Hi guys, I’m back from another business trip. What happened while I was gone? Did I get slut-shamed for liking to alter my conscience? Was it implied that I abuse and/or manufacture and/or distribute drugs? Because there’s no more truth to those rumors than to a SugarFree story.
Take that how you will.
Trump tells House, “I’ll take impeachment seriously right after you do.” Of course, this will be seen as obstruction. Much like telling the government you’ll wait for an actual warrant before allowing them to root through your effects for evidence.
This is true. Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it. Its just a side-effect of a free market. Can’t have the free market without the rich people.
PSA: Do NOT surprise Florida Man.
Who would have thought a robot’s AI could imitate human cops so perfectly?
Sometimes I think this is what Jesse thinks my life is like.
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I’ll just hold my breath waiting for Zuckerberg to give away the billions he says he doesn’t deserve.
Christ, what an asshole…
He made a pledge! He said things!
He thinks he’s people!
This comes to mind:
https://southpark.cc.com/clips/m6vgma/try-to-block-me
Well, there was some discussion in the comments here about oxygen addition and oxygen toxicity:
https://glibertarians.com/2019/10/the-hat-and-the-hair-extended-universe-impeachment/
IIRC, Zuck gave $100M to Newark city schools which promptly disappeared into nothingness.
He’s an idiot for trying to play their game.
Yep, at least 10% of his donation was skimmed off for “consulting fees.”
And the other 90% was just wasted?
Those union flack junkets don’t pay for themselves, you know.
that’s just protection money
Can we eat Facebook though?
Lord make me pure but not yet.
Zuckerberg’s a pussy ass punk.
^^^ and a hater
OT:
Rush Limbaugh, today:
“Bill Gertz — who has been maybe the best pure journalist on the American Department of Defense and Pentagon — has a new book out about the ChiComs called Deceiving the Sky.”
Also Rush Limbaugh, today:
“And I’m telling you, folks, there’s not an exception. I addressed this the other day. It is stunning, is it not, that among all of the journalists in this country, all of them — you know, particularly those in the New York-Washington corridor. It’s amazing, is it not, that there isn’t a single one of them that does not exist on the same page? There’s not a one of them! They are all identically predisposed. They are all writing and reporting practically the identical things every day.
They are manufacturing identical claims, crises, violations of law, whatever. It really is one of the most glaring, egregious examples of groupthink I have ever seen in my life. Not a single — not a single — journalist is at variance with this agenda, and that’s all you should be need to know to know that they’re not journalists. They’re simply Democrats in the media. So they are hell-bent. I’m gonna tell you, whatever Pelosi does or doesn’t do, they are going to continue this narrative that Trump has been impeached.”
Not one, not even Bill Gertz?
It’s certainly the impression I get.
POUNCE!
I read the first sentence of a NY Times front page article. If you didn’t know better, you’d think he’d been impeached and proven guilty of pressuring Ukraine into investigating Biden.
These people make an asshole like Trump look like the good guy.
I don’t know about good guy, but the guy has done some sort of bad and a lot of good things. I am not sure what he has done that makes him a bad guy. The MSM, the leftists….there is no doubt in my mind that they are bad guys of the worst kind.
Dems asking Ukraine to investigate/dish dirt on a Presidential candidate/sitting President – SAVE OUR DUMOCRASY!!!
The President asking Ukraine to help investigate potential corruption by a former VP/Presidential candidate – OMG TREASON!!!
“On Thursday, Zuckerberg was asked how he could stay impartial on presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren following his past statements about her.”
There’s no such thing as a stupid question, I was told.
Lies people tell children.
There isn’t. But there’s a lot of inquisitive idiots.
That’s true, there are no stupid questions. Just stupid people asking questions.
What kind of free candy?
Billionaires are not allowed to have opinions in CNN-town I guess.
Even Ted Turner?
As long as he spews the prog garble-barble all is good.
Go off that reservation and it’s….
/makes slashing throat gesture.
There’s no such thing as a stupid question,
But, plenty of stupid questioners.
