Hot and humid, but clear, like yesterday… So I better get some stuff done early, or sweat to the skin later.
Did all indoor stuff yesterday. I spent a bunch of time trying to model the slope and terrain at the BOL in Sketchup. The ‘sandbox’ tool is great for fantasy terrain, but there doesn’t seem to be a good fast way to match existing. I’m about half way through trying to do something with contours… which if it doesn’t work, I’ll have to do over with a different method. Just plotting my elevations has been useful to see the ‘lay of the land’ though.
Speaking of the BOL, I think I’m shooting for heading back up on Wednesday. I’ve got so much to do, and I get more done when I’m there by myself, that I can’t skip a week. We’re heading up for the weekend, but it will be another short trip.
New A/C system seems to be a bit more efficient than the old. Days like yesterday, the old system would be falling behind by 330 pm, but the new system kept up just fine. Tentatively I’ll call it money well spent.
Sometime soon, I’ve got to do some personal checkups and maintenance on this old body of mine. Better to do it than to wait. Obamma-lamma no care kicked my various doctors’ @sses and I’ve been without a primary care doc for too long. Past time to do something about that.
Add it to the list.
And stack it high.
n
You forgot everyone’s student loans. $200k isn’t uncommon in the US for an advanced nursing degree like the MS required in most states for a nurse anesthetist. $300-400k for a doctor.
After the fuss in the news about the revelations of $1 million student loan balances, Navient revealed that they are tracking 200 people with that balance. There are probably more now.
A nurse anesthetist makes $300k/year so they don’t need forgiveness, but those are always the people you read about who pack it in at 40 and run scuba charters in the Bahamas in the back half of their productive career time.
75F and 95%RH this morning.
Time to get the kids up.
Not a ton of news coverage of the massive drought out west, just stories like this, that mention it in passing.
Between receding lake water, and magnet fishing, it’s clear that just because you threw something in the water, it’s not really gone….
n
Ditto, except I was a quiche-eating chopper pilot.
Is Windows 11 even Beta quality? We haven’t received any indication about when we will be required to update our corporate drone laptops at work, and we supply a huge number of those to the Fortune 500.
https://gizmodo.com/windows-11-update-causing-apps-to-crash-how-to-uninstal-1848884560
I’m taking this as a bad sign for the global economy…
Watchfinder is an international site to resell pre-owned luxury watches.
Luxury goods market is softening.
n
Yaknow, one of the first things to go when times get tough, paying someone to help you exercise.
Projected to have almost a billion dollars in revenue?? Sweet mother of gnu. People have too much money and not enough sense. In the old days that meant cocaine…
n
Subbing today. Bunch of freshmen snot rags. Taken two phones already. Told one kid at the beginning of class to turn off his phone. He kept texting and just looked at me. I told him again. Again he ignored. I took his phone. Later he asked for it back and I emphatically told him no. He said he needed the phone to do his classwork. I told him tough, should have thought of that earlier, the phone is going to the office.
Another kid had his head on his desk looking at his lap, a sure indication. Sure enough. So I captured that phone. Two in one class. Not a record but does match my best.
When will they learn? Oh wait, they are freshmen, annoying creatures. Females who cannot keep quiet and the need to communicate is overwhelming. Males who think they are the toughest thing around and are railing against authority and see no need to get an education.
No big issues on the home desktop, but I’m always an early adopter so I can keep up. At work, corporate machines are all Win 10. No plans that I know of to upgrade. Probably at the next lease refresh. For the networks I support, there is no STIG for Win11, so even if we wanted to upgrade, we couldn’t. 2024 is my guess for a timeline.
