Happy Close-Enough-to-Friday
Climate models warming twice as fast as reality.
Sex on a motorcycle at speed? Lots of people want to die having sex, but having your scrotum ablated off should be optional.
As if NYPD cops need their commissioner to tell them to ignore the law.
…And the best part is, he’s learning!
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I SEE NOTHING!
~Sgt. Schultz
Where?
Avatars are awesome.
Very minimalist. A profound commentary on the vapidity of the “news” today and on the societal…whatever.
Our Guest Commentator today was John Cage.
grrrrrrr…… I hate that pompous ass.
He’s no Phillip Glass, that’s for sure
These seem… sparse.
Sorry. I thought it was scheduled for 7:30. My bad. At least it has someone else’s name on it.
This never would have happened if Robby were in charge of links….. Mostly cause the links would never come.
Here, the links come whether someone writes them or not. We’re a very modern organization.
Rand Paul Has Become Trump’s Most Loyal Stooge
Boom, headshot
because I think we would be in perpetual war.
How is this different then right now?
Point taken. Personally, I would drag out photos of McCain with the Syrian “freedom fighters” that turned out to be with ISIS every time the old coot opened his mouth.
Meh, the United States is the imperial power/hegemon of the world. The legions are always going to be standing to at some wall or fort at the edges of the empire, or sortieing out past the lines to burn some barbarian village or another. That’s what happens when you’re the country that has assumed responsibility for keeping the sea lanes open and keeping the lid on the pot.
I’m not saying we should be doing that, but we are doing that. Brushfire wars are just the cost of being the great power. If McCain had won in 2008, we would have been in a major conflict with somebody during his term. Major as in “more Americans will die in combat over the course of the war then will die in Chicago.”
I’m just quibbling over the idea that perpetual war isn’t already the ‘neutral’ state of the modern United States, I’m sure if McCain had been in power by now there’d be a collection of half-failing Middle Eastern states, including Libya and Syria, being propped up by American dollars and troops.
So they were right when they said if we voted for McCain we would end up perpetually at war in more places than any time since WWII.
I know. Thank God that didn’t happen.
And John McCain is once again the truth-telling maverick.
And Trump is committing *obvious* violations of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
And Sen. Paul is like one of Josef Stalin’s lackeys.
Very credible and responsible piece of reporting.
Jonathan Chait is Adam Lanza
Every authoritarian requires spineless lackeys who will attack his dissidents.
This wholly unironic line of text has been brought to you by Jonathan Chait.
Well that makes the whole thing make sense.
I don’t want to read it because it’s chait, but it’s his argument that because Rand is very willing to work with Trump, he’s a lacky? I mean I thought the seasNS vote was bad, but other than that what has Rand done?
* Sessions …Stupid mobile phone.
His argument is that since Rand doesn’t want to tie up the new administration in investigations in its first month and allow it to put forth legislation, he’s an authoritarian lackey.
I’d be pleased that liberals now agree that a tied up government is best, but I know they don’t think that. They only want a government that is composed of their people to function.
It’s the Tony argument – if you’re not frothing at the mouth and screaming about how terrible Trump is, clearly your lips are attached to his ass regardless of how supportive you actually are.
I almost pissed my pants when I read that.
Johnathan Chait, reliable stooge for the left.
“The Republican Party has largely decided to cover for Donald Trump’s massive corruption, grotesque lies, and manifest unfitness for office. But few of them have gone quite so far, or quite so cravenly, as Rand Paul.”
Trump gathers the press for the express purpose of scolding them about their unfitness for their job, for their mendacity and their extreme bias. The response is “He thinks he can tell people what to think. That’s out job!”, “Did Trump visit slavery because you know he said white people, not black people built this country. I heard him say that.” and now this. Tip of the iceberg. The mendacity is just breathtaking. Outside of proggie enclaves nobody is buying their shit. Trump couldn’t hire better operatives than these morons.
Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.
How meta.
Extra points for using “ablated scrotum”
+1 Goregrind song title
Where’s Groovus when we need him?
I dunno – I am curled up on the floor, wincing in pain at the very thought. I am not sure Doc could help right now.
Switzy’s in the fetal position! Now’s our chance to make puns without narrow gazes!
A point here though, if you are having Sex on a motorcycle at speed you are very likely made up of 100% scrotum.
Climate models warming twice as fast as reality.
Mother Gaia just hasn’t gotten the memo from the scientists who know what’s really going on.
Someone needs to shoot her the TPS report memo
That would be great.
She has people skills. She is good at dealing with people.
Hey, there’s links now!
I most strenuously object.
We threw Brett into a cold shower, walked him around, and stuffed him with black coffee.
Why? None of those would actually have sobered him up.
Silly UCS… those are what we call “euphemisms”.
And nothing will sober Brett up.
Get him down to Da Nang for his mission right away
I’m totally sober, dude.
Was she wearing a kilt?
It’s only a kilt if she identifies as male.
Ha! If they’d have given me a FST that day, I’d have blown off the charts.
Field sobriety tests are nothing but an opportunity for offices to collect evidence against you. Passing one won’t exculpate you and failing one will help convict you. A polite “Fuck You, I’m not jumping through your hoops” is the only rational response to an officers request for you to perform a field sobriety test.
Is this a scene on ‘how to get your ass kicked by the police part 2’?
I said Polite.
I don’t care if you hang a handwritten note and a bouquet of flowers around a puppy’s neck and hand it to him, telling a cop you’re not going to do what he just asked you to do is the surest way of finding out how a nightstick feels up your ass.
My hero
Tolerance and equal power in action:
He’s using his asian privilege to man-shush these sisters oppressed by the patriarchy! Or something. Might have to sprinkle in a few more SJW buzzwords.
*checks grievance hierarchy cheat sheet*
Female over male, black or other non-whites over Asian: yes, I think you’re right.
“THIS IS LIBRARY” is basically applicable to my entire university experience, and this was before the trendy social justice protests. Students need to learn the library isn’t where you hang out and to shut the fuck up.
