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| DaemonFC[m] | He'll make deals he has no intention of making good on. He'll lie right to your face. He'll make alliances and then break them. At one point, Microsoft had over 5,000 people working on Internet Explorer and was putting $150 million a year in it. | Aug 08 00:00 |
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| schestowitz | it'd be good for everybody who lurks and reads logs | Aug 08 00:00 |
| MinceR | (no audio) https://i.imgur.com/yPWJOga.mp4 | Aug 08 00:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They knew they wouldn't have to do it for longer than it took to make it impossible for Netscape to continue as a company. | Aug 08 00:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 2-3 year tops. | Aug 08 00:00 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: at first I thought he was opening up a seal | Aug 08 00:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I suppose all of us have it in us to act like Bill Gates if we have to, but he's the kind of person who would actually enjoy it. | Aug 08 00:02 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/05/27/real-history-of-microsoft/ | Aug 08 00:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You don't generally invest effort in things that don't amuse you unless something is at stake. | Aug 08 00:02 |
| schestowitz | "nose for money" | Aug 08 00:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Real History of Microsoft and How It Became ‘Successful’ | Techrights | Aug 08 00:02 | |
| schestowitz | according to his mate | Aug 08 00:03 |
| schestowitz | Gates will die 'soon' | Aug 08 00:03 |
| schestowitz | maybe 20 years, maybe less | Aug 08 00:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Shit. | Aug 08 00:03 |
| schestowitz | then we'll have other sociopaths to deal with | Aug 08 00:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Something exploded in the parking lot. | Aug 08 00:03 |
| MinceR | he should hurry up | Aug 08 00:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Smoke. The fire department is here. | Aug 08 00:03 |
| schestowitz | Jobs is gone, he was nowhere as bad | Aug 08 00:03 |
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| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: another cooker like yours? | Aug 08 00:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Black people doing something stupid probably. | Aug 08 00:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It looks like 9/11 out there. | Aug 08 00:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I had to put towels under my door. | Aug 08 00:05 |
| schestowitz | where there is smoke there's fire | Aug 08 00:05 |
| schestowitz | for racists: | Aug 08 00:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I hear more sirens. | Aug 08 00:06 |
| schestowitz | where there's smoke, there's "black people" | Aug 08 00:06 |
| schestowitz | like Trump assuming a bomb went off in Beirut | Aug 08 00:06 |
| schestowitz | like his MOAB | Aug 08 00:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Oh my god, there was one of them using a charcoal grill under the awning with flames shooting out the other night. | Aug 08 00:06 |
| schestowitz | in your grill | Aug 08 00:11 |
| schestowitz | 1120 dead in US, 2 hours to go | Aug 08 00:13 |
| schestowitz | the covid19 are barely decreasing | Aug 08 00:13 |
| schestowitz | not in any meaningful way | Aug 08 00:13 |
| schestowitz | the idea is that you lower these numbers over time | Aug 08 00:14 |
| schestowitz | I read Orange One overpaid for ventilators 500 mi | Aug 08 00:14 |
| schestowitz | to GM IIRC | Aug 08 00:14 |
| schestowitz | half a billion dollars | Aug 08 00:15 |
| schestowitz | it was in the news this wek | Aug 08 00:15 |
| schestowitz | *Week | Aug 08 00:15 |
| schestowitz | so who needs to sell cars anyway, spread covid19 instead | Aug 08 00:15 |
| schestowitz | then sell pumps | Aug 08 00:15 |
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| sebsebseb | MinceR: Apple | Aug 08 00:17 |
| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Software: Bashtop, Cointop and Auto-cpufreq http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/140752 [https://pleroma.site/objects/efbd8f70-6cb9-4895-99a7-30aac4c30ee1] | Aug 08 00:17 | |
| schestowitz | MinceR: anything to say? sebsebseb: it's losing its value, that joke... | Aug 08 00:30 |
| sebsebseb | schestowitz: it's still funny each time :D | Aug 08 00:30 |
| schestowitz | covid19 death toll up to 1240 as TX is up over 200 | Aug 08 00:30 |
| schestowitz | sebsebseb: to you | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | schestowitz: for me anyway | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | yep | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | :) | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | schestowitz: I think he's away but your not hi | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | schestowitz: Manchester covid bad yaeh ? | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | there are some good aspects of it though :) | Aug 08 00:31 |
| MinceR | schestowitz: say about what? | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | for example about two hours ago I had my favourtie vegan caffe delivered :) | Aug 08 00:31 |
| sebsebseb | they do delivery now since covid, so nice having that stuff, after not having since like december | Aug 08 00:32 |
| sebsebseb | schestowitz: MinceR I also had an Apple drink yes :D | Aug 08 00:32 |
| sebsebseb | as part of it | Aug 08 00:32 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: schestowitz they used to actsually have Ubuntu Cola cans in that place before! yes the name | Aug 08 00:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't get the poor people = COVID argument. If it's income, why don't the poorest white majority cities in Lake County have much of it? | Aug 08 00:37 |
| MinceR | https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f19d98f441bb77912f084a4/master/w_727,c_limit/blitt_kvetchbook_trump_test.jpg | Aug 08 00:37 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m]: same in UK lol it's the area's with more poor people etc, working class, people on benefits etc | Aug 08 00:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You don't have to be rich to not refuse to wear a mask and wash your hands, and to not lick your fingers while you're eating. | Aug 08 00:37 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m]: that are mostly effected or so it seems | Aug 08 00:37 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m]: or with certain forogin people of whatever religions etc | Aug 08 00:37 |
| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Programming Leftovers http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/140753 [https://pleroma.site/objects/2436dc4b-368b-411e-8875-c813d76237b4] | Aug 08 00:38 | |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m]: as for masks I am aoviding that, getting food onilne now :) | Aug 08 00:39 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m]: or sending someone or other to shop for me a bit maybe | Aug 08 00:39 |
| sebsebseb | I do have masks though, or face coverisngs as they say here now | Aug 08 00:39 |
| *sebsebseb is whatcing one of the worst films on TV, well my Mum liked it, her kind of film for sure, and she saw it in the cinema what a few years ago or whenever that was | Aug 08 00:40 | |
| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Open Hardware, Raspberry Pi and More http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/140754 [https://pleroma.site/objects/ad6d28e4-282e-4dc7-91ed-063422b97aca] | Aug 08 00:42 | |
| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: today’s leftovers http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/140755 [https://pleroma.site/objects/6feea484-8b48-4f55-9748-d4f4a78550f1] | Aug 08 00:46 | |
| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Links 7/8/2020: Mesa 20.2 RC, Radeon Software for Linux 20.30 http://techrights.org/2020/08/07/mesa-20-2-rc/ [https://pleroma.site/objects/ff69cbe9-d0c7-49e7-81ed-98cf53b4aba7] | Aug 08 00:51 | |
| schestowitz | another aspect is, in poor areas in a country with privatised everything not much testing is done | Aug 08 00:58 |
| schestowitz | so covid passes faster without opportunities to curb the spread | Aug 08 00:59 |
| schestowitz | people get a false sense of calm | Aug 08 00:59 |
| schestowitz | gn | Aug 08 00:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | qaGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUIWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS]=7777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 | Aug 08 01:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 77777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 | Aug 08 01:02 |
| Narrator | DaemonFC[m]: your cat types on the keyboard;-) | Aug 08 01:03 |
| sebsebseb | whos Narrator ? | Aug 08 01:04 |
| sebsebseb | who are y9u Narrator ? | Aug 08 01:04 |
| Narrator | well, i am batman;-) | Aug 08 01:04 |
| sebsebseb | Narrator: your Adam | Aug 08 01:05 |
| Narrator | call me nobody;-) | Aug 08 01:05 |
| sebsebseb | jerowit | Aug 08 01:05 |
| sebsebseb | Narrator: your new ish here | Aug 08 01:06 |
| sebsebseb | or new here | Aug 08 01:06 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m] is old skool here | Aug 08 01:06 |
| Narrator | well, not so new ... ;-) | Aug 08 01:06 |
| sebsebseb | Narrator: I don't remember seeing you here | Aug 08 01:07 |
| sebsebseb | before | Aug 08 01:07 |
| sebsebseb | so i think first time i do see you here | Aug 08 01:07 |
| Narrator | well, not so new to open source i say | Aug 08 01:07 |
| sebsebseb | ok | Aug 08 01:07 |
| sebsebseb | me either | Aug 08 01:07 |
| sebsebseb | what you do with it ? | Aug 08 01:07 |
| Narrator | well, many things | Aug 08 01:08 |
| sebsebseb | such as ? | Aug 08 01:08 |
| sebsebseb | where you from as well ? | Aug 08 01:08 |
| Narrator | web/network/automatisation/teach/tests/language transformation/etc/administration/fun/games | Aug 08 01:09 |
| Narrator | and you? | Aug 08 01:09 |
| sebsebseb | Narrator: Linux deskpot stuff, devices, mbiel et | Aug 08 01:12 |
| sebsebseb | user | Aug 08 01:12 |
| sebsebseb | events | Aug 08 01:12 |
| Narrator | mbiel? | Aug 08 01:12 |
