Well everybody knows by now that the number will keep getting larger and larger. Or is it higher and higher? Either way, who cares as long as it increases and the misery of Michigan fans continues unabated. I hope we can hang with Wisconsin this Saturday and possibly sneak into the playoffs. They look awfully tough.
The Ohio State backup QB doing what Ohio State backup QBs do.
The coaching carousel continues to spin out of control, with aTm firing Sumlin and more surprisingly Arizona State letting Todd Graham go. Do some of these schools not realize they’re playing to their mean with 7-8 wins a season? Its one thing to let a guy go who is playing to the mean when his contract expires, but another thing entirely to dump a guy mid-contract and pay tens of millions in buyout clauses when he’s doing what the several coaches before him did, if not marginally better. They can’t all be Nick Satan or Urban Meyer or Dabo (shudders) Swinney. Be realistic, guys.
On the basketball court, Sparty took UNC behind the woodshed. Duke inexplicably beat Texas on Friday and then beat Florida yesterday. UK seems to have their shit back together. UCLA stole one from UC-Irvine. And the aforementioned aTm beat USC (west coast) in a battle of ranked teams.
Small slate of games on the ice yesterday, with the Hurricanes topping the Predators, the Rangers besting the Canucks in OT and the Oilers doubling up the Bruins.
No more sports for you! Here are…the links!
OK, wait. There is one more (tangentially-related) sports story that needs to be mentioned. Congratulations, Anaheim Mighty Ducks! You win the award for “sports franchise least knowledgable of what’s the hottest topic in the news for the last several months”. Swissy, tell them what they’ve won…
The eyes say “crazy”, but the hair says “par-tay!”
Florida Man says “k’plah!!!!!” Seriously, I’m more impressed with that sweet-ass mullet than the ink, although both take a serious committment.
I don’t even know what to say, this one is so sad. “Good” for saving the taxpayers money, I guess? Just a shitty, sad story all the way around. The daughter definitely deserved better, that much is sure.
Even the craziest of crazy blind squirrels find acorns every now and then. And this one is shithouse rat-crazy.*
*I sure hope someone in the comments explains the history of that term.
John Conyers decides to lighten his workload. How many committees is he on: one? or is it two?
Whole lotta ass grabbing going on in this. Also, cocaine.
George H.W. Bush hits a major milestone. What a gyp. I thought he had finally groped his 1,000th woman’s ass while making a corny joke.
You want a weird-ass story? I’ll give you a weird-ass story.
That’s it. This is the end of the line.
Have a fantastic Monday, friends!
Right Sloopy. The Ducks have won a brand new *narrows gaze*!
I thought it was funny.
Humor is not allowed in these United States any more.
#metoo
Light-hearted humor, circa 1999.
Absolute Hitlerness, circa 2017.
Cat butt
President George H.W. Bush becomes the longest living U.S. president
Only the good die young.
So you’re saying that his idiotic son and Bill Clinton will live to be older than even Ron Bailey wants to?
Bailey and Kurzweil will be the last 2 men left alive after everybody else has gotten so tired of their shit that they kill themselves.
No. Kieth Richards will outlive even them. He’ll just cut their heads off and absorb their energy in The Quickening.
I wish I could upvote this post about a hundred times.
HRC is going to be the oldest sitting president when her putrid corpse wins the 2028 election.
Precedent.
Poison may finally have gotten the mice.
I have to wait and see. I’ll continue checking for mouse-sign, but things are looking up.
R/C ‘thopter in the air. Checking for mouse sign. The cheese must flow.
I would leave the house after the 20th replay of “Every Rose Has it’s Thorn” to.
Animal murderer
http://imgur.com/E1tiSaA
It’s a bit blurry. That’s a bad sign, STEVE might be near.
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem. It’s not the photographer’s fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that’s extra scary to me. There’s a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.
-mitch Hedburg.
I saw a wino eating some grapes. I told him “hey, you have to wait!”
-Mitch Hedburg (RIP)
That one may be my favorite. RIP mitch. There won’t ever be another one like him.
“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs, but I used to, too.”
I’ve given up drinking for good.
Now I only drink for evil.
When I was a kid, I used to lie on my twin bed and wonder where my brother was.
+1 club sandwich
Poison blocks are effective. Hopefully you don’t have any of them crawl up into your duct work and die and smell up the house for a week and a half. Don’t ask me how I know that can happen…
The ducts are quite difficult for them to get to, as they’d either have to be able to crawl along the ceiling, or infiltrate through a running furnace, and climb the interior of a vertical duct to get to the level ones.
(I was wrong about the sounds implying they’d gotten into the ducts before – it was actually them climbing the back of the stove, but the acoustics of the house made me mistake the location of the sounds origins)
Or have a fly problem afterwards. It’s probably too cold for that right now…
I have my fingers crossed that they’ll mummify by spring.
If I had to listen to Poison, I’d definitely kill myself *rimshot*
Mass exodus to follow?
Now that Meredith has officially announced a $2.8 billion deal to buy the beleaguered publisher — with a $650 million assist from the Koch brothers — the media industry is asking which parts will stay and which parts will go.
Analysts had long seen Meredith, which publishes Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, as being most interested in People, Time Inc.’s most profitable title. The more news-focused publications upon which Time Inc. was built, including its namesake magazine and Fortune, have traditionally been less of a focus for Meredith.
You can’t expect those hardworking serious journalists to sell out their political beliefs for a paycheck, Shirley.
“Journalists” can be replaced easily enough.
Also, Dude, “Journolisters” is the preferred nomenclature.
“preferred nomenclature”
It’s preferred pronouns asshole
Nah, it is nomenclature – we are ordering them from a government catalog.
Nomenklatura, please.
I am distantly related to the founders of the Meredith Corporation. How distant? Look at my bank account.
‘Substitute Phone’ artfully satisfies your compulsion to swipe and scroll
Millennials really are the worst
We are doomed as a species. Truly so.
So they’ve saturated the market with fidget spinners and are ready to put out the next in a long line of products designed to satisfy the physical impulses of people that can’t sit still. Good on them.
I smoke. No need for a fidget spinner.
I’ve taken this market craze with the fidget spinners as a teachable moment with the kids. Now that they are marked down 30% to 60% at the stores and will soon be showing up in the resale stores for .50.
I think the kids are getting something out of it. Well at least another $10 as I didn’t allow them to buy any.
A coworker of mine bought one thru Amazon Prime for 8 cents.
I can’t imaging that Amazon made a profit after shipping.
So they’ve saturated the market with fidget spinners …
Actually, I’d say it’s an even more ingenious scam than the fidget spinner. At least the fidget spinner could claim a high quality ball bearing. This is essentially just a heavy block.
When I’m interacting with technology, it’s the results that matter, not the gesturing. I suspect the lack of the positive feedback loop from the addictive apps will mean most people who buy these will discard them after a short time as it’s not the motion but the interaction that they’re addicted to.
Yes, but some people are addicted to buying useless things. So if you ride that wave, you can make some good money.
At a previous job, I was trained by this really annoying woman who, when showing me how to do something on the computer and wanted me to scroll down, would symbolize this by dragging her finger from the bottom of the monitor screen to the top (or vice versa) as if she were scrolling on a smartphone. To make matters worse, she had the confusing habit of tranposing the words “up” and “down” due to not being a native English speaker. As a result, I was constantly scrolling in the other direction and she would say, “Scroll down… No no, ‘down’ in the sense…” (she would never finish that sentence)
I don’t miss that job at all.
Many laptops these days ship with their touchpads configured to scroll like a phone instead of the traditional down means down. It’s downright offensive.
It’s been done before.
In my day, if our hands needed to do something mindless while we were watching TV, we’d just scratch our testicles. We didn’t need any plastic dodads with stone hohahs.
I hope Wisconsin gives Ohio State a vicious beating – then gets excluded from the playoffs in favor of 4 SEC teams – exposing the whole popularity contest farce.
After this past weekend, I’m predicting no chaos. Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Clemson, Georgia win their respective championships, and that’s your final 4.
I’m just glad Miami got embarrassed against Pitt.
Georgia has to play an auburn team that beat them by 30 points just a few weeks ago.
If Auburn wins that game they’re in the final 4 as well. So it really doesn’t matter.
In picking Miami, Auburn, Oklahoma and Ohio State to win the games. (Hornibrook is just too iffy to have confidence in. And our run game is better than any they’ve seen this year.) I don’t know how it’ll work out with the committee. Tomorrow night should possibly help clear some of that up.
As much as I want Wisconsin to make the CFP for the first time I just don’t feel good about this weekend. Every time I talk myself into feeling a little opportunistic about the game I get a flashback to 59-0 and the confidence is shattered. Different teams but that really left a scar.
I was laughing at Alabama. Assholes scheduled a game against Mercer last week for SEC Cupcake weekend. Then got dominated when they had to play a real D1 team.
I want enough chaos that the committee says “fuck it” and puts UCF in.
I want so many people so pissed off that they go to a system with the Power-Five conference champions and maybe one at-large selection from a committee.
Well, if we are going that route, I want a 16 team playoff.
All 10 conference champs and 6 at large.
First two rounds played on campus.
?
F that shit. No playoffs. Traditional pre-BCS post-season conference champion match ups and January arguing over BS anointed “champions”.
I lose interest in the drama and bs of a beauty-pageant championship selection process. “Hmm, which SEC team do we currently love the most?”
No. Sorry, Conference USA doesn’t get an automatic bid.
6 conf champs and 2 at large from the committee for the mid-major conferences with an exceptional team or the conference that has 2 powerhouses that are a cut above the rest of the country.
That way, the conf championship games effectively are round 1 of the playoffs.
Who run CFPB Town?
Ms. English sued the president late last night to prevent Mr. Mulvaney from taking over. But the C.F.P.B.’s own general counsel, Mary McLeod, backed a legal memo from the Justice Department supporting the White House move.
Fire her. Problem solved.
Fire her. Problem solved.
Better yet, disband the CFPB. That way, when she bitches, the president can respond “What? You didn’t want Mulvaney in charge of the CFPB. Well, now he’s not going to be in charge of the CFPB.”
Yes yes, we wish Congress would gut lots of stuff, but they don’t.
I’m watching Squawk and there are a number of professional protesters with printed signs (various messages, but all with #defendcfpb). The real issues here aren’t getting much press – it’s being presented as either a zero or “Trump administration confusion.”
“*I sure hope someone in the comments explains the history of that term.”
Seeing as I have never heard that phrase before…
The internet has some theories.
I always assumed it was because a rat living in a shithouse would be exposed to enough methane to make it a little loopy. I have no idea.
I’m pretty sure auburn knocking off bama is going to hurt your chances of the playoffs sloopy
That’s quite possible.
The B1G should cut back to 8 conference games and then we could have played some regional 1-AA team down the stretch instead of a conference foe like Iowa.
Strength of Schedule should matter.
Btw, I like how Fresno State is now ranked in the AP. Miss St is STILL ranked. And people gave Florida votes as well as Troy to make the SEC (and the G6 schools they lose to) look better.
Florida. Fucking absurd.
It does, unless you are Bama.
Wisconsin and UCF are exhibit A and B in why it matters.
Wisconsin will overcome it unless they lose.
The prejudice against Wisconsin in college football is astonishing. The chatter after Alabama and Miami screwed the pooch this weekend was all about what would happen after
tOSU beats Wisconsin later this week, as if its a foregone conclusion.Every system creates perverse incentives, so I get that a pure W-L first-order ranking creates an incentive to pad your schedule with creampuffs. The current “black box”, though, creates its own incentives – the committee can (and therefor will) be influenced by things like historical/reputation (which benefits
tOSU). I have a hard time seeing howtOSU gets into the BCS this year even if they beat Wisconsin, unless Georgia and Miami also lose. But that would leave Alabama spot-blocking the 4th spot in the BCS, since they don’t even play and would have one loss againsttOSU’s 2 losses.Its a real mess. Not sure I have an answer, but as a Badger fan I’m pretty sure UW has been getting fucked by the committee most of the year. If they lose this week, then they’re out and I guess Alabama is back in.
On another topic, Mrs. Dean found a really interesting series called “The Religion of Sports” that looks at how sports fills various social/cultural roles in society. I’ve only seen the ones on the competitive video game scene and on the rivalry between the Celtic and Ranger soccer teams, but they were really interesting.
