Happy Monday, everyone. Hopefully Lord Humungus’s caffeine buzz has worn off and the rest of us will get a word in edgewise. LH, you want a slot doing links, let me know.
- GM Hopes you’ll pay $1500/month to drive any Caddy you want, but own nothing. The good news is you can drive up to 8 different cars a year. The bad news is you’re paying $1500/month for a rental car. I haven’t priced Budget, but I’d be surprised if the rates weren’t competitive.
- Canadians are so tolerant that half want illegals deported.
- An interesting take on insurance, gambling and derivatives.
- I, personally, believe that the most interesting player in international relations will be cheap oil brought on by fracking. Which seems to only be valuable when all of the oil that is actually cheap to extract is artificially inflated in price. Its this weird free-ish market ceiling on prices. Oh, and it already cost me a job, so I’m not just rooting my interest.
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283 responses to “Monday Afternoon Links”
First!
A lot of shit I hear on Quebec radio would shock most North Americans. The crap they get away with is amazing. BUT, the second they get wind of someone thrashing them…fin du monde!
Anti-American xenophobia is perfectly acceptable in Canada, of course.
Junior America is so pathetic
If I really wanted to be mean, I’d refer to Quebec as an apartheid state.
To be fair, the West Island is a pretty nice place to live. Soweto it ain’t.
You been?
I been.
They eat fish parts with ice-cream?
Good beer
If you say deplorable things with a shitty French accent, it sounds a lot more acceptable.
Don’t you people work?
I know right?
Example please?
Hello, Rufus.
i will never be first
Not with that attitude you won’t!
Hey, why should we allow Canadians (the 52nd state, behind Puerto Rico) to take Firsts from Americans? It ain’t right!
And the bastard didn’t even have the decency to say HELLO first!
We demand at least five states, I don’t want to be associated with B.C. or Quebec.
Ok, as long as you keep Justin Bieber.
Sorry, we’re states now, freedom of movement and commerce clause.
Your death metal song of the day
The ruler of the wasteland does not NEED to post a links article. He suffers no accountability in the comments.
Out of a little bit of boredom (stupid conference calls) I went to budget.com, without shopping around, just using the codes available on their website. Checked a random month (April 1 – May 1) out of Fort Lauderdale airport in a luxury car. $850 for the month if you pay ahead. For $900 you can get a Ford Mustang convertible.
Lol. I did, too. Full size SUV $1,000, luxury SUV, $1600.
Rockefeller dead.
No, he just shed his human skin and went back to his home planet, like all
Jewslizardpeople.(Crap, I’ve said too much)
(To my lizard overlords: GLEEP GLORP GLOP)
Just this morning I listened to two guys discuss the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, among other totally not crazy things. They had watched Youtube videos, among other things.
Pretty convincing tbh
Cadillac has enough trouble getting people to pay $450 a month to drive their cars, never mind $1500.
I had originally misread that and thought they were desperate enough to pay $1500 for the advertizing.
Sad thing about this is that Caddy is building some really good cars these days.
But fuck Government Motors.
Things learned last night on a Wiki chain: Willie Brown, former mayor of San Francisco and Jim Jones’ best friend, once dated Kamala “Everything is a right!” Harris (who probably would’ve been Jim Jones’ best friend too)
Jim Jones had a lot of friends in the California Democratic Party – some of whom are still in congress.
And another one who is, inexplicably, governor again.
Other than Dianne Feinstein? (I know Harvey Milk and George Moscone were as well).
Willie was probably his best friend in politics though. He once introduced Jones as “a combination of Martin King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, and Chairman Mao”, and he meant it as a complement.
Yes, Jerry Brown.
Also, noted saint and martyr of the left Harvey Milk was a political ally of Jones, although I seem to remember reading that he personally disliked Jones.
Milk was killed about 9 days after the mass murder at Jonestown. There’s a long standing conspiracy theory that he was killed by a Peoples’ Temple hit squad (for whatever remnants of the Temple were left in San Francisco)
Milk wrote a letter to Carter mere weeks before the Flavor Aid was getting passed out urging him to stop any investigations of Jonestown. Somehow they left that little detail out of the film.
He didn’t really live up to the Mao comparison. Less than a 1000 dead, including himself. Mao laughs at him from his mausoleum.
