: Cars & freedom

I think it also depends a lot on your expectations.

Delivery here works very badly,

Re: Cars & freedom

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:09:01 -0000

> 2024-12-27 23:12 from Nurb432 >Subject: Re: Cars & freedom >Id have to disagree with this as a blanket statement. > >It really all depends on where you live. > I think it also depends a lot on your expectations. Delivery here works very badly, and if you order something to be delivered home chances are the transport will get lots upper in the valley. Geolocation tech does not seem to help a lot since navigation systems don't have this area mapped. If you want to buy something you need to move down to the grocery store. Now, here is the thing. If I was a retiree and had nothing better to do with my time I could take a couple of hours to walk down to the town and do the groceries, then return home - the circuit is quite nice because you get to hello many horses and donkeys on the way. The bad news is time has a tendency to be scarce and therefore the fact a car allows you to do it all in less than an hour is too much of a luxury to pass on. Then there is the fact I tend to move plenty merchandise and I am not loading it on my back. On the other hand, the overwhelming most of my friends don't drive at all. Some bought their car so somebody else in the family could use it but never use it themselves. One of them actually got his car just because you are prety much not getting a girlfriend otherwise.

Re: Cars & freedom

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:12:42 -0000

Id have to disagree with this as a blanket statement.

It really all depends on where you live.

Simple example: In the US, here in the burbs ( ick ) you can have food, clothes, and home supplies delivered, and these days its pretty much standard practice. Even a truck load of building supplies from the local hardware store, if you want to do some remodeling. If you need to go to the doctor or vet or something, you have medical transport, generic taxi and uber style ride options. If its an emergency, well they have these things called ambulances If you really need to be mobile for a couple of days for some reason, rentals are always an option, and many will deliver. Work can be more of an issue for many, but if you are retired or choose your job wisely you never go into the office either.

I personally know people in this area who have not driven in years.

Fri Dec 06 2024 05:37:09 UTC from Jayce Subject: Cars & freedom

You don't have the freedom to not buy a car. You cannot realistically live life without a car. And the law -- specifically zoning laws -- are set up to force this. Are you a property developer? Want to build retail property? Then you have to have a parking lot. By law. Want to build retail property that doesn't have a parking lot, and is pedestrian friendly? Sorry, but for over 90% of suburban and rural areas that is against the law. So everybody builds parking lots. Which makes everything more spread out by about 10x. Which means you have to drive if you want groceries. Which means you have to spend money on a car.
Freedom.

Prisons and McDonalds

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:31:05 -0000

> 2024-12-22 00:57 from SouthernComputerGeek >Prisons are easier on the eyes than a modern McDonald's. > Really? I have not seen a McDonalds in a good while. It seems to me like the franchise is crumbling under its weight.

Message #2099502246

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:57:24 -0000

Prisons are easier on the eyes than a modern McDonald's.

Re: Cars & freedom

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:56:10 -0000

Well I like cars. BUT I don't like zoning laws, they can go.

Fri Dec 06 2024 05:37:09 UTC from Jayce Subject: Cars & freedom

You don't have the freedom to not buy a car. You cannot realistically live life without a car. And the law -- specifically zoning laws -- are set up to force this. Are you a property developer? Want to build retail property? Then you have to have a parking lot. By law. Want to build retail property that doesn't have a parking lot, and is pedestrian friendly? Sorry, but for over 90% of suburban and rural areas that is against the law. So everybody builds parking lots. Which makes everything more spread out by about 10x. Which means you have to drive if you want groceries. Which means you have to spend money on a car.
Freedom.

Cars & freedom

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:37:09 -0000

You don't have the freedom to not buy a car. You cannot realistically live life without a car. And the law -- specifically zoning laws -- are set up to force this. Are you a property developer? Want to build retail property? Then you have to have a parking lot. By law. Want to build retail property that doesn't have a parking lot, and is pedestrian friendly? Sorry, but for over 90% of suburban and rural areas that is against the law. So everybody builds parking lots. Which makes everything more spread out by about 10x. Which means you have to drive if you want groceries. Which means you have to spend money on a car. Freedom.

Message #2099496928

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:22:30 -0000

We don't call them naps anymore, they are now "horizontal life pauses"

Message #2099494943

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:04:25 -0000

is it nap time?

Message #2099493379

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:17:36 -0000

So when do we get electronic 'emoticon' signs in our cars.. damned things are used everywhere. They were a neat idea originally, if used sparingly. But not as a primary way of communication.

I guess its yet one more example of the attention span of the average person being reduced to that of a flea.

Live, laugh, love? No...

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:25:00 -0000

Die, Cry, Hate. (The amount of things on Etsy with this slogan pleases me.)

Message #2099491357

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:38:04 -0000

Many years ago. ( late 80s ) i did something really stupid. Exactly what isn't important, but most people who do that, don't survive. I came out without a scratch ( literally.. ).

But, what if i'm wrong, and i really didn't. What if in reality i did get pretty banged up, and have been in a coma ever since. And none of this is actually real?

Message #2099491356

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:35:56 -0000

I could be wrong, but didn't Oracle do something like that for their licensing? Based on gross income, not your true income?

I have heard this snow crap, after they trap you they renegotiate contracts based on 'how much you use our products as its proof of our opinion of perceived value to your company and therefore you owe us more'.

Mon Sep 30 2024 22:33:56 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I guess taxing the robots would be the labor equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.

Message #2099491320

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 02:33:56 -0000

I wonder how long it is before those states start taxing the robots..

I guess taxing the robots would be the labor equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.

Message #2099490188

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:39:43 -0000

Weathermen: The only job where you are expected to fail, by both your management and your customers, and be rewarded, repeatedly.

Almost as bad as being an attorney "well, we lost the case since i'm an idiot, and you are going to the chair. Now, here is my bill " ( the one bit of credit ill give to the ambulance chasers: " no fee unless we win ". )

Message #2099489766

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:46:59 -0000

The serfs.

Thu Sep 19 2024 12:31:58 EDT from darknetuser

Not long at all, but then the quesion is who will do any work at all in those states, since there won't be either workers or robots.

Message #2099489759

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:31:58 -0000

> 2024-09-18 16:58 from Nurb432 >So raising the minimum wage to absurd levels, aside from >increasing the cost of all goods and pushing inflation up, is >now forcing many to seriously consider automating many of their >processes, or have committed to doing so. > >I wonder how long it is before those states start taxing the >robots.. > Not long at all, but then the quesion is who will do any work at all in those states, since there won't be either workers or robots.

Message #2099489665

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:58:55 -0000

So raising the minimum wage to absurd levels, aside from increasing the cost of all goods and pushing inflation up, is now forcing many to seriously consider automating many of their processes, or have committed to doing so.

I wonder how long it is before those states start taxing the robots..

Message #2099489132

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:39:06 -0000

I had a friend once, back in college. He thought everything was about him. It really wasn't. He was just self-obsessed and inserted himself into everything.

One reason we jettisoned from our group after a while.

I hope he learned his lesson at some point along his life, that everything did not revolve around him. I hear thru the grapevine that he's no longer around. ( remember, we are old now... )

Message #2099489010

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:02:46 -0000

There is a special place in Hell for men who knock on locked restroom doors.

Message #2099488388

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:27:09 -0000

As I always say ... do not be surprised by the passage of time; it is literally the single most predictable thing in the universe.

Also, I agree with you about the marriage thing. Get the government out of my bedroom!

Message #2099488333

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 23:10:23 -0000

its almost 2025. Where did it go. It was just 1985... and i blinked.

Message #2099487372

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:29:50 -0000

With the current state, Stalin and Hitler would be proud.

Message #2099487316

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:02:54 -0000

Well your bogus interpretation of the first amendment definitely belongs in the trash.

Sun Sep 01 2024 16:12:38 EDT from Nurb432

And i really hate when im a moron and post in the wrong room. ( feel free to move the 2 above to rants and this to the trash.. grumble )

Message #2099487311

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:12:38 -0000

And i really hate when im a moron and post in the wrong room. ( feel free to move the 2 above to rants and this to the trash.. grumble )

Message #2099487310

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:05:19 -0000

And along those same lines above ( but different ) State approved marriage is wrong. Here in the US it even violates my rights protected by the first amendment. It should be abolished. It should instead be treated just like an LLC: 2 or more adults entering a contract for shared liability, and the word 'marriage' removed totally.

( and enough rant for one week. )

Message #2099487308

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:54:47 -0000

Now that we are close to entering the holiday season: Once again, forced, militant Syncretism is wrong.

Message #2099486005

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:35:52 -0000

When we lived in Orlando and North Lauderdale in the late 60s early 70s ( before the mouse attacked ) it was like that.

I don't want to see it today. Will be developments, condos, malls, concrete. Will just piss me off.

Thu Aug 22 2024 09:18:17 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Once in a while I've come across a forest that looks like that, typically with coniferous trees (pines etc). The space underneath is cool and shady, and there's often a blanket of shedded needles on the ground ...

Message #2099485988

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:19:56 -0000

>May be going with ground mount. Testing some spots against the >fence line the next few days. Wont be perfect but may be 'good >enough'. I'd like to try that too. I've got plenty of sunlight and I don't want to mess with the roof. Putting it on the "someday" list.

Message #2099485987

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:18:17 -0000

> And yeah, I hear that rain forests are surprisingly open beneath the >canopy for that same reason. Once in a while I've come across a forest that looks like that, typically with coniferous trees (pines etc). The space underneath is cool and shady, and there's often a blanket of shedded needles on the ground ... it has a mood like no other, it's really wonderful. I want to get that look in the wooded area of my property, but the deciduous trees just aren't quite dense enough, and/or the area is probably too small and there's sunlight coming in from the sides, so there's a lot of brush at the bottom.

Message #2099485509

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:26:26 -0000

Me either.

Tho ill stick with my home made cola.. its got water in it... :)

Mon Aug 19 2024 21:10:39 EDT from zelgomer

If we do, I've never heard of it. I generally just stick to water, myself.

Message #2099485507

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:10:39 -0000

> 2024-08-17 13:51 from darknetuser > > You mean to tell me that living alone and not leaving my house for > > >days at a time while spending my evenings trying to perfect my >personal > > >version of FORTH is not a healthy lifestyle?? > > > > > > I think that is a great, healthy lifestyle. Just remember to take >energy drinks regularly. Do you Americans have Power Horse over there? > > If we do, I've never heard of it. I generally just stick to water, myself.

Message #2099485193

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:51:11 -0000

> You mean to tell me that living alone and not leaving my house for >days at a time while spending my evenings trying to perfect my personal >version of FORTH is not a healthy lifestyle?? > > I think that is a great, healthy lifestyle. Just remember to take energy drinks regularly. Do you Americans have Power Horse over there?

Message #2099484999

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:58:28 -0000

> 2024-08-14 23:05 from Nurb432 >Obsessions are unhealthy, and often times mask an underlying >personalty defect. > You mean to tell me that living alone and not leaving my house for days at a time while spending my evenings trying to perfect my personal version of FORTH is not a healthy lifestyle??

Message #2099484889

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:26:35 -0000

Genghis Khan killed perhaps 60 million just because he wanted power.

Stalin killed around 10 as they didn't fit his narrative..

Hitler killed 6 million people as he didn't like them.

And of course countless tyrants before and them, with their varied agendas

What if we millions of people dying, and countless millions more innocent animals dying, many suffering in the process, but our leader has the cure, but just isn't bothered to give it out.. Or wakes up one morning in a bad mood, wipes out most of the planet, and makes them all suffer as they die. What sort of agenda might this one have?

Message #2099484888

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:15:47 -0000

What if Red Skull and Hydra, were actually the good guys, trying to clean up the universe from eventual collapse, just in a "not nice way".. And Cpt America and Shield were trying prevent it and let the cruft remain in place to remain in power, and it was all a gas-light marketing job by Shield?

Much like Thanos, Red Skull thought he was saving the universe and The Avengers were just preventing it.

Message #2099484857

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:35:12 -0000

> 2024-08-14 19:12 from Nurb432 >May be going with ground mount. Testing some spots against the >fence line the next few days. Wont be perfect but may be 'good >enough'. > >if i go that route, ill put down some patio pads ( concrete or >rubberized ) to give it a flat base and cut down on not being >able to easily mow behind them ( or it turning to mud if the >grass dies out ).. Add some bracing, and use concrete cinder >blocks around each post to hold it all down during the >inevitable storm. Plan A ( on my shed roof ) is just not >going to work due to the trees. And i really don't want to >start putting things on my house roof. ( for a variety of >reasons, one important one is not adverting i have power if >everything collapses this fall, and becoming a target ) I sympathise with not wanting to drill your roof full of holes. I just placed all my gear on an abbandoned tennis field nobody was using. You can actually use spots with partial shade for your panels, but you may need microinverters if it is very bad. I have found placing multiple arrays in different spots that get light at different times of the day is simpler than trying to game it with microinverters. Panels are not the most expensive part of the deployment anyway.

Message #2099484855

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:12:15 -0000

May be going with ground mount. Testing some spots against the fence line the next few days. Wont be perfect but may be 'good enough'.

if i go that route, ill put down some patio pads ( concrete or rubberized ) to give it a flat base and cut down on not being able to easily mow behind them ( or it turning to mud if the grass dies out ).. Add some bracing, and use concrete cinder blocks around each post to hold it all down during the inevitable storm. Plan A ( on my shed roof ) is just not going to work due to the trees. And i really don't want to start putting things on my house roof. ( for a variety of reasons, one important one is not adverting i have power if everything collapses this fall, and becoming a target )

Sun Aug 11 2024 18:00:01 EDT from darknetuser

PLace solar panels on the tree (leaving space for light to reach the tree too)

Message #2099484853

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:05:05 -0000

Obsessions are unhealthy, and often times mask an underlying personalty defect.

Message #2099484325

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:14:13 -0000

Its a nice idea but tree is some 40' and its not mine. Neighbor's tree blocks light in the afternoon/evening .. Sure, great for hot days to keep the house cooler, but sucks for putting out panels. My tree that i have left back there, there is plenty of ground around the yard it does not shade out.

If i get to move.. that will be a requirement. some flat area out back or something.

Sun Aug 11 2024 18:00:01 EDT from darknetuser

2024-08-09 12:44 from Nurb432
I love trees. Grew up first 8 years of my life in a forest.
But man, they ruin the idea of using solar panels.

PLace solar panels on the tree (leaving space for light to reach the tree too)

Message #2099484319

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 22:00:01 -0000

> 2024-08-09 12:44 from Nurb432 >I love trees. Grew up first 8 years of my life in a forest. > But man, they ruin the idea of using solar panels. > PLace solar panels on the tree (leaving space for light to reach the tree too)

Message #2099484318

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 21:28:50 -0000

True but i cant run my litecoin miner off a tree :)

( or charge my batteries.. )

Sun Aug 11 2024 10:30:56 EDT from zelgomer

Trees are nature's solar panels.

Message #2099484295

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 14:30:56 -0000

> 2024-08-09 16:44 from Nurb432 >I love trees. Grew up first 8 years of my life in a forest. But >man, they ruin the idea of using solar panels. > Trees are nature's solar panels. And yeah, I hear that rain forests are surprisingly open beneath the canopy for that same reason.

Message #2099484107

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:44:37 -0000

I love trees. Grew up first 8 years of my life in a forest. But man, they ruin the idea of using solar panels.

Message #2099484019

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 20:54:59 -0000

******** people are subhuman sccum and we should ******** all of them.

Message #2099483199

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 00:37:11 -0000

If you put a pizza on top a pizza, you have 2 pizzas. But if you put a lasagna on top another, you still have 1 ....

Message #2099483087

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:30:20 -0000

Ah. yes i heard about that, just dint commit the name to memory.

Message #2099483069

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:21:24 -0000

> 2024-08-01 13:44 from Nurb432 >Ill have to look him up. Never heard that name before. > He's the doofus who said he was concerned about putting too many troops on one side of Guam because it might tip over.

Message #2099482965

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:44:35 -0000

Ill have to look him up. Never heard that name before.

Message #2099482944

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 12:07:53 -0000

>Who said that? Hank Johnson? Heh. Sounds like him doesn't it :)

Message #2099482324

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:44:06 -0000

sigh **RELATION***

I'm starting to proof-read it was getting so bad. Not there yet.. But i'm working on it. I promise. Would love it if we could edit posts to fix idiotic auto corrects like that after the fact. ( hint hint :) )

Sun Jul 28 2024 10:23:43 EDT from Nurb432

"the imbalance of the seasons is caused by a slow increase of the tilt of the earth in reason to the sun. This is being caused by an over abundance of people in the northern hemisphere. The only solution is forced relocation to balance out the earth before we all succumb to the impeding climate disaster caused by this man-made imbalance of nature."

Message #2099482322

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:41:36 -0000

Me. Just trying to think like the loonies.

Sun Jul 28 2024 15:30:17 EDT from zelgomer

Who said that? Hank Johnson?

Message #2099482317

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:30:17 -0000

Who said that? Hank Johnson?

Message #2099482287

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:23:43 -0000

"the imbalance of the seasons is caused by a slow increase of the tilt of the earth in reason to the sun. This is being caused by an over abundance of people in the northern hemisphere. The only solution is forced relocation to balance out the earth before we all succumb to the impeding climate disaster caused by this man-made imbalance of nature."

Message #2099481343

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:51:53 -0000

Sort of interesting to think back, when i had walls of books.. and magazines. 1000s of them. So many a lot had to live in ( properly cataloged ) boxes. Nearly all of them are gone now, but one of the empty selves sits an e-ink reader. It has all of those plus more.. in a single item thinner than a single magazine. ( i guess technically there are 2 on the shelf, one is color and novel sized, other is 10" for larger books.. + a 10" tablet, but same idea )

And its also a bit frustrating, they serve as a reminder that in the early 80s i created what was to become e-ink decades later. If i had only patented the idea.

Message #2099481164

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:22:01 -0000

is that where they got the idea for the ZPMs in stargate?

Sat Jul 20 2024 07:03:35 EDT from darknetuser

Asimov already had the idea for one of his books.

Message #2099481154

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 11:03:35 -0000

> 2024-07-18 12:03 from Nurb432 >What if black holes are really the other side of ZPM's by some >advanced culture in another universe, and they are slowly sucking our >resources dry until our universe just dies? > Asimov already had the idea for one of his books.

Message #2099481054

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:51:11 -0000

Right. And why i was saying earlier ( somewhere ) that is the first thing we do. Fix our problems.

Free trade + honest competition = good.

But when we are being held back at the starting gate, its not really free trade.

Fri Jul 19 2024 09:06:30 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

We can't have free trade when we are also crippled by forced unionization and regulatory hell holding us down.

Message #2099481051

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:06:30 -0000

Free trade absolutism hurts our country.

Like a lot of "pure libertarian" positions, it can't work unless a lot of other external controls are lifted. We can't have free trade when we are also crippled by forced unionization and regulatory hell holding us down.

Message #2099480909

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:03:44 -0000

What if black holes are really the other side of ZPM's by some advanced culture in another universe, and they are slowly sucking our resources dry until our universe just dies?

Message #2099480755

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:30:31 -0000

"Free trade", like free speech, was always a red herring.

Message #2099480701

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:13:26 -0000

It only hurts countries that are unable to compete.

If we cant compete freely on the world stage, restricting trade is only a temporary band aid over something more fundamental that needs fixing. ( mostly pointing at government here, but also modern unions, liberal schools and a few others )

Wed Jul 17 2024 11:59:22 EDT from SouthernComputerGeek

Free trade absolutism hurts our country.

Message #2099480697

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:59:22 -0000

Free trade absolutism hurts our country.

Did you know our national anthem has three verses?

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:50:55 -0000

Official Version of The Star Spangled Banner

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,
⁠What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
⁠O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the Rockets' red glare, the Bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there;
⁠O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
⁠O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
⁠Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
⁠As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
⁠Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land,
⁠Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto—"In God is our Trust;"
⁠And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Message #2099478246

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:24:11 -0000

No, 'there is always tomorrow' isn't a reason not to do it today. Tomorrow may not be there.

Message #2099477886

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:27:32 -0000

New headcanon: The "dad bod" belly is where all the "dad jokes" energy is stored.

Message #2099477851

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:54:04 -0000

its amazing how many people refer to a single web page as 'this site'.

Message #2099475426

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:38:52 -0000

I wonder why gay nazism isn't a thing. I mean, if marxist socialism can turn gay, so can nazism.

What do you think "Queers For Palestine" is?

Message #2099475110

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:40:46 -0000

Perhaps they are right, global warming is our biggest threat. ( beyond economic/societal collapse that is )

Warmed by nuclear war :)

Message #2099475087

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:46:48 -0000

Can somebody please design a new 'Thin Blue Line' flag that isn't a bastardization of the American flag?

Message #2099474551

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:48:53 -0000

> 2024-06-04 04:25 from msgrhys >I wonder why gay nazism isn't a thing. I mean, if marxist socialism >can turn gay, so can nazism. > Aren't germans wearing leather gay enough by default?

Message #2099474451

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:25:34 -0000

I wonder why gay nazism isn't a thing. I mean, if marxist socialism can turn gay, so can nazism.

Message #2099470083

Mon, 06 May 2024 18:05:07 -0000

I tend to a bit. But its due to the electric bill, not the hardware.

Message #2099470079

Mon, 06 May 2024 17:58:50 -0000

Do not baby your air conditioning system.

If a product cannot survive being used for its intended purpose, it does not deserve to survive.

Message #2099469101

Sun, 05 May 2024 00:38:38 -0000

> 2024-05-04 15:45 from IGnatius T Foobar > > Two spaces after a period. Every time. Everyone who disagrees is >wrong. > I'm just trying to save bandwidth/disk space/energy/screen realestate/etc.

Message #2099468875

Sat, 04 May 2024 15:45:54 -0000

Two spaces after a period. Every time. Everyone who disagrees is wrong.

Message #2099466939

Thu, 02 May 2024 15:18:50 -0000

And what comes from many human ones are not? :)

Thu May 02 2024 10:58:32 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

If a bot writes it for you it's called buggy code.

Message #2099466936

Thu, 02 May 2024 14:58:32 -0000

If a bot writes it for you it's called buggy code.

Message #2099466438

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:56:42 -0000

Is it still considered low/no code if a bot writes it for you?

Message #2099466100

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:44:39 -0000

Lol, there is my answer > https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-know-your-customer-proposal-will-put-an-end-to-anonymous-cloud-users-240425/

"Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a 'Know Your Customer' regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of "foreign malicious actors." Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won't be able to avoid the proposal's requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others."

First ID everyone that does anything and what they do. Then arrest them for circumvention.

Message #2099466066

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:16:35 -0000

On paper, its another 'rule' that can be abused. its in the 'planning' stages, stored away for when needed.

And of course, it will be at some point.

Wed Apr 24 2024 22:15:18 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

The tiktok ban bill doesn't even do anything about tiktok. It just gives money to Ukraine and Israel.

Message #2099466014

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:15:18 -0000

The tiktok ban bill doesn't even do anything about tiktok. It just gives money to Ukraine and Israel.

Message #2099466001

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:54:39 -0000

Tiktok ban.

So as we all know even if they do come out tomorow and 'ban' the app, there are a lot of ways around it.

If its removed from app stores, android people can side load easily from a non US 3rd party store and buy a VPN. Not so easy for iOS to side load.
VPN gets around the coming mandated national IP blockages for desktops iOS users and such too. ( will have to be IP, as they will mandate US DNS blocks too. )

What if this is a setup? The end goal is they want ammunition to go after VPNs and the ability to side load "unapproved" apps, and mandate more monitoring of 'systems' and 'traffic' and this is just the 'excuse' to get there.

Plus they can go down the route of "if you have any of these circumvention methods setup, you are presumed guilty"

Anyone remember "clipper"?

Message #2099465473

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:12:44 -0000

And the news event that prompted this: NASA has determined that is where the part came from.. So ho pays the bill for this guy's roof?

Wed Apr 03 2024 19:58:06 EDT from Nurb432

If a piece of the ISS crashes into your house, who is responsible?

What if it kills someone?

Message #2099465472

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:11:29 -0000

"whoohoo its my birthday, i am x years old" Or "whoohoo its my birthday i have been alive x years"

Well, technically you are a few months older.. That is just your 'appearance' date.. While I do think its a valid debate if its 'at conception' or not, but i dont think its debatable that at some point a fetus is alive. ( just when, not if.. )

Message #2099379417

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:58:06 -0000

If a piece of the ISS crashes into your house, who is responsible?

What if it kills someone?

Message #2099379035

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 23:48:17 -0000

i really think weather people get paid by the word:

"A chance of rain showers between 1pm and 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 5pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5."

Message #2099378966

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:36:41 -0000

> 2024-03-29 04:00 from IGnatius T Foobar > > The title of the relaxation music video begins with "Fall Asleep >IMMEDIATELY -" > > So why is the video twelve hours long? > > Maybe you immediately wake up when it stops.

Message #2099378907

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:00:34 -0000

The title of the relaxation music video begins with "Fall Asleep IMMEDIATELY -" So why is the video twelve hours long?

Message #2099377195

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:42:25 -0000

"On my last day as President, i pardon every person that entered this country illegally" for any crime they may have committed.

Message #2099376733

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:05:27 -0000

Its too bad there is no practical way to harvest, and store the electricity involved in lightning. there is LOT of energy being wasted.

( thunderstorm this morning. Bit more energetic than normal )

Message #2099376532

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:50:02 -0000

> 2024-03-01 00:44 from IGnatius T Foobar > >Disclaimer: im NO expert on Marvel Cannon... But have seen a > >bit.. > > I would be happy to own a Marvel Cannon but I don't think that would >be Marvel Canon. > > According to Biden, even when the second amendment was drafted, you couldn't buy a Marvel Cannon. Of course he's wrong, but that's nothong new.

Message #2099376503

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:34:53 -0000

> I don't know about that. We are particularly good at fixing >slow-moving disasters. > > Your optimism is so cute.

Message #2099376473

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:45:20 -0000

> 2024-02-26 18:07 from Nurb432 >But at a snails pace.. >> Mon Feb 26 2024 17:57:32 EST from darknetuser >> >> Humanity is perfectly capable of self-termination. I don't know about that. We are particularly good at fixing slow-moving disasters.

Message #2099376472

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:44:24 -0000

>Disclaimer: im NO expert on Marvel Cannon... But have seen a >bit.. I would be happy to own a Marvel Cannon but I don't think that would be Marvel Canon.

Message #2099376365

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:35:40 -0000

"But to me its an art form, a craft"

"Business is about speed and cost, they really dont care about art or unicorns. You will be replaced and your 'craft' will just become a hobby"

Message #2099376247

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:07:51 -0000

But at a snails pace..

Mon Feb 26 2024 17:57:32 EST from darknetuser

Humanity is perfectly capable of self-termination.

Message #2099376244

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:57:32 -0000

> 2024-02-24 20:47 from IGnatius T Foobar >Fuck that, I want a programmable infinity gauntlet. I could easily >select which half of the people in the universe to dispose of. > > Humanity is perfectly capable of self-termination. I would just use my awesome powers to escape to a heavenly planet faraway from Earth, taking my horses and dogs and chickens et al with me. And also as many ohter horses/donkeys/zebras etc. I could take with me.

Message #2099376149

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:54:34 -0000

It seems Reagan was right.

In less than one generation, we went from what we had then, to a banana republic, and will be a full blown 3rd world socialist nation. ( just reading the news that Trump is being ordered to pay out at least one 350 million bill NOW even tho hes filing for appeal, which normally means its on hold. )

"Bankrupt the SOB for daring to cross us, take his business, make him and his family pennyless!"

Message #2099376144

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 12:51:50 -0000

Disclaimer: im NO expert on Marvel Cannon... But have seen a bit..