Added: I am only running Win11 on my main desktop at home. All other desktops/laptops are Win10. The boy’s new laptop comes with Win11. According to UPS, it will be here tomorrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10797681/Desperate-mothers-forced-buy-formula-know-make-babies-sick-amid-shortage.html
–yet three stores in my neighborhood all show ‘in stock’ for the “hardest to find” formulation.
and can someone tell me how the F we got to the point that human babies can only eat one particular brand of an artificial product or they die?
n
This from my CDC alert newsletter…
–note those last two bits, it’s hard to know for sure you have post covid, and it’s a legal disability. I predict a MASSIVE increase in claims of ‘long covid’.
n
As predicted, the coverage of this crime vanished from the MSM, but there are other niche pubs out there.
https://www.securityinfowatch.com/critical-infrastructure/news/21267069/accused-nyc-subway-shooter-indicted-on-terrorism-charges
This should be very concerning for anyone who values anonymity, freedom of movement, or individual liberty. More at the link, but I’ve snipped the critical parts.
https://www.securityinfowatch.com/alarms-monitoring/alarm-systems-intrusion-detection/sensors-detectors-miscellaneous/article/21260237/tech-trends-the-next-wave-of-sensor-technology
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yesssss, I’m sure they will only use it for “livestock” monitoring.
n
(remember when Clancy had a seal team using some sort of new tech that could detect and locate heartbeats? And I think this is the tech that Border patrol uses to find people in vehicles and containers.)
This one is in use in various places, widespread warrantless searches of people by scanning UNDER their clothes…
https://www.securityinfowatch.com/perimeter-security/threat-detection-imaging-inspection/product/10798762/tialinx-inc-viper60a-ultra-wideband-concealed-weapon-detector
WRT the airtags and UWB tracking, we know that bad actors use it to follow victims. What we haven’t heard about yet is .gov actors using it to locate or track, or insiders misusing it to locate or track people or things.
We already know companies are using wifi and blutooth “presence” sensing (built into commercial wifi access points) to determine who is in a building, or on campus, where they are, and how long they spent there. We know that there are people, either .gov or contractors, who are using similar techniques for “contact tracing” via apps that got pushed to smartphones, in other words, building a very detailed and sophisticated map of your real world network of contacts and acquaintances.
We don’t know how they will use the data they are collecting, how long they will keep it, or who will have access to it.
n
There’s been a PhotoShop "trick" (I'm not sure what to call it) for years where you use a powerful flash to take a photo of someone. The flash penetrates their clothing and then reflects off their skin. A few adjustments in photoshop and you're basically looking a nearly nude person. Celebrities have been victims of it for years, but it's creeping up amongst the laypeople.
I frequently find myself observing that humans made it hundreds of thousands of years without this or that.. Now, somehow, we just can't survive without this or that. 🙄
It feels like nobody gave a shit about GPS stalkers until Apple came out with Air Tags. Similar devices have been around for YEARS. It wasn’t until Apple came to market with one that the MSM freaked out.
https://xkcd.com/2617/
I beg to differ. For the first time in a while I used it, about a month ago, to pick up a Craigslist item, was directed through two miles a of slow, twisty, kid and dog infested suburban maze.
I checked Google maps on the way out: we were two blocks from a four lane parkway.
Maybe Ill try again on 2025. Or 2030.
Mortality rates among infants was much higher years ago. Now medical science knows the issue and can address the issue. Remember in the civil war people would die from gun wounds that are now quite survivable. We cannot do without antibiotics today whereas years ago we had none.
Medical science makes many previously fatal infant problems survivable. However, after dealing with the freshmen in the English class, maybe that is not a good thing.
People notice when apple does it because it just works, and you can order it. you don’t have to seek it out and visit Spyshop to pick it up.
The airtags are a couple of order of magnitude improvements over the gps loggers, or gps trackers too.
n
Dave Chappelle’s attacker, another aspiring rapper….
https://www.securityinfowatch.com/security-executives/news/21266930/how-did-dave-chappelle-attacker-breach-layers-of-hollywood-bowl-security-with-a-replica-gun
–aspiring rapper is pretty dangerous job, like standing on the street corner, minding your own business is a pretty dangerous place.
n
https://xkcd.com/2617/
I beg to differ. For the first time in a while I used it, about a month ago, to pick up a Craigslist item, was directed through two miles a of slow, twisty, kid and dog infested suburban maze.
I checked Google maps on the way out: we were two blocks from a four lane parkway.
Maybe Ill try again on 2025. Or 2030.
I note that Randall’s BLM hyperlink is gone now. It took him long enough to figure out the scam, I expected more of him.