Correction: Ribrary
Good thing Swiss is on the floor writhing in pain.
*narrows gaze*
I got better.
Asian dude – studying to create new pharmaceutical compounds to prevent cancer.
White chicks – listening to themselves bleat and patting each other on the back for it
He didn’t create that!
You’re such a Wankel. 😀
I’m sorry, did you just microaggress against an Epitrochoidal-American?
DAFUQ?
‘Who’s got the power?’ ‘We’ve got the power!’ ‘What kind of power?’ ‘Equal power!’
Just how the fuck do you have the power If the power is eqaul. Wouldn’t that mean that everyone has the power.
Someone needs to hire a better slogan writer.
“…one woman who seems to ask if he’s going to go back to Beijing.”
Equal power, huh? How far away from the mask can they get? Pretty soon they will be back to goose-stepping and openly espousing white superiority.
Funny how Trump is the one who’s supposedly anti-foreigner.
InFocus better watch out, they’re getting a lot of competition in the projection business.
Stealing from Derp’s links, but the title of this Slate article is just too good: It’s Time to Give Up on Facts. Or at least to temporarily lay them down in favor of a more useful weapon: emotions.
You’ll hate it because we liberals tend to pride ourselves on caring about evidence, science, and accuracy. Being factually right, or at least grounded in reality, is something we value, something meaningful to our self-concept.
Self awareness seems to be a secondary goal.
I also love that for some reason he feels the need to constantly reference internet culture from over a decade ago.
I think this is closer to reality.
Let’s all go back to being 3 year olds
That is an insult to most three year olds. At least they usually ask “why?” (repeatedly, until you want to scream).
Why?
Because I said so.
But…why?(just smack me and get this over with)
Don’t push your weird fetishes on me.
*Smack*
•SLAP•
Did IFH get the memo to come over here?
I thought they were trying this strategy? Gosh this means that it can only get worse…
Yep. This is nothing new for them. All they are doing is tossing away the mask. I am glad to see it.
It’s time to put our scholarly spectacles down and have a nice long tantrum.
For some reason, the condescending attitude and unwillingness to address faults with our argumentation isn’t convincing anyone. Time to stamp our feet instead.
At least they’re finally being honest with themselves.
The idiot left really is impossible to parody.
“A more useful weapon,” huh?
How telling. That they see facts as weapons, and not as truths used to orient themselves in the workings of the world, speaks volumes to their worldview. So of course, if emotions become a more useful cudgel to bludgeon one’s ideological enemies, and especially if facts no longer serve that purpose, then (to them) it’s time to abandon truth and appeal directly to emotion. Fucking disgusting.
Remember, lads, the Law is not a shining fortress on a hill. To the Left, the Law is a sword with which to cut one’s enemies.
You’ll hate it because we liberals tend to pride ourselves on caring about evidence, science, and accuracy. Being factually right, or at least grounded in reality, is something we value, something meaningful to our self-concept.
Awesome. So, the post-election rioting, the insistence that the US was being taken over by neo-Nazis, and interpreting the election result as the work of a conspiracy involving the Russian government, the FBI, and Facebook … that was what you folks consider “grounded in reality”?
To be fair, they never said which reality.
Not my hero
Is there a compromise that can be made?
Have him train his replacement and then can his ass. This ain’t rocket science.
Accidentally run him over
Definitely the funniest solution.
Not to mention the poetic justice. GTA MUTHAFUCKA!
Simple “Get on that plane or you’re fired” then fire him when he refuses.
Remind him that Jets don’t use combustion engines, they use Jet engines.
As an engineer, I want to choke you right now.
*acts like the joke was intentional*
I mean, it’s not like we name a section “the combuster” or anything.
It’s Diffuser and combuster.
+1 Suck Squeeze Bang Blow
A couple years ago, I was walking across the tarmac to board a plane. Twin turbo-prop many airlines fly into the smaller airports. The young lady in front of me was complaining loudly to someone on her phone about the size of the plane. Then she said, “It doesn’t even have engines, it has propellers!”
“it’s got a high bypass ratio, get the fuck on the plane, or in the line for unemployment.”
If travel was part of his job description when he was hired, tell him he can bike to another job with another company if he refuses. If this is a new part of his job duties, methinks a pay raise is in order, and he can choose to accept his new role or not.
Sounds fair to me to treat it like any other religious accommodation.
Job duties aren’t fixed at hiring. He doesn’t want to perform his assigned duties (new or old), there’s the door.
The big problem is accommodating this idiot all along. Biking for hours to go to a nearby office? Ridiculous and opens up the company to liability while he’s biking. That his coworkers or his boss don’t think he’s insane is telling.
That doesn’t make any more sense than making the company liable for car crashes for employees who drive to work.
Traveling between offices would be on the clock (he starts at one work location and then travels to another), versus normal commuting which isn’t.
Fair enough. The quote wasn’t clear on that.
I’d be willing to bet that riding a bike through city traffic is more likely to result in a workers’ comp injury claim than driving a car.
How he commutes is his own business. How he travels on the company clock is the company’s business. The mistake was ever allowing him to travel by bike during company time.
Job duties aren’t fixed at hiring. He doesn’t want to perform his assigned duties (new or old), there’s the door.
Job duties may change over time, but if you’re going to come up to me and start adding things I’m supposed to do for your company and not offer additional compensation for doing so, I’ll quickly tell you to find someone else with the same level of experience in your company that I have and walk out the door. Like I said, if Johnny Bicycle knew all along that he would be asked to travel out of state from time to time as part of his job, then he can suck it up because he was under no illusions that he wouldn’t be asked to go out of state. But if Cave Johnson just dropped that in his lap one day, then Cave should be dropping some extra money into his pocket at the same time, or Cave can find someone else, or take the trip himself.
Can he not afford a Prius (or rent one) for his long travel trips?
The cyclist is not doing this out of principle, but insanity.
Exactly. He assumes it’s an environmentalist thing. When really it could be one of those nutters who think they’re allergic to EM radiation or something.
