STEVE SMITH JUST FOUND OUT THAT SOMEONE TRY TO WRITE HIM IN OLD COMIC BOOKS… AS PART OF CANADA SUPER HERO TEAM!
AT FIRST, STEVE SMITH ALL EXCITED…BUT THEN READ COMICS AND SAW WERE NOT RIGHT. STEVE SMITH NOT SCIENCE GUY, AND ALSO, NO RAPE. SO STEVE SMITH RAPE COMIC STORE OWNER, ALSO RAPE A PILE OF COMIC BOOKS AND SOME CUSTOMERS AND THEN GO BACK TO WOODS. BUT STEVE SMITH NOT FORGET FUNNY PEOPLE HERE. SO HERE ARE LINKS;
- STEVE SMITH NOT STUDY US CONSTITUTION, BUT THINK EU LADY WRONG. REMEMBER SOMETHING ABOUT SENATE AND TREATIES. MAYBE STEVE SMITH SIGN TREATY WITH USA…GET RECOGNITION FOR RAPESQUATCH NATION!
- STEVE SMITH MIGHT START WATCHING SPORTSBALL TV NOW.
- STEVE SMITH THINK HE COULD DO BETTER PICTURE WITH WEDDING COUPLE. WOULD FEATURE DOUBLE RAPE.
- STEVE SMITH WANT TO HONOR HERO. SUGGEST LOCKING HIM AND STEVE SMITH IN EVIDENCE ROOM AND IGNORE CRIES FOR HELP.
SO THAT ALL FOR TONIGHT, FUNNY PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH GO SEE IF HE FIND FRIENDS IN WOODS. BY FIND FRIENDS, MEAN RAPE HIKERS AND CAMPERS.
Most excellent.
Where were chicks like that when I was young?
I enjoyed this story about what our Utes are up too. Also, the triggering that may be happening
https://www.yahoo.com/style/maga-hats-newest-form-pre-162306243.html
Roving gangs of white male teens go wilding. Oh Yahoo, never change.
Are the yutes still playing the knockout game or has that national epidemic passed us by?
I dunno but I find it amusing that today’s panic is busloads of suburban teens terrifying blue-city museum patrons.
There is a Hat and Hair episode in there.
I think that was an exaggerated phenomenon, but… I do remember one night when I was walking home in St Pete Fl, and two young guys came up behind me, walking faster than I was. One was this nondescript white guy wearing a dirty white hat and matching sweathshirt, and the other was this kind of wiry but small black kid.
As they passed the black guy said something I didn’t catch and I said “what?” And he just hauled off and punched me. I saw it coming so it just bounced off my cheek, and when I turned on him he ran like a rabbit- as Ron Paul/Lew Rockwell could tell you he was fleet of foot. I’m still kind of surprised he tried it. I was no Warty, but I outweighed the kid by 50 pounds and was pulling around three times his bodyweight at the time. If I’d gotten a hand on him and wanted to I could have rubbled him.
The funny thing is that his buddy kept walking down the street with me. “Wow, man, sorry,” he said, “I have no idea why he did that.” Let’s just say I was not reassured. A bit later I looked behind me and the kid who ran was back, leaning into the window of an older sedan driven by a big serious-looking black guy and gesticulating at me. At that point I told the white guy walking beside me to fuck off and ducked into the maze of alleyways the old northeast district of St Pete so amply provides.
To this day I have no idea what happened there. Maybe that kid wanted to play the knockout game, but was bad at it, and lucky that I am relatively mild-mannered and have poor reflexes. Maybe that was just the most inept mugging ever. Maybe, Jake, it’s just Florida.
The next time if they come at you shoot them dead. Fuck that.
I wasn’t armed. I’ll admit that I kind of wished I were for a moment there, just in case, but it would have been way more of a pain if I’d shot someone.
Now that we’re here and not in Vhyrus thread – and since I didn’t see it mentioned – Sargon put up a new vid about the massacre. Long winded and paranoid as usual – but fairly interesting background noise. I think he’ll need some tutorials on how firearms actually work.
It’s all the same place! You all are in my phone. So is the Vhyrus thread, and even Huffington Post. Right now, you all are in this crappy little bar, lying on a slightly sticky table under bad light. It’s not pleasant.
“you all are in this crappy little bar, lying on a slightly sticky table under bad light”
Bliss. Like being rocked by my mother as a baby.
Go grab the bar rag and ask them to rinse it. Wipe the table. I feel much higher class than to be stuck to a table in a crappy bar.
Right now, you all are in this crappy little bar, lying on a slightly sticky table under bad light. It’s not pleasant.
Sounds like the start to an Infocom game
I miss Infocom.
Does he get paid by the minute or something?
<a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/police-charge-panthers-fan-who-threw-sucker-punch-with-assault-release-mugshot/"Police charge Panthers fan who threw sucker punch with assault, release mugshot
he even has a douchey mugshot.
Video of the sucker punch.
https://youtu.be/D8NU4a6NPsw
But… Santa! Snowballs! D Batteries! Vet Stadium jail! NARRATIVE!!!!!!
Either the recipient of the punch was really drunk or he has absolutely no fighting instincts.
Yeah, somebody punches me and I’m not going to sit there calling for security. Although it was a pretty good shot.
Duck, block, weave, hit back, runaway anything, dude. That was painful to watch. Also, what a dick for hitting someone for no good reason. “I was mad”. Enjoy jail asshole.
Enh. Not everyone is a fighter. Or thinking straight in extreme situations.
True. Plus he seemed genuinely stunned.
Yeah, most people don’t know how to fight.
But we all are.
Or he was 62 years old.
At precisely what age do you lose the self preservation instinct?
54.
If yout hink a particular nun….
And I’m guessing alpha dude was the drunker one.
To be sure.
he was an old dude, and he was sitting down. even a young, spry dude isn’t going to spring to his feet and start dodging when he gets cold-cocked.
I watched the video first. I didn’t realize he was that old until I read the article. But damn, there was enough time to curl up in a ball before that third punch landed. I don’t really mean to put the victim down.
Are the yutes still playing the knockout game or has that national epidemic passed us by?
I guess the answer is a resounding “Yes”.
what a dick. the guy was still sitting down. there’s absolutely no chance the punchee was any threat.
Does the “sucker” in “sucker punch” refer to the guy getting punched or the guy throwing the punch? Victim blaming if it’s the former.
Type of punch. giver/taker is irrelevant. Ala ,rabbit punch, not about the sender or receiver.
How about Fruit punch? Hate crime?
I’d prefer a nice Hawaiian Punch.
On second thought squash that,it’s the taker, i.e. you catch a ‘sucker’ off guard, but victim blaming? not sure, just cause you’re a sucker doesn’t mean you deserve it.
Fuck that asshole. Don’t throw a punch at me when you’re on a lower level of stadium seating unless you want to be shoved backwards off the stands and fall to the field.
“Near the harbour, the bride kneeled in front of her new husband and appeared to perform a sex act on him in her wedding dress, while he had his trousers and boxers down to his ankles – punching the air”
I guess if it was a picture of a boy getting Ass fucked, it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal.
Brits Behaving Badly in Southern Europe Volume XLVIXXLCMVX
Arctic Circle, eh?
These powers were a result of Langkowski’s self-experimentation with gamma radiation. In an attempt to become like the Hulk, Langkowski bombarded himself with a gamma ray projector at his laboratory near the Arctic Circle
I did not sight STEVE SMITH when I was in Colville Lake in 2008
I’m definitely interested in driving up that way someday – like passing through a few of the Yukon territories, etc (loved the references in Barker’s “Cabal”, etc). I guess it’s generally about timing. Hit the Canadian border about mid-May and head N from there? Maybe make a loop, wind up in Alaska and then drive down the pacific highway? Anyone tried stuff like that in the last couple years?
The Cassiar Highway in Northern BC is fantastic, as is the Dempster, which takes you to Inuvik, and Tuktoyuktuk.
Also, you can only drive to Colville Lake in the winter, on the Mackenzie Valley Winter Road. Bring tire chains and toilet paper.
Never actually used chains. I drove through Snoqualmie pass in Dec 2012 – missed the early signs that they were mandatory (while there was about 2-4 inches inches on the road) – with my old 2008 non 4wd RAV 4 – thankfully never needed to stop – consistent movement at about 25-30 mph for the whole thing – and thankfully didn’t get pulled over – that place is always busy.