Well, from that perspective, Mao laughs at everyone not named Stalin.
I read a thing once where the author tried to answer the question of who killed the most people, and Hitler won.
But, IIRC, the author credited him with all deaths in the European theatre, using the logic that Hitler started the war, so all the deaths caused by it were on his head. I’m not sure if that’s really fair.
Not remotely fair. If you ever read The Chief Culprit, written by a former Soviet intelligence officer, USSR records indicated that Stalin was building up to invade German at the time of the German invasion. They were just beaten to the punch.
Hitler was small potatoes next to those guys
What the fuck? Did Mao get a bye into the finals or something? Because Hitler and Stalin are the AAA utility infielders to Mao, the HoF superstar.
In raw numbers Mao is the worst, but on a level of proportionality he has competition. If you look at things as percentage of world population, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane give him a run for it, and as a percentage of the country killed the Khmer Rouge hands down beats Mao for title of the worst.
Some historian give Genghis the nod. His estimated casualties are well over 100 million in some studies.
100 million? That’s almost as many native Americans as Captain John Smith killed.
-prog
Since we’re doing ‘6 degrees of progressives’, it turns out that everyone was right about W having the jungle fever. Condie was no coincidence.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/george-bush-michelle-obama-friends/
Come on man. Condi wasn’t straight.
Did W know? He wasn’t exactly the brightest knife in the crayon box.
Isnt’ Brown married and, like, 35 years older than Harris?
Yes, but since when did that ever pose a roadblock for the politically powerful?
Well, yeah. Ya got me there.
Can’t sleep your way to the top if you stick with your own age cohort.
*Takes notes*
Bingo. Kamala Harris owes her entire political career to the fact that she used to fuck Willie Brown. Had she not done that, she’s just another junior law partner somewhere, instead of being talked about as a future presidential candidate.
Another point, somewhat related to anyone who want Harris to run for the Oval Orifice: thanks to Obama and now Trump, are we never again going to see a stately, knowledgeable, experienced political executive be considered for prez again? Are we just going to keep going with people who’ve had little or no experience? Is the rule now, once you’ve had four years as a Governor or six as a Senator, you’ve already passed your window of possibility to become President?
Not sure it’s the lack of experience that is terrifying because surely there are some awesome potential presidents who live in the real world who could assemble a competent staff…it’s the whole “hope and change…sea levels receed, free health care for all” & “make America great, we will deport all illegals, we will manufacture again”….that people buy THAT CRAP as possible and pin hopes to a government savior….
That’s the real problem. A statesman (or a likewise reasonable outsider) has to admit “we can have socialized medicine, but you 75 year olds aren’t getting new hips, new knees or bypass” or “we can keep social security as it is now, but the ss tax will now double for everyone under 40″……facts are for losers now
Spot on. Some other facts that are undeniably true but largely unmentionable in mainstream politics:
– The government cannot make something “free” (e.g. taxpayer funded) without compromising both quality and supply.
– Men and women make different decisions, and this will always lead to some “inequality”.
– The jobs of yesterday are not coming back, but they will be replaced with better jobs and much cheaper products.
– The US cannot fix the Middle East. Their societies are largely stuck in the 10th century by their own choice. The best thing to do is just keep them isolated from us and wait for them to get tired of strapping suicide vests to their kids.
Speaking of Wiki chains, I decided to refresh myself on Jonestown and came across this gem on the Wiki article: “Though its roots and teachings shared more with biblical church and Christian revival movements than with Marxism…”
Definitely wasn’t Marxism. Despite self-describing as such. Everyone knows real Marxism is good and pure, and definitely doesn’t lead to mass murder.
LOOK AWAY!
… Dixieland?
An interesting take on insurance, gambling and derivatives.
Can I opt out of government “insurance”?
You aren’t required to use it, but of course your “contributions” are still expected. Or else.
After working on a friend’s Cadillac last weekend to replace a part that should have never broken, I think I would pay $1500 a month to never look at one again.
Caddys are all some other GM model with a different skin and sparkly stuff. Never buy parts for a caddy. Tell the parts guy you want a part for whatever other GM car matches your caddy. Same part, same box, half price.
It used to be that way anyway.
For the guts, yes. Unfortunately the Escalade has all kinds of ugly bling that are unique to that eyesore. And expensive.