The HP Robocop obviously needed new ink cartridges.
“PC Load Letter”
“What the fuck does that mean?!?”
Paper Cartridge: Load Letter sized paper.
/checks to see how much flair UCS and Scruffy are wearing.
I’ll let you guys borrow this bat I have lying around…
Thank you.
Praise the Ludd and pass on automation
+1 “I stole something”
this is a .. fuck!
btw, PSA from someone else, not me — if searching for a video of lawrence saying “fuckin a”, turns out it’s highly probable you will not find what you are looking for, if you search for “fuckin a guy”
Is it political when you’re doing risk assessment?
It’s political when it involves a democratic candidate.
There’s no requirement for him to stay impartial, it’s only required for Facebook to stay impartial… sort of… but not really (memories of 2012 when Facebook gave the Obama campaign a copy of their entire database of voters).
Facebook to stay impartial
ROFLMAO
This. Many, many times this.
Chafed:
Thanks for the article last night, helpful information like that is always good.
it’s only required for Facebook to stay impartial… sort of
As I understand it, Facebook can block Warren’s campaign solely by saying its offensive to some of its users.
Honestly, the smart thing for Facebook to do would be to say that political campaigns are so divisive they are all offensive to someone, and block all the campaigns.
I don’t think the shareholders are willing to give up the filthy, filthy lucre.
In what reality does that make any sense?
Not mine. But maybe in Brett L’s altered one.
The most practical things is to yell
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!
This was my favorite part: “The robot’s alert button is not yet connected to the police department, said Cosme Lozano, chief of police of Huntington Park, a city just southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The calls are instead directed to Knightscope, the company that creates and leases the robots.”
That way they can start the cameras and release the next version of bumfights.
I think the problem is that they are using models of intelligence to try to replicate cop behavior. There’s little in common.
If the button just command detonated a claymore it would be a very close approximation.
+ Front Towards Enemy
That guy didn’t know his father-in-law as well as he should have.
When 19 year old me walked into my parent’s house at 2am, he always announced his identity loudly to the father with the Glock on the nightstand.
This was pretty stupid. The guy banged on the door hours earlier, and the FIL wouldn’t open it.
Not the time for a prank.
Happens all the time.
Stein????
There’s Always A Guy In There!
I also hate surprises.
*quickly calls strip-o-gram company*
I imagine some strip-o-gram guy delivering a pineapple pizza just so there is no doubt who sent him.
I ordered a deep-dish to throw you off the scent.
Ah, clever! I would have suspected Swiss.
Hey?!
Ok…maybe.
*barks
I know who ordered it
I LOATHE pranks. My peer groups at school and church knew better than to prank me.
All I can think of is how much I’d be pissed of being on the recieving end of them.
It’s not funny.
Would probably result in bloodshed.
It was tried, one time in each peer group. I lost my shit and I was scary enough to make it stick. But I also would not participate in pranking others and I scowled and growled enough that it usually didn’t happen at all to anybody.
At a previous job some people started a prank war. I got left out of it when my retaliation to someone was remoting into their PC (I was a local admin on it, so were they), and removing everything from their desktop (they saved everything there, because it was easy), moving all of their bookmarks, and remotely changing the system settings. I made it very clear that I was to be left out of it going forward.
Two other people continued until there were two vehicles filled with packing peanuts in the parking lot
Cubicle land: Fill a 50-gallon garbage bag with packing peanuts. Insert bag into overhead bin. Close overhead bin with tail of bag sticking out. Pull bag out, leaving 50 gallons of loose packing peanuts in the bin. Viola.
Oversized ziptie around the driveshaft of a Jeep makes for some entertainment as it smacks the underside every time it spins.
*jots down notes*
I very seldom actually play a practical joke, because they always cross the line into mean. That said, I once literally caused a business associate to soil himself with a simple letter. He had it coming. After that he never played another prank on me.
Details please. I want to be able to send that letter.
“We are discovered, flee immediately.”