They’re pretty straightforward to install, even on a tractor-trailer. They’re mandatory on the Mackenzie, because it’s just snowpack going through the bush, and you’re pulling up steep hills in the tributaries of the Mackenzie with a unit that weighs 46,500kg. Putting tri-railers on all 4 drive wheels only takes about 40 minutes with practice.
Also, I’m a Toyota fan, too. My personal vehicle is 1998 Tacoma 4wd extended cab. 285,000 miles on the clock, hardly any rust, and runs like a top.
My 2008 got rear-ended. I now have a 2012 (V6 4WD). Might not try for the winter expedition in the short run though ;p
Are there any good sites for route/trip planning through areas like that – ie. if you take this route gas stations are xxx miles apart, etc, no cell service, etc?
That’s an interesting consideration…do they use HAM/VHF/CB up there or what? Lease a sat phone for emergencies?
All truckers in Canada from Saskatchewan west use VHF.
There is enough traffic on all of those roads that you wouldn’t be stranded for a length of time that would kill you, provided you were properly repaired.
Route planning? Trip planning? Maps, spares, all the required equipment, and a sense of adventure. Not to be flippant about it, but a well prepared motorist would have no problems up there, except maybe in the winter. As the Boy Scouts motto goes, BE PREPARED.
*Don’t forget, that is all STEVE SMITH territory.
*properly prepared.
I’ve driven out West a LOT and love it, I-70, I-80, I-90, etc. I know the areas like I-70 from the CO border through the Utah badlands – ie. no services for 80 miles. In all seriousness – what is the average distance up in that neck of the woods? Do most “normal” folks carry a spare 5 gal can, etc?
Appreciate the vote of confidence…might be something I aim for next year – more than just driving back to the PAC NW (from VA).
Once you’re up in The Yukon, you can be hundreds of kilometers without any services of any description. Hell, that’s pretty standard for anywhere north of Fort St John.
Plan accordingly, understand your fuel consumption, carry spare parts, yeah a couple of jerry cans just in case (or for helping those not as prepared) and maybe a cooler or fridge with your own food. Eating out is mighty expensive up that way, and so is the fuel. Fuel in Canada is always more expensive than the US, and even more expensive in the Far North.
May as well start thinking about it now – 8 months till summer. Why the hell not? ;p
No consultation fee right? I’ll buy you a beer if you ever come through Cville.
BTW – why’s gas so expensive up there? Don’t they make the stuff locally?
Or is it like the US and other countries – primarily export, lack of gas refining capabilities, etc.?
Fuel is expensive in Canada because of taxes, mostly, as well as longer distances involved in the distribution network.
All of the fuel north of Dawson Creek is trucked up there. Trucking fuel versus railing or pipelining is hella expensive.
Nearest refineries to where you are planning your trip are in Edmonton or Alaska; fuel from Alaska is sometimes trucked into The Yukon, but it mostly comes from Edmonton.
You never see STEVE SMITH until he upon you. He master of disguuise. And rape. And parliamentary procedure in some cases. But mostly rape.
So, the comic book sasquatch was basically just an orange, hairy, Incredible Hulk?
Good damn it. You suck, Gordy, like a bride in a shocking wedding picture.
Don’t make me post my wedding photos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasquatch_(comics)
you know what they say about assumptions. they turn you into a sasquatch.
this is probably technically correct since it was a multilateral deal. but we can pull out, and we can independently re-apply financial sanctions. its just that doing so would be awk-werd for a number of european financial organizations who are no longer barred by their own countries from doing transactions w/ iran.
it is sort of an awkward thing. we have unilateral control over some aspects of the global financial system, but we need everyone to agree w/ what we impose. its hard to ‘undo’ the layers of financial constrictions we placed on isolated regimes, then ‘redo’ them overnight without going through a whole diplomatic rigmarole
“we can pull out”
Hey. Don’t speak for me. I pull out when I damn well please.
STEVE SMITH ONLY PULL OUT WHEN HIKERS TRAUMATIZED!
I wonder how awkward it will be once we openly accuse them of involvement in a mini-coup against the U.S. Senate to undermine U.S. sovereignty. It’s not as if the US treaty mechanism is some obscure legal quirk. Which is not to say we will do that (though if anyone would, it’s Trump), only that it’s certainly possible to escalate if need be.
That is the thing isn’t it? Trump should have told them months ago to fuck off that the agreement was not constitutional and if they wanted an agreement to propose one. We can’t have multilateral agreements from the dude in the white house between other nations as far as I know. Even if the dude was Barack Obama.
? who are you talking about.
every now and then i hear people here suggesting that the only form of US diplomatic activity that has any validity are “treaties”.
its not really the case. the US constitution grants plenty of latitude to the executive in the area of foreign policy. and not every form of international agreement is even appropriate to a treaty structure. and besides, most of these international agreements are basically self-enforcing. they’re just formalizing very fuzzy ‘intentions’ which are just ways of agreeing to agree to continue talking about something which will eventually be sorted out in the future. the reason informal structures are employed is because formality itself would be a barrier to even talking in the first place.
The executive can lift congressional sanctions and deliver plane loads of cash to a previously sanctioned nation with no act of Congress? I am no constitutional scholar, but that is news to me.
i was responding to the comment: ” once we openly accuse them of involvement in a mini-coup against the U.S. Senate”.. and also commenting on the frequent mention of “treaties” here.
as for the specifics of whether what Obama did was 100% within the purview of the exec? you’d need to bring a bottle of whiskey to a good DC State dept lawyer to have that explained to you.
i don’t think any of what you’re talking about had anything to do with the agreement described as “the iran deal”. or at least what was on paper.
I don’t know. If the Dems made up of the eye tightened face lift crowd push this, they are doing a mini-coup against the Senate and the constitution. Granted, aided by the fucking weasels with R’s behind their names who allowed it in the first place. The agreement should have never happened. Now that the most ridiculous President we have ever had is trying to roll it back, half the Senate is siding with a regime that would love to see us all murdered. Anybody who does not see that and sits in the senate needs to have their heads examined. They do not live in reality.
i still don’t know what the “this” really is.
the fact is that the executive has huge latitude in these affairs. if trump wants to nuke the iran deal (at least the US participation in it), he can.
however, doing so would leave a lot of other countries in a strange lurch, wondering if they were now breaking US law by continuing to do business with Iran in US$, and whether the US would now enforce sanctions on *them* as a consequence. which would seem manifestly unfair to many people in other countries – essentially, they engage in an honest bargain with one pres, only to have the next tell them they’re all criminals.
my point was trying to clarify that US foreign relations aren’t entirely constrained 100% by pre-existing congressional action. all treaties /agreements/conventions etc. are just a matter of people agreeing to agree. there is no third party who will enforce anything. if the president wants to neuter anti-iranian congressional sanctions, he can; if the president wants to make US posture MORE anti-iranian via agreements with 3rd parties w/o congressional participation, he can: its just that those agreements won’t exist in domestic law, only in bi-lateral international agreements.
my entire point was simply to note that people seem to think “treaties” are the be-all, end-all of US foreign relations. they’re not.
Gilmore, while treaties may not be the be-all end-all, they do at least make it much harder for the next person to come along and change the executive’s mind. It is similar to the wailing and gnashing of teeth over Trump rescinding Obama’s EOs on things like DACA. If Obama were really that interested in securing his legacy he could have worked with congress, rather than legislating through his pen and phone.
thats exactly right, which is why the whole “Iran deal” was really just domestic political theater.
as with most of the stuff Obama did. he was terrible foreign policy guy because he really didn’t know how to square his mendacious posture towards the American public with the way he dealt with foreign powers. everyone realized he was full of shit, and proceeded to act accordingly.
I know they are not. I have subcontracted with foreign companies (under another contractor) doing business in countries under US sanction. Kind of a pain in the ass, but whatever. Most countries could give a rats ass what countries the US has sanctioned. I understand what you are saying. It all means nothing. My point is, in the US it should mean something. The treaties process. There is a reason we did not give that power to the Exec if I remember right. Maybe check Baraks bank account after a couple of speeches over the last year.
yes. which is why they are done so rarely. they’re more strategic than tactical.