Hey, when is my car going to be fixed?
When viewed with proper perspective, the absolute beauty of the market is stunning. Options and Futures, CDOs and MBSs, Common Stocks, and even plain old loans are all amazing at communicating information. It never ceases to amaze me the way a free market works is truly awe inspiring.
OT: What’s with Gmail making it more difficult not to quote email?
My phone updated some apps last night, and this morning when I was on the Gmail app I couldn’t find how not to quote an email in its entirety with a top post above. I find what happens in email exchanges is that you get multiple levels of replies with a whole bunch of quoted text on the bottom once you finally view the email in a traditional application.
It’s particularly bad when you’re on a mailing list and the list appends the subscribe/unsubscribe information automatically so you get multiple levels of that shit, too.
It’s new, I think. I added gmail to a new phone today and it asked if I wanted to quote all threaded emails. I said no.
I think if you go into settings on a desktop it’ll let you change them to correct it.
Have Cake, Eat Cake
FBI head denies Trump wiretap claim, confirms Russia election probe
Everyone in the media seems to have agreed that there are now 2 different issues rather than 1. Even TSTSNBN. Because those hairs don’t split themselves.
It has gotten to the point where almost none of those people have any credibility whatsoever. I dont believe a fucking word they say.
I was laughing this morning at some D congresscritter refusing to accept the FBI’s denial of Trump campaign collusion with the Russians…. the same way Trump refuses to accept the FBI’s denial of wiretapping.
Aside from the lack of institutional and personal credibility, the FBI head is able to vouch for every other agency and every junior level employee within those agencies that no one every wiretapped, spied, interecepted, or any other wiggle term for surveilling anyone in the Trump campaign, intentionally or inadvertently? Really? Despite having to fess up that we’ve been doing it to our close allies (and probably denied it to their faces at least once)?
Exactly. We’re expected to believe that professional spies with massive resources couldn’t spy on the Trump campaign without leaving any evidence. And that their fellow spies wouldn’t cover for them even if they did.
NSA DOCUMENTS PROVE SURVEILLANCE OF DONALD TRUMP & HIS FAMILY
Bombshell discovery shows targets of NSA’s “Project Dragnet”
https://www.infowars.com/nsa-documents-prove-surveillance-on-donald-trump-and-alex-jones/
IT’S GOING TO TURN THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY!!!
You mean like this?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/about-that-new-york-times-wiretapping-article-trump-has-it-all-wrong/2017/03/16/7f57d99e-0a86-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?utm_term=.79c3dabd9cf3
Who in their right mind believes the FBI wiretapped top Trump aides without Obumbles knowing about it?
Well, I can’t believe that a President — who ordered executions of U.S. citizens without due process — would spy on his political enemies. That’s just crazy talk!
You mean that guy who spied on reporters and was repeatedly busted lying about surveilling American citizens? But the idea that he might have used those capabilities to spy on political opponents is a bridge too far.
Or the guy who used the IRS to target political enemies? Or dude so obsessed with gun grabbing sold guns to cartels on purpose (I still hope to find the theory on how this was gonna help him gun grab….let’s give guns to cartels but restrict guns to certain vets and obviously never allow trained vets to carry on bases)
“”We were conducting digital surveillance, not “wiretapping”. Why, I dont even recall anyone ‘tapping’ anything. It was all done with computers. Hope that’s all cleared up now.”
its reminiscent of the way the media “Debunked” the claim that emergency-response was told to “stand down” re: Benghazi
You see = “They were ordered to remain in place. That’s totally different than ‘standing down’, which first requires that they be activated. Since they were never ordered to go in, they couldn’t have been ordered to “stand down”. Hope that’s all cleared up now.”
They’re literally doing the same thing here.
But the White House could have requested the DoJ investigate Trump, of course – but that’s totally different, you see. Glad that was all cleared up.
+1 turbulent priest ridding
I prefer my priests meddlesome. 🙂
-1 Archbishop of Canterbury
Even without playing word games, I think that the President has the authority to directly order the NSA without going through FISA.
Comey said it wasn’t the FBI or the DOJ, which leaves the possibility it was another government agency, with or without Obama’s directive. It also could have been a foreign agency, non-state actors, a moonlighting spook, etc.
nope.