| sebsebseb | mobile | Aug 08 01:12 |
| Narrator | what kind of events? | Aug 08 01:13 |
| sebsebseb | got interesting devices | Aug 08 01:13 |
| sebsebseb | pine phone | Aug 08 01:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Oh damn it. | Aug 08 01:13 |
| sebsebseb | mini pcs | Aug 08 01:13 |
| Narrator | wow, appium? | Aug 08 01:13 |
| sebsebseb | etc | Aug 08 01:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | How much did my cat talk to everyone? | Aug 08 01:13 |
| Narrator | i have some problem to connect appium with python and roboit framework on linux on kvm | Aug 08 01:13 |
| sebsebseb | nope can't help you | Aug 08 01:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Oh good. Sorry about that. | Aug 08 01:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I set KDE to not require a password for 5 minutes. | Aug 08 01:14 |
| Narrator | DaemonFC[m]: i am not dr Dolittle;-) | Aug 08 01:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I got my Walmart discount card. yay. | Aug 08 01:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, next time I need a laptop.... Hard to say no to 15% off something all AMD that can be made to run Linux. | Aug 08 01:17 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Their Motile laptop series didn't seem to give any trouble to Phoronix on those reviews. | Aug 08 01:17 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/terminator-the-sarah-connor-chronicles-is-unexpectedly-cathartic-pandemic-viewing/ar-BB17zeqh | Aug 08 01:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.msn.com | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Is Unexpectedly Cathartic Pandemic Viewing | Aug 08 01:21 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Unfortunately, the series never got a wrap up, so you don't find out what happens after they time travel into the future war. | Aug 08 01:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's hard to say whether anything introduced by a particular timeline is canon or not when dealing with time travel. | Aug 08 01:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The episode that they're talking about (along with another one) at the beginning reveals that every Terminator CPU chip is hardcoded to kill John Connor if it finds him, even if it means aborting its mission. | Aug 08 01:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When one gets reprogrammed to protect him, the chip code wants to do it, but the operating software cancels the order out each time it's given. | Aug 08 01:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The T-888s are more capable of independent thought than earlier models. In one case, Cromartie destroyed a T-888 sent by Skynet to kill Agent Ellison and replace him, because he thought that the real Ellison would be an asset in locating John Connor. | Aug 08 01:26 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: The Cromartie model was probably my favorite. It had a sense of humor. Also, that scene where the FBI Swat team came in after him and he killed all of them and threw them out into the hotel pool, but spared Ellison. (Who had to go explain to his boss how one man killed a dozen Hostage Rescue Team agents in full body armor with MP5s, and was fired.) | Aug 08 01:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think they probably should have given up on Dark Fate when they realized they were doing Terminator 2 all over again. | Aug 08 01:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I expected more from James Cameron. | Aug 08 01:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Eh, I went to see it because I figured maybe it was like the Alien universe that had two good movies and that was the end of that. I figured James Cameron coming back might mean it was better. | Aug 08 01:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Alien was excellent for horror (especially considering that it was late 70s and everything before that had just been a total shit show that definitely didn't age well). | Aug 08 01:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Aliens was excellent as a Sci Fi Action movie that just kept going too fast to get boring. So that was the way Terminator and T2 went. | Aug 08 01:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then both franchises just got stupid. | Aug 08 01:34 |
| MinceR | alien4 was good and AVPR was funny | Aug 08 01:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: Not having the movie theaters anymore maybe isn't so bad. They were getting extremely lazy lately. | Aug 08 01:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <MinceR "alien4 was good and AVPR was fun"> Alien 4? Resurrection? | Aug 08 01:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It was not as bad as Alien 3. Alien 3 just pisses you off. | Aug 08 01:35 |
| MinceR | yes | Aug 08 01:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They kill Hicks, Bishop, Newt, and Ripley. | Aug 08 01:36 |
| MinceR | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU81YUsUZFc | Aug 08 01:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-I'm not the mechanic here, I just mostly hurt people - YouTube | Aug 08 01:37 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | The movie just meanders about and not worth watching. It'll really piss you off that you watched Aliens for nothing because everyone that lived from Aliens dies in the first 5 minutes except Ripley, who dies at the end. | Aug 08 01:37 |
| MinceR | i didn't watch aliens for the sake of alien3 | Aug 08 01:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, Resurrection wasn't a reboot. | Aug 08 01:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So to know why they resurrected Ripley and how they got her DNA with an Alien queen in it,you have to know what happens in 3. | Aug 08 01:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Some of the video games have had a better plot than Alien 3 or Resurrection. | Aug 08 01:39 |
| MinceR | so don't watch aliens for alien3's sake | Aug 08 01:40 |
| MinceR | watch aliens for aliens's sake and alien3 for alien4's sake :> | Aug 08 01:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you consider those canon, then you find out that some of the non-queen xenomorphs can turn into a queen and start laying eggs if there's nothing around to lay eggs. | Aug 08 01:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So Ripley wasn't wrong. If even one gets to Earth, it's all over. | Aug 08 01:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're a biological weapon. | Aug 08 01:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It was always improbable that anything like that would evolve naturally. | Aug 08 01:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | it would overrun the entire ecosystem and then kill itself. Of course, that's basically what humans are doing. | Aug 08 01:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | These things don't kill and eat prey though.....They just kill. | Aug 08 01:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So what are they eating? | Aug 08 01:43 |
| MinceR | iirc some fish and/or amphibians do change sex if necessary for the survival of the species | Aug 08 01:43 |
| MinceR | also, i thought a xenomorph did eat something in alien | Aug 08 01:44 |
| MinceR | maybe the cat? | Aug 08 01:44 |
| MinceR | didn't it keep eating people as it grew? | Aug 08 01:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Maybe they just didn't stop to eat anything because they were acting as soldiers in Aliens. | Aug 08 01:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But what would they eat after they killed all the people? | Aug 08 01:46 |
| MinceR | the corpses of the people | Aug 08 01:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Do the adults just die off and there's eggs laying around for the next victims that approach? | Aug 08 01:47 |
| MinceR | could be | Aug 08 01:47 |
| MinceR | or they might sort of hibernate | Aug 08 01:47 |
| sebsebseb | Aug 08 01:47 | |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: Apple | Aug 08 01:47 |
| MinceR | or most of them might die off and the remaining could hibernate | Aug 08 01:47 |
| MinceR | sebsebseb: boring | Aug 08 01:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | David mentioned that the eggs are not alive. They're waiting for prey. Potentially for hundreds or even thousands of years. | Aug 08 01:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The eggs do eventually expire though. | Aug 08 01:48 |
| sebsebseb | aa | Aug 08 01:48 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: Hungarian wall round your house to lock you in, with a door, that you must ask for permission to geto ut | Aug 08 01:48 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: you will do what they want ! | Aug 08 01:49 |
| MinceR | lol | Aug 08 01:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: Maybe they're like chicken eggs. The government has them put a date on them but they're good as long as they don't float in water. | Aug 08 01:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've eaten eggs that were 3 months past as long as none of them were floaters. | Aug 08 01:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm still here. | Aug 08 01:50 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m]: for now | Aug 08 01:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Same as anyone. | Aug 08 01:50 |
| MinceR | "How foolish to pretend they are safe, to think that closing some gate would mean the end of this... to forget that I'm still here." | Aug 08 01:50 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: yep they need to kick you out o the country, then they will be mre safe in Hungary :D | Aug 08 01:51 |
| MinceR | they will never be safe anywhere, because they're idiots | Aug 08 01:52 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: covid is in various places, even in DaemonFC[m] ''s back yard | Aug 08 01:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The motel retention pond? | Aug 08 01:53 |
| MinceR | lol | Aug 08 01:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I heard someone comment that the prostitutes were hanging around. | Aug 08 01:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Must be who screamed when the car blew up. | Aug 08 01:53 |