It is possible that a letter purporting to be from the liaison officer between a certain local police agency and the local bell arrived via certified mail purporting to detail that as a result of a 6 month long wiretap certain recordings had been forwarded to several named federal agencies, and that indictments were forthcoming. It is possible that the recipient had failed to declare some large amounts of income received in cash and had discussed such matters on the phone.
When I worked at an airport maintenance hangar we had a Japanese kid who spoke pretty good English, but didn’t know many technical terms. We’d send him over to the parts department to get “a gallon of wing wash” or “3 feet of Fallopian tube.” He’d come back and tell us the parts guy laughed at him and he was embarrassed. Nice kid.
A poor Norwegian victim of the crazy gun culture in America. I won’t be surprised to read such an editorial in, say, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a few days.
Yep.
“Zuckerberg currently has a net worth of nearly $70 billion”
God do I hate that fucker, not because he’s a billionaire but because he’s a preachy hypocrite. I suspect his idea of the threshold for having too much money starts around 80 billion (you gotta account for the stock going up after all).
Impostor syndrome?
Probably
“No one deserves that much money”
“My name is Legion”
PSA: Do NOT surprise Florida Man.-
Most of my family members carry firearms. This is why we don’t pull pranks.
Exactly this. And we’re not even a Florida Family.
For those who missed it last thread I’d like to repost ChipWooder’s most excellent ling to a kickstarter for Virtue Signal: The Game of Social Justice
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/williamdalebout/virtue-signal-the-game-of-social-justice?ref=project_tweet
Artwork looks good, much snarkiness in the description.
Complicated but playable card-based game, the mechanics of which seem similar to those of Illuminati by Steve Jackson Games — the original edition where you built power structures with the cards, not the New World Order reissue which move to a more MTG sort of play.
Anyone know whether you can go in for a small amount, then upgrade later as the release date approaches?
Yes you can. You need to pledge at least $1 in order to participate in the comments on a project. You can upgrade your pledge at any point before the project closes.
Thanks. Definitely in for the basic game and the expansion pack.
Not a problem. My shelves are overflowing with games to the point I had to tell the girlfriend she wasn’t allowed to buy any more games unless she at least opens some of the games she’s already purchased. There’s some warning signs on the campaign though, 0 backed campaigns this is the first launched one, and no rules posted. Card game minimizes some risk, as it’s relatively easy to get custom cards printed nowadays. Expect it to not be delivered for 6-12 months after the expected delivery, and for financial issues with shipping costs.
I’ve considered it, but I think it’s a trap. Kickstarter booted/denied far more innocuous shit off their platform, so why is this still on? It’s either some scam, or it’s gonna get closed once it looks like it’s close to completing.
I went in for the two-fer level. We’ll see what happens.
The artwork is great.
What’s a warrant? If those police shows are to be believed they just have to talk to the LT and she gives the hot chick and the guy from Firefly the go ahead to kick down a couple doors….
It was in plain view after we knocked down the door.
It’s a pre-printed form they get with the judge’s signature already on it. All they have to do is fill in date, time and what they are looking for.
And the best part is, none of those have to be accurate.
And they can fill in what they are looking for after they find it.
Or not, depending on value.
Just wake up that one judge, he’ll sign anything.
Some magistrates are zealous in defending Fourth Amendment rights, others are full blown cop suckers. Guess which ones get asked for warrants. And even with that as the backdrop, the cops still screw up and get evidence excluded all the time….
We truly live in the Keystone Kops Police State
Victoria Gates was a captain.
Who?
“she gives the hot chick and the guy from Firefly”
Captain Victoria Gates on Castle
The admittedly minor point is that the character is/was a captain, not an “LT”
What are you talking about? The captain is the black guy.
~yawns~
How’s evvybuddy?
TGIF!!
Glamour shot, FTW.
I think I’m coming down with something. Feverish.
You just need more cowbell
Lol, thanks. It was a funny selfie from earlier this year. I dug it up due to all the Russia talk lately (esp Commander Ivanova)
Genuine flying squirrel!! (I keed, I keed)
Glamour shot, FTW.