National Review did a bit of an explainer on how surveillance is requested and approved. What comey is talking about is entirely limited to a criminal investigation that the FBI did, and doens’t include what might have been other investigations done on a national-security basis.
but the president doesn’t tell the NSA what to do. At best he can nudge the agencies to request stuff, but they have to have a legal basis for the investigation which leaves a paper trail.
Then there is conflicting information. I’ll try to look into it when I get the chance.
Regardless, even if the President doesn’t have that explicit legal authority as chief executive. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t have done it anyway.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445504/obama-camp-disingenuous-denials-fisa-surveillance-trump
“Comey said it wasn’t the FBI or the DOJ…”
Which leaves the entire DOD side of the intel house unaccounted for.
When the “fact checks” devolve into arguing semantics and technicalities, it really makes you wonder how those reporters have jobs.
So I read the charging documents for the guy who allegedly gave Kurt Eichenwald a seizure. I’m not sure the charge will stand up, but holy fuck this guy is a moron.
He sent the images with specific intent. How do we know this? He said “I know [Eichenwald] has epilepsy” and “I hope it gives him a seizure” and “I hope and kills him”. Why was it easy to track the guy down? Because in the same place (Apple iCloud account, accessed with a warrant) he kept the seizure gif he had a picture of himself holding up his Driver’s License, pointed to the camera.
Wife: “Hi honey, how was work today?”
Federal Prosecutor: “Fucking. AWESOME!”
i lol’ed
I love this show.
Brady’s jersey has been found!
Stepped on your toes down below.
It’s an important link!
The part of this story that jumped out at me, and made me go, “but of course they are” =
“…a group of teenagers suing the U.S. government in a climate change case …”
how they managed to get standing, i don’t know. i recall some SJW dipshit @ CNN online or something had in the past covered this tactic of “kids suing the govt”… which seems to function mainly as a headline-generating device, but legally is…. well just look =
WTF
As I said before, the courts are committing a shadow coup on the current administration. Anyone who grants standing to something like this is either so retarded they are unfit to hold their position as a federal judge, or they are being malicious about it. I am going with door #2.
It was back in November I think that the case was granted standing. It might’ve been a few days before the election.
What I’m surprised didn’t happen was for Obama to settle the case in the last days of his administration. Would’ve been binding.
Let me guess, the fact that the IPCC admits in it’s most doomsday scenarios that if we do nothing, the climate will be habitable for centuries to come hasn’t been brought up by
the ringers taking a divethe stalwart defenders of sensible science based policy in the EPA?Clearly they have been co-opted by Big Oil.
Is it lawful for illegal aliens to get food stamps in the first place?
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/03/16/washington-post-rethinks-headline-about-immigrants-canceling-their-food-stamps-for-fear-of-deportation/
“the evidence is still anecdotal — and The Washington Post was unable to speak directly with immigrants who chose to cancel their SNAP benefits.”
It is under the FYTW Clause.
I was once arrested for violating the FYTW clause’s close companion, The FYTW law.
I’ve been assured repeatedly by Reason writers that immigrants don’t get welfare.
Net givers, every one of them.
Why do you hate widows and orphans?
I can assure you that it is 100% true. Maybe not in all states, but mostly definitely in some.
I know from experience in New Mexico if you applied for assistance and you were an illegal alien (particularly a migrant worker) they made it easier to get on the government teat, whereas my gf who worked for the college and got laid off every summer had to fight like hell to get any kind of assistance.
Wait, you were an illegal migrant worker?
No, they specifically asked you on the forms if you were, with a little note that you get more free shit if you check ‘yes’.
Why didn’t your gf just check ‘yes’ then, what was she going to college for anyway?, obviously she wasn’t majoring in freeloading, like all the rest of the snowflake generation.
At that time she had dropped out and was just working on campus. shes going back now majoring in Art. Her minor, as far as I can tell, is giving heart attacks to snowflakes, which she does every time she opens her mouth on campus.
When my wife was in Americorps she tried to get food stamps (on the advice of Americorps – and this was many, many years ago) but was denied because she had savings and a retirement fund. They told her she had to spend through her savings and retirement funds before she would ever become eligible. This has to be a barrier to more than a few people who find themselves needing temporary emergency assistance, which is what those programs should legitimately be for.