| sebsebseb | DaemonFC[m] attracts unwanted attention | Aug 08 01:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't know what kind of prostitute. | Aug 08 01:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Probably four $50 hookers, or maybe 1 $200 hooker. | Aug 08 01:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're probably still getting customers. Anyone who would risk a $50 hooker is not afraid of COVID. | Aug 08 01:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "Oh honey, you're always paying for it. The difference is that our price is on the wall." | Aug 08 01:56 |
| sebsebseb | I am done with IRC for now bye | Aug 08 02:00 |
| sebsebseb | bye | Aug 08 02:00 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | <MinceR "they will never be safe anywhere"> Yeah, people who shoot at you and walk in traffic and mug people over a $50 phone they'll have to split 3 ways aren't going to be taking something like COVID seriously. | Aug 08 02:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | To them this is probably just the latest way to throw their life away over something stupid. | Aug 08 02:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Probably explains why the worst of it is over in Waukegan, and happened in Waukegan in the first place. | Aug 08 02:11 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: I'll probably get my flu shot around the end of this month. | Aug 08 02:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When that gets going again with COVID-19 still out of control....look out. | Aug 08 02:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's likely that some of the mitigation steps we're doing about COVID-19 will suppress the flu as well. Plus there hasn't been much international travel, which is what really carries it around. | Aug 08 02:32 |
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| oiaohm | DaemonFC[m]: Its been something Australia hospitals have seen that working covid-19 controls equal lower flu rate. Turns out victoria(the Australian state) lower flu rate reduction was early warning before covid-19 mess that is there now. | Aug 08 03:16 |
| oiaohm | lower flu rate reduction as in not as much flu rate reduction as other states. | Aug 08 03:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So you mean flu activity is a proxy for how well we're mitigating COVID-19. | Aug 08 03:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Makes sense. | Aug 08 03:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's easier to test for the flu anyway because there's no run on demand for the test kits. | Aug 08 03:20 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're also a lot easier to make. | Aug 08 03:20 |
| oiaohm | Its also the incubation time frame. flu is 1 to 4 days from exposure to illness at best. Where covid-19 1-14 days with the average right in the middle. So flu rate from containment failure shows up faster. | Aug 08 03:25 |
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| oiaohm | Basically lower lag item allows you to get read for a mess before you are hit. | Aug 08 03:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/13-illinois-counties-now-at-warning-level-for-coronavirus-health-dept-says/2318654/ | Aug 08 03:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.nbcchicago.com | 13 Illinois Counties Now at ‘Warning Level’ for Coronavirus, Health Dept. Says – NBC Chicago | Aug 08 03:26 | |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Back to Yellow Alert.... | Aug 08 03:26 |
| oiaohm | The state of victoria in Australia has way more covid-19 cases now than all the other states of Australia combined. | Aug 08 03:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Like I said, Republicans and black people. | Aug 08 03:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Not surprised to see East St. Louis on the warning list. | Aug 08 03:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you're white and you show up anywhere in East St. Louis, you're going to get looks. | Aug 08 03:28 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Everywhere that I've seen that's like 80-90% black, the whole city is basically falling down. | Aug 08 03:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Gary, Indiana is a good example. | Aug 08 03:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Within a city, the parts that are rotting and high crime, too. | Aug 08 03:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can argue chicken or egg here, I guess. | Aug 08 03:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Indiana's state government basically does nothing with Lake County, Indiana. They consider it a sacrifice zone where the ghettos of Chicago spill over the state line. | Aug 08 03:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The rest of the state is safe because there's like 150 miles of corn fields between Gary and anywhere you'd want to live in Indiana. | Aug 08 03:32 |
| oiaohm | Victoria(AU) outbreak started in high density housing for the poor with higher than average crime rate. Of course that was a area that was 90% white so I would say crime rate and illness spread could be linked. | Aug 08 03:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The more distance you can put between yourself and Gary, the better. | Aug 08 03:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | John used to laugh at me for driving through Gary to avoid the freeway. | Aug 08 03:33 |
| oiaohm | Stealing in person the mechanics of it should increase your infected material contact. | Aug 08 03:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I said, "Probably the only thing scarier than driving through a ghetto is driving through a freeway NEAR a ghetto. | Aug 08 03:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They take those hoopties out on the freeway and they have a knee on the wheel while they watch Netflix at 90 miles an hour with their headlights off. | Aug 08 03:34 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | You know they never put any money in their car unless it's a loud annoying stereo or some idiotic bullshit rims. | Aug 08 03:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They'll skip tires, sensors, brake jobs. The whole care could fly apart at any minute. | Aug 08 03:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | *car | Aug 08 03:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Some of them from the hood followed a Chicago rapper up to the Gold Coast the other day to gun him down. | Aug 08 03:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Problem is, that rap music is so low skill and doesn't require any singing talent that someone will just make more. | Aug 08 03:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <oiaohm "Victoria(AU) outbreak started in"> Well, the second week here I got a knock on the door and it was housekeeping. | Aug 08 03:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It was some black guy with a ridiculous gold grill on his teeth asking me if "we all good here". | Aug 08 03:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I said, "Oh yeah, we're good.". | Aug 08 03:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | oiaohm: In my experience while there are quite a lot of felons in some of the rural white areas of Indiana, they at least leave YOU alone while they're committing the felonies. | Aug 08 03:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I really don't care if they're selling drugs and whoremongering as long as they don't roll up in a car that bounces playing rap music so loud you can hear it on the space station, and gun shots and exploding cars every week. | Aug 08 03:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | This is the second exploding car in a month. | Aug 08 03:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The last one was at Walmart. | Aug 08 03:41 |
| superkuh | Or, maybe, just maybe, people who aren't rich can't afford to stop going to their jobs or have enough food/etc to completely isolate. | Aug 08 03:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Wherever I go, someone's car explodes, apparently. That's a thing now. | Aug 08 03:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <superkuh "Or, maybe, just maybe, people wh"> They can afford iPhone 12 XLs, and cars that bounce, and unlimited weed and crack. | Aug 08 03:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Somehow can't pay rent and and food. | Aug 08 03:43 |
| superkuh | Okay, I see you've formed your biases. | Aug 08 03:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, until I moved to Illinois and saw the kind of stuff that goes on here I never would have believed it. | Aug 08 03:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm getting the hell out of this dumbass state as soon as the dumbass federal government gets around to giving us our interview. | Aug 08 03:49 |
| psydread | I can somewhat understand that rap music is popular among members of that community, but does that mean anyone else should care for it or even an entire country should give any importance to what can at best be considered third-rate music? | Aug 08 03:49 |