The answer is for the committee (basketball too, although it is less of a problem – more on that below) to remove the black box and specifically lay out their requirements. Then work with someone to convert said requirements into an algorithm. They use the fucking algorithm.
So, yes, it means a computer system, but that is okay, as it is entirely in line with what the committee would do on their own. Without all the bullshit they pull.
Or, you know, they could use a system or set of systems that already exist. Sort of like the BCS did (but for the love of God, stop using Billingsley!) only without the poll aspect. Oh, and you could only use open systems. Which from the old BCS is Colley and uhhh, I guess just Colley.
Back to basketball, the reason the committee system works better is that with 68 teams, the cut point is at about top 50 (with the rest bad autobid teams). If you screw up and put in #52 and leave out #47, it hardly matters. Close enough is close enough.
If football expanded to 16, with 10 autobids, the cut line would about 12. Football being different, if you screw that up, it probably doesnt matter. Anyone who for sure “deserves” to be in would be in.
Here is the bracket using Colley (with adjustments so no conference mates in same quadrant):
Troy @ 1 Wisconsin
Oklahoma @ Notre Dame
Toledo @ 4 Georgia
Ohio St @ Miami
FAU @ 2 Clemson
Auburn @ Penn St
Boise St @ 3 UCF
USC @ Alabama
The “first four out” are Memphis, Michigan St, Stanford, Washington.
Works for me.
And Memphis could still play their way in by beating UCF in the AAC championship game.
Yeah, because Troy and Toledo have such grueling schedules.
There is a big difference between the Power 5/6 conferences and the rest. Boise St would have 3 more losses if they played a power conference.
That is why they get a road game at a top tier team in round 1.
The overall #1 seed gets and easy win, just like in the basketball tourney.
It has to be a typo. They must have meant Florida Atlantic, who acutally is in RV in the coaches’ poll,
I am a Florida alum, and I can’t believe the gators would get any votes. It *has* to be an error.
And I suppose the votes for Troy were an accident and were really meant for Southern Cal?
They pulled some shit in 2006, I think, in order to keep Michigan from the championship game. Some pollsters ranked them all the way out of the top 25 in order to get LSU in at #2. Then, of course, changed their methodology a few years later to ensure a LSU-Bama rematch.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it really was UF.
‘Beauty boys’ makeup influencers seem to be getting younger and younger
That kid is doomed.
Good think bullying is less prominent in Europe than in the US
He is 10 years old.
My guess is that little Jack is going to hit puberty in a few years. He’ll realize that the internet is forever. And he will hate his parents with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
You know this wasn’t his idea.
Man card will never be issued in the first place.
unless he turns his popularity into a Wilt Chamberlain-esque slayathon. crazier things are known to have happened.
“influencer”
They keep using that term. I do not think it means what they think it means
From the Who gives a shit? desk:
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he does not understand why fundamentalist Christians in the US support Donald Trump.
The Most Rev Justin Welby said he “really genuinely” had no explanation for how the US President has secured such a significant support base amongst church-goers.
He made the admission as described the Mr Trump’s attitude towards women as “completely unacceptable”.
Questioned on why he believed the President received support from fundamentalist Christians in the US, he replied: “There’s two things going through my mind: do I say what I think, or do I say what I should say?
“And I’m going to say what I think. No I don’t understand it. I really genuinely do not understand where that is coming from.”
That’s nice.
Am I misremembering or was the Archbisop also a remoaner pro-migrant fool?
Oh I hope,I hope Trump tweets something akin to “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
Cause you know he Won’t know what he’s saying.
It’s all fun and games until four secret service agents take him literally and go kill the archbishop.
Oh, I didn’t mean for that to happen /Henry VIII
Or II, either way.
Errr, will no one rid me if this meddlesome auto-correct?
/Haha they’ll never suspect that I’m just an idiot.
I imagine there’s a lot of things he doesn’t understand.
He’s the high priest of a state church, he hasn’t even worked out our funky first amendment yet.
“Written Consistition? What new spore of madness is this?”
I’m surprised iconoclasm hasn’t’ made a comeback yet.
If they dont understand Trump support an explanation is a waste of breath.
– Shithouse rat. I have heard that all of my life. My grandfather said “Why would you live in the shithouse (outhouse) eatin’ corn and nuts out of people’s shit when you could live in the house?”
Rats living in the outhouse also tended to get all kinds of disease (histoplasmosis mainly) that affected their behavior. Unknown to most people then this also had a significant effect on human infant mortality rates.
*The single most significant factor that increased quality of life and life expectancy for humans was/is the widespread use of indoor plumbing and sewer treatment.
The Most Rev Justin Welby said he “really genuinely” had no explanation for how the US President has secured such a significant support base amongst church-goers.
Of course, the Archbishop has been generally dismissive, if not contemptuous, of fundamentalist churches.
And yet the pews are full in those fundamentalist churches. His are empty.
Funny, this is what Trump says to himself every day, too.
And then the Hat and the Hair weigh in…
If you say that three times, really fast like, does that summon SF?
I don’t know. I don’t understand why American Evangelicals support Trump either.
I mean sure I get why they would have supported him over Hillary and I get why they support Pence but outside of raw political tribalism I don’t see a ton of overlap between Trump and the average evngelical
Evangelicals are the core irredeemable deplorables, and they know it. They vote for and support Trump mostly has a pure defensive measure against the progressives who treat them as untermensch and are slavering to put the muscle of the Total State behind their hatred.
That…or they think Trump will usher in the end times.
Its quite simple. The D’s loathe evangelicals and are either unwilling or incapable of hiding it. Trump, the NY-living, model divorcing, ivy league grad set up with daddy’s pocket book, somehow… loves them. He’s been on WWE. He wears stupid hats. He’s not afraid to say America, Fuck Yeah!
People will never love a politician that loathes them. They will always love a politician that they think loves them. Its not complicated.
Is #MeToo movement remaking workplace legal landscape?
Right. And then equality kicks in
I think liberals are incapable of understanding how inflating of any sort, devalues and debases what there was before. If you use public shaming to punish, but have no mechanism to stop frivolous accusations, eventually the accusations will not hold any power to shame.
And then of course there’s the issue that companies will start to avoid hiring women.
Or maybe all men will start to stay home and the work place will be women only.
Us guys will just sit around on the dole.
True equality.
And then the feminists can see what a world with women responsible for doing everything is actually like.
Society would collapse as the catty hags tore it down to spite the other woman they hated.
Fairness and punishing every accusation, however minor, without an examination of the evidence are not the same thing.
You could in fact say that they are opposites.
See: What happened to Greg Schiano yesterday.
I really hope the rumors of Tennessee owing him $20 million are true.
Did Tennessee fans have proof to paint over Greg Schiano’s reputation — or only mob anger…
Wetzel was closer to the PSU situation than anyone else in the media. He was kind of pissed off on twitter yesterday over this.
https://twitter.com/DanWetzel/status/934969551095259136
What happened to Schiano is absolutely terrifying.
What’s worse: it has nothing to do with Sandusky and everything to do with the fact that Schiano is not Jon Gruden.
Bingo.
I know it’s just sportzball, but there might be some very interesting legal ramifications from this saga. Schiano might have a case against Clay Travis, who arguably defamed him and then incited a mob against him based off of rumors.
Travis – a Vanderbilt educated lawyer – should have known better.
Travis is the biggest asshole in sports media, and that’s saying something.
Plus he’s written before about how much he despises internet hate mobs, and then he started one here.
Nobody is gonna be on the hook except Tennessee. He’s going to get something out of this if he pushes the issue. But can he really push the issue if he wants a head coaching job in the future? I’d reckon that suing Tennessee will result in him never being more than the DC at Ohio State.
I’m laughing at Tennessee fans posting that Ohio State will be firing him in the next day or so after they rightfully outed him as a Sandusky enabler.
As usual, I go straight to the comments. Boy do they let him have it. Outside of the NYT where its readership are a bunch of one-dimensional herd spewing intellectual jargon supporting ridiculous left-wing outtakes by the likes of Brooks, Kristof and Krugman, when you head to neutral or semi-netutral spots you find whenever an article of this kind pops up, the comment community tends to take the opposite position. And it happens often I’ve observed.
They must have nuked then cause mine says “be the first to comment”.
Examples:
“Michael Maynard 27 Nov 2017 2:14AM
Trump was remarking on the extremes to which a rich man can safely go with a certain type of woman who hangs around rich men making her willingness to sleep with them extremely obvious. He was stating a plain truth, albeit not stating it was what he had personally done. The shock and outrage expressed in reaction to this recording of locker room banter just makes people sound naive. This churchman can hardly set himself up to lead people back to the Lord if he is so fundamentally prissy and picky. One expects a priest to be able to engage with sinners, not turn up his nose. With all the fundamental evils in the world, he just sounds a PC twit. Plainly millions of American women can cope with Trump basically sounding like a regular guy who says regular things when amongst men not neutered by PC feminism. Hence he got voted into power, but who voted this church person into Power?”
“Mary Smith 27 Nov 2017 2:44AM
Welby has shown by this admission just how far he is from understanding ‘ordinary’ Christians, ‘ordinary’ people. In fact, Trump has already improved the lot of Christians, and that includes Christian women, in the USA. Obama’s, not only tolerance, but enthusiastic support for, abortion earned him the questionable accolade of being the most anti-life (and remember these are American lives we are talking about) President ever. To see the Little Sisters of the Poor all of whose energies should have been taken up with serving the elderly poor, which is their vocation, having to engage in a prolonged lawsuit for the right not to pay for insurance to cover abortion and contraception for their workers, was a monstrous thing.
Next, among the c 10,000 ‘refugees’ Obama opened the doors to from Syria and elsewhere, about 56 were Christian – the very people that were being murdered, raped and dispossessed. There was an absolute outcry among ‘Christian’ leaders when Trump said that this was unfair and that if one were a Syrian Christian it was almost impossible to enter the USA and he intended to reverse this. ‘O, that’s unchristian!’ was the cry from people exactly like Welby. Well tell that to the Syrian Christians.”
What he did to the Little Sisters of the Poor was petty indeed.
I thought postmenupausal nuns needed abortifactant birth control.
Ok you’re taking about the Archbishop. I think you Gillmored.
No. I was talking about Snoopy and Woodstock.
/slap!
“What he did to the Little Sisters of the Poor was petty indeed.”
Par for the course. Go back and look at everything Mr. Skyrocketing Energy Prices did. It was one giant ‘Fuck You’ after another.
With the growing number of high-profile harassment cases, however, Tippett said publicly shaming employers could be a more effective way to get them to punish harassers.
And what happens when a company gets sued for “punishing” an employee who is later proven innocent?
That’s my biggest problem with this trend. For all the bullshit about how “brave” the accusers are, making an accusation, even a false accusation, is increasingly becoming a costless process. Someone can have their life destroyed by an accuser who will face no repercussions if the accusation is later proven to be false.
Who will be screaming the loudest when female employment drops to a hundred-year low?
Well, I for one would never refrain from hiring a woman, no matter the litigation and reputational risk. Unfortunately, women tend to be rare in quant finance. Darn!
Florida Man says “k’plah!!!!!” Seriously, I’m more impressed with that sweet-ass mullet than the ink, although both take a serious committment.
He should go with the, “We were dueling over a matter of honor” defense.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
A couple in Washington State has sustained multiple injuries after crashing their car into a tree while having sex, police said.
The man was drunk and the woman was sitting on top of him, engaging in sexual activity, while they navigated a local highway, State Trooper Brooke Bova told The Independent. Both were naked.
The man failed to negotiate the curves in the road, Ms Bova said, and struck a tree with his car. The woman broke her pelvis and the man broke his wrist.
Their three-month-old child, properly restrained in a carseat in the back, was uninjured.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/couple-crashes-car-tree-while-180800646.html
No comment I guess
Their three-month-old child, properly restrained in a carseat in the back, was uninjured.
At least they’re responsible parents.
…Upon further investigation the couple recently moved north from Florida…
I’d say he was navigating some curves just fine, just not the ones in the road.
Raring to Roach – the latest dating trend to infest your love life
Why does this need a word? Probably happened since the invention of dating in 1986
Did I mention that Millennials really are the worst?
Because women need more words to describe men as creepy, crawly, gross creatures?
Right. I thought they called this, “plate spinning.”
Better or worse than the D.E.N.N.I.S. system?