Yeah what the hell. Hybrids and used EVs are cheap as hell. Like set up a solar powered charge station you ass and be done with it. I swear there’s two categories of these people: conservationists and environmentalists. The latter lacks initiative and self reliance. Disgusting!
Bicycles are for children. Fire him and hire someone who drives the new Camaro.
Great car, but I like to be able to see out my car. Rear and side visibility is terrible. Like almost as bad as a Bradley CFV.
“One of the people that works for me is an insufferable asshole. I am firing his ass. While I am at it I am going to write my own pink slip.”
Fixed.
Stick him on his bike, tie the bike to a car , and drive him. Added bonus is that when he arrives he’ll have Robby Soave’s hair style.
In RPG character designers it’s listed as “Wind-swept and majestic”.
Where does this guy think that the electricity that likely powers the company’s devices comes from? How does he heat or cool his home? Maybe not from an ICE, but there most likely is some kind of combustion going on. What a dick.
Rent-seeking. Not just for Louisiana funeral homes (emphasis mine):
Derp, I guess bolding doesn’t work for emphasis when blockquotes are already bolded.
This part: However, where’s the requirement to have a third party penetration test. I understand the value of using internal teams for continuous vulnerability assessment.
Dammit where’s my edit button. I’m gonna turn Catholic with all these self-replies.
We don’t need no stinkin’ edit buttons.
The correct attitude to take.
I’ve been messing around with trshmnstr’s Monocle to address things like this.
The problem with doing that is that when he adds stuff and updates Monocle, my changes will be lost.
So I’ve set up my own script to take care of some things that Monocle doesn’t do (yet):
1) Opens all external links in new tabs
2) Unbolds the blockquotes so you can use strong and em inside them.
3) Makes all youtube links red… so I can tell that they’re videos before clicking on them. Hopefully trsh will implement inline youtubes in Monocle at some point (like in Reasonable).
I had also made all links orange for Gilmore at one point, but took that out.
I’m currently running it with Monocle with no problems.
It’s here. If anyone is interested
Soooo, I’m completely illiterate when it comes to coding stuff like this. I’m running firefox with a couple add-ins – already installed Tampermonkey…but where do I install the monocle codes I’ve been seeing here?
Monocle can be found here.
I am already living this
dreamnightmare. NYS has just kicked a vast number of small and medium sized businesses in the yarbles, and I am sure they don’t care.The timeline is a bit crazy. At least if it were being phased in a bit more slowly there’d be more opportunity for a market to develop in not-so-great but relatively inexpensive compliance products, as there is for PCI.
Happy Close-Enough-to-Friday
Not nearly close enough.
You have spawn, you don’t get days off.
What’s the significance of Friday?
It’s the day that reminds you that you have to work all weekend.
Well, without him, Robinson Crusoe wouldn’t have had anyone to talk to.
Even over here, you find no joy in food or time off.
Time off? What new spore of madness is this?
Listen to the new Immolation, dude. It’s good
Minnesoda Tourist Tip:
In addition to crazy eyes, make sure to check for tattoos when deciding whether or not to bring a gal back to your room.
Don’t stick it in crazy (or inked).
Such brave. Much fierce. Now everyone will know that they stand with RBG!
*researches tattoo removal opportunities*
Also avoid aposematic hair coloration.
They should get that tattoo as a tramp stamp so there cis-hetero shit lord master has a target to hit.
It saves a lot of research time when people label themselves. I’m all for it.
You know who else thought it was a good idea to label people?
mynamebadges.com?
Abbe normal?
SJW’s?
Convention organizers?
Obama is still saving us
Um, concerning politicization of government,I have bad news for them about their former boss…
That’s just a phrase that means “Those guys are doing something I don’t like”.
Salutations, comrades. I’ve finally made time to mingle with you. Since last week, I’ve been reading the various contributions to this website as time permits, and I haven’t found a single article yet which hasn’t impressed me, from the analytical to the philosophical. This was a superb idea.
Are forums still being considered to complement the primary site? I offered to establish them, but with the obviously competent developers behind Glibertarians.com, I doubt my unremarkable skills are necessary.
Our former home’s articles remain lackluster at their best, and cataclysmically retarded at their worst. My residual attachment to Reason is dissipating.
Is it possible to imbed images into our posts here?
Judging by his profile pic I think Thymirus may be the personification of the collective MURICAN superego.
If I could, I would make the National Anthem play every time you clicked on his avatar.
I stand whenever I hear it. 🙂
It is important to avoid DVT.
Judging by your reflexively intemperate, antagonistic reactions to American symbolism, I’ll assume you’re a prototypical anti-American, and with the self-destructive inferiority complex common in Canadians of your ilk most assuredly gnawing at the back of your mind, daily life must be a challenge for you.
Your inveterate hysterics and pugnacity on this subject became tiresome long ago. At the very least, you could have waited for some sort of provocation on my part to become an insolent clown.
Relax friend, I’m just ribbing. Note that I said nothing negative about it.
But I appreciate the attempts to psychoanalyze me, it’s cheaper than therapy.
Red, white, and blue flags are ok. Red and white flags with maple leafs are ok. White flags are for the French.
Francis, lighten up.
Can’t tell if serious.
Does that eagle look like a comedian?
IMG tags work for embedding external content as long as it comes from an https site.
Re: forums, SP and I have both admin-ed forums in the past, ranging from medium size to pretty large. Wayyyyy too much work considering that we’re doing this for fun, not money.
There’s no question that they’re pain in the ass. Regardless, thanks for the website.
“we’re doing this for fun, not money”
Fake libertarians confirmed! No true libertarian does anything for free.
It’s a loss-leader in attempt to build market share.
Actually, the thing you should question is my Jewiness.
Announcing the first SHA1 collision
Every hash function by definition has fewer possible hashes than there are datasets to hash. Thus it is impossible to design a hash function that cannot be made to collide. It’s just a matter of making it more difficult to accomplish.
That much is obvious.
