I don’t know about you all, but I love a good fuck you story. I’m not sure whether my favorite part is the guy getting the 27th Amendment passed in response to getting a C on a good paper, that his original teacher got shitcanned in the intervening years, or that the University engineered a grade change and trying to promote this as something they had a part in. Full disclosure, I am member of the U of Texas Former Students Organization — and I’m not giving them any money for this
It looks like many of our commenters were right — Trump once again successfully played his antagonists in the news media into scoring an own goal. CNBC rushes to join in the kicking of their sister network.
$200 drone shot down by $3M Patriot missile. Raytheon executives were seen high-fiving and ordering new yachts.
In an ongoing local story, Tom Cruise has been trotted out to pave the way for the Church of Scientology’s takeover of Clearwater, FL. If only they had some sense of architectural style beyond… faux.
Oh noes, yoga pants are killing the oceans. Goodbye, fish. I have made my choice.
And speaking of oceans, it appears our Cthulonic majesties are wakening.
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304 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”
If nothing else yoga pants are a decent reason for gifs, no?
Giff me some a DAT, ya sure, you betcha.
Nope. There’s never a good reason for gifs substituting for video.
What if you’re still on a Pentium II compatible with a 250 MB hard disk and 14.4 modem?
If you’re on a Pentium II, you’re on at least a 28.8k modem. I haven’t used a 14.4 since the 486 days!
You are incorrect, sir.
The perfectly looped GIF is an art form.
They’re never funny, and just a big waste of bandwidth.
They aren’t necessarily meant to be funny, some of them are just deeply visually satisfying.
But enough about Meat Spin.
Short euphemisms such as this are best.
The Shaq one is…unsettling.
Seriously, animated .gifs are the least of your worries.
I read way too much of that.
You’re using that gif to trap me…I won’t click it. Hello! Me likee.
I see a crack (no, not there!) in the flooring – left side before it zooms in: 3/10
Clearwater, FL, eh?
New Port Richey has a pretty good pizza place–or did, anyway, out near Moon Lake Road.
I grew up in Pinellas (and even rented a house in downtown Clearwater for a couple years). We were told to never go to Pasco.
And they was right.
I guess the lesson that Maddow wanted everyone to learn is that it’s better to not gloat until you have all the relevant information.
To justify it, Sharon writes: “In light of the student’s heroic efforts to prove the professor and T.A. wrong in their assessment of his term paper, Mr. Watson deserves A+.”
If only I had professors like this.
Wow. Afternoon Links have been posted many seconds ago, but the forum is as dead as TSTSNBN.
It takes a while for people to realize there’s a new thread.
Unlike Sloopy, I promise the world order. I make the Links run on time!
Il Douchey
I see what you did there…. well played.
They haven’t yet figured out to post a link about nothing.
Losers! Sad!
You are worse than Satan, Hitler and Hillary Clinton combined, Brett.
But not worse than Secret Nazi President.
In case people missed it, there’s finally justice for Tamir Rice!
Police Chief Calvin Williams found in a disciplinary letter dated March 10 that Constance Hollinger violated protocol the day of the shooting of Tamir Rice
3 years of tough investigative work to find out that the dispatcher is 8 days responsible for the incident, and the cop that actually jumped out of his car with guns blazing is 0 days responsible.
Don’t read the comments. HINT: It was the kid’s fault for having a pellet gun.
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Who does that? Honestly?
When I was a kid our youth group rented paintball equipment and went out in the state park to play (perfectly legal). Got the cops called on us by some retard in a hilltop apartment about a half mile away who said a bunch of people in masks were running around the woods shooting each other with guns (yet oddly nobody was dying…). Cop came out with an AR-15. Thankfully he was very cool about it. Told us what we were doing was legal and to have fun. I didn’t realize until I got a little older just how fucking lucky we were that nobody got shot.
You should have used your 6A right to find out who narced on you.
When I was a kid in Maryland (yes that Maryland) my house backed right up to a huge wooded area. I would regularly take my pellet gun and sometimes even a 22(!) and go out plinking behind my house. This was not even that long ago (late 80s early 90s). This was not a particularly rural place either, we were only about 30 minutes from Baltimore. That place would look like a scene out of Grand Theft Auto if a kid tried that today.
When he was something like 14, my kid bought an AK47-style airsoft gun. It was about four inches shorter than a real rifle but, at a distance of 15 feet, the gun looked like the real thing except for the red tip. I forbade its use outside of the back yard.
A paintball gun, however, is something else entirely.
But they were dyeing, amirite?