They had to make up a new word. Jerk was just too simple.
“there’s nothing wrong with dating multiple people at the same time.”
That’s it. Nothing matters before or after that sentence. End of non-story.
Jesus. How about just asking?
Besides, of course it’s implied that when you start seeing someone, both parties may be seeing other people. How could it be any other way? Just from a logistical standpoint.
Unless you’re a blunt asshole who has gotten too old for playing games. I just tell them.
I’d always assumed that the default assumption was non-monogamy until the topic was discussed.
And, yet, I’m sure she’d be the victim if some guy she dated had a problem with her dating other guys. They’re always the victim.
Uhhh How is that a lie by omission if you never bothered to discuss monogamy with him?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an expectation that a relationship is not a monogamous one until you both mutually agree to make it so and it can very easily be seen based on how the relationship was described that he had a reasonable expectation that you knew it was non monogamous and were fine with that.
It is one thing if they other person is actively concealing the fact that they are seeing other people but if monogamy is important to you and you don’t bother to bring it up and discuss it then it is all on you, not the other person.
the so-called beauty boys phenomenon
Which reminds me- in addition to the “rainbow family” phenomenon currently all the rage in teevee advertising (one might suspect interracial marriage is the norm, so common has it become in teevee adland), I have been seeing commercials in which teenage boys are obviously, unquestionably wearing makeup. Is this merely shabby work by the production company’s makeup artists, or is it another front in the war on normalcy?
Joe Buck approves.
One more sports update: http://www.cricket.com.au/news/match-report/australia-england-first-ashes-test-day-five-gabba-live-stream-scores-highlights-warner-bancroft/2017-11-27
Cricket? What’s that?
A small insect similar to a grasshopper that is used to feed small reptiles. Known for making annoying noises with its hind legs.
Crikkit is an isolated planet incapable of dealing with the rest of the galaxy’s shit that went on the most muderous pogrom ever recorded.
Oh, you meant cricket…that’s a rather tasteless game inspired by the Crikkiters weapon of choice.
I’m pretty sure that people who don’t know much about cricket miss a number of jokes in that book.
Krikkit.
*Activates SEP field*
It’s a cell phone service carrier.
*narrows gaze*
ODI or GTFO.
Test cricket is more boring than watching the Sunday talk shows.
ODI got too predictable for some people which led to T20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20
The most recent Indian Premier League rights went for $2.25 billion for 5 years.
Test drinking game: buy a round whenever a wicket is taken. You may go hours between drinks or be slamming them left and right.
Unrelated: Paul Johnson in trouble at Tech?
No.
Longer reply: Even if he was, this isn’t the year to make a move.
The new AD (which would normally mean a possible issue) played at Tech. He understands the realities. He also understands how bad things can be, as he played on some bad teams, IIRC.
A season of what could have been (we absolutely had 3 more games won) isn’t going to be the last straw.
Weird floppy door ‘proves’ the Space Station is a fraud and it’s actually parked on Earth
Oh come one no one can reasonably believe the space station is real
Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.
Most. Qualified. Candidate. Ever.
Exactly. This is one of the numerous things I bring up when people would tell me that she has a “lifetime of public service”.
Also, “service” – can we ditch that word? It’s not like she spent her career deployed to a war-torn country where she ate shitty food, suffered in 120 degree heat, and dodged IEDs on the road. She became really fucking rich and enjoys virtual immunity from the laws of this country.
She does have a lifetime of public service, the public has served her for many years.
She “serviced” her constituency like a bull services cows…
She meant well…
So did Stalin, and what thanks does the guy get? History is not kind to good people
Mao did some good things. It’s nuanced.
As one person explained to me once.
If it weren’t for those goddamn sparrows he would have succeed too
I mean, “the Communist revolution taught Chinese women to dream big.”
Plus the sex was better
The mere fact that the Security could be watching made it a lot kinkier
They seem to have sorted out the Wikipedia page on the Great Leap Forward. It used to try and give the impression that there was division amongst historians about whether it was a success or not.
It all depends on what one means by “success”.
Huh. That page was edited in the last week or so. I remember quoting something from it on Glibertarians a few weeks back which claimed the GLF helped Chinese economic growth.
I mean, I suppose if they consulted and added Marxist historians to it you *could* paint it that way.
What difference does it make at this point?
Gadhafi was a piece of shit, but at least dropping a couple of bombs on his tent taught him to keep his crap in his own country. He wasn’t a good neighbor, but at least he got the message to stay on his own lawn…and he did.
We have the problems today with the Norks and Iran specifically because after we got Qaddafi to quit his WMD programs because of what was done to Saddam, team Obama ordered his ass murdered, by request, because he had told the Europeans he was going to sell his oil to the Chinese instead. I can’t blame them for learning that you can’t trust people like Bush, Clinton Any of them), or Obama (yes, even the Wookie).
So, business as usual. What that doesnt say is that things have gotten a lot worse in North Africa than just slavery.
I blame Europe really. They should send ships for the refugees so they would not be at risk from traffickers.
And by they I mean not Romania. But Germany Sweden etc
Pie is the ultimate NIMBY
Some Arab Spring this turned out to be!
The obscure subculture of furries has a problem with neo-Nazis
So we’ll be hearing about furry rights next?
Nazi furries has been a thing for a while. Well before well-known Nazi Donald Trump seized power.
became a target for the group after calling them bigots and fascists on social media.
Funny how that works.
People used to believe in ‘spermatorrhea’: the idea that masturbation physically weakened men
https://inews.co.uk/distractions/people-used-believe-spermatorrhea-idea-masturbation-physically-weakened-men/
you may love women but you must deny them your essence
No sax before a fight.
In other sports news, the search for Tennessee’s next head football coach has turned into a shitshow.
In the history of shitty buccaneers coaches he was especially turdy. In fact there were video billboards running “Fire Schiano” towards the end…unless we’re talking a different Schiano
No the same one, I don’t know if he is a good coach, he did all right at Rutgers and is doing okay as a defensive coordinator at tOSU. But if you read the articles his connection to the Penn State mess is peripheral at best. I think many of the Tennessee fans wanted someone else (Jon Gruden) and used the Penn State connection to get him out.
Meh, right answer wrong reason
“he did all right at Rutgers”
“all right” is an understatement. I don’t think people have an appreciation for how bad Rutgers was before he took over.
Schiano would have been a phenomenal hire for Tennessee. It’s their loss.
I will say this though: In 2014, I was in State College, PA (I have a lot of friends up there and have always followed the Sandusky saga closely), and a friend and I were talking at length about how it was very weird how Schiano had escaped any scrutiny to that point given how close he was with Sandusky. In the words of my townie friend, “If any single coach would have known, it would have been Greg. Not Tom (Bradley), not Fran (Ganter). Not Joe (Paterno). Schiano was Sandusky’s protege. When he took the Rutgers job, Jerry no doubt had to be at the top of Greg’s list for DC/AHC. Even though he “retired” from PSU, Jerry still wanted to coach (he interviewed for the UVa job around that time, but was passed up for Al Groh). Two months after Schiano takes the Rutgers job, the infamous 2001 Shower incident occurs. Jerry goes from interviewing for head coaching jobs at major conference schools, to not coaching at all. Not even with his protege just a few hours away”.
Now, that’s still not enough for me to implicate Schiano, but I would like him to answer some questions. That being said, the Tennessee mob is not revolting because of his Sandusky ties. They’re revolting because they don’t like the hire from a football standpoint (which is ridiculous). And it’s disgusting to see the mob come out on top.
I assumed that both Tampa Bay and Ohio State did their own investigations and found nothing that appeared to truly implicate Schiano.
So after nerdy fight in Gamergate and the Hugos we have a supernerd fight
Christine Sprankle quitting Magic cosplay due to a barrage of toxic harassment
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/7fb3iz/christine_sprankle_quitting_magic_cosplay_due_to/
I assume you had to grow up with it but I don’t get magic the gathering and similar card gamers
Looking at instagram Christine Sprankle seems fairly easy on the eyes at least
Oh, yeah, because looking at her pictures, the first thing I get is someone who doesn’t want to be sexualized.
Sorry, but this is getting to the point of catering to women’s irrationality. If you draw attention to your sexuality, people are going to notice your sexuality. All people. Not just the ones you want to sexually attract. If they don’t actually do anything beyond looking or commenting, you really don’t have a legitimate complaint.
Holy shit man, those rules…
So you’re not allowed to point out that not all Magic players are guilty of or complicit in harassment?
The other night, I was watching an old movie, and at one point, a woman sticks what appears to be a full size k frame Smith&Wesson revolver in her purse, tucks it under her arm, and sashays out the door. My mind, such as it is, promptly expelled the following imaginary scene.
*Woman rises, leaving purse on table*
*Man gallantly attempts to scoop up unexpectedly weighty purse, which falls back onto table with a thud*
Man: “Geez, Honey whatcha got in there, a brick?”
Ancient Helmet-Wearing Wormy Creature Was Covered in ‘Cocktail Sticks’
What ignorant fool is calling that “Bizarre”? Among sea creatures that’s pretty mundane.
Ancient Helmet-Wearing Wormy Creature Was Covered in ‘Cocktail Sticks’ – these terms are a bit to scientific for me
It was a spined exoskeletal invertibrate.
“It’s only about 0.7 inches (20 centimeters) long and 0.1 inches (3 millimeters) wide, ”
*Rubs eyes and looks again*
Whut?
Also, these guys have never seen a porcupine?
*The single most significant factor that increased quality of life and life expectancy for humans was/is the widespread use of indoor plumbing and sewer treatment.
I am steadfastly certain the single greatest invention in the history of mankind is indoor plumbing.
Indoor plumbing is for heathens
– Deuteronomy 23
I think that a lot of the old testament laws were written in there because it was a good idea. Keeping your camp sanitary is a very important thing. It’s easier to get your men to do if you can get god to command them to do so.
I think the prohibition of pork stems from the same train of thought. People several thousand years ago didn’t understand that to keep from getting sick from eating pork, it had to be thoroughly cooked. It was probably for the best that God just command everyone to not eat pork.
Whether you believe they were handed down by god or not, and withholding judgment of their utility in a modern society, the old Hebrew laws did a pretty serviceable job resolving a whole host of problems a nomadic people encamped in the desert might have encountered 5,000 years ago.
Indoor plumbing or antibiotics. Not sure which one has saved more lives, but they are both highly signifigant.
Antibiotics treat disease, Indoor plumbing prevents disease. One could be counted, the other will always be unknown.
Not so much indoor plumbing as regular access to clean water but yeah it is the water more than the meds. Human life spans have increased by about 40 years in the last century and clean drinking water is responsible for about 30 of those 40 years
Or you know metallurgy. Hard to focus on indoor plumbing in the stone age
Agriculture, hands down, gotta farm to be able to live in one place long enough to do any of the other stuff.
I dunno. I kind of like all this pants shitting going on.
Your certainty is well founded Brooks.
Nice try guys. #1 is indoor plumbing by a mile. #2 is refrigeration/air conditioning by a mile. #3 – water treatment. Antibiotics are way down on the list. Modern medicine thinks it is the shit, but it aint.
*little known fact: before automobiles every family had at least one tombstone or an imbecile due to being kicked by a horse
Refrigeration requires metal
I do agree that metallurgy is pretty significant just because of the huge array of things that couldn’t have happened with out it. Railroads, automobiles, and steamships come to mind. Not to mention firearms, which, for all the blame they incur for causing violence, actually allow people to defend themselves irrespective of physical strength.
The Romans had metal
You may be right, but a counterpoint is that the black plague that killed half of Europe, pushed the continent into the dark ages and probably stalled the enlightenment and the industrial revolution by several hundred year, would have been an easily treatable bacterial infection that would have never taken off like it did with an available supply of penicillin.
Also, it’s an H&R handy rifle. Single shot break action with a bull barrel.
You made my day with that photo. That is one happy, proud kid. Kudos to you Lachowsky. How old is he? How many kids do you have? You said once before but I dont remember.
not for lack of trying, but I only have the one boy. He will be six in March.
Nope. The Black Death helped create the conditions for the modern world. By causing an intense labor shortage the black death led to the breakdown of feudal society and the end of serfdom. Pretty much all of Europe changed for the better after the plague. In many respects the English uprising of 1381 was the first attempt at a libertarian revolution.