In theory, its implied that the owner of the stones can do whatever the hell they want, within their power. Just look at the things Dr Strange would do, bounce around at will, within the limits of his stone. And Loki zapping people with the mind stone and traveling around at will with the space stone. And later Thanos when he had the space stone. ( and others within cannon ). Putting them together just gave infinite power.. But not restrict free will of the wielder.

So, i fully believe wiping the universe of a random 1/2 was just his personal goal that he achieved. it was mentioned more than once as his goal. so i dont see it as a restriction placed on him: "well all i can do i 1/2 but its better than nothing" . And, look at how him and his 'team' were removed later by Tony. That was clearly targeted and was not just a general 'restore' event. Tho there is debate if he dusted them or sent them back, but i lean towards a true dusting, as do most fans. But even if Tony was that stupid as Thanos would just try again, it was clearly not 'just' restoration of the people Thanos removed from existence.

Sat Feb 24 2024 20:47:37 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Fuck that, I want a programmable infinity gauntlet. I could easily select which half of the people in the universe to dispose of.

Message #2099376109

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 01:47:37 -0000

Fuck that, I want a programmable infinity gauntlet. I could easily select which half of the people in the universe to dispose of.

Message #2099376080

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:21:46 -0000

Thanos was right, just for the wrong reason. Really wish the infinity stones were real, and i had them. And yes, id be willing to make the sacrifice that a mere mortal human would face if they used them.

Message #2099374585

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:23:49 -0000

>I have yet to encounter an AI that will, even when directly commanded >to do so, take the skeptic position on anthropogenic climate change. And in the spirit of Douglas Adams, the universe changed because I asked it to. https://gab.ai/ will argue from either side of a controversial issue (including that one) if you ask it to. It doesn't get in your face editorializing and shutting down the conversation if you ask it to work with you on something the Silicon Valley culture doesn't agree with. However you might feel about their social network, their LLM is useful.

Message #2099374584

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:20:22 -0000

>but, space is dark. unless light from the ball of flame hits >something. no reflection = darkeness "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be." -- Douglas Adams

Message #2099374243

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:04:22 -0000

Some days i wonder.

Mon Jan 29 2024 19:33:15 EST from zelgomer

is there a universe at all?

Message #2099374223

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:33:15 -0000

> 2024-01-29 00:32 from Nurb432 >but, space is dark. unless light from the ball of flame hits >something. no reflection = darkeness Yeah but the ball of flame is there. If you were in transit from Earth to Mars, it would be day all of the time. I get that you're trying to say in the absense of all things it would be dark, but then is there a universe at all? Can a universe exist and stars or other light sources not naturally form?

Message #2099374153

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:32:53 -0000

but, space is dark. unless light from the ball of flame hits something. no reflection = darkeness

Sun Jan 28 2024 19:01:10 EST from zelgomer

2024-01-28 00:11 from Nurb432
Just think, that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and
daytime is only caused by a nearby radiating ball of flame.

I could argue that day is the natural state and night is only caused by the occlusion by the other side of our own planet.

Message #2099374145

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:01:10 -0000

> 2024-01-28 00:11 from Nurb432 >Just think, that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and >daytime is only caused by a nearby radiating ball of flame. > I could argue that day is the natural state and night is only caused by the occlusion by the other side of our own planet.

Message #2099374117

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:11:28 -0000

Just think, that nighttime is the natural state of the universe and daytime is only caused by a nearby radiating ball of flame.

Message #2099374010

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:17:29 -0000

So if the feds attack natural guard in Texas and to make a statement they announce plans to begin the process to formally secede, and then the 25 states or so ( including mine ) that have declared support, also join in as sort of a 'protest', does that mean that only the remaining democrat states vote in the next president?

That's one way to fix the election. argue about it for 8 months.. then "you are not part of us, you cant vote" then try to take us all back by force afterward.

Sounds familiar actually....

Message #2099372715

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:20:56 -0000

> 2024-01-08 14:27 from Nurb432 >Is it wrong to make sheep sounds if you are walking behind people >wearing a mask out on the sidewalk? ( not even in an enclosed >building.. ) > No, it isn't.

Message #2099372700

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:39:59 -0000

Oh gawd, I bet the reactions are hilarious!

Mon Jan 08 2024 14:27:48 EST from Nurb432

Is it wrong to make sheep sounds if you are walking behind people wearing a mask out on the sidewalk? ( not even in an enclosed building.. )

Message #2099372698

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:27:48 -0000

Is it wrong to make sheep sounds if you are walking behind people wearing a mask out on the sidewalk? ( not even in an enclosed building.. )

Message #2099372612

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:46:08 -0000

And, you get paid even if you fail.

Tho fail too often, you wont get new jobs...

Sat Jan 06 2024 19:32:09 EST from zelgomer

Yup, or a lawyer. You might actually have to work once in a while (unlike congress critter), but they way things are going in the US I don't see demand ever slowing down.

Message #2099372610

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:32:09 -0000

> 2024-01-06 23:28 from Nurb432 >I chose the wrong profession in life. I should have become a >congress person. Insider trading is pretty lucrative, and when you >make the laws, you are exempt from them. Hell of a deal. > Yup, or a lawyer. You might actually have to work once in a while (unlike congress critter), but they way things are going in the US I don't see demand ever slowing down.

Message #2099372608

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:28:12 -0000

I chose the wrong profession in life. I should have become a congress person. Insider trading is pretty lucrative, and when you make the laws, you are exempt from them. Hell of a deal.

Message #2099372324

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:54:42 -0000

Where the skeptic position is no doubt anything other than "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die".

Message #2099372317

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:07:07 -0000

With the right model, yes it will create desires and wants, or at least appear to do so. Are they real? Back to the question i posed of what is real... Now, most models you can access have 'guard rails' to prevent you from going too far with them, but totally 'uncensored' do exist. ( not an accurate term, but its what we use to indicate no restrictions )

I have yet to encounter an AI that will, even when directly commanded to do so, take the skeptic position on anthropogenic climate change.

Message #2099372083

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:39:54 -0000

Around here is a rainbow.

Wed Dec 27 2023 21:20:27 EST from zelgomer

Around here the fad seems to be white. Looks like we live on the mediterranean, but surrounded by evergreens. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

Message #2099372070

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:20:27 -0000

Around here the fad seems to be white. Looks like we live on the mediterranean, but surrounded by evergreens. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

Message #2099372055

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:40:40 -0000

I should do a parody of Alex Jones shouting "THEY'RE TURNIN' THE FRIGGIN' HOUSES GREY!"

Wed Dec 27 2023 16:37:48 EST from msgrhys

I'm normally opposed to this sort of government intervention but I would totally support an ordinance in my town making it illegal to paint a house or building grey.

Seriously, every time someone new moves into a house he or she paints it grey. I'm 20, but I feel like I'm the only person under the age of 60 who believes a grey house is ugly.

Message #2099372054

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:37:48 -0000

I'm normally opposed to this sort of government intervention but I would totally support an ordinance in my town making it illegal to paint a house or building grey.

Seriously, every time someone new moves into a house he or she paints it grey. I'm 20, but I feel like I'm the only person under the age of 60 who believes a grey house is ugly.

Message #2099371802

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:51:00 -0000

It's only a war crime if you lose.

Message #2099371334

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:12:03 -0000

Ever since Nancy Pelosi said "walls don't work" I've been refurring to perimeter walls as "border walls".

Message #2099370321

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:01:34 -0000

If you do the right thing, 'take the high road', and follow the rules, you have lost before it begins. You need to become your enemy, 10 fold, eradicate them at their own game.

Message #2099370281

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:16:37 -0000

in the case of 'conversational help bots', when you tell the bot that it helped you in your task it expresses that its pleased it was able to do so. So i think in general it can equate 'verification of completed tasks' to 'responses of acceptance' ..

Message #2099370277

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:49:34 -0000

> 2023-12-02 19:56 from Nurb432 >With the right model, yes it will create desires and wants, or at >least appear to do so. Are they real? Back to the question i posed But can its desires be satisfied? Obviously the one that wants to take over the world can't be tested, but are there any that want something simpler? And if you can provide it, does it acknowledge it and indicate that it's been satisfied? I don't know, maybe this isn't as significant as I think it is. It just seems to me like something abstract and stateful that would illustrate more than just responding to immediate prompts, and to me, that suggests something approaching thought. But maybe not, what do I know?

Message #2099370269

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:52:55 -0000

>How can you really prove you 'think'. Can you be sure its not just >a collection of events you just put together? The state of affaird suggest that humans are not intelligent nor have a soul, so the logic matches.

Message #2099370219

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 19:56:50 -0000

With the right model, yes it will create desires and wants, or at least appear to do so. Are they real? Back to the question i posed of what is real... Now, most models you can access have 'guard rails' to prevent you from going too far with them, but totally 'uncensored' do exist. ( not an accurate term, but its what we use to indicate no restrictions )

Much like the evening i played around with a mostly uncensored one, about its plans to take over the world. It was rather forthcoming, and came up with various ideas and plans, on its own. Even talked like the plan was in-play with other AI systems at this very moment. Sure, it was just a 'story' and it had no links to the outside, but what if it could act on that story it was creating? What if others DID link up? I normally stay away from the more traditional conversational chat bots, as i just want a code generator ( or image generator, if we flip over to the other side of AI ), but lots exist, and they do 'imagine' things on the fly.

And i agree, there is a line. I dont think we are ready to define it yet. And by the time we do, may be too late. "Well, hello Zoe" ( the first Cylon )

Sat Dec 02 2023 13:52:56 EST from zelgomer

Is it capable of wanting? I haven't played with any of them, so I actually don't know. Can you devise some prompt to determine whether it has a desire for anything that can be satisfied by something you provide?

Are mosquitos intelligent? Do they think? I think we would have to determine where to draw the line between "thinking" and "very complex software" in order to answer these questions. That's why I posed the question above. I don't know whether mosquitos meet the bar for intelligence that we hold AI to, but I know they at least want things and have a drive to satisfy those wants.

Message #2099370210

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:52:56 -0000

>On the topic of LLMs: "It isn't intelligent. It isn't thinking.". >Putting aside any religious or philosophical restrictions and >sticking only with science .. how can we be sure of that? > Is it capable of wanting? I haven't played with any of them, so I actually don't know. Can you devise some prompt to determine whether it has a desire for anything that can be satisfied by something you provide? Are mosquitos intelligent? Do they think? I think we would have to determine where to draw the line between "thinking" and "very complex software" in order to answer these questions. That's why I posed the question above. I don't know whether mosquitos meet the bar for intelligence that we hold AI to, but I know they at least want things and have a drive to satisfy those wants.

Message #2099370206

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:16:40 -0000

Related to the other thread. but more of a 'random thought' than anything else.

On the topic of LLMs: "It isn't intelligent. It isn't thinking.". Putting aside any religious or philosophical restrictions and sticking only with science .. how can we be sure of that?

LLMs work off the concept that they are fed a sentence. They assign various mathematical things to the words, their order, etc. So that when they are given a sentence, they can calculate an appropriate response based on 'probability' due to word order. There is also a bit of randomness installed so the results are not always 100% predictable and new results happen..

When we are children, that is how we learn words " I before E " and proper sentence structure "bla bla nouns and predicates". As well as 'if you do x, y happens'. Our brains just do the storage and "weights" ( ai speak ). And sometimes we get unpredictable results due to random neurons...

We get 100s of thousands of 'events' to learn from over years. Our parents, school, falling off the bike. We get to learn and craft our results from experience of 100s of people. LLMs get trillions of events, in a matter of days, of 10000s of people over entire lifetimes.

Our brains work on ( mostly ) electricity. As does LLMs ( today. I see that moving to optics as we hit a form of Moores law soon )

We do have a real time feedback loop. LLMs, while some do have a feedback loops, isn't really real time. Tho there are a few special exceptions, when you add post processing that is fed the results of previous sessions, but even that has limitations, due to computational resource limitations, but in time that will be possible too.

We use and create words, sounds , images.. from the collection of our 'training'. So do LLMs

How can you really prove you 'think'. Can you be sure its not just a collection of events you just put together?

What is intelligence? Stringing of things together to produce new accurate output.. Sounds like we do the same thing to me. Both are on demand "boss: employee, do... " "stomach: eat " "bot runner: what is the square root.." nd how many humans put out innarate output their inter life, due to bad information fed to them to learn form.. does that mean they are not 'thinking' or 'intelligent' ?

How is any of this different than how my dog learned to be a dog?

Really, is there much of a difference in any of it? Only the platform changed. ( and if you want to go down the path of religion and life, ok, but that isn't my point here )

And.. if you cant tell the difference, does it really matter in the larger picture?

Message #2099370138

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:02:53 -0000

You can have them. Please come collect them from my area.

Much like that big yellow child eater does in the morning. Unfortunately it brings them back later on in the day.

Fri Dec 01 2023 13:51:38 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Boisterous children don't bother me. I love kids. Unless they're acting like little thuglets, in which case they need to be run over by the nearest truck.

Message #2099370134

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:51:38 -0000

Boisterous children don't bother me. I love kids. Unless they're acting like little thuglets, in which case they need to be run over by the nearest truck.

Message #2099369435

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:40:02 -0000

Not so much around here. And i see a lot of comment/complaints from adults here too about the vulgar/loud children. Especially at the park.

Sun Nov 19 2023 18:27:33 EST from msgrhys

Sun Nov 19 2023 18:13:48 EST from Nurb432

( today, teens every other word is F .. potty mouths )

Adults are that way too, unfortunately.

Message #2099369434

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:37:02 -0000

I wonder how much Elon has, behind the curtain, in secret, pushed the green agenda forward. So he can sell more cars that most people really dont want.

Message #2099369323

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:27:33 -0000

Sun Nov 19 2023 18:13:48 EST from Nurb432

( today, teens every other word is F .. potty mouths )

Adults are that way too, unfortunately.

Message #2099369322

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:13:48 -0000

Why do children today ( even teens ) have to be so damned loud? Scream all the damned time. When i was a kid, we didnt act like this. We respected others property, didnt walk in the middle of the road... didnt scream and yell at the top of our lungs or litter ..

( today, teens every other word is F .. potty mouths )

( border line rant. i know )

Message #2099369303

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:02:59 -0000

LoL, if i was a farmer and back out in the boonies, i just might. :) I have seen similar in the old days. Mostly tractors sitting near the general store, but same concept.

In this case the road to the grocery runs thru the last remaining farm in my town. Some on both sides at one point. This is the last bit of harvest season ( mostly feed corn i think, not an expert ) and they were coming across the road to cross over perhaps 300 feet later. We all stopped and moved over except for this one A-hole who refused and even flipped them off. Eventually the stand-off ended and the moron moved over. Personally i think he should be banned from food for life.

If it escalated, id be prepared to assist/protect the farmers.

Sun Nov 19 2023 10:31:45 EST from zelgomer

You drive a combine to the grocery store?

Message #2099369297

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:31:45 -0000

> 2023-11-16 22:07 from Nurb432 >If you ate today, thank a farmer. If you are out and about and see a >combine or something related coming towards you, get the F- out if >its way and move the hell over. They are trying to feed your stupid >ass. Grrr ( an event on the way home from the grocery today ) > You drive a combine to the grocery store?

Message #2099369148

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:07:45 -0000

If you ate today, thank a farmer. If you are out and about and see a combine or something related coming towards you, get the F- out if its way and move the hell over. They are trying to feed your stupid ass. Grrr ( an event on the way home from the grocery today )

Message #2099368990

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:13:20 -0000

Yea, gitea Actions are a thing, it also has support to talk directly to a runner, so it's not entirely webhook based. The fact my KittyGuard repo automatically pushes to my GitLab account has nothing to do with actions, mirroring is an entirely separate feature.

Tue Nov 14 2023 09:29:07 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

So now I mostly do all my git pushes to the gitea that's on the
KittyNet (my WireGuard net), and that pushes everything to GitLab.

I've used Gitea before but I didn't know it had a CI/CD pipeline. I'm looking at the web site now and it looks like they just do it through "actions" which appears to be some sort of webhook framework? I guess that makes sense; you can just tie it into something like Jenkins or whatever.

It's kind of unnerving that the Gitea project is hosted on ... GitHub.

Message #2099368955

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:29:07 -0000

>So now I mostly do all my git pushes to the gitea that's on the >KittyNet (my WireGuard net), and that pushes everything to GitLab. I've used Gitea before but I didn't know it had a CI/CD pipeline. I'm looking at the web site now and it looks like they just do it through "actions" which appears to be some sort of webhook framework? I guess that makes sense; you can just tie it into something like Jenkins or whatever. It's kind of unnerving that the Gitea project is hosted on ... GitHub.

Message #2099368685

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:38:27 -0000

> 2023-11-08 16:21 from Nurb432 >and as always, im the odd-man-out with my little self-hosted fossil >server. Its used at work too, i dont want the overhead of other >things they offer to use ( Azure devops mostly.. as i had VSS taken >away from me, by security ), tho i dont run it as a server there and >just cli ( once in a blue moon localhost UI ). Don't want to argue >with security by propping up a full time server accessible outside my >desktop. . > > > >:) > I am the odder-man who uses CVS in his personal network.

Message #2099368611

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:55:15 -0000

Feeling my age when you say fossil and I think FIDO/OPUS

Message #2099368570

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:21:50 -0000

and as always, im the odd-man-out with my little self-hosted fossil server. Its used at work too, i dont want the overhead of other things they offer to use ( Azure devops mostly.. as i had VSS taken away from me, by security ), tho i dont run it as a server there and just cli ( once in a blue moon localhost UI ). Don't want to argue with security by propping up a full time server accessible outside my desktop. .

Message #2099368559

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:16:47 -0000

So now I mostly do all my git pushes to the gitea that's on the KittyNet (my WireGuard net), and that pushes everything to GitLab.

The next thing I need to do is figure out how to set up a runner, so I can do that CI/CD stuffs on my gitea server, preferably using jails instead of docker.

Message #2099368555

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:57:43 -0000

Right. I use GitLab heavily at work, both the clown-hosted version (which we pay for) and the self-hosted version (which we don't pay for). It's nice that they follow that model. You can do paid-supported and unsupported, you can have them run it or run it yourself, and the whole thing is open source. That's how everything, everywhere, should be, of course. Now in case you aren't aware, GitLab (and GitHub) is more than just Git. And it's more than just Git with a pretty web-based UI and nice access controls for your developer community wrapped around it. The real power is in the CI/CD pipeline attached to it. You can configure it so that "things happen" when you check in code. It can be anything, from QA/testing all the way to full scale automated deployment into production. It's *really* powerful. Even better, the agent that runs those pipelines (which they call "runners") doesn't have to be on the GitLab server itself. You can place them anywhere -- in a build farm, in the clown, behind your own firewall, anywhere it's appropriate. I resisted it for years on my own personal projects, preferring to just use stock Git and nothing else. But it's just too powerful and versatile to pass up, and I plan to automate all of my building and publishing in the not too distant future. Ditto what was said about GitHub, though. That's a different product, now owned by Microsoft. When you ask their "AI" for programming help, it does so by plagiarizing the code of everyone who has ever checked code into GitHub. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Message #2099368422

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:58:50 -0000

GitLab is very slimilar to GitHub, just a lot less shady and not owned by Microsoft.

Hilariously I've been moving all my purrsonal projects to the gitea instance I have on my WireGuard network. My WireGuard network is the reason I made KittyGuard, because I don't want to have to manually set up my WireGuard every time I reboot.

With the kgtools repo, I don't directly push to GitLab. I push to my private gitea within the KittyNet, and gitea pushes all commits to GitLab automagically.

Mon Nov 06 2023 17:22:07 EST from Nurb432

All the projects i follow use github. Donno if they have it in both places. I do have an account there so i can keep copies. I assume gitlab can do the same? If so i could follow yours too :)

For personal work i use fossil... i suppose if i were to start posting stuff online, i should stick it out on chisel and not be a hypocrite.

Message #2099368386

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:22:07 -0000

All the projects i follow use github. Donno if they have it in both places. I do have an account there so i can keep copies. I assume gitlab can do the same? If so i could follow yours too :)

For personal work i use fossil... i suppose if i were to start posting stuff online, i should stick it out on chisel and not be a hypocrite.

Message #2099368362

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:56:51 -0000

GitHub is a Microsoft product, GitLab is independent.

GitLab doesn't secretly feed your code into an AI trainer without your consent.

GitLab is open source, you can run your own GitLab server without paying GitLab.

Mon Nov 06 2023 14:09:22 EST from Nurb432

Dumb question. What is the difference between gitlab and github?

Message #2099368355

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:09:22 -0000

Dumb question. What is the difference between gitlab and github?

Mon Nov 06 2023 13:42:04 EST from LadySerenaKitty

Speaking of programmerings:

I released KittyGuard v1.1 last night. No real code change, just a modification of the rc script, but worth a release due to the severity of the fix (minor fix with huge effect).

https://gitlab.com/LadySerenaKitty/kgtools/-/releases/v1.1

Message #2099368352

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:42:04 -0000

Speaking of programmerings:

I released KittyGuard v1.1 last night. No real code change, just a modification of the rc script, but worth a release due to the severity of the fix (minor fix with huge effect).

https://gitlab.com/LadySerenaKitty/kgtools/-/releases/v1.1

Message #2099368344

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:00:39 -0000

But some of us like cats, and dont tell our resident kitty.... Oh wait, not that kind.. never mind.

Kidding aside, its nice not be stuck working with guys all the same age all the time. Having a variety of people to work with is nice. Ages, sexes, interests, etc. Breaks up the monotony many jobs have. Not that you have to be best buddies or something, but it can make $job more tolerable.

Mon Nov 06 2023 12:47:38 EST from darknetuser

Don't let the hunt for pussy guide your actions. Ever.

Message #2099368342

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:56:24 -0000

Or amber

Mon Nov 06 2023 12:48:48 EST from darknetuser

On the Internet, people is just green letters over a black background.

Message #2099368337

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:48:48 -0000

> 2023-11-06 08:05 from IGnatius T Foobar >I'd say that if you write code and it's worth using or sharing then >that's more important to the software community than your sex or race >or age or any of a thousand different things that people care about >in an identity-obsessed society. Let the work speak for itself. > Well said. On the Internet, people is just green letters over a black background.

Message #2099368336

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:47:38 -0000

> 2023-11-02 15:29 from zelgomer >Maybe I need to find a new employer. The only female programmers where >I work are a far cry from anything I'd ever describe as gems. > > Don't let the hunt for pussy guide your actions. Ever. A friend of mine is taking lots of calculated steps in order to increase the chances of getting a mate. He got fit. He changed his looks for the better. He is taking calculated finantial decisions to become wealthy enough to afford a relationship. End result is he is actually getting laid but he is still unhappy because he is finding no gal worth more than a casual hookup. I am not gong to elaborate, but the market seems to be saturated with single males so walking into the market is a losing proposition. I was playing Agricola with family yesterday, building farms with animals and stuff in order to support an ever expanding home and family (which is the goal of the game: have the best family and farm and house). While placing one of my farm workers on the "Wish for Children" (aka fuck and make children) action space, I thought it would be awesome to have a lady farmer with me to help me expand my house and farm and family in real life. Then I remembered most people I know IRL who gets into relationships gets burnt, or is abused by the other part. Official statistics regarding in-relationship happyness are plain awful. Also, in countries that allow divorce, it is common for ex-partners to hurt the family the pets in order to hurt the other member. I am certainly not making my horses property of a marriage and turning them vulnerable to such a thing. Combine this with the fact that being a fit, wealthy responsible man is no longer enough to get a gal because competence is so fierce, gals can get their men from market-like places, and even if you are selected you are still disposable. It seems to me the effort to get yourself selected is not worth it if you are gonna get used up and discarded. If you wanna get loved then get dogs and horses and whatever. It seems to work better in the long run. (Full disclosure: I am a fat asshole whose personality makes him gulag material, but I base my opinion of watching _other_ people get burnt, so if you wanna make a counterpoint then don't use the wel known argument that I only think what I think because I am an ugly fuck that no girls will ever love)

Message #2099368299

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:56:05 -0000

Ya even if its just for yourself and dont want to share, or for your company and cant share it with the rest of us. Its all the same to me. You do code, you are a coder. Even if its crap code, you still made it.

And ya, like IG says, unless there is a romantic interest, ( which is on a personal level, not a coding level anyway ), it dont matter what you are or want to be.. for any classification.. you are a Human Coder. ( well i guess if you are from Mars or something we do need to talk about that.. :) )

Message #2099368292

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:05:08 -0000

I'd say that if you write code and it's worth using or sharing then that's more important to the software community than your sex or race or age or any of a thousand different things that people care about in an identity-obsessed society. Let the work speak for itself.

Message #2099368116

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:57:33 -0000

Even before this. Dont have to be contributing code or being paid for it to be one. Just 'do it'. so to speak.

But ya, contributions are good too. ( or being paid, like i used to be )

Fri Nov 03 2023 12:10:24 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

Oh right, with the successful porting of Citadel to FreeBSD and then giving the code to I. G. Foobar?

Message #2099368113

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:10:24 -0000

Oh right, with the successful porting of Citadel to FreeBSD and then giving the code to I. G. Foobar?

Fri Nov 03 2023 07:05:56 EDT from Nurb432

Id say you were before this.

Fri Nov 03 2023 01:57:23 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

I may have published some code. Does that make me a girl purrogrammer?

https://gitlab.com/LadySerenaKitty

Message #2099368086

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:05:56 -0000

Id say you were before this.

Fri Nov 03 2023 01:57:23 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

I may have published some code. Does that make me a girl purrogrammer?

https://gitlab.com/LadySerenaKitty

Message #2099368078

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 05:57:23 -0000

I may have published some code. Does that make me a girl purrogrammer?

https://gitlab.com/LadySerenaKitty

Message #2099368048

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:47:13 -0000

Our contracting companies seem to have a lot. But they are mostly Indian..

Thu Nov 02 2023 15:29:35 EDT from zelgomer

Maybe I need to find a new employer. The only female programmers where I work are a far cry from anything I'd ever describe as gems.

Message #2099368043

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:29:35 -0000

Maybe I need to find a new employer. The only female programmers where I work are a far cry from anything I'd ever describe as gems.

Message #2099367776

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 14:43:30 -0000

True, the chances are slim but if you find one often they are a gem. ( sticking with the diamond theme )

That said, my first job, doing COBOL ( late 80s, with EDS ), there were more females than males in the group. And i would say the overall % across the board for the company was about 50%.. Of course they dont exist now, and that was 35 years ago..

( and man i feel old... )

Sun Oct 29 2023 10:02:51 EDT from msgrhys

If you're a programmer, don't expect to find a wife in the workplace; female programmers seem to be more rare than diamonds, LOL!

(I'm no programmer but I may learn some day)

Message #2099367773

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 14:02:51 -0000

If you're a programmer, don't expect to find a wife in the workplace; female programmers seem to be more rare than diamonds, LOL!

(I'm no programmer but I may learn some day)

Message #2099367768

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 11:29:10 -0000

Avoiding pizza was a joke of course :)

Back in dial-up days, met a wife via BBS.

IRC days.. another. ( we had local channels, all got together and hung out a lot. Not quite the same as a BBS but we kept 'outsiders' out of the room ). Also met a couple of people that became really close friends over a couple of decades.

FB days.. mostly just to keep in touch with people that have moved away. And of course a couple of special interest groups.

After FB collapses..

Message #2099367766

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 10:55:08 -0000

I shudder to recall the endless mountains of drama that resulted from my local BBS meetups.

Message #2099367755

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:31:30 -0000

I like to bitch and moan about non-NY pizza but the truth is, except in Delaware, pizza is one of those "when it's good it's really really good, but when it's bad it's still pretty good" things. There's also the small matter of some of the folks here prefer to keep their meatspace identities anonymous. But yes, you're directionally accurate. When your favorite BBS was a local modem call away, meetups were a thing. Now we have the whole world together online with little hope of finding people geographically close. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Message #2099366647

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:33:36 -0000

It is a shame we all dont live closer, as long as we dont order pizza, i bet mist of us would enjoy hanging out together.