I use Tile for asset tracking, mostly to find mislaid things. Definitely not for people tracking.
For people tracking, all I want is to know when my wife or daughters are in the house. Fing suffices for that, although it’s made more difficult by Apple’s MAC address randomisation, since they all use iThings.
G.
I have four airtags, on my keys, my computer bag, my camera and the wife’s purse. They seem to work well. If I leave the location where the tags are, and I am not on my home WiFi network, I will get an alert on my phone. Sometimes I leave the camera in the truck to go somewhere and the alert is within 100 feet of the truck.
I have yet to receive an alert about an unknown tag that stays in close proximity to me for an extended time indicating I am being tracked.
I can also get on the Find My Phone website and it will tell me where the tags are located.
It is a simple matter for someone to remove the tags and just steal my stuff. What it does assist with is locating the items if they have been misplaced. Wife uses it to locate her person purse on occasion which is generally found somewhere in the house, buried under some pile of junk or sometimes left in her car.
And crude oil has dropped below $100/bbl. That means that the traders know that demand is dropping due to the economy and prices. We are already in a recession, we are possibly heading into a depression.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF?p=CL%3DF
Do not leave a job now without having a new job to jump to immediately. One wonders if the job offers are being taken back now. I have seen this all before in the middle 1980s and late 1990s, it was not pretty.
OK, there’s something weird here. I’ve tried to submit a comment (not this one) several times, and it just disappears. The last time I got a “duplicate comment” message, but the original is still not visible. There are 2 links, but I don’t think that’s germane – the limit is 4, is it not?
G.
And that worked. I’ll append the original comment to this one, and if it doesn’t go through I’ll give up. It’s not vital that I get this one in.
G.
I use Tile for asset tracking, mostly to find mislaid things. Definitely not for people tracking.
For people tracking, all I want is to know when my wife or daughters are in the house. Fing suffices for that, although it’s made more difficult by Apple’s MAC address randomisation, since they all use iThings.
G.
Nope. Must be something in the comment text. Nick? Rick? Are my attempts visible to you, or have they just disappeared down a black hole?
Not important, if not.
G.
@Geoff – you had four comments in the ‘jail’. Two were duplicates, which is why you got the ‘duplicate content’ message when you tried to create a new comment with the same content as the old one.
The other two were caught as spam by Akismet’s automatic spam catcher. Probably because of short text with several links.
I released the ones that were not duplicates. You should have gotten a message that your comment was put in jail. Perhaps you didn’t notice that notice.
Thanks, Rick. No, I did not see a “You’re in jail” text, only the “duplicate post” text.
So I should have been more verbose? Joke.
G.
See 2000Mules on how phones were used to find mules moving ballots around.
Conservatives using phone tracking to find vote cheating = bad
Liberals using phone tracking to check on clot-shot social distancing = good
Didn’t the Oracle guy say “nothing is private anymore”.
@MrAtoz:
Somebody did. It may well have been Larry Ellison, I misremember. And I blame the U.S. for not having better (or, indeed, any) privacy laws. In a halfway sane jurisdiction, The Chocolate Factory and FaceCrack would have been fined into oblivion for their obsessive snooping.
G.
>> After the fuss in the news about the revelations of $1 million student loan balances, Navient revealed that they are tracking 200 people with that balance. There are probably more now.
Dual MD/JD I presume?
@Geoff –
It runs out the theme doesn’t display a ‘comment in moderation’ notice if that happens. You just won’t see the comment on the redisplay of the page.
I’ll probably add that in the next version of the theme.
Just like hearing “He wuz a gud boi, dindu nuh-in wrong” guarantees that he was killed while committing a felony.
I got my wife a Tile 4-pack some years ago. She put one on her purse and one on each of the three preteen girls on a Disney trip. And ended up using it to find one of the girls when she got separated from the group. That’s not the usual use case, I realize.
I’ve had offers rescinded in the past. In theory one can sue for the breach, especially if he turned down another offer. In practice, I’ve been advised that it’s not worth bothering. The best one can do is to spread word about their bad-faith hiring practices.
@rick:
Noted, thanks. And further thanks for your maintenance efforts.