They are not announcing that they brute forced it until they inevitably came upon a collision. They are announcing that they successfully used some researchers’ proposed method to systematically (drastically) reduce the amount of computation needed to find a collision.
If I somehow implied I was talking about brute force, I appologise.
I was attempting to illustrate the nature of the red queen’s race in cryptography and data assurance.
My apologies as well. There is a tendency for various edgelord self-proclaimed experts to adopt similar phrasing as you did in saying things that boil down to “psh, collisions are inevitable, they are just making it a bit faster, what’s the big deal, the NSA has unlimited secret supercomputers anyway?”
This is what the big deal is, albeit that particular attack relied on some Windows quirks, and I don’t know if this particular collision attack against SHA-1 would have still been effective had SHA-1 been in use instead of MD5 (although to my non-cryptographer eye, it looks that way).
I thought SHA1 was already being passed out by SHA3?
I phased out a SHA-T this morning.
*opera applause*
It is, but folks have been dragging their feet just as they did with MD5.
This is the “OK guys, we told you a few years ago that there was a theoretical technique so you should get things moving, now here’s a practical technique, so please, FFS, get things moving”-post
Did? I know places still using MD5.
I love the MC5.
I don’t take kindly to your wordplay, but I’m sure we can hash it out eventually
Heh, yeah, true.
What I like is that many people seem to have gotten the wrong message, and dutifully stopped using MD5 as a nearly useless password hashing function in favor of using SHA-1 as a nearly useless password hashing function.
Geez. And I thought AA was taking their sweet time phasing out their MD-80s.
Wait, MD5 has been phased out? Crap… Um I’ve got to go do something real quick.
The Woman’s Center at Yale celebrates the renaming of Calhoun Hall after a pioneering female admiral and math whiz, Grace Hopper:
“On Saturday, the Yale Women’s Center issued a statement concerning the renaming of Calhoun College to Grace Hopper College. While we are sincerely happy about the decision to rename the college, we are skeptical of the administration’s intentions in renaming the college after a white woman, regardless of Grace Hopper’s GRD ’34 accomplishments as a woman in STEM and in the military. We recognize that white femininity has often been used as a tool to enforce racist and colonialist structures. As such, we hope to explain how this decision constitutes “whitewashing” to the wider Yale community….
“…There was no recognition of the countless hours black students and students of color have put into the fight against the honoring of a white supremacist in their home. In the process, they sacrificed sleep, homework and mental health….
” Changing Calhoun to Hopper did not provide an answer to the demand of students of color: For Yale to recognize its complicity in white supremacy. Thus, the Hopper College renaming is a red herring — it attempts to end the discussion of race and slavery at Yale by replacing a problematic white person with a nonproblematic white person. Given the historical legacy of Calhoun, the administration did a wrong by not naming the college after a black person.”
By definition, you cannot satisfy these people. Their power is based on “victimhood”. If they accept any compromise then they give up their power.
But I appreciate the courage of the students who sacrificed their mental health. It’s like the widow donating her mite, they don’t have much to give, so it’s impressive what little they have, they sacrifice.
IF they’d named it after a black man, they’d complain that it was names after a man.
If they named it after a black woman, they’d complain that it wasn’t also a LGBTQWERTY individual.
Fuck ’em. Name it after Robert E. Lee and tell them to go to some other school.
No, Nathan Bedford Forrest College.
That’s Nathan Bedford Forrest III Memorial College to you.
Forrest Gump Skool
Name it whatever they want. But whatever costs associated with the name change goes on the students demanding the name changes bill.
Yale buildings are supposed to be named after Yale alumni.
How about George W. Bush College?
There would be a terrible shortage of worthwhile people to use.
Problem solved: name it after a fictional Yale alumnus.
Montgomery C. Burns College
Excellent. :steeples fingers:
Plus, he’s a person of color.
I’ve been waiting to post this video
Very good! Recommended to anyone else corpse fucking this thread.
Pikers.
They should learn from Minnesoda.
Of course the proggies weren’t able to rename Lake Calhoun entirely, but they get props for trying to change the name to something unpronounceable that came from actual native americans.
Lake Itorlumpit.
I look forward to the follow up to this story that a) prominently proclaim him innocent and b) announce the charges against his accuser.
And I am sure I will still be looking forward to those stories for quite some time.
Don’t stick it in crazy.
Need to consult the Hot-Crazy scale in order to make a ruling.
The Hot-Crazy scale doesn’t take into account the parts of the scale where even if she’s an 11, she can still be too crazy to stick it in.
That’s the part of the scale where you have to start thinking about quantum entanglement.
Sure it does. If she is an 11 but a 14 on the crazy scale, then she is too crazy.
the ablative of scrotum is scroto
-4 wasted years of Latin
*Virgil’s Aeneid still gives me nightmares*
I can handle Virgil. It’s the memories of reading Tacitus that haunt my nightmares. Once upon a time I was a medievalist and Classical Latin can fuck right off. Also wtf Renaissance Humanists? Fucking asshole nerds trying to outdo Cicero with every stupid and pointless sentence.
Pro-Tip: have borderline photographic memory, memorize translations, pick enough words out, write translation from memory, Ace tests, learn 0 Latin.
But what would the point of that be?
1) have borderline photographic memory
2) Learn a living language for real
3) Profit
http://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/legislature-looks-to-expand-gun-rights
Florida Legislature looks to expand gun rights
The following is a look at gun-related legislation that has been filed by Republicans and Democrats
Bills filed by Republicans would:
Allow licensed handgun owners to openly carry their weapons.
Allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry a gun in non-secure areas of airports.
Allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns at any legislative meeting or committee meeting.
Allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns on state university campuses.
Allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns at county and municipal government meetings.
Allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns at career centers.
Allow members of the state Cabinet who have concealed weapons permits to carry guns anywhere not prohibited by federal law. Reduce the penalty the violating the current open carry ban from a second degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine to a non-criminal civil fine of $25.
Holds business owners who ban guns from their property liable for injuries suffered by a concealed weapon permit holder who is attacked
Allows concealed weapons permit holders to bring guns to courthouses and temporarily surrender them to security. The courts must keep the weapons in locked storage space.