| psydread | and that's with having a tradition of great musicians in the country | Aug 08 03:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Rap music is the bottom of the bucket for intellect. | Aug 08 03:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It makes Country look cerebral in comparison. | Aug 08 03:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Tonight is Friday so I'm sure it'll be twice as back. | Aug 08 03:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | *bad | Aug 08 03:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Everything in The Boondocks appears to be true. | Aug 08 03:52 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | I started binge watching it when I was in South Chicago. | Aug 08 03:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I can tell you why everyone in Waukegan has had COVID already. | Aug 08 03:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's what happens when you don't wear masks or wash your hands or stop throwing house parties where half of them get shot up by someone you pissed off on Facebook anyway. | Aug 08 03:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's a common thread with stupid dumbass criminals who can't figure out why they get in trouble every week. Actually there's a lot, but there's one in particular. | Aug 08 03:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When you do little except go around fucking pissing everyone off at you, either they'll kill you or they'll call the cops, or they'll cooperate with the cops, or some of them will be cops. | Aug 08 03:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Or more than one item on that list at the same time. | Aug 08 03:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you're not pissing people off and making enemies everywhere, at the very minimum most people won't give a crap what you're doing. | Aug 08 03:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You'll go longer between police encounters and may actually avoid them completely. | Aug 08 03:56 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | I just go out of my way to not draw attention, because usually getting attention means getting attention you do not want. | Aug 08 03:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The Chinese apparently have a saying for that too. I think it went something like, "The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.". | Aug 08 03:59 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | How hard is it for these idiots to just do what the rest of America has to do. Go to a temp agency, get a job, and try to eek out some existence that might not be great, but at least you're not doing stints in prison and getting shot at. It's worth something, right? Maybe if they did more of the former, there'd be less screaming about facial recognition that can see if you have an arrest warrant. | Aug 08 04:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you have an arrest warrant and they serve it on you, you're not getting picked on. It means you did something and they just haven't found you until now. | Aug 08 04:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I just figure it's coming one way or another. I'll probably just stock up on face masks during the pandemic and keep wearing them in public. | Aug 08 04:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If it confuses stores who want to run advertising that's actually a legitimate reason to hide yourself. | Aug 08 04:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <psydread "and that's with having a traditi"> The last 20 years haven't produced much of anything in general. | Aug 08 04:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I found some rips of the West Germany releases of the Talking Heads CDs before they got brick walled. | Aug 08 04:34 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | In fact, most of the images that came with my CD rips say West Germany or Japan on them and are from the 1980s or 90s. | Aug 08 04:39 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | psydread: I decided to listen to all my Talking Heads CDs again. | Aug 08 05:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Ironically, Air is what I was listening to right before I got arrested. | Aug 08 05:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You always remember what you were doing surrounding a traumatic event. | Aug 08 05:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The time right before, during, and after. It's always there for instant playback. | Aug 08 05:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It would be nice if it worked like that for things you want to know. | Aug 08 05:08 |
| psydread | I know just a few of their most popular songs, but maybe I should take the time to listen to the albums too | Aug 08 05:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/asia/tokyo-coronavirus-fatigue-intl-hnk/index.html | Aug 08 05:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Japan's coronavirus fatigue is fueling defiance in Tokyo, even as the case count rises - CNN | Aug 08 05:26 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Japan has just been unbelievably crooked and dishonest about it. Mostly because they wanted the Olympics. | Aug 08 05:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/127354/microsoft-wont-give-facial-recognition-tech-to-us-police-until-congress-acts | Aug 08 05:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-uk.pcmag.com | | Aug 08 05:30 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft wants legal cover and nothing else. | Aug 08 05:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When their crappy software starts flagging the wrong people for arrest and/or police harassment, they're gonna get so sued. | Aug 08 05:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: https://uk.pcmag.com/encryption/128091/intel-is-investigating-a-20gb-leak-of-the-companys-confidential-files | Aug 08 05:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-uk.pcmag.com | | Aug 08 05:51 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://uk.pcmag.com/news-analysis/127933/intel-shakes-up-chip-team-after-stumbling-on-7nm-technology | Aug 08 05:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-uk.pcmag.com | | Aug 08 05:52 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. | Aug 08 05:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | This basically means they'll be using a Skylake derivative through 2023. | Aug 08 05:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'd only really start considering replacement when there's double the transistors on the thing. | Aug 08 05:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That used to be a 2 year thing and now it's 6-7 years. | Aug 08 05:56 |
| psydread | I don't see the benefit really | Aug 08 05:56 |
| psydread | sure, more performance is better but not while overheating and with bugs and artificially limited numbers of cores | Aug 08 05:58 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.wlip.com/lake-county-covid-19-update-8-7-2020/ | Aug 08 06:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Lake County Covid-19 Update 8/7/2020 | AM 1050 WLIP | Aug 08 06:05 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | According to this, there have been 444 Coronavirus deaths in Lake County, IL. | Aug 08 06:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, well these stupid assholes in Waukegan managed to get us more cases than New York City, if you adjust for population. | Aug 08 06:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I still say that without all these stupid assholes running around, this would not be much of a thing really. | Aug 08 06:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's not an income thing. A basic cloth face mask is about a dollar each. | Aug 08 06:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's just ignorance on parade. | Aug 08 06:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I agree with John on this part, most black people would be Republicans if the Republicans didn't treat them so bad. Like, you know, lots of homophobia. Lots of church. Lots of "Oh, I have court!" every week and then they get caught stealing from Walmart while they're on bail for something else. | Aug 08 06:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's the same exact thing you'd get in Huntington, Indiana. | Aug 08 06:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's Huntington, Indiana plus shootings and rap music. | Aug 08 06:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I thought Indiana was the anus of this country until I moved here. | Aug 08 06:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Now, it still feels like March never ended for all I've been outside. | Aug 08 06:11 |
| oiaohm | DaemonFC[m]: TSMC has been still on the doubling transistors thing. | Aug 08 07:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I just don't buy again until there's been more than a doubling of transistors. | Aug 08 07:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's just not cost effective, and at this rate, we'll start getting hardware breakdowns long before the transistor count even goes up 50%. | Aug 08 07:34 |
| oiaohm | DaemonFC[m]: https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/09/13/tsmc-thinks-it-can-uphold-moores-law-for-decades/ serousally TSMC has been exactly on the Moore’s Law and they think they can do that for a few more decades. | Aug 08 07:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.nextplatform.com | TSMC Thinks It Can Uphold Moore’s Law For Decades | Aug 08 07:36 | |
| oiaohm | They are going to hit the 2d limit very soon and have to move 3d to maintain it. | Aug 08 07:36 |
| oiaohm | Basically AMD with transistors due to using TSMC is still running with the old Moore's Law transistor growth. Intel kicked their toe big time. | Aug 08 07:37 |
| oiaohm | TSMC thinking it about 5 decades to the true end to moore law as long as you keep up with development. | Aug 08 07:38 |
| oiaohm | DaemonFC[m]: there is also a limit on how many transistors are useful to make a cpu core. | Aug 08 07:40 |
| oiaohm | In some ways doubling transistors by going 2 layers instead of 1 that 3d production will cause is still kind of cheating. | Aug 08 07:41 |
| oiaohm | Basically this decade TSMC with silicon is absloutely going hit the 2d transistor limit. As they will simply run out of atoms in a single layer to make are more transistors. | Aug 08 07:44 |
| oiaohm | Intel 10 nm production is not close to the limit. | Aug 08 07:44 |
| oiaohm | Really TSMC is having kind of a horrible problem they don't have enough production to meet the demard of everyone wanting the on moores law transistor growth. | Aug 08 07:51 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: the mail to Koffler did not bounce | Aug 08 08:06 |
| schestowitz | so I assume the address is legit and active | Aug 08 08:06 |
| schestowitz | he has not responded | Aug 08 08:06 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: now you try... | Aug 08 08:10 |
| schestowitz | The way things are going, this summer US will become 6th worst in the world for COVID-19 deaths/capita | Aug 08 08:13 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/aral/status/1291662494189092865 | Aug 08 12:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@aral: Breaking up monopolists is not “splintering the Internet”, it’s breaking up monopolists. The very fact those monop… https://t.co/hGG7ORnN4P | Aug 08 12:36 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@aral: Breaking up monopolists is not “splintering the Internet”, it’s breaking up monopolists. The very fact those monop… https://t.co/hGG7ORnN4P | Aug 08 12:36 | |