G.
>> We don’t know how they will use the data they are collecting, how long they will keep it, or who will have access to it.
And you expect to know these things why?
BTW, I drove today for the first time in a couple weeks. Gasoline prices have jumped again, exceeding the highs back in March. 112% price increase for 87 octane since mid-January 2021.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10797681/Desperate-mothers-forced-buy-formula-know-make-babies-sick-amid-shortage.html
–yet three stores in my neighborhood all show ‘in stock’ for the “hardest to find” formulation.
and can someone tell me how the F we got to the point that human babies can only eat one particular brand of an artificial product or they die?
n
My Dad was the first of three boys to survive. His first brother in 1934 was stillborn. His second brother in 1936 died of the stomach regurgitation syndrome where he threw up everything they fed him, died at six months. For Dad in 1938, they were ready and had found a doctor who gave them a plastic ??? tube. Every time they fed Dad for the first year of his life, they ran the plastic tube down into his stomach. He survived. Grandad once told me that every time he approached Dad with the plastic tube, Dad leaned his head back and opened his mouth, just like a little bird.
You gotta be tough to be a parent.
BTW, I drove today for the first time in a couple weeks. Gasoline prices have jumped again, exceeding the highs back in March. 112% price increase for 87 octane since mid-January 2021.
$5/gal ? 7 $/gal ? $10/gal ?
Is Windows 11 even Beta quality? We haven’t received any indication about when we will be required to update our corporate drone laptops at work, and we supply a huge number of those to the Fortune 500.
https://gizmodo.com/windows-11-update-causing-apps-to-crash-how-to-uninstal-1848884560
My son thinks that all of Windows 11 is coming out of the tiger teams in Microsoft India. Looks like somebody from the Redmund office is going to have to go over there for a year and lay down the law.
Microsoft uses three tiger teams to achieve each goal. The first team that reaches the goal wins and gets to keep their jobs. Yes, horrible but it works. Gates implemented the tiger teams after NT took five years to release. Read the Showstopper book.
https://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Microsoft/dp/0029356717/
Dilbert: Sapoisexual
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-05-10
This is not going to a good place.
My first-born was a preemie, and didn’t have enough energy to nurse. The NICU nurses taught us how to do gavage and that got us through the first 2 weeks.
When he started eating, he quickly caught up in development. He played guard and tackle in high school.
“A.F Branco Cartoon – Deplorable”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-deplorable/
“Biden says MAGA is the most extreme group in recent American history ignoring Antifa and BLM riots. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2022.”
BLM is a cover group for the Antifa and MAGA is the normals is how I see it.
I frequently find myself observing that humans made it hundreds of thousands of years without this or that.. Now, somehow, we just can’t survive without this or that.
Half ??? of the kids died before they were a year old about 200 years ago. We now save about 90% of them. But some of them are severely disabled.
My Dad was the first child to survive, early 1920’s. His older sister was a premie and died. I was told Grandma never forgave God, and never went to church again.
Hard times.
“California considers 3 GW of offshore wind by 2030 as experts stress need for clean energy diversity”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/california-offshore-wind-diversity-innovation-cec/623433/
Why do I get the feeling that wind turbines in the water are going to get sued out of existence ?
BTW, these are the new 700+ foot tall wind turbines. You can see them a LONG ways off.
“The song remains the same with regard to our hot forecast, so let’s discuss the four phases of summer”
https://spacecityweather.com/the-song-remains-the-same-with-regard-to-our-hot-forecast-so-lets-discuss-the-four-phases-of-summer/
“Early summer: When we first start to see 90-degree temperatures with regularity, but some nights in the 60s are still possible, and there’s still the thinnest hope of a weak front
Mid summer: When highs run from 90 to 95 degrees, and nights are sultry, but you know it could still get worse
High summer: Somewhere between late July and early September there’s a period where temperatures reach the upper 90s to low 100s and you realize, “Ok, this really is the worst.”
Late summer: This is the period in September and early October when days grow shorter and we usually see the first front or two of the season. But most of the time it’s still hot.”
Anything with summer in the name generally sucks in Texas.