Expand the “stand your ground” to give more protection to people using the self-defense claim by placing the burden of proof on prosecutors to prove people charged with assaulting or killing someone else wasn’t acting in self-defense.
Place on the November ballot a measure asking voters to exempt law enforcement officers from the 72-hour waiting period to buy personal handguns.
Bills filed by Democrats would:
Ban semi-automatic assault-type rifles like AR-15s and AK-47 and detachable ammunition magazines that hold more than 7 rounds.
Bans guns at performance arts centers and theaters.
Removes exceptions to a law requiring guns in homes occupied by minors be stored in locked boxes or with trigger locks.
Increases the penalties for displaying concealed weapons in a threatening manner on or near school properties or activities from a third degree felony to a second degree felony. Increases penalties for people who fail to store a gun in a way to prevent access by minors.
Place on the November ballot a measure asking voters to exempt law enforcement officers from the 72-hour waiting period to buy personal handguns
Nope. Exempt the waiting period for everyone or STFU.
screw that. Have a waiting period for cops, but no wait for citizens.
That’s a real problem with gun laws. Just about everyone of them has an exemption for police. The laws get the backing of the police because they are exempted. Cut the exemptions and the laws would lose a significant piece of their support.
Also, Granting extra rights to cops is egregious. The more the government makes them citizens + , the worse they treat us citizens – .
Cops and their representatives will always agitate for privileges. It’s part of how they operate. They consider themselves worthy of legal perks unavailable to the average citizen. I doubt they’ll abandon that mentality.
Apparently rioting is not the care free fun some people claim it is. There might actually be consequences.
I really really feel sorry for them …. not.
To some extent I feel sorry for them because the system and their families have betrayed them by teaching them all the wrong things. Other than that, tough shit.
Want to believe that this is fake, and that b there is no one it there that unaware(? Can’t think of the word) of how there actions play out in reality…
Yeah, that just feels too ridiculous to be real…..but, then, we live in strange times.
Hmmm, an expletive laden tantrum on twitter? These people are always so edgy.
Laws are for peasants!
These are not the racists you are looking for./a> Alternatively titled, how mob justice goes wrong.
At least the link still works.
And it hasn’t made every following post a part of the link. Already better than TSTSNBN.
Great, now words like vile and outrageous are going to lose all meaning.
now?
/tstsnbn
JOHN ZOGBY, OPINION
The Obama Legacy: Our 21st Century Woodrow Wilson
“I am going to venture that historians will find room in the Top Ten for President Barack Obama. Like John F. Kennedy, he will be remembered for his idealism and eloquence and like Woodrow Wilson, his time in office will be memorialized for its dignity, its vision and for his grand accomplishments. Move over, Andrew Jackson.”
“eloquence”
uh… yeah
Let me be clear….uhhhh……uhhhhhhhhhhh
I thought “let me be clear” was an unanswered prayer.
Oh, bra-vo, sir. Bravo, indeed.
I will steal that and use it without attribution.
*reads “Applause” off the teleprompter*
*standing applause*
Well I don’t like WW either, so I guess it fits.
Yeah, that’s where I thought it was going based on the headline. Should have known better.
He will be forgotten and consigned to the dustbin of history, as relevent a decade after his departure as William Henry Harrisson is today.
Even Michael Moore thinks that Obama should be remembered as “the first black President, and that’s it.”
Gives me hope for a mediocre legacy.
like Woodrow Wilson his time in office will be memorialized for its dignity, its vision and for his grand accomplishments
A reminder to the lurking audience that Wilson’s vision and accomplishments include laying the groundwork for the Second World War and about half of the last century’s foreign policy problems.
Actively the most destructive foreign policy of any President. He tops my worst list, and I think it will be very hard for a challenger to emerge.
And to add a part that a prog might understand: For all the talk of racism, Wilson is easily the most racist (both in thought and in policy) President of the post-Civil War era.
It’s part of the reason his foreign policy sucked so much. At the Paris Conference Wilson shows up and starts redrawing European and Middle Eastern borders based on his idiotic concepts of race and absolutely no understanding of the local cultures, systems or history. He thought the Kurds were degenerate subhumans so just said “fuck it, let the Turks and Arabs kill them all”. Oh, but give the Greeks a bunch of land in Anatolia because they’re Greeks, that won’t have any consequences.
A couple more of Wilson’s grand accomplishments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918
Obama is as eloquent as his teleprompter is functional.
Um, “grand accomplishments”? Obama was nominated and elected in 2008 for the clear purpose of being the anti-George W. And he utterly failed to overturn any of Bush’s most hated policies, while doubling down on some of them.
If 2017 me went back to 2009 and told past me that, after 8 years of an Obama White House, the US would still have soldiers fighting in Iraq, that we’d be dropping bombs on a half-dozen other ME countries, that we’d directly contributed to multiple failed states in the region, that the Guantanamo prison would still be open, and that the domestic spying apparatus would be larger and more intrusive … well, 2009 me would find it hard to consider Obama anything other than a disappointment.
BUT BUT UHBSTRUHKSHUNIZM!
Has the FBI ever actually caught a real terrorist, or do they just create all the ones they arrest?
My face
Well I feel safer!
Derp.
Shit. The Lion Guard. My little boy watches that. I better quit buying Tannerite. I might end up on a list.
For anybody who’s particularly interested in gun rights: North Dakota and Kentucky are on the way to actually adopting constitutional carry. If they do, that’ll be, what, 13 states in total? It’s looking good.
Kentucky is halfway there; we’ve always had open carry. And our permitting for concealed carry is already shall issue.
Constitutional carry would, of course, be preferable. Especially if it did something for our silly knife laws. 3″ and over is considered a “deadly weapon.”
Limitations on the possession and carry of knives is even more haphazard than firearms regulations. My home state, North Carolina, forbids the concealment of most any sort of blade on one’s person. It also bans residents from carrying stun guns.