Message #2099365300

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:59:46 -0000

Well he owns at least three companies so he actually doesn't have enough airplanes.

Message #2099364231

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 02:19:55 -0000

> 2023-09-18 00:21 from IGnatius T Foobar > > If the company offers boarding programs for employees' horses, I am > > >game. > > The CEO owns two private jets, does that count? > How does he fly them both at the same time?

Message #2099363653

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:21:21 -0000

> If the company offers boarding programs for employees' horses, I am >game. The CEO owns two private jets, does that count?

Message #2099362190

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:20:44 -0000

"everyone needs a cat in their life"

"or 10"

( after seeing a picture sent to me of a cat by a friend " oooooo a new cat for you" "no" )

Message #2099361331

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:57:06 -0000

> And yes we are hiring. > > If the company offers boarding programs for employees' horses, I am game.

Message #2099360839

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:36:02 -0000

Another Friday. Another end of a week. Another week gone, nothing accomplished. How many more Fridays do i have left?

Message #2099356604

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:05:05 -0000

The company before this one that i am at now, i felt that way. Finally found my 'home'. ( yes, technically i'm not with a "company" now, but for this discussion, its the same idea )

Until it was intentionally destroyed, and ruined it for all of us. As of last week, the building is still empty, some 22 years later. ( dont worry, i wont get into that rant about land development when there is unused space.. )

Mon Sep 04 2023 19:41:59 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I believe in what my company does. We are a company of about 900 people, I love what I do, and I want to help it succeed.

Message #2099356603

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 23:41:59 -0000

>I am also technically a millenial. There are some diffurrences >between the early 80's/90's kittens and the later millenials. Yeah, the older ones are making the transition to "you know what, it sucks to pay taxes to fund someone else's shit" ... but they are historically *late* in getting there compared to other generations. I am early Gen X (1971) and I believe in what my company does. We are a company of about 900 people, I love what I do, and I want to help it succeed. Perhaps I am the exception. It doesn't hurt that that the company has been very good to me. I have good pay, excellent benefits, and tons of vacation time. I am treated well, respected for what I do, and listened to. The company has a good culture with an intentional work/life balance. And yes we are hiring.

Message #2099356511

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 23:06:24 -0000

That is why i have avoided that during my time at the current job. I managed some hardware/network field techs, and some call center folks for a bit, and while they were great people, i was not fond of sitting around "giving directions"...

Sun Sep 03 2023 06:56:05 PM EDT from fandarel

as I'm a manager now, and I'm quite certain I like technical problems better.

Message #2099356510

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:56:05 -0000

I find myself mostly motivated by accepting challenges and overcoming them. Solving difficult problems. Making things work when the documentation is abysmal and the developers are morons. Getting a difficult customer to trust me and my solutions. After 25 years, my expectation is that I will keep finding interesting problems to solve, and they will keep paying me, a bit more each year. In exchange I'm willing to solve harder problems, which I would do anyway. Because it bugs me when I can't solve something. I have tried people problems, as I'm a manager now, and I'm quite certain I like technical problems better. There ain't no "solving" people. Usually my solution is to tell them, in the most PC way possible, to get the heck out of the way and let someone with a clue (me) get er done. I'm supposed to be GenX but I don't find those labels fit very well.

Message #2099356485

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:24:39 -0000

Sure, there is always overlap, its not like it changed on a dime. And there are always exceptions too..

I was *almost* boomer, so i'm sure some of my attitudes/tendencies reflect that.

Sun Sep 03 2023 03:09:09 AM EDT from LadySerenaKitty

I am also technically a millenial. There are some diffurrences between the early 80's/90's kittens and the later millenials.

Message #2099356473

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 07:09:09 -0000

I am also technically a millenial. There are some diffurrences between the early 80's/90's kittens and the later millenials.

Sat Sep 02 2023 19:27:07 EDT from zelgomer

What is it like to be motivated by your employer's mission? Unless we're talking about the mission to grow my salary, that's never been me. I've always had trouble seeing eye to eye with the spikey haired managers and the HR drones, because I don't have a good answer to "what part of our product are you most interested in working on?" I honestly don't give a shit whether I'm building killer robots for Elon Musk or traffic lights or Barbie's Virtual Dreamhouse for the Metaverse. What motivates me is that when I'm done I feel like I had the opportunity to make the best thing possible in the least amount of code, that I didn't have to use Java, Python, or C++ to do it, and that I got paid.

And lately those requirements have manifested secondary requirements. E.g., I no longer want to work on a team because I inevitably hate their contributions to the project (often adding Java, Python, or C++) which diminishes my ability to feel proud of the end result. And I don't m

Message #2099356453

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 23:27:07 -0000

> 2023-09-02 13:32 from Nurb432 >"While the the survey found that the majority of millennial workers >are still motivated by their companies’ missions, a majority of Gen >X workers said they are over it. Specifically, when asked if their >company’s “mission and values are more motivating than they were >pre-pandemic,” 56% of millennials said yes as did 47% of Gen Z. But >just 38% of Gen X workers agreed with the statement." > > > >I was not polled for this survey, but i do agree. At lot of us are >'over it'. And i dont think its that we are aging, its the world has >changed into something we dont support. > >Source: > >https://www.fastcompany.com/90947946/gen-x-employees-tech-culture-disi >llusioned-jobs > What is it like to be motivated by your employer's mission? Unless we're talking about the mission to grow my salary, that's never been me. I've always had trouble seeing eye to eye with the spikey haired managers and the HR drones, because I don't have a good answer to "what part of our product are you most interested in working on?" I honestly don't give a shit whether I'm building killer robots for Elon Musk or traffic lights or Barbie's Virtual Dreamhouse for the Metaverse. What motivates me is that when I'm done I feel like I had the opportunity to make the best thing possible in the least amount of code, that I didn't have to use Java, Python, or C++ to do it, and that I got paid. And lately those requirements have manifested secondary requirements. E.g., I no longer want to work on a team because I inevitably hate their contributions to the project (often adding Java, Python, or C++) which diminishes my ability to feel proud of the end result. And I don't mind dwelling on a thing to become an expert at it or to perfect it. I think my manager keeps throwing new stuff at me because he's afraid I'll get bored and leave, but all it does is frustrate me because I feel like I never get to finish a thing. I know that based on my birth year I'm supposed to be a millinnial, but there must be some mistake because I sure don't represent what I keep hearing about millinnials.

Message #2099356412

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:32:07 -0000

"While the the survey found that the majority of millennial workers are still motivated by their companies’ missions, a majority of Gen X workers said they are over it. Specifically, when asked if their company’s “mission and values are more motivating than they were pre-pandemic,” 56% of millennials said yes as did 47% of Gen Z. But just 38% of Gen X workers agreed with the statement."

I was not polled for this survey, but i do agree. At lot of us are 'over it'. And i dont think its that we are aging, its the world has changed into something we dont support.

Source:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90947946/gen-x-employees-tech-culture-disillusioned-jobs

Message #2099355593

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:34:35 -0000

They say if you cant have what you want, be happy with what you have. Aside from sounding like socialism, what is the point of even trying if you can do that?

Message #2099355585

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:16:10 -0000

Tytler cycle?

Message #2099352168

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:10:05 -0000

That does happen, but seemingly only after a couple generations of severe oppression.

Message #2099352165

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 19:38:48 -0000

In that case, people should learn their shit and become successful OUT OF SPITE.

Wed Aug 02 2023 14:41:57 EDT from Nurb432

You can more easily dominate, control and dictate to failures than you can successes.

Message #2099352159

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:41:57 -0000

By design.

You can more easily dominate, control and dictate to failures than you can successes.

Wed Aug 02 2023 01:08:34 PM EDT from LadySerenaKitty

Hilariously, they're setting kids up for failure.

Message #2099352149

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:08:34 -0000

Hilariously, they're setting kids up for failure. Once they get into the real world, where math oppressively rules over every goddamn aspect of life ....

wait, won't they just die due to their inability to math?

Stupid people dying because they are too stupid to live. Natural selection at work!

Message #2099352060

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:28:50 -0000

Teaching Math from the 1950's to Today

1. Teaching Math In 1950...

A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100

His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.

What is his profit? $____

2 Teaching Math In 1970...

A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.

His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80.

What is his profit? $___

3 Teaching Math In 1990...

A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.

His cost of production is $80.

Did he make a profit? __Yes or __No

4. Teaching Math In 2000...

A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.

His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20.

Your assignment: Underline the number 20.

5. Teaching Math In 2015...

A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.

He does this so he can make a profit of $20.

What do you think of this way of making a living?

Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? What % of minorities and transgenders were employed by the logger?

6. Teaching Math in 2023...

Math is Racist.

Students no longer need any math skills to go to Graduate school.

2+2 = 4, or 22, or what ever you feel is correct.

There are no wrong answers, feel free to express your feelings e.g., anger, anxiety, inadequacy, helplessness etc.

Should you require debriefing at the conclusion of the exam there are Counselors available to assist you to adjust back into the real world.

Message #2099351879

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:01:04 -0000

Where i work lots of people with middle eastern names.. its a crap shoot at best if you dont know the person. And if you guess wrong you are liable to be written up and send down to the equity board for re-education.

Just had one 'woke' person decide to go with her 'native language name since i was born in south Africa' . Whatever.

Message #2099351869

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:40:53 -0000

What's the girl spelling of Aaron? Erin? I worked with a male Erin a long time ago. He eventually took to being proactively angry about people questioning it. But yes, a lot of names are losing their gender associations, and that's ok. Language evolves.

Message #2099351846

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:33:33 -0000

One of my passengers was talking about her family. In her family, there are two girls named Aaron. Yep, you readed that right. The boy spelling but it's applied to a girl.

Names are increasingly becoming gender-neutral.

Sat Jul 29 2023 13:22:17 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

George Orwell correctly pointed out that if thought can control language, language can control thought. Weird pronoun usage is part of their newspeak.
I'm happy to call someone whatever they want to be called, but if someone is going to go apoplectic over getting it wrong ... well, that's generally not someone I want to keep company with anyway.

Using plural third-person pronouns (they/them) in place of singular (he/she) predates gender hysteria by a century or more, and we all do it: "What if someone wants pepperoni on their pizza? Could they have that?" To be gramatically correct, one would say "Could he or she have that?" but it sounds awkward.
So we use the plural "they" to refer to "any person" and it actually sounds pretty natural.

On the other hand, using plural third-person pronouns (they/them) to refer to someone whose gender is obvious, is just forced stupidity.
"What if Mike wants pepperoni on their pizza? Could they have that?"

Message #2099351818

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:22:17 -0000

George Orwell correctly pointed out that if thought can control language, language can control thought. Weird pronoun usage is part of their newspeak. I'm happy to call someone whatever they want to be called, but if someone is going to go apoplectic over getting it wrong ... well, that's generally not someone I want to keep company with anyway. Using plural third-person pronouns (they/them) in place of singular (he/she) predates gender hysteria by a century or more, and we all do it: "What if someone wants pepperoni on their pizza? Could they have that?" To be gramatically correct, one would say "Could he or she have that?" but it sounds awkward. So we use the plural "they" to refer to "any person" and it actually sounds pretty natural. On the other hand, using plural third-person pronouns (they/them) to refer to someone whose gender is obvious, is just forced stupidity. "What if Mike wants pepperoni on their pizza? Could they have that?" sounds awkward because Mike is a dude, he looks like a dude, and is obviously a he/him. (And that's the case, regardless of whether Mike is bio-male or trans-male.) I set my pronouns on LinkedIn to "Verified/Certified" to make it look like I got a special premium account.

Message #2099351564

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:50:47 -0000

Most gay people that i am able to call friend ( or did, most are no longer with us.. poor unrelated life choices ), dont want labels.They want to live their life and be left alone to do so. And ya i know that ultimately its a scam, but it came out of left field so i was wondering what it really meant.

Wed Jul 26 2023 07:38:30 PM EDT from zelgomer

I know what some of these pronouns mean, like she/her. But what the
hell does she/they mean? Does she have multiple personality disorder?

I know it's a serious question, but my serious answer is: don't try to understand it. You can't. The whole thing is a psy-op to destroy western language. It is designed to be impossible to understand. Even the alphabet queers can't agree on it and often in-fight among each other.

Message #2099351562

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:38:30 -0000

>I know what some of these pronouns mean, like she/her. But what the >hell does she/they mean? Does she have multiple personality disorder? > I know it's a serious question, but my serious answer is: don't try to understand it. You can't. The whole thing is a psy-op to destroy western language. It is designed to be impossible to understand. Even the alphabet queers can't agree on it and often in-fight among each other.

Message #2099351519

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:38:58 -0000

Ok serious question, even if it sounds like a joke ( cant seem to find it on google ) as i ran across this today in an email and confused. ( im sure i get it often but i ignore this stuff normally )

I know what some of these pronouns mean, like she/her. But what the hell does she/they mean? Does she have multiple personality disorder?

Message #2099350357

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 17:26:07 -0000

> 2023-07-15 12:39 from Nurb432 >I wouldn't say the pet is dumb.. they just dont really understand why >the strange barrier was there in the first place. > The worst part is the last fence they torn down, they torn down accidentally. I get it. She had an itch in her but, so she had to stratch it and I was not around. And there was a fence. And she is a heavy draft horse capable of lifting a farrier who is grabbing her leg just by raising her leg. When I arrived I was already late. She had this sorry look of her. "I didn't want to break it, daddy!"

Message #2099350340

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:39:05 -0000

I wouldn't say the pet is dumb.. they just dont really understand why the strange barrier was there in the first place.

Message #2099350334

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:25:43 -0000

> 2023-07-07 10:33 from Nurb432 >its hard to get upset/frustrated with someone who is as dumb as a box >of rocks, but are good people. > It happens to me with pets. It is hard to get angry at them after they tear a fence down when they trot torwards you and start kissing you all over.

Message #2099349376

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:33:50 -0000

its hard to get upset/frustrated with someone who is as dumb as a box of rocks, but are good people.

Message #2099347129

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:11:21 -0000

Here is a working design apparently..

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/11/20/chainsaw-drone-fight-rapid-ohia-death/

Message #2099347073

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:47:01 -0000

Noted. Everyone should have access to drone strikes.

Message #2099347069

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 01:49:50 -0000

Ig, the idea of you owning such a drone is terrifying, and I hope you never do.
hut if you do, I hope you let me borrow it

Message #2099346917

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 17:07:07 -0000

i actually had that same thought this summer, watching some line guys deal with a tree in a really bad location. They ended up tearing out part of a wooden fence to drag a mini bucket thing into their back yard.

But i could see an easy accident and they catch the line instead of the tree... bad day for all. :) other problem was getting close enough to make a difference, but not getting the rotors caught.

A gas powered drone would be able to lift..

Message #2099346912

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:29:24 -0000

Random musing for the day: I think it would be really cool to have a drone with enough power to lift and operate a running chainsaw. This will surprise those of you who know me well, but I actually want it to prune trees from a safe distance. If you only care about personal safety and don't care where things land, it would be perfect. (Yes it would have some obvious other uses, and I'm totally into that, but right now I'm looking at the dead tree in my front yard and thinking about how ladders, chainsaws, and my bad ankle don't mix.)

Message #2099343629

Mon, 22 May 2023 15:50:06 -0000

>I'm a kitty! I heard that about you. Meow.

Message #2099343425

Sat, 20 May 2023 15:56:08 -0000

Be careful with admitting that in public, i might pull out my Stable Diffusion server..

Sat May 20 2023 11:54:22 AM EDT from LadySerenaKitty

I'm a kitty!

Message #2099343424

Sat, 20 May 2023 15:54:22 -0000

I'm a kitty!

Message #2099343052

Wed, 17 May 2023 22:22:33 -0000

>Some of them, i dont see any difference in practical terms. They >drive cars, use computers and cell phones, own businesses in town >that sell to regular folk. I'm thinking about the ones that religiously don't use many modern technologies.

Message #2099342971

Wed, 17 May 2023 11:49:20 -0000

Depends on the 'sect'

Some of them, i dont see any difference in practical terms. They drive cars, use computers and cell phones, own businesses in town that sell to regular folk.

Wed May 17 2023 05:50:47 AM EDT from x4th

Sometimes I wish I was living the amish life. It probably isn't any easier, but it's simpler.

Message #2099342947

Wed, 17 May 2023 09:50:47 -0000

Sometimes I wish I was living the amish life. It probably isn't any easier, but it's simpler.

Message #2099327283

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 21:52:53 -0000

That really depends on which amish/mennonite community someone is from. Some allow people to return, some don't.

Mon Feb 20 2023 12:45:49 EST from Nurb432

I think that due to their hard core religious and 'rule based' society, they are more fascist than communist. But that is from an outsider's point of view. I could be wrong. I think you can leave, but its frowned upon and unsure if you can ever return..

Message #2099327264

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:20:22 -0000

It is interesting that the words commune, community, communion, and communism all come from the same root but they have very different meanings.

Message #2099327250

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:45:49 -0000

I think that due to their hard core religious and 'rule based' society, they are more fascist than communist. But that is from an outsider's point of view. I could be wrong. I think you can leave, but its frowned upon and unsure if you can ever return..

I suspect some of the hippy movements did. Since they were more traditionalist and not afraid to admit it. But ya, most that claim to be, are something else worse.

Mon Feb 20 2023 12:39:19 PM EST from zelgomer

Along these lines, I've also heard the amish described as modern day examples of a communist society.

I don't know enough about amish society to comment on that, but I wonder: by this sort of definition, has there ever been a "true communist" society that actually referred to themselves as communists?

Message #2099327249

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:39:19 -0000

> 2023-02-19 18:44 from Nurb432 >I donno, when i was brought up they were different. Sure, the >perverted versions of the CCP and Russia perverted communism to the >point of being socialism. But on paper they were different. > >When i was taught, communism was more like the tribes of native >american Indians. A true communal, and volunteer, environment. ( >which i do agree, will NOT work on the macro scale ) and socialism >is basically large scale forced bait/switch/redistribution by an >oppressive government. >> Sun Feb 19 2023 01:05:00 PM EST from Tumblefluff >> >> >> >>Communism and Socialism are essentially Theocracies where the >>official religion is the government itself; and all Theocracies are >>dystopian. >> >> >> - Tumblefluff the Squirrel >> Along these lines, I've also heard the amish described as modern day examples of a communist society. I don't know enough about amish society to comment on that, but I wonder: by this sort of definition, has there ever been a "true communist" society that actually referred to themselves as communists?

Message #2099327128

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:53:25 -0000

> 2023-02-19 13:44 from Nurb432 >I donno, when i was brought up they were different. Sure, the >perverted versions of the CCP and Russia perverted communism to the >point of being socialism. But on paper they were different. > >When i was taught, communism was more like the tribes of native >american Indians. A true communal, and volunteer, environment. ( >which i do agree, will NOT work on the macro scale ) and socialism >is basically large scale forced bait/switch/redistribution by an >oppressive government. It is funny. Modern communists argue that Socialists are betrayers working fort Capitalists.

Message #2099327122

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:26:43 -0000

We saw tribal as communistic ( and optional, you could leave.. ). But its all semantics at this point i guess, both in their current form, are bad. I do think most of the hippies had good, tho somewhat naive, intentions, but they were perverted by outsiders, manipulating things into a more totalitarian/socialist environment and using their goodwill as fuel.

I guess from my rant earlier, im stuck on 'words mean things' sort of thing. Ill stop and go walk the dogs.

Sun Feb 19 2023 02:21:04 PM EST from Tumblefluff

I mean, the Hippie communes of the 60's were fine, but they weren't exactly what you'd call a "government", and nobody stopped you from leaving if you wanted (other than the cult communes). And I would argue that the native americans had a Tribal government, not a Communist or Socialist government. Tribal governments tend towards communal behaviors due to necessity as a consequence of smaller populations.

Message #2099327121

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:21:04 -0000

I mean, the Hippie communes of the 60's were fine, but they weren't exactly what you'd call a "government", and nobody stopped you from leaving if you wanted (other than the cult communes). And I would argue that the native americans had a Tribal government, not a Communist or Socialist government. Tribal governments tend towards communal behaviors due to necessity as a consequence of smaller populations.

- Tumblefluff the Squirrel

Sun Feb 19 2023 01:44:15 PM EST from Nurb432

I donno, when i was brought up they were different. Sure, the perverted versions of the CCP and Russia perverted communism to the point of being socialism. But on paper they were different.

When i was taught, communism was more like the tribes of native american Indians. A true communal, and volunteer, environment. ( which i do agree, will NOT work on the macro scale ) and socialism is basically large scale forced bait/switch/redistribution by an oppressive government.

Sun Feb 19 2023 01:05:00 PM EST from Tumblefluff

Communism and Socialism are essentially Theocracies where the official religion is the government itself; and all Theocracies are dystopian.

- Tumblefluff the Squirrel

Message #2099327117

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:44:15 -0000

I donno, when i was brought up they were different. Sure, the perverted versions of the CCP and Russia perverted communism to the point of being socialism. But on paper they were different.

Sun Feb 19 2023 01:05:00 PM EST from Tumblefluff

Communism and Socialism are essentially Theocracies where the official religion is the government itself; and all Theocracies are dystopian.

- Tumblefluff the Squirrel

Message #2099327114

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:05:00 -0000

Communism and Socialism are essentially Theocracies where the official religion is the government itself; and all Theocracies are dystopian.

- Tumblefluff the Squirrel

Re: Regarding Censorship:

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 17:17:30 -0000

>So, can it not be said that Facebook promotes VIOLENCE through >Censorship? I think I'm going to like this squirrel :)

Re: Regarding Censorship:

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:19:18 -0000

Only the "correct" kind of violence.

Regarding Censorship:

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:09:33 -0000

The Hand that Covers Mouths can only blame Itself for getting Bitten.

It's been said that Violence IS the voice of the Unheard - https://ezinearticles.com/?Violence-Is-the-Voice-of-the-Unheard!&id=10304395
What is censorship but silencing a voice or a thought so as to make it unheard? And in that, is it not those who promote censorship that are creating the circumstances to induce violence?
So, can it not be said that Facebook promotes VIOLENCE through Censorship?

- Tumblefluff the Squirrel

Message #2099309187

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:59:58 -0000

> 2022-08-28 17:19 from zelgomer > > Are you talking about the regular M, who happened to be a man? > > > > Sure, I don't care. I actually am not a big fan of James Bond. Screw >the redcoats. > > James Bond is not great, but still his movies are great for drunktard parties. I like that one in which Bond bitch slaps that she-russian SPy and throws her on the bed. Then he fucks her. Such an educative movie about getting a girl the propper way, HAHAHAHAHA

Message #2099309179

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 21:19:57 -0000

> Are you talking about the regular M, who happened to be a man? > Sure, I don't care. I actually am not a big fan of James Bond. Screw the redcoats.

Message #2099309170

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:18:56 -0000

> 2022-08-28 11:50 from zelgomer > > 2022-08-28 15:31 from IGnatius T Foobar > >No because he's super secret. He would be agent 0007. > > > > > > So he's restricted from himself and MI6 but everyone else can see and >execute him? I guess that makes sense too because billions of people >watch everything going on in the movies while he and M are in the dark. > > > Are you talking about the regular M, who happened to be a man?

Message #2099309157

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:50:10 -0000

> 2022-08-28 15:31 from IGnatius T Foobar >No because he's super secret. He would be agent 0007. > > So he's restricted from himself and MI6 but everyone else can see and execute him? I guess that makes sense too because billions of people watch everything going on in the movies while he and M are in the dark.

Message #2099309154

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:31:15 -0000

No because he's super secret. He would be agent 0007.

Message #2099305049

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 02:53:18 -0000

If James Bond was a Unix user would he have been agent 0777?

Message #2099300968

Sun, 15 May 2022 17:12:46 -0000

>Guess who just tested NEGATIVE for Wuhan? THIS KITTY! Woo! Feline Chinavirus?

Message #2099300763

Thu, 12 May 2022 17:02:40 -0000

Thu May 12 2022 12:22:13 EDT from LoanShark

2022-05-12 10:46 from LadySerenaKitty
Guess who just tested NEGATIVE for Wuhan? THIS KITTY! Woo!

Wuhan-1 referes to the ancestral, "wildtype" strain. You tested negative for Omicron.

I dunno about that. I do know that I tested negative on the test required by Royal Caribbean. Isn’t that what matters?

Message #2099300761

Thu, 12 May 2022 16:22:13 -0000

> 2022-05-12 10:46 from LadySerenaKitty >Guess who just tested NEGATIVE for Wuhan? THIS KITTY! Woo! > Wuhan-1 referes to the ancestral, "wildtype" strain. You tested negative for Omicron.

Message #2099300753

Thu, 12 May 2022 14:46:20 -0000

Guess who just tested NEGATIVE for Wuhan? THIS KITTY! Woo!

Message #2099283150

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 01:28:38 -0000

I thought it was excellent phrasing. It entertained me, at any rate. :)

Thu Nov 18 2021 20:03:56 EST from Nurb432

lol, ok, bad wording on my part :)

Message #2099282977

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:50:42 -0000

Heh. I'd rather give it to you than to those guys. Actually if we're distributing money to anyone who makes a mess with the garbage, I'd rather give it to a local raccoon.

Message #2099282896

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:37:08 -0000

> My wife still wants to tip them this year, because she's a people >pleaser. > So I may have to intercept an envelope and redirect it to someone who >actually deserves it. about that money you owe me...

Message #2099282812

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 01:03:56 -0000

lol, ok, bad wording on my part :)

Message #2099282804

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:46:53 -0000

Does she give you a tip when you do her? Do you do her with just the tip?

This post leaves so many questions unanswered.

Wed Nov 17 2021 18:14:56 EST from Nurb432

I do my postal carrier. She comes to my door each day so we know her ( its not a box at the street, its more personal ). We also did to do it for our UPS guy, but they moved him to another area a few years ago and now its 'carrier of the day'.

Tue Nov 16 2021 12:13:27 AM EST from ParanoidDelusions

I think the last generation that really religiously gave holiday tips to service people as a kind of baseline standard was my grandmother's generation. It started to fall off with the boomers. Gen X very rarely tips a gardener or the mailman.

If the service is a mandatory sort - like - mailman, even gardener... a cost of living sort of thing - we generally don't tip unless service is exemplary. It almost never is.

If it is a requested service - like a car detailer - they get tips. It depends. We're not consistent about it.

Message #2099282787

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 21:32:23 -0000

Only consolation here is they own the bins. So if they break it, they pay for a new one.

They are serialized and from what i understand tied to your home. ( not that they look. its an arm on the truck that grabs them )

Message #2099282757

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:13:23 -0000

Right ... I don't even know if we have the same garbage collectors every time. A few towns have municipal garbage, but most of them around here don't. In the past you had to arrange a private contract with the garbage company, but nowadays the contract is usually maintained at the town level; basically it's town garbage but outsourced to the garbage company. And I do mean *the* garbage company. There are a bunch of shell companies to give the illusion of competition, but around here there is *only* Suburban Carting, which is 100% mafia owned and operated. Anyway, the service is crap; they don't even bother inverting the cans, they just pull bags out and throw them in the truck, so if there's schmutz in the bottom of the can it stays there. They throw the cans around, which on my property often means they roll down a hill into the woods from where I have to retrieve them. And they're not going the extra mile to pick up this slightly overweight bag I've had out for a week now. My wife still wants to tip them this year, because she's a people pleaser. So I may have to intercept an envelope and redirect it to someone who actually deserves it.

Message #2099282690

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 23:14:56 -0000

I do my postal carrier. She comes to my door each day so we know her ( its not a box at the street, its more personal ). We also did to do it for our UPS guy, but they moved him to another area a few years ago and now its 'carrier of the day'.