Vhyrus, you wouldn’t be talking about Bowie by any chance? I only mention it because I lived there as a young kid in the 80s and early 90s, and across the street (Kinderbrook Ln) was a big stretch of woods where everyone hung out being bad. On the other side was farmland and I think eventually you got to highway, but we were all too afraid of getting shot in the ass by a farmer with salt pellets to try to cross the field.
No 22s, but definitely pellet guns. Some of the older kids would go out into the woods with camo and BB guns and shoot each other. I mean, we *are* talking Bowie, here.
Severna Park, actually. Not real far though.
When I was a kid, I didn’t know one single boy who did not have a pellet gun and who did not play with it outside.
Hell, even up until the mid-90s a car with a trunk full of rifles and shotguns in a high school parking lot wouldn’t even raise any eyebrows amongst teachers and admins. They would just assume it was hunting season.
Yep, when I was in high school, lot of kids had pickups with gun racks full of guns. No one was ever shot, no one shit their pants, and I never saw a cop at school.
We played “tag” with ours. By treaty there was supposed to be a “four-pump” limit. Of course, no one abided by it!
(Four pump limit cracks in three…two…one)
And the ‘no aiming for bare skin’ rule was followed as equally well…
Code X945.23J – Ruptured balls from back-handed nut-punch.
Initial contact?
The comments are a cesspool of copsucking derp.
Bracket of Shame
How do the various schools stack up in the race-to-the-bottom that violating students’ free speech rights has become?
Chuck Schumer’s Attacks On Neil Gorsuch Are Un-American
Who’d have thought that nominating a judge for the SCOTUS who does not believe in legislating from the bench should be controversial? The answer: Chuck Schumer. It’s a sharp rebuke, short, and wraps up its ends nicely.
Roberts will tutor young weedhopper on how to do a penaltax the right way.
I’m reminded of the scene in the movie Reversal of Fortune where Alan Dershowitz tells his students he’s taking up the defense of Claus von Bulow. One of the students whines about how Dershowitz should be standing up for the poor and oppressed, and Dershowitz responds by pointing out how Sunny’s family used law enforcement against Claus, and that if they can do it to somebody as well-to-do as him, imagine what they can do to the little guy.
Song of the Day =
Hi-Heel Sneakers
v1.0
fuck! *@#&*(@
I have no idea how you manage to continuously screw up threading on this site.
Canadian aggression!
It’s pretty clear that we haven’t engage in aggression since, I don’t know, 1945? Nowadays we deal in passive aggression, like running news stories about ‘refugees’ from the United States.
Or whatever it is Canada and Denmark are doing with Hans Island.
Hans who?
WHO SPILLED OUR GREAT MILITARY SECRET?!
Fucking Danes, can’t trust them to even keep a passive whinefest war within bounds of propriety….
Y’all should definitely escalate.
I remember reading several years ago that because of Global Warming the desire to control Hans Island had increased dramatically and the adorably Danish/Canadian conflict almost came to blows, but then everyone laughed it off and decided they’d take it to the UN because they weren’t Americans or something ridiculous like that.
It was very
oh sick burnlazy.Meh, we’ve had dumber passive aggressive wars with the United States.
I’m not sure why that note entertains me so.
Paddy’s Pig?
He’s thinking more about his hair than threading.
Humongous and i talked about it the other day.
its the fact that if you click “reply” to someone’s post, but then later go to the box at the bottom of the page and use that instead, it still treats your comment as a reply rather than a new comment. it can do this even if you click reply to a different comment in between. the only thing i’ve found that seems to work is refreshing to page prior to comment, but even that screwed up once yesterday.
I blame myself, and maybe something in mah browser.
For those who can only look at the AL on the phone, the Alt-Text: “and your desire to fap!”
And it isn’t even Thicc Thursday to compensate for it.
That’s just silly.
Gawd, 2 for 2. Yours might be better than HM’s. This is why I look at your Manly Monday’s pics. Thanks.
I liked the story about getting the 27th Amendment passed. I didn’t know about it and kind of always assumed that the constitutional amendments were only ratified in ancient history. And this one is relatively recent — within living memory.
Ex-Minneapolis cop charged with third degree felony assault for kicking man in the face so hard he caused a traumatic brain injury
A couple of years ago he was cleared by the DA in another case where he beat a suspect for the terrible crime of asking the cop for a warrant. The city’s paying out a settlement in that case.
He’s received a total of 8 complaints for excessive force since 2013.
I don’t understand, why’s he an EX-cop? Did he show up late for work too often?
Well, I mean, I don’t think the civil service commission has weighed in yet, so he still might be given his job back (with full back pay, of course, including overtime)
Stupid cop. He should have just shot the guy dead, then he’d get a paid vacation and nothing else would happen.