“Deutsche Bahn and Siemens Mobility present new H2 train, storage tank trailer”
https://gulfenergyinfo.com/h2tech/news/2022/052022/deutsche-bahn-and-siemens-mobility-present-new-h2-train-storage-tank-trailer
I propose that they name the new H2 train “The Fireball”.
My parents’ first child, my older sister, was stillborn. 67 years later, rarely a year goes by that I don’t hear each of my parents mention her – Daddy as well as Mama. She has a grave, and a tombstone, and I (or my ashes) will be buried next to her.
My younger sister was born with a partial cleft palate… they had to hold her upright to feed her. Until she had her surgery, she was in constant danger of choking. They would never deprive children of candy back then, so they would give me a packet of M&Ms, and I would bite each one in half, and give her half. More than 60 years later, I still catch myself biting M&Ms in half.
She had to have surgery on her sinuses recently, and she said her surgeon was very impressed with what a good job they had done repairing her palate all those years ago.
I don’t know what the numbers are, but the survival of infants and small children has been responsible for most of our gains in life expectancy in the last century.
plugs going all in on SCOTUS:
Jen Psaki says WH will ‘certainly continue to encourage’ pro-abort protests outside Justices’ homes, ‘and that’s the president’s position’
The Dumbocrat way:
Jen Psaki clarifies Joe Biden’s earlier remarks, explains that ‘he is the president. We do control all forms of branches of government.’
The ProgLibTurds are going all out to crush the FUSA into compliance. I wonder if the SCOTUS rioters are wearing masks? LOL, that ship has sailed. The ProgLibTurd world may just crumble down around their ears.
But, I never forget how Redumblicans can snatch defeat out of the mouth of victory.
“Fact Check: Does George P. Bush have ‘woke’ plans to move the Alamo?”
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/Ken-Paxton-calls-George-P-Bush-a-liberal-in-17162264.php
“Bush has maintained that relocating the Cenotaph is merely an aspect of a much-needed preservation strategy for the aging historical site. “I don’t claim to be an engineer or a scientist, I’m just your basic politician,” Bush said in 2020. “But the Cenotaph, the experts tell me, is basically falling apart from within…and that essentially the only way to fix it is to relocate it.””
So, yes, Bush Jr. is going to relocate the Alamo.
My parents’ first child, my older sister, was stillborn. 67 years later, rarely a year goes by that I don’t hear each of my parents mention her – Daddy as well as Mama. She has a grave, and a tombstone, and I (or my ashes) will be buried next to her.
My wife cannot go into the cemetery where her stillborn baby is buried. My cousin buried a baby in that cemetery about 20 years ago and I went to the ceremony but my wife could not. I left as soon as the ceremony was over.
“Home Made TPM2.0 Module”
https://diy.viktak.com/2022/04/home-made-tpm2-0-module.html
RBT would have liked this.
Interesting. Yeah, I don’t get it – if it is necessary then taking it apart and rebuilding, more or less in place, should be doable.
I am further down the road resurrecting the 2005 Honda Civic EX Special Edition Coupe 5 speed garage queen. I have a new battery in her and a diagnosis for the check engine light. The rear O2 sensor is out so I have it at a local auto shop getting that replaced. Plus the driver’s side window is not working. And it needs an inspection to get the Texas state registration sticker.
the plot sickens:
https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1521685985712615426
So, was Gerstein in the wedding party? Stay tuned.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/10/the-intended-consequences-of-climate-policy-electricity-shortage-warnings-grow-across-u-s/
Propose to codify the blackout priority in law, putting state offices in the dark first and sending the elected officials and their staffs home without pay.
And when the green weinies and Democrats (but I repeat myself) refuse to advance the bill, try the constitutional amendment track.
(What’s second to last on the list, you ask? Good Question. Answer is public utility board offices, the offices of any electric entity that does not publish the actual generation of any unit along with the nameplate capacity, and electric vehicle chargers. )
(Okay, now you’re going to ask what is First aka noninterruptible? Dude, really? That is obvious: Beer coolers and ice factories)
The Cenotaph is one more of our monuments the Left wants to tear down, The progressive goal for The Alamo is to downplay the Texas heroes who fought there, and to “reimagine” the Alamo’s history with Woke propaganda.