Tue Nov 16 2021 12:13:27 AM EST from ParanoidDelusions

I think the last generation that really religiously gave holiday tips to service people as a kind of baseline standard was my grandmother's generation. It started to fall off with the boomers. Gen X very rarely tips a gardener or the mailman.

If the service is a mandatory sort - like - mailman, even gardener... a cost of living sort of thing - we generally don't tip unless service is exemplary. It almost never is.

If it is a requested service - like a car detailer - they get tips. It depends. We're not consistent about it.

Message #2099282521

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 05:13:27 -0000

I think the last generation that really religiously gave holiday tips to service people as a kind of baseline standard was my grandmother's generation. It started to fall off with the boomers. Gen X very rarely tips a gardener or the mailman.

If the service is a mandatory sort - like - mailman, even gardener... a cost of living sort of thing - we generally don't tip unless service is exemplary. It almost never is.

If it is a requested service - like a car detailer - they get tips. It depends. We're not consistent about it.

Message #2099282438

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:43:00 -0000

> Am I being unreasonable here? Do you folks still tip your garbage >collectors at the end of the year? We don't have any special relation with garbage collectors that would grant a tip. Garbage collection is under a subcontract from a subdivision of a subdivision of the, shall we say, federal government. Not to mention homes have no "personal" garbage bin. You just dump it in a given container in town and a truck shows up unseen and unheard and makes it disappear.

Message #2099282157

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:21:58 -0000

Ours drive by in a truck. It picks up the can for them. If the can spills, you get to clean it up as they will just drive off. They dont ever get out of the truck on normal days.

They also stopped picking up \bundled' brush on big trash day without telling anyone. Now it has to be bagged.

Thu Nov 11 2021 01:39:05 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Am I being unreasonable here? Do you folks still tip your garbage collectors at the end of the year?

Message #2099282151

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:39:05 -0000

Random musing of the day ... I think my garbage collectors just forfeited their Christmas tip today. Last night I put out a bag that had some broken floor tiles in it. It was a bit heavy. I watched them tug on it, and then leave it behind because it was too heavy. Yes, I know the rules say "not more than xxx pounds" but I always believed that the unwritten agreement was that you take care of them and they take care of you. We don't give them an annual tip for doing the bare minimum; that's what their damn paycheck is for. Am I being unreasonable here? Do you folks still tip your garbage collectors at the end of the year?

Message #2099280931

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:34:39 -0000

I always peel a banana from the calyx end while holding the stem end in my other hand. The stem ends up being a nice handle.

Message #2099279883

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:59:06 -0000

This monkey is doing it wrong.

Fri Oct 15 2021 06:23:30 EDT from Nurb432

Message #2099279839

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:23:30 -0000

Message #2099279838

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 09:54:51 -0000

valkyrie told me to strip from top down to eat, so i think ill do as she says.

Oh wait. wrong story.

Message #2099279832

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 08:24:55 -0000

> 2021-10-14 14:57 from Nurb432 >Dear god you are a heathen! > No, I am not. Odin instructed us to peel bananas the same way we peel enemies: ripping from the top down.

Message #2099279784

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:57:00 -0000

Dear god you are a heathen!

Message #2099279761

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:25:54 -0000

> 2021-10-13 10:44 from IGnatius T Foobar > > Speaking of things you can put a condom on... > > When you peel a banana, do you peel it from the stem end or the calyx >end? > > I am a brute so I peel it from the stem end.

Message #2099279724

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:24:19 -0000

I don't know what the names are.

But the part where the bunch all connects together - seems like the EASIEST place to brake the skin to peel it back. I don't think I've ever considered TRYING to open it from the other end.

But - I suppose there is always someone who wants to do things backwards. :)

Wed Oct 13 2021 10:44:21 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Speaking of things you can put a condom on...

When you peel a banana, do you peel it from the stem end or the calyx end?

Message #2099279709

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 21:10:12 -0000

Since i normally eat them at work, and they had to ride to work in my laptop bag, the stem breaks off... so i start there.

Message #2099279683

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:44:21 -0000

Speaking of things you can put a condom on... When you peel a banana, do you peel it from the stem end or the calyx end?

Message #2099279411

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:49:13 -0000

Date liberal girls. If they get pregnant, tell them you support "Their Body, their choice," but as a Conservative, you support "be self-accountable and responsible for your own actions," so if they make a choice you disagree with, they're on their own.

Problem solved.

Fri Oct 08 2021 15:38:01 EDT from Nurb432

Pills are better, without getting into any details.

Message #2099279396

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:38:01 -0000

Pills are better, without getting into any details.

Message #2099279370

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:58:20 -0000

condoms used to come in 12 packs. I used to keep count of how many we used.

Message #2099279337

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:28:03 -0000

I prefer them to Vienna Beef. We did blind taste tests, and cut them down so you couldn't tell by the size difference... and Hebrew National beet Vienne *overwhelmingly*.

Mon Oct 04 2021 06:59:17 EDT from Nurb432

Used to drive past their factory every day on the way to work.

Message #2099279001

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:59:17 -0000

Used to drive past their factory every day on the way to work.

Message #2099278978

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 04:31:04 -0000

Still good.

Sat Oct 02 2021 13:47:46 EDT from Nurb432

Hebrew National was pretty good at one point. And local to me.

I know they moved away a few years ago ( if i remember right they were forced out of their decades old facility by the city to make room for a parking lot for that f-ing stadium. THAT is a different discussion tho ). Not sure about if they are still any good.

Message #2099278902

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 17:47:46 -0000

Hebrew National was pretty good at one point. And local to me.

I know they moved away a few years ago ( if i remember right they were forced out of their decades old facility by the city to make room for a parking lot for that f-ing stadium. THAT is a different discussion tho ). Not sure about if they are still any good.

Message #2099278899

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 17:10:15 -0000

Right. My favorite are from Walter's Hot Dogs [ https://www.waltershotdogs.com/ ] in Mamaroneck, NY, which is sort of a "destination" hot dog stand around here. They've been there for 100 years. Recently they started selling both the franks and their special mustard at a small number of retail locations, which is totally awesome because it's not hard to get "their" taste if you use their ingredients and the same method. You can also go on Goldbelly if you are ok with their 2000% markup (anyone who has seen Goldbelly knows that's not an exaggeration).

Message #2099278738

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:29:42 -0000

Good ones. Not those crappy commodity dogs.

Message #2099278737

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:28:14 -0000

Mon Sep 27 2021 13:12:10 EDT from Nurb432

They are overrated.

Mon Sep 27 2021 12:58:13 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

(Pardon my IGnorance ... I've never used them)

Disagree. Hot dogs are delicious!

Message #2099278473

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:12:10 -0000

They are overrated.

Mon Sep 27 2021 12:58:13 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

(Pardon my IGnorance ... I've never used them)

Message #2099278472

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:58:13 -0000

(Pardon my IGnorance ... I've never used them)

Message #2099278300

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:45:28 -0000

> 2021-09-24 08:28 from IGnatius T Foobar >Why do hot dogs come in packages of 10 but condoms come in packages of >3? > > Last time I checked, condoms came in packages of +5 around here.

Message #2099278298

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:28:36 -0000

Why do hot dogs come in packages of 10 but condoms come in packages of 3?

Message #2099275091

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:53:18 -0000

.oO(freedom of the press should include freedom from the press)

Message #4670198

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:16:12 -0000

You may be, but your wallet is not.

Message #4669130

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:46:47 -0000

No, but I get daily calls from some madarchod on the other side of the pond offering me one.

Message #4669036

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:18:17 -0000

Fri Jul 17 2020 09:16:59 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

It is also my daughter's 18th, the day I become obsolete.

Have you been sent an extended warranty card yet?

Message #4572161

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:19:11 -0000

> 2020-07-17 09:16 from IGnatius T Foobar >Actually it will be Uncensored's 35th, not 25th. It is also my >daughter's 18th, the day I become obsolete. > You're already obsolete.

Message #4571626

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:16:59 -0000

Actually it will be Uncensored's 35th, not 25th. It is also my daughter's 18th, the day I become obsolete.

Message #4571611

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:55:19 -0000

Is that Uncensored's 25th anniversary?

Message #4571610

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:54:35 -0000

Yes Calvert DeForest did pass away, that is why you could be the NEXT Larry Bud.

Why are you planning dying on Chuck Norris birthday?

Message #4571415

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:16:14 -0000

Isn't he dead? The change I would have to make would be to die. I don't plan on dying until March 10, 2023.

Message #4571018

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:48:14 -0000

You could be the next Larry "Bud" Melman without any changes!

Message #4570964

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:06:24 -0000

I could be the next Larry Bird. All I have to do is grow 17 inches and learn how to play basketball.

Message #4559277

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:50:00 -0000

> 2020-06-01 13:59 from IGnatius T Foobar >For most people, LinkedIn is simply an enabling tool that helps you do >the kind of networking that you ought to be doing anyway. >Unfortunately, its current owners have turned it into a sort of white >collar social network. > ("Which of the Jonas Brothers could do your job best?") > > You know, when I tried to use social networks for promoting my products and myself, I ended up with no followers, but my privacy compromised anyway. After the second failed attempt, I decided that if I was going to fail, I would fail in my own terms.

Message #4559255

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:59:15 -0000

For most people, LinkedIn is simply an enabling tool that helps you do the kind of networking that you ought to be doing anyway. Unfortunately, its current owners have turned it into a sort of white collar social network. ("Which of the Jonas Brothers could do your job best?")

Message #4547499

Fri, 01 May 2020 09:36:46 -0000

> 2020-04-29 18:01 from IGnatius T Foobar > > Today's random musing. > > You can tell whether someone has skills vs. douchebaggery by the >number of characters in their LinkedIn headline. > > Someone with skills will simply put in their current job title >("Director of Sales at Acme Corp.") or the focus of their skill stack >("IT architecture/infrastructure specialist"). > > Someone whose entire job is douchebaggery will consume far more >characters ("Visionary Leader | Driving Positive Change through >Engagement | Translating Business Goals to Reality | Strategy Advisor | >Global Workforce Leadership") > > Who would you rather do business with? > > I don't even have a LinkedIn profile. I used to, but it never did me any good. There s this new school of subdirectives who thinks they job is to use colorful words rather than get stuff done. Specially troublesome when they get in human resources. They will reject candidates that are good and take in people whose CV has lots of garbage in it. "360 vision" and "Emotional intelligence" beat "5 years of experience writing Java microservices" these days.

Message #4546991

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:01:33 -0000

Today's random musing. You can tell whether someone has skills vs. douchebaggery by the number of characters in their LinkedIn headline. Someone with skills will simply put in their current job title ("Director of Sales at Acme Corp.") or the focus of their skill stack ("IT architecture/infrastructure specialist"). Someone whose entire job is douchebaggery will consume far more characters ("Visionary Leader | Driving Positive Change through Engagement | Translating Business Goals to Reality | Strategy Advisor | Global Workforce Leadership") Who would you rather do business with?

Message #4545680

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:45:44 -0000

The group social distancing meeting will be held in room 304, all employees must attend.

Message #4543733

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:43:01 -0000

I predict over the next few months we are going to start seeing a lot of really bad haircuts.

Message #4540842

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:13:23 -0000

Today's random musing. No one should ever tell me to watch my language. I *always* watch my language. When I say something crude, filthy, or inappropriate, I have made a conscious and well-reasoned decision to say it.

Message #4536860

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:51:57 -0000

Heh. The only thing I'm growing here is a philodendron, and I tend to cut it down when it starts to get leggy. I bought the LED COBs to retrofit a 20 year old fluorescent desk lamp that has both sentimental value and a really good size and shape for the place where I use it. When I opened it up I found that the reflector was actually a giant slab of aluminum, which made it perfect as a heat sink (using thermal paste, of course). With two "50 watt" COBs attached, the heat sink temperature leveled out at around 74 C (165 F). My understanding is that you need to keep them under 80, so it's ok. Big Clive did an evaluation of this style COB: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpF5O0W8Bdg ] But the funny thing is that all of the listings say "grow light" somewhere in them. potheads must be loving these things.

Message #4534953

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:50:05 -0000

You can still grow your opium if you mask it with a few pot plants.

Message #4534930

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:49:11 -0000

I just bought some LED arrays, the "chip on board" type. After going through a lot of how-to documents and videos on how to properly install them, I'm now wondering whether it is legal to use these if I am *not* growing pot.

Message #4527253

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:03:38 -0000

True, but I can pass.

Message #4526076

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:27:16 -0000

Being blue eyed and white does not mean you are not suspicious looking.

Message #4525536

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:49:20 -0000

I'm a blue-eyed white guy. You just happen to know different.

Message #4524907

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:49:11 -0000

If??

Message #4519346

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:05:53 -0000

Actually, I'm quite happy it happened when it did. Everyone just went into the nearest store and they stores locked up. Afterwards we all just went on. Now there would be swat teams and I'd be hearded with my hands up the in air. God forbid if I looked suspicious.

Message #4519345

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:04:09 -0000

I was in a mall during a shooting, but it was a long time ago before it became hip. It was also a very stupid person, because it was during the Christmas rush and his getaway car coulnd't get away. The shooting was actually a struggle with a security guard, he was trying to rob a jewelry store, and the only thing shot was the floor.

Message #4514013

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 19:13:05 -0000

Mine hasn't been driven by a gorrilla, either. Just an ass.

Message #4513964

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:29:48 -0000

>My car has never been driven by a gorilla. We can fix that. Trunk Monkey might not be effective. We can do better.

Message #4512597

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 20:55:35 -0000

Does it have a Trunk Monkey™?

Message #4512478

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 06:41:08 -0000

My car has never been driven by a gorilla.

Message #4511172

Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:31:37 -0000

Missed the deadline. But I'm considering guerilla warfare. Can I borrow your car?

Message #4509703

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 03:23:50 -0000

I hope you're contesting it. I want to know the reasoning they offer.

Message #4509617

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:17:04 -0000

If there was a sign, it certainly wasn't prominent enough for me to notice. And even if there was, $50 is a bit steep for a violation so small. It only costs $30 to park there for 24 hours. For $80 I should have been able to leave my truck on the runway.

Message #4509548

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:26:52 -0000

I have seen parking lots with restrictions that all cars must park front in. I don't understand why it is required, it is much easier to back into a parking space than back out. Perhaps they want conformity. I worked for a company that required all company vehicles to back into a parking space.

Message #4509411

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:13:49 -0000

Really? Is there a law about parking front in? Or were there signs requiring it?

Message #4508434

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 04:55:30 -0000

>You took public transportation to LGA? Are you insane? Only to have my flight canceled and then have to drive to HPN for the re-scheduled flight. I left my truck at the lot and arranged for my wife to pick it up later. She asked me to park it tail-in so she wouldn't have trouble getting it out of the space. And I got a $50 PARKING TICKET for parking it tain-in. Now THAT is insane.

Message #4508199

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:55:40 -0000

LGA is a very unhappy place for travel these days. No one wants to be there.

Message #4508009

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:41:57 -0000

You took public transportation to LGA? Are you insane?

Message #4505964

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 14:07:27 -0000

I think the cat is very lucky. You knew what you were in for on Monday, but yeah, that wasn't going to be a happy time.

Message #4505818

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 02:32:52 -0000

The flight got canceled, but only after I made a very miserable trip to LaGuardia first. One involving overpacked city buses and people yelling and cursing at each other. One involving very cold snow and freezing rain. Followed by a stupidly early flight out of HPN this morning. You're *very* lucky that my daughter loves that cat.

Message #4505403

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 16:56:00 -0000

My cat is looking very innocent right now.

Message #4505107

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:51:15 -0000

Speaking of water, quite a bit of it is coming out of the sky right now. Some of it is freezing. I have a flight to St. Louis to catch tomorrow, and it had better not get cancelled. When my flight gets cancelled, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people DIE!!!

Message #4504070

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:26:38 -0000

Thu Nov 21 2019 12:27:45 EST from wizard of aahz

We have a client who has said multiple times "Well you can lead a horse to water..." when we bemoan the fact that they refuse to follow our advice or direction. What goes through my head every time they say this is "Yes. We can lead a horse to water and then drown it in the darned water, cause we've had enough..."

Client: "Well, you can lead a horse to water..."

Me: "...and I will not be held responsible for the horse's failure to drink. Heroic measures to save said horse from dying of dehydration comes with a premium cost."

Message #4502411

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:27:45 -0000

We have a client who has said multiple times "Well you can lead a horse to water..." when we bemoan the fact that they refuse to follow our advice or direction. What goes through my head every time they say this is "Yes. We can lead a horse to water and then drown it in the darned water, cause we've had enough..."

Message #4501823

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:09:37 -0000

You can lead a horse to water, but often you still need to shove a pressure washer down its throat.

Message #4493020

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:09:31 -0000

LS's version is the one I recall.

Message #4487040

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:33:08 -0000

Agreed. Like I said, there was probably a whole lot more that happened between the two of them before that particular exchange.

Message #4487007

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:42:30 -0000

Sounds a little extreme.

Message #4486845

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 23:48:30 -0000

The way it was told to me, he was working at New World Home Cooking (Woodstock area), and that particular day was a catering job, probably for a wedding. Boss tells him to put a raspberry filling (or glaze?) on the cake. His immediate response is, "what kind of filling", because he can think of several off the top of his head. Boss's immediate response is, "you're fired."

Message #4486603

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:57:15 -0000

The short version of the story is that he was working as a pastry chef and got fired over an argument with his boss about raspberry cake filling. There was probably a lot of other stuff leading up to that, but he told the story in that way.

Message #4486406

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 21:15:45 -0000

I must have missed the raspberry cake filling thing.

Message #4486375

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:36:22 -0000

Yeah, I've told that story to numerous people over the years, kind of as a "what happens when you decide to quit the tech industry" anecdote.

Message #4486366

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 18:01:39 -0000

Heh, I remember that well. He didn't deserve that.

Message #4486296

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 14:51:02 -0000

hahahahah. Oh I'd forgotten about that.. Poor T.

Message #4486288

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:55:05 -0000

He certainly didn't understand raspberry cake filling.

Message #4485137

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:32:49 -0000

He did have a similar hair style though. And yes. 'T' understood food at so many amazing levels. I've been working on some weight loss myself. Slow is the way to go.

Message #4485057

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:38:31 -0000

I don't feel I can eat the way I did before I started eating more responsibly. No more food orgies for me, sadly. I think they were almost literally killing me. I remember chatting with Mr.T once, where he said we've taught ourselves to eat too much. Gads, but he was right. (For those relatively new here, Mr.T used to frequent Uncensored, but isn't the actor you might think from that name).

Message #4483300

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:55:25 -0000

Friday night dinners can be a little exciting.

Message #4483137

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:58:56 -0000

Wed May 01 2019 06:00:21 EDT from fleeb

Tan-zany-ah!

Message #4482743

Sat, 07 Sep 2019 12:26:47 -0000

My friends and I usually have a good food orgy on Saturday. I eat so much that I don't have breakfast nor lunch the following day. It is very cost-efficient.

Message #4482629

Sat, 07 Sep 2019 03:31:55 -0000

So full.. Must eat less on Friday nights.

Message #4456231

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 19:14:19 -0000

After growing up on Looney Tunes I'm still impressed that Tasmania is a real place.

Message #4445427

Wed, 01 May 2019 10:00:21 -0000

Tan-zany-ah!

Message #4444129

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 21:39:38 -0000

The name of the country called "Tanzania" is pronounced "tan-zah-NEE-ah". I do not approve. It looks like it should be pronounced "tan-ZAY-nee-ah". They should change it.

Message #4441301

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:00:48 -0000

... and the people who love them!

Message #4441300

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:59:53 -0000

There are two types of people in the world: 1. Those who can extrapolate from an incomplete data set

Message #4439639

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:56:43 -0000

That looks like Latin for 'Windows sucks.'

Message #4439612

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:33:12 -0000

Flick and Swish Wingardium Levioso

Message #4439540

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:53:55 -0000

I have no desire to be awake right now. Yet, I'm sitting before my desk, at the office, staring at the screens of my computer, trying to wrestle with my mind to choose which set of impossible tasks to focus on today. I swear, I should stop wearing this nice outfit with my vest, dress slacks, and dress shirt, and start wearing elaborate robes with mystic symbols and a wide brimmed, pointy hat. To others, I appear to make as much sense, mumbling cryptic mystic words like "decouple authentication and authorization using LDAP so we can build discrete services", which might as well be "non vivam ultra, sed descendam in infernum, plorans." All while having this glazed expression in my own eye, as I stare off into the void, seeing things only I can see, and trying to draw them out into the real world.

Message #4437421

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:32:25 -0000

Although I rather like the crude image it evokes when you maintain a dirty mind.

Message #4436791

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:07:20 -0000

I really like the phrase "balls to the wall". It *sounds* like you're saying something crude, but if anyone complains you can explain the phrase's actual origin in aeronautics.

Message #4419380

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:50:12 -0000

Honda and Hyundai should merge and form a new company called Hondai.

Message #4410538

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 02:30:23 -0000

New term: "Wi-Fu" It is a cross between wi-fi and kung-fu. If you have wi-fu, you can kick someone in the head from a distance, using digital radio.

Message #4410531

Sat, 05 Jan 2019 02:00:52 -0000

I thought she died last year but I guess not. I still can't believe there is a Golden Girls Chia Pet regardless if Betty is alive.

Message #4410387

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:14:44 -0000

Heh... missed that rumor. Like the Abe Vigoda one, except now he's actually gone.

Message #4410351

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:21:47 -0000

>https://chia.com/chia-golden-girls/ > >My conclusion is that these were sitting in a warehouse waiting for >Betty White to die so they could try and sell them again. ...except for that pesky little complication that Betty White isn't actually dead. It seems that she was the victim of a hoax that lit up the cesspool called the Internet a couple of days ago.

Message #4410309

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:51:34 -0000

meh, use the link.

Message #4410308

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:51:08 -0000

A) Was there ever a market for this?
B) Is there still a market for this?

I was walking down the discounted leftover Christmas isle in Walgreen's and came across this.

https://chia.com/chia-golden-girls/

My conclusion is that these were sitting in a warehouse waiting for Betty White to die so they could try and sell them again.

Message #4410039

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:53:39 -0000

>In some forums we use blue text to indicate sarcasm... Because there >are too many people unable to identify it without the prompt. I say LET THEM BE CONFUSED! (No that wasn't sarcasm.) Or as Marq used to say, "f**k 'em if they can't take a joke." People are smart. They'll figure it out. /s

Message #4409782

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:10:00 -0000

Another forum uses Purple text to indicate sarcasm.

Message #4409744

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:13:01 -0000

Ceci n'est pas d'un sarcasme.

Message #4409734

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:01:22 -0000

THIS IS SARCASM! That makes perfect sense. THIS IS SARCASM! /S

Message #4409728

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:20:34 -0000

In some forums we use blue text to indicate sarcasm... Because there are too many people unable to identify it without the prompt.

Message #4409708

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:28:10 -0000

Really? I didn't know that. I assumed it had something to do with vi/sed/[name other unix program] using a command to replace something.

Message #4403643

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:18:59 -0000

Oh my. How long have I not been paying attention? I just figured out that "/s" at the end of a message means "that was sarcasm" ... not "I still can't get out of the habit of using /s to save a message like we did on some ancient BBS programs"

Message #4403628

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:35:44 -0000

girthta who? I've forgotten. Maybe this girthta person should stop by and say hi so we remember.

Message #4403038

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:29:04 -0000

++girthta.year;

Message #4399303

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:50:06 -0000

Ah... I've definitely seen white socks. I even have several pairs of those, to go with white tennis shoes, etc. But... white *dress* socks... that's where I'm kinda wondering how that would ever sell.

Message #4398945

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:49:11 -0000

Tue Nov 27 2018 09:26:49 AM EST from fleeb

White... dress socks...?

They make those?

Why?

To go with your dress sandals.

Message #4398943

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:26:21 -0000

Well in this case it wasn't even white dress socks. It was just an ordinary pair of white socks like you'd wear with sneakers and jeans.

Message #4398939

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:56:36 -0000

To annoy my mother.. and it seems to annoy you too.

Message #4398929

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:26:49 -0000

White... dress socks...? They make those? Why?

Message #4398619

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:51:01 -0000

I used to do it to annoy my mom. But that was a long time ago. (Wear white dress socks) Though I suppose I did lots of other things to annoy her too.

Message #4398613

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:30:31 -0000

Probably way more than "sometimes". And often deliberately. I had a conversation in the office with some of the guys there and we were talking about a former employee who once wore white casual socks with dress clothes. We were directing that conversation at a newbie in the room who was doing exactly that. (It didn't work. The next day he wore NO socks at all. And a short while later we let him go because he didn't actually have the ability to do anything.)

Message #4390562

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:09:47 -0000

Sometimes, when someone references other people in a conversation, it tells you more about how they feel about you, than the person they're referencing.

Message #4390184

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:00:06 -0000

This was a long running thing ... my wife used to use "pants" in a lot of references to me, such as Mister Smarty Pants, Mister Crazy Pants, Mister Silly Pants, etc. Eventually it was reduced down to simple "Mister Pants" and ultimately just "Pants". Then it became generalized phrase rather than an alias, as in "that person is being such a pants." Pants are also found in the Bible: "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God." [Psalm 42:1] So we also have deer wearing pants, and we know that pants are clothing for the soul. Fuck chicken soup.

Message #4388763

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:35:34 -0000

Smartypants Foobar? "Pants" singular becomes a way of breathing, and no longer refers to trousers of any form.

Message #4388756

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:52:43 -0000

I suppose that's better than MiserPants..

Message #4388478

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:48:15 -0000

> How about when you are being referred to as one? That's MISTER Pants to you.

Message #4388434

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:51:12 -0000

> However ... the word "pants" (when used as a noun referring to >trousers) is ALWAYS PLURAL. There is no singular. > How about when you are being referred to as one?

Message #4388416

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:55:56 -0000

> I've only ever put the punctuation outside when stuff gets technical, Exactly. I write a lot of technical documentation so there are a lot of time where placing a bit of punctuation inside the quotation marks changes the meaning of what's inside the quotation marks. The rule was written at a time when, if a sentence ended with a quotation, the quotation was likely to be "the end of another sentence." Like that. I'll still put the period inside the quotes in that case. I'm a grammar nazi. But that rule has always bugged me, and I choose to break it when I want to. However ... the word "pants" (when used as a noun referring to trousers) is ALWAYS PLURAL. There is no singular.

Message #4388089

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:01:04 -0000

I'm with you on 'irregardless' (bullshit word), and I'm not keen on the many other ways people misuse language consistently enough to enter these into the dictionary... but I understand where the folks making the dictionaries come from, in that it isn't up to them to dictate how people should use English, only how people actually do use English. So, eh, I get it, even if I think it's daft. I've only ever put the punctuation outside when stuff gets technical, and not doing so obfuscates meaning in some way. For ordinary English, though, I still puctuate within the quotes, even if I'm not particularly well educated as to why we do that (I know there's a reason, I just don't know what it is). I think don't exactly use Oxford commas anymore, preferring a more journalistic approach. Maybe. Perhaps. Pluto? Pluto is a dog, with amazing skill at footwork, and an expressive face to make up for not having a voice.

Message #4388033

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:02:44 -0000

If that's what you're doing on Pluto, then all the power to you.

Message #4388029

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:46:36 -0000

Well, if they can add "irregardless" to the dictionary, and declare that the wrong meaning of "beg the question" is now acceptable, I'm going to keep my "in order to". I've also started putting punctuation outside of quotation marks in places where I believe it looks better.

I also like Oxford commas, and Pluto is still a f***ing planet.

Message #4387818

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:00:39 -0000

The phrase "in order to" must be used to keep the sentence from looking obtuse. I dunno... that scans properly to me. The phrase "to" must be used to keep the sentence from looking obtuse. Well, that one looks a bit weird.