Court clears officer of shooting that even PoliceOne said was a bad shoot
I mean, PoliceOne would probably defend shooting a baby point blank in the back of the head as a “good shoot”, so if they say it’s a bad shoot, it’s really, really bad. And the court still cleared the officer.
I guess the cop hit another cop rather than an innocent bystander?
Let’s not forget the greatest movie ever made. And only 13 minutes long!
Better, and gotta love those fruity drinks for rich housewives.
All those people are dead now.
But maybe, somewhere in that crowd, was a one Dr. Henry Walton Jones, jr. who was on the hunt for a precious artifact.
Lucian Wintrich Claims He’s Victim of Homophobic Assault at White House
Assault…. you keep using that word… I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
I’m going to hook a loudspeaker to an digital recorder so it shouts insults when you pull the trigger and call it an assault weapon. I am sure they will sell like hotcakes.
I read that. I don’t know what’s going on. But it reads like either so much bullshit coming from different directions, or a lover’s quarrel of sorts.
No it’s not.
That entire story could be summed up by:
Person 1: You hate homos!
Person 2: No I don’t! You hate homos!
Person 1: I know you are buy what am I?
Person 2: Neener neener, you poopey head!
I have to admit I felt the faintest bit of hipster pride when Pepe turned into the new swastika this year and I’d been seeing it on 4chan since I was like 15.
It also makes this post on TSTSNBN even funnier.
A little research tells me 4chan wasn’t created until I was 16. Whatever. I’m old but I’m still cooler than anybody who works in the media I guess.
Your avatar makes me think everything you post is deadpan sarcasm. Sometimes it makes me confused about the subject of the comment.
Your avatar makes me think everything you post is deadpan sarcasm.
That is the intention, and not far from the truth.
I read that and now i hate everyone mentioned in the story, the guy in the picture most of all.
while irreverently making a hand signal commonly understood as a hate symbol
I had to know. I knew it was going to be stupid. So I tracked it down. It was the “ok” gesture. You know. ?
Literally everything is a hate symbol.
Song of the Day =
Hi-Heel Sneakers
v1.0
v1.1
v1.2
v1.5
v1.6
*no, the numbering isn’t really supposed to make any sense.
well actually, it sort of was.
v2.0
*apologies to Led Zeppelin, Faces, The Beatles, Tom Jones, George Thorogood, Ramsey Lewis, and pretty much anybody else who did a
decentversion at some pointYou were doing real well until this one.
Damn threading – I meant this for v1.6. Sammy effing Davis?
Strep throat leads to quadruple amputation.
That 27th amendment story is one of the most interesting stories I’ve read. Wild stuff.
+1. Great story.
Guy spends his whole adult life getting an amendment passed. Meanwhile I am sitting here screwing around on a fake news site instead of drawing squares on my computer like I am supposed to. If the intended goal of that article was to make me feel like a world class schmuck, then mission fucking accomplished.
I did like the karma shot at the end about the shitty teacher not being able to find work for being so god damned terrible.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that without more evidence, and it was the TA who graded the paper. The prof. just didn’t look into whether the grade was warranted too deeply. The paper itself may not have been written very well. Getting a mediocre grade on something doesn’t mean the argument was wrong or even that the professor thought so.
She flat out admitted in the article she didn’t read it very thoroughly and it was only AFTER he got the amendment passed that she decided he had somehow earned his A. If that isn’t at least a partial admission of negligence I don’t know what is.
Again, the TA was responsible for the grading. That does happen in universities all the time, and TAs can be dumbshits. If a busy professor had the time to read every paper, she wouldn’t need TAs.
It’s like complaining to your boss’s boss about something that takes a bit of time to explain and getting blown off because they really don’t have the time to hear you out. It sucks, but that doesn’t necessarily imply that the person is awful at their job. It might seem super important to you, but everyone thinks their problems are.
The Rooskies are at it again
Pffft. Amateurs. All the NSA had to do to get data from Yahoo was ask.
For extremely directive definitions of ‘ask’.
+1 kid who “volunteered” to help his grandparents.
I wonder what the threshold for “state sponsorship” is. There are certainly tons of hackers in Russia (and everywhere else, really), and they always get reported as “state sponsored”. Are we talking about dudes who are in it for the cash but can occasionally be blackmailed by the state? Or are we actually talking about state employees?
An update to the liquor store owner who opened on Sunday despite the law ending the stupid Sunday liquor ban not taking effect until July
See, I wouldn’t go defend Clive Bundy, but I would throw on my plates and AR in a second for this dude. This man is a patriot and a gentleman.