That story about the Paraguayan murder is fucked up.
Back to work after a holiday weekend, *sigh*. Only tits can fix this.
http://archive.is/NHfLC
If anyone doesn’t say 3, they are a communist.
3 and 4
41 is the bunny boiler
30 will kill all of your pets.
I had considered her. 32 also looks a little worrisome.
She’ll just wreck your car.
why do women with great eyes, like 41, fuck them up with gross makeup?
That’s a very good question. If it wasn’t for that make-up, she probably wouldn’t look so crazy.
Hola, Q!
I’m a commie, then, because I choose 37.
Q is the kind of guy who would claim the power to fairly re-distribute tits to unlucky women and then use the power to give massive tits to a minority of apparatchiks. Textbook commie Q is
As long as the apparatchiks live in my house and walk around in lingerie and high heels all the time, sounds pretty good to me.
No reason to limit yourself, you can have 3 and 37.
You can’t pick a picture with more than one. It is cheating. Like communists do.
I’m just trying to *undo* the cheating of the boobapitalists.
#33 is porn star Noelle Easton.
The correct answer is orgy.
Back to work after a holiday weekend, *sigh*. Only tits can fix this.
You know, this might be a problem even tits can’t fix. Off to the office.
I’ll take #3 for a million dollars
Surgery leaves woman ‘drowning in her own poo’
Another NHS success story!
Hey, if she’d been in America she wouldn’t have even received a botched surgery because she would’ve had to sell her house and car just to afford it!
South Park already did it.
I’m curious about something. In the US, if a doctor fucks up your surgery like that, you can at least sue him for malpractice. What’s your recourse in the UK?
Your recourse? Sitting in hospital for 11 weeks in agonizing pain while your chest cavity fills with shit.
You really expect any government run entity to hold people working under it accountable?
What the fuck? Did he re-route her sigmoid colon to her lungs or something??
She was supposed to be the head of a Human Centipede?
NARROW GAZE
Dropping Traffic Rules and Signs Would Make Us Safer
Since traffic laws are about shakedowns, not safety, I don’t see anything changing anytime soon.
Look sir, your taillight was out, which means I can kill you if I do judge it necessary.
FloridaMan rolls his eyes at the absurd notion of traffic regulations
Let me postulate a scenario.
You have an intersection. On a normal day it is contolled by a signal light it has X accidents per year as a normal rate.
During a system failure the light stop working. Due to government bureaucracy, it takes a while for the light to be repaired. During the span, people approach the intersection mor cautiously, and the accident rate drops. Someone points to this lowered accident rate and says “see, we’d be better off without a light”*. What actually happened was the status quo was disrupted, so drivers began paying more attention to the circumstances around them. If unsignalled became the new norm, the accident rate would either return to X or raise to Y as the layout of the intersection was predicated on the traffic control mechanisms that had since been removed.
A lasseiz faire traffic control methodology would not be safer, though the enforcement mechanism and ability of the locality to claim the resultant fines are points for debate. I’d say not to let the people or organization tasked with enforcing the rules get any of the revenues from it.
*this really happened.
“I’d say not to let the people or organization tasked with enforcing the rules get any of the revenues from it.”
So, you’re saying that creating a financial incentive for law enforcement is a bad idea? What’s wrong with you? You think cops would start going after people with money instead of people creating danger? That’s just crazy talk.
A town in Belgium removes all lines and signs and their roads became safer.
Its only 1 data point, but its one more than your theory has.
Bohmte, Gemany as well.
How many years out did they follow the town? Last I heard they’d declared victory a short span after the radical change would have heightened drivers’ awareness, and no mention of accident rates after complacency set back in.
There’s also the day care in NZ (?) that eliminated almost all the rules from their play ground. The kids wound up behaving much better.
The kids can actually work things out because they can communicate. Drivers have only horns and vehicular motion to express intent.
(Do not assume I can see you gesturing behind your glare-washed windshield)
*sometimes turn signals, but their use is seen as an Insult in New York.
If it’s Atlanta you just blast right through that motherfucker without even slowing down.
I refer to someone who turns right from the far left lane to a right side exit as an “Atlanta dismount.”
Anecdotally, Superstorm Sandy caused us to lose electricity here in Rockaway Beach for about 22 days. The situation played out exactly like that – everyone was driving more cautiously and being far more alert/vigilant than they had been. All lighted intersections became 4 way stops with people making eye-contact and smiling; it was quite nice. Now, 5 years on, we are all back to stabbing each other in the neck to gain a car-length of space as we all try to avoid the attention of road-pirates giddy over our mayor’s ridiculously reduced city-wide speed limit.
“stabbing each other in the neck to gain a car-length of space ”
What state are you in, that sounds like normal traffic every day here in MD. Disobeying every traffic law and cutting people off in traffic is the official state sport here.
If we did this with simple street signs and some traffic lights, the lessers might get some other crazy ideas about making decisions for themselves.
Got pulled over on Thursday for the first time in about 15 years.
Got off with a warning. Not sure why exactly, but I am not complaining.
Cleavage. Duh.
Fussy baby may have been the reason.
If your speed limit changes from 55 to 45 to 30 and nothing else about the road changes, your design is wrong. A 30 mph road should require clear recklessness to drive 55 on it.
I wish they would police recklessness and not speed. If I’m doing 65 in a 55 that’s smooth and straight as an arrow and the only car on the road, how is that a problem?
They need the money..
Anecdotally, my experience comports with that. I’m comparing Baltimore/DC area with the Cleveland area, so there may of course be other variables involved.
The better maintained and signed the roads in an area, the worse the drivers are. Maryland drivers are total idiots/assholes. Conversely, when you are frequently left to your own devices to figure out how to get around, you are inclined to be more attentive and courteous. Cleveland drivers were smarter and friendlier by a long mile.
And, contra UCS, this was not due to any sudden change in the rules. The roads in Cleveland have been a crazy mess, poorly maintained, with paltry signage, for a long time. Indeed, the most recently renovated roads in Cleveland were the most troublesome (although, that may have been due to volume or “progressive” design).
Damn… I think this is the first time I’ve read something nice about Ohio drivers, let alone Cleveland drivers. My personal favorite is that certain roads are known by names that there’s no signage to support. For example, the Jennings Freeway is route 176, and is never signed as Jennings except for the first exit. Yet the local news stations will still refer to it as the Jennings Freeway on the reports.
In that vein, I never once saw a sign for I-90 that said “Shoreway” on it but that’s what a lot of people called it.
That’s because a small segment of the 90/2 corridor was named the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway a while back. There is also a dividing line in how the Eastside and Westside of the city deal with snow on their roads. The Eastside will keep the roads clean, and if drivers get stuck in a snowstorm, they (mostly) form a phalanx like formation on the freeway. Everyone will go about the same speed, and give clearance. The Westside prefers to leave about 1/2 inch of hard packed snow on the roads, and the drivers continue to attempt to weave in and out of traffic, while always being surprised that it takes a longer distance to stop on ice and snow.
That might (in part) explain my experiences. I was only ever on the East side of the city (Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, Beachwood, East Cleveland, Bratenahl), although I did go downtown a lot (not in the winter, though).
And replaced with Tullock spikes?
Yes, because a lot of that stuff was designed to speed traffic.
If you haven’t seen it already, watch Black Mirror. Fucking brilliant, especially “Nosedive” in season 3, best critique of social media I’ve ever seen. That is an amazing show.
Just in case you didn’t know, you can grab the ringtones from that episode for your phone. I can’t wait for the fourth season to come out.
I liked the one with the memory recall and the guy suspects an affair. Nosedive was pretty good though.
I shut down an oil pipeline – because climate change is a ticking bomb
Emily Johnston
Normal methods of political action and protest are simply not working. If we don’t reduce emissions boldly and fast, that’s genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/24/oil-pipeline-valve-turner-protest-climate-change
Wait so if I decide normal methods do not work for my pet project I can do whatever I feel necessary? Intriguing
I think a lot of the fringe minority whackos embracing the whole “might makes right” ethos will be pretty fucking disappointed if the rest of society suddenly starts agreeing with them.
if Jhoon Rhee taught me anything.. it’s MIGHT FOR RIGHT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=n7PEMGuA6tw
Punch a Nazi.
Hello.
/slap!
Whites are moving back to Inglewood. There goes our neighborhood.
White people are the white people of…uh…
LA?
It’s bad when whites move out, it’s bad when whites move in. Maybe the whites should just buy some secluded land out west and live by themselves. Just stay in there little place and leave everyone alone and be left alone. A secluded area would work. somewhere like ruby ridge would be ideal.
You know who else wanted to displace ethnic minorities?
Just about any neighbor I had?
Robert Moses?
Winnie Mandela?
FDR?
Gargamel?
White folks abandoned Inglewood, and now they’re coming back with no memory or acknowledgment of all that, expecting neighborliness?
There you have it. The collectivism so central to the SJW mindset in full display. She probably never lived in that neighborhood. But she’s supposed to have memory and guilt for the decisions of other members of her tribe.
Naturally, you’d be met with fire and brimstone if you insinuated that black people share responsibility for bad things that black criminals do… But apparently, wypipo are a monolith and act as one.
Hmm, this almost sounds exactly like the sort of attitudes racist white people living in the cities from the late 1800s to the 1960s had about non-whites moving into their communities. But no, that was totally different, and we shouldn’t let such obvious comparisons interfere with our biases, because feels.
Does the article refer to him as a segregationalist?
Uffda.
Looks like Al Franken is planning on sticking around. I think he is in bigger trouble than I suspected earlier. The reporter in this interview didn’t let him get away with his non-apology. When you lose the journalos, you are in deep shit.
* I saw on a different story that Franken intends to focus on Net Neutrality. Oh goody.
It’s the Elon Musk gambit.
“Look, a squirrel!!”
I will continue to do the exact thing I’ve been doing in the senate because that is the only way I can make it up to you womens.
More groping?
“I understand that I have a different recollection,” Franken said.
Just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it
“When you lose the journalos.”
From the small amount of attention I’ve been paying to all this, it seems the left/media think they’re going to be able to get Trump to resign and/or be impeached over sexual misconduct in his past. Franken et al are going to be collateral damage as part of that crusade. It’s also why Yglesias published that column denouncing his failure to denounce Clinton in the 1990s.
I guess they just need to work out the part where they get actual credible evidence of Trump’s alleged misconduct.
But, we have him on tape admitting to grabbing women without consent!
/prog
Fuckin’ sycophants, how do they work???
Nah, Franken will be just fine, he’s a Democrat, they have good intentions always so it doesn’t count.
Normal methods of political action and protest are simply not working. If we don’t reduce emissions boldly and fast, that’s genocide
“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
“Wait- what?!”
Good morning, Glibs! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I got to spend the entire holiday and weekend with my ultra woke in-laws. No need for concern – I survived as is evidenced by me typing this to you right now.
My dad told my Uber prog cousin that HRC should be in prison thanksgiving night. It was pretty funny.
Did they survive?
Like all other oppressed and marginalized peoples struggling beneath the heel of the white cis-hetero colonialist patriarchy, they’re miraculously still with us.
My mom tried ranting about Trump pre-dinner. I put on headphones and ignored her.
I did not think I’d still be drowning in prog tears and having to defend that piece of shit Trump a year into his presidency. Now I know I’ll be doing it for all 8 years of his Presidency.
Tell her side needs to get their shit together or 4 more years
I don’t ever defend him; especially in situations like that. I just coyly smile and explain to them that the beatings will continue until their behavior which got us here changes.
I guess I don’t defend him, but I do try to correct inaccuracies. And there are … lots of those.
Are you saying Trump didn’t actually rape and kill a girl in 1990?
Mine were strangely quiet about Trump this time around aside from an off-handed mention of Roy Moore. I think they’re still licking their wounds a year later and are still unable to figure out what the fuck exactly happened. For being seniors with absolutely no working knowledge of anything technology related though, they sure did have some strong feelings about “net neutrality”.
Wait. Were you at my in-laws yesterday afternoon?
Every Thanksgiving, what I’m most thankful for is that my family almost never talks politics.
More Military Savvy Glibs, I have a question of opinion.
Within the Tarnished Sterling universe, powered individuals are quite naturally weaponized for purposes of war. My thought was that being such rare (or sometimes unique) attributes, they would be indicted through some form of Direct Commission program. But since these abilities do not require the same level of educational attainment as existing DCO programs, I’m left wondering what pay grade these sorts of individuals would be recruited at, or how it might be determined if a sliding scale is more appropriate.