From the same page:
http://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2017/03/20/huh-at-gorsuch-hearing-did-al-franken-admit-to-being-constitutionally-illiterate/
Fucking clown.
And he wasn’t even very good at that, if Stuart Saves His Family was any indication.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel for irony = Trump winery has shortage of Mexican grape-pickers
Women’s studies has changed over the years — and it’s more popular than ever
Easy-A courses for which you didn’t have to study and could just write about your persona experiences are always popular. Where I went to school the entire Lacrosse team took “Studies in Prejudice”. It’s just the name of the course that changes.
I majored in broad jumping.
Guys hoping to appear sensitive and using that to get laid. Amirite?
They will regret it when they all start talking about their periods in graphic detail. I’ve even heard a firsthand account of a girl in Women’s Studies 101 bringing in a clot in a sandwich bag to pass around.
Don’t forget free bleeding.
Wait, a menstrual cup isn’t for drinking Bloody Marys?
I was duped!
Really more of a shot glass. RUSTY CLAM SLAMMERS!
“Rusty Clam.” I’ve learned something yet again from you.
Two girls, one menstrual cup.
Well, I didn’t feel like eating dinner tonight anyways.
I’m having corned beef, this just adds to the texture.
I’m having fish with a red sauce.
I don’t whether to applaud or vomit. Perhaps both.
If you’re gonna eat in class, bring enough for everybody.
Those guys were getting laid without any effort to appear sensitive. They took it for the easy A.
This is why “white douchebag with a guitar” is a much better strategy.
Got you covered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooyPX1ciFqo
I was expecting this: https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=8V_hCqO6UQs
“Our curriculum is really about social justice”
And “social justice” is about using anti-social behavior to promote injustice.
Where I went to school the entire Lacrosse team took “Studies in Prejudice”.
So the Duke team were just doing some empirical research.
Doctoral Thesis: Make prostate exam chair that emulates womens experience of gynecological examination.
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/843914656645337088
Kinky!
Because exams are rape? And men need to be raped missionary style?
As if there weren’t already reason enough to hate the guy….HOLY JESUS LOOK HOW HE DRESSES
He stole that from the valet
THEY DONT HAVE VALET PARKING AT THE CIRCUS
Then who the fuck did I just give my keys and a twenty to, wise guy?
Circus? I thought he was at Chuck E. Cheese.
Waiter, this soup is cold!
Fuck you. Innocent people should run from the police for the exact reason of what your piece of shit client did.
Innocent people should run from the police for the exact reason of what your piece of shit client did.
A prosecutor who was interested in winning this specific case might argue that very point. But I would not hold my breath.
I’m already preparing for this piece of shit to be found not guilty, because you know he will be. Or there’ll be a hung jury followed by the prosecutor declining to re-try the case.
+1 Prosecutor Brad Pitt.
I asked around. Word is these two guys are gonna cook. I have been kinda keeping an eye on the case. I think the defense is just trying to keep them alive. Their convictions are sort of a foregone conclusion.
I see no mention in the story about one of those deputies being involved with the dead boy’s mother or of the personal feud between that deputy and the father.
This is *that* story? I vaguely remember what you’re referring to.
What with the wide-range of “Cop shoots innocent person” stories, its hard to keep them straight.
Now that guy is about to win Hater of the year award at the Hater’s Ball.
Remember, all hate crimes are committed by white-supremacist Trump-supporting rednecks.
http://www.azfamily.com/story/34942643/chandler-police-arrest-4-in-menorah-vandalism-hate-crime
I mean, come on tho = you have to give the fucking kid some creativity-points
Wait a second. That’s real.
ROFL!
The bad news is you’re paying $1500/month for a rental car. I haven’t priced Budget, but I’d be surprised if the rates weren’t competitive.
No, the bad news is one of those cars will be a Caddy.
Not for 5-6 weeks though. Hell, I’d cycle through one of those supercharged coupes they’ve got every six weeks for a year. Not for $1500 a month, but I’d do it for free.
The search is over: Tom Brady’s missing Super Bowl jersey has been tracked down — in Mexico
WTF did I just read
Thur takin are jerseys!
Check that jersey’s papers – could be illegal.
You were with me all the while?
Shoe, meet other foot
Oh shit. Do you mean that when we granted government the power to punish our enemies that the same power can be used against us when the political winds shift. Oh Fuck. There should be a law…
William Roper’s law?
