Posts by jake

Re: what is linux good for?

Bad troll. No cookie.

Re: Rent a mob

PDNFTT

Ta.

Re: Praise Where and When Praise is Due.

amfm has always had that side to him, if you listen. The one surprise in the above was the reference to MAD ... I always thought he was based in the UK, but that is a particularly North American reference, and mostly sub 49th parallel, at that.

Re: ...and where exactly do you live in the US?

Read what I pointed out again. What percentage of Canadians who get Covid-19 will not survive, vs. us Yanks? Looks like about a 65% worse mortality rate in Kannukistan over the span of the pandemic. That is a rather large difference, regardless of how you try to spin it.

Re: ...and where exactly do you live in the US?

Both the Wife and I have entered the ICU via the emergency room a couple of times. We have never had to declare bankruptcy. Didn't cost very much, either. Funny how insurance works, isn't it?

Re: What frightens me most...

About all a thousand people can do "together" is rush a building. Ever try to coach a sports team? And they actually have a stated, specific common goal with known rules to achieve it!

Re: ...and where exactly do you live in the US?

"Canada, you know that country to the North that ranks above the US in pretty much every metric that matters."

Including mortality rate from Covid-19? You lot are sitting at around 2.6%, the US at 1.7%. What was that nonsense that you were spouting up-thread again?

Glass houses & all that.

Re: Careful. Slow down and THINK.

By the pint? No ... I never have before, but it's occasionally been tempting these last four years.

Re: Careful. Slow down and THINK.

I offered to buy a round, I didn't specify what you asked the beertender to put in your glass.

Re: For so many years...

Oh, get off it. We've had to put up with Hoover and McCarthy, just for a start. Which makes the fact that Trump got into the Oval Office all that much more surprising.

And people wonder why the first place governments make cuts in spending is education.

Re: ...and where exactly do you live in the US?

And which wonderful country do you live in, Blank? Ashamed to say?

Re: Not Unexpected

"a serious lack of any attempt of an investigation by anyone"

If you have actual evidence of this, take it to the authorities.

Or, if you prefer, I offer the immortal words from Usenet: "Post proof or retract". But you will do neither, for the same reason that Trump & minions/sycophants can not.

Re: Careful. Slow down and THINK.

I wrote: "Congress will resume in the morning"

Well, damn! I was wrong. They are resuming as I type, this evening, not tomorrow morning. Mea culpa.

Hopefully the anti-American thugs are proud of themselves, because everybody else is yawning at them. Except their mummys, of course; they must be ever-so proud.

Re: Unfortunately ...

Be careful what you wish for. Even the conservative ultra-right old guard doesn't want that fucking nutcase Pence in the oval office, not even for just a couple of weeks ... Why do you think Trump picked him as a running-mate? Pence is insurance that keeps Trump from being booted out before his term is over.

Re: It's not a funny event.

Nah. The "dangerous" hot-heads have shot their load. It's over. They lost. And should now be treated as the laughing-stock that they are.

Re: "[they] lacked standing to pursue the case, and that they’d sued the wrong target"

"Sadly I watched police mace people at the Capitol building"

Would you prefer they had shot the thugs illegally breaking into a Federal building? At least with the mace they can go crying home to their mummies.

Re: "[they] lacked standing to pursue the case, and that they’d sued the wrong target"

"If only independent audits and full investigations had been allowed"

Trump and his minions did everything they could to overturn the results. In front of many Judges. In many different jurisdictions. Not a single Judge said a single case had merit. Not one. Zero. Not even the Judges that Trump himself had appointed.

Which makes me wonder ... what the fuck would have to happen for you and your ilk to believe that Trump had no case? Would it take the hand of Gawd/ess him/er self writing it on your forehead do the job?

Honestly, the mind absolutely boggles ...

Re: "[they] lacked standing to pursue the case, and that they’d sued the wrong target"

I referenced the entire site.

But thank you for admitting you are cherry-picking to support your premise. Confirmation bias is an ugly thing.

Re: "[they] lacked standing to pursue the case, and that they’d sued the wrong target"

Have you actually read the silly journal for yourself? Or have you just cherry-picked a bit that seems to back a claim that you have made? It's all there, in black and white, for anybody to read. Shirley you don't need me to explain the big words for you ...

Re: "[they] lacked standing to pursue the case, and that they’d sued the wrong target"

"I'm hearing a lot of 'there is no evidence' so fuck it, time for you all to provide some."

Dude, that's not logical. You can't prove a negative. You have asserted that a chain of events occurred that could affect the outcome of a Presidential election. I (and various Courts here in the US) state unequivocally that proof seemingly does not exist that those chains of events occurred. It is now up to you to prove that it does.

Re: Don't suck the joy out of everything

The point is that there is no actual "Air Force One". All it is is a call sign that denotes the fixed wing aircraft that the President is currently flying in. The equipment onboard has absolutely nothing to do with the call sign. For example, in November of '99 Bill Clinton flew across Turkey in a Gulfstream III, which was designated Air Force One for the duration of the flight. It didn't have the security or communications gear you mention.

Re: "[they] lacked standing to pursue the case, and that they’d sued the wrong target"

You expect me to take the word of a far-right, somewhat sexist, conspiracy theory loving rag which tends to bend the truth to the breaking point in order to support its agenda over the published opinions of various courts in the US, with Judges appointed by both Right and Left leaning Presidents? Really?

It's not me that is gaslighting you ... Try looking within.

Re: Don't suck the joy out of everything

"Air Force One" is not a plane, it's a condition. My little Cessna A152 would be called Air Force One if I were to be giving the President a lift. Likewise, "Marine One" is the helicopter the president is currently riding in..

Shirley Melatonin[0] will make her break to somewhere on the other side of the former Iron Curtain, taking her Whitehouse secrets to the Kremlin to help pay her way?

[0] Or so my Spall Chucker insists on calling her ...

Re: Trying to subvert the results of a Presidential election?

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” —Theodore Roosevelt

Re: California

California just crossed 2.5 million confirmed cases last night, and the US as a whole 21 million. Note that these are both cumulative, and includes folks who have recovered.

The SF Chronicle has kept this page up to date since March.

The best over-all US stats page I've seen yet is here. (CA-only version).

Re: I'll just leave this here

That's OK, I'd just as soon stay sick.

Re: Doh!

I thought we were discussing the history of word "sheeple" as used in the English Language, not the history of the effect that it is describing. The effect itself goes back to the first proto-shaman separating the ignorant from their meager scavenged food because his cave or hollow tree looked scary. Cushiest job in Africa a couple million years ago, I'm sure.

Re: Doh!

Name seems to check out ... Can I borrow your time machine?

Re: I'll just leave this here

Mine prescribes Bop Pills ...

I hear that one is quite the buzz. Quite popular with fuzzy thinkers.

Re: Doh!

Long before XKCD commented on the subject of sheeple, E. C. Segar used the term in a Popeye cartoon in 1930.

Given that such terms are often in the common vernacular long before making it into print, the term has probably been used to describe people blindly following [something] without bothering to actually think about what they are following for well over a century. There is a reason that Orwell used sheep the way he did in 1945's Animal Farm.

Re: Doh!

That's the women. Us men get our electromagnetic waves from Mars. There was a tell-all exposé book all about it back in the early 90s, or thereabouts. It sold rather well, so it must have been highly accurate.

Re: It's a farce

At a real monetarey cost to the poor saps in the rank & file, of course.

That pretty much describes unions in the US in general. You Brits would do well to understand this before commentarding.