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General Discussion, Friday, August 26, 2016
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I’m spent!
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Welcome to the modern world of situational ethics, where what’s sauce for the goose is not appropriate for the gander. Here are students-of-color demanding that they not be paired as roomies with white students, inagine the reverse. Can’t wait until they start demanding ‘people of color only’ drinking fountains and bathrooms.
http://claremontindependent.com/students-at-claremont-colleges-refuse-to-live-with-white-people
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Looking Glass Land. Where everything is its opposite.
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There you are, thought you were off to the wilds of Utah again.
Unfortunately this mirror seems to come out of a fun house.
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As I posted for nyet the other day:
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But…we should be a safe harbor, sort of like a few stiff drinks with no hangover.
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Time management has never been my strong point.
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Don’t quite know how to answer that, I left my day-stretcher at my old office when I retired. Military just stretched my day for me.
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Oops, have to fix that…
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Yup, lived in the deep south from 1955 to 1961. Don’t forget the busses and lunch counters in the 5&10s like Kresses, Walgreens and Woolworths.
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And McCrory’s, can’t forget them.
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The Woolworths in Downtown Seattle closed in 1993
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Yeah, from thevworld’s largey in ’79 to something banging aboutbin the corners of retailing…quite a drop. Look out, Walmart.
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Things are just swinging back to the modern equivalent of the mail order catalog due to exploding costs associated with having a physical space. Local taxes and labor expenses mostly. I’m telling you, the only people that will stay wealthy in the next 20 years will be the ones that own physical space that can be subdivided and leased out for warehousing.
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I took a photo almost identical to this one in Mississippi in 1973.
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What a racist photo! The correct term is “African-American”.
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Is it? Still?
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the irony of the door colors is kinda funny
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We are old enough to see the irony.
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We’re also old enough to see the great strides that have been made through legislated inclusiveness. Why now anyone can walk into a public housing cafeteria and get serviced.
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The ironies…
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It’s come to this: “terrorist attack training” for schoolchildren.
If this is part of what “France has to learn to live with terrorism” means, then it is complete capitulation. [cf, http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/07/15/french-pm-manuel-vas-we-must-learn-to-live-with-the-terror-like-israel/ ]
French pupils aged 3 to play ‘silence reigns’ in terrorist attack training
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/24/french-pupils-aged-3-to-play-silence-reigns-in-terrorist-attack/
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Wondering when we’ll have training so that students can appropriately defend themselves from attacks by rabid, white conservatives.
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Whoops, Hillary’s coming back so there’ll be mandatory training to show students how to react when attacked by white radical Christian terrorists. She and Bill gotta pretty good body count on them.
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Instead of getting rid of the barbaric hunter France is teaching its children how to be quiet prey.
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^^^ YES, absolutely. ^^^
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This is a little sobering:
Thoughts From Over The Transom
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/thoughts-from-over-the-transom/
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We’ve discussed the topic before. I referred to it as their Operation Himmler, false flag ops to create scenarios to their benefits just as Alinsky and Lenin did. The Left has launched its campaign to destroy the US as it is and has been, turning it into yet another People’s Utopia.
I know a number of LEA who deeply believe that Washington is instigating attacks on police, trying to seperate local police from the public it serves and replace them with a nationalized force. By whipping the malcontents into a fury so thst they’ll force LEA to respond and then chastising the policevfor doing so DC gets to have DoJ takevover and remodel their PDs – a Rat NOLA mayor got DoJ to take over NOPD and now Baltimore PD is getting Lynched.
This isn’t an election, it’s a thinly disguised coup.
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“When You are our strength it is strength indeed, but when our strength is our own it is only weakness.”
[St. Augustine]
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“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.”
[Psalm 73:26]
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Thank you, Mary. Beautiful verse. Words that I personally needed today. 🙂
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Doughnuts for coffee!
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I really like this breakfast! Avacados and bacon go very well together. Add salsa and perfecto!!!! 🙂
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I would include some refried beans with that.