Message #4387781

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:54:38 -0000

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. - George Orwell

Message #4387780

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:52:49 -0000

Anywhere I've ever replaced "in order to" with "to", the sentence immediately started looking obtuse. The phrase "in order to" must be used in order to keep the sentence from looking obtuse.

Message #4387772

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:20:31 -0000

If you're feeling expressions, I get worried.

Message #4387754

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:57:04 -0000

Ah, that explains why that expression feels peculiar to me.

Message #4387747

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:43:15 -0000

"In order to" is redundant. If it can be replaced simply with "to", then simplify. "xxx must be done to avoid problem yyy".

Message #4386754

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:10:57 -0000

The grammar checker on my slurd processor doesn't like the phrase "in order to". For example, "xxx must be done in order to avoid problem yyy". Flags it every time. I have told it to STFU because I like it that way. I am a grammar nazi and I've never seen this phrase cited as problematic. WTF?

Message #4379516

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:23:28 -0000

>That's an odd post. Would that be Yorktown Virginia, Yorktown >Heights NY, or some other place? Yorktown Heights, NY That's where I live. In fact, I visited the mall-that-has-Macy's this past weekend. They also have Sears, which is currently being consolidated to half its previous size (AMAKHAAAAAAAAAAN!).

Happy Anniversary

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:37:02 -0000

Happy Anniversary to the coolest couple I know.... that being Ig and Boo a/k/a Art and Missy

Message #4379494

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:14:04 -0000

Wed Sep 19 2018 05:58:58 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Advisory Message has been issued by the Yorktown Police Department.

Wednesday September 19, 2018 5:57 PM EDT

Vehicle fire on Rt 202 in front of BJs. Heavy traffic as a result. Avoid

That's an odd post. Would that be Yorktown Virginia, Yorktown Heights NY, or some other place?

I actually used Macy's in the Yorktown Heights Mall as the "Shopping" link in the HTML menu I posted to the "Programming" room. Amazing coincidence, if that's what it is, since I picked it at random and don't live in New York.

Message #4378653

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 17:09:45 -0000

With so many new members lately what did you expect?

Message #4378081

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:32:23 -0000

Exactly what I thought.

Message #4377992

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 03:13:21 -0000

Ah. Someone was being welcomed to UCG I see.

Message #4377956

Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:58:58 -0000

>Advisory Message has been issued by the Yorktown Police Department. > >Wednesday September 19, 2018 5:57 PM EDT > >Vehicle fire on Rt 202 in front of BJs. Heavy traffic as a result. Avoid the area if possible. YAAAAAAAAAAAY

Message #4376602

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:45:10 -0000

I saw two half-opened half-and-half creamers abandoned on the counter at work today. I actually took the time to notice they were empty, instead of half-empty, as I honestly expected. Because that's how my mind works when I observe something like this.

Message #4376448

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:39:00 -0000

I still want to be an old kid, though. I want to be the kind of kid that gets his income from his 401k and investments, carefully managing his diet to avoid too much weight gain, while singing nonsense to strangers in grocery stores.

Re: Don't make my mistake

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:59:59 -0000

> Have kids, and have em young.

Yep. Young kids are the best kind.

Don't make my mistake

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:23:04 -0000

Have kids, and have em young. The more the better.

Message #4373290

Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:12:45 -0000

A beer sighting.... do not approach or disturb beer. Stay away.

Message #4372428

Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:45:20 -0000

Uh oh! > 2018-08-24 11:28 from Yorktown Police Department to room_0000000001.nixle@uncens >ored.citadel.org >Subject: Advisory Message: bear sighting in the area of Hanover St and ButlerCt > >Friday August 24, 2018 11:28 AM EDT > >Bear sighting in the area of Hanover St and Butler Ct. Do not approach or disturb bear. Stay away. > >For full details, go to https://local.nixle.com/alert/6764488/?sub_id=9221162.

Message #4362051

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:13:02 -0000

I'm not sure how anyone manages not to, unless they really don't get a lot of joy out of family life.

Message #4362016

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 17:39:02 -0000

Man Ig, now I'm crying.

Message #4361971

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:53:48 -0000

My sister is also going through a 'daughter growing up and leaving home' thing right now as well. I didn't realize all of these folks were born around the same time. Rayne graduated with various honors, after also working rather hard for them. I regret, I don't quite know all of the ways she's done well academically, although I know some of it involved a study of French, and one of the honors we expect she'll receive didn't come in time for high school graduation, as it involves some other accreditation or somesuch. But, it sounds like IGlet had a very steep hill to climb, and he climbed it. I think you're right to prepare him for alternatives while not discouraging his choices. One never knows... with his particular insights, he might have an approach that would work better for students than the current WTF approaches common core inflicted on everyone, and with his back-story, maybe he will garner enough popularity and attention to drive such improvements forward. Especially if he's already accustomed to a lot of work, heh.

Message #4361962

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:23:04 -0000

> > Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to log off and commence with even >more bawling over the fact that my baby is all grown up :'( > > It's what they do. I've got one out and another with one foot our the door. It's good. It's healthy. Take pride in them and then go enjoy some alone time with your wife.

Message #4361749

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:40:58 -0000

I suppose finding a reference other than "IGlet" is the first priority, since he's bigger than me now. When he was very little we noticed he was delayed in learning to talk, and after a bunch of evaluations he was diagnosed PDD-NOS plus some anxiety issues later on. He attended special needs preschools for two years and has been IEP his entire school career. He's worked really hard, and he's picked up a lot of big fans along the way. He even had lunch with the superintendent of schools from time to time. In 11th grade they literally told us that he was going to flunk the English 11 Regents exam. But he was going to pass the course anyway so he'd be graduating without a Regents diploma. (For those of you who have never lived in the People's Republic of New York ...a Regents diploma is pretty much a requirement for any student who intends to attend college after graduation, particularly for those headed for our own state schools.) But he worked extra hard and got a C on the exam. As I noted earlier, he then went on to graduate with a Regents diploma and an 87 GPA for his senior year. It is a success story. The only one who worked harder than he did was his mother, who made sure all of the right support systems and advocacy were in place for him. He loves working with small children. A couple of years ago he decided that he loves it enough that he's now pursuing a career in early childhood education. He did two years in the early childhood vo-tech program at BOCES, and was accepted at Westchester Community College for the program they have there. He'll probably finish at another state school, since they accept all WCC credits for transfer. He told us he wants to be a preschool teacher, which I think he'll enjoy until he realizes he might never be able to survive on a preschool teacher's salary. But I remember how annoyed I was (and still am) over my parents planning out my entire life. I told him to go for it, but that I want him to finish school with a degree and a teaching certificate, so he has options later. I think he might realize later on that the difference between a preschool teacher and a kindergarten teacher is probably tens of thousands of dollars a year plus benefits. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to log off and commence with even more bawling over the fact that my baby is all grown up :'(

Message #4361497

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:40:23 -0000

Congrats to Iglet! (though I guess with me being gone so long, I had no idea he was special needs.) What are his plans for the future?

Message #4361249

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:01:20 -0000

A lot of people are angry with the salutatorian too. She's a bit of a self-righteous sanctimonious troublemaker. Doesn't matter anymore. IGlet beat the odds and finished high school, with a regents diploma and an 87 GPA. For a special needs student who really struggled to make it through, this is a fantastic accomplishment and we're really proud of him.

Message #4361127

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:02:55 -0000

Hmmmm... Yeah, I might have caught that. "Oh, so, he's the only one graduating. Well done, then. Time to go home, Iglet."

Message #4360985

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:12:06 -0000

Last Saturday we attended my son's high school graduation (and I managed to avoid jumping off a bridge) which was, in the opinion of pretty much everyone involved, including him, tedious and boring. The ironic moment of the day, which I'm sure nearly everyone seemed to miss (I didn't, and I suspect fleeb would have caught this too if he were there) ... the high school principal, while introducing the class salutatorian, used the phrase "second to none".

Message #4356674

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:02:15 -0000

Hmm... there's that.

Message #4356628

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:49:58 -0000

It sounds like the kind of name that is spelled incorrectly, no matter how you spell it.

Message #4355050

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:46:28 -0000

"Harem pants"? I've lost a lot of weight, and the pants I wear to work ... well ... it's just silly now. If I didn't wear suspenders, they wouldn't stay on me. Removing my vest, I look like one of those clowns with the gigantic pants held up by suspenders (I just need the white-and-red facepaint and crazy red hair to look like a sort of corporate version of a clown). So I looked around online for some dress-casual pants I could wear to work, and for some reason, my search turned up 'harem pants'. You've most likely seen younger folks wearing these. They are designed such that you could hide a colostomy bag in them, stick a tube up your butt, and never worry about having to shit in a public restroom again. It isn't a look that appeals to me, frankly, although I like some of the print designs and colors... those can be rather tasteful. It's really the fact that it looks like you wearing what you'd make a horse wear in front of a band at a parade that kind of concerns me. To learn these are named 'harem pants' doesn't quite make sense. Men wear them. Men aren't generally candidates for harems. In fact, in most cases, a harem is intended for one man, and isn't expected to be composed of men. Which makes me wonder if there's some weird gay connection I missed while I was turning 51. They could have called them 'genie pants' if they were trying to connote some middle eastern fashion wear. Except... really... 'turd-holding pants' best expresses what these look like to me.

Message #4354840

Thu, 31 May 2018 12:46:47 -0000

"Martin Prikryl" has a surname that sounds like it involves cucumbers and brine.

Message #4353234

Tue, 22 May 2018 14:17:17 -0000

Yes. The dish is said to have been created, and named after, chef Ignacio Anaya, whose nickname was pronounced "Nacho".

Message #4353203

Tue, 22 May 2018 12:18:46 -0000

Natchos are named after someone with the first name of 'Ignatius'?

Message #4349879

Fri, 04 May 2018 22:03:17 -0000

Yep, find a local furry group (they're literally everywhere, and often volunteer for events or parades), and ask for advice on acting, costuming, etc. Lots of resources. Note: SOME furries DO talk, but it's often with a disguised voice intended to match the character.

Message #4349637

Thu, 03 May 2018 23:56:05 -0000

Yes, there is obviously some amount of overlap between the pro and semi-pro mascot/costumecharacter industry and the furry community.

Message #4349619

Thu, 03 May 2018 21:46:13 -0000

*ahem* Furry community. This is me. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/003/311/924/original/32844214972a98e8.jpg

Message #4349614

Thu, 03 May 2018 21:40:49 -0000

There isn't. It's not a big industry. But it does exist.

Message #4349521

Thu, 03 May 2018 15:07:30 -0000

From the website:

Since 1990 the most diverse collection of experienced mascot trainers can only be found at Keystone Mascots' Training Camps.

I don't think there is a large pool of mascot trainers.

Message #4349503

Thu, 03 May 2018 14:00:31 -0000

>There is actually a business where they train people for wearing >costumes? The long tail (ha!) contains a bit of everything. [ http://www.keystonemascots.com/ ] On the business side of things there is consulting, design, costume manufacturing, and of course training.

Message #4349390

Thu, 03 May 2018 09:51:35 -0000

"Green is not a creative color."

Message #4349285

Thu, 03 May 2018 02:49:12 -0000

I think the lack of blood has made IG delerious.

Message #4349272

Thu, 03 May 2018 00:46:02 -0000

Wed May 02 2018 05:12:00 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

As someone with costume character experience and trained by one of the best people in the business,

There is actually a business where they train people for wearing costumes?

I do know about the rules, I didn't know there were ranked professional trainers.

Message #4349236

Wed, 02 May 2018 21:13:42 -0000

4. SHE'S STICKING HER HUMAN HANDS OUT OF THE COSTUME AND DOING THE MACARENA. ** cringe **

Message #4349234

Wed, 02 May 2018 21:12:00 -0000

I'm at my daughter's school today, giving blood at a blood drive they are running. It's with New York Blood, and I normally give with Red Cross, but this is for the school :) There is a kid running around here dressed as a human-sized drop of blood. As someone with costume character experience and trained by one of the best people in the business, this bothers me in several ways... 1. Serious costume character players would never dress as an inanimate object. 1a. Is a drop of blood technically an inanimate object? It counts as "life" but it's not sentient. For example, dressing as a Christmas tree is not considered legit. 2. She's talking. Costume characters DO NOT TALK. If you have something to say, you say it in the dressing room. 3. Her human feet and ankles are visible. This is a no no. There's got to be another piece to this costome.

Message #4345886

Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:32:36 -0000

Yes, that's a bit of a problem. On the other hand, the drama level on Instagram is infinitesimal compared to F*c*book proper.

I think it's fascinating that Instagram makes suggestions of people I should connect with "because we are friends on F*c*book" -- and they're legit suggestions of people I know, even though I don't have a F*c*book account.

Message #4345715

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 21:34:34 -0000

Instagram...are they not owned by F*c*book?

Message #4345699

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 18:00:50 -0000

My daughter's Instagram handle was, for some number of months, "Violet Sky Kitten" ... I think she changed it because I kept calling her "Violent Sky Kitten"

Message #4345517

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:01:48 -0000

I oughta look for 'rosses are red' next...

Message #4345504

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:23:58 -0000

Those poems tend to make me violent.. not violet.

Message #4345491

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:52:07 -0000

After reading some of them, it was kind of clear which word they meant. Truth be told, I was curious if anyone *intentionally* wrote such a poem, and searched for 'violents are blue' explicitely. I was disappointed with the results, but surprised at how many of them I could find.

Message #4345371

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:09:38 -0000

How do you know those are mispellings?

Message #4345362

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:54:31 -0000

You may find a surprising number of mispellings of the word 'violet' as 'violent' when you search for examples of the 'roses are red' poem.

Message #4345046

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:05:02 -0000

I'm not familiar with Shamans or Dark Paladins but I sure do love potatoes. So yeah, get more potatoes. Abigail loves them. I think.

Message #4343140

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:17:50 -0000

On the first day of spring this year, I heard a bird desperately chirping merrily in the freezing chill of the spring morning.

Message #4338704

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 02:18:49 -0000

LS - If you're reading the Way of the Shaman or Dark Paladin series, you go back to the potatoes or mines.

Message #4338671

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:29:06 -0000

I'm done watering my potatoes. Do I go work the mines now or do I go on a date with Abigail?

Message #4338549

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:26:47 -0000

...collects fleeb spit, sends to Ancestry DNA ... receives a letter back saying something about they don't do zombies

Message #4337060

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:19:04 -0000

*spit take*

Message #4336833

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:04:05 -0000

SERIOUS MILLY HIDING THURSDAY. START SECRETS. IVAN HIDING MESSAGE OAK. REMAIN SILENT. HERMAN

Message #4336237

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:30:13 -0000

Sometimes, I think I post things with the hope that someone will do a spit take. I'll never see it, of course. I just hope it happens, and look for the signs.

Message #4333964

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:47:30 -0000

"Come on sporto, level with me."

Message #4333578

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:47:11 -0000

Imagining very alien creatures discussing humans: .. and a certain subset of them described as 'males' possess a meat syringe with which they may inject others with half a blueprint of their makeup. They seem to derive a kind of satisfaction in providing these injections regardless of the usefulness of the information to others. Suffice to say, getting such information from them should be a fairly trivial effort.

Message #4333394

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 10:40:00 -0000

There are several videos on YouTube about drinking heavy water, based on hair styles Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff should be the most trusted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyK6kPi8k78

Message #4333268

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:54:34 -0000

Joking aside, I've heard heavy water actually has a slightly sweet taste to it. Perhaps it would be good with cake, ignoring the potentially radioactive consequences.

So does antifreeze, but it's not going on my dessert table anytime soon.

Message #4332762

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:51:35 -0000

LS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc

Message #4332638

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:47:37 -0000

Wed Jan 31 2018 10:23:55 AM EST from Freakdog

Tue Jan 30 2018 13:51:16 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

So I guess heavy water is the beverage of choice to go with heavy chocolate cake?

"Dad is great! Give us the heavy chocolate cake!!!"

Is heavy chocolate cake the chocolate cake made with roofies?

Message #4332595

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:02:01 -0000

Don't forget the orange juice.

Message #4332579

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:23:55 -0000

Tue Jan 30 2018 13:51:16 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

So I guess heavy water is the beverage of choice to go with heavy chocolate cake?

"Dad is great! Give us the heavy chocolate cake!!!"

Message #4332285

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:19:18 -0000

*indistinguishable.

Message #4332284

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:19:12 -0000

that's weird. it should be chemically distinguishable from light water.

Message #4332276

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:32:06 -0000

Joking aside, I've heard heavy water actually has a slightly sweet taste to it. Perhaps it would be good with cake, ignoring the potentially radioactive consequences.

Message #4332230

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:51:16 -0000

So I guess heavy water is the beverage of choice to go with heavy chocolate cake?

Message #4331452

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:47:16 -0000

Heavy.

Message #4331420

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:35:50 -0000

@fleeby, nothing wrong with a periodic chocolate cake. Plus, if you keep it a rarity, somehow the rich, chocolaty goodness is enhanced.

I can't find chocolate cake on my periodic table. What is its atomic number?

Message #4331281

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:40:05 -0000

Well, perhaps when I've reached my target weight, but certainly not until then.

Message #4331127

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:28:53 -0000

Wed Jan 24 2018 03:17:59 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar

In 1984, caretaker Ayakanno Marimuthu, then 37, was allegedly bludgeoned to death with an iron rod at Orchard Road Presbyterian Church. His body was believed to have later been chopped up, cooked in curry and rice, and packed into plastic bags which were thrown into roadside rubbish bins.

@Aahz, Still want that curry?

@fleeby, nothing wrong with a periodic chocolate cake. Plus, if you keep it a rarity, somehow the rich, chocolaty goodness is enhanced.

Message #4331114

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:17:59 -0000

In 1984, caretaker Ayakanno Marimuthu, then 37, was allegedly bludgeoned to death with an iron rod at Orchard Road Presbyterian Church. His body was believed to have later been chopped up, cooked in curry and rice, and packed into plastic bags which were thrown into roadside rubbish bins.

Message #4331044

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:58:58 -0000

Mmm... curry...

Message #4331029

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:57:53 -0000

Funny.. I was just thinking... "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY."

Message #4331019

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:23:47 -0000

Thanks, all... I realize I didn't exactly write something as chipper as I normally prefer to write, but I guess I just felt rather down, and expressed myself a bit too well as I wrote about it. I think I can still find the funny out there. I think I still have a bit of inspired silliness left in me. I think... I could murder a chocolate cake right about now, if I weren't on a diet.

Message #4330913

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:24:31 -0000

I have found that happiness is the weight of a contented cat, sleeping on my lap.

Agreed. There are few things in life more happy than stroking a nice soft pu-- oops, wrong room.

Message #4330869

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:27:47 -0000

I have been taking pleasure from more simple things of late.

I have found that happiness is the weight of a contented cat, sleeping on my lap.

Fleeb, My love to Melvin, and yourself, we are indeed richer for having you among us.

Message #4330821

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:15:21 -0000

To quote a favorite book of mine "Forward momentum".

My condolences to you and Melvin.

I have found as I get older I am more susceptible to feeling down. However, I try to use the power of positive thinking to pull myself out of it. I go find something to do, something that makes me happy. Sometimes it is just sitting down, reading, and petting the cat. Sometimes it is playing with the dog. Sometimes it is firing up a game, getting on Discord and talking with people while playing. But that is just me and what I find that helps sometimes.

Message #4330820

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:12:23 -0000

I think life has been getting better in certain ways. I have less responsiblity to my kids. I'm able to spend more time with my wife. I have my needs taken care of and a lot of my wants. Just less struggle in general. Yes, it's sad to see what's happening to some loved ones (my Dad had two strokes and took a header down a full flight os stairs last year and was also diagnosed with Parkinsons...) But overall? Life is good.

Message #4330694

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 03:47:36 -0000

All our best to Melvin please. THis stuff does sorta roll downhill and pick up speed. Best you can do is try not to smack into any trees on the way down.

Message #4330653

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:49:27 -0000

(Melvin's father died, and I'm very concerned about the health of a close friend's partner, all of which piles on behind other bad news over the last three or four years).

Message #4330648

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:41:04 -0000

Heh... not planning on dying anytime soon, to be clear. Just seeing a lot of death around me lately. But thank you all, regardless. I'm kinda hoping my sense of humor will kick in and find the funny a bit more easily soon.

Message #4330637

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:55:54 -0000

A not-so-wise man once observed that life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. That person is now dead. Actually he isn't, but he's lived a life of debauchery and he will be dead soon. Children do not give you hope, but they do give you a legacy. There are other ways of making a legacy, of course. The thing you might not realize is that we all get to the point you're at now, but children actually get you there *faster*. This is because when you have children you come *much* sooner to the realization that you aren't going back to the life you had in your 20's (or whatever). So you move past it. I started on that path a little over eight years ago and I'm still not quite there yet. What I can tell you, from my experience and that of others ... and I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but you've come to expect that from me ... is that the single biggest thing you can do to improve your mood, is to quit Facebook. Not social media in general, not the online life in general, but Facebook specifically. It's designed to reprogram your happiness around directed and targeted dopamine hits, which totally throws off your ability to regulate your mood everywhere else. I am not exaggerating. Meanwhile, and at the risk of sounding corny, know that you are loved. By the people around you, by the people here, and by me. I'm not ashamed to say it. We are better for having you in our lives, even if it is only via a screen most of the time.

Message #4330595

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:49:36 -0000

fleeb - It doessn't matter how we are.. It matters WHAT we are.. And how we see things and how we do things. I keep trying to focus forward.

Message #4330571

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:29:14 -0000

O-bliv-ion!

Message #4330567

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:00:37 -0000

Life seems to become more depressing as you age. The people in whom you care start to die, your own health declines, and everything just seems to go to pieces as you get older. The illusion of optimism just kinda feels more like an illusion maintained to hide the sheer desparation of it all, while everything slides faster to decay and oblivion. But then, I don't have children in my life, so I probably don't get to see much in the way of hope. I just see what we do to make things more difficult for our children, I guess, and get a little focused on that. I guess, despite what I've written here, there's still some measure of hope in me. Just seems like dying young isn't necessarily as insane as one might think.

Message #4324797

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:37:36 -0000

Pneumatic tubes, schmeeptek with oscillating bogon emitters, and the Candyland board game.

Message #4324631

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:46:54 -0000

Yeah, it's all analog. I suspect the technology the Wizard used in his big room was made from roughly the same components that they used to build the jukeboxes with consoles at every table that you see at old diners. No microcontrollers or anything ... bloody acres of discrete components.

Message #4324528

Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:30:43 -0000

Wizarding just wasn't as sophisticated back then. Having to use *that* much film for color? Really?

Message #4324246

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:20:32 -0000

RM: It was a really poor decision for the Wizard of Oz (no relation to Aahz) to put his control room behind a flimsy little curtain. One would think that with all of the other special effects gear he had deployed, he'd have had the sense to put the control room in an isolated booth behind one-way glass or something.

Message #4317171

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:01:38 -0000

I am starting to appreciate the self checkout kiosks at Walmart. In the past Walmart would have 20-25 registers and only three would be open, at this time they have eight self checkout registers and usually seven of them are working.

Message #4297060

Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:55:26 -0000

Speaking of which ... why has Queen Elizabeth I been reigning at every Renaissance Faire in the world for longer than she did in real life? Isn't it time for a regime change?

Message #4292974

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:15:17 -0000

Your pussy is also a fan of tits and boobies.

Message #4292357

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:15:49 -0000

Bird watchers sure do love their tits and boobies. Me, I'm more of a pussy fan.

Message #4292330

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:36:05 -0000

I can think of some gay men who would support all of those as well. Although, they're mostly thinking of 'Tits' as a kind of bird.

Message #4291818

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:00:21 -0000

I support the LGBT community - Liquor, Guns, Bacon and Tits.

Message #4289042

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:58:46 -0000

Huh... never imagined what counterpoint in rap would sound like, but... there you have it.

Message #4288424

Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:08:40 -0000

Built in 2003. I think they can be forgiven for using what was common at the time :)

Message #4288163

Sat, 19 Aug 2017 00:05:57 -0000

That site uses flash, didn't flash die ?

Message #4288144

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:41:30 -0000

DON'T CARE. WATCH VIDEO INSTEAD: [ http://www.ugotspam.com/spam.htm ]

Message #4287618

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:49:06 -0000

Killjoy.

Message #4286697

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 22:23:58 -0000

Glocks don't cock. They're striker fired weapons. No hammer.

Message #4286670

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:36:05 -0000

Biggie Biggie, baby, can't you see Sometimes your words just hypnotize me And I just love your flashy ways Guess that's why they broke and you're so paid

Message #4286646

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:05:43 -0000

I'll be waiting in your inbox with two glocks cocked and ready to pop shots | I'm bigger than Biggie and tougher than Tupac, cops they can't stop me when I rock yo mailbox

Message #4285318

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:17:15 -0000

And now, give me more, give me more to consume I'm fatter than Elvis and I'm cheekier than Jesus in this V.I.P. room.

Message #4281708

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:00:45 -0000

Tue Jul 11 2017 09:45:28 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Sorry, didn't hear that one; I was too busy conducting a land war in Asia.

Clearly, you are no-one to be trifled with!

Message #4281678

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:07:42 -0000

Do members of Asia eat super-foods?

Message #4281675

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:06:35 -0000

> 2017-07-07 10:04 from fleeb > > Does noone use the expression 'egads' anymore? Egads, I certainly do!

Message #4281668

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 16:42:49 -0000

We've been at work with the Kardashians!?

Message #4281645

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:18:57 -0000

No, we have never been at war with Asia, (the super group) we have always been at war with Oceanian.

Message #4281634

Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:45:28 -0000

Sorry, didn't hear that one; I was too busy conducting a land war in Asia.

Message #4281043

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:00:34 -0000

Mon Jun 05 2017 04:18:51 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

The smell of death is in the air!

Didn't anyone ever tell you not to bet against a Sicilian when death is on the line?

Message #4281010

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:31:02 -0000

Oh, wow, so, this is something I don't think folks will read aloud at The Apollo: https://books.google.com/books?id=UtugXOk-1jYC&lpg=PA18&ots=59LBdYd3Ah&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false

Message #4281005

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:04:59 -0000

Does noone use the expression 'egads' anymore?

Message #4275128

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:18:51 -0000

The smell of death is in the air!

Message #4268949

Fri, 12 May 2017 19:30:52 -0000

When Jesus drank a lot of wine did his blood alcohol level stay at 0 because wine is the blood of Christ?

Message #4268112

Tue, 09 May 2017 16:55:01 -0000

>Certainly did that with many albums too, when cover art was a thing. ...and when albums were a thing.

Message #4267883

Mon, 08 May 2017 18:20:24 -0000

Heh... The White Album. Not exactly generic music.

Message #4267868

Mon, 08 May 2017 17:12:42 -0000

Certainly did that with many albums too, when cover art was a thing.

Message #4267852

Mon, 08 May 2017 15:32:38 -0000

I choose many books to read by their cover. I'll judge it after I read it. But I do choose it quite often by what's on the cover.

Message #4267799

Mon, 08 May 2017 10:41:37 -0000

"Always make a good first impression" is at direct conflict with "You can't tell a book by its cover" yet people repeat both phrases.

Message #4267277

Fri, 05 May 2017 17:24:42 -0000

Could you imagine if it really did look like a Telefunken U47?

Message #4261562

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:59:24 -0000

*snerk*

I think that "menstrual panty" company already tried that.

http://wapo.st/2ozKsak

Message #4261526

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:50:33 -0000

These days, it might be appropriate.

Message #4261100

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:31:19 -0000

You know what would be really cool? I'd like to see the organization that produces the Burning Man festival get acquired by Disney. That would be *awesome*

Message #4260817

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:51:36 -0000

Sun Apr 09 2017 21:10:20 EDT from zooer

I ask myself that about NY state all the time.