I swear to god shit in the country would change if more business owners had that kind of balls.
When the bureaucrats threaten you, ignore them. When they threaten you again, fight back.
Now, granted it would take some sort of solidarity. There would need to be a nice coalition of businesses committing civil disobedience all at once for it to really work, but it would work.
Stupid motherfuckers at the city just pissed away a shit-ton of tax revenue. Thanks to the deep blue government and the Wilfs, the taxes in Minneapolis are obscene.
Surdyk probably has vaults full of gold – he will be fine. The fucking city is only punishing employees and customers. You know, the ones who fund their fucking existence.
Go fuck yourself, Wilson.
Thanks to the Wilfs? Have they raised taxes to pay for that boondoggle of a taxpayer-financed stadium?
Yep. When Governor Mumbles McTrustFund’s E-pulltab scheme went tits up, they jacked up sales and property taxes.
The pulltab scheme didn’t bring in enough revenue to pay for the stadium? I am SHOCKED!
I’m curious if there’s a single person, advocate or detractor, who actually believed the stadium could be paid for that way.
Governor Dayton was thoroughly convinced.
And drug-addled.
“The pulltab scheme didn’t bring in enough revenue to pay for the stadium?”
I dont even think it brought in enough revenue to pay for the pulltab scheme.
I’m familiar with milfs and gilfs…. but wilfs?
Not sure I want to know.
I read it as ‘women I’d like to fuck’ but that’s a damn big tent.
Nothing like that at all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygi_Wilf
Damn, his parents must have hated him at birth.
Wilfs?
Wildlings I’d like to fuck? Would.
I hope Minneapolis licensing manager Grant Wilson gets plenty of phone calls from Minneapolisites voicing their displeasure at him being a grade A douche.
Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger: Should a rapist be invited on stage?
Was it rape rape?
Is that rapist named Roman Polanski?
Stranger Danger
I was just about to write that too!
Best part? Rapist’s name is Tom Stranger. The woman could have known him for years but she can still say with a straight face she was raped by a Stranger.
Maybe I have anger issues but this rape could not have been that terrible if rapist and rapee can cohabitate the same stage for any period of time without violence. If I lived within driving distance of any guy that raped me or any of my immediate friends or family I would have to stop myself from randomly driving over and setting his car on fire on the weekends.
Unlike Sloopy, I promise the world order. I make the Links run on time!
What is the official time (CDT, of course) for the launch of the lynx?
The first rule of the launch of the lynx is that you do not talk about the launch of the lynx
More! of the stuff i mentioned the other day (re: “drones” rules), which seems to be the current S.O.P. for journalists
“Obama sets draconian rules in the final months in office; Trump immediately un-does rules = Howling from Press that Hitler 2.0 Is Destroying Planet”
Anytime government creates any regulation, no matter how trivial or obscure it is, the left immediately latch onto it as the only thing between us and total world ending destruction.
“If they succeed we’ll pay more at the pump, depend more on oil from bad countries, drive up the trade deficit and pollute our kids’ atmosphere,” said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign.
Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the change “makes no sense.”
“Mileage standards save consumers money at the gas pump, make Americans less dependent on oil, reduce carbon pollution and advance innovation,” she said.
It’s almost like there’s a specific set of talking points they all have to follow. I doubt either of them have more knowledge of the situation than that.
Because saving money at the pump while you pay for it via debt financing on the tech that went into the new car to make it meet CAFE standards isn’t a thing.
Cooler donated to Goodwill store contained $24,000 worth of pot
In a more civilized world, Goodwill would say nothing and be able to sell the pot, thus raking in a lot more money than selling old concert t-shirts and free t-shirts from blood donations ever would.
Pot’s legal in WA, but only in smaller quantities, IIRC. “Legalized” is better than “illegal”, but “decriminalized” is better still.
I’m not sure how decriminalized is better. I guess that would depend of what decriminalized means. I remember reading MDs version of decriminalization back when that happened. If I recall correctly, it was something like 10 grams or less will get you a fine and your 10 grams confiscated. More than that is not only subject to criminal penalties, but you could actually wind up charged with possession with intent to distribute, a serious felony.
I was thinking of “decriminalization” in the literal “this is no longer criminal” sense. My version of decriminalization would be a bill something along the lines of “all existing laws and regulations prohibiting the possession, ownership, transport and distribution of _____ are hereby repealed and not enforceable, effective immediately”, where you could fill in the blank.
That would be legalization, without the tax and regulate parts. Of course, everything you can make a profit on will always be taxed, so that’s the only type of legalization we’ll ever see. Which is still much better than what they are calling ‘decriminalization’ because that will always still carry criminal penalties if you try to possess over a certain amount or especially if they think you’re distributing.