Yeah, the never give power to our enemies law.
It is like dealing with third graders and watching them make stupid mistakes grown-ups have known are mistakes since the fucking stone age. There is no excuse for it or a ‘fuck you’ big enough for these idiots.
Not paying for other people’s food is Hitler.
They cannot parody themselves fast enough. Pass the popcorn.
I love how the guy responding to me in the comments refuses to acknowledge the substance of my comment and instead goes on a rambling missive of how to report someone to FB.
Hold on there. Salon allows you to comment? You aren’t doing it right.
C’mon Sloop, it only took me three comments to get banned. I wonder if I ever got taken off of that list.
Wait, they actually let you comment there? I figure I’d be banned around the second time I called them out on their bullshit.
Well, he IS Pest Control and you are being an inconvenient pest.
The opportunity to answer with this: “FDR?” is almost enough to get me to sign up for Facebook…almost.
“Food insecurity” is such bullshit. Not only does no one starve to death in the US anymore, obesity is actually an indicator of lower class status.
*looks down, frowns* I resemble that remark!
There’s food everywhere! Charities literally have more donated food than they can give away. The church where my daughter goes to daycare has a table filled with donated food right inside the door. If you’re hungry you can just go in there and take stuff – nobody will stop you. Yet there’s always plenty of (pretty good) food sitting there.
I’ve seen food bank abuse in San Francisco first-hand. Chinese ladies get their free food, and then sit on a sidewalk and sell it.
“In this framework, to punish the poor is to hurt black and brown people — even if the reality is that white people disproportionately benefit from the social safety net and programs such as welfare and food stamps”
So, which one is it? If whites disproportionately benefit, then cutting social spending is hurting the whites more. How does that square with your first statement that cutting social spending is going to hurt non whites more.
DoubleThink makes my head hurt.
That quote is likely bullshit. Usually the formulation is “more white people benefit from _________,” but it’s the case that non-whites (meaning blacks) are disproportionally beneficiaries of welfare.
Last night I watched a random movie I found on Youtube called ‘War of the Worlds Goliath’. It’s about a world where H.G. Wells’ Martian invasion happened in 1899, and by 1914 humans have reverse engineered their technology to fight a second wave. It’s a classic “good concept, terrible execution” movie, the animation’s weird, the dialogue’s cliched, the story’s meh, and the only really good thing is the worldbuilding.
But it also has one of the most badass ideas I’ve ever seen:
I give you Teddy Roosevelt fighting aliens with an energy cannon on top of a dieselpunk mech.
I prefer to think the aliens would take out Roosevelt first.
Say what you will about his many policy flaws, he’s pretty much the manliest President of all time. Top 5 at least.
Andrew Jackson says “what?”
Jackson may have almost beat his would-be assassin to death, but Roosevelt took his bullet like a gentleman and continued on. Stoic resolve beats berserkergang on the manliest scale.
Jackson walked off getting shot in a duel, and killed the other guy. So advantage Jackson.
Opponents beware!
I would pay to see a Jackson vs TR cage match.
Didn’t he ride a moose? Or is that just urban legend?
Urban legend, the famous photo was doctored.
yep. He had a boxing ring set up in the backyard of the whitehouse and would box with visitors. One of them whipped his ass once and Teddy suffered a detached retina. His doctor made him quit boxing after that. My favorite story of the guy is when he was on his way to a campaign speech some dude jumped out of the bushes and shot him. The bullet was stopped by a whiskey flask in his pocket. He tossed the flask and instructed his body guards to get a bible and shoot it with a pistol. He then took that bible to the speech and waved it around claiming that the lord had saved his life.
Colorful guy but still a progressive. Fuck him.
Here’s a photo of Teddy, then age six, looking out a window at Lincoln’s funeral procession.
Not more manly than Lincoln. Not only did Lincoln kill vampires, he was born in a log cabin that he built with his own two hands.
Piker compared to Washington. Laser beam eyes, killing for fun, and thirty dicks.
I can’t wait
But what about Obama’s cook? That’s a story that needs telling. Is Oliver North available?
It will be bigger than The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer!
Isn’t Veep like 6 years old now?
I may disagree with him on a couple things, but my god do I love watching Trey Gowdy work his craft.