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That would be great, too! 🙂
Morning au-mom!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂
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Mornin’ Nyet. That’s what I had for breakfast. Mornin’ everyone. 🙂
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I love those type of hashbrowns… add a little Texas Pete and we are good to go!
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Photo 1 has no bacon, and there’s some green stuff on the omelette. Sigh.
Photo 2 is perfection.
Photo 3 is your “diversity” photo for “Carbo Lives Matter” crowd.
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CLM! CLM! CLM! CLM! CLM! CLM!
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All that excitement typing exclamation points. I bet you’re ready for more carbo-loading.
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A little background noise
while you’re making #2.
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LOL
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Toast AND doughnuts!
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Now, here’s one for YOU, nyet:
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Trying again…
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[^^ That one’s for you, nyet ^^]
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Ha–the doublemint gum of whiskey cartoons.
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Happy Friday morning peeps!!!
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscottkasperphotography.files.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fpeeps_sm.jpg%3Fw%3D590%26h%3D393&f=1
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Well… that didn’t work so well.
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Good morning S&S 🙂
Here you go.
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Thanks, friend! It worked when I sent it to my phone, but not from my phone to here.
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Happy to help 🙂
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Wonder what kind of eggs they will lay when they are grown. Miniature marshmallows?
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Hehe! Peeps are my absolute faves! They have mini peeps sometimes… which is bad for me because I can eat too many in a really short time.
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Eat health.
Eat popcorn.
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I think I will go make some right now. 🙂
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Mornin’ kids!
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Morning WeeWeed 🙂
I just listened to this chat with Milo on the Alt-Right 😊
Two more points where the alt-right speaks my mind. It doesn’t pussyfoot around with looking for common ground with the devil and it calls idiocy out as idiocy. They refuse to be cowed by the question which is perpetually posed to them “When did you stop beating your wife?” instead they answer with a simple response “I reject the premise of your question.” and they go on to attack the idiocy and hypocrisy of the premise of the question.
The left and the establishment right has called Trump and his supporters misogynists, racists, bigots, neo-nazis, alarmists, xenophobic, homophobic, vulgararians, white supremacists, hateful, uneducated, dumb, unwashed masses, islamophobic, violence prone, trailer trash, along with a myriad of other insults for over a year now.
When Trump describes Frank Luntz as “a total stupid fat clown” because Luntz is exactly that, then those same hypocrites who have been hurling insults at Trump and his supporters, wipe their brows with silk hankies and wring their hands with indignation that this isn’t a campaign ending faux-pas for Trump and that his mean spirited dopey supporters don’t abandon him and embrace Hillary.
I sort of feel like we are the captives openly mocking the hostage takers because we know something that they don’t know. Long enough we have been held captive by the promises of the right and the accusations of the left.
Quoth the alt-right “nevermore”. We literally have nothing to lose.
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“I reject the premise of your question.” That is the perfect response to MOST of the statements put forth by the Democrat supporters. When a discussion starts, they state something that obviously isn’t true and then go on to base their argument on that. So the Rep supporter spends his time refuting the stupid lie. Donna Brazile is an expert at that and she just keeps her big mouth yakking on even when they are done with her. I mute when I see her fat face now.
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Agree 100%.
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“internet Hitlerites dressed as Japanese pornographic princesses…”
I wonder if that is a reference to ‘AWOO!’
either way that is a really good tweet.
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Two thumbs up from Bill too.
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We have learned again and again that the Clintons direct the narrative. So this photo has me scratching my head a bit. Why would TheBeast have SS park where she would be seen with her “too unsteady/unhealthy” to get into an SUV unassisted stool? Why would the vehicle not be equipped with a retractable step bar?
I can only come up one answer, Hillary’s health is as bad as it appears to be but she is hoping to let that distract from her money laundering Clinton Foundation and upcoming email release by Assange because those two things are going to be undeniably devastating. (Not to mention Huma’s terrorist ties and their commercial value to Trump.)