Typically a direct commission is reserved for professionals who are trained in non-traditional military jobs, (doctor, lawyer, dentist). For my understanding, I think giving them (the powered individuals) a warrant make sense as some type of knowledge/skill specialist, rather than I direct commission.
While I see the rationale, this also poses a minor quandry. I’ve been basing the structure of ATOM (the military organization the story actually deals with) on the Air Force – which doesn’t use warrent officers anymore (Despite them still technically being legal).
Keep in mind that the organization of the military changes based on the perceived requirements. The most significant changes that have occurred in the real world have been the 1947 National Security Act which created the U.S. Air Force, and the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act that enforced “jointness” on all the services. Then you have your yearly NDAAs that fiddle with things in the margins. Some legislation of this sort would have been involved in creating and maintaining ATOM, and would likely have evolved over time as threats evolved. Modification of the Selective Service Act would probably have been the vehicle for drafting super-humans in the U.S.
One of the “quibbles” that lead to the plot of the story I’m working on is that the separate legislation (the “Powered Service Act”) did not get shut down when the mainstream draft did, so it was still possible for the military to draft powered individuals as they are “non-substitutable” personnel. What I’ve been trying to figure out is reasonable rank for the person after induction. While I may debate points raised, it’s to gain a better understanding abd breadth of information while I contemplate.
The problem of a small subclass of conscripts in an otherwise volunteer force is one of the themes I’ve been wreslting with and the question came to mind regarding what kind of concessions might have been made to retain the ability to compell service of powered individuals after the general draft was ended.
1LT (O-2) for first 6 months, then to CPT (O-3).
What were the thought processes that led to that? (not questioning the recommendation, but the reasoning can be illuminating, or at least interesting)
CPT America, ftw!
It sounds like you are wrestling with finding a process that makes sense, which is understandable. What would work in real life? I think the problem with super-powered individuals that differentiates from real-world incidents of drafting doctors and lawyers is that some of these ‘supes’ are going to be corn-pone, barely-able-to-read, farmboys. If you make them officers, that is likely to piss some people off; particularly those who have paid their dues in the regular military system.
I think it’s the issue of command and control that you need to address. People can understand making someone who has undergone many years of schooling like a doctor or lawyer an officer, as those professions have a certain gravitas. Most would not object over-much to taking orders from folks like that, though some still would. When someone is put in a command position for no better reason that they can fly, or shoot laser-beams out of their ass, you’re going to have a problem.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that, say, a medical corps DCO was only able to give orders to other members of that sub-organization, and would not be in charge in a firefight, ie, if you had a Captain Doctor and a regular Lieutenant in a combat zone, the Lt would be giving the orders to the soldiers and the Doctor would be keeping his mouth shut in regards to fighting.
The problem is that capes are going to be in combat on a regular basis, doctors are not. In many ways, they are more like sentient weapons than soldiers. How do you deal with that in a rank structure? What happens when a “normal” office gives an order to someone with seemingly godlike power that that person doesn’t like? This is why the rules for command and control need to be very carefully considered. Insubordination would need to be ruthlessly punished, or all would fall apart very quickly. You could write an entire book just about the problems this would entail.
But black people in particular will feel the sting. We will be out not just apartments and homes we can afford to rent or pay the mortgage on. We will lose our space, our place.
Whitey be thievin.
Um, if you own the house (ie, paying the mortgage on it), you get to sell at a profit when the neighborhood gentrifies. Homeowners benefit from rising property values if they’re willing to move.
Yeah, and under CA’s property tax system, they can’t be driven out by escalating home values pushing their taxes so high they can’t pay them.
They’re blaming people for buying homes from willing sellers who will make so much money they can move out of that shithole neighborhood.
Should I report sexual harassment if I then slept with the man?
A reader wonders whether she should call out a senior staff member who pestered her inappropriately, before they had a relationship
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/26/should-i-report-sexual-harassment-if-i-then-slept-with-the-man
Should I report sexual harassment I received even though I later had a sexual relationship with the harasser? Years ago I worked as a volunteer for a political party and while showing me some work on a computer, a senior staff member repeatedly touched my knee. He said sorry, and then did it again, about seven times. He finished by saying: “I’ll need to report myself for sexual harassment now.”
At the time I laughed as I was really not sure how else I could respond. Months after I split from my husband, the harasser started to pursue me, giving me the attention I had been so lacking. Vulnerable, emotional and drinking too much, I started a relationship with him. I also used him for a job reference, and have his glowing praise for my work on my LinkedIn profile.
I was an adult who made poor decisions, but with the stories in the press I wonder if I should report his behaviour. Or have I invalidated the harassment, and let women down, by sleeping with my harasser and using him for a job reference? I know I will get abuse for this.
Ask yourself what would ZARDOZ do?
Many years ago, I had a female co-worker who is pretty attractive. Her husband was some *douchebag of attorney who apparently pursued his wife-to-be non-stop, even though she didn’t like him at first. But he was unrelenting – or at least that’s how I heard it – until she “gave in”. Harassment? Hard to get? I dunno.
*one of those people I instantly disliked upon meeting at a holiday party.
ZARDOZ would be pleased as this insanity will keep Brutals from reproducing.
Maybe you should stop being pathetic first.
What’s going to happen if this hysteria continues unabated is that people are just going to stop interacting with each other, period. Creators of AI companions and sexbots will become the super rich elite ruling class. Everyone else will live in small units with internet access and their AI companions/sexbots and never venture outside for anything ever out of for fear of meeting another actual homo sapien.
You’ve just written a dystopian YA novel. Congratulations. However, it’s not sufficiently woke enough so the SJW reviewers will tear you a new one and you’ll never write in this town again!
” Vulnerable, emotional and drinking too much”
This is the title of my autobiography — available out of the trunk of my Cutlass Ciera.
Which Europeans Carry The Most Cash?
I usually have at least 10k on me. Just in case.
what good are ten kopeks? Are Romanian cops that cheap?
I assumed that “K” meant he was a mule.
It’s rare that I ever have cash in my wallet – only if I’m on vacation or going to a record store / show. If I do have money, it “mysteriously” disappears.
Wife: Do you have $2 to pay for (((object)))
Me: ::Hands over $20 bill:: And I never see the change.
You buy Jews?
Everything is Jewish owned – duh.
Hmmmm, yes, I believe I read something along those lines in a comment at Zero Hedge recently….
Small contractors in the concrete and masonry business almost always carry large wads of cash.
*readies ski mask and tire iron*
European=Eurozone. Always an interesting conflation.
I typically try to keep around $40 on me, just in case. Almost never actually use it.
I get itchy when I have less than $100 cash in my wallet, and less than [redacted] cash in the safe.
Breitbart seems the only media outlet willing to pick at the story of the Roy Moore accusers. While I take their stories with a grain if salt, this is really specific details on how Moore represented Johnson’s mother against her is a child custody case in 1991.
If you question their motives, you’re a rape denier.
Menses Rhea?
LOL
*throws copy of Black’s Law Dictionary*
It wouldn’t surprise me if it all turned out to be bullshit.
The thing is that it doesn’t really matter. Whatever hurts the cause is hurtful.
My cause is mostly about cutting taxes and entitlements.
To whatever extent Roy Moore being associated with Team Red hurts that cause, he’s a liability–regardless of whether it’s fair to him personally.
I don’t really care about the personal lives or interests of politicians–certainly not as much as I care about cutting taxes and entitlements.
Whatever hurts the cause is hurtful.
My cause is mostly about cutting taxes and entitlements.
What if your cause would be hurt more by enabling the destruction of any candidate opposed to cutting taxes and entitlements with nothing more than bullshit, obviously politically motivated accusations?
To whatever extent Roy Moore being associated with Team Red hurts that cause, he’s a liability–regardless of whether it’s fair to him personally.
And you think they’ll be satisfied with Roy Moore’s scalp. HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
What RC and wdalasio said. If they can win with this tactic, they keep employing it.
Umm, so it would actually be better to throw the race to the Democrat than having someone accused of something? This is why the Republicans don’t just make the Democrats a permanent minority party, because the Democrats have no such concerns, it’s just about winning by any means.
Dinesh D’Souza has gone on about this on Twitter a fair amount. I know he retweeted someone else’s series of tweets going into pretty good detail on why all these accusations are rather, fishy. Ah, here it is. https://twitter.com/ThomasWictor/status/931408112866574336
I don’t know if Moore is guilty or not, but I do find this bit of it rather striking:
That does seem extremely odd.
Nah, there’s nothing weird at all about these allegations of things happening 40 years ago surfacing right before an important election when the Democrats are so desperate for any sort of win.
The yearbook thing is clearly a forgery – the morons actually used the initials of his assistant when they lifted the signature.
Wait…what?
True fact. The yearbook “autograph” was followed by a slash and the initials “DA”. He had an assistant with those initials, who used them (properly) to indicate which documents she signed on his behalf. They looked at a document she signed, and used that signature complete with her initials.
well that’s just fucking pathetic.
i really hope Allred had a hand in that forgery.
What’s really sad is that any competent attorney should recognize the initials after the name as what they are – somebody signing on behalf.
And here’s the thing that bothers me. What if he is innocent? What if his only “crime” is being sort of creepy? What happens then? Is anyone going to apologize? Is anyone going to volunteer to help this guy get his reputation back? Is anyone going to experience any negative consequences whatsoever for destroying his reputation?
Has anyone apologized for the fake accusations against Trump last year? Clarence Thomas? Ray “where do I go to get me reputation back” Donovan?
Clarence Thomas?
What did he say?
Nothing, but the left sure made up a ton of bullshit that never got proven..
“What if he is innocent? ”
Doesn’t matter, the left have their plan. And it goes like this:
Accuse every Republican or non-leftist known to the public, of sexual harassment. The truth of the accusation matters not even in the slightest. Now they’ve realized this mass hysteria is going to hit many of their own. That’s also not important in any way. There are 3 methods to handle that. 1. Throw useless cog under bus. 2. Defend and deny. 3. Have useless cog apologize and go to treatment for a week, problem solved. Note that none of those 3 things will work for the unbleevers.
I hear people saying “Russia hacked the election” as if it’s a proven fact, when it is the exact opposite. I’m sure the same people will casually refer to Roy Moore as a pedophile for the rest of his life no matter how thoroughly his accusers are discredited.
He can get out of it by switching to Democrat. That’s the only way.
Does it help if he was a Democrat at the time he was creeping on teenagers? Because he was, you know.
No, that doesn’t count. If it was the other way around, it would count.
Accuse every Republican or non-leftist known to the public, of sexual harassment. The truth of the accusation matters not even in the slightest.
I get your point. The thing I don’t get is why so many Republicans, and even libertarians (TOS comes to mind), who are supposed to know better, are willing to go along with it. Don’t they realize they’re on the list?
They go along with it because they are narrowminded and shortsighted. Right now its being used against someone they hate, and that’s good enough for them. They are unfamiliar with the stone cold realities of the Iron Laws:
You get more of what you reward . . .
Me today, you tomorrow.
I think the Republicans that are going along, like Ryan, McCain, etc, have almost as bad a case of TDS as the left. Establishment scum who are afraid their cushy little gigs are going to get torched.
Ask John McCain, whom thought he would get a fair shake from the dnc operatives with bylines because he so kissed their asses, and only ended up being called Hitler to make sure Black Jesus could win the election…..
Proper ranking of what’s currently on and should have been worth watching: Mr. Robot > Longmire > Stranger Things.
Longmire should be give a huge thumbs up for getting the end of the series right–the last season was just as strong as the others, and that’s rare.
In fact, most series fail as they try to wrap things up at the end–not Longmire. Great, fucking show. If Mr. Robot ends as well, I’ll be surprised. And so many shows have disappointed in recent seasons, I’d count the latest seasons of Game of Thrones, Rick and Morty, and Stranger Things as disappointments. The latest season of Mr. Robot started off badly, but the last three episodes were so freaking good, it made up for it. The episode three weeks ago may be the best episode of any show I’ve ever seen in my life.
This really is the golden age of television, with Vikings, Handmaiden’s Tale, Legion, and Westworld all knocking it out of the park, too. In the past, any one of these would have been the best thing on TV–now they’re all on at the same time. Golden age.