It depends, I suppose, on what the definition of “is” is. Decriminalization can be total or something less than total. Total decriminalization would look like the bill I proposed and would restore the state of the law to the point before criminal penalties were instituted. That’s my ideal. Bear in mind that, theoretically anyway, that which is not prohibited is allowed. Partial decriminalization can be anything from reducing criminal penalties to civil fines up to eliminating criminal penalties entirely but leaving in place a complex system of rules and regs for use and possession. Legalization is what we did with alcohol and what some of the states are doing with pot: civil or criminal penalties remain, but mostly on the distribution side. And for the privilege of being allowed limited access to a heavily regulated market you get to pay a usurious excise tax. It’s better than the alternative, but it’s still ersatz liberty.
Smaller quantities? So they have to cut it first, then sell it.
Sell it? Easy there, tiger. You gotta get your license from the Liquor and Cannabis Control Board for that.
Yeah, some mule is going to wind up in a shallow ditch in the Mexican desert over the weekend.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Or something like:
‘Hey man, where’s the weed?’
‘I thought you had it, I told you last night to stash it somewhere!’
‘Oh shit… I was stoned, it’s in the cooler!’
Part of me is just incredibly angry that this is “news” instead of “a bunch of very happy Goodwill employees”
You know… there’s nothing proving that the cooler didn’t actually have FIVE pounds of weed in it, is there?
I don’t know. I think I would find it very odd if I found that much weed in a cooler that someone just happened to donate to Goodwill. I might start thinking that the people who left it there are the authoritah. I mean if they set up kiddy pr0n sites, what wouldn’t they do to entrap someone?
Nah. Then they’d deliver it to the guy’s house and storm in after they “find” it.
they’ve actually done that before.
They did it to some mayor of a particularly rich WASPy part of Maryland and shot his dogs. Caused quite a shitstorm.
That was exactly the incident i was thinking of.
That’s what I was thinking of when it happened. Cheye Calvo was his name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor%27s_residence_drug_raid
Black Labs Matter.
Holy fuck! I was just joking when I said this, but I looked through at the cite :
LOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL.
That dead mule you mentioned above, you’d find some goodwill check-in guys next to him.
Sessions = Basically being the douche everyone expected he would be
These same “1990s Crime Strategies” are often what put a million people behind bars for victimless crimes and helped create a permanent criminal underclass.
In related scientific discoveries = “Idiots think we can ‘stop’ Global Warming“
Hell, they can’t even stop the games people play.
My fave by them
super-simple
Why don’t we just breed bleaching resistant coral? Seems like a much higher probability to succeed.
Or = why don’t we just let nature take its course and let coral re-populate areas which were formerly too-cool for reef systems?
there are really only a few areas of the world where proper reef systems exist. if they are shrinking due to temperature shifts, other habitable areas are emerging. The idea that every ecosystem has to be permanently kept in stasis by Humankind is conceptually absurd, much less practically impossible.
The idea that every ecosystem has to be permanently kept in stasis by Humankind is conceptually absurd, much less practically impossible.
DENIER!!
I see no detailed history of water temps there
Monroe police said workers at the local Goodwill were sorting through donations during the weekend when they came across the cooler.
“This cooler was donated over the weekend to the Goodwill. Employees surprised when they opened the lid,” police tweeted.
“I’m sick and tired of tripping over that kid’s stuff. Why can’t he carry the damn thing down the stairs to his room? Screw it, I’m taking it to Goodwill with your mom’s quilt collection.”
“Idiots think we can ‘stop’ Global Warming“
A good dose of nuclear winter will stop global warming in its tracks, but they bitch about Trump having the nuclear codes. Why can’t they make up their minds?
Because the nuclear mutated coral would take revenge?
Lego-compatible tape meets 6,000 percent of crowdfunding goal
I feel like I had a really deprived childhood compared to today’s youth.
My favorite link is the CNBC one about Maddow.
In fact, I liked it so much that I LINKED IT THIS MORNING.
Glitch in the matrix….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icID__07xBI
People read Sloopy’s links?
Who’s Sloopy?
The totally ironic thing about it, is the left just recently seemed to be starting to declare Madcow as their new hero who will help lead them out of the desert and back to the promised land.
Some people don’t wake up in time for that!
Man nobody gives a fuck about your “morning” links. That shit be too damn early.
If you’re awake before 8, you didn’t party hard enough the night before.
I read it. Don’t listen to these knuckle draggers.
You’re a prince among men.