That said.
Why would Hillary suddenly care about undeniably devastating information being released about her?
When has it ever mattered in the past. “What difference does it make”
The head of the FBI stood before the American people and said HRC is a deceitful, incompetent, techno challenged dullard who endangered the lives of Americans and made vulnerable classified information to the enemies of America and if she were not HRC there would be legal consequence to her actions.
And it didn’t matter.
Something very deep and shaky is afoot in TheBeasts quest for history.
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Yes, and whatever “IT” is that she’s got up her sleeve, you can for dang sure know it’s really bad for our country. She is TERRIFYING. 😳
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Because she’ll havevher spinners use her health problems to her advantage. Can’t spell Hillary without ‘ill’, she may have medical problems but they aren’t debilitating (queue warm and fuzzy films of FDR and JFK) and she’s willing, in her fragile state, to sacrifice her health for our benefits. This one’s all too easy.
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That seems to be the game plan. The why, is what interests me. Clinton’s never admit to anything, everything is a right wing attack on them. Why suddenly is HRC being careless about a photo like this being allowed to be taken?
Let’s hope the truth is that her mind is slipping and that her protectors are going to let her fall.
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I’dcsay tha ss long as they don’t mention it her health is not an open issue. If she waits until the Republicans mention it she gets to take the moral high ground on how they can’t attack her on issues so as a break from their racist xenophobic attacks they’re going after an ill old lady who’s just trying to spend her declining years making America a better place.
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Plus, she has an aging, used, well………. parts. Feminism. Or something.
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You’re just Fostering rumors…
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Thass what Monicker said….
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A Starr comeback.
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You ARE awful…… but I’ll think of something…… 😀 😀 😀
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Awful’s all I got left…even outta reply space.
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Sundance posted this next door – if you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty good:
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Foiled again…
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https://twitter.com/michaelkeyes/status/769215037512704000
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US isn’t doing too badly in that area either.
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Two nuns serving as volunteer health workers in a rural community an hour north of Jackson, Mississippi were murdered. Police have no suspects or motive but the nun’s car is missing.
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Terrible.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-nuns-found-slain-mississippi-home-n638091
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Nun’s car found about a mile from their house, abandoned and undamaged. Clinic where they treated the county’s uninsured as well as uninsured from surrounding counties will remain closed for a while. General data on the county they served: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County,_Mississippi
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They “helped the poor in rural Mississippi”. And, a piece of trash ended their help.
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More like ‘pieces’ of trash, plural. Snarky, but the true definition of ‘no good deed shall go unpunished’. Our own martyrs.
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You know when you are trying to pronounce someones last name and you are not familiar with the name and it has some weird letter combinations or pronunciation that you are unsure of? That is how Hillary sounded every time she said alt-right, like she was relieved that she hopefully got it right. She has absolutely no idea what she is talking about when she says alt- right. HRC just used the phrase as a launching pad to attack Trump and call him names.
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Well, poo! Not only is the public event going to be 30 miles North of me, I’m going to be at a client site working when Trump is in town. How do they get my schedule and why is he avoiding me?
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He wants more doughnuts.
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Maybe you’ll be (im)providentially ill that day.
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If I don’t work I don’t get paid. There is no sick day when you aren’t an employee.
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Besides, you would know if you lied and said you were sick. 😯
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I didn’t say “lie”. I said maybe he’d be ill. “Be”, as in happening naturally.
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Maybe he is avoiding anyone who is even remotely connected to Putin!?
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A cruller fate than can be imagined.
I’ve used it before but what the hell…
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I told him abou you reducing my Jack allotment. He didn’t like it buddy. Not one bit.
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:jaw agape: It’s single barrel! What are you doing with the ones left over from the day before? Put them under a pillow for the whisky fairy?
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What leftovers? There are sixteen glasses, twenty four hours.