Seconded.
I think I’m coming down with something. Feverish.
I thought I had kicked my cold, but I think it is coming back.
My PT thinks that if I’m careful about how I move around and do things, I should be able to do some of my Fall clean-up in my yard. We’ll see.
Apparently some pro-People followed Sen Warren through the terminal at some airport today, heckling her — “Pochahontas,” “Don’t Impeach,” etc. Progs are outraged, but none of them are articulating how this is illegal or wrong.
“Progs are outraged” means as much these days as “Arabs are outraged”
So…what?
That’s not fair. You can only chase people out of restaurants or chastise them from the stage of “Hamilton”.
My Uber driver is playing opera. Didn’t expect that!
Beats hip hop
I tip based on music and small talk.
I want neither.
Thank you,Mrs Ron Swanson. 🙂
Who?
Duke Silver.
What?
Characters from a show I don’t watch either.
Ron Swanson.
Yo, SP.
I know my last email on my book review was pretty terse. Its only because I hate typing on mobile devices.
Also, I’d like to add a new Iron Law, but lack the godlike powers (you so deservedly wield) to do so:
Words don’t have meanings; meanings have words.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
*runs away*
HM’s lecture convinced everyone.
Except me. I found it pointlessly contrarian and apparently missed the alleged profundity of the statement.
But whatevs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My soul sister.
That just means he’s a mafia hitman.
Better than the fucking Eagles, man.
Is the fact that my husband plays Steely Dan and Donald Fagen non stop grounds for divorce ?? Or homicide????
Nope, sorry. Both solid choices, particularly if there are cigarettes and scotch in the vicinity.
Well, I guess I’ll give a mulligan, but at times I want to go full Donna Reed and smash the records.
Where is my like button?
Or Cuervo Gold and fine Columbian.
Only to MikeS.
I disagree with Tundra. It’s not just good grounds, it should be a compulsion.
*mouth trembles*
*tears sting eyes*
I thought I knew you.
He’s a lawyer. Lawyers are bad … crap
I think he’s dreamy.
Related.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxczVhG0os8
Yes. Yes, it is.
Beats Goodbye Horses…
Any thoughts about Sputnik?
They were first?
Yes.
Nope.
Of course. The use of hooks from the Clash’s Straight To Hell in Atari Baby was fantastic and really added some depth.
What?
Sputnik
Had to count fingers but I was 3-1/2 when it went up. It was a big deal at the time. I recall that the teevee news guy said something like “If you you outside right now you can see it”. We went out into the back yard and watched the little dot move among the stars. When we went back inside the house the teevee guy had evidently gone outside as well because the camera was pointed at an empty desk. He returned a few moments later and continued with the news.
It’s just like whatever, at this point.
“I think the whole thing is boring,” she said, according to the Washington Examiner. “He should have been impeached a long time ago. I’m over it. And so that’s how I feel about it because we’ve got work to do.”
The socialist lawmaker – who pushed for Trump’s impeachment prior to taking office – told attendees that impeaching the president is the “short-term action” needed to “preserve our democracy.”
“Impeachment of this president is the short-term action we need to preserve our democracy,” she said.
“But if we are really going to thrive as a country, we need to make long-term investments and keep our eyes on the prize of social and economic and racial justice in the United States of America,” she added. “And that’s what this is all about.”
Preserving our democracy by nullifying the results of an election.
I think she’s stupid enough to believe it.
She also can’t see the absolute shitshow that would result.
And thriving as a country by rewarding sloth, punishing success, and starting a race war.
If we all just prog harder it will all come true.
I’m really getting tired about the whole “Trump is undermining our democracy.” thing. If you’re saying the President has too much power that’s one thing but unless you have specifics it’s just sour grapes that you’re not getting your glorious utopia.
No, they’re going to get President Mike PENCE. Surely that’s what they want.
Not sure why capitalized. In PENCE the Russian translation of SMITH?
No, it really isn’t sweetheart.