I’d probably say that… in the post cold-war world, there’s probably less reason for a unipolar superpower to ever engage in treaties with *anyone*.
Why bother? who out there is powerful enough for us to really code our intl agreements with into US law?
that’s the thing about treaties: they sort of imply that every party is equally important and that we all need to sign our commitments in blood.
But the global political order isn’t quite like that right now. We’re not in a position where China is at all interested in binding agreements… and who else matters, really? Russia and their nukes. We already have some treaties for that.
Well, we do still have treaties, they’re just not of the mutual defense type. We don’t need a piece of paper to let China know that the U.S. would strongly disapprove of invading Taiwan.
There’s a reason that for all his campaign talk about renegotiating NAFTA, Trump can’t really do anything about it other than maybe nibble around the edges. Trying to dump it unilaterally would cause a huge clusterfuck, because hey, NAFTA is an actual treaty/law approved by congress, as opposed to something like the Iran deal.
So the best Trump can really do is try to renegotiate it by convincing Mexico and Canada to go sit back down at the negotiating table, renegotiate a horribly complicated agreement, and then get Senate approval.
It isn’t impossible, just insanely difficult.
exactly right
the reason for that is less to do with the relative power of treaties vs. other forms of trade agreement, and more to do with the fact that there are lots of large and powerful domestic constituencies that benefit from that particular policy.
iow, its not holy-ground because its a ‘treaty’; its dangerous territory because it would fuck with people who make money and also fund politicians’ campaigns.
e.g. the planeloads of cash, from what i recall, were connected to prisoner releases, and were explained away (iow, ‘bullshit excuses) as funds ‘unfrozen’ which had been decades-earlier frozen for reasons also discretionary to the executive.
regarding the unilateral lifting of sanctions, no, obviously the exec can’t change law: but here’s the thing – the exec does have the authority to sign all kinds of agreements which frees 3rd parties from certain restrictions. which is all the exec really needs to make sanctions useless. because congress can officially sanction Iran all they want, but their law only applies to US businesses. Congressionally approved sactions do not compel international banks/companies from going along with them. if the president says, “the law is still valid, but YOU are excused, France”… its their perogative. which makes very large parts of the sanctions moot, in effect.
at least that’s my rough grasp of the stuff.
basically, very little in international “law” is really very law-ish. Congress can make Law about how we relate to other countries… but ultimately huge swaths of power are granted to the exec on how to apply it (or not). Foreign policy is, by its nature, very much ‘informal’ at its root. We can put all sorts of shit on paper, but the fact is that the only reason anyone plays along with the word of the deal is by choice. and that’s why the constitution grants a great deal of informal choice-making power w. the exec.
If the frozen funds where discretionary to the Exec that is the first I have heard that. I thought they were frozen by congressional sanction.
You seem to be taking this idea that this planefull of cash actually had any real connection to “frozen funds” very seriously.
as i said, the official claims made about the source of funds is something you’d have to get a DC lawyer to explain. the actual tangible purpose of them had nothing, as far as i could tell, w/ anything in the paper-agreement of the iran deal, and everything to do with buying back some hostages.
As far as I remember, the Obama administration flat out denied the transfer of an assload of cash had anything to do with a hostage transfer. I think I see what you are saying, but I am half crocked now. I would say what I think should happen to those who made that deal work, and even the fuckers who flew the planes, but that would make the wood chipper comments from before times pale in comparison.
Going with assault theme with my posts tonight.
https://youtu.be/E2EEtTrq_nQ
Why do they always act like 5 year old brats?
STEVE SMITH MIGHT START WATCHING SPORTSBALL TV NOW.
Her breast implants make me sad, but some of her acting makes me happy. I’m torn.
The hijab served as a perfect contrast to Khalifa’s
bubbly personality and the authenticityGREAT RACK she brought to her scenes.Forgot to italicize the quote, sorry.
I love her fake breast. She totally does it for me.
With regards to previous birthing announcements –
Mrs. Gordilocks is 12 weeks in, and is expecting on April 30.
The Libertarian Moment is upon us, surely. Or at least there will be good deals on Child Labor Futures.
Good news!
May your first child, be a masculine child.
And it is our first. I will be 39 when the little gaffer arrives; getting off to a late start!
That may be a blessing. Men tend to mellow with age, so the child may enjoy a calmer household to grow. Not to say you had a rage monkey on your back or anything, just talking in generalities.
No sweat!
I started calming my rage monkey when I was 23, through medium level use of MDMA and travelling extensively.
Although, that’s not to say I should get complacent. As my Uncle Bruce always said, you don’t ever defeat a bad temper, you only manage it.
I grew up in a very angry household (dad was a PTSD vet) anyways it took me years of being out on my own before I got my temper under control. I could only imagine how bad I would have fucked up some kids in my 20’s.
My grandpa was undiagnosed PTSD. Drove a Sherman for the Canadian Army while chasing the Nazis out of France, Belgium, and The Netherlands. Saw things he should not have seen, brought it all home, and beat my Noni and my Dad and all his siblings.
Amazing how psychology transmits through generations.
May your first child, be a masculine child.
My oldest brother had two girls then gave up on having a boy.
My older brother and his wife have 3 little girls and are not gonna quit til a boy comes.
My older sister and her husband have 4 little girls and are not gonna quit until they have a boy.
I had a boy on the first try. #winning.
My twin younger brothers have yet to procreate. we will see how they do.
I’m not terribly fussed either way with gender; I just want the kid to be healthy and free of any issues which can’t be addressed.
Healthy.
That’s what you want.
Congrats. JUST DON’T FUCK THE KID UP! Just kidding. We all fuck our kids up.
Congratulations
Congrats Gordo!
Gordo!
It’s almost like you know me.
Thanks for the congratulations, everyone. I know that I’m a lurker and I don’t comment very often (nature of my job) but I appreciate the acceptance and community. Y’all are a hilarious and well informed bunch.
There needs to be a Glibertarian summer camp for kids in a gee years. Nothing but outdoor survival training and lessons on how to snark properly.
OMWC not invited.
oh yeah, also, congratulations. Kids are great. once you get past the buying diapers phase.
Kids are great. once you get past the
buyingchanging diapers phase.It’s not that bad.
You wipe your own ass i presume. Wiping the ass of your progeny is not so bad.
I’ve been advised that I will get used to it.
If you hang around long enough, your progeny will be wiping your ass.
Screw that. I’m having a smoking hot robot do that chore!
It’s not that bad.
Seconded. The average, everyday diapers don’t even hit my radar anymore. The mild blowouts (which have gone away since switching to cloth) and leaks are hardly worth mentioning. You just hold them by an ankle and use up half a stack of wipes bathing the baby. The doozies are the ones where they’re pretty much covered in the stuff. At that point, you just toss them in the bathtub, clothes and all.
You very quickly develop a callous for bodily functions and excretions. Spit up and drool is probably crusted on the side of my pants as I speak. Ideally, you reach for the burp rag to clean that stuff up, but sometimes it ain’t happening.
Congratulations! We need to get a traveling goodie box going between the new parents. And by goodie box, I mean that beer it forward box that they’re starting up.
Congrats!
STEVE SMITH LINKS AND BY LINKS MEAN RAPE!
My anal-retentive, OCD father, after many years of digging, just sent me a copy of our updated family tree. This is the first page of my oldest recorded bloodline(from my paternal grandmother’s side). The names have not been altered because that isn’t my last name. Nor have we done anything particularly noteworthy. Though I guess I had a relative join the Prussian Army and die at The Battle of Waterloo. That’s…cool? So I was surprised to say the least at how far back the lineage has stayed intact.
My first relative to immigrate to America did so in 1676 and died in 1707 near Little Ferry, Bergen, New Jersey. My family tree has also accumulated bloodlines from the Scottish, English, Italian, Welsh, Cherokee, Shawnee, Black, and Impossible to Determine. But if you saw me you would just think White Guy, kinda looks he would be an asshole.
I don’t know why I posted this… I guess I’ve never felt so American.
Forgive any typos. This is a image to text post with lazy editing on my part.
Introductions
During the early years of the Ackerman lineage as it unfolded in the European nations 0{Germany and the Netherlands. territory boundaries changed back and forth between these disputed regions thus incurring the variances in spellings and the claims of the two nations.
Hendri Aekerman: 1500-1520 age 20 at time of death.