No shit. I’d have much rather seen him as AG.
got a new (temp) job! I also finished my code academy javascript course. I’m a good chunk through udacity’s intro as well.
any ideas on what code academy to do next?
If you’re going to write javascript, get this book. https://books.google.com/books/about/Javascript_The_Good_Parts.html?id=u435jwEACAAJ&hl=en
Study SQL. PostgreSQL or MySQL are both open source, but I recommend PostgreSQL simply because it isn’t owned by Oracle.
Awesome. Yeah, I don’t know what my plan really is, but I’m doing a major career change.
Any ideas on a direction?
Front end seems more my speed, but I’m holding off till I start making some things of my own. I need to start a few projects to get a good idea.
There is always demand for people who can handle ERP and business operations stuff. It does require some accounting but that’s not a huge barrier.
Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, et al… make a living off forcing businesses to upgrade their ERP/accounting on a regular basis. Businesses need programmers to survive it.
That reminds me, who was it that was talking about migrating to xTuple?
That was me
I might need to buy you a virtual beer or 10 and pick your brain. Unless you’re in NYC and we can V2P those brewskis.
I’m in Williamsburg, but not that Williamsburg.
If you want to contact me directly, email me at outofgum@hushmail.com. I’ll answer any questions I can.
That’s very kind of you sir. I’ll drop you a line or 2 in a day or to. Need to compose my thoughts.
Expect an email from an icelandic domain
If you see me on here, remind me to check that email address. I only use that one about once or twice a week.
Sho’ thing
I’ve been advised to attend a boot camp and get my certs and become system admin
Huh. Everything old is new again. That was the path 20 years ago.
Most serious software projects need data at the back of them, hence the DB. I agree on Postgres.
Then have a more relaxing time with HTML5/CSS, because even if you’re not a UI guy, it’s a good idea to understand what they do.
Then (probably) you’ll need to look at a server-side language of some sort, but there’s lots of choice, and you’ll get lots of conflicting suggestions.
I’ve done some CSS stuff and liked it, though I was using flexbox. I will be learning some DB stuff for that first project of mine.
Is that book still pertinent now that we’re in some variation of ES6?
Would you recommend them? I need to brush up on my SQL skills.
I liked it a lot, though sometimes it did some buggy stuff. every now and then the finished code would already be there when the page loads. I can’t speak for their other courses.
JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth
It is likely that you’re going to end up working with one or more JS frameworks. The link I supplied helps you to compartmentalize your own code as well as extend it nicely while avoiding the usual namespace pollution you’d deal with writing JavaScript the “normal” way.
I second the suggestion on reading JavaScript: The Good Parts. That book is a fantastic resource in avoiding a lot of bad habits JS developers get into. More importantly, if you follow the suggestions in the book, you’ll also avoid many incompatibilities with various JS engines that can make debugging across them difficult.
bookmarked. Thanks ZSG
My advice would be to go to Codeschool and take every one of the courses in the Javascript track. I was able to become a professional web developer essentially on the basis of what I learned from those classes and was then able to implement in portfolio pieces. Don’t bother with any of the framework classes, though, unless they’ve put up a React course.
Then, read this: Javascript Allonge. It’s an excellent read that gets into the newest Javascript standard in a nice, logical progression. Most importantly, it approaches JS as a real programming language and not just as a scripting language for manipulating the DOM, so not only will it help you whether you stick with front-end/UI development or move towards back-end or app development, but the concepts port well into other languages. Particularly when it comes to things like functional programming.
You should also learn a set of tools for your dev process. It really doesn’t matter so much what you use because there’s a new “hot” task runner or whatever every few months, but just knowing how to implement some of that stuff will go a long way. Learning a test stack wouldn’t hurt, either.
Finally, if you’re going to do a lot of work on the front end, do yourself a favor and don’t get used to Bootstrap or Foundation or whatever. Learn some basic web design stuff, enough to be conversant, then learn CSS3, particularly stuff like columns. And learn either Less or Sass.
Doom, I’ve been going the udemy route. Started with the code academy. May go back to it. They all seem to be teaching very strictly a certain style so I am just gonna get exposed to as much as possible. If you find anywhere that puts you onto good projects, please share with us.
DOOMco, have you looked into any of the courses on Team Treehouse? There’s a monthly fee for the full course set but the videos and tutorials are pretty excellent.