The battle to preserve our heritage has been going on for some time.
“So, yes, Bush Jr. is going to relocate the Alamo.”
As much as I think the dynasty needs to end, I will defend P. Diddly on this one. Moving the Cenotaph is not the same as moving the Alamo.
“I’m taking this as a bad sign for the global economy…
Watchfinder is an international site to resell pre-owned luxury watches.”
Everyone has an Apple Watch now, but the Swatch imitation Speedmasters go on EBay for more than my wife paid for mine new 25 years ago. Interest is still there.
No one can afford the real thing anymore. Purchase price is just the beginning with a mechanical.
There is still a culture and demand for luxury watches, especially mechanical ones. It’s one of the things I watch.
There have been several published accounts of people being robbed of their lux watches either by “escorts” or in holdups on the street in the last few months.
n
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/10/the-intended-consequences-of-climate-policy-electricity-shortage-warnings-grow-across-u-s/
We are replacing coal and nuclear power plants with so-called renewables. The problem is that renewables don’t work below 20 F or above 100 F. So every 100 MW of coal that is shut down and replaced with a dozen wind turbines needs a natural gas fired gas turbine in perpetual backup. Those economics don’t work.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2022/03/15/so-much-for-coals-rebound-plant-closures-come-roaring-back-smart-policy-must-unlock-a-just-transition/?sh=2d86369174e9
The other strategy is to put in huge battery plants. The cost of the battery plants is not cheap and they have fire problem from densely packed battery units (they look just like PC server racks).
Then there is the whole ‘mining lithium with slave labor in africa and china’ thing, and the projections that outstrip the entire world’s production and possibly known reserves. Plus it doesn’t recycle…
n
It doesn’t recycle.
So they make you pay to take it away.
“And Then A Miracle Occurs*”…
*Sidney Harris, 1977
No; the Cenotaph. That WAS Shrub’s proposal when he was in the Texas General Land Office. NOW, Shrub is running against Ken Paxton as Texas AG. I have no idea what he plans to do there. Shrub is a classic example of the desperate need for several kinds of term limits.
First, we need to limit how long people suck on the government teat. Starting from age 20, anybody who wants to run for public office needs to have spent at least half of their adult life working for a paycheck with a PRIVATE enterprise. By age 40, the candidate must have spent at least 10 years in the private sector. Government needs to be a PART-TIME job. There should be no “pensions”; just a self-funded IRA.
Second, there are 330 million people in America; we shouldn’t keep electing the same losers. No candidate may run for ANY Federal office who is a close relative (parent, grandparent, sibling, 1st or 2nd cousin, child or grandchild) of any President, VP, Governor or Senator. No more Kennedys or Shrubs or Clintons or Romneys or Cuomos. We need NEW “elites”!
“Rainbow Six”. The antagonists were wealthy eco freaks who schemed to depopulate the planet with an engineered virus.
Arguably one of the last solid, well researched efforts from the author. I don’t recall the title of the subsequent book in which the words “Minister Sausage” appear, but that was the end of his run IMHO. “Bear and the Dragon”? One of those.
(The words may have also changed NFL history since Clancy was part of a group bidding on the Vikings when the League got nervous about what would come out in his divorce.)
I remember an interview where someone asked Clancy about the heartbeat tech, and he said it was from a research project he read about which never panned out. It wasn’t real … or so Clancy claimed.
I’ve seen papers about detecting moving bodies inside a building by analysis of the WiFi spectrum phase shifts, but a heart beat would not be enough movement.
Our last trip down I69, it looked like the Border Patrol was trying the same optical-based occupant counting of vehicles that the previous previous job sold to customers but could never deliver. Maybe someone is building a database to train an AI for the Feds.
>> If you are sedated (common) add for that.
Still waiting for the bills to start rolling in for my wife’s recent knee replacement. She was given spinal anesthesia for the actual procedure but in pre-op she was asked if she wanted to stay awake (just some Valium) or be sedated (Propofol). She chose sedation.