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| psydread | http://billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html (from 1999) | Aug 08 14:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-billparish.com | Microsoft Financial Fraud Update | Aug 08 14:20 | |
| schestowitz | wow, it is still online | Aug 08 14:24 |
| schestowitz | https://slated.org/respect_freedom_not_pragmatism | Aug 08 14:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-slated.org | Respect Freedom, Not Pragmatism | Slated | Aug 08 14:49 | |
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| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Jr. | Aug 08 15:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Thomas J. Watson Jr. - Wikipedia | Aug 08 15:35 | |
| schestowitz | "After graduating, Watson became a salesman for IBM but had little interest in the job. The turning point was his service as a pilot in the Army Air Force during World War II. Brother "Dick" (Arthur) Watson had dropped out of Yale as a Major in Ordnance. Tom Jr. became a Lieutenant Colonel flying military commanders. Tom Jr. later admitted to journalists that the one career he would have liked to follow was an airline pilot. Piloting | Aug 08 15:35 |
| schestowitz | came easily to him and for the first time, he had confidence in his abilities. Toward the end of his service, Watson worked for Major General Follett Bradley, who suggested that he should try to follow his father at IBM. Watson regularly flew Bradley, the director of lend-lease programs to the Soviet Union, to Moscow during the war. On these trips, he learned Russian, which would later serve him well as the American Ambassador to the | Aug 08 15:35 |
| schestowitz | Soviet Union. " | Aug 08 15:35 |
| schestowitz | Does not say whether he dropped bombs from the plane | Aug 08 15:35 |
| schestowitz | it does say he dad was a dick, like his brother, literally, "Dick" | Aug 08 15:35 |
| schestowitz | I could use help finding info on what exactly he did at the army | Aug 08 15:36 |
| schestowitz | "Tom Watson Jr. learned this lesson well during his days as a B-24 Liberator pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II. " | Aug 08 15:37 |
| schestowitz | https://www.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/141505/thomas-j-watson-jr-lessons-learned-in-the-air-and-shared-for-a-lifetime/ | Aug 08 15:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.af.mil | Thomas J. Watson Jr. -- Lessons learned in the air and shared for a lifetime. > U.S. Air Force > Display | Aug 08 15:41 | |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz declared 2009 to 2010 as the Year of the Air Force Family. He knew, as leaders before him realized, that without the care and genuine concern for not only Airmen, but for those family members who support their Airmen, mission effectiveness could be compromised. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | Tom Watson Jr. learned this lesson well during his days as a B-24 Liberator pilot in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He learned to fly at the age of ten and like all Airmen, he embraced this opportunity. He didn't stand out in college. He didn't really want to follow in his famous father's footsteps into IBM. Instead, he joined the National Guard as a pilot and eventually was promoted to captain. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | In 1940, his unit was mobilized and Captain Watson found himself patrolling the California coast looking for a possible submarine attack on the days following Pearl Harbor. Wanting more action, he found himself assigned as a pilot and aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Follett Bradley, then the Army's inspector general. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | General Bradley was assigned the task of establishing an Alaska-Siberia ferry route to deliver planes and equipment to the Soviets. This mission required Captain Watson to fly the general into many airfields not used to servicing a B-24 and to work out the detailed enroute logistics and servicing needs of the air armada that soon would follow to allow the Soviets to hold out against the invading Germany army. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | General Bradley soon was dismayed over the inability of his airplane to be ready when he needed it at a moments notice. Asking Captain Watson about this, the captain replied that it was the crew's fault as they didn't seemed to be as focused on the mission. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | General Bradley then ordered Captain Watson to take several days off with his aircrew and the ground support crew. He was to spend all this time with them, to take them to dinner, to learn their first names, the names of their families, what schools they attended and what sports they liked. Only then was Captain Watson to tell them of their mission and its importance. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | When Captain Watson reported these details back to General Bradley, he commented on what great people these Airmen were. Captain Watson reported more than the details. He had learned of their passions and desires and what it took to get the mission done right the first time. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | That plane never again missed a take off, and the enroute structure General Bradley put in place through remote Siberia was done in time to help the Soviets defeat Hitler's aggression in Russia and ultimately lead to the Allied victory. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | As Tom Watson, by now a lieutenant colonel, was leaving the Army, General Bradley asked what his post-war intentions were. Colonel Watson replied that he would like to join Eddie Rickenbacker and support the fledging idea to form Eastern Airlines into a commercial opportunity. General Bradley suggested that Colonel Watson apply what he had learned about taking care of people and go back to IBM. Tom Watson did this and went on to | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | achieve tremendous success as the head of IBM. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | During this post-war time, Tom Watson never lost sight of those who served, and along with Eddie Rickenbacker, he responded to General Eisenhower's request and formed the Air Force Aid Society to support those Airman and their families who deserved the recognition and support that such a organization would provide. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | Tom Watson remained on the Air Force Aid Society's board of directors for more than 24 years. He never lost sight of the clear lesson that his wartime leadership experience taught him: if you take care and recognize people who are responsible for mission success, the mission will be successful. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | Tom Watson applied this though out his life, honoring those who served in the Air Force and in the leadership he demonstrated in IBM. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. During this 100th year of IBM, it is fitting to pause and to celebrate what Tom Watson learned as a pilot and how it changed his life and the lives of many forever. | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | this is the hagiography | Aug 08 15:41 |
| schestowitz | https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/business-leaders/thomas-john-watson-jr | Aug 08 15:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Thomas John Watson Jr | Encyclopedia.com | Aug 08 15:42 | |
| schestowitz | "Thomas Watson, Jr. was a poor student and often in trouble. He embarrassed his father, a member of the school board, by putting skunk odor in the school's ventilating system, forcing the school to close for the day. Watson had trouble reading and had little self-confidence. The greatest moment of his childhood was when he flew in an airplane for the first time, at age ten, and saw his first film with sound, both on the same day. | Aug 08 15:42 |
| schestowitz | Although his father always told him he was free to choose any career, Thomas Watson, Sr. groomed his son from an early age to take over IBM, taking him to sales conventions, factories, and meetings." | Aug 08 15:42 |
| schestowitz | Hmmm\ | Aug 08 15:42 |
| schestowitz | https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kLrDLZFm5cYJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/07/21/back-to-siberia-with-gusto/fd242ead-fe74-49d8-b368-7defb27be695/+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk | Aug 08 16:07 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-webcache.googleusercontent.com | BACK TO SIBERIA, WITH GUSTO - The Washington Post | Aug 08 16:07 | |
| schestowitz | "Watson prefers to talk about the trip: from Moscow to the university town of Novosibirsk, on to Yakutsk, where on the return to America in 1942 he and his comrades were stranded for two weeks after losing two of their B24's four engines in 30-degree-below-zero weather. Their landing in Yakutsk was so dicey that Watson and the pilot received decorations for it; the B24, temporarily crippled, was left behind as the only heavy bomber | Aug 08 16:07 |
| schestowitz | given the Soviets under lend-lease." | Aug 08 16:07 |
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| schestowitz | https://biography.yourdictionary.com/thomas-j-watson-jr | Aug 08 16:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-biography.yourdictionary.com | Thomas J. Watson, Jr Facts | Aug 08 16:42 | |
| schestowitz | "For over three decades, Watson amassed one of the best scrimshaw collections in the country, including 200 intricately carved pieces, all made of whalebone by American whalers. The collection was kept in his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, and at his summer home on North Haven Island, Maine. Watson sailed and flew planes, helicopters, and stunt planes. He had a personal fleet that included a Lear jet, a Breezy, a Twin King Air, a | Aug 08 16:42 |