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Oh sorry! I forgot. Bathroom breaks.
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Nye – you want to have some fun? Go take a gander at https://www.hillaryclinton.com/ and bring up the html page source and look just above the header…
that boards.greenhouse.io/hillaryforamerica link sends you to
curious on the use of ‘hackathon’ – why would they use a hackathon to promote/fill these positions?
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It seems to be a newer social collective term. So programing as a collective or group effort. They are trying to attract people who want their name known in that circle or power. Right there is where the DNC and their ilk will look for the future head of the department of technology.
It’s all smoke and mirrors now today regardless of how many hippies get thrown at something. The programming of applications on personal computers is not done like it was 20-30 years ago. It’s currently all within a existing frame work that doesn’t actually require any math or other skill set. The degrees are mostly worthless for performing any meaningful work. The course work as provided is to hedge bets of future product line sales. People will purchase what they know they can work with, even if it’s a horrible product.
Ok. I went off topic.
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hehe – back in my college days, hackathon = showing your coding/language skills by actually breaking the code or finding the vulnerabilities in a system.
It seems that this is the new hipster way to ‘promote’ tech job listings. You should apply and just build in a few backdoors. Maybe even upload a virus…
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Because I haven’t bothered to learn the programing environments and tools used to create todays applications and websites, I’d never be selected for the work.
Also, as a business owner that depends upon word of mouth, I don’t even muse about things like that.
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There are a lot of different niches in the business IT world – some of them are new, and some are ancient.
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And the ancient stuff is hidden under the covers of all the new stuff.
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No….. actually you didn’t. I can’t BELIEVE we spent time learning Cobol and that 000100010001000011110000 bullshite…………..which….
This many years later, don’t ask me any questions.
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I learned Cobol coding in 1971, and never used it – ever.
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Me either, but I used to be able to “read” that 0 – 1 bull. Not anymore….
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The real fun was
multiplying and dividing.
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We hwd over a hundred ‘programmers’ at our USDA site just before 2000 and not one could do COBOL. Most of them – OK, 99.9% of them – were trained inhouse to string together lines of existing code, couldn’t program ‘program’ if their lives depended on it. Agency hired a 24/7 team from IBM to sit at the site to do any programming and monitor the system for problems for about six months and spent the next year puffing up their chests about how well the staff managed the millenium bug. No mention they bought themselves out, or about how over a hundred programmers sat on their thumbs while an expensive team” of pros did the work. Then again, thatnpasses as success in the Federal,world.
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It was like that everywhere. Now, everyone is process educated without any practical real-world experience. In fact, experience seems to get people retired.
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I learned Cobol and I’ve used it against my will quite a few times. Last couple of times was to plan a migration of old data on mainframe to a new system on micro computer (or in todays terms, server).
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Back in the late 70s/early80s I worked at a hub on the DoD encryption net. We had a rather old mainframe, cannot remember the maker, but it had the old big tape drives, card readers, stack disc storage and a 128-line bar printer system. We punched the outgoing message traffic on a KSR-35 terminal that produced a paper copy and the outgoing message was cut on a long strip of 8-level tape. We had to hang the tape on a peg and the machine would read it at a whole buncha feet per second – sometime turning it into confetti in the process if the tape twisted or nound, making us start over from scratch.
One day we were told we had theee says off with pay as they were swapping out our system. We came back on Tuesday and there was a whole new IBM system that took up less than a quarter of the space. No migration of any data, all new, all shiny, all scheduled to be obsolete within 5 years.
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stella and the Honeywell?
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First computer Inever worked with was a Honeywell 400…soon after we went modern and got IBM 1050-2s. Guuuuuhhhhhhhh ( Homer Simpson drooling) ‘ drum storage….’.
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‘Scuse me, UNIVAC 1050-2…as if anyone would remember, or care…
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Groan…… The Trump campaign released an “app”? Oh like that just makes me feel all safe and comfortable with the current environment. Nothing like volunteering to add your name to the “round up first” FEMA camp list.