“I think the whole thing is boring,” she said, according to the Washington Examiner. “He should have been impeached a long time ago. I’m over it. And so that’s how I feel about it because we’ve got work to do.”
He may (MAY!) be an outright Fascist and a racist, but Severian is also the best political analyst of the Current Year. The above is from February of this year.
“The real world just bounces off them.”
These are the college girls who are turning formerly Red suburbs into Purple and Blue strongholds. Many appear to be the first generation of girls in their family who went to college and broke out of pink collar jobs. They are wannabes who know very little about issues, history, ideologies, economics, and the like: they parrot what Oprah and the beautiful people have to say because they want to be invited to the best cocktail parties.
Status. They are obsessed with status, and they see being woke and lefty and shit as enhancing their status.
Just like certain formerly libertarian writers and organizations, now that I think about it.
Dumb as she is, she’s onto something:
Impeachment will tie up Congress, and no gargantuan new programs will be passed.
Oh, and they are teeing up Pence, and Barr, for impeachment and removal as well. Barr, by asking foreign countries to help investigate corruption by elected officials, is committing treason or something. Pence, maybe the same thing? I dunno.
Democracy can blow me. Of the aspects of our system it is far and away the least important. I’ll willingly give up my vote in exchange for real enforcement of limits on Government,
Well…makes sense they are increasing the calls to also impeach Pence.
Trump tells House, “I’ll take impeachment seriously right after you do.”
Honk honk.
Much like telling the government you’ll wait for an actual warrant before allowing them to root through your effects for evidence.
How quaint.
Its actually a good question.
Has the House, or even a committee, taken formal action announcing that they are proceeding with an investigation into impeaching the President? There isn’t anything in the Constitution or the rules of the House (as far as I know) on how impeachment actually gets initiated. The impeachment proceedings to date have all been started with a vote of the full House.
Or is this all based on a press conference by the Speaker? Pretty sure its the latter, in which case I think Trump is right to tell them to pound sand.
There are rules in the procedures of the house governing impeachment. Many, many rules. I tried to read them, but my eyes glazed over at around the third page out of twenty. You’re a lawyer, you might last longer. Here’s the pdf of the current rules. Impeachment is laid out starting on page 318.
I’ll use this to set the mood for my next post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Vt0UGwmgQ
Hint: it rhymes with “but gap end”
Dems Worried If Impeachment Fails They’ll Have To Nominate Electable Candidate
“The real danger here,” said Nancy Pelosi in a meeting of top Democrats, “is that the normal way of getting rid of a president—impeachment—fails. Then, we’d have to try to find someone who isn’t a smug, smarmy doofus and get the public to like them.”
“What about Andrew Yang? He’s pretty nice,” said one aide, who was then asked to leave the room for such reckless hate.
“I could run for president. I’m pretty electable,” said Chuck Schumer.
“Oh, cut the crap. You’re insufferable,” said Pelosi, rolling her eyes. “Ocasio, any ideas?”
“What if we just, like, seized the means of production and executed all the leaders?” Ocasio-Cortez asked, looking up from a comic book about herself she was reading. “That would be so fetch.”
“Stop trying to make fetch happen!” Pelosi replied, clearly irritated now. “Alright, so getting elected is out. Let’s just put all our eggs in the impeachment basket and hope it works out. Maybe we can pass impeachment first so we can find out what things Trump did that are impeachable.”
Those guys are on fire.
The key to identifying the Babylon Bee is that the headline is dead on but you wouldn’t expect to see it in the media.
Beautiful.
I think it’s SF.
As I said on their “we should bring back good old, civilized method of solving our political disputes – dueling” article, if they don’t lurk, some writer there has a friend who does. I can’t not see SugarFree influence here.
Unable To Compete With Reality, Babylon Bee Founder Starts Real News Site
“How am I supposed to write satire? Seriously,” Ford told reporters. “I mean, look at the news: Donald Trump is the president of the United States, a Commie bartender is in Congress, and seminaries are apologizing to plants. What’s wrong with you people!?”