So the main page was loading on my phone, and the article below the links picture had frozen in a great way. The boy and obama were very pixilated. It looked like there was some sort of Japanese porn with several approving onlookers.
Have you told Agile that you partook of his stash?
Worst Congressman with the last name King: Steve “I can’t keep my mouth shut”, or Peter “I (heart) terrorists as long as they’re Irish”?
We’re libertarians, I think we can agree that all kings suck.
I don’t really get why people have chosen kings. Like “we like washington so much his grandson should be a leader!” Just confuses me. I know its not like they vote a new royal family in, but what gives?
We’re libertarians, I think we can agree that all kings suck.
Not so fast.
The only thing we can agree on as libertarians is that we disagree.
No we don’t. Fuck you.
Oh yeah! Well… yeah, whatever, do what you want man.
Stop trying to tell me what to do!
I don’t agree to that!
Not all of them.
I respect a person who films their (proper) Technics 1200 turntable in action when uploading a video.
That respect is instantly canceled out and converted to incomprehending rage when it turns out they used the camera’s onboard mic rather than a line-in for the audio.
Audiophile!
Yeah, you want to capture the full analog glory from the line-in before it gets converted to 128kbps lossy for YouTube
YES YOU DO
Jesus, i’m not being super picky here to simply say,
“If you’re going to @#()@@) upload a song to youtube, don’t record the audio with a potato”. It seems to be defeating the entire purpose. Watching a record spinning in a circle on a turntable isn’t really the main-event.
Jesus. I just wanted the fucking song.
Here it is live in ’69.
Thank you, edit fairie! 😉
This is sexual harassment and I don’t have to take it.
Also, you’re welcome.
Once many moons ago I couldn’t figure out why there was a random sound of a door shutting in the middle of an otherwise clean (for 128kbps mp3 in 2001) audio track. I realized it wasn’t a data rip from a CD but a recorded audio track which had AIM running in the background and someone had logged out.
Kazaa was awesome. semisonic-closing_time-horse-cock-fucks-blonde-slut.zip.mp3.rar.exe
I was more an eDonkey2k user, but different strokes.
huh.
there are some uploaders to youtube who insert random sound effects into the digital audio out of some douchey need to pretend that they’re not really violating copyright if they fuck with the audio a little
its particularly the rare-record-collector types, who both want to ‘share’ the stuff, but also protect the status of the OG recordings.
Those people are even worse than people who fucking record TV clips with their cell phone camera in portrait mode and then post it to youtube.
Agreed.
Though I have an SL-1300
Prince Hans-Adams II of Liechtenstein isn’t too bad. He’s supposedly said that tax rates higher than 6% are tyrannical. When Germany bitched about Liechtenstein acting as a tax haven for Germans, Hans-Adams responded with something along the lines of, “It’s not Liechtenstein’s problem that Germans don’t want to pay German taxes. Maybe the German government should reconsider its tax laws instead?”.
We’re libertarians, I think we can agree that all kings suck.
Excuse me, some of us are constitutional monarchists as well.
I’d say I’m sorry but it’s entirely your fault for being born Canadian. Now go make some weak beer* and maple syrup.
*The irony of an American talking about weak beer is completely intentional
-1 Molson Ice
I actually have some arguments as to why a properly structured constitutional monarchy has a greater likelihood of maintaining a libertarian society than a republic that will always inevitability decay into a dictatorship of the masses or a tyrant worse than a monarch, but I want to read Hoppe first to see if I’m just repeating ideas.
I can see how an argument like that could be made, since the way many people tend to treat the president it seems they think we’re electing a king, not a chief magistrate. Heck, when people don’t laugh at a statement like “this was the moment…when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal” but instead take it seriously, it becomes apparent many people actually think we elect god-kings.
While reading I thought to myself “look at Hans Herman Hoppe over here”.
Because said monarch will have magic powers that will stop the tyrant in his/her tracks?
Otherwise it’s a simple calculation of brute force and intimidation, and populist tyrants win that one – monarchy didn’t stop Franco nor Mussolini.
I guess if you can keep populace disarmed, borders closed and army fully professional, your monarch can mass murder his grip on the throne. It’s the CK2 way!
Because said monarch will have magic powers that will stop the tyrant in his/her tracks?
If by ‘magic powers’ you mean ‘control of half the military and/or possibly nuclear weapons or other force multipliers’, sure. There’s also a whole “the monarchy only really exists to control parts of the military and veto Parliamentary legislation that is against the Constitution” idea, but I’m still working on the mechanics of that.
monarchy didn’t stop Franco nor Mussolini.
Dysfunctional monarchies have the same track record as dysfunctional republics, who knew?