That being said, there may never be another show like Longmire. Although wildly successful in the ratings, it didn’t draw interest from Gen Y and later–which is what advertisers care about. It didn’t draw enough subscribers to NetFlix either, which is a shame. If you never watched it when it might have made a difference, does that mean you’re a sissy in a generation of sissies?
The correct answer is yes.
They might never stop making new episodes of Ancient Aliens, but Longmire is gone forever? I don’t suppose that’s a market failure. Without the market, we’d never have had Longmire to begin with. Longmire is evidence of a market triumph, that a show like that can get made–even amid a market that also wants Ancient Aliens.
market failure? really?
I called it a market triumph.
speaking of Vikings, I’m waiting anxiously for that Knights Templar series from The History Channel.
Chapter The First: In which we discover that Ken and l0b0t have diametrically opposed tastes in visual media.
Seriously though, I wholeheartedly agree that we’re currently experiencing a wonderful time for television content. My tastes run more towards shows like The Mick, The Detour (who knew Samantha Bee could be funny), Odd Mom Out, Ray Donovan, Letterkenny (Halloween special really hit the spot), etc. and I’m happy there is stuff for everyone.
IMPOSSIBLE!
U.K. Begins Another Gun Surrender Initiative Amid Increase in Gun Crime
In a country of 65 million? Color me unsurprised.
IOW, people owned 6000 guns that no longer work or that are no longer wanted, found easy way to dispose of them. I bet if you had a TV surrender program, you’d get more than 6000 old or broken TVs.
THIS time it will work!
Wait a second…..I’ve been assured that the UK legislated gun crime completely out of existence?
Because the people who volunteer to surrender their guns are the same people who would be shooting the joint up if they didn’t. It took the Brain of Britain to cook that up.
They’ve openly stated that they’ll check all surrendered weapons to see if they’ve been used in crimes (for which there will be no amnesty, obviously). Incentives, how do they work?
Wait… I was told there is NO gun crime in Europia. What the fuck is this?
Got pulled over on Thursday for the first time in about 15 years.
Got off with a warning. Not sure why exactly, but I am not complaining.
Whitey Privilege, duh.
Same here, about 2 years ago. Must have been the white privilege for sure.
have I invalidated the harassment, and let women down, by sleeping with my harasser and using him for a job reference?
Grow the fuck up and let it go.
Funny how after the fact guilt, caused likely because the dude dumped here after pumping her – and man, women sure as hell know how to convince themselves that the problem is always with others, and never them – always seems to motivate these types, huh?
By the way, nice musical selection Sloop!
Kinda sad that most of them are gone.
If those mean nasty Republicans repeal the individual mandate, their own states will be hardest hit! Those noble Democrats, always trying to help and save those stupid Republicans from themselves.
Individual choice is a foreign phrase to leftists. Maybe, just maybe, people would choose to live w/o health insurance rather than buy into an ACA plan. Maybe, just maybe, they perceive it as a net benefit for their situation.
You know damn well a lot / most young people will do exactly that. The exchanges will collapse and we’ll finally be rid of the scourge that is Obamacare. Then the Democrats will howl and screech and push for single payer, which they’ll never get. They can’t even pass that in commiefornia with 100% control of the state government.
The Iron Range is a region in Northern Minnesoda that is populated by Eastern Europeans. It was huge in mining a long time ago. Since mining has shrunk, us taxpayers have spent bazillions trying to “develop” the region. Now that mining has begun to ramp up again (for heavy metals used in phones/electronics) the region has begun to prosper again.
However, proving that you can spin stats any way you want, this story laments the tight job market in the range. Now that unemployment is at 4% on the Range, it is too hard for employers to get workers. They might even have to raise wages.
Journalist code language: OMG, Minnesotans’ lives are improving (partly) b/c of Trump’s deregulations. They need to stay on the prog plantation, quick!
Bingo.
“Wages are sort of driving the day,”
That’s what happens in a recovering economy.
I watched a few episodes of Longmire and quit because I thought it sucked. Annoying factual contradictions and inconsistencies regarding Wyoming/Montana geography. Stupid drug war story lines, crazy Miz Depitty Starbucks, whatever the fuck else gave me eyeroll-induced headaches…
YMMV
Longmire has threaded comments?
Watch Black Mirror. Seriously. It’s awesome.
I’ve watched it since the beginning and will probably watch the last season when it comes out. I thought it was OK, but the crux of long story running behind each ep was revealed at the end of last season. And it was soooo lame it will take a lot of the fun out of it.
Speaking of teevee- I noticed just recently another (unseen by me) season of The Americans has made it onto Amazon Prime, so I have that going for me.
If you’re referring to the last season, beware: it is SLOWWWWWWWWWWW. I wouldn’t say it was bad, but it definitely could have used a shot of adrenaline here and there. So much of it was spent setting up the end game in the final season.
I could just stare at Keri Russell for an hour and be satisfied.
The Keri Russell naked scenes are always greatly appreciated
Wait…wut?
You’ve been missing out.
Apparently I have
Big time…..fantastic body on her
Yeah, but aren’t you super excited for “the end game” now? 😉
And it still had some incredible moments. I mean, I’ve seen “Dyatkovo” multiple times now and it still tears my heart out even thinking about it. That’s also to the credit of the actors, who are all doing such incredible work on this show.
On a country by country basis, Germans tended to carry the most cash on average, €103.
I would have guessed Greeks.
Oh, no, the Greeks just take what they need out of the Germans’ pockets.
*opera applause*
Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. I usually unplug during holiday times, so hopefully I didn’t miss too much here. Our Thanksgiving was spent at my parents’ house, where all went well until my brother and brother-in-law (both Trump supporters) started a heated political discussion with my parents (both die hard Democrats). Mrs. The Other Kevin and I hid in another room and tried to stay out of harm’s way. But I did learn that the upturn in the economy was due to Obama, but my 12% increase in health insurance premiums 3 years running was somehow the fault of Trump messing with Obamacare. Also, there is only one sex scandal and it’s Moore. I have no idea where this information is coming from, but it’s coming from somewhere and it’s a bit scary.
No offense to your parents, but it seems they’ve been trained well. Seals don’t learn to clap all on their own.
If you get all of your news from Daily Kos, you too can be inoculated from any deviant thoughts bad for the TEAM.
I don’t think they get their news from the Internet. They watch CNN and MSNBC I think. Are CNN and MSNBC THAT bad?
Yes. No better than Pravda.
Pravda at least was not pretending to be independent from the state, and they tried hard enough not to lie so blatantly that it would be worthy of mockery. The dnc operatives with bylines on CNN and the other donkey news channels don’t care if they show how stupid or partisan they are.
Ever since Trump removed CNN’s mask last year? Yes, they are that bad. MSNBC are transparent sycophants.
Yes.
NPR. Where critical thinking skills go to die.
That’s gold, Jerry, GOLD!
I think AARP is involved too.
Welly welly well. It was raining, earlier.
Now, it’s snowing.
Where’s all this god damn “Global Warming” that 97% of scientists have been promising? I don’t want winter to be a thing anymore.
One more for Sloop.
http://ohiostateonline.com/gallery/Buckeye_Babe%5B1%5D.jpg
She’s gonna turn an ankle.
Would tackle head first
I would definitely get tossed for targeting.
Speaking (again) of teevee- I would seriously consider an a la carte subscription to NBC Sports Network, just for World Cup Skiing (hockey would be a bonus) but as far as I am aware, such an option is unavailable.
Once the sports networks figure out a profitable way to sell direct access, cable will be in trouble. I’d take NBCSN as well.
The networks are already offloading much of their content to streaming platforms. NBCSN used to show every English Premier e League match on cable. Now, they show less than half on cable (only!) and the majority on streams (only!). Fox Sports is doing something similar with Bundesliga matches.
For now, the future seems to mean paying both cable and streaming fees if you want the same content you used to get on cable. Progress!
Good point. My hope is that I will be able to buy streaming without having to get a cable package but that doesn’t seem likely in the near future. I figure part of this is the lesser clubs: the Big 6 in England could probably do quite well if they sold rights to their own games (a la Notre Dame) but teams like West Brom, Swansea, et. al. are much better off as part of the package deal.
I would have to buy something like a half-dozen streaming services to get what I get now, more conveniently, on cable. And I only see it getting worse as more content providers figure out where the money is.
Watch Black Mirror.
Me no have netflicks.
The first 2 seasons are available on DVD.
I’m guessing Netflix has no interest in releasing anything on DVD so I won’t be seeing any further seasons myself. Assholes.
something streaming something sites something illegal
I have no idea to what you are referring. None whatsoever. At all.
HE’S SAYING YOU SHOULD LOOK INTO STREAMING THE SHOWS YOU WANT FROM ILLEGAL WEBSITES
Is the link pic the entertainment for the next LNC?
European Union releases propaganda game, accidentally self-pwns: Taxlandia
Curse you zScalar – I can’t visit that site – what did they do exactly?
Okay, I found a cached version.
*snickers at EU*
I once had a prog tell me that there are good arguments for government squandering wealth to keep people from getting too wealthy. I pressed him about it and all I got was deflection. He never would tell me what those arguments were. I know what the reason is I just couldn’t get him to admit it.
I’m guessing they failed to define how wealthy was “too wealthy” and who the arbiter of that value was.
I have played that game before. How much is ‘fair share’? Give me a number. All you get it deflection and gibberish, never a number. It is the rationale of thieves.
This really is the worst. So many of them think that just being rich is a transgression that has to be punished, even if nobody was harmed or defrauded. They’re more concerned with punishing the rich than helping the poor.
Hmm, they give this:
as an example of games used as propaganda but that’s not really accurate. A game used internally by an armed force for training purposes is not propaganda. If you try to use it as a recruiting tool, or otherwise promote the military with the game, then yes, it’s propaganda. But just having soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines running around conducting mock exercises in a virtual environment does not in any way constitute propaganda.
The other day I had an interesting conversation with a union boilermaker. He is working on a natural gas power station right now. He said the union never explicitly tells its members who to vote for (which I found surprising), but last election they sent a letter stating that the workers in the union can’t afford to have another anti-coal president like Obama. I didn’t read Hillary’s book, so I wonder how many chapters she devoted to such topics?
Lost an important document and my wedding ring today. Goddammit, do I really need to find that document.
Fresh out of the Daily Kos kitchen: R.I.P. 1st Amendment
#resist #dotard #freeinternet #unity
JFK
Blown away
What else do I have to say?
As if the ISPs have any incentive to control content. It costs money to control content.
All this retarded crap started with some OCD geeks getting their bandwidth throttled while downloading gigabytes of porn because they were choking the data lines.
And copyrighted music, movies, TV shows, ….
The great boogeyman is that the ISPs are going to be involved with content creation and distribution, and then use their monopolistic control of the last mile to penalize other creators/distributors. That’s not entirely unfounded, e.g. Comcast merged with NBC/Universal, but it has not actually happened yet and has nothing to do with the FCC. The right answer is to have local municipalities enforce divestiture from content interests upon those companies they grant Internet service monopolies to, or to abolish such monopolies entirely. And that’s only if and when this becomes a problem, which it hasn’t.
Verizon with it’s go90 and purchase of Aol and Yahoo looking to be in the content business but as you say, so what. As long as there is competition, and there is heavy competition in that arena, consumers will be in the driver’s seat.
I get people’s apprehension about the situation, even if I do think it is overblown. But the FCC is not the place to address these concerns.
To clarify and explain why this hasn’t happened yet, despite the fact that people claim it has, let’s examine the Netflix-Comcast spat of a few years ago.
Comcast subscribers claimed Netflix was being throttled by Comcast.
Comcast responded that they were not intentionally throttling Netflix, but they were doing what was necessary to keep their traffic moving, and that they had finite bandwidth to Netflix’s data centers, which was being shared by all their subscribers.
Netflix’s proposed solution was to install caching proxy servers in Comcast’s regional operations centers, which would put the content closer to the end user and thus reduce the contention for the links between Comcast and Netflix. This is the “right answer” but it can be done multiple ways, and Comcast was hesitant to let Netflix install hardware and software that Comcast couldn’t control into their facilities.
Eventually, they found a solution, the details of which were not made public.