DOB: Year of 1500 in Franckendahl, Palatine. Netherlands
DOD: Year of 1520 in Franckendahl. Bayern, Germany
parents: Father-unknown at this time / Mother unknown at this time
Spouse: Mrs. Ackerman, maiden name unknown at this time. DOB Unknown-DOD Unknown
Married: Year of 1519 in Frankendale, Dutch Republic. now Rheinland-Pfalz. Germany
Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hendri Ackerman: Pieter Joseph Aekerman 1520-1570
Pieter Joseph Aekerman: 1520-1579 age 59 at time of death.
DOB: Year of 1520 in St. Stroud. Honault. Belgium
DOD: Year of 1579 in Franckendahl. Bayem. Germany
Parents: Father was Hendri Aekemian / Mother was Mrs. Aekenmm maiden name
unknown at this time.
Spouse: Anna Barbara Crombaeh DOB 1525-DOD unknown
Marriage: Year of 1542 in Womis, Rheinhessen. Hessen. Genmmy
Children of Pieter and Anna Ackerman: Laurens Heudrie Aekerman 1544-1582. Cathamea Pieterse Ackerman 1554-DOD unknown. Marla Pietetse Aekerman 1556DOD unknown. Henrick Pieterse Ackemtan 1560-1585. and Magdalena Pieterse Ackennan 1562-DOD Unknown.
Laurens Hendric Aekerman: 1544-1582 age 41 at time of death
DOB: Year of 1544 in Rhine. Hessen. Germany
DOD: Year of 1585 in Frankendale. Dutch Republic. Rheinland-Pt‘alz. Germany
Parents: Father was Pieter Joseph Ackemian / Mother was Anna Barbara Cromhaeh Spouse: Hester Storm 1552-1584
Marriage: Year of 1569 in Dutch Republic. Amsterdam. Noord-lloliand. Netherlands Children of Laurens and Hester Ackennan: Johannes Laurense Aekerman 1570-1630, Elizabeth Laurense Ackerman 1572-DOD unknown. Raynier Laurense Aekerman 1574-DOD unknown, Jones Laurense Ackerman 1575-1630. David Laurense Aekerman 1580-1630, and. Laurense Hendrickse Aekerman 1582-1639
Laurense Hendrickse Ackerman: 1582-1639 age 57 at time of death. DOB: Year of 1582 in 033. 033. Noord-Bmhant. Netherlands
DOD: March 5, 1639 in 053. 055. Noord-Brabiuit. Netherlands
Parents: Father was Laurens Hendric Ackerman / Mother was Hester Storm Spguse: Janneken Andrianse Adriange 1586-1624.
its usually a form of dwarf horse. We’re not judgmental dude.
*dives further into updated family tree. fucker’s 107 pages long*
It seems my last name didn’t surface until 1830 in Tennessee. It might be derived from The Impossible to Determine side. The details are thin, but (((Russian))) may be a significant part of my bloodline. Most of my family over the last hundred years or so settled across the length of the southern portion of the U.S. and were Christian. So it may have been too much of a taboo subject at the time to know for sure.
*shrugs*
My brother spent a few years doing the genealogy thing.
i think the lesson you learn is that your genes/’blood’ are one thing, but your “family” is another. the family part is the the previous 3-4 generations, and how they chose to posture themselves and who they decided to be. it seems silly to attribute too much to one’s genes: very little translates through time, imho. i think after 4-generations, you’re basically talking about foreigners.
Oh, I agree. Unless you have an ancestor who’s famous for some great accomplishment and are currently enjoying it’s legacy status, aka, old money, identifying with or taking pride in your ‘heritage’ by way of bloodline is inherently silly.
I’ve never understood why one would take pride in accomplishments or rituals from the past that they had no part or input in just because it’s what your long dead relatives did. It’s basically the flip-side of collective guilt.
I think I missed a counter-point or two but I’m now pretty much drunk/stoned/faded at this point so I’ll just bow out for the evening.
actually i think the real buzz is from learning about the hardcore losers from your recent past. As long as you done one better = IN YOUR FACE, ONE LEGGED CIVIL WAR VETERAN WHO DIED OF SYPHILLUS
I think it’s kind of interesting from an individual historic perspective. One of the frequent complaints about studying history is that it is usually about kings and big battles, and less about normal peoples’ day to day lives.
So there is a bit of an odd thread connection to history, even if it is kind of in a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of way. So yeah, my family history in the U.S. dates all the way back to Jamestown, where my x7 or 8 grandfather was hanged as a thief.
But hey, my family has deep roots in America. Rotten roots, but roots none the less.
I’ve been checking out how Mongolian names work and came across this line from Wiki: A distinctive type of Mongolian name that flourished in this period and is still common in the countryside is the avoidance name, designed to avert misfortune from the child: Nergüi “No Name”, Enebish “Not This”, Terbish “Not That”.
Your lineage would be a little harder to trace if your tree was peppered with a few “Not This” and “Not That” dudes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1P7GMnd38
Obligatory.
That’s… more than I know, which is absolutely nothing earlier than my grandparents and vague recollections of two towns mentioned by my mom, one in England and one in (at the time) Germany, and no idea whom to assign to each town.
Damn. That’s surprisingly limited info. Were they immigrants?
I myself was shocked at the amount of info my father accumulated. He even found records of relatives who stayed in Europe. The dude gets on my last nerve but he’s nothing if not thorough. He spent nearly twenty years working on this.
‘Were they immigrants?’
Jesus Christ, total brain fart. Sorry.
No, that’s a fair question. I muddled that up. I don’t know if it was in fact any of my grandparents that immigrated from those towns; it was either them or someone before them.
Yeah, that’s my family. Not very close-knit. I learned early on not to bother asking a lot of questions.
What I meant to say is I don’t know the identity of anyone before my grandparents.
Gotcha. 😉
On my mom’s side of the family there are ancestors who came to New Netherlands in the 17th century.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why’d they change it? I can’t say.
Who knows? They may have shared a voyage and split to different settlements; maybe even knew each other.
The bigger question is: if so, how does Kevin Bacon* factor in?
*kinda sorta stolen from a recent comment on a You Know Who Else Thread. I’m shameless like that.
That’s really cool. A few years ago, I stumbled upon a name, that while common in Germany, was probably less so in Colorado springs during the civil war, so pretty sure it’s my step mom’s great uncle. What a character! I’m planning on researching someday, and writing a book. The guy testified before Congress about human rights abuses in whatever Confederate camp was the only one investigated. While there, he pretty much organized a Mafia since senior officers weren’t doing shit. So he ran numbers and smuggled stuff in. He also kept order and oversaw plans that made it possible for many many prisoners to escape.
That is pretty fucking cool! A Schindler’s List/Underground P.O.W. Railroad book would definitely get a few bucks from me.
It would also make for a great movie pitch. You could even play up the SJW/Evil White Southerners angle for extra
virtue signaling!
Um, to be clear, I was just being playful, not a sarcastic dick. Sometimes I come across as a sarcastic dick. The SJW angle was just meant as a means for you to get more money.
On the Iran deal:
The United States cannot unilaterally cancel the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday in reaction to President Donald Trump’s decision not to certify the accord.
That depends on how its written. If it is one of those deals that requires all participants to stay in or the whole deal is gone, then yes, Trump can unilaterally cancel it. Otherwise, he can certainly unilaterally withdraw from it.
“We cannot afford as the international community to dismantle a nuclear agreement that is working,” said Mogherini, who chaired the final stages of the landmark talks.
For what values of “working”?
Mogherini said she spoke to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson immediately after Trump’s speech on Friday.
I gather Tillerson had been working pretty hard to try to save the deal (and is probably still working behind the scenes to save it). I can’t figure out why.
One thing that my british colleagues in the US always thought was funny was this very-common American assumption that the British are inherently “classier” and better-behaved than Americans.
we’d go out for drinks after work, and we’d be in some bar near the Empire st building (our offices were near madison park) and some tourists would walk by and be like “oh wow, cosmopolitan NYC!” when they heard british accents, and some old lady would tell them how much she loved shakespeare and some guy would be like “aston martins! right?”… and they’d just roll their eyes and be like, “mate, I’m froom fooking Sheffield”
They thought it was cute. and they constantly expressed surprise at how Americans routinely described other Americans as ‘classless’ or gross and badly behaved…when their experience was generally that people were almost excessively polite and courteous. The fact that they got this impression *in NYC* is even more hilarious.