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| schestowitz | Taylor Cub, and a Bell jet 206 helicopter. His favorite was his stunt plane, a high-tech model, weighing only 850 pounds. Watson perfected a stunt show featuring inward loops and upside down flying. He rode a motorcycle around the island, dodging mouflon sheep. He also tinkered with antique cars, and had four Ford Model T automobiles. He kept them on the island to teach his grandchildren how to drive. Watson died of complications | Aug 08 16:42 |
| schestowitz | following a stroke on December 31, 1993 in Greenwich, Connecticut." | Aug 08 16:42 |
| schestowitz | That's like collecting elephant tusks | Aug 08 16:42 |
| schestowitz | it creates a market for them | Aug 08 16:42 |
| schestowitz | http://www.b24bestweb.com/b24bestweb-Famous.htm | Aug 08 16:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.b24bestweb.com | B-24 Best Web - Famous B-24/PB4Y Crew Members | Aug 08 16:44 | |
| schestowitz | "Became a Lieutenant Colonel flying military commanders. He later admitted to journalists that the one career he would have liked to follow was an airline pilot. Toward the end of his service Watson worked for Major General Follett Bradley, who suggested that he should try to follow his father at IBM. Watson regularly flew Bradley, the director of lend-lease programs to the Soviet Union, to Moscow during the war. On these trips he | Aug 08 16:44 |
| schestowitz | learned Russian, which would later serve him well as the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union. " | Aug 08 16:44 |
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| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Devices: Axiomtek, RasPi and More http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/140771 [https://pleroma.site/objects/bbe0d23f-b3be-4be8-b8a3-766c83dd068b] | Aug 08 17:25 | |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Kubuntu 20.04 has been boring in that it mostly works correctly. I had that ksysgrd network helper spinning but I deleted the file. | Aug 08 17:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nothing appears to require it so if it isn't there it's just not there. | Aug 08 17:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The network activity tabs won't load in ksysguard, byt who cares. Small price to pay for not having it eat 25% cpu time. | Aug 08 17:45 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Figuree out why the car exploded yesterday. | Aug 08 18:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | *figured | Aug 08 18:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They left the grill behind. It's a Kia. | Aug 08 18:08 |
| MinceR | whose car exploded? | Aug 08 18:14 |
| kingoffrance | i was trying to see how mageia got its name ...came from mandriva ...came with mandrake . thats what i started out with (other than 2-floppy nat/firewall) long ago :) | Aug 08 18:27 |
| kingoffrance | s/came with/came from/ | Aug 08 18:27 |
| kingoffrance | so i will just settle with they like stars i guess | Aug 08 18:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | > whose car exploded? | Aug 08 18:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR Another motel guest's. | Aug 08 18:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Looks like a cylinder had an explodion which sent the piston flying out which dented the hood pretty bad. | Aug 08 18:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then a gasoline fire in the engine compartment. | Aug 08 18:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You done picked the wrong Asians to buy a car from, bud. | Aug 08 18:31 |
| MinceR | ic | Aug 08 18:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz It's like the detective said to Rick. Wong answer. Try again. | Aug 08 18:31 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Killed In Action....KIA | Aug 08 18:33 |
| psydread | lol | Aug 08 18:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You used to have to piss the mafia off to have this happen when you turned the key. Now it's just what you get with KIA's "quality control". | Aug 08 18:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I read an article about the fire department responding to a burning KIA in Gurnee last year. | Aug 08 18:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I thought it was an exploding KIA/Hyundai engine, but it wasn't. | Aug 08 18:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Some guy got charged with arson (on his own car) and several other offenses because he got angry that it was "always breaking down". | Aug 08 18:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I read on. The cops asked him why it was breaking down all the time. He said it didn't run when it was out of gasoline. So this time, he went and got some gasoline and poured it on the KIA and set it on fire. | Aug 08 18:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I was like, "Uh, well KIAs are questionable but I don't think it's the car's fault for stalling out when there's no fuel because you're an idiot.". | Aug 08 18:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I picture the guy.....you know "YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST RUN OUT OF GAS EVERY TIME I DON'T FILL YOUR TANK! HERE! HAVE SOME GAS!" | Aug 08 18:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Out of the litany of KIA LULZ, I don't think "Not being a perpetual motion machine that doesn't require fuel." is one you can pin on them. | Aug 08 18:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Electric cars are very efficient, but you run into a problem of scale. | Aug 08 18:45 |
| MinceR | see, BMWs are so much more convenient | Aug 08 18:45 |
| MinceR | they burn themselves down so you don't have to! | Aug 08 18:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Also, various states have passed laws that make buying and servicing them difficult. | Aug 08 18:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | With Tesla, they don't publish their software, diagnostic tools, repair manuals, or replacement parts. | Aug 08 18:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So there's never going to really be much of a used Tesla market. | Aug 08 18:46 |
| MinceR | electric cars aren't as efficient as they're believed to be | Aug 08 18:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: It's basically iPhone the car. | Aug 08 18:46 |
| MinceR | range drops precipitously if you need to run the AC, heater, carry significant amounts of cargo, go uphill or go off-road | Aug 08 18:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When it's done, it's done. You have to buy a new one. | Aug 08 18:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So hard pass. | Aug 08 18:46 |
| MinceR | BMW is the apple of the car industry | Aug 08 18:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can get replacement parts for them so they're still better than buying a Tesla. | Aug 08 18:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've seen BMWs that make it 20 years somehow, but it's rare. | Aug 08 18:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Their owners tend to be the stupidest piece of shit you ever did see. | Aug 08 18:49 |
| MinceR | you can, but they're as unreliable as the originals and possibly even more comically overpriced | Aug 08 18:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Scotty Kilmer was talking about one of his own customers who drove a Beemer and wondered why he was going through brake pads every 8,000 miles or so. | Aug 08 18:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So Kilmer said let me get in the car with you and see what's going on. The guy had both feet on the pedals and insisted that this was the "proper" way to drive a car. | Aug 08 18:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So the brakes were constantly dragging and he was going through them 4-5 times as often as he should. | Aug 08 18:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then when Kilmer pointed that out, the customer said he'd just find a different mechanic. | Aug 08 18:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He had another customer who bought one that was 4 years old with 60,000 miles on it for 20% of its original price. | Aug 08 18:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The first customer had spent $13,000 in repairs to make it keep going that long, and a lot of it was replacing run flat tires and a rim each time he hit a bad pothole. | Aug 08 18:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The United States doesn't take good care of its roads, so those are all over the place and every once in a while you don't see one. | Aug 08 18:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Normal tires are a lot more forgiving of that because they provide cushioning to the rims, bearings, and tie rods. | Aug 08 18:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: The Germans don't really seem to appreciate how bad the driving conditions can be in parts of the US. | Aug 08 18:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Those run flat tires probably work a lot better if you're somewhere where they take care of the roads. | Aug 08 18:54 |
| MinceR | yeah, probably those Mercedes-Benz buses the public transit companies of budapest bought would run better on german roads with their wooden toy car "suspensions" | Aug 08 18:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then there was the woman who had a leaking head gasket and decided "I'm not going to pay $2,700 to fix that on a 2000 BMW!". | Aug 08 18:56 |