>> >>No freaking way ! I don’t know of anyone who wants to see a surgeon working on their bones with a hammer and a chisel. And then with a powered screwdriver.
And then there’s the part where they take a ratcheting strap (think car roof rack), two actually, and cinch them tight on your thigh which stops the flow of blood to your knee (and lower leg) while they install the new knee. As soon as the blood stops flowing they start a countdown timer which tells them how much time they have left before damage starts occurring from the lack of blood.
“Cruz: Biden Threatening Justices Lives By Doing This”
https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1037802-cruz-biden-threatening-justices-lives-by-doing-this
Our Texas junior senator is very cool. And no, Canada and Cuba cannot have him back.
Shrub is the Uncle. P. Diddly is Jeb!’s son running for Attorney General.
Or, as Grandpa George H. W. Bush famously called him once, “The Little Brown One”.
Jeb! is always Jeb!.
>> According to my wife the apple ipad makes the best kindle.
I find the Kindle “PaperWhite” display easier on the eyes when doing extensive reading. I don’t touch anything made by Apple.
My wife uses both a Kindle and an iPad, depending on what she’s reading and where.
We had travel advisories at GTE about watches twenty years ago, particularly overseas.
It cost us one salesweasel’s Tag Heuer to extract our team from Venezuela when the revolution happened and management had everyone in Caracas during election week.
South America is Tag. China is Rolex. Eastern Europe is Omega.
Popo have a big surveillance and snatch and grab running on someone. Three teams, multiple vehicles in each team. They’re ‘waiting for a ping’ from the gps tracker to see where the target is.
n
Heh. There’s a PSA for you. Good to know.
Graft has preferred brands depending on country.
I used to have the GTE travel advisory for Colombia in the 90s posted on my cubicle wall, recommending travel only by helicopter in the country, but management took that one away from me one night lest I gave the young’n’s the impression that it wasn’t safe.
But once it did release I moved there and never looked back, although I did have to avoid Windows programs – the only ones that ever blue-screened NT for me. Other programs did crash on occasion, but none of them took the system with them.
the GTE travel advisory for Colombia in the 90s-
—I turned down travel to Colombia back then. Two co-workers took the gig. They were much darker skinned than me and could pass as local in an emergency. Not so much this 6ft tall white boy. A lot of the company travel policy changed after those guys got done living it up on the company dime. They were even dumb enough to share pix of them drinking by the pool with floozies IN DAYLIGHT, during business hours.
That was for the predecessor to bigcorp where I learned to do what I later did for bigcorp. They wanted me to go to all kind of sh!tholes like Azerbaijian, Vietnam, Colombia, islamabad, nigeria, and various others. I did go to Abu Dhabi for them. Which wasn’t bad, but wasn’t someplace I’d vacation either. I was supposed to go to Egypt, even had the work visa, but scheduling kept me from going. That was one I might have liked, but when my buddy was there later, they locked him in and threatened to kill him, so I missed that….
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Popo did not get their man, and called it a night.
I am doing the same.
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But once it did release I moved there and never looked back, although I did have to avoid Windows programs – the only ones that ever blue-screened NT for me. Other programs did crash on occasion, but none of them took the system with them.
I’ve always thought it was too bad that Microsoft did not base 32 bit Windows on BSD Unix. That might have been a big change for Windows to be based on more reliable code from the beginning. And with all the Unix utilities.
This. While in office (for some offices) it may be full-time employment. However, there should definitely be limits, both for years in the same office, and for total years in elected office. Being a politician should not be a career.
Oh, also, age limits. Stop letting fossils run for office. And I say that, as someone approaching fossil-age.
Younger son recently won a free trip to an IT conference in Columbia. I had to ask twice, because…who would organize a conference in such a place? Who would attend? He said he’s only going if there’s a big group from his company – which is unlikely, to say the least.
OTOH, we would then pretty much have a *nix monoculture, which might not be a good thing…
I didn’t get paid to travel internationally much less to countries the State Department considered to be dangerous.
Building towards a “career”? I am the only one of my friend group who worked for that division of GTE and still has a Verizon pension. Plus, I never stared down the business end of a dozen AK47s.