I’ve been watching “release the hounds” on Netflix and I’ve gotten the impression the English are hillbillies.
more like trailer trash. without trailers. hillbillies at least have basic survival skills, and can hunt and eat varmints, and know how to build a fire, and can fix a car. they’re mostly lower middle class slobs who’ve never read a book and make the audience of Jerry Springer/American Idol seem like Masterpiece Theater-viewers.
**obviously, not all. i was merely describing the antithesis of the “English” stereotype that Americans apply to all brits.
I suggest checking out Misfits, that Chav girl wasn’t acting, she was a chav. The producers had to cut her loose after she was busted beating up a paki taxi driver while hurling racial epithets.
U WOT M8?
Oh, there are trailers. Only they call them “caravans” & my company insures a lot of them.
Periwinkle Blue!
hillbillies at least have basic survival skills, and can hunt and eat varmints, and know how to build a fire, and can fix a car.
Thank you for not othering my people hyp. We prefer the pronoun redneck over hillbilly though.
Bourbon barrel aged Siberian Night for tonight. It’s good.
Prefer actual bourbon. This Evan Williams is stellar for the price.
I was reading a client’s security requirements document this week. One of the requirements was “must conduct yearly penetration testing”.
Of course, the first thing that popped into my head was :
“STEVE SMITH CONDUCT DAILY PENETRATION TESTING! ”
I sprayed coffee on my laptop. And a couple of other customers at the coffee shop.
Well done, Glibs!
“STEVE SMITH CONDUCT DAILY PENETRATION TESTING! ”
AND BY PENETRATION MEAN RAPE!
Steve Smith is a very common name. It’s mentioned around me from time to in reference to any number of people. I always get tickled. Explaining why to others is impossible.
I have yet to meet face to face an actual person named steve smith. When I do, I’m gonna have a hard time taking the guy seriously, no matter his merits.
There was another kid in my grade 7 class named Steve Smith. He was very… hairy… for a 12 year old. No idea if he grew up to be a rapesquatch.
ONLY ONE STEVE SMITH AND BY ONLY ONE MEAN RAPE!
I hope you all survive the rest of this Friday the 13th. Have a good weekend!
Today is my mother’s birthday.
I must be demon spawned
I’m bouncing back and forth between here, and watching Camille Paglia and Jordan Peterson discuss post-modernism and today’s academy.
Camille Paglia. STEVE SMITH, *WOULD* YOU?
Re post-modernism, I sometimes run into claims that it doesn’t exist. I still hear people who are otherwise well-read still react like they’ve never heard the term whenever I bring it up. Same with moral/cultural relativism.
Shouldn’t we be past post-modernism by now.
I think we’re in post-post-post-post modernism now. Give or take.
I kind of agree. (Or at least, I’m skeptical of its existence, i.e. its ‘sense,’ not actively claiming its non-existence.) I don’t get how e.g. Infinite Jest is distinct from Ulysses, but post-modernism as a catch-all for criticisms of intellectual vagueness and obscurantism is “real” in the sense that those trends and criticisms of those trends are real.
Er, as a catch-all term for intellectual vagueness, not the criticism thereof.
Had no idea what the hell they were talking about for the first 10 minutes or so, but after that it was amazing.
Ahhhhh STEVE SMITH. Kind of like herpes. Never disappears completely and resurfaces at the most inopportune times.
Ex-porn star cooking shows? Where has that been all my life? I will never leave home if it is true.
Once again, which one y’alls kid is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFZkyr5OGYA
That was excellent.
Ditto.
what in social commentary?
That young lady is woke as fuck. I think we should steal that term.
I think one of the better ones is the Cult of Mom’s video. Where she bags on all these school moms, who do not like her videos. “rubbing their nipples, lactating everywhere” LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOMPS6FAhs&t=486s
She’s gotta be 11 or 12? As bright as she is, I still wouldn’t ever let my daughter make a Youtube video on race etc… Begging for trouble.
She says she is in 8th grade.
I’d check that kid for a suspicious birthmark is what i’m saying. She’s funny and all but if you watch too many of her vids you will be on another list.
Here is the correct time stamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOMPS6FAhs&t=486s
that’s my girlfriend, yo.
OMWC totes jelly.
Good God, I hate kids as it is, now they’re getting all woke and anti-woke. Fuck me. Hey kids, save that shit til you’re old enough to drink, you’re gonna burn out of righteous indignation before you even have to deal with people who don’t use their turn signals or who hang out in the passing lane.
Dis bish cracks me up
So has Arenas already banged her?
So that’s what Gilbert Arenas is up to these days!
That is how you make an off brand. Saw it in a vending machine this week and had to try it. Puke worthy.
Canned urine, From a mountain.
Too bad. I love the original.
So they still make Mello Yello?
and how
I think coke owns them?
Jimmy FUcking Crhrist. My eyes! Agggggg.
The indie drinks are Sun Drop, Cheerwine and ….something else (at least in NC) – Big Red in TX. Weirdly enough you can get the glass bottle version of Cheerwine up in WA, but not the cans. Dunno about anywhere in between.
Dunno if it’s still a good place to visit, but the Coke museum in Atlanta was something else when I swung through in ’97. Among other things – free samples of every drink they manufacture worldwide. Some deserve a release stateside….most probably not.
It was true a few years ago.
It looks like piss. Mtn dew is green. And beautiful when paired with a reeses peanut butter cup.
Nah, it’s yellow. They’re just smart enough to put it in a green bottle.
Damn you !
Mountain dew is my favorite soft drink because my body doesn’t have to work very hard to turn it into urine.
That story in the FF thread was perfect.
roommate read it after asking why I was laughing like that.
This is a wild story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Gardner
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Gardner was born in Okolona, Mississippi, and grew up in Austin, Texas. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, he earned a master’s degree in German from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was a teaching assistant from 1938 to 1940 or so we think stated by NY Times. He was a linguist and professor of German at the University of Akron when the United States Army’s Signals Intelligence Service recruited him to work on breaking German codes. Soon after, he started working on the Japanese codes instead, mastering the Japanese language in only a few months.
Venona project[edit]
In 1946, Gardner began work on a highly-secret project (later codenamed Venona) to break the Soviet cryptosystems. The Soviet encryption system involved the use of one-time pads, and thus was thought to be unbreakable. However, the Soviets made the mistake of reusing certain pages of their pads.
Later that same year, Gardner made the first breakthrough on Venona by identifying the ciphers used for spelling English words. By May 1947 Gardner had read a decrypt that implied the Soviets ran an agent with access to sensitive information from the War Department General Staff, U.S. Army Air Corps Major William Ludwig Ullmann. It became apparent to Gardner that he was reading KGB messages showing massive Soviet espionage in the United States.
It was not until 1949 that Meredith Gardner made his big breakthrough. He was able to decipher enough of a Soviet message to identify it as the text of a 1945 telegram from Winston Churchill to Harry S. Truman. Checking the message against a complete copy of the telegram provided by the British Embassy, the cryptanalysts confirmed beyond doubt that during the war the Soviets had a spy who had access to secret communication between the president of the United States and the prime minister of Britain.[3]
Peter Wright met Meredith Gardner in London after the arrests of the atom spies: “He was a quiet, scholarly man, entirely unaware of the awe in which he was held by other cryptanalysts. He used to tell me how he worked on the matches in his office, and of how a young pipe-smoking Englishman named Philby used to regularly visit him and peer over his shoulder and admire the progress he was making. Gardner was rather a sad figure by the late 1960s. He felt very keenly that the cryptanalytical break he had made possible was a thing of mathematical beauty, and he was depressed at the use to which it had been put.” Wright revealed that Gardner was upset that his research had resulted in McCarthyism and the executions of Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg. Wright quotes Gardner as saying: “I never wanted it to get anyone into trouble.” Wright added that Gardner “was appalled at the fact that his discovery had led, almost inevitably, to the electric chair, and felt (as I did) that the Rosenbergs, while guilty, ought to have been given clemency. In Gardner’s mind, VENONA was almost an art form, and he did not want it sullied by crude McCarthyism.”[4]
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You can’t *re-use* pages, dipshits – it’s called a “one time pad” for a reason. Well, the human element is always the weak point in any security system.