| MinceR | here, you can feel every individual flaw in the pavement in them | Aug 08 18:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So she poured Steel Seal in it. Not a bad plan really if it's an old beater and you have a 50/50 chance that the leak is so small it'll plug it and it won't be a problem again. | Aug 08 18:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | She didn't follow the directions though. She just poured it into her radiator and drove around with it until the engine blew up and took out the radiator with it. | Aug 08 18:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The worst thing that usually happens with Steel Seal if you follow the directions is that it just doesn't work and the leak comes right back and you definitely need a new gasket. | Aug 08 18:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <MinceR "yeah, probably those Mercedes-Be"> According to Kilmer, everything on a BMW is junk. The last thing they made properly was a very reliable transmission that they discontinued in 2014. | Aug 08 18:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He said you just almost never saw any trouble with that transmission, but they don't make it now. | Aug 08 18:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: It's not that they _can't_ design a good car. It's that if they did they couldn't bilk you at the stealership every few thousand miles and sell you a new car every 5 years. | Aug 08 19:20 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They just build them a cheaply as they can. They intentionally put parts that will last a given number of cycles of heating up and cooling down before they crack. Things like that. | Aug 08 19:20 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The real reason they got rid of cast iron and cast aluminum in critical engine areas and replaced it with aluminum and plastic is because that doesn't last as long and it's cheaper for them to build. | Aug 08 19:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They pass it along to you by doubling the price vs what a good car used to cost. | Aug 08 19:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They used to design computer equipment to be very durable too. | Aug 08 19:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's probably more Commodores that still work than 2008 Macbooks. | Aug 08 19:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's gotten so bad that whenever our central bank rattles off figures for the economy and gets to "durable goods" I put "durable" in quotation fingers. | Aug 08 19:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's a lot of difference in what "durable" actually means vs. what it did in even 1990-1995. | Aug 08 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In 1995, you buy a refrigerator for your kitchen, and 90% of the ones they sold probably still work today. | Aug 08 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But your electric utility will "buy that old energy hog from you" for the princely sum of $50 off your next electric bill so you can get a "modern refrigerator that's up to 25% more efficient". | Aug 08 19:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Except that if you take them up on that, you'll lose a 1995 model that may work for 20 years to come, and gain a new one that probably won't make it 10 years. | Aug 08 19:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Along the way you save $100 on electricity, but hey. At least you got a $600 fridge with a shitty Android tablet in it. | Aug 08 19:26 |
| MinceR | 08 202009 < DaemonFC[m]> MinceR: It's not that they _can't_ design a good car. | Aug 08 19:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm sure an Android tablet that's barely fast enough to do anything now will age well. | Aug 08 19:27 |
| MinceR | not sure about that | Aug 08 19:27 |
| MinceR | like crApple, the german car industry realized that people don't really insist on reliable cars | Aug 08 19:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: I saw a meme where someone went through Best Buy putting Pornhub on all the refrigerators. | Aug 08 19:27 |
| MinceR | they'll happily give them ridiculous amounts of money for crappy products, as long as it has a logo they believe in | Aug 08 19:27 |
| MinceR | and so, i doubt they have any use for good engineers anymore | Aug 08 19:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I commented, "Yes. But does the refrigerator run DOOM?". | Aug 08 19:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When did we reach a point where your fridge has to have CVEs that nobody will ever fix and a crummy tablet? | Aug 08 19:28 |
| MinceR | :> | Aug 08 19:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You need the tablet to buy milk. | Aug 08 19:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "That's strange. I think I was buying milk when tablet computers were something they only had on the USS Enterprise in TNG.". | Aug 08 19:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "I think it was 98 cents a gallon then too. Hey, let's talk about that!" | Aug 08 19:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: The grocery stores used to have price wars on milk. | Aug 08 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They still do sometimes, but it never gets below $1.68. | Aug 08 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I remember seeing milk at 69 cents a gallon sometimes. | Aug 08 19:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Gasoline would occasionally drop to 74 cents. | Aug 08 19:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: We're living in Inflation World from that episode of Sliders. | Aug 08 19:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Remember when they get to the one where they took Thomas Malthus seriously and implemented strict population controls and everything was super cheap because you didn't have going on 8 billion people bidding it up? | Aug 08 19:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The Professor stops at a news stand and gets a paper for 5 cents and a sandwich and an apple for 40 cents. (Even in 1996 that was pretty out there.). | Aug 08 19:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | (Like, 1940s prices.) | Aug 08 19:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The more people there are bidding everything up, the shittier your life will be because prices get bid up and wages are bid down, because if you won't buy it or you won't work there, there's millions of other people where you came from. | Aug 08 19:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If people would stop fucking so much and just let the population go down, we'd all be much better off, and it's not just climate change. | Aug 08 19:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's why Capitalism subsidizes irresponsible "procreation". With a mass "reserve army of unemployed workers", people become commodities, and if you get a labor dispute, they just toss you like a broken part and 300 scabs come in and there's no problem for them. | Aug 08 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The subsidies on having children get cut when the reserve army of the unemployed grows large enough. Which is why the federal government ended cash welfare in 1996 and why Trump cut the child tax credits in half. | Aug 08 19:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Along with throwing millions of hungry families off food stamps. | Aug 08 19:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The birth rate is collapsing in the US because everyone with a brain in their head looks what happened to those poor saps and says "Oh my God, that's terrible. I'd better not do that!". | Aug 08 19:38 |
| MinceR | yeah | Aug 08 19:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Republicans, which no jack shit about jack shit, expected a baby boom from the COVID lockdowns, but the fact is that even CDC says a million babies that would have been born will not be born over the next 3 years because people are scrambling to protect what little they have left after Trump and the other pestilence. | Aug 08 19:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | *know | Aug 08 19:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So, here's the rub. Christians say that condoms are bad because in some alternate timeline had you not used one, there would have been a soul that attached to the fetus. So using this causality=murder condom logic, does that mean if we had a real president who took action to limit the Coronavirus pandemic to be 10% as bad as it is (which is how bad it had to be, probably), that Trump wouldn't have murdered 900,000 | Aug 08 19:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | potential babies and 500,000 Americans? | Aug 08 19:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you go with Multiverse Theory on this one, Trump has killed more people than the Communist uprising in China. | Aug 08 19:43 |
| MinceR | nah, actual people who were already born don't matter to these "pro-life" hypocrites | Aug 08 19:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think the Terminator franchise seriously overestimates how fast humans get to AI that works. | Aug 08 19:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The government in the US is so dependent on Microsoft that they can't even launch a website that works without 8 re-designs and several billion dollars over budget. | Aug 08 19:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So I think we're safe for now. | Aug 08 19:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The contracts that Trump doles out are sometimes to his friends who have been personally indicted or their business has been indicted on up to 46 felony charges that haven't even been resolved yet. | Aug 08 19:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | How would you like to sit on a jury for 6 months, be sequestered, reach a verdict, and have Trump go "Nah, it's a friend of mine so he can do whatever?". | Aug 08 19:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's what happens now. | Aug 08 19:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They usually save this kind of stuff for last day or at least after they lose the election, but Trump sees it coming and is just doing it now. | Aug 08 19:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: I read a news article that says some people want to volunteer to be infected with COVID-19 so that they can help research progress on it, but they can't because it wouldn't be ethical. | Aug 08 19:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Trump slaughtered 400,000 Americans that didn't have to die by the time this is over and prevented a million births so he could go golfing and pretend we didn't have a problem for 13 more days. | Aug 08 19:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Was that ethical? :) | Aug 08 19:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's this thing called the Church of Euthanasia that says "Save the planet. Kill yourself.". | Aug 08 19:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They probably love Trump. | Aug 08 19:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The problem here is that without strict population controls, 1 million fewer births over 3 years and half a million dead from the virus in the US does very little to help the environment, wrecks the economy, and causes unnecessary pain and suffering. | Aug 08 19:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In fact, I read something once that showed that a virus could kill 99% of people. It would be devastating. It would set us back thousands of years, but in 10,000 years there'd just be 8 billion people on the planet again and the problems would be back full speed ahead. | Aug 08 19:53 |