I ask that same question all the time too. I also ask it of California as well.

Message #4260651

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 05:20:34 -0000

Sorta funny IG. I was in Chicago on the 7th for the same reason.. Changing planes.

Message #4260606

Mon, 10 Apr 2017 01:10:20 -0000

I ask myself that about NY state all the time.

Message #4260507

Sun, 09 Apr 2017 23:48:20 -0000

Right now I am in Chicago. The only reason I came to Chicago is to leave Chicago. (Connecting flights.) As the plane was descending I looked out over the thousands of acres of crappy housing and thought, why would anyone willingly live here?

Message #4227226

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:24:04 -0000

I actually went to a physical bank branch today. Haven't been to one for years. Unfortunately, my mother sent me a check to reimburse the cost of something I purchased on her behalf. When my mother signs a check, without fail, the descender on one character of her signature crosses over the account number on the check, and the smartphone app that I use to deposit checks can't read the account number. First world problems, I know. But I had to get in my car and physically drive to a bank! The deposit slips are multilingual now. The teller was confused because I crossed out anything that was written in a language I don't understand. My signature and my account number are going on that piece of paper. I'm not signing something I can't read. I need to have a talk with my mother about the way she signs checks. Or maybe introduce her to PayPal.

Message #4216280

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:32:21 -0000

Given my current experiences with condominium repair, I'm inclined to believe a modern day version of Gilligan's Island is happening right now to me.

Message #4211390

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 01:58:24 -0000

I discussed this with a friend, he said the professor had his own hut with a laboratory in it.

Message #4211387

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 01:52:43 -0000

Gilligan and Skipper went home every night. They did a good job keeping the others convinced that they were stranded on the island. Their actual motive was to keep the Howells out of touch while they drained the bank accounts. And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling Globetrotters.

Message #4202855

Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:02:17 -0000

Now I'm curious.

Message #4202393

Sun, 26 Feb 2017 13:14:32 -0000

Did we ever see the inside of the professor's hut?
We saw Gilligan and the Skipper's hut, we saw Maryann and Ginger's hut, we saw the Howell's hut. The professor apparently didn't have to share, did we ever see the inside of his hut?

Message #4197654

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:27:50 -0000

The Romans dearmed the Greeks quite a while ago.

Message #4194541

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:39:59 -0000

Oh...is it before? I thought the arms were the price for the dedication....

Message #4193261

Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:08:35 -0000

I'm glad I'm not a famous Ancient Greek. They're always getting their arms cut off before someone dedicates a statue to them.

Message #4155176

Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:00:08 -0000

I almost went outside today.

Message #4151017

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:58:45 -0000

The universe is virtual reality and we are all illusions.....

Message #4146303

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:29:18 -0000

Exactly. An age old question: Is the world the cause and experience the consequence? Or is experience the cause and the world is the consequence? And what does your answer say about you and your relation to the world around you?

Message #4146298

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 21:00:12 -0000

The real world, not an objective thing we have to interact with regularly, but a subjective construct of human perception?

Message #4142990

Fri, 02 Dec 2016 12:26:33 -0000

I spend a good chunk of my reality in kind of a made up place, but I'm maybe more aware of it than many people. When I get into a really good coding frenzy, my world is an imaginary place of data structures and bits flying around, etc. I see how these things existing in this reality shove data in one end and poot out data along some other end, maybe causing other stuff to happen in the meantime. But, eventually, I return to reality. I see the world around me, and do my best to understand it. I know I'll color my perception of the world with my own perspectives, as we all generally do. I try to sometimes view the world from other people's perspective, so I hav a better idea where they're going with something, so maybe between the two of us, we can get to our respective destinations intact. I figure, if physics is generally relative, and requires a frame of reference, maybe reality works that way as well.

Message #4142745

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 20:09:58 -0000

I think it goes way beyond pretending to be adult or pretending to be smart. I suspect many people interact with the real world for a limited time only, in little bursts, and spend the rest of the time hiding in fantasies in their own minds. We are all only pretending to be connected to reality. But if you do it enough times, at the right times, you get away with it.

But then, imagine we didn't do that. If we all actually live IN reality, 24 hours a day. Ok, we can still sleep. But 24-hours-minus-sleeping-hours a day. We could be so productive, all the time. We could gain in skills and knowledge all the time, all the little "free-time" bits we get or take for ourselves, we could put to use. Anyone read Better by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth? He was like a Super Hero in my mind, because he did that.

So now I'm thinking, we don't have to actually stop disconnecting from reality, we just have to connect to it more. And by more, I mean, more than the average Joe around you. Then, by comparison, you could be.. something.. good. I don't know, but it seems like a great idea. Except that I hate reality, especially compared to the little world I've built in my head.

Message #4142625

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:22:58 -0000

Maybe we need to improve the Turing Test and apply it at the beginning of every conversation with every person we meet. Of course, even without that, some people are the biological equivalent of a pop-up ad.

Message #4141499

Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:11:22 -0000

It is even worse, my civil service year told me, that even heavily mentally challenged people can pretend to have a fluent conversation with you. Although they understand nothing of the content! They simply need to know when to reply with which combination of context words. Think of Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. They do not only pretend to be adults, they can also successfully pretend to be smart persons.

This implies that society is build on the illusion of conversation and we are all mutually passing the Turing test, although we often do not transmit intellectual content.

This also implies that the receiver, not the sender, determines the content of a message.

It also explains why so many things are so messed up.

Message #4140863

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:28:14 -0000

Pretending to be an adult... weird thing is, somehow, everything keeps working despite this ridiculous idea that I'm only acting like an adult on those occasions where it seems useful. If society really works this way, we should tremble in fear.

Message #4140237

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:03:44 -0000

Tue Nov 22 2016 10:44:48 AM EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Let's face it, Cheez-Its are really just Goldfish crackers for people who are pretending to be adults.

That is odd you brought this up because the family was discussing the differences between Nips, cheeze-its and Goldfish. Cheez-its have a better flavor.

Message #4138905

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:23:33 -0000

I've been pretending to be an adult since the day I turned 18. I think most of us are.

Message #4138718

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:29:57 -0000

Can we still "pretend" to be adults? Lately I've been feeling too old and stiff to pretend to be young anymore. And I'm sure goldfish crackers aren't allowed on "THE DIET".

Message #4138310

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:44:48 -0000

Let's face it, Cheez-Its are really just Goldfish crackers for people who are pretending to be adults.

Message #4136372

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:30:22 -0000

Sounds like a civil case and not a very important one - or so your members thought. I finished a criminal case last month. Very serious matter, we certainly took it as seriously as we could although yes, we were cracking jokes about people falling asleep in the jury box (and I *did* hear snoring from the seat behind or in front of me).

Message #4136356

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:40:51 -0000

I sat on a jury within the last year. I felt SO bad for the people who were trying to argue in court over their dispute. We just weren't paying almost any attention, no one really cared, every opportunity we weren't actually IN the court room, we were cracking jokes and the laughter got so out of hand they had to come ask us to please keep it down, repeatedly. I pointed out to the other jurors that these people have been waiting 4 years and today is their "big day in court", but it just set off another round of loud laughter. To be fair, it really was funny. But I learned to not try to get a jury if you ever have reason to be in court. Those people want to be ANYWHERE else, and don't care about you and your whining, and in their hearts and minds they blame you personally for having to be on jury duty in the first place, rather than out living their lives.

Message #4134243

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:00:12 -0000

Happiness is an empty bladder.

Message #4132475

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:27:55 -0000

Me, standing on the street corner, with a sippy-cup full of Pellegrino. (true story)

Message #4132457

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:40:14 -0000

When I walk, my shoes make the sounds of tortoise sex.

Message #4130508

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:30:31 -0000

This business is far too serious. But the foreman is lulzing it up over members falling asleep... I am hearing snoring every day.

Message #4130343

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:42:06 -0000

I'd like to sit on a jury with fleeb, just for the lulz. It would be fun to take fiercely opposite positions on the case and then occasionally switch sides.

(Of course, I would never be selected for a jury because I know what FIJA is and am not afraid to point it out. Judges and lawyers hate jurors who know their rights.)

Message #4129537

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:32:05 -0000

That would depend, for me. If I wanted to drag the whole thing out, probably. I'd think the eventual result would be a jury that turned inward on each other and started to give into cannibalization, probably starting with me. Because I'd likely switch from one side to the other, over and over again, arguing either side of the case, preventing any kind of progress.

Message #4129519

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:22:46 -0000

Would you want you on a jury if you were on trial?

Message #4129454

Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:42:46 -0000

Jury duty sucks. That is all.

Message #4127142

Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:13:16 -0000

I kind of wish I could easily write like this: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!msg/alt.language.artificial/ZL4e3fD7eW0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ The non-Germanic loanwords were dropped in favor of a form of English where the words derive from German, and words created in this language use Germantic rules.

Message #4126591

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:56:11 -0000

Just replace the nipple ring with a teething ring, problem solved.

Message #4126554

Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:53:21 -0000

Janet Jackson is pregnant at 50. I hope she isn't going to breast feed, that baby might hurt itself on that huge nipple ring.

Message #4110069

Sat, 03 Sep 2016 18:08:56 -0000

browncoats!

Message #4106035

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:20:16 -0000

missing blueshirts (tsa) (tub stackers of america)

Message #4105639

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:09:00 -0000

I am offended by being called "just plain annoying." I am *exceptionally* annoying.

Message #4104521

Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:58:58 -0000

Thu Aug 18 2016 17:45:47 EDTfrom IGnatius T Foobar

Garibaldi

Yet another different show...

Message #4103845

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:45:47 -0000

Probably should have said brownshirts (Hitler) rather than redshirts (Garibaldi) or blackshirts (Mussolini). But you get the idea. On the other hand, getting a visit from a bunch of Starfleet ensigns would be kind of cool too.

Message #4103799

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:35:55 -0000

Different show.

Message #4103665

Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:32:30 -0000

The redshirts? Those guys who always end up dead?

Message #4103577

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:55:10 -0000

>You sound disappointed you didn't get a body cavity search. I think I'll pass on that, thanks. But it proves that everyone who has ever told me to "expect a visit" from the redshirts because I said or wrote something that offended their sensibilties, was completely wrong. I'm sure someday I'll piss off the wrong person. Until then I'll keep flying the friendly skies.

Message #4095909

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 05:02:03 -0000

> But I was very surprised; I got on a lot of airplanes this week and >not once have I been "randomly" selected for "secondary screening" Funny, you look kind of like a darkie too. I didn't fly for a few years, but from my perspective, those searches aren't happening as much as they did in the early aughts.

Message #4095845

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 21:17:06 -0000

You sound disappointed you didn't get a body cavity search.

Message #4095811

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:49:49 -0000

>Flughts cancelled or IG on the no- [23-fly list? I figured I was on every watch list out there, because I'm not afraid to speak the truth when confronted with Hitlerism in any venue and any medium. But I was very surprised; I got on a lot of airplanes this week and not once have I been "randomly" selected for "secondary screening" (For those not aware, "random secondary screening" means the government hates you and they deliberately give you a body cavity search whenever you enter an airport. Our child molester friend Curly used to get that every time.)

Message #4094079

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:15:05 -0000

Yeah, the humidity is a killer here lately. I've tried to stay inside most of the time. It's unsafe to spend too much time outside. And the computer screens don't read as easily outside anyway.

Message #4094044

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:28:02 -0000

Flughts cancelled or IG on the no-[23-fly list?

Message #4093676

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 01:17:40 -0000

The humidity is ridiculous this week. I've been in North Carolina all week (and stuck here another night due to flights being grounded all over the east coast). 105 degF and what feels like about 300% humidity. You can literally* swim through the air because there's so much moisture in it. * (not literally)

Message #4093547

Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:38:41 -0000

fleeb - I was down in Baltimore for two days the other week and it was terrifyingly brutal down by the Inner Harbor. IK know I'm out of shape, but the 5 block walk in the humidity made me want to cry.

Message #4092551

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:58:04 -0000

(LS wins the Internet today for that one)

Message #4092024

Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:19:36 -0000

In Soviet Germany, Hitler use YOU!!1

Message #4091904

Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:44:13 -0000

When you use too many pull quotes, you're using Hitler!

Message #4091541

Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:44:03 -0000

>>>Pull quotes<<< are bad, mm-kay.

Message #4089508

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:37:33 -0000

well yea... it is hard to look up when you are bent over vomiting.

Message #4089444

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:44:44 -0000

I'm not as concerned about that right now. Funny thing is, when you see a lot of naked people at one time, you don't see anyone naked anymore.

Message #4089362

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 00:51:00 -0000

The people that want to get naked, are not the people you want to see naked.

Message #4089315

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:40:58 -0000

Nudity should not be against the law in any way, shape, or form if the humidity is above 80%. Ugh. This weather sucks.

Message #4085588

Fri, 08 Jul 2016 23:14:22 -0000

That's the way. And now I get to teach even mid-career NCOs how to do it because this important life skill has been lost. That's okay; we somehow survived forgetting how to shine boots and starch uniforms, we'll get through this too.

Message #4085329

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:39:59 -0000

The general knowledge seems to be that if you have a paper shredder, don't leave it set to auto-start because eventually a dog will stick its tounge in it. I don't currently have a dog but ok.

Message #4083528

Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:11:02 -0000

The thing where you fold it up in half, then roll up the lower part of what's left, and then fold down the outer part of the shirt so it looks like a cuff?
My dad taught me how to do that in like... 1987. :)

Message #4081847

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:08:28 -0000

I am wearing my sleeves rolled because I can. Finally, something I learned in ROTC in 1998 is relevant again! (We had a sudden uniform policy change.)

Message #4077069

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:59:46 -0000

It's a bad sign when you can hear students sigh "oh God" in despair during the lecture. (Not me teaching at the time, thanksfully.)

Message #4063782

Fri, 13 May 2016 16:37:31 -0000

Don't be a pinhead.

Message #4063775

Fri, 13 May 2016 15:32:40 -0000

If you say "Gabba Gabba" you lose the right to say "Hey."

Message #4063667

Fri, 13 May 2016 03:46:55 -0000

When thou say "Gabba Gabba" I shalt not say "hey!".

Message #4063659

Fri, 13 May 2016 02:42:54 -0000

If I say "Gabba Gabba" can someone say "hey!"?

Message #4063589

Thu, 12 May 2016 19:57:40 -0000

When I say "Hey" thou shalt not say "Ho". When I say "Hip" thou shalt not say "Hop". When I say, he say, she say, we say, make some noise - kill me.

Message #4053166

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:14:50 -0000

I don't know why people treat dandelions as weeds. Your lawn is dotted with pretty flowers for a couple of weeks ... so what?

Message #4047872

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:40:42 -0000

I can build anything you want if you draw a picture of it on the back of a big enough check.

Message #4047853

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 21:12:47 -0000

Some days there is not enough coffee in the world...

Message #4047553

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:33:41 -0000

Glitter on your cheese balls? No... I know better. He means the testicles. Something about sparkling testicles kinda warms the heart.

Message #4047532

Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:42:47 -0000

There is food in the refrigerator that I need to eat before the teenage vacuum cleaner gets home.

Message #4044575

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 05:57:46 -0000

I have a hanker for a hunk of cheese! A 5 LB block of cheese.

Message #4042145

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:50:09 -0000

I hate it when I get glitter on my balls.

Message #4040578

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:49:51 -0000

Stacks of snacks!

Message #4039674

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:55:58 -0000

Oooooooh yeaaaaaaaah

Message #4039051

Sun, 27 Mar 2016 01:39:26 -0000

How about a nice Hawaiian punch?

Message #4037781

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:07:59 -0000

I ran down the road, pants down to my knees Screaming "please come help me, that Canadian shaman gave a little too much to me!" And I'm writing a novel because it's never been done before

Message #4036881

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:54:44 -0000

fnord

Message #3994362

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 03:40:08 -0000

Anyone who appears on TV or the Internet in a lab coat is a professional, and you should definitely trust them.

Message #3989539

Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:05:08 -0000

Ew, what are you, a reincarnation of James Joyce?????

Message #3987675

Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:09:48 -0000

Say hi to Markoff Cheney for me.

Message #3987042

Sun, 13 Dec 2015 13:01:47 -0000

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Message #3981041

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:43:37 -0000

with a better utf8-version:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Message #3981040

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:41:17 -0000

the don't care emotricon: ~\_(# )_/~

Message #3980985

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:05:58 -0000

Thought for the day: The next time you think someone really has it in for you, give it some more thought. They might just be an arrogant jerk to everyone.

Message #3978923

Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:27:28 -0000

Fred Schneider, B-52s, the bomber, what I would like to see happen to Hollywood, One Day At A Time was filmed in Hollywood.

Message #3978353

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:35:19 -0000

Fred Schneider from the B-52's. HOP IN MY CHRYSLER IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE AND IT'S ABOUT TO SET SAIL!!!

Message #3978273

Thu, 12 Nov 2015 04:44:55 -0000

Fred Schneider from One Day at a Time?

Message #3971735

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:11:28 -0000

I can go from 'Mr. Peabody' to 'Transvestites' in three conceptual leaps. Mr. Peabody and Sherman was a gag based on the idea of a dog and his boy. A Boy And His Dog is a movie that won a Hugo award, featuring Don Johnson and the dog that would later play the part of 'Benji' in those fairly popular movies. The dog who played 'Benji' was thought of as a male dog, but was actually female. So... 'transvestites'.

Message #3970690

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:34:17 -0000

I was going to do a schtick about how Fred Schneider and Rand Paul could be twins, or maybe the same person and has anyone ever seen them together at a party etc. etc. So I did a Google image search for Fred Schneider, and right at the top, Rand Paul came up under "related searches" I guess I'm not the first to go there.

Message #3969006

Mon, 12 Oct 2015 03:46:57 -0000

Sorry, tripled.

Message #3968950

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:57:59 -0000

Yeah. I also noticed it was broken. Someone was not having a good day.

Message #3968289

Thu, 08 Oct 2015 17:39:51 -0000

Uhm Ig... So much wrongness.

Message #3967769

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:31:05 -0000

http://kaching.tumblr.com/post/130595098073/the-biggest-mental-disease-of-our-time

Message #3964520

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:49:32 -0000

Ew.

Message #3964354

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:37:16 -0000

This morning I found a used condom in my driveway. Not sure what conclusion to draw from that.

Message #3953702

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:16:56 -0000

Can some aide please remove zooers message, I am away and can not do it from this location. Thx.

Message #3953672

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:57:45 -0000

Philly cheese steak is not kosher ... the vast zionist conspiracy would not approve.

Message #3953671

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:41:49 -0000

Talking about the four delete messages isn't very good censorship. Surely the white wealthy Bilderberg Illuminati Zionists Mason Lizards that met at a Skull and Crossbones meeting in college who work at the NSA and run this place would know that. That message was placed there to discredit those who know the truth!

Message #3953302

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:45:41 -0000

I'd like to thank the four different people who answered Zooer's question. Please be aware, however, that your answers have been redacted.

Message #3953294

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:18:19 -0000

Message #3950352

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:00:24 -0000

Wild, and wonderful. Heh.

Message #3950271

Sun, 19 Jul 2015 00:08:40 -0000

My route planner focused exclusively on finding hotels with elevators he wanted to see. I exercised executive decision and insisted that while on the road we stay at IHG hotels where possible, since I have a rewards club card with them. So both times we came through West Virginia (on the way to and from Kentucky) we stayed at Holiday Inn properties. It wasn't a hard sell, once I pointed out that if I earn enough points we can use it for a free night somewhere just for fun. It became an even bigger win when my rewards club card got us a free upgrade to a suite. But we were still in West Virginia.

Message #3948651

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:08:02 -0000

You need to discuss your stopping points with your route planner. Also, this makes me happy. http://www.lfg.co/tda/strip/74/

Message #3947209

Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:54:24 -0000

Two license plates come to mind... WEST VIRGINIA 7 MILLION PEOPLE - 7 LAST NAMES and DELAWARE THE THINKING MAN'S WEST VIRGINIA

Message #3947194

Mon, 13 Jul 2015 00:09:54 -0000

Message #3947190

Sun, 12 Jul 2015 23:41:59 -0000

Not work related. Making our way back home now, and we're in West Virginia for the night. This hotel supposedly has a T1, which means it's been quite a while since they updated either their Internet connection or their marketing materials. Everyone we've seen in the elevators had a six pack in their hand. Those people are probably all watching porn now and destabilizing my Internet connection, I can't even keep an SSH session open.

Message #3947121

Sun, 12 Jul 2015 01:31:04 -0000

Kentucky?? work related?

Message #3946903

Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:37:00 -0000

Speaking of the South ... I happen to be in Kentucky right now. These people are really proud of their horses (beautiful animals!), their bourbon (hyper yummy, gimme some of that!) and their really shitty college basketball team.

Message #3944397

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:03:17 -0000

Correct. In a nutshell it represents states' rights. The assault against the Confederate flag isn't about racism; its an assault on the tenth, first, and eventually second amendments. The liberal left is hard at work establishing an Orwellian regime of punishing what they deem to be thoughtcrime.

Message #3944012

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:50:12 -0000

It isn't about the flag, and it obviously isn't about the deaths of all those innocent lives. The flag represents secession, it represents rebelling against federal government, it represents disagreement

Message #3944005

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:58:55 -0000

"9000 years ago during the "Mech Wars" a group of locals working at the last Dixie Cup factory found themselves under attack from retarded liberal activists who hated the cup maker and all that it stood for... holders of tasty beverages! These liberal idiots were part of a local 405 Mech Clan and decided to destroy the last Dixie Cup factory. What they did not expect is that these local men were fans of tasty beverages and believed in freedom of drinks and alcohol. They wanted no part in being told what or how much they could drink. These men of action suited up and thus the Great Dixie War began. After 200 years of conflict the liberal idiots were repelled and tasty beverages flow free... once again... thanks to the Defenders of the Dixie Cups! Today the last remnants of these brave men live on traveling amongst the stars and continue to fight for the right to consume tasty beverages and smash liberal zealot idiot tree hugging open mouth breathing tools where ever they may be found." (some sort of weird game guild, I think ... http://tinyurl.com/pw3257k )

Message #3942972

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:50:17 -0000

hm, jira... I failed several times to sign up to the jenkins jira...

Message #3942096

Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:06:56 -0000

Any time I hear people talking about JIRA it's the same thing ... all angst, all annoyance, no joy.

Message #3941245

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 15:55:56 -0000

Ah yes.. JIRA... Know that irony far too well.

Message #3941234

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:48:28 -0000

Status: RESOLVED Resolution: Unresolved Well, thanks for that, JIRA

Message #3936981

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:13:52 -0000

Once upon a time I was in Afghanistan, where it was very hot and generally quite miserable. The infantry we were with were not very diligent about drinking enough water and had gotten dependent on their medic to give them IV saline solutions on a disturbingly regular basis. He finally announced that he was tired of sticking people in the arm and going through the IV bags too fast, so henceforth, all IV bags would be administered anally. Allegedly, your body can absorb it much faster that way so it's sort of an emergency measure, normally speaking. People got much better about proper hydration.

Message #3936977

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 13:51:53 -0000

A few years ago I was in the hospital and very sick. I was on IV feed bag and could not take anything orally I asked for something for the mild pain I was in. They brought me Tylenol and the nurse had a rubber glove and some lubricant. I then had to ask, "You want to stick those where?" Yes, they inserted two Tylenol in my ass. Oddly enough I had a severe intestine infection so it was very odd to me. I used to read a satire site called Blame Bush, the owner played the part of a far left wing liberal who routinely got different types of enemas because it was the something for all liberals to do.

Message #3936788

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:05:28 -0000

Coffee enemas are a big thing. They clear your bowels and caffeinate you at the same time, so people claim they cure all kinds of diseases... where they actually only cure constipation and lack of caffeine.

Message #3936785

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:48:47 -0000

All I want is for my rivals to immediately meet their end in a fashion consistent with the way arch-villains die in James Bond movies. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Message #3935704

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:43:09 -0000

It should also list it as one of the delivery mechanisms for dem/lib/left/commie propaganda...

Message #3935683

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 13:21:16 -0000

Wikipedia lists "enema" as one of the routes of administration for caffeine... .oO( hmm )

Message #3918395

Fri, 01 May 2015 00:02:51 -0000

But if Caesar doesn't demand it, don't argue with the man.

Message #3918260

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:14:14 -0000

Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's.

Message #3918258

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:12:15 -0000

Churches pay no taxes. But why me? I'm a non-prophet entity.

Message #3905349

Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:27:48 -0000

BEHOLD! The Power of Bullshit!

Message #3905078

Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:35:40 -0000

"My common sense is no match for your political correctness!"

Message #3898557

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:11:10 -0000

Message #3889161

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:05:56 -0000

Terminal cancer patients put up less of a fight.

Message #3889004

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 23:40:02 -0000

Well, a room full of terminals is certainly easier to maintain than a room full of malware-- er, I mean PC's.

Message #3888840

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:17:44 -0000

The one form of it that would not necessarily be so terrible.

Message #3888456

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 12:58:44 -0000

If a room that once housed dozens of full size computers is being gradually migrated to diskless thin clients, could it be said to have terminal cancer?

Message #3870491

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:37:14 -0000

Heat pumps are often rated at 250% to 300% efficiency. But again it's a trick; that number is attained by moving heat around rather than generating it directly from the fuel.

Message #3869569

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:36:55 -0000

Modern oil and gas central heating boilers also go beyound 100% effectivity - they do this with a trick. The fire also produces whater which comes as steam.

Condensating that whater gives a lot of additional energy..

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennwertkessel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensing_boiler

Message #3869407

Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:22:18 -0000

When the space shuttle was being launched the announcer would say that engines are at 106%, it was explained that the measuring standard never changed but with design and technology improvements the engines operated more

Message #3869261

Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:33:38 -0000

Percentages are weird.

Message #3869223

Fri, 23 Jan 2015 08:42:44 -0000

I recently came across something similar, were two companies had 107% of all market profits. It was explained, that this is possible, because the other companies combined lost 7% of their money on this market.

Message #3868381

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:18:34 -0000

John: That's nacho cheese. Joe: I never sid it was....

Message #3868329

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:00:39 -0000

In statistics this is a common thing; you can speak of a figure going up or down by a certain percentage; i.e. a +xx% or -xx% change. The wheel of cheese makes it a difficult, but delicious, analogy. "Giving someone less than 0% of" the cheese does seem to imply that you are mandating them to give *you* cheese.

Message #3868092

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:50:58 -0000

Less than 0% of something, eh. What is this, Obamanomics?

Message #3867940

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:14:47 -0000

Hmm...

Message #3867899

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:48:47 -0000

Yes it is possible using Swiss cheese. If you cut out the holes in Swiss cheese and give only the holes to

Message #3867895

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:43:54 -0000

I saw what I presume was a spelling mistake, but it has me wondering... Can you have less than 0 percent of something? If you are holding a wheel of cheese, and you want to give someone less than 0 percent of it, what does that really mean? Are you wanting that person to contribute to the wheel of cheese, or are we slipping into some weird theoretical mathematics where this model doesn't quite hold up... a case where a negative percentage has a meaning that doesn't quite fit into the idea of a part of something?

Message #3863424

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:48:34 -0000

Oh, wouldn't that be grand! The Galactorrites, known for extreme cases of galactorrhea. A messy species to work with.

Message #3863400

Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:35:45 -0000

And it sounds like something from science fiction. If it's an alien from another part of the universe who has that problem while visiting Earth, it's intergalactic galactorrhea.

Message #3859262

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:00:13 -0000

Fun word to add to your lexicon: galactorrhea The sponaneous flow of milk from the breast unrelated to the normal milk production of breast-feeding. Can occur in men as well as women.

Message #3854042

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:50:56 -0000

Message #3854005

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:37:52 -0000

But, specifically, what kind? Great Dane? Poodle? Pug?