Of course, if Netflix hadn’t been running end-to-end encryption (not their fault really, the content providers demand it), then Comcast could have just cached their content without Netflix’s direct involvement. But that point is moot nowadays, since end-to-end encryption has become expected by everyone in order to thwart, or at least frustrate, spying. C’est la vie.
There was also the separate issue of improving the link between Netflix and Comcast. This is where the unrealistic notion of “peering” comes into play, and while technically unrelated to NN, is typically associated with it. Basically, the “old way” of doing things on the Internet was for large “backbone” networks on the Internet (the sort that deal in massive volumes of data, but don’t service end users) to “peer” with each other and agree to a mutually beneficial connection of their networks without money changing hands between them.
However, the peering model makes no sense for Comcast and Netflix. Comcast sends far less traffic to Netflix than Netflix sends to Comcast. This is of course due to Comcast’s customers streaming videos, which is a very asymmetric use of bandwidth. But, from Comcast’s perspective, Netflix (via their customers) was creating heavy load on Comcast’s networks without paying one red cent for it. They either want Netflix to pony up (a cost which gets passed on to the consumer, of course), or price Netflix access out separately to their own customers. Network maintenance, depreciation, and upgrades aren’t free, after all.
But this is probably the biggest sticking point for many NN advocates. They don’t want the price to differ based upon what is being used, and they don’t want heavy bandwidth sources like Netflix to have to pay “intermediaries” like Comcast (Netflix has its own ISP which is not Comcast). These same people with a nostalgic view of the Internet oddly don’t seem to have much appreciation for how “unfair” a flat pricing model is to low-bandwidth web sites and other services, i.e. the sort of things they claim are “just as important” as Netflix under the “net neutrality” model.
Basically, everybody wants to eat their cake and have it, too. Well, something’s gotta give, and under net neutrality, that something is quality.
Wouldn’t existing anti-trust laws prevent Comcast from slowing or blocking other content providers? If so, there is no need for the Net Neutrality Panic.
There have been complaints in Canada about various telco ISPs throttling VOIP traffic over their lines.
TL/DR
To understand the prog gibberish,
…there is a conspiracy b/t the KKKochs, FCC Commissioner Pai, and Sinclair Broadcasting to first deregulate, then buy up stations and magazines that were originally loyal to the prog cause. Then, they’re conspiring to “defeat free speech as we know it!” by destroying net neutrality.
What a long list and it’s amazing how I failed to find a single thing in there that is a threat to free speech. Yet no mention at all of actual threats to free speech, like universities all over the country shutting down opposing viewpoints, the PC doctrine, and antifa, etc. There really are alternate universes.
Free speech means no opposing viewpoints, only then can you be truly free.
The most derpastical thing in that list, in my opinion, is the one about mean ol Trump is going to stop a merger between two media giants to form a monopoly. Really? After all the screeching hysteria about BIG CORPORASHUNZ GONNA RUIN EVERYTHING!!!, they’re now saying that stopping a corporate monopoly is a threat? They have zero self awareness.
That’s because John Oliver has not warned about it.
And for some reason these idiots are freaked out over the loss of net neutrality, but not concerned at all over the merger of Time Warner, a major ISP, and AT&T, another major ISP and s content creator.
“the merger of Time Warner, a major ISP, and AT&T, another major ISP”
Keep in mind this is Time Warner the Media company, not the old Time Warner Cable who spun off from Time Warner years ago but inexplicably kept the TW name for years despite the horrible reputation and the fact that they had no relationship at all to their old parent company. The ISP was bought by Comcast a year or two ago and that merged company is now Spectrum. They have nothing to do with that merger which is why it should ultimately be approved.
It was Charter, not Comcast that bought TWC.
Correct. Thanks.
They don’t even know what net neutrality is. I mean, it has the word neutrality in it, so there must be something there about fairness, am I right? If not for this mysterious net neutrality, everything would be alt-right Nazi propaganda, nothing else would be allowed on the intertoobz.
Throttling, or charging more for, Netflix is practically the same thing as censoring political opinions. It is known.
“This opens the door for a wide range of actions by giant Internet Service Providers to control the content we see, the speed we see it, and the price we pay to see it.”
In other words publishers can decide what services they want to provide, what they publish and how much they charge for their services?
The horror.
Well, they claim ISPs are “public utilities” and thus subject to whatever regulation they/the government/bureaucrats deem fit.
The problem is that this very same attitude stifled innovation for 40+ years, when it was in the form of AT&T’s telephone monopoly created under the terms of it being a “public utility”.
The same people who benefited from an opening up of the marketplace post-Ma Bell are now clamoring for closing it up again.
“ISPs are “public utilities”
They aren’t.
Remember the old radio thing, what was that called? Anyway, it was some left wing stuff that apparently no one wanted to listen to, everyone was listening to Rush and other right wing radio. So the lefties got mad and demanded ‘fairness’. They haven’t changed, we need to listen to their bullshit even though every idea they’ve ever had turned into an unmitigated disaster.
You mean Air America? Hell, the entire reason that talk radio exists now is that the Fairness Doctrine got abolished back in 1987.
Yes, that’s it.
Honestly, their “fears” about corporate internet censorship strike me as a little hypocritical. These are the same assholes who were insisting that Facebook and Twitter had a moral obligation to “filter out fake news” and remove the platform from “purveyors of hate speech”. These were the same bastards who cheered when GoDaddy and Google removed the domain registration for the Daily Stormer. And now we’re supposed to believe that we should be worried that some players on the internet might do what they’ve been urging other players to do for a couple of years now?
Bingo
This isnt hard to figure out. Obama was for it, I’m agin’ it.
When you have a great idea or product, you don’t have to force it on people and eliminate all competition. This is proof positive that leftists are wrong/have always been wrong/will always be wrong, because their idea is shit.
They consider a remark from a comedian to be a noteworthy event all by itself. That should tell you all you need to know about the intellectual maturity of these people.
Oh god, they mentioned John Oliver AGAIN! What the fuck? Do they think that this political hack ass-clown is some kind of wise oracle??
1) He’s British, they’re all smart, listen to that accent
2) He wears glasses
3) He makes me laugh while saying things I agree with, he’s gotta be right
Don’t forget he went to Cambridge!!!!
They got their political advice from Jon Stewart for a decade. I was watching an episode when one of the high ranking Democrats was on explaining how great Obamacare would be as soon as passed. The person was just rambling off talking points and Stewart was just nodding and agreeing. The one point thrown out was ‘Children will get to stay on their parents health insurance until they’re 26.’ So Stewart just nods and says ‘Ok, that sounds like a good thing’, like he did with everything else. Yeah, ‘sounds like’, some really deep political analysis there, this is how shallow and lacking in thought and analysis the left are. It sounds good! Let’s do it!
I loved Stewart’s shtick where he would pontificate to his audience like a schoolmarm and then deflect any criticism of his fresh-from-the-white-house-press-secretary talking points by saying “It’s just a comedy show!”
“…John Oliver warns us…”
John Oliver is an English Literature graduate who has never had a proper job. You could replace him with almost any other Footlights comedian of his era with no variation in comic style or opinions expressed. He and all of his kind cover for their lack of erudition and life experience by sneering at people fractionally stupider than themselves. hating error more than they love the truth.
When given the chance to craft his own programme, he chose a format that took a particular subject each week, arrogating to himself the right to bloviate on that issue without any reputable comeback. This primarily suggests a lack of understanding of how complicated life is. If you can reduce an issue to a one-sided monologue, you’ve probably either misunderstood it or it was too trivial to bother focusing on in the first place.
Progs think he’s smart because he’s got an English accent. That is how deep the thought process is.
It’s a really weird accent. Sounds like one of the vampires on Buffy the Vampire Slayer – i.e., an American trying to sound like a Scouser.
It’s funny – I remember watching Green Street with an Englishman. I couldn’t pick up on any of this, but he thought Charlie Hunnam’s accent was weird for the same reason. He thought it was hilarious that an actual Englishman sounded more like a Yank trying to sound English.
He and all of his kind cover for their lack of erudition and life experience by sneering at people fractionally stupider than themselves. hating error more than they love the truth.
Beautiful.
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“The systemic takeover and removal of our beloved first amendment…”
Yeah, if there’s one thing lefties have really excelled at recently it’s loving the first amendment.
td;dr
too derpy; didn’t read.
In something that is totally and completely surprising, The founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, a Berkeley professor, went full anti-Semite on Twitter. And then he went with the “whoops! Didn’t realize what I was posting!” excuse.
(the tweet was up for months until he was called out on it, then he said it didn’t reflect his real thoughts)
He probably telling the truth. His real thoughts involved ovens.
Based on Keith Ellison’s Law, he will likely be promoted to a tenure-track position within five years in the UC system.
His first name is Hatem. He should change his last name to “Chouz”.
So, is the link picture the new naked fat dancing guy for the next LP convention?
Fresh out of the Daily Kos kitchen: R.I.P. 1st Amendment
Armageddon porn for the death cultists to fap to.
I wonder why Meredith didn’t come to the rescue of Teen Vogue.
Meredith Baxter-Birney? She was a Milf.
And a horny one too based on how many times she’s been married.
Now she’s a Lesbian.
A horny lesbian. You’re welcome.
Pelosi: “Icon” John Conyers Deserves “Due Process”
“He did great things for women.” Even Chuck Todd is flabbergasted.
I really don’t want to hear the backstory of Conyers doing “great things” for Pelosi.
I stopped listening once I heard he attended meetings in his skivvies.
Paging SugarFree, SugarFree to the white courtesy phone…
Backdoor backstory. HEY-OH!
I just saw Conyers on TV walking down a hall. It is pretty obvious the man has had a stroke.
Resign. Go home. Spend time with your family.
What? And leave all that precious, precious unspent power just lying around for the next guy? I don’t think so!
He’s using the McCain method.
Pelosi: “Icon” John Conyers Deserves “Due Process”
Roy Moore on the other hand….
Roy Moore is being asked to drop out by the GOPe. That is due process.
Todd asked her about that. That’s where she says, “He’s (Conyers) done great things for women.” What do….How can you….uh…. Pretty good answer considering how it makes your brain stem swell up.
Of course he deserves whatever, he’s a Democrat. The minute he changes that label to Republican, he’ll find himself guilty as fuck and deserving of nothing, according to Pelosi. These people are too fucking predictable, you know exactly how they will react to anything at any given time because it’s all based on political bias.
To be fair to poor Pelosi, this isn’t just any congresscritter, he is the main author of the House single-payer bill. That’s why they’re fiercely protecting him even though he is in his late 80s; the kooks still find him useful to the cause.
More evidence for our discussion the other day about how many supposed “sportsmen” will be happy to roll over on the 2A.
Judging by the dude’s picture, though, I’m gonna need to see some visual evidence that this pajama boy wannabe is actually a hunter.
Who is buying that shit? “I’m a gun owner but even I think..” Blah blah blah. Go fuck yourself Hoss.
The old saying – nothing before the “but” matters.
The “Fudds” who wanted their hunting guns protected were always a false flag.
^I’ve heard this is how Britain lost their guns. The grabbers divided and isolated gun groups while stripping them of their firearms. Hunters were the last to go.
As a sportsman,…
I DON’T CARE WHO YOU ARE. Do you have a fucking universal argument?
I’ve seen bumper stickers popping up saying something along the lines of:
“Real Hunters Don’t Need More Than One Shot” with an AR and the circle X symbol over it.
The people driving those cars invariably look nothing like actual hunters or gun owners.
It’s quite hilarious how lefties decide to pretend to be right wing, but still behave exactly like leftists. They shouldn’t go to Hollywood looking for a career in acting.
One I really love is bumper stickers like ‘What would Jesus do?’ or ‘Jesus was a socialist’. You know because it’s sort of stupid when a person denies that someone ever existed and then the next minute hold that same person up as an example of how everyone should behave. They have no awareness of what hypocrisy or cognitive dissonance is.
Lectures from atheists on what constitutes true Christian morality are always amusing.
I’m not sure if I like this response to that more or this one.
Those are good.
Jesus teamed up with Caesar’s regime to tax the populace so that they could redistribute the proceeds to people who won’t get jobs (while keeping a substantial cut for themselves) and sent people to an internment facility for death-by-overwork if they criticized this program? I’m not sure what part of the Bible contains this narrative.
It’s just their old canard that socialism is defined as “helping people”. Jesus helped people, therefore he was a socialist. This kind of simplistic re-definition is dangerously effective at softening people to socialism.