| MinceR | (audio:unimportant) https://hugelolcdn.com/v/684668.mp4 | Aug 08 19:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Agent Smith in the Matrix wasn't wrong when he said "Humans aren't actually mammals, they're a virus." (to the effect of....). Everything else finds a balance. Humans just multiply and multiply uncontrollably, until all resources are destroyed, and then they move somewhere else. Like a disease that destroys the host. | Aug 08 19:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Humans are a virus with legs. They're just smart enough to be dangerous. There is no other invasive pest on Earth that will eventually wipe out all life on the planet. We will. It's coming. Hundreds of years, at best. | Aug 08 19:57 |
| XRevan86 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species | Aug 08 19:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Invasive species - Wikipedia | Aug 08 19:58 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Rabbits get into Australia or a plant (kudzu) gets where it shouldn't be, or cats take over and island and eat a particular bird to death. AMATEURS! | Aug 08 19:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | We'll show you how it's done! Climate change. Nuclear weapons. WAR! | Aug 08 19:59 |
| XRevan86 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War | Aug 08 20:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Gombe Chimpanzee War - Wikipedia | Aug 08 20:00 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | COVID-19 is spreading out of control in places where there's either a lot of blacks or a lot of Republicans. | Aug 08 20:02 |
| XRevan86 | Humans didn't invent conflicts or chopping the feeding hand (like ecosystems). Humans are just a lot more effective at it. | Aug 08 20:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If they want to spew this shit on each other being stupid assholes, I mean. They're not going to listen to me if they're not listening to scientists or even Dr. Fauci. | Aug 08 20:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Get out of the way and let them "dispense product" on each other and eventually things will slow WAY down and we can come off RED ALERT with most of the victims being the aforementioned stupid assholes. | Aug 08 20:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think there is evidence of herd immunity starting in Waukegan because the people living here are just so fucking gross that half of them have already had it. | Aug 08 20:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So the county as a whole can't really "get going" like it was back in April with the new infections, because it already exhausted most of the raw materials it needed to spread. What we have left now are embers burning in the rest of the county. | Aug 08 20:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | XRevan86: Chimpanzee war.... | Aug 08 20:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm not going to...no. | Aug 08 20:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's how you know the Marvel universe is science fiction. | Aug 08 20:08 |
| MinceR | 08 210255 < XRevan86> Humans didn't invent conflicts or chopping the feeding hand (like ecosystems). Humans are just a lot more effective at it. | Aug 08 20:10 |
| MinceR | effective enough to wipe out most life on Earth | Aug 08 20:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | if a spaceship crash landed there, I think we'd definitely be safe from a country reverse engineering it and ending up 200 years ahead of everyone else. | Aug 08 20:10 |
| MinceR | or possibly all of it | Aug 08 20:10 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: rm -rf is efficient at removing files | Aug 08 20:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Given how all of the major world governments are acting, I sincerely hope that an alien spaceship doesn't crash where one of them can reverse engineer it. | Aug 08 20:11 |
| XRevan86 | rm -rf /usr /share… whoops | Aug 08 20:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I got a letter from Kia threatening to void the warranty if I don't change the oil. | Aug 08 20:11 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | KIA. Change the oil, or we'll find you. | Aug 08 20:12 |
| XRevan86 | What kind of oil? Sunflower oil, olive oil, petroleum, …? | Aug 08 20:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Doesn't matter. It explodes either way. | Aug 08 20:14 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | If I wasn't going to get in so much trouble, I'd go out there and pick if the grill and mail it to John. | Aug 08 20:15 |
| MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/684613.jpg | Aug 08 20:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Looks like Homeless Studios had it towed. | Aug 08 20:20 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/hyundai-and-kia-recall-500000-cars-that-could-randomly-catch-fire-030419.html | Aug 08 21:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.consumeraffairs.com | Hyundai and Kia recall 500,000 cars that could randomly catch fire | Aug 08 21:23 | |
| MinceR | they should be copying the japanese, not BMW | Aug 08 21:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/amid-government-shutdown-kia-and-hyundai-issue-recall-on-cars-that-may-randomly-catch-fire-011719.html | Aug 08 21:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.consumeraffairs.com | Amid government shutdown, Kia and Hyundai issue recall on cars that may randomly catch fire | Aug 08 21:26 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/900394707/tiktok-to-sue-trump-administration-over-ban-as-soon-as-tuesday | Aug 08 21:29 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.npr.org | TikTok To Sue Trump Administration On President's Executive Order Ban : NPR | Aug 08 21:29 | |
| MinceR | (cat) (audio:unimportant) https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2020/07/11/cb50ca9570104541.mp4 | Aug 08 22:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, I hate being right all the time. | Aug 08 22:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The closed Coronavirus cases were taking the percentage of cases ending in death down pretty fast, for a while, until they didn't. | Aug 08 22:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Now that is dropping maybe 1/20th of a percent per day and still slowing down. | Aug 08 22:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's at 5.90% right at the moment. | Aug 08 22:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I predicted that it probably wouldn't fall much lower than 5%. | Aug 08 22:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | With nearly 3 million cases closed, it's settling in the 5-6% range and will likely stubbornly remain within that range. | Aug 08 22:17 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'd be more pissed off about the Coronavirus except we're hardly losing our best people to it, for the most part. | Aug 08 22:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 90% are a bunch of stupid retards that voted for this guy and it can't get rid of enough of them to restore enough sanity. If something that was entirely avoidable kills 3 times (and counting) of your generation as the Vietnam War, and you vote for Trump again, you might be a dumbass. | Aug 08 22:27 |
| MinceR | (audio:unimportant) https://i.imgur.com/HDCkQRt.mp4 | Aug 08 22:28 |
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| schestowitz | > Greetings. My name is Eric M Huffman. I have followed your work for years in regards to, Boycott Novell. I also celebrated the success your team effort achieved when Novell went down. | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | > The reason I am writing you is because I am the founder of a different boycott. My background and motivation maybe different from yours. Mine is called, Boycott AIM. AIM is an acronym for, Adobe, Intuit, Microsoft. | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | > I am the founder of Boycott AIM. The goal of three headed beast is not to provide us with quality software, they want to control our freedoms. I am not hear to fight them. The sub heading to my personal blog is, "The best way to kill the beast is to starve it". What I liked about your movement was you kept us informed of all that was happening. I am inspired by you commitment to see the boycott all the way through to its | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | conclusion. | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | > Here is my blog post, if you're interested. http://www.ericmhuffman.com/2020/08/its-time-to-stop-talking-and-take.html | Aug 08 23:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ericmhuffman.com | My Personal Blog: It's Time To Stop Talking and Take Action Against the Beasts that Want to Control Us | Aug 08 23:55 | |
| schestowitz | Thanks for the kind words. I've added the above to our upcoming Daily Links and added the RSS feed to our reading list: | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | http://www.ericmhuffman.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | I suppose you already know that "AIM" will be mistaken for AOL IM. | Aug 08 23:55 |
| schestowitz | (it's called "Boycott AIM") | Aug 08 23:55 |
| MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spicy | Aug 08 23:57 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spicy | Aug 08 23:57 | |
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