Soviet cryptography struggled to produce during during WW2, so they ended re-using a lot of “one time” pages for a few years.
Good crypto is hard – requires a lot of discipline and painstaking care. Without those, any system – no matter how sharp technically – will fail.
My goodness the Rangers suck. Prolly not a surprise to anyone here.
Princeton op-ed: Conservatives have no right to free speech
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9964
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An op-ed in the Princeton University student newspaper attacking conservatives’ right to free speech has triggered an impassioned response from many students, and even a professor.
Princeton student Ryan Born argued in his op-ed for The Daily Princetonian that “when conservatives appeal to ‘free speech,'” it is safe to ignore them, since “they are appealing to a right that does not exist.”
“In my belief, when conservative ideas are opposed, there is no right that is being infringed,” he adds.
Notably, an editor’s working comments were accidentally left in the print edition of The Princetonian, showing that even the paper’s allegedly left-leaning editors were uneasy with the argument.
“I don’t think this makes sense,” the editor wrote next to Born’s comments, asking that he add “in my belief” to the sentence.
“Because ‘free speech’ is a cornerstone of our rights under the Constitution, it can appear that conservatives’ socially free speech has this constitutional tradition as its backbone,” he continues, but contends that conservative speech “is something much different” because “conservatives are interested in being able to propose their ideas without any political opposition to their right to speech.”
Born goes on to contend that “if conservative arguments were strong, they would be convincing, and if they were convincing, they would not meet political opposition,” and conservatives would consequently not need to rely on appeals to free speech.
“If the only justification conservatives can offer for their ideas is that they merely exist, then let me say as Trotsky did: ‘You are miserable bankrupts, your role is played out; go where you ought to go—into the dustbin of history!'” he declares.
***
I used to head desk about this stuff. Now I just sit back and laugh.
” because “conservatives are interested in being able to propose their ideas without any political opposition to their right to speech.”
That’s IMAX level projection right there.
I think back to how stupid I was in college and do one of those Indian head-wiggles.
Jesus Christ.
“if conservative arguments were strong, they would be convincing, and if they were convincing, they would not meet political opposition,”
Jesus H christ, who has taught this kid? I am surprised he can type or cross a street.
The guy taking about played out ideas is quoting Trotsky. There is no Justice in this life, only irony.
Somebody should tell this kid that the office of Soviet Political Commissar has been abolished, and never existed in the U.S. anyway.
If the right to express ideas depends upon the lack of opposition to them, the no ideas can be expressed, whether conservative or otherwise. Of course, I’m sure this guy’s got a solution to that “problem”. Just kill all your opponents, and voila! No opposition.
The NCAA will not sanction UNC after an academic scandal — here’s how a student-athlete got an A-minus with a one-paragraph final essay
I smell a lawsuit coming from UNC non student athlete grads.
“there seats”
THERE SEATS
First hit for a Google Image search for “There Seats”.
I lol’d.
LT Fish. If you get serious about the trip to northern kanukistahn keep us posted. Just yesterday I started looking at the same thing. Need to do something with the Healey when I’m done restoring it.
Neil Peart undertook this journey many years ago.
And wrote a whiny, self-serving book about it too. I used to love Neil before the tragic life fuckaroos.
I think if you lose your wife and only kid in the space of a year, u r entitled to be a little whiny
We’ll see. Next year might be pushing it financial-wise, but I am planning to move back to the NW in a couple years anyways. Already had a few ideas.
I am not getting excited about this football game I am not getting excited about this football game I am not getting excited about this football game
I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS FOOTBALL GAME
LOUD NOISES!
Syracuse wins.
Couch Surfer for my next beer. It’s OK.
Question: What makes Mia Khalifa qualified to be a sports reporter?
Ball and stick handling skills.
Good answer. I accept.
The same thing that qualifies the chic telling me who knelt and who didn’t the last time I watched a football game. At least if I see Mia commentate I can drag up a good memory via the net during commercials.
Currently playing.
Nathan Robinson. He’s like the Old Faithful of derp.
MORE EVIDENCE THAT EXTREME WEALTH IS TOTALLY INDEFENSIBLE
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/more-evidence-that-extreme-wealth-is-totally-indefensible
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One thing I have never been able to understand about those who make millions of dollars a year is what they could possibly ever need that kind of money for.
…
It should be completely obvious that these people live in almost ludicrous luxurious excess. They make no effort to curb their consumption…
…
But here’s the real crazy part: all this insanely indulgent spending, the $34,000 a month, still adds up to only $400,000 a year. This couple earn $1,250,000 a year. You could buy tickets to Hawaii and Disneyland every week, and still only spend ⅓ of what these people actually earn. They live like monarchs, and yet most of their income still just gets tossed into their savings account. This, then, is what is truly extraordinary: these people could keep spending exactly as they presently do, and have $200,000 a year to put into their retirements savings, even if 50% of their income was taken from them in taxes.
…
First, of course, I don’t know how you can justify spending what this family spends every month. But then I really don’t know how you can justify keeping the rest of the money, in a time when there are literally billions of others out there who could desperately use it.
…
Again, the tax policy implications of this can be debated. But I think it’s uncontroversial to conclude that the possession of enormous wealth, especially in a time of great suffering, is just indefensible in every way. Even $400,000 a year provides enough to live in extreme luxury. Anything over that is just obscene.
***
This sounds like something I might have written when I was nine.
Jesus Christ.
You should listen to him talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpUrE0uOYc
Dear God is that dude for real? Only could get through a few seconds. He looks like a envious cunt to me.
Me.
I need some ear bleach.
Pandora provided this.
Other than being punchably annoying, and promoting some minor joy riding which is theft, I do not disagree with him.
Aww. I was hoping for a gif of Mr. Garrisson’s “companion” sitting on a pineapple. Tres dissapointe!
Even $400,000 a year provides enough to live in extreme luxury. Anything over that is just obscene.
I don’t make near that. But if I did, my response to these motherfuckers would be-
μολὼν λαβέ
Molon labe bitches.
Or as they say in Texas, COME AND TAKE IT. The bitches part is a more recent addendum.
most of their income still just gets tossed into their savings account.
Bullshit.
right. 99% goes back into the capital markets. where do these idiots think the seed money for horribly overvalued new internet companies comes from.
They must be putting it into not only savings accounts, but savings bonds!
Cool. Gimme $400,000 a year
There’s always a chink in the armor.
***
The idea behind a crib is that cryptologists were looking at incomprehensible ciphertext, but if they had a clue about some word or phrase that might be expected to be in the ciphertext, they would have a “wedge,” a test to break into it. If their otherwise random attacks on the cipher managed to sometimes produce those words or (preferably) phrases, they would know they might be on the right track. When those words or phrases appeared, they would feed the settings they had used to reveal them back into the whole encrypted message to good effect.
In the case of Enigma, the German High Command was very meticulous about the overall security of the Enigma system and understood the possible problem of cribs. The day-to-day trench operators, on the other hand, were less careful. The Bletchley Park team would guess some of the plaintext based upon when the message was sent. For instance, a daily weather report was transmitted by the Germans, at the same time every day. Due to the regimented style of military reports, it would contain the word Wetter (German for “weather”) at the same location in every message and knowing the local weather conditions helped Bletchley Park guess other parts of the plaintext as well. Other operators too would send standard salutations or introductions. Another example was an officer in the Afrika Korps who helped greatly by constantly sending, “Nothing to report.”
…
When a captured German revealed under interrogation that Enigma operators had been instructed to encode numbers by spelling them out, Alan Turing reviewed decrypted messages and determined that the number “eins” (“one”) was the most common string in the plaintext. He automated the crib process, creating the Eins Catalogue, which assumed that “eins” was encoded at all positions in the plaintext. The catalogue included every possible position of the various rotors, starting positions, and keysettings of the Enigma.[
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known-plaintext_attack
Yeah, the Germans were very careless sometimes. There are times when having a great bit of kit can actually be a handicap, I think, because of the slack attitude it can engender.
From what I’ve read, a lot of the communiques also had a Heil Hitler in there, usually near the end of the message, which also helped a bit with the crypto-analysis.
BIGGEST WIN FOR THE ‘CUSE SINCE 1984
I LOVE COLLEGE FOOTBALL
*faints*
Orange.