I actually have some arguments as to why a properly structured constitutional monarchy has a greater likelihood of maintaining a libertarian society than a republic that will always inevitability decay into a dictatorship of the masses or a tyrant worse than a monarch
If that’s Hoppe, he’s just repeating what Aquinas said hundreds of years earlier.
The notion of someone being deserving of special respect or status because of their last name is disgusting and distinctly un-libertarian.
Get back to me when Milton Friedman’s son isn’t known in libertarian circles because of name recognition.
Or Rand Paul for that matter.
In all fairness, David Friedman has done significant and important work in his own right and would likely have received recognition for it regardless of his father. Patri Friedman is kind of riding the company name, though.
I’ve never really read BBC news website before (although i’d watch their TV broadcast sometimes)… and it strikes me as “CNN with an accent”
This should make you hate them… and pretty much all of the UK at the same time.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-19199632
How, exactly, are you supposed to protect yourself in Scotland? Ask the rapist nicely not to hurt you? Maybe offer them one of your sheep, but that might only work in Wales.
I believe the Scots use headbutts whenever possible.
Fisticuffs and prayer mostly.
You’re not. You’re supposed to lie back and think of Britain.
Maybe the authorities assume all the rapists will target sheep, not people, since it is Scotland we’re talking about.
Shouldn’t have worn that kilt.
I like it for general interest news. Not being American media, it’s more tolerable during election years.
Increase in extreme sea levels could endanger European coastal communities
I will leave my car running 24 hours a day if it means I get to drown a bunch of Europeans.
I just ripped the pollution control system out of my Tahoe in celebration.
I want the Dutch to re-orient their entire economy to selling dykes abroad.
I will now link a sad trombone sound for that joke from my desktop at work, which I can totally do through my firewall without outside editing assistance, thusly.
That’s as bad as Swiss’s old man joke in Jewsday Tuesday last night.
I’m sorry you feel that way Goji.
I thought they had done that already
Patriot missiles are $3 mil a pop? Holy shit.
So a swarm of cheap drones could literally destroy our economy. Could we get the Hawk back? Or maybe buy some ZSU-23-4s from the Ruskies?
I recently got a job working for a company that makes rockets. If you think you have any earthly fucking clue how much rockets actually cost, multiply that number by about 5 and you might approach the real number. When I realized just how expensive these things are I damn near passed out in the middle of the office. Oh, and 99% of is entirely taxpayer money.
Maybe just a few skids of these?
Am I fucked up for wanting to see someone use that on a person? I feel fucked up for wanting that.
“Here, hold my beer and watch this”
My work’s firewall blocked it. I assume it’s a giant hockey stick.
Skynet drone defense. Google it. it’s basically a 1 ounce 12 gauge slug cut into 5 pieces with cord connecting each individual piece. Imagine a bolo snare designed by the spanish inquisition.
Yes, I’ve seen that one. They changed the name up…it’s been around for a while. Looks lethal as hell.
basically 000 Buckshot, with much shittier ballistics
i’m pretty sure the ‘cord’ would disintegrate on impact, if not on firing.
Hot dish.
Tater tot hotdish, to be exact.
Fucking deadly, man.
::Perks up::
Did you bring enough for the entire class?
No, but plenty for you!
*waggles eyebrows*
Score! I love hot dish and I don’t care who knows it.
It takes a lot of $3 millions to get noticed in the govt budget…
Okay… I clicked on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website. (www.impatientoptimists.org)
… and in the footer is this:
京ICP备16015611号
Shit. Hit wrong submit button
The link takes me to a chinese web site with an error:
WTF is this about?
They have been taken over by the Borg.
Are you trying to make us look a Chinese Insane Clown Posse?
That might just be the most evil thing yet…
Well played, Sirrah! I doff my cap to thee!
Cleveland recovers one of its priceless cultural treasures
Well not everyone can have a ming vase, ya know!
Did they have to fight a guy in a fedora insisting that it belongs in a museum?
No it was a guy in a trilby who wanted to use it as his brony cum jar.
Patriot missiles are $3 mil a pop? Holy shit.
So a swarm of cheap drones could literally destroy our economy.
Nonsense. The stimulative effect would be just the sort of shot in the arm this economy is looking for.
Your IP is not allowed to visit this website!
Fuck off, white devil!
My wife figured out a way to exploit a loophole in the tax code: apparently the way the law is written we can deduct our home mortgage interest to reduce our taxes. Ha! It’s not just the Trumps of the world that get to exploit these tax loopholes.
Wait until she finds out about the household exemptions…
apparently the way the law is written we can deduct our home mortgage interest to reduce our taxes.