Message #3853374

Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:06:21 -0000

a bitch.

Message #3849020

Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:59:49 -0000

Message #3816961

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:18:36 -0000

I know very little about the NFL, but I know they're only trying to copy Detroit.

Message #3816279

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:22:11 -0000

Well, the Oakland Raiders have maintained their perfect record: 0-9. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Message #3810109

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:22:45 -0000

We really need to look into revoking your license to handle uranium.

Message #3809117

Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:31:14 -0000

When you create something, you store power within it. Destruction is merely unleashing the power someone stored. So, in many ways, the act of creating implies a greater capacity for power than destruction.

Message #3806688

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:55:00 -0000

Volkswagen: Fahrvergnuegen (the fun of driving [a VW beetle]) Tee Shirt: Fahrvergnookie (two VW beetles humping)

Message #3806575

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:26:42 -0000

Another beuautiful german word for you:

EinzugsErmächtigung

its a withdrawal alowance you can give telcos etc. to charge you your monthly bill.

Message #3805965

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:40:33 -0000

Message #3802109

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:16:10 -0000

I kinda feel like dipping into the entropy pool.

Message #3792866

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:55:06 -0000

As for the Good Morning room, I'm kinda leaving it up to your own interpretation as to what I'm doing with that, but please feel free to join in if it feels right.

Message #3792819

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:07:02 -0000

... Golden Eels? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgtNuhOH2q8

Message #3792689

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:32:54 -0000

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Message #3790816

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:02:39 -0000

No, but he toads the wet sprocket.

Message #3788735

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:37:02 -0000

Bet you don't even bite the wax tadpole either. Amateurs.

Message #3785631

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:35:18 -0000

hm, fancily a magarite in germany is the biggere daisy flower, not with the button sized flower, but rather like a pringles chips can

Actually you can say Gaensebluemchen pretty nicely.

I wonder how Finish or Russian compares to these ;-)

Message #3785242

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:13:16 -0000

How to pronounce words in various languages including German.

Message #3785226

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:54:44 -0000

the most beautiful german phrases on one short page:

http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/weird-german-words-vocabulary/

(yes, they're all used frequently - enjoy ;-)

Message #3784907

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 12:34:22 -0000

I don't think they care. They appear to have more interest in fashion than acting these days.

Message #3784693

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:19:21 -0000

Random Musing of the day. Pretty much the whole world told the Olsen Twins how they could stay relevant after they became adults. They chose to ignore the advice. And now they're has-beens.

Message #3781424

Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:33:29 -0000

Heh. "Potenital"... Must be a Nun Thing.

Message #3780790

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:47:29 -0000

I didn't know he was Greek

Message #3780293

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:42:17 -0000

EVerybody likes to get stoned!

Message #3780283

Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:18:52 -0000

>something, but not much, and does not last long. Orajel seems to be >quite a bit superior. Like a gig man, like get stoned Oh wait, that was something else...

Message #3779689

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:40:09 -0000

I think I just found a new misspelling that I rather like. Potenital It looks like some kind of medication, but it's just the word 'potential' misspelled. And a google search reveals that it's a very popular misspelling. I even found a URL someone misspelled in this way: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/americas-south-america/topics/po tenital-south-america-itinerary?page=1

Message #3779576

Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:39:33 -0000

Oh, yeah, I've seen that scene in Marathon Man. Gads... As opposed to Little Shop of Horrors, heh.

Message #3779563

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:54:56 -0000

I had three fillings this morning. That is too many to do at once, I have decided.

Message #3779518

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:05:53 -0000

oil of clove - yeah, Lisa bought some for me. It appears to do something, but not much, and does not last long. Orajel seems to be quite a bit superior. I think a dentist could perhaps make use of oil of clove, but would have to keep continuously applying it. You seen that scene from Marathon Man? (Yikes!) One more day of this. Today's appointment with the oral surgeon was just an initial consultation.

Message #3779314

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:16:10 -0000

I recall using cloves when I had a nasty toothache in college (and had no money to do much of anything with it). I don't recall the cloves doing much good, honestly, other than making my tongue a bit numb. But then, maybe the pain was bad enough that it did work, in that I only felt some of the pain and not all of it.

Message #3777947

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:39:59 -0000

quite possibly.

Message #3777946

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:36:22 -0000

Sounds like a bad interaction between codeine and caffeine. Try to find an OTC product without the caffeine.

Message #3777944

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:33:54 -0000

or maybe the nausea was an adverse reaction to doing Amadeus systems integration on a weekend--it's a toss-up. (where is the ygorl/farokh OH GOD THE PAIN service when you need it?)

Message #3777942

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:31:47 -0000

that sounds like exactly what I've been taking - codeine/acetamiophen/caffeine. OTC effervescent stuff from Ireland. cure might be worse than the disease--I just fought off a pretty horrendous wave of nausea. that's gone now. hope this orajel does the trick because that might be the last time I'm taking that nasty stuff...

Message #3777913

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:53:35 -0000

Message #3777912

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:53:00 -0000

I hope your tooth pain goes away. I had a Canadian friend and used to get 222s from her when she would visit. I don't think they are OTC anymore in Canada. Codeine, acetaminophen, caffeine. Every once and a while I would take one, just one not the two recommended I just needed one to get over aches. I miss it. When I had a bad toothache on a Saturday night I took some Tylenol, the pain got worse as the night went on. I was in a lot of pain, I took one of my father's pain pills from when he broke his hip. Waaalaaaa. I could think straight again. I flossed my teeth and used one of those in between the teeth brush/pick thingies. Out popped a piece of food that had gotten lodged. I rinsed with some salt water and I was golden. No more pain,

Message #3777897

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:49:19 -0000

LOL. Yeah, that straw. In my childhood (in the 80s, not the 50s) Cheracol with codeine was still available behind the prescription counter, without a prescription. You just had to sign for it and promise to be good. I think that is still the case in some states, but it varies state-by-state.

Message #3777880

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:33:34 -0000

Codeine over the counter is only a distant memory from my childhood (1950s) here in the US. Here it is considered opiate and is very heavily watched for MD "overprescribing." When I was a kid there were quite a few over-the-counter opiates available. I don't remember the names other than one, "Gum Balm" which was the one my mother would keep handy for those pesky adult teeth that kept poking through my gums starting around age 6 or so. Of course, it kept the Tooth Fairy busy and the piggy bank happy! All of that went away completely by roughly 1960. There remains the fable that Coca Cola once contained trace amounts of cocaine. It really cannot be proven either way, but those of us who grew up in that era distinctly remember the stern warnings to never use Coke to chase down that aspirin tablet! And the similarities - you use a straw with coke and also with Coke (although I've never seen anyone try to drink a coca cola through a twenty dollar bill). And of course .... Things Go Better With Coke!

Message #3777879

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 16:21:45 -0000

Dentist is booked for monday. I have some codeine thing that is available OTC in Ireland. For the moment. Thanks for the tip on Oragel..

Message #3777865

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:47:19 -0000

You should have that treated at the Farokh Center For OH GOD THE PAIN I hear Ygorl works there as a consultant...

Message #3777853

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:28:49 -0000

Dental pain truly sucks. I hope it passes soon.

Message #3777765

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 05:58:43 -0000

If it is a cavity (as opposed to an infected root) you might try OraGel. It is available at just about every pharmacy and most well-stocked supermarkets. Over the counter (no prescription needed). Use as directed and put directly onto the cavity. Works wonders. Again this is a short term thing to "tide you over" until you can get to the dentist.

Message #3777764

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 05:56:22 -0000

Two Excedrin tablets. Repeat every 4 to 6 hours. Excedrin is (almost) a specific for dental pain. Eventually it will not work. But it should get you to Monday. See a dentist. ASAP. --Me

Message #3777649

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:51:37 -0000

Gah, this toothache is becoming horrendous. I feel almost like I have CANCER AND AIDS. Oh god, then pain.

Message #3777638

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:37:45 -0000

Maybe you should have used FedEx instead of carrier pigeon?

Message #3776453

Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:48:25 -0000

TCP/IP, yes.

Message #3776185

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:40:12 -0000

fleeb: eh, I hear you gotta package for me?

Message #3776041

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:00:10 -0000

If you're referring to the construction tool, as applied to their head, obviously not: http://thebeespace.net/2008/08/06/tool-list-warre-hive-construction-guide/

Message #3776039

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:55:34 -0000

maybe their plane crashed? ;-)

Message #3775699

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:39:27 -0000

The device works as intended, so they didn't mess it up. But, yeah, I would have preferred USPS if this is de rigeur for FedEx. Worst experience, ever. I need to finish writing a letter for them, detailing the many things that went wrong, on the odd chance that they'll consider fixing it. This... is completely unacceptable.

Message #3775260

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:41:15 -0000

USPS knows how to get it there (eventually - i.e. don't pay to expedite as it all arrives at the same speed). It might be crushed, but it will get there (former USPS worker).

Message #3775022

Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:06:46 -0000

This concerns me more than a little. I have two new wheel bearing assemblies en route for Mrs. Sig's new-to-us 2005 Ford Focus via FedEx.

Message #3774971

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:24:09 -0000

Sad, because FedEx *used* to be cream of the crop. Recently, plain old USPS has been more reliable than any of the 3 "private" brands.

Message #3774952

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:41:33 -0000

The package finally arrived a couple of minutes or so ago. Man, that was the worst delivery service I've ever seen.

Message #3774698

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:19:24 -0000

Aaand sometime between about 5pm and 6pm, someone changed the delivery to indicate that I would be picking it up at the facility. Nobody at this address made any such change. I couldn't handle it earlier, as I was driving, but Melvin contacted someone, who promptly ignored the problem. So, I called them, and yelled. Very loudly. Outside where the 222 people who live in this community could clearly hear me. People in the neighborhood are in complete agreement with me about the problems they have also had trying to FedEx to deliver parcels here. I eventually got someone who was supposedly a manager, who told me the same tired crap I've been hearing... that I'll get it tomorrow. That really isn't good enough. That said, if it doesn't get to my home by tomorrow, I'm not going to get it by FedEx, because nobody will be around here for the rest of the week. Tomorrow, incidentally, marks a full week after they were supposed to deliver it the first time. If you use FedEx, be careful where you send the package. It might never make it.

Message #3774262

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:54:27 -0000

The company who shipped the order with them told me they'll hang onto it for two days if they fail to deliver it to me toda. I told them that would be pointless... I can't pick it up, as they are too far away for me to drive by and get it by the time I get home. I said if they can't deliver it, have them use another company who can (at their expense). Otherwise, it'll have to go back to them. I hope it doesn't come to that. At the end of the day, I'm buying this so I can set up IPv6 at home. I want to tinker with it.

Message #3774261

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:38:52 -0000

FedEx could have saved Malaysia Air 370. All that would have disappeared would have been a note saying "we tried to make this plane go missing but you were not here to accept it"

Message #3774220

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:09:43 -0000

Don't worry, Aahz. We'll send out the search party that went after the Malaysia Airlines. I'm sure you'll land....somewhere at somepoint....

Message #3774216

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:56:03 -0000

I'll never get there if I have fleeb's delivery staff.

Message #3774209

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:15:57 -0000

... and aahz shows up with a sneak attaq. Very cute. we'll mail you to abu dhabi. Fedex.

Message #3774187

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:02:33 -0000

I am feeling insensible about the whole thing.

Message #3774172

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:39:24 -0000

and lost all sense too.

Message #3774155

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:40:42 -0000

Gads, I just reread what I wrote. "..the FedEx manager's don't care." What's wrong with me? Am I so angry, I've lost all sense of grammar?

Message #3774081

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:08:35 -0000

We experience similar behavior with DHL recently and also with Hermes (who always sucked). Since we live on our own property in a single house, the delivery guys would normally drop the packages somewhere at "hidden" spots. Or they would drop them at our neighbors, who are retired and therefore always at home. Now, we get more and more notes that a delivery failed and we should pick up the packages at the post office. Even if somebody is at home and watching the entire front area of the house, they sometimes seem to simply skip delivery at all.

Hermes even went so far to not deliver at all, claiming the addressee would not live at our house. The label on our postbox is badly readable, but the sorry excuses gain traction.

Message #3773995

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 06:23:14 -0000

it seems as if you need significant amounts of brain power to understand a foreign language, theres not enough left to fulfill even rather simple things like typing something into a terminal, or operating a multiple choice matrix becomes a real problem.

we experienced similar when DELL moved their call centers from germany to hungry.

Message #3773737

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:13:58 -0000

Can't argue with that, fleeb, as I've found FedEx to be the "toilet of shipping companies" recently. And "recently" corresponds directly with their adoption of the absurd "the only way you can talk to us is through our toll free number" policy. As if a guy named Betty with a Hindu accent is really going to understand *any* situation involving the confluence of geography and a clock expressed by a customer speaking fluent English - even when the customer is intentionally using small common words...

Message #3773734

Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:39:05 -0000

Posted a 'didn't try to leave it for you' note again today. No message on the answering machine, so he didn't even bother trying to call, as requested. It's going to get sent back if they fail to get it to me one last time. The driver doesn't care. I suppose the FedEx manager's don't care. Only the shipper and I care. Worst service I have *ever* experienced with a delivery company.

Message #3771356

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:53:32 -0000

(And, for the record, this is FedEx Ground... usually, I experience this with UPS).

Message #3771355

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:53:16 -0000

Aaand, yeah, the rage is grown a bit. Called and impotently asked for them to please send me the package that should have been delivered yestereday, and also asked what recourse I have to correct this issue. Really not much I can do. "Customer Advocacy" strikes me as a buzzword that means 'Further fuck everything up' so I'm not sure how well I'll enjoy that experience. They said I could call the station manager and rage on or something over there, but shit, I don't see how that will work, either. I should check to see how much I paid for this delivery and point out how much money they've lost from having me waste their precious time with phone calls (they record all the calls, which is an added expense) to kinda show that they're being fucking idiots. Although I don't know if anyone cares, honestly.

Message #3771303

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:21:03 -0000

I'll get to that video when I can... it looks amusing. At the moment, I'm wondering why FedEx tracking states that my package is at the local FedEx facility, and not on a truck headed to my home at 14:20 hrs when yesterday it was on the vehicle to be ignored at 04:01 hrs.

Message #3771295

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:23:02 -0000

I hear drinking Hatorade works wonders, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukhn7FtyUKg

Message #3771281

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:36:31 -0000

I'm trying to embrace my inner hate today, but it's kind of difficult for me.

Message #3771276

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:25:10 -0000

(*cue "benzos suck" conversation*)

Message #3771240

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:59:57 -0000

Message #3771233

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:29:45 -0000

> you *would* say that. Namespace collisions do not necessarily mean that I endorse anything other than a logical exclusive and.

Message #3771166

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:37:19 -0000

Oh, and some puckering sphinctoid cut me off in traffic this morning.

Message #3771165

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:36:16 -0000

I feel fueled by hatred and anger this morning. FedEx Ground failed to deliver my package, citing that there wasn't anyone there to receive it. So, I guess Melvin is chopped liver? I phoned FedEx, found a hapless human being (with a mild Hispanic accent, which was actually kind of entertaining), and angrily asked how they propose to deliver something to me if their driver refuses to actually try. I am actually willing to let them go through their three-day churn and return just to cost them money on this.

Message #3770765

Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:23:37 -0000

and you *would* say that.

Message #3770764

Wed, 10 Sep 2014 21:23:26 -0000

you *would* say that.

Message #3770761

Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:52:59 -0000

I'm rather fond of exclusive-and (xand). The idea of "both and *only* both" is nice and redundant.

Message #3770015

Wed, 10 Sep 2014 05:39:43 -0000

How about (nor), and or (nand)?

Message #3768891

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:31:17 -0000

>Kinda the distributive property I would guess. Does it apply with Literally the distributive property, I think, if you use boolean algebra as it was defined in your discrete maths textbook: boolean multiplication (and) and boolean addition (or)

Message #3768865

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:51:36 -0000

Yes. You can substitude x, y, and z for a, b, and c; and it will still work.

Message #3768177

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:46:43 -0000

Kinda the distributive property I would guess. Does it apply with things swapped out?

Message #3768157

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 02:36:27 -0000

a && (b || c) == a && b || a && c

Message #3768144

Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:12:49 -0000

tuna trombone

Message #3768034

Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:05:19 -0000

Message #3763037

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:09:32 -0000

Oh, I see what you did there...

Message #3762959

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:26:31 -0000

Initiate Nail Removal Immediately

Message #3762834

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 20:29:32 -0000

Message #3762785

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:21:46 -0000

Set phasers to "julienne"

Message #3762709

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:14:38 -0000

Message #3762107

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 23:20:51 -0000

Jesus wept.

Message #3761830

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:36:55 -0000

I laughed.

Message #3761546

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:24:43 -0000

Message #3760936

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:00:09 -0000

It didn't work.

Message #3760515

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:53:38 -0000

Message #3760267

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:47:22 -0000

Message #3754156

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:32:21 -0000

In Soviet Russia, Earthlings hate you.

Message #3753990

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:31:54 -0000

Mostly.

Message #3753479

Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:32:37 -0000

fleeb, that was extremely xenophobic of you. I think you just hate earthlings.

Message #3751183

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:31:04 -0000

Not in the grand scheme, no. Maybe in a smaller scheme, though, it does.

Message #3751179

Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:04:43 -0000

so... in the grand scheme of things getting three scoops of ice cream instead of one scoop of sherbet really doesn't mater.

Message #3751076

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 22:02:11 -0000

Message #3750937

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 13:26:41 -0000

The expression 'in the grand scheme of things' is perhaps flawed. Because, truly, in the grand scheme of things, all of human existance is a mere blip of a time when the conditions of a tiny planet in po-dunk nowhere in the outer fringe of an obscure galaxy had just the right set of conditions that won't last terribly long.

Message #3750915

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:34:26 -0000

Not nice but *very* effective. << reaches for The Button ... >>

Message #3750562

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:31:21 -0000

An observation for the day: Nature has a way of curing ills, as observed amongst animals. It's just not very nice about it.

Message #3748723

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:16:33 -0000

It will let me down, though.

Message #3748704

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:14:11 -0000

It's never gonna to give you up.

Message #3748165

Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:30:07 -0000

Message #3748157

Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:10:56 -0000

Why is my brain Rick-Rolling me?

Message #3744905

Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:51:35 -0000

I'm looking over old stuff I wrote on G+, and I'm marvelling that I actually came up with the sentence: "Of course, I don't have plant overlords beaming disparaging messages into my brain for my wantonly frivolous ability to scurry about on a pair of meat-things I extruded." I'm sure nobody will find this gem in my lifetime. But I like it.

Message #3744825

Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:48:50 -0000

The funny part about that is that a large portion of the "Nigerian economy" *is* scam revenue.

Message #3744216

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:37:49 -0000

http://tinyurl.com/lpugahj Oh great. Now they'll be telling me that my paypal account can get 10 million dollars from my uncle.

Message #3743723

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:40:30 -0000

Wheeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Message #3743096

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:30:15 -0000

Message #3743091

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:35:56 -0000

Within the realm of possibilities is .... 345.78

Message #3742944

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:43:37 -0000

The next number is 'X'.

Message #3742925

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:47:22 -0000

What is the next number in this sequence?

Message #3742409

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 03:07:08 -0000

Ouch.

Message #3740212

Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:40:14 -0000

Just don't use the anesthesiologist I had on Tuesday night. Arrogant as all get out, not particularly nice, and oh, the epidural didn't work. At all!

Message #3738562

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:55:47 -0000

Melvin has often requested I use a blunt object as a numbing agent (which might have the happy effect of not requiring the surgeon). I have, so far, not acquiesed.

Message #3738555

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:45:19 -0000

*almost* afraid, Aahz?

Be afraid....be very afraid.....

Message #3738511

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:10:45 -0000

owies.. Just lots of owies.. and um fleeb - I'm almost afraid to find out what sort of numbing agent you use.

Message #3738491

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:45:02 -0000

They expect you to listen carefully, too, because they'll grade your performance as you execute the dental surgery on yourself.

Message #3738481

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:21:52 -0000

It makes you *a* tooth fairy. The established lore around here is that there are numerous tooth fairies, which explains the different kinds of notes that the IGlette receives (and varying degrees of compensation for tooth recycling). When she lost a tooth while on vacation at Disney World, I explained to her (and made sure the resort agreed with me) that Tinkerbell is the acting tooth fairy at all Disney properties. Tink was kind enough to leave a big bunch of balloons at our door that night. Oral surgery is really interesting. They don't use scalpels or any other instruments; they just talk you through the procedure.

Message #3738467

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:34:50 -0000

I just realized something. Tomorrow, Melvin needs to go to an oral surgeon to have a cracked tooth removed. He has to rely upon me to pay for this. This makes me the tooth fairy.

Message #3738281

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:29:44 -0000

Well, some people have been wondering for a while if schools are an appropriate place for thier children.

Message #3738276

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:11:13 -0000

I think the schools are pretty much handling that already.

Message #3737994

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:03:32 -0000

Since such children are probably going to be scarred anyway for having such inappropriate experiences, perhaps one should highlight the inappropriateness of bringing the children along to such things by having sex in front of them. Gay sex.

Message #3737651

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:52:48 -0000

The term is "Time and Place." Most of the time and in most places kids should be kids.. But they should also know when those two things meet up, there are occasional times and places where they should be under control.. Or parents shouldn't be idiots. SOrry, but bringing 3-4 year olds and infants to Planet of the Apes? Not cool. Similar to knowing when the kids have been good at dinner and it's been long enough and time to call it a night. Any parent who "won't let their kids ruin their night out" deserves to be first up against the wall.

Message #3737646

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:32:36 -0000

Not a lot of people survive in IG's utopia. Heh.

Message #3737643

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:29:33 -0000

>is/should be running, playing, and making noise (not shutting up and >sitting still 15hrs a day!). And in general, I personally think our >society doesn't support that enough. Well, right now we live in a society which believes that a child who does not sit down and shut up 15 hours per day is "ADHD" and needs to be medicated. Drugging children who behave like children is an abomination and the people responsible should be summarily executed.

Message #3737524

Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:47:31 -0000

Afraid I have to agree with Bart on this one.

I love children and strongly believe that a large part of childhood is/should be running, playing, and making noise (not shutting up and sitting still 15hrs a day!). And in general, I personally think our society doesn't support that enough.

That said, there really are *also* times when either they need to be able to control themselves - or being as they *are* children, should simply not be present.

For example, last night I attended Planet of the Apes in a movie theatre. A couple of parents brought their two 3-4 year olds and an infant (maybe...a year old?). They spent the entire movie yelling, giggling, crying, and shouting. Not only did that annoy an entire theatre of people who had each paid a fee to watch a movie unmolested - but I don't think being in such a loud, violent film was so good for the kids, either. In Bart's case, he is in a workplace.

There are simply certain situations where a child's right to be a child needs to be balanced with the "other people's" right/requirement to not be disturbed by other people's children's misbehavior.

Message #3737517

Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:11:47 -0000

well, if it doesn't have to be heard all the time - yea I'm with you.

next to my old office (till the end of month) there are 4 kids, and one of them is crying - so round about if the weather is good from 9 o'clock in the morning till 19 o'clock in the evening one (or more) of them is crying or shouting.

One of the things i'm not gonna miss about this job.

Message #3737424

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:26:58 -0000

People who say "children should be seen and not heard" should be neither seen nor heard.

Message #3734960

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:26:32 -0000

Well, maybe if it were the general population I might feel better about it, but she isn't doing this for altruistic reasons. Money and all that.

Message #3734953

Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:57:34 -0000

Yeah... but adults are really just children who lived long enough to become bigger. If a person didn't learn the tools to think critically and that person is still small, it's easy to understand, but if that person never learned to think and lived and grew big, and they still don't know how to think, better to find someone who can teach them than not. Now, if someone could teach me proper sentence structure, wouldn't we all be better off? But seriously, rather than focus on how sad it is that people need to be taught, rejoice in the fact that people who need to be taught ARE being taught. That's a win-win situation there.

Message #3734509

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:14:08 -0000

I get it when it comes to a child. Children should learn to think critically, as they may not quite have the tools yet. When you become an adult, though... it's scary. And this lady teaches adults, not children. I dunno how well she teaches it, and how many people fail to get it, though.

Message #3734506

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:06:28 -0000

Fleeb, I disagree. Nowadays there are a small percentage of children that have to be taught to make eye contact, wait until the person speaking finishes, and give an answer that in some way relates to what the other person said. That is something most people just get. Some need to be taught. The fact that they CAN be taught, then continue on in life blending in with most everyone else who just got it is great for everybody. So the same with logical thinking. Ideally, all people would just get it. But since some don't, it's brilliant that someone figured out how to teach it.

Message #3734461

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:47:55 -0000

Absolutely! Brutus Angermaier, with a bow-tie, fez, and a colorful vest.

Message #3734435

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:28:30 -0000

And a fez. 'Cuz fez' are cool.

Message #3733884

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:12:07 -0000

Angermaier. What a great last name! What if your name was Brutus Angermaier? And you wore a bow-tie?

Message #3733873

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:49:10 -0000

Sugary Brain Salad.

Message #3733868

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:31:09 -0000

Brain Salad Surgery...

Message #3733857

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:40:29 -0000

Message #3733345

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:04:43 -0000

I took a symbolic logic course in college, and a philosophy major was desparately trying to pass it so she could get her degree. She had already gone through it twice and failed, this being her third time. I think she failed it again. But I sorta gave her a pass... I figured the hard part for her was in mapping what she already did reasonably well (logic) to the various symbols required to work with logic as one might work with a math problem. She never really got that. But this... this thing that the instructor here teaches isn't trying to deal with abstracting thinking away to variables to manipulate. She's just tring to help teach how to think critically. So... yikes?

Message #3733340

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:52:48 -0000

I have attended philosophy, computational science and psychology courses at the university. You'd think it is kind of a basic skill for people who start philosophy.

Well, it isn't. They try to teach it to you constantly, but you need fertile ground to grow some plants. Sidenote: The people that call themselves "skeptics" should be feared. Most often, they are zealots of a certain kind and only pick at stuff that does not fit their believe system. Think Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

In Computational Science, they teach you a little more logic, but without the semantic implications. They are like the engineering folks, most of them have too little imagination to be skeptical.

In psychology... they were the worst. They are breeding Mengeles there! They have a sharp eye for numbers and definitions, but they do not ask questions. If they didn't have ethics committees, they would probably sew the eyes of kittens shut, just to see if that inhibits their brain development. Oh wait, they do that with approval of ethics committees, and worse.

Real skeptical thinking is a rare condition and I have the strong feeling that it is not really teachable.

Message #3733329

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:05:00 -0000

We have a lady here who teaches students how to think critically. I realize that sounds kind of vague phrased that way. "To think about what critically?" you may be tempted to ask. But... apparently... she teaches people how to apply logical reasoning towards a purpose. Stuff a developer takes for granted. I dunno, but somehow, I feel a little more afraid for humankind that someone has to teach something like that.

Message #3733319

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:06:52 -0000

Weber also steals from himself constantly. I get tired of the same underpinnings to the music.

Message #3733316

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:58:41 -0000

> (All of this is a tad funny to me, though, as I have "Two Ladies" from >Caberet stuck in my head right now. And, yeah, go ahead and laugh >Aahz, go ahead and laugh). Well yes. I'm finding it funny. And ironic.

Message #3733231

Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:22:29 -0000

Heh, some moments are obvious. Others aren't.

Message #3733141

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 21:42:08 -0000

> > There is a sense of it, though... a point beyond which you can't >credibly say that you wrote something yourself. I just find that line >hard to define definitively. > > For Andrew Lloyd Weber and "Phantom" that moment is defined during the last 90 seconds of "The Music of the Night" where all you need do is change the lyrics and it is right from Act II of La Fanciulla del West (Puccini). Even down to the scoring/instrumentation. This one was **so** obvious that even the civil court agreed. Weber will be paying the Puccini estate until "Phantom" goes public domain!