I look forward to the day no government paperwork is needed for personal weaponry, though I’m sure some kind of bullshit exemption/backdoor restriction will be included in any national bill we might get to enact constitutional carry nationwide (if we ever do).
Minnesota is trying, as well. Governor Mumbles McProstate will of course veto it, but at least it’s being considered.
Wasn’t New Hampshire’s problem until recently its retarded governor and his overeager veto also? Hoplophobes never learn.
Minnesota has always been a reliable blue state (choo-choos! bike lanes!), but we’ve been a shall issue state for awhile now and both the house and senate went R. The gun culture here is pretty strong.
I hope someone less retarded makes Governor next time in your state. Constitutional carry is long overdue.
Like say…Jesse Ventura?
Captain Freedom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LazUZz3K6IY
I voted for Jesse. He was by far the best governor of my lifetime.
No pain, no gain.
Her veto, but yes.
It’s a well known fact that it’s impossible to kill someone with a 2″ blade.
And the state supremes have actively supported the open carry. They shut down an Owensboro law banning open carry in public parks, for example.
So when I take my knife set (a mix of Wusthof, Victorinox, Shun, and an anonymous Chinese cleaver) to a kitchen, I’m actually committing a felony? Imagine my surprise.
Section 1 of KY constitution:
All men are, by nature, free and equal, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights, among which may be reckoned:
First: The right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties.
Second: The right of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences.
Third: The right of seeking and pursuing their safety and happiness.
Fourth: The right of freely communicating their thoughts and opinions.
Fifth: The right of acquiring and protecting property.
Sixth: The right of assembling together in a peaceable manner for their common good, and of applying to those invested with the power of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes, by petition, address or remonstrance.
Seventh: The right to bear arms in defense of themselves and of the State, subject to the power of the General Assembly to enact laws to prevent persons from carrying concealed weapons.
That’s a provision to excise, to be sure.
I assume you mean the part starting with “subject to”, not the part starting with “Seventh”.
I do. Sorry for the shitty phrasing.
There’s absolutely no place for exceptions in any enumeration of rights.
The interesting thing about that “subject to” clause is that I think it rules out any laws on open carry, and arguably even on transport of weapons. They weren’t specifically authorized as exceptions from the right to bear arms, after all, and explicitly listing one exception by implication rules out implied any implied exceptions.
What’s a little bothersome is the lack of any enumerated right to keep arms. Theoretically, the legislature could outlaw ownership of (certain classes of) weapons.
Apparently Alan Colmes is dead. Or maybe not, because he’s still tweeting. Though it’s not like tweeting requires a functional brain (guessing they were scheduled tweets).
Fox News Channel’s Alan Colmes Dies at Age 66
Recovering Reasonoid here, thanks to the people who recommended this site.
“I couldn’t make sense of it. I’d spent the past year and a half advocating the removal of my own ancestor’s legacy and I didn’t even know it.”
(Caution – it’s the New York Times, so accuracy is not guaranteed)
Interesting how they’re confusing “deportation of arrestees” with “rounding up”. My gosh, that couldn’t possibly be deliberate.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/23/swedish-politician-proposes-to-give-employees-paid-time-off-to-have-sex.html
Swedish politician proposes to give employees paid time off to have sex
Now this is what you call workplace innovation.
A Swedish politician is pushing to give employees an hour-long paid break to go home and have sex.
Per Erik Muskos, a member of the Swedish Social Democrat party, made the proposal during a council meeting in the northern city of Overtornea.
Mr Muskos said he’s backing the measure because he believes midweek sex breaks will improve wellness and boost childbirth in the northern region he represents.
“Childbirth should be encouraged,” he told the Stockholm-based newspaper Aftonbladet.
“When sex is also an excellent form of exercise with documented positive effects on wellbeing, the municipality should kill two birds with one stone and encourage employees to use their fitness hour to go home and have sex with their partner.”
He said everyday stresses in life can put a strain on relationships, arguing Swedish couples don’t get enough quality together, which makes it difficult for them to express their love.
“I believe that sex is a scarce commodity in many long relationships. Everyday life is stressful and the children are at home. This could be an opportunity to have their own time.”
““Childbirth should be encouraged,” he told the Stockholm-based newspaper Aftonbladet.”
What a bigot, we shouldn’t assume sex is associated with childbirth.
He’s not being inclusive of test tube babies. #LabLivesMatter.
My daughter agrees.
Swedes already work very few hours, how much more time away from work do they need?
In the old days, Swedes got breaks so they could go rape and pillage.
Wait, raping and pillaging *was* their job.
Pillaging financed the Raping.
If you’re man enough, you don’t pay for anything. *CATAPHRACT.*
If you’re single, does the state assign you with a sexual partner?
Yes, but in the interests of diversifying the population, you’re compelled to choose exclusively from a pool of refugees, lest the toxic whiteness of Sweden’s population continue unabridged when pregnancy inevitably follows your employer-mandated coitus.
That’s a slippery slope.
I like slippery.
That sounds racist
I like slopes.
“Fitness hour”?
You mean, “lunch”?
Little Pieces From Mises To Address The Feces.
Deficits are the cause of inflation; deficits have nothing to do with inflation.
Deficits do not have a crowding-out effect on private investment.
Tax increases are a cure for deficits.
Every time the Fed tightens the money supply, interest rates rise (or fall); every time the Fed expands the money supply, interest rates rise (or fall).
Economists, using charts or high speed computer models, can accurately forecast the future.
And 5 more myths addressed.
Arizona Senate votes to seize assets of those who plan, participate in protests that turn violent
I understand their impulse, but this law is just bad. It increases the perverse incentives to false-flag otherwise peaceful protests in order to shut them down.
Seriously, while I think the protests are misguided and not rooted in any real principles, they still have that right. It can hurt people who do protest peacefully.
Sargon booted from Twitter. Not a fan, but damn, Twitter.