You sneaky bastards!
FYI, apparently there is a new hacking of celebrity photos.
Links or it didn’t happen.
Here
Do all of these celebrities employ the same publicist ?
Hmm. I wonder why I have the same thoughts about this that I do when I see twenty stories about ‘Muslim attacked by Trump supporters’?
Other Countries Are Fast Catching Up to the US Education System. This Is Going to Have Consequences.
What an insight.
Simply put, we are no longer alone upon this planet when it comes to educating our citizens.
Oh.
With all the shitty Minneapolis stuff today, I’ll just add one more.
This is why some of us fled for the suburbs.
I thought that was because you were racist?
Well, that too.
You don’t have to be racist to do it, but it sure helps!
It ain’t racism, there are only about 200 African Americans in Minnesota and half of them are college or pro athletes.
Bastards!
Anybody else notice this brilliant critique of The real Trump tax scandal by none other than the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnson, the guy who delivered Trump’s tax return to Rachel Maddow.
In this incisive USA Today op ed, Johnson argues that it’s an epic scandal that “tax rules require you to depreciate, or reduce the value of buildings over time”.
It’s pure progressive derp, an expression of profound ignorance of anything related to business, investment, and accounting coupled with and appeal to ignorant, blind envy.
Are Pulitzer Prize-winning progressives really this stupid?
I wouldn’t know since you fucked the link.
link
The New York Times headlined and led with the write-off as the lede. ZOMG, a write-off… on a tax return that shows.. he paid more money in taxes in one year than most people earn in a lifetime… great point you’re making there, guys… ?
I guess they figure that the overwhelming majority of their readers will be just as ignorant as to how business works as they are?
According to Trump’s 2005 return, he paid “Total Tax” of $38,435,451 (Line 63) on “Taxable Income” of $31,558,340.
That about 122%.
But progressives say he didn’t pay enough?
Taxable Income is from Line 43.
“Are Pulitzer Prize-winning progressives really this stupid?”
Walter Duranty would suggest yes, yes they are.
No matter how many times I thumb down the #yogapants on betterfap, they still clutter my recommendations for some reason.
When you downvote, do you use your entire hand and is it also wrapped around something (I can only guess) else, as you rapidly “downvote?”
So in the Antarctica green ice story, were the NASA scientists mentioned also responsible for this English-to-Voodoo conversion?
“The luminous-looking green ice already covers about 650 square miles (about 1000 square kilometres) – and it is growing by the day.”
If so, let’s hope they stick to linear calculations in the future.
Also, is it appropriate to welcome myself as a refugee from the Establishment Site here? My goal is to double my posting volume over here by comparison (I would estimate generating about 2 posts-per-year at the Other Place.) But the comments section gave me lots of entertainment and knowledge through the years so here I am.
Heh. We don’t need no stinkin’ propriety.
Welcome.
PROPRIETY IS THEFT!
Yeah I just checked… wow that is WAAAY off. No wonder these fuckers haven’t gone for the moon recently, I’m not sure they could find the damn thing.
Units of measure? How do they work?
“I” be fa I ROY!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvi0fgK4p0Q
John McCain says that Rand Paul is working for Putin.
This really ought to be point where we could collectively conclude that McCain now has late-stage dementia and should be put out to pasture. He’s said some dumb shit in recent days, but this takes the cake.
Okay, so confession time: I voted for McCain in the last election. I did it because I was genuinely convinced Hillary was going to win and I wanted to put as many Republican congressmen in her way as possible. This was my same line of reasoning for voting for Arpaio again. If a new assault weapons ban came down, Arpaio at least had the stones to tell the .gov to piss up a rope. Thankfully Arpaio got shitcanned but I die inside a little every time I think about McCain.
Can’t you see it? Wake up! Rand has ‘D’ as the fourth letter of his name as does VlaDimir Putin and both of their last names start with ‘P’
How are you so blind!?!?!?!
Ayn Rand came from Russia. It’s a long game. A LOOOOOONG GAME!!!!!!111!!
DeVos haters support her policies. 😀
Trump’s second ‘muslim travel ban’ is blocked.
But apparently you can demonstrate animus towards a group of people by targeting a geographic region containing less than ten percent of that group, while leaving the other 90 percent alone. That makes sense.
Primed to end up in front of the SCOTUS, to be honest. The President has the authority to do this, by law. The proggies pretending otherwise doesn’t change the fact that their envisioned restrictions do not exist.
Whether a President should be able to do this unilaterally is another story, but Congress has the power to take it away too.
Not sure about McDonald’s all-day breakfast anymore. This McMuffin seems to be getting stale.