For all you T&A loving shitlords out there.
http://archive.is/voHYy
1,6, and 15. Love me some Asians.
Yellow fever. You and HM should have a pow-wow.
If anyone ever wants a guided tour of Bangkok, just drop me a line.
I’m goin to Delhi in a month, what’s your feeling on India?
My feeling on India is that anything it can do, Sri Lanka can do better. Colombo is one of the nicest places I have ever visited.
It’s full of Indians
Dot, not How.
You know how she likes the feather.
I have had guided tours of Bangkok that just had me looking for a good breakfast. It was the guided tours of Pattaya that made me question myself.
By “question yourself” you mean you took a detour to Boys’ Town?
Naa, I had good tour guides. In spite of them being Canadians. It was just my general sense of morality I questioned for being in certain places. The place with the girls behind glass wearing numbers was too much for me. I told my bud I was out. I left. Creeped me the fuck out. And it was a would on all of them. It was the display. Too creepy for me.
Yeah, that. I was an unabridged hedonist for awhile but some of that stuff can turn your day into night. I’m sorta glad that I got old.
You know what they say, one night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.
Would love to hang out with Lord Mulatto. A fun time is to be had by everyone.
#12 is Irene Nell. SHE IS MINE!
#41 is Kate Upton. I’ll take her too.
Fuck it. Orgy.
http://why-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Irene-Nell-Why-Ed.jpg
Danke schön!
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We’re really skating the line on the terms of service. Don’t destroy us overlords please!
Another nice one.
RE: terms of service: We should quit here.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e6/b3/75/e6b375978a8cde1ae77efb20e0c19e6c–cute-asian-girls-sexy-girls.jpg
For HM and 2nd Class Prole.
NSFW.
Very nice. Danke!
Workin on my Kilchoman tonight. My liver hates me, but the rest of me says “thaaaaaaank yoooooouu!”
Im.drinking the highest class booze imaginable-
Boooosh light.
Milwaukee’s Best Ice got me more pussy than any booze ever has, so I commend you.
Thems fighting words Q. My grandmother drank Milwaukee’s beast.
You better not have been in arkansas between 1919-2015?
No worries. Spent the night in Fort Smith in a motel (alone) on my way to Miami in 2004, but that’s the extent of my AR experience.
Fun fact.
My grandmother’s birthday is December 7th.
She turned 21 on the day the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. Her life was shaped by the war. She had to wait to marry grandpa until he got back from europe.
Better than our pissant generations.
I do enjoy the thick forests of Arkansas. I have to admit I’m envious of you living on a good amount of land there. My family has land in NE New Mexico but it’s totally different. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, but there are so many beautiful spots in this country I’d love to check out. Let’s have a feral hog hunt!
fun with codes
Consider the plain text:
THE QUICK RED FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY BROWN DOG
My encryption technique:
-omit: a, an, the, is, are, of, and (these are very common words which can be omitted without making the message unreadable)
-replace spaces with a rotating sequence of the letters J, Q, and Z. (if the same letter is used to encrypt spaces, that could be exposed)
-shift the plain text letters one position forward
That gives:
RVJDLJSFEQGPYZKVNQFEJPWFSQKBAZZCSPXOJEPHQ
The decrypter knows where to look for the word breaks, so it’s easy to reverse.
The cipher text is about the same length as the plain text, which is good.
The most common characters code for spaces. I figure that would throw off the scent for a while.
A brute force search would involve checking 26^(letters in message). Once you get above 50 letters, a brute force search would take years on the fastest computer. There’s no point in decrypting “ATTACK AT DAWN” if it takes a week for the computer to find it.
The system I came up with as a kid worked like so :
– The letters in each word are shifted by the number of letters in the word, either forwards or backwards as preferred
– Letters are replaced with two-digit numbers assigned by frequency of letters in English usage
– Spaces are indicated by a handful of reserved number pairs
My thinking was that it would be relatively quick and simple to encrypt and decrypt – you’re not really doing anything complicated, just some simple substitutions – but would at least fox frequency analysis, since any given letter, even the rare ones like Q and J, can be any number (aside from the space markers).
I like that first step a lot. Clever and simple. As for the number part, it would mean the cipher text would be twice as long as the plain text. Not as big a deal in the digital era, but it was frowned upon in the days of yore.
It is a weakness – but I wanted many more cipher ‘letters’ than real ones in order to give another layer of protection against frequency analysis. At some point I had read Singh’s “The Code Book”, and it really struck me how cryptography before maybe the late 19th C was basically a duel between frequency analysis to find a pattern and randomisation.
I forgot the other reason for digits – it seemed to me that in a cipher text like RVJDLJSFEQGPYZKVNQF the attacker would be pretty likely to guess that each cipher letter was a plaintext letter. But a string of numbers doesn’t give such an easy toehold – so 183693736586937235 could be 18 36 93 73 65 86 93 72 35… but it could also be 183 693 736 586 937 235. Or *any* of the digits could be filler – maybe it’s actually 18 [3] 69 [3] 73 65 [8] 69 37 23 [5] (where [x] is filler included just to fuck with an attacker.) And of course it’s trivially easy to have a whole raft of different arrangements, with a code buried somewhere in the text to alert the recipient, so that even if an attacker figures out that message 1 is a forward shift with Fibonacci sequence filler, that doesn’t necessarily help with message 2.
The problem is that a static rotational cipher is well known, and would be hard coded in any attacking algorithm prior to any brute force attempt. Apply some basic pattern matching, and you can determine the shift number when 85% of the characters correspond to words in the dictionary (as compared to 5% for other shift numbers). Coding characters for spaces isn’t going to throw the average computer off for very long (nor the average human). STEVEXSMITHYWANTZTOARAPEBYOU.
If I were designing a rotational cipher, it would be a dynamic one. Perhaps something like this:
5 characters are coefficients of the equation ax^4-bx^3+cx^2-dx+e. They are encoded as letters with a previously shared starting letter (e.g. “F” is 0, “G” is 1, “H” is 2). After that, each character position’s rotation is calculated using the equation. Spaces are considered to be before A, numbers start from zero after Z.
Plaintext : “STEVE SMITH CATCH HIKER”
Shared starting letter: “K”
Encrypted Text: “KKKMOWVETA4KC7F2STEVCF6BAA3D”
Benefits: Length is +5 of message, really freaking hard to algorithmically crack, can be deciphered by anybody with a 5th grade math education
Weaknesses: Straightforward once the equation is known; need to privately share the starting letter, takes forever to decode by hand
can be deciphered by anybody with a 5th grade math education
Wut?
It’s basic algebra. Solve the equation to get your shift number. In my example, I made it simple so that I could do it in my head (I fucked it up, but nobody was going to catch it). Deciphering goes like this. I know from prior knowledge that “K” represents zero for the cipher coefficients. I also know that the first 5 characters are the cipher coefficients “KKKMO”, resulting in 00024. Plugging that into the equation, you get 0x^4 – 0x^3 + 0x^2 – 2x + 4. Removing the chaff, my cipher algorithm is 2x + 4, where x is the position of the character in the message.
Taking the first 5 characters of the ciphertext “WVETA”, I can reverse the cipher by applying the negative result of the cipher algorithm. First character (position zero) results in a shift number of +4 (by plugging in zero for x, we get 2*0+4). Reversing it means applying -4. W-4 = S. Second character (position 1) results in a shift number +2. Reverse that, and we get V-2 = T. Position 2 is a shift of +0. E=E. Position 3 is a shift of -2. Reverse that and we get T+2 = V. Position 4 is a shift of -4. Reverse that and we get A+4 = E.
Put it all together and the plain text for the first 5 characters is “STEVE.” Each additional squared, cubed, etc. term reduces the likelihood of algorithmically breaking the cipher.
Wut? Thanks for explaining. I will read it again tomorrow when I am less stupid.
My way – Take a paragraph or chapter from any book- this is your key, then just xor character by character.
When I was younger I used was a book cipher for coding. I was quite proud of it until I found out it was relatively easy to crack by a good cytologist even with no knowledge of what the book was (seriously, modern cryptoanalysis is scary).