Once again, trying to silence people. Twitter is wanting to go under. #profitablecompaniesarestupid
Check it, Twitter had never turned a profit, at least as of the list time I checked
Sociopolitical disagreements hurt progressives’ feelings. Become bold enough in your dissent, and their psychological feebleness becomes apparent. They can’t substantively challenge Sargon’s arguments, and so their reaction is to purge him and his like from their cesspool of enlightenment.
How many people are now turning to Youtube and podcasts to educate themselves these days? If Twitter thinks that booting people is a winning plan, they deserve to get flattened.
Meh Twitter is going south, in the business sense. Jack Dorsey just repurchased a bunch of stock. I don’t think Twitter as we know it will see the next decade, and quite possibly the next year or two.
I’ve never understood the use of Twitter. The only types I can imagine benefiting from it are celebrities, people who are extremely good at one-liners, and narcissists who desperately need the world to know what they are doing every minute of every day.
The only utility I’ve ever perceived from it is for breaking news stories.
Twitter is good for getting customer service action from companies that aren’t like Amazon.
It’s also a good way to find interesting content (a) on more obscure subjects, and (b) from sources you aren’t already familiar with.
Or, at least that was true before the entire platform was consumed in a fire of shrieking TDS last year. Sort of like another website I used to visit a lot.
Did he tweet gay porn to someone he didn’t like again? Last time that happened, he was blocked for it.
I like Sargon’s way of presenting things and don’t always agree with him, but I think he’s an asset to the discourse. And I’m not saying they didn’t block him for purely political reasons, because they may well have. But last time he feigned confusion over why he was blocked when a ToS violation actually did occur.
Apparently it’s a faked accusation re: kiddie porn this time – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJci7QCsrEM&t=406s – includes a demo vid showing how the “evidence” conversation was probably faked.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/23/video-appearing-to-show-off-duty-los-angeles-cop-firing-gun-in-scuffle-with-teens-spark-protests.html
Video appearing to show off-duty Los Angeles cop firing gun in scuffle with teens spark protests
Protests erupted in Southern California Wednesday night after a video surfaced appearing to show an off-duty LAPD police officer firing his gun during a scuffle with a group of teens.
Protesters demonstrated outside the officer’s home in Anaheim before taking to the streets, officials said. The rally shut down a major intersection in the city. Anaheim police issued a tactical alert and said they were prepared to make arrests.
The incident occured on Tuesday. Authorities responded to reports of a fight between a man and several teens. The man was later identified as the police officer and he “discharged his firearm” and detained at least one of them, Sgt. Daron Wyatt, of the Anaheim police department, said.
Wyatt said that the video “picks up several houses down from where the initial contact was made.” He said the officer in the video had been dealing with teens walking across his lawn for months.
“Yesterday, he sees the kids walking on the lawn and he says, ‘Hey, guys, please walk on the sidewalk,’” Wyatt told KTTV. He said that prompted a chorus of epithets from some of the teens.
Get off my lawn!
I hope you guys like my new avatar.
I can’t see it. 😮
It’s such an enlightened avatar that only the most pure libertarians can see it. People who aren’t true libertarians cannot perceive it.
Are you the REAL thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0
+1 Tell me about your mother.
It’s a white square.
That’s some fine White Privilege there.
Really? Looked more like a white triangle to me
You got me. I didn’t even think to check.
*Sucker.*
Join the Anime Girl Master Race Lynch, you know you want to.
Jack White opening vinyl record pressing plant. Good on him. I think following a fad may not be the greatest business strategy, but I don’t have money to throw around like that. However, I’d fire this guy right away.
“Alleviates backlog” is exactly the reason i give my wife when I’m in the mood for a blowie.
“I self-identify as a sex maniac” works with progressive college chicks.
Yeah, that backlog they are alleviating is the work inventory another company (don’t call it a competitor, though).
Well, as a collector of vinyl records (*but not a buyer of many newly-pressed ones) and occasionally having some made in the past… if its a fad, its a long-growing one. Because its been growing since the late 1990s. Even at the peak of the scratch-DJ-fad of the late 1990s/early 2000s (and that *was* a fad) hardly anyone was cutting new vinyl records except hiphop/dance 12″, and a few indie groups. everything was low-volume and regionally produced/sold @ small boutique record-stores.
Now, by contrast, they have entire back catalogues of major-label releases being cut on vinyl again. and they’re selling them @ Barnes and Noble & WalMart; that’s not really “faddy” anymore, that’s high-volume retail that involves bulk production and distribution and warehousing and all that shit.
Basically, if they’re actually printing NEW copies of Dark Side of the Moon (an album so prevalent that diggers would find a dozen used copies in any record store), and new-movie soundtracks, its crossed the line into actual “mainstream market”.
Whats actually weirder, even, is that the ‘DJ market’ of the late 1990s which i described above… isn’t even around to sustain the ‘fad’ as a kind of cachet-lending base. Everyone who DJ’s now is on Serato or uses CD turntables to control a laptop w/ Traktor, etc. No one uses OG vinyl records. Tho i think there is still a market for DJ vinyl; just, absurdly, that people actually buy that shit then record it into digital form for playing it out. which boggles my mind.
see, that is pretty remarkable, given it all happened after DJing had gone completely virtual. and 10 steady years of nearly 10% growth isn’t (at least in my experience) typical of fads, which would have a shorter boom-bust cycle.
I do agree tho that it could easily cut itself in half in short order; i can see a small population of hipsters buying vinyl every year so they can have a few shelves on the wall to impress their friends; but i expect as they grow up its not something they’ll continue to do.
here’s the other thing =
See, if he restricts himself to printing these sort of hipster titles? he’ll have steady business. because i think that the people printing up the aforementioned ‘new copies of Dark Side’…? they will sate demand quickly, but there will probably be a longer-tail permanent demand for things like Ramones and Stooges and MC5 and early hiphop and punk etc. on vinyl that will persist.
*my guesstimated CAGR was way off; 30%+
Yeah. Writing ‘fad’ was wrong. I think it’s because of how I picture the stereotypical record collector spinning. That’s pretty steady volume for a long time.