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You know – I have a smart phone, but I wonder why, because I really don’t use it.
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I feel about my phone the same way I feel about my car. My car is to get me from here to there and back. My phone is to make contact with someone. And, if you text me, you had better be expecting a one or two word answer, or I will probably call you to answer your question.
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Someone texts me and I do not reply. I have a flip phone and I tell everyone it just makes phone calls.
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When I had my old flip phone, I turned it off when I wasn’t making a call because the battery was so bad. My SIL said that my phone was only outgoing.
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Hmm, I may try that.
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Well at least it had a personality…
We still have ‘old flip phones’, cheaper as we have no cell service here.
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I wish I still had a StarTac that worked on today’s networks…..
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Me, either.
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I think I wrote about my reasons before. I’ve been getting phones for years from outside the US so I wasn’t locked to a particular service provider, and before Android and the iphone took off, the world market phones had more features. Now that everyone is using Android for the high end phones, there is little reason for me to continue that practice.
I would like the high megapixel camera and full E-Mail client without Android, but good luck finding something anymore. I could probably design and build a brick touch screen that uses an embedded operating system. I think I still have all the files for a PDA from the late 90’s. Hmmmm……
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Could I call out for pizza on it?
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Sure. probably need an antenna mast
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Does that effect portability?
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Depends. Are you driving a convertible?
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No but back window’s broke out.
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😯
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Love this recent Ramirez:
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Isn’t that a form of animal cruelty?
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It’s not like he gave the penguin an iPod with Obama’s speeches on it.
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Not bloody far off though, right up there with Vogon poetry.
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Better than Hillary and a pickle jar.
Funny story, I had some poetry published in a college journal when I was maybe 20? My proud husband told my new father-in-law about it and we of course had a copy of the book ready to share.
This was the second time I had met my acerbic FIL. He said without missing a beat, “God no, your not going to force me to pretend to like angsty college poetry just to be social are you?”
😂
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FBI’s stingray quickly found suspect after local cops’ device couldn’t
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/to-find-suspect-city-cops-ran-stingray-for-hours-then-called-in-fbi/
OAKLAND, Calif.—According to new government affidavits filed earlier this week, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) used its stingray without a warrant in 2013 for several hours overnight as a way to locate a man accused of being involved in shooting a local police officer. The OPD called in the FBI when that effort was unsuccessful. The FBI was somehow able to locate the suspect in under an hour, and he surrendered to OPD officers.
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The information on what the device is and does in theory is out there on the Internet. It just isn’t pointed to I assume. I also have heard people getting in trouble for pointing things out when other people don’t know what their looking for.
In a way it ties to what I wrote earlier; you have a general population of consumers that buy a microwave oven and can even program it to heat foods in creative ways the simulate cooking over a fire. Then you have a smaller number of people that can design and build a microwave oven based upon plans they are given, but they can’t boil water to save their lives. And finally you have very few people that are able to design and build the microwave to produce cooked food because they know what cooked food is supposed to look like in the first place.
The “stingray” is not doing anything magical. It’s just not doing anything the first group was aware could be done.
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There are links in the story itself about the “hows” and another couple of companion stories.
Stingray documents offer rare insight into police and FBI surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/stingray-oakland-police-fbi-surveillance
I’m not knowledgable enough to even know what it that I do not know about the technicalities of the surveillance. I have a basic understanding of the big picture of how it works.
I am more interested in the legalities and the impossibility of the right to privacy ever being part of our world again.
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And we learned how to make a neat ray gun with a microwave oven. ‘Merican in-gin-uity.
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Change in venue…
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Invest an hour, watching.
Good luck sleeping, restfully.
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I saw it when Breitbart was running it on their site a week or two ago. Interesting.
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I want to see Hillary’s America.
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Me too.
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That movie is so informative.
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