We see another example from the feminists in the popular bumper sticker, “Feminism is the notion that women are people”. Well no shit – nobody on Earth is arguing or has ever argued that women are not in fact human beings. They just object to all the baggage that goes along with feminism as a political movement.
It’s a completely non-relevant point to begin with. I can’t say to you ‘hey, you should do what this guy says’ the completely fabricate or distort what the guy says. Even if that was a legit thing to do, it would be invalid because it’s not what I actually believe since I believe said person never existed in the first place. It’s just wrong in so many ways. If someone wants me to be a socialist, they need to convince me with something they actually believe to begin with. Maybe they could start with the teachings of Marx, at least that would be a valid starting point, no matter how wrong it might be.
Yeah, well, the second amendment wasn’t written in case the deer turn against us.
They do if the congressmen won’t stand still on the diamond.
What does an actual gun owner or hunter look like?
In general, not that guy. Obviously, there will be exceptions.
Appearances can indeed be deceiving, but I’d still put my money on the obese 50 something woman whose other bumper stickers say “Coexist” and “Proud Cat Mom” (no, I am not making this up) not being a gun owner. I saw this a couple weeks ago and it was so absurd it sticks in my memory.
I think you can tell a lot about a person based on their bumper stickers (if they have them).
I used to work with a woman who drove a jeep with about a dozen bumper stickers, among them “Bitch Inside” (parodying the Intel Inside logo) and “Quit Playing With It and Just Eat It!”
She turned out to be one of those women who constantly talk about sex with everyone they meet and think they’re being really cute and edgy, but really they’re just grossing everybody out. Bitch, nobody wants to hear that your husband peed on you last night. This was one of very few occasions in my life when I actually considered going to HR.
Fortunately, she got fired after it was discovered that she was welding parts from the factory into little sculptures and selling them on Facebook. Serves her right.
welding parts from the factory into little sculptures
C’mon what were they…?
Mostly representations of little animals. I’m not sure why anyone would even buy them; they looked like shit.
Not to mention the fact that unfinished metal has sharp edges and tiny splinters that penetrate your skin and hurt like a fucking bitch. Sometimes they’re too small to even see, and the only way to remove them is to shave off layers of skin with a razor blade until you get to the layer where the splinter is.
Sounds like a great thing to have sitting on the mantle at home.
That’s disappointing.
Because their guns are more deadly than medium-powered semi-auto’s?
This mindset is pervasive in the trap/skeet shooting crowd.
Toyota drivers will slap anything on their bumpers.
You could glue tac rails to a bolt action .30-06 and call it a special operations combat sniper rifle and they’d be in favor of banning of that too.
Whoa. So hard core.
ANYTOWN, N.H. — I’m not a hunter, and I do not want gun control. And fuck off, slaver.
Since there are some Vikings fans here, I thought I’d pass this along if you hadn’t already seen it.
No swearing. FCC rules. Let’s give these anal leeches control of the internet.
Lol. Well Vikes have struggled the last couple weeks in the kicking game with a blocked extra point Thursday and a couple missed field goals the games before. Still wine though:)
Still wins
I’d pay money for or to be Taylor Swift. The progs would go apeshit.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/27/voting-times-person-year-begun/
What the left actually needs/deserves is millions of Trumps. A Trump at every street corner, beside every water cooler, at every Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas, in their closet, under their fucking beds. I’m not sure we all deserve that, but leftists definitely do.
It’s funny because their 2020 answer seems to be the same old losers like Biden and Bernie. My guess is that well get another community organizer with no real history that they can project the proggie hopes and dreams on. Yeah, I think it would work again. They completely control the prog social media conversation. Progs don’t question, they parrot. Hard to say if we’ll also see the opposing mad as hell not gonna take it anymore voters come out in full force again. WTF, why am I talking about 2020, must be my masochism shining through.
If the economy stays strong, moderate voters will most likely side with the incumbent like every other re-election year in such circumstances. That’ll cancel out the prog turnout, I’m guessing.
Kanye would photobomb the cover.
What is Time Magazine?
JB: Did you ever get your CBD? If so, how’s it working for you?
Reminds me:
KK – did you pass your drug test? I meant to chime in earlier, but you should absolutely keep working your cleansing routine until you hear you passed. If you don’t pass the first test, you can and should get a second one, and the extra time and flushing should help your odds.
This is a bad move by the FCC. The proggie states could perform a useful market function and threaten the ISPs with State level Net Neutrality, causing them to be more open to municipal broadband (ISPs generally lobby against allowing it, and I believe in federalism and local degree of control, including experiments with Municipal services and broadband deployment).
Do they even have the authority to do that?
Maybe the 9th Circuit can get a case right for once, even if for all the wrong reasons.
Well, Wickard v Fillburn says the Feds can regulate the crops grown on a person’s land for their own use because of its emanations and penumbras, so I can’t see why, with the correct judge, this wouldn’t fly.
Oh that’s coming from the industry. I can tell you the nightmare of every CEO of a large national corporation. That is Local Regulation.
Well which would you rather have to deal with – one overarching rule, or twelve thousand subtly different to radically different rules?
Exactly. How many tickets do you want to have to line as well.
I still say “Fuck off slavers” to local slavers, as well as federal ones.
I just spent a couple of minutes perusing Welchie Boy’s Twitter feed, and it’s an almost nonstop stream of bitching and moaning because there’s a chance he might actually have to pay a few dollars more in taxes if the blue state subsidy goes away.
That guy is one of most dishonest motherfuckers you’ll ever see in your life.
Getting rid of the blue state subsidy is a great thing. The people might actually have to suffer the effects of their own voting patterns; which is of course why Dems oppose it so vehemently.
Meh. I’m okay with it if it’s coupled with a rate reduction, which Trump’s original plan was.
No mention of putting vise-grips on the testicles of his state congressmen?
As long as there’s still a property-tax deduction it’s hard to see this plan as much more than a fuck-you to blue states.
That’s one way to look at it, and absolutely a big part of the motivation.
The other way to look at it is, why give a deduction for local taxes at all? If there isn’t a good reason, get rid of the deductions you can. Removing the income tax deduction is politically doable, removing the property tax deduction isn’t.
There’s also the fact that some red states have high property taxes too.
Which is why its a political non-starter.
Red states tend to have high(ish) property taxes because they tend to have low(ish) income taxes. I know that was the case in Texas, which also had pretty stout sales taxes.
I tend to think that local tax deductibility is basically a way for states to unilaterally redirect federal taxes to themselves. The higher the (deductible) tax, the lower the federal collections and the higher the state collections. Unilaterally redirecting tax revenue to yourself strikes me as a bad idea in principle – I’d support getting rid of all deductions for local taxes.
Agreed. Not sure of my position on this yet – I’ve seen convincing arguments for both sides. FWIW, I plugged my numbers into the Trump plan calculator and I save even in NY. Welch probably makes a lot more money than I do.
It pretty much is.
“Elections have consequences.”-Barry O’Bama
Between withholding and deductions the tax scheme is a giant scam to keep people from realizing just how much is being stolen from them. This an attempt to kick the legs out from under the scam.
Under my plan you would have to write a check on November the 7th, the day before ballot day, but then I am not a nice guy like Trump.
I’ve had the same thought. There may not be anything else that would have such a singular impact on voting patterns as writing a four or five figure check the week before election day.
What do you mean you had the same thought? I got it from you, brother. You said that at TOS years ago.
My other tax reform idea is to bundle up all the transfer/welfare programs (SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) and
(a) Set the payroll tax every year at the level that will fund them
(b) No more employer-side payroll tax – the wage earner sees every penny that goes to these programs on every pay stub.
(c) No debt can be issued, and no general funds can be spent, to pay welfare. If benefits go up and/or the programs get more expensive, taxes go up on everybody with a job.
Let’s have a “national conversation” about how much welfare we really want to pay for, that is informed by how much it costs every taxpayer.
That would go over with the Pols like a lead balloon.
*cockroaches work furiously to dismantle the light switch*
Democrats – always driving up taxes on people that don’t vote for them, always bitching when Republicans do the same thing.
Sonofabitch. I was posting in the Sunday Nite Linkx.
If you have Nationwide insurance, you should probably consider cancelling.
There you are. From above:
No word yet…to say I’m stressed is an understatement.
Been there. The first time I had to pee for a job, I had to retake because it was too diluted. They asked me to come in first thing to do it again. Like I’m a chump and going to give them a nice concentrated sample.
Passed the second one. My boss called me and says “Well, you flunked the drug test.” What a card. I about had a heart attack, being between jobs at the time and looking for work in a very small and competitive market.
I’m assuming if it were too diluted they would have contacted me already. But it was the afternoon of the day before Thanksgiving, so who knows?
The lab did say my results should be available later that same day, but I haven’t received an email alert (I signed up to be notified when the results were in). I did get an email from the investigator that day asking for contact info for my last employer. I took that as a good sign, but, again, who knows?
Probably bad form to call and ask – “if you have nothing to hide. . . . ”
Is there a legit question not about the test that you could call in and ask the employer? Maybe ask them if there’s any other paperwork (I-9 or something) that you need to get out of the way?
It’s an independent investigator handling the drug test and background check, so there’s not much of a reason to contact them. My soon-to-be-boss texted me last week to ask where things stand and to let me know there’s an orientation I need to attend, so I’m hoping they’re pushing it through quickly. Start date is supposed to be a week from today.
I’m thinking that calling the employer with an innocuous question might result in getting some info on any outstanding items, like, say the drug test.
I tend to agree with Suthen – no news is good news. If the news was bad, you’d likely have heard by now. Passed drug test means nobody has to do anything that isn’t routine, so it won’t generate any bureaucratic activity (like contacting you).
I used to work with a massive pothead who had a very minor forklift accident one day. The company policy stated that any accident required a drug test for all those involved.
When the manager came up to him and informed him that he got the results of the drug test, he clasped his hands (as if in prayer) and blurted out, “Did I pass?!”
Needless to say, he did not pass, and he had screwed the pooch by asking that question in the first place.
If you flunked it you would have heard by now. Take a breath.
I’ve used the old “I’m apparently having computer trouble with my inbound e-mails. Did you have any problem reaching me?” Great for saying
“Hey, you were supposed to get back to me by now” to friends without casting aspersions regarding their rudeness in not responding promptly.
After the Peyton Manning commercials, I don’t know how they still have any customers left.
But sales of chicken parm sandwiches were through the roof!
I dont know, the Cramers seem like they will be good owners of Nationwide, so why not buy their insurance.
I am assuming that they will be majority owners after the lawsuit.
I’d fire that adjuster immediately. Nationwide will settle for a truckload, but I bet they use a sex trafficking defense. In case you didn’t know, insurance adjusters are supposed to alert authorities if they suspect sex trafficking. This includes drug paraphernalia, magazines, etc they see during an inspection. The training material on it is ridiculous.
Another reason I will never, ever take another job working with the public.
I cancelled my Nationwide Ins auto policy because they do not offer any rideshare endorsement (will cover you while driving for Uber/Lyft). I was shocked to learn how much money I saved after I switched though. Speaking from anecdotal experience and what I’ve heard from others; Nationwide is good about mailing a fat check for claims without much fuss.
Not technically an Arizona State fan but I can explain this one. 7-8 wins a season is expected from ASU, but when those losses are to teams that should be wins somebody gets the axe.
That and they got embarrassed by Arizona last year, which didn’t happen this year.
On changes to the tax laws-
I have seen multiple articles specifically stating tax law is *supposed to* be a means to control and/or incentivise economic behavior. Equal, indifferent treatment of all sectors of the economy is a dim and unpleasant memory.
We’re fucked.
The Pit and the Pendulum. There’s a reason the dude is tied down.
Tax laws were originally supposed to be a method to fund public projects like a military and infrastructure. So now it’s morphed into social engineering? Well, according to Democrats I guess.
“This isnt about revenue, it’s about fairness.” – Barry Obama
‘Jesus was a socialist’
Listen- Jesus conjured up all those loaves and fishes out of thin air and fed the throng. If that’s not socialism, what the fuck is?
I dunno, if it actually happened, sounds to me like someone had admin rights on the server.
If that’s not socialism, what the fuck is?
Well, he didn’t force bread and fish owners out of their loaves and fishes by gunpoint, did he?