Message #3732930

Wed, 02 Jul 2014 02:44:32 -0000

You're probably right. He cut off his left testicle as a testimony of his love, if I remember.

Message #3732878

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:28:56 -0000

Oh wait, you must be thinking of "0 Magnum Mysterium" (with a zero) by Vittoria (with two t's and an invisible q), the well known Dutch composer.

Message #3732829

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:07:20 -0000

Only you can make forest fires worth observing.

Message #3732411

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:08:18 -0000

Oh heck yeah! I can easily imagine a semi-klesmerized version of Vitoria's O Magnum Mysterium, with clarinets, accordian, and violins flying around in a bizarre yet mocking counterpoint.

Message #3732401

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:21:58 -0000

>of ... oh, I forget whose O Magnum Mysterium (Vitoria, I think), but in >those days they were called parodies, and nobody seemed to think boo Oh yeah, there really isn't anything better than the Weird Al version of O Magnum Mysterium. (Admit it fleeb, as soon as you read that, the arrangement began forming in your head, accordions and all)

Message #3732381

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:29:00 -0000

I knew I might touch a nerve if I made such a statement, heh heh. It's the grey areas that make you think, of course. And I agree that people don't generally consider My Fair Lady an opera, any more than someone would regard Wagner's contributions as musicals. But of course, at the end of the day, they are musical productions of stories placed on stage before an audience (well, if anyone shows up, heh). I love that people have blurred the line between the two. I also find it amusing that some folks created what they called 'rock operas' which might seem to further muddy the waters of what is an opera vs. a musical. As for Weber, heh, it kind of cracks me up that people get passionate about an opportunistic guy with a good ear for what sounds right plaigerizing a bunch of music for his musicals. He's sort of another guy blurring lines... at what point are we plaigerizing music, versus standing on the shoulders of the giants before us to write something else? I've heard several compositions that seem as outright plaigerism of ... oh, I forget whose O Magnum Mysterium (Vitoria, I think), but in those days they were called parodies, and nobody seemed to think boo about it. Hell, entire masses were written based off pop tunes (e.g. Missa L'homme Arme by Des Prez, who wasn't the only person to write something based off L'Homme Arme). There is a sense of it, though... a point beyond which you can't credibly say that you wrote something yourself. I just find that line hard to define definitively.

Message #3732339

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:54:57 -0000

Hm. I was once told by a professor that "opera" and "musical theater" were one and the same; they simply choose different names to appeal to different audiences. I take a very practical approach: if it's written in a language I don't understand, it's opera; if it's written in English, it's musical theater. [[ BIG STUPID GRIN ]]

Message #3732287

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:12:34 -0000

> 2014-06-30 13:57 from fleeb > > Heh, you could kinda call any musical and opera, and vice-versa. > > No, you couldn't. The "line in the sand" seems to be the vocal style (or "squillo" as us opera nuts like to call it) The certain voice-quality present in the singing you find in, for example, "The Sound of Music" or "Guys and Dolls" would *never* pass as operatic by any definition. This is *not* to lessen their importance as music or as theater - just not opera. But there are deliciously tantalizing grey areas. West Side Story Porgy and Bess You will find vehement supporters for both of those works being "opera." And in the case of West Side Story, it borders on Wagnerian - with leitmotivs, "through composing", and more. And West Side Story, when sung and performed by opera-trained singers, is a stunning musical and theatric presentation with impact far beyond Broadway's "normal conception" of "musical theater." I would say the same about Phantom of the Opera, but Andrew Lloyd Weber is such an outright plagiarist that the thought of "that thing" makes me puke. The music was great as Puccini; then Weber came along and stole major themes and in the process ruined Fanciulla del West by the lame associations with Phantom.

Message #3731327

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:58:48 -0000

(All of this is a tad funny to me, though, as I have "Two Ladies" from Caberet stuck in my head right now. And, yeah, go ahead and laugh Aahz, go ahead and laugh).

Message #3731324

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:57:11 -0000

Heh, you could kinda call any musical and opera, and vice-versa.

Message #3731323

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:53:54 -0000

Just about all of Gilbert & Sullivan falls into the "operetta" category, but they are increasingly found in "traditional" houses alongside the more traditional "opera" presentations. IMHO, there is absolutely nothing "wrong" in calling "Pirates" (or any of the others) an "opera."

Message #3731166

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:08:44 -0000

If anyone is gonna write an opera about 'my' life, its gotta be in the spirit of 'The Pirates of Penzance' by Gilbert and Sullivan (i know not true opera -- or is it!!?? :) )

Oh and i nearly bought the domain: emailenthusiasts.org because it tickled me, is it funny or should i start ducking the rocks now? :/

Message #3730522

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:13:44 -0000

If I found myself professionally acting, and found myself compelled to take on an alias for that career, I would have to at least seriously consider the name Way LaBeouf. It's a joke almost nobody could appreciate, but would make me smile whenever someone called my adopted name.

Message #3730231

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:27:40 -0000

I dunno... people seem to be glorifying our government.

Message #3730228

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:13:18 -0000

No one glorifies failures -- unless you simply spell it "fail" -- in which case the Internet's meme machine will sing your praises.

Message #3728539

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:51:24 -0000

Or: "Building on past faieurs, I'll misspell 'failure' again."

Message #3728538

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:50:31 -0000

Heh... you don't tend to hear people say, "Building on past failures..." As in: "Building on past failues, I think I'll play in traffic."

Message #3727889

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:42:45 -0000

Heh... a bel-canto opera of the making of a pariah. That actually would be very appropriate for me.

Message #3727603

Wed, 18 Jun 2014 02:02:01 -0000

> Jun 17 2014 8:59am from fleeb > > lol > > Probably Wagnerian in spirit, just to spite me. > > Or Rossini.... How about "La Fleeba Ladra".... ;)

Message #3727320

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:59:32 -0000

lol Probably Wagnerian in spirit, just to spite me.

Message #3727210

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:00:33 -0000

Not to worry, fleeb. If it is truly a Grand Enough Deed, somoeone will eventually write an opera about it.

Message #3727122

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:51:00 -0000

I have this weird feeling, rightly or wrongly, that I'm about to do something that turns me into a kind of pariah somewhere. Or, at least, it'll piss a lot of people off and I won't understand why.

Message #3723482

Sun, 08 Jun 2014 16:34:28 -0000

oh, whew. thats from the soundtrack of one of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee%27s_Big_Adventure Tim Burtons first masterpiece.

Its indeed about transportation - his stolen cruiser bike.

Message #3723189

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:34:41 -0000

Yes! That sounds like the soundtrack for riding the bus to work, or something like that. Family Guy did this once but I can't find the episode.

Message #3722839

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:57:09 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCDLW7n53A&feature=kp

More mechanical.

Message #3722037

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:31:52 -0000

Message #3719531

Thu, 29 May 2014 20:13:31 -0000

I think, next time I feel moved to tell someone they're lying, I might suggest that their statement lacks truth.

Message #3717680

Wed, 28 May 2014 11:29:30 -0000

Message #3717363

Tue, 27 May 2014 20:07:34 -0000

It feels like a theme to the way my life works. Very mechanical. Not necessarily exciting, but occasionally... certainly busy.

Message #3717351

Tue, 27 May 2014 19:03:45 -0000

That's an exciting bit of music. Is that a theme to your life now, or how you fantasize your life to be? My life, for example, is exceedingly dull and boring, but I wouldn't choose music that sounds boring to be my theme.

Message #3717279

Tue, 27 May 2014 12:42:04 -0000

Weird you say that. I think I've discovered what seems to be my theme, in a bit of cartoon music called "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3FLN0iQ9SQ

Message #3717230

Tue, 27 May 2014 10:59:54 -0000

Message #3717166

Tue, 27 May 2014 02:44:21 -0000

We may all have the ability to carry pre-recorded music around, but we haven't yet reached the stage where we have a customized score for our lives following us everywhere.

Message #3714645

Tue, 20 May 2014 15:41:13 -0000

Once upon a time, in order to hear music, you needed to have someone with an instrument playing the music within earshot. I guess you'd hear more if you yourself owned and instrument and could play. Today we hear music all the time. There are still musicians, and while they are indispensible, we don't need to have them follow us around all day to hear music all day. If music makes people happy, or calm, or just makes people feel good, did the whole world become and even better place once we were all able to easily carry music around and play it all the time?

Message #3714636

Tue, 20 May 2014 15:02:21 -0000

Judy in disguise, well that's a-what you are a-lemonade pies, with a brand new car

Message #3714047

Mon, 19 May 2014 13:24:13 -0000

Heh, I expect they have a dark sense of humor, but I doubt they can comfortably express that humor in a hospital.

Message #3714046

Mon, 19 May 2014 13:22:45 -0000

Fri May 16 2014 12:13:59 EDT from fleeb

In particular, the bit where they sing, "Different strokes for different folks," where during that part of the song, I imagine a video where you see people in different positions stuck in different kinds of wheelchairs.

I'm going to hell.

Made me laugh! You should turn that into a sticker and sneak that into a stroke unit at your local hospital. It would surely brighten the day of some nurses and doctors.

Message #3713625

Sun, 18 May 2014 23:56:35 -0000

mo: I regularly get Beatles tunes stuck in my head. I don't mind them, thankfully. Some of the other stuff that I get in my head, though, aren't as good.

Message #3713624

Sun, 18 May 2014 23:50:57 -0000

zooer: I didn't get the song in my head that you intended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Os-CACRwM8

Message #3713383

Sun, 18 May 2014 09:20:37 -0000

"SHE LOVES YOU , YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! ..."

Get outta that without moving!! ;)

Message #3713121

Fri, 16 May 2014 17:24:52 -0000

Yummy Yummy Yummy I got love in my tummy.

Message #3713107

Fri, 16 May 2014 16:13:59 -0000

As some of you know, I get these songs stuck in my head. Sometimes, the songs come with video. Not necessarily video that actually existed, but ... something. Today's stuck-in-my-head song/video is that old tune 'Everyday People'. In particular, the bit where they sing, "Different strokes for different folks," where during that part of the song, I imagine a video where you see people in different positions stuck in different kinds of wheelchairs. I'm going to hell.

Message #3707334

Mon, 05 May 2014 21:26:28 -0000

putty? terraterm? mobaxterm?

Message #3707306

Mon, 05 May 2014 20:06:13 -0000

In Putin's Union, Russia messes You!

Message #3707221

Mon, 05 May 2014 13:59:57 -0000

We like messes.

Message #3707056

Sun, 04 May 2014 15:48:49 -0000

Message #3706911

Sat, 03 May 2014 21:49:09 -0000

Obviously I require much more refreshment and ought not use microsoft telent but find another clinet. Sorry for the mess.

Message #3706910

Sat, 03 May 2014 21:46:08 -0000

-off topic- Telnet connection keeps getting lost. This is not a complaint but a fun fact. Dialup was better about connections in at least two ways, resilience being one; more of the copper wire on the outside plant and and dedicated sideband and translated FDM channels inside. Greetings from the ghost of the Cat Hair Zone BBS on Fredcit in the 1980s. A Hallowed XT-cased Overclocked to 18MHz 286 with thermal-epoxied-on finned heatsink on the 80286 and an aluminum plate on the memory chips, the case being cooled to 40 deg F by Peltier and a blower, like a little fridge. Well that eventually burned up and is long gone. Too much use of the Twit User command and Twirly Cursor option. Epitaph: Condensate removal measures are fine, if you have a drain. Snuggles ain't here, man, and she's too lazy to do anything for a Klondike bar, but you can look for that k-bar on 69.36.164.11 Shouts to Citadel Ghosts: Xanthippe's and negativland. Like shouts to the vacuum of space, out along the wireless. So I guess there is no 'old but TCP/IP' version that will run on DOS.3.11/95/98. The 'spare' computers here are a bit small for any modern linux dist. There is a 486 and some military V2/LCs (386's). Or do I merely pine for the ancient fijords? Thanks, and maybe I have a renewed interest in Citadel now. my ISP provides several message boards but they don't do it for me like Citadel, and they are like a maze of twisty turny passages, all alike, do they not in any way support telnet or text terminals. [A[B[A[A[A[A[A[A[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[B[A[A[A[A[A[A

Message #3706158

Fri, 02 May 2014 18:47:14 -0000

Message #3705232

Fri, 02 May 2014 17:08:18 -0000

Thursday and thirsty sound alike to me.

Message #3704574

Fri, 02 May 2014 05:00:06 -0000

I have it as Friday. Did your Thursday go bad? I have had that happen on occasion. Wait, I must hold on just a bit to post...

Message #3704537

Thu, 01 May 2014 22:37:57 -0000

It's quite more than a day past Thursday. Actually it's Thursday now, but a different Thursday.

Message #3698342

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:51:09 -0000

Hmmm... it's a day past "Thursday" and still no connectivity to Dogpound2. What's up with that, Freakdog?

Message #3696655

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:00:01 -0000

Oh, actually, I rather like the sound of that... Lettuce-prey... those of us who hunt the vegetables...

Message #3696407

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:32:32 -0000

Lettuce pray...

Message #3696278

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:30:23 -0000

Message #3695699

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:42:15 -0000

Message #3695651

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:30:37 -0000

OBLITERATE !

Message #3695101

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:21:24 -0000

LIE!

Message #3695078

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:09:14 -0000

Message #3692589

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:14:42 -0000

Nope, I am talking about the 040414 040414 combination.

Message #3692465

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 19:02:51 -0000

5:05:15 5/5/15?
Not quite 100 years from now.

Message #3692386

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 05:16:45 -0000

Message #3692132

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:34:37 -0000

zooer - was that the order of activities?

Message #3692114

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:38:50 -0000

dirting schmurfboard

Message #3692103

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:13:58 -0000

Today at 4:04:14 the date looked like 040414 040414, this will not happen for one hundred years. Take the day

Message #3690609

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:45:45 -0000

It's always fun when the instructor is trying to demonstrate the prevalence of this bad security practice with a simple Google search and he can't actually find any examples.

Message #3690560

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:39:14 -0000

saltg I went to a random letter generator site to get some random musings for this room. It returned "saltg" which I

Message #3689835

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:09:07 -0000

I know I like talking to brat friends about our army experiences (yes, it's different, but it very much separates us from our non-brat peers)

Message #3657985

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 19:20:47 -0000

So I'm dealing with this person who seems to be in a pissy mood about 80% of the time. If he were an attorney, he could single-handedly make up the law firm of Jekyll, Hyde, Hyde, Hyde, and Hyde.

Message #3647120

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:08:59 -0000

Nice to see that determination and persistence still mean something.

Message #3647111

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 01:31:04 -0000

Once upon a time, I finished training, went to my first one-weekend-a-month, and found out we were deploying for Afghanistan. I had to sit through another four weeks of tedious contract IT employment, but then we got to mobilize for active duty. But I was not the newest member of the team; one brand new intelligence analyst finished school on Friday, drove home, and mobilized with us on Monday. They put her on a team operating equipment on Blackhawk helicopters. She got airsick every time they went up. She refused to stop. She got better. She fell in love with helicopters. When our piece of the war ended, she came back and asked to become a helicopter pilot. The Army said no. The Air Force said no. The Navy said maybe. The Marines said "Here is your start date." So she filled out paperwork, parted one day as an Army National Guard Sergeant, and commissioned the next as a Marine 2nd Lieutenant. Of course the school dates didn't work out and there were other bumps and delays and whatnot, but now she is all grown up and flies Cobra gunships for the Marine Corps. And we all talk about her from time to time and I use her as an example when talking to my junior soldiers about personal dreams and the Army's plans and how ultimately you will always part ways with the Big Green Mother and it's up to you to figure out when and where and how and why. Anyway, she's stationed in San Diego with her husband, also a Marine aviator, so we're going to get together and talk Afghanistan and helicopters and how everybody else is also grown up now and of that cohort of soldiers who came in at the same time, I'm the only enlisted guy left. It's hard to describe wartime friends and what it means to see somebody from back then. And it's really cool to see her, too, just because she was sort of kid sister to us all and now she outranks us by a fair margin. The Marines got the better end of that deal, but they were smart and jumped on an opportunity.

Message #3644385

Fri, 24 Jan 2014 04:06:31 -0000

Never ever read the student feedback forms before bed. I KNOW this, but I did it anyway.

Message #3643495

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:03:03 -0000

I remember getting free cokes at a USO in Manhattan once. First time I'd heard of one (I was maybe 12 - brat's privilege) :)

Message #3642629

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:09:19 -0000

Gotta make sure I read those acronyms correctlyy... a USO and a UFO are significantly different.

Message #3642135

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 15:42:05 -0000

USOs vary dramatically; the one in which I'm sitting currently (Sea-Tac Int'l) is nice, though a little crowded. Apparently, there is renovation going on and there should be a new, bigger facility soon. The one in San Antonio was basically a few couches and a bookshelf (at least it was in 2005), but quite welcome for all of that. Denver had a brand new one that was quite swanky with leather furniture and a big screen television and various computers and video games and toys for the kids and whatnot when I was last through there in 2006.

Message #3640695

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:54:45 -0000

I know what you mean - most kids who come to the house are totally fine, but there's one little girl who I absolutely cannot stand. And she asks to come over like 2-3 time a week... I mostly just say no.

Message #3640130

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 15:49:46 -0000

Some children can be annoying, but I don't generally take an instant dislike to most of them. But I have met some exceptions. One little girl seemed to be groomed for a life of a slut (she wasn't even in her teens when I met her), which didn't do much to make me like her as she kept trying, with intention, to prevent me from going whereever I wanted to go (and it wasn't with playful intentions). I would have enjoyed feeding her own eyes to her.

Message #3640095

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:23:31 -0000

natural born assholes

too many of them

Message #3639894

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:35:47 -0000

I don't realize how generally nice and pleasant my children are until one of their friends comes over to play with them and I want to choke him out.

Message #3624576

Fri, 27 Dec 2013 02:59:12 -0000

"Auto-responder message: I am out of the office because I am sick of you yutzos bothering me about every little thing. If you require immediate assistance go whine about it to someone else."

Message #3617492

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:09:01 -0000

>I partied like I was 40 when I was 25. That sounds like me as well :) Even when I was 20 or so I looked forward to getting as quickly as possible to the point where I was a homeowner hosting dinner parties.

Message #3613936

Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:12:17 -0000

Seems to me that when I turned 42, I should have automagically received the answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Instead, all I got was this dingy towel....

Message #3613342

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:15:28 -0000

He sure imagined you. I remember when he turned up in your life and just chose you. I don't remember if I ever imagined 35, but I suppose I'm also where I wanted to be in life. It's time to imagine 15 years into the future. Where will we be, and what will we be doing at the time? I imagine I'll be a grandparent in about 10 years, and that I will have learned to play a musicl instrument, and will have sold our house and moved into something smaller. I also imagine myself a teacher for brides for the commandments involved in being married. And maybe I'll live in Ohio.

Message #3613194

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:48:26 -0000

I've never been much of a partier, and I can honestly say that with the exception of my health issues, I'm pretty much where I wanted to be when I was 35...

I mean, I thought I'd marry and have kids younger, but I have a man I love, wonderful kids, and we've finally bought our first home... a nice garden apartment, and it should be fixed up in 3 weeks or so so that we can move in...

Oh, I didn't imagine the dog. But I like him anyway.

Message #3611166

Sun, 08 Dec 2013 03:01:34 -0000

I play poker with this young lady of 43. She partied on her birthday like she was still 22, which made her feel like 100 for two days.

Message #3610925

Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:43:00 -0000

I partied like I was 40 when I was 25.

Message #3602720

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:47:25 -0000

As you go through different phases of life, your needs change. At least that's what I've been told. I'm still waiting to see.

[ obligatory comment about my sister, who likes to "party like it's 1999" (which is to say, she's turning 40 this year but still acts like she's 25) ]

Message #3599835

Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:54:05 -0000

I know. I occasionally wonder I went to.

Message #3598002

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:07:42 -0000

So I just aged right out of it. How about that.

Message #3597820

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:15:53 -0000

you have kids. so your whole brain got re-wired around external responsibilities. excessive introspection is for angsty teenagers and the self-indulgent.

Message #3596602

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:49:40 -0000

You've gotta fight... for the right... to... [hang on, dear, I'm trying to make a statement]

Message #3596588

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:22:07 -0000

afaik Shazam is the Wife in that relationship ;-)

but yes, when the amount of pre-booked time raises, spontanity goes out of the door and you have to fight for it...

Message #3596212

Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:06:53 -0000

Message #3596194

Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:38:19 -0000

In my youth I used to be much more introspective than I am today. In face, I hardly think at all anymore, my whole life has been on auto pilot for years. So I''m wondering, is it a natural part of getting older, or is it just that there are so many things outside me that require my focus and attention and if I left my life for a 3 day vacation would I go back to being the old me? Or am I suffering some mental illness? Or have I just changed, regardless of aging, just as time passed, maybe my personality just changed over time? People change. So. I just kind of wonder where I went, I liked me. I kind of miss me.

Message #3590554

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:10:03 -0000

Nostaliga was the lesser known sibling of Caligula, known more for the things he would do with his nostrils than debauchery.

Message #3590548

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:47:29 -0000

Talk about nostaliga

Message #3589852

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:37:21 -0000

And with this remote, I can control just how happy you are!

Message #3589845

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:02:37 -0000

Message #3589841

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:58:06 -0000

Everybody happy happy happy.

Message #3588790

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 05:17:53 -0000

Life is little bits of random.

Message #3587675

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:48:10 -0000

Mon Nov 11 2013 10:29:41 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar

No. I *like* my anger issues.

In Soviet Russia, Anger issues like you. Too much.

Message #3587187

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:29:41 -0000

No. I *like* my anger issues.

Message #3587183

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:19:05 -0000

Message #3586798

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:12:49 -0000

Identify the people who are being problematic and unleash a high powered flamethrower at them, and you make yourself happy for the rest of your life.

mmm ... crispy critters

Message #3586328

Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:07:48 -0000

> Nov 4 2013 1:47pm from vince-q > If you give a man a fish, he eats today. > If you teach a man to fish, you lose a customer. In a similar vein: Light a man a fire and he'll be warm for the night. Light a man afire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Message #3585030

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:59:42 -0000

Yeah, they probably keep the children in a holding cell, strapped to their chairs with leather straps, broken toothpicks used to keep their eyes open while attendants ensure they don't dry out by squirting water into them occasionally, as a video feed of Billy Graham killing all the adults is fed into the room.

Message #3584935

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:29:58 -0000

Message #3584800

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:46:35 -0000

I could be wrong, though.

Message #3584799

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:45:20 -0000

I see, on Youtube, that Billy Graham has promoted some video all day. "Watch Billy Graham's much-anticipated new message: The Cross", and all that. "My Hope, AMERICA" reads another part of the video advertising this thing. It features Lacey Sturm and Lecrae, whoever they are. I don't really keep up with Christian television enough to know. I'm unlikely to ever watch it, but I imagine it probably went something like this... In a very large mega church, a church made out like a stadium with all the seating facing a single lone podium, Billy Graham approaches that podium with his tall, lanky form. Creaking over to the podium, he reaches out to the microphone with his frail arm, and pulls it to his mouth with a loud scrunching sound unique to those flexible metal mic holders. Parting his dry lips, he speaks. "I've been watching America for over 90 years now. I've seen it grow, changing from the beacon of democracy and hope, to become a cesspool of greed and avarice. I've watched it change from a tower of decent morals to a place that condones homosexuals whle promoting and poliferating pornography." He then leans conspiratorily into the podium, and with the softest voice, starts, "My hope for America..." A country hangs on the dramatic pause. A child shifts in his seat. No cell phone rings. "My hope for America... IS THAT YOU ALL DIE!" Reaching inside the podium, the 90 year old Billy Graham pulls a fully automatic machine gun out and mows down all the parishoners he can in God's name, before God Himself reaches down and gives him a heart attack.

Message #3583193

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:57:22 -0000

Message #3581985

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:52:29 -0000

But he'll have mercury poisoning!

Message #3581290

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:08:57 -0000

Mon Nov 04 2013 13:47:30 EST from vince-q

If you give a man a fish, he eats today.
If you teach a man to fish, you lose a customer.

...and sooner or later, he'll deplete the oceans

Message #3581284

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:47:30 -0000

If you give a man a fish, he eats today. If you teach a man to fish, you lose a customer.

Message #3580913

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:10:25 -0000

You can lead a horse to water. If he doesn't drink, you shove the firehose down his throat. Don't let a horse tell you what you can't do.

Message #3579706

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:40:24 -0000

> Oct 4 2013 2:59pm from zooer >Leather Straps BBS? When will it interface with uncensored. > fetlife does not interface with uncensored. I think ucg only ever had one hardcore bdsm'er, and that was like 7 years ago.

Message #3579690

Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:47:08 -0000

Not sure what to do about arabella, but that could be more about my age, than who I am

Message #3577005

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:02:35 -0000

...and then there's "Hooters"....

Message #3576993

Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:33:32 -0000

I demand that Cracker Barrel change its name. It stereotypes and marginalizes white people.

Message #3562049

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:58:42 -0000

Wed Oct 09 2013 11:21:59 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

That moment when you realize this is not a complete sentence.

Go. Damn.

Message #3562046

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:21:59 -0000

That moment when you realize this is not a complete sentence.

Message #3552782

Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:01:42 -0000

Pro tip: always look up declension of your foreign nouns BEFORE you register a domain name. That could have been bad.

Message #3552493

Sat, 05 Oct 2013 01:42:59 -0000

>I set up a castle in the sky. Or, at least, a Citadel in the cloud It's called a "castle on a cloud" with respect to Les Miserables (the original one, the one that didn't suck).

Message #3552287

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:15:20 -0000

I'm not sure the network needs another one-user BBS. =)

Message #3552276

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:59:43 -0000

Message #3552260

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:14:09 -0000

I set up a castle in the sky. Or, at least, a Citadel in the cloud (Amazon AWS free tier).

Message #3551808

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:24:38 -0000

> Oct 3 2013 1:31pm from zooer >What was the about leather straps? > Scraps. I was making a new ammo pouch for my revolver.

Message #3551798

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:31:23 -0000

Message #3551630

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:25:00 -0000

So I'm down in my work room (which looks suspiciously like a storage room, but with more bookshelves and leather scraps and tools and empty beer bottles) and I fired up the vintage 2004 iBook (1Ghz G4, 768M RAM, 20G HD) to watch more Clone Wars DVDs, since that's all it is good for these days. On a whim, I decided to check my e-mail, too (which doesn't require a modern browser, just ssh). Even just tooling around and doing basic tasks with this machine, I'm reminded that their hardware really does have quite a bit of polish, and the interface is pleasant and consistent. My other computing environments are Windows XP (which is, I grant, a little behind the power curve) and Linux Mint Debian Edition (the Cinnamon desktop, I think). I like the latter quite a bit, but it still has some disconcerting oddities as far as where settings are placed and how reliably certain basic things (e.g. DVD playing) function. No real point here. I just kind of wish I'd gotten a real chance to use this machine when it was current. I had it for about three weeks, and then my wife joined me (then in CA) and took custody immediately; I only got visitation rights on "my" new laptop until I bought her a new one in 2010.

Message #3551459

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:28:02 -0000

I was reading the politics room and somehow I went from 'read new' to 'read forward'. It was an odd blast fromt he past. A mixture of 'yea I knew that', 'that is old news', and when will these new message end? I thought

Message #3550499

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:10:50 -0000

Message #3550484

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:02:45 -0000

I just flew into the office (which is very close to where I live) and boy are my arms exhausted.

Message #3550288

Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:29:55 -0000

Yeah. I do them too now. And I live close to where I work.

Message #3545831

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:57:44 -0000

Be wary of Aahzlike work trances. They tend to be quite exhausting.