Which seems to only be valuable when all of the oil that is actually cheap to extract is artificially inflated in price. Its this weird free-ish market ceiling on prices.
The breakeven price for fracked oil has been dropping muy rapido. You are correct that it now sets a soft ceiling on oil prices, because it is a huge new supply of oil that is outside the grasp of OPEC. Used to be that OPEC controlled enough of the world oil supply that it could influence prices. That influence is much weaker now that they control a smaller percentage of world reserves and production.
And yes, 100 years from now the history books will barely mention Clinton or Tillerson, but will go on at great length about how the “Great Game” of the latter 20th century was artificially distorted by oil, and how the fracking revolution removed that distortion, gutting the economic base of, and rendering virtually irrelevant, such bad actors as Russia, Saudi, Iran, etc.
How to keep America safe: Nuke the Moon
A bit old, Moody of you may have already read it. Definitely violates the NAP. Trump would be the perfect CIC to pull it off.
SFed the link.
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Awesome
Definitely violates the NAP.
Why? Nobody lives there.
Well except the moon men. It’s mostly the stuff before that which violates the NAP
Yeah, but the Japs started it!
Shut the fuck up about moon men! This isn’t a musical number. This a fuckin’ operation. We got to be cool and fuckin’ lay low.
Outer Space Treaty of 1967.
You’re no fun.
Hey DenverJ, sorry I’ve been missing your comments for hours. I was planning on getting down there after lunch and hanging through dinner. If people want an official time, 2 or 3 sounds great.
Whatever is clever. Maybe I’ll show up early and get some lunch, maybe I won’t. But I’m definitely planning on showing up.
Denver meet up?
Yea! This Sunday afternoon at the Wynkoop.
OK, thanks. I’m going to be in Denver this weekend but my flight out is 11:30am.
Sorry to hear that, raven.
next time, then.
Thanks for the kind words.
Yes. I was going to publicize it, here and at reason, but then I got high.
Sunday the 26th at the Wynkoop, 2ish, everyone is invited.
Oh, upstairs, I think was the plan, where the pool tables are.
How late were you guys going to be there?
Sometime after dinner, I bet 8 or 9 for me.
Might drop by then. God and AA willing, I land late afternoon. Drop bags at hotel and head downtown, it could actually work. Now to get over the scary meet
reasonoidsGlibertarians in person anxiety…Now to get over the scary meet
reasonoidsGlibertarians in person anxiety…Just don’t forget your lube and it will all be fine.
Lie back and think of…?
Nice!
God and Alcoholics Anonymous willing you’re going to be spending several hours at a bar? 😉
God and aa battle the alcohol.
Well, I don’t have to work the next day, and thru have full sized tables, so I’ll probably be there fairly late.
You thinking of coming after we’re all drunk?
It’s the best time to interview libertarians.
“M” is for Monday… and MISSION OF BURMA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQVZaeEmkOA
We need an NYC/Suburbs meetup. Can’t let those mile-highers show us up.
Who’s game?
Man it must be hard to be a Libertarian in NYC
Just gotta be loud and proud, man. That and commute from a saner, suburban dormitory town
Yes indeed. I’m out on Rockaway Beach.
Alright! I work in Midtown, commute in from Fairfield Co., CT
I’m starting to hate the word normalize in articles.
Do you find it problematic?
Chet, get out .
Is he in harm’s way?
Irregardless, it’s triggering.
AAAck!! You triggered me.
Irregardless is not a word. The word is ‘regardless’.
Without regard for regardless-ness, very cromulent word.
That was the joke. Is problematic a real word?
I’m gonna tell Mom and Dad everything. I’m even considering makin’ up some shit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFKXAGJ3qvM
Chet was my inspiration as a big brother for all the shit I wanted to do but never could because of my tattle tale fucking sister.
Ha! You too?
Yeah. It was alright because we never got into physical fights but still.
The optics are bad.
Immanentize the eschaton!
So, TSTSNBN is now using proggy terms, very carefully using proggy terms like ‘person of color’ in the all the right places. Libertarians, my ass. Towing the proggy lion.
We were the only thing holding back the derp. It’s like watching the fall of Saigon from the chopper.
Jesse was hoping we’d be more like Leonidas and the 300.
Dead by Persian outflanking?
You called for me?