Regarding your code, for any extended text the high frequency of J, Q, and Z, very uncommon letters, are instant clues that they are substitutes for a frequently occurring attribute, such as E, S, or a space. Similarly, all of your letters have the exact same substitution every time they appear: a “P” is always an “O,” for example. It’s basically a Caesar cipher with two other quirks. Not that hard to crack, especially if you have a long enough string of letters.
Ha Ha! The E.U. trying to enforce terms on America is akin to my Grand-daughter kicking me in the shin because I wouldn’t buy her a pony. She’s four years old.
What’s having grandkids like?
Mostly hilarious. You get to interact with them and not put up with the terrible shit. When bad stuff happens I just retreat to the den.
I may be drunk, but I want the Glibs to know that life is a gift. I hope we can all feel gratitude tonight (or today for the timezone impaired).
But a gift from who, Q? Hey, that sort of rhymed. I’m a poet, drunk poet.
Who cares? Just enjoy it! To life!
+1 buzzed together, up late… life is great?
I think so. Better than the alternative anyway.
Wifey is sort of annoyed with me. I guess I’m silly. Been taking care of her all day because she hurt her knee, but we can’t agree on cats and I’m inebriated, or something.
That’s easy. Cats are awesome.
Same here except my wife wants to borrow someone’s industrial-grade sewing machine and set it up in our little home. I asked her how much it weighed and knew then that I had stepped on a land-mine. She “needs” it to sew horse blankets. What would Prudy (the good one) do?
I am not convinced of that. But not enough to follow through and prove my theory yet.
One life in hand is worth 72 virgins in the bush.
Who wants virgins. Give me 72 bar girls who know their way around finishing a job quickly,
Yes
Usually works. Addend it with “dear” and now you’re cooking with spices.
Someone either found weed or Jesus.
Just joie de vivre.
Needs moar bewbz.
Festus, whereabouts in Canadia are ya?
I’m a BC boy, born and bred. Not one of those “lotus eaters” from the coastal districts. A Northern Man, thru and thru. Winter is coming.
I hear ya. Never been much to Northern BC, but I love the Yukon and I’d live in Alaska in a heartbeat. I love the Great North. Best place on Earth.
Prince George or as the rest of the Province call us, “Pig’s Gorge”. It used to be a pretty rough place but since the primary industry has petered out and they opened a University we’re much more Spokane than Bismark. It kinda sucks but it’s home.
Fuck the North Q. Around the equator is where it is at. Or at least 23 deg on either side of it. My theory is that is where people should live.The people who congregate outside of that are nuts and should be held skeptically. Myself included at the moment.
Winter does keep the softies inside and does cull a few of the undesirables every year. I’ll wear my imaginary 54 North tattoo and the rest of you can sit and spin! See! People up here actually speak this way!
“” Around the equator is where it is at””
[posts graph showing murder rate/latitude]
See Pan, Festus admits he lives in the second worst province in the country, but at least he lives in the good part.
Yeah! Wait, what?
No shit. I took Festus for Saskatchewan or Quebec all this time.
Fuck that! Northern BC is all declaritive-speak! All the time! Everyone up here is so fucking sure of themselves it’s like the question mark is some fag thing brought from parts unknown.
Ha! I like that!
Living that far north must be a trip. Does the winter get you bummed?
(Southlander)
Nah. Work and driving get harder but we live in houses like regular people. Snowblower is a must for the suburbs.
I was reading an interesting book about a man in India raised as a Christian who became a missionary. When he first visited the US, everyone wanted to show off the expensive churches and cathedrals. He was unimpressed, as India has many opulent temples. What did impress him was the roads, electricity, and water. He was perplexed that a nation full of Christians would be so preoccupied with acquiring wealth. I was left thinking that what India needs more than Christianity is capitalism.
There was a story about Christian in Nepal who spent a few years prison for converting 9 people. The converts spent 1 year in prison too. As extra punishment, the preacher was chained to the floor so he was helpless against the rats and the lice. Somehow, he survived. Evangelism is still illegal in Nepal, although Hinduism is no longer the official religion.
“I was left thinking that what India needs more than Christianity is capitalism.”
It’s what everyone needs.
Yup. Capitalism cures most ills if just given the chance.
Which is just another way of saying that human freedom and ingenuity cures more ills.
OT: I have a shoe odor problem.
It’s only with a certain pair of leather shoes that I bought a few months ago (so this smell is probably not going to go away on its own). I don’t think it’s my feet; I have never had foot odor problems until I put on these shoes. And it’s not really a foot odor smell, it’s just a strong smell of damp, musty leather. It’s not the worst smell ever, but it’s definitely off-putting.
I have some odor-reducing insoles in there, and those did nothing. I also rubbed baking soda all over the inside since that’s supposed to reduce odors. Still nothing.
This has to be some really stanky leather. Has anyone had this issue, and do you know of a way to stop them from smelling like this?
They have UV shoe inserts that kill all bacteria and other odor causing baddies. You put em in at night. They’re about 100 bucks but it might be worth it.
I have that issue with boat shoes. I stopped wearing them without socks because of it. I eventually threw them out because of it.
Cut your losses and chuck the shoes. No matter how stylish, “stink-foot” is not a babe magnet. My python boots were too tight, I couldn’t get em off last night!
pee on them
In the future, don’t buy shoes where piss is stiall a part of the tanning process.
You should Old Spice the boots. Give them a good solid soaking in the original white bottle stuff. Let them sun dry. At night blow Pall Mall unfiltered smoke on them. You will smell like everyone’s old uncle on a Friday night out.
Only at foot level.
Half of us will be on our hands and knees soon enough so your advice is well taken.
Or you could just piss on them as per Gilmore’s advice. Pissing on leather is a time honored process. I don’t know know exactly how that is supposed to work, but there’s a reason tanneries were known for smelling like piss and shit.
nothing cures pee smell like more pee
I forget who was talking about the taco chicken recipe the other day but I did that tonight band seems a hit! Thanks! I lightly pounded the breasts between two plates, cut some diagonals and littered the powder. Let it set for an hour and then sauteed on high heat with butter. When they were done I chucked in a chopped up onion and red bell pepper and clamped a lid on it for a tick. Delish!
i was watching some footage from a modern music festival…
..which is entirely DJ music. i was watching the crowd and thinking, “what’s the charge?”
i did a quick search and found one festival i spent 2 days @ in the early 1990s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gNnXfGd6WQ
its funny, i don’t really like the band anymore but its very easy to transition back to that time and see it through my 16yr old eyes. and remember that they were very interesting and good compared to everything else available at the time.
it was a great weekend mainly because they weren’t at all particularly important or successful – they were just some local new england band… and everyone there was there because they knew someone who knew someone. it was just some very organic get-together. I wonder if that’s even possible anymore.
What’s with this “DJ” thing? They don’t do anything except play other people’s music and wave one hand in the air. I want to corral them and “Vegas” the lot.
djing has some genuine function in a club.
in the “outdoor festival” context, it doesn’t really make much sense to me.
even if it did, i wouldn’t think there would be much point in retaining the “live performance” aspects of it.. where everyone faces a stage looking at some dude pushing buttons and playing 80% pre-recorded material.
i’d think it would make more sense at that point to have some 3rd element as entertainment. like naked dancing chicks. spraying jelly on each other. under glow lights. and the jelly is frequency sensitive. obviously, some science is involved.
and the shit that really lit me up? was stuff like this
i never liked the hippy chromatic shit, but when it got modal it was hot.
Yes, even most live bands would benefit greatly from this naked chicks with glow light jelly thing. I like it. Please arrange this when the glibertarian moment happens.
I played in a band that did small gigs like that in the early 90’s and we had a blast. Random bars, house partys, woods partys. Ahh, youth. It was fairly well spent.
I think it was last year’s IHEARTRADIO concert thing that I was flipping through on CW and they had on Avicii. Which okay, I get he’s a DJ, but I couldn’t believe he didn’t bother to bring in anyone to do the vocals live. He pulls entire songs, not samples, so it wasn’t as if there wasn’t something for someone to sing. It was literally the exact same recording as the studio/radio version. What even was the point? Especially in an era where so many artists feature on each other’s songs and show up in concerts, it seemed weird that nobody would bring in a ‘guest artist’ of the bazillions who performed at that concert. I guess he must’ve wanted it that way, but it seemed like a missed opportunity, to me. (but wtf do I know).
Agreed. I don’t get it.