Another good one from Judge Nap’
Who doen’t like Judge Nap? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?
It’d be great if he agreed to write a piece exclusively for Glibertarians.
That is a good one.
With that cheery thought, I must go do something productive so I can pay taxes to support the Deep State, and it’s Dark Lord John McCain.
*doesn’t
I don’t understand how climate models work. I haven’t taken a science or math class in years. So what variables are they not accounting for?
Feedback, mostly. There are positive and negative feedback mechanisms in play, and we don’t have a good handle on their relative contributions and how they interact. We also very well may be ignorant of what all the feedback mechanisms are.
Heretic! Denier!
Oh, sorry. I thought you were asking what feedback you get for asking those questions.
Thank you. I know the sun plays a bigger role in our climate than we ever could.
Its a mildly variable star. Ignoring how the energy/heat source for our climate being variable might affect global temperature always struck me as a “tell” that the CAGW crowd was more political than scientific.
I watched this great special on BBC once and it was str8 fax b. I wish I could find it again. If I do I’ll share it.
There are innumerable factors that have to be considered. How much carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, how much sunlight is reflected back into space by shiny surfaces (called albedo) like ice cover, how much is used by plants, how much other trace gasses offset the effect (e.g. some volcanic gasses and particles prevent light reaching Earth and cause cooling), etc.
Climate is a chaotic system in much the same way economics is. Anyone telling you they have a complete picture of either is trying to sell you something. There are broad strokes that can be observed but the climate, just like markets, still have lots of surprises in store for people.
Broad strokes you say?
So what variables are they not accounting for?
Most of them? Its supposed to be a chaotic system, subject to innumerable variables.
Oh like the Joker in The Dark Knight
I don’t think it’s chaotic, at least in a mathematical sense, otherwise our temperature swings wouldn’t be so minor and slow. But it’s certainly complex and at this point poorly modeled and understood.
Of course, I’m just a dumb scientist.
I don’t know the lore here, what field of study are you?
Glibertarianology? 😀
That isn’t really what “chaotic” means, mathematically. And climate definitely qualifies as a chaotic system.
You can have stable chaotic systems. The economy is another good example of that. Usually it takes pretty large upsets to royally fuck an economy up, such as hyperinflation. Most of the time, left to their own devices, markets stabilize on their own even though the activity itself is highly chaotic.
Chaotic systems also doesn’t imply innate unpredictability in the colloquial sense of that word either. Certainly the broad strokes can still be generally characterized, the solar cycle being an obvious example.
I think one of the big problems here is that people conflate the meanings of “random” and “chaotic”, which are similar terms colloquially, but have mathematical definitions that make them distinct from one another. The Mandelbrot set, probably the most famous such example, always produces the exact same answers as long as all the inputs are the same. Changing the inputs produce outputs that aren’t predictable in terms of the tools of mathematical analysis (we refer to such cases as “pathological”).
Math used by most scientists doesn’t usually delve into pure (or “theoretical”, a term I avoid) mathematics at all. My degree is in pure math, though I haven’t studied chaos theory in depth. Most scientific math is statistical or analytical (calculus). Indeed, a lot of math in climate science is too. There are ways to use tools of linear algebra to represent statistical systems for climate science, that way a chaotic system like climate can be represented in a way that computers can work with. That is a lot of what they do, since they have many coefficients to work with in order to represent as many of the major variables of climate as they can.
This is helpful, thank you.
It’s more of a parameterization problem.
I’ll give you an example. Let’s say you wanted to build a simulation that predicts where all the pieces will end up should two cars collide on a road. Now, the physics of how the pieces interact are pretty well known. You can, given two objects of arbitrary dimensions, density, plasticity, very precisely predict how a collision between them will alter their angular and translational momentum etc.
But, you have to first figure out how the car will be described in the model. Will it be a few large pieces (i.e. hood, engine, wheels, frame, etc) or are you going to have each nut and bolt be a piece. How accurately will you enter the road into the model. Will it be approximated as a flat piece of concrete, or will you attempt to get the bumps and potholes into the model.
The more detailed your model, the more parameters it has, the more computational resources needed. Additionally, the more types of interactions you keep track of (i.e. thermal effects, tearing of components, chemical reactions like fuel burning etc), the more complex your equations become which is reflected by an increase of parameters.
The state of the art climate models are insufficiently parametized.
As a result they are likely getting a bunch of things wrong:
I encourage everyone to read the linked pdf. It is the most clear exposition on what climate models do, in what domains they are useful, and what their limitations are.
I love based J. Curry.
This is a good way to look at it. It takes incredible computing power to work with the coefficients we already know about, and even then many have to be discarded when they have minor significance, and there are undoubtedly a lot that climate scientists have yet to characterize.
The real question is how much a multitude of parameters of minor significance taken together can ultimately have a big effect.
IDK why this was a suggested video. I also don’t really know whats going on there to warrant such activity.
WTF. Are they giving out free food?
CFA brings the crowds. I don’t go there for lunch anymore, too busy.
Like Glitter said, the one near me is busy. But it’s never that bad. It must be a special day there.
Probably receipt day or some shit.
I don’t understand how climate models work.
1) Arrive at conclusion
2) Control for variables which contradict conclusion
3) ????
4) GOVERNMENT GRANTS
^^^^^
My prog coworker sent me this
As if I give a turkey.
The way the Left has gone batshit about Russia is basically like the new “911-truther” movement.
OH NO!
Remember when they laughed Mitt Romney out of the room when he made a similar claim?
Hello everyone!
I finally had some time to set this thing up and thought I would pop in to drop a HT to those who dedicated their time and effort to make this site possible.
So thank you!
I’ll try to participate as much as I can in between gittin’ shit dun at work.
Peace,
Bryan
Has anyone brought up the seven possibly habitable planets NASA found the other day? Hopefully the inhabitants are more like the avatar aliens then the independence day ones. That way we can colonize one, civilize the natives and finally create Libertopia. Come on Peter Thiel forget seasteadding begin work on a multigenerational starship already.