Ford tried to write satire every day but would discover his satirical idea had already been taken by an actual news organization. “Why don’t we do a joke about the Democratic Socialists?” he said in the beginning of one writer’s room meeting. “We could say that they all shouted, ‘Personal point of privilege!’ to interrupt the speeches at their conference whenever they’re offended.”
The other writers gently informed him that that was a real headline, however, and Ford threw up his hands in frustration. “Forget this!” he said, throwing a chair through a window. “I quit!” After walking around outside to cool off, Ford struck on an idea: reporting actual news through his new website, Disrn. Ford was quick to clarify, however, that he didn’t choose to start up the real news site—God chose for him to create the site before the foundation of the world.
Holy Hell, what a streak of incredible.
Predestination FTW.
That’s not really satire…
I made it about halfway through Clinton’s What Happened book. It has a great deal of unintentional humor.
My favorite part is when she wrote about throwing the remote at the TV whenever she saw Trump. I heard Mom from Futurama as I read that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXJV5uhJoI
Other highlights:
-She wanted to lower the Medicare age to 55. That’s just great. Let’s take an unsustainable program and make sure it goes bankrupt even faster.
-When she was working on a campaign in her 20s, she kept pestering a group of men until one of them grabbed her by the throat and told her to shut up.
Whoever ghost wrote that book must have really, really needed the money.
You got a copy of that book? I just figured all of the copies were bought with foundation money and locked up in a warehouse somewhere.
I do love the idea of her seething in rage day in and day out as President Rodney Dangerfield blunders his way through press conferences.
I borrowed it from a library. I figured it would distract me from the monotony of walking on a treadmill for 5 hours at a time.
Ugh… I can get in the saddle, and ride my bike for hours at a time, but get bored senseless riding on a stationary for more then ~45 minutes.
“I heard Mom from Futurama as I read that.”
Legit LOL from me when I read that.
Yeah, I’ve been hearing Mom ever since Hillary busted out the muumuus.
You’ve seen him skateboard. You’ve seen him at the dentist. You’ve seen him change a tire. Now watch him get a flu shot.
Running a presidential campaign is a daunting and physically exhausting endeavor. We’ve already seen exploding eyes and runaway teeth, and it’s only October of 2019. But one candidate cleared his schedule of campaign events in Mexico as well as any other platforms by which to kick out Breitbart reporters, in order to give himself — and, perhaps, his anemic poll numbers — a much-needed shot in the arm… literally.
Posting a video of himself receiving a flu shot on Instagram, the backrunner to win the Democratic nomination, Beto O’Rourke, continues to embrace the theme I’m Just Like You, by going after the passionately sought-after flu shot-receiving demographic.
Do drugs fall out of his ass too?
He makes Michael Scott look smart and charismatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBJJrZ5LAVQ
Where did the idea that Beto O’Rourke is good looking come from? He really does look like Butthead. Is it just show-biz-for-ugly-people grading on the curve?
I think she’s pretty hot.
Huh huh. Huh huh. I’m gonna be President. Huh huh.
The Twink of the South.
“Who would have thought a robot’s AI could imitate human cops so perfectly?”
It’s not armed.
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/
There is something really heartbreaking about having to dress your mom like she’s a toddler. *sigh*
Feel ya. Been there, done that with the adult diapers. :’ (
Hope her surgery was routine, uneventful, & successful.
We haven’t gotten there and likely won’t.
I’m sorry 🙁
Fucking hipsters, a while back I pre-ordered the new CD from one of the artists that I’ll buy sound unheard, today I get home and there’s a good sized Amazon box leaning against the door inside is another box inside of which is my brand new vinyl LP, and I don’t even own a record player. I must have hit the wrong order button. Fucking hipsters, vinyl shouldn’t even be an option, or at the least you should be given an ‘Are you a fucking hipster’ CAPTCHA type thing.
Cue an audiophile to lay the smack down on Hyperbole in 3……2…….1……
Turntables always skipped when I was a kid. Why would anyone punish himself by using one in the 21st century?
Problem with those CDs is you can hear the 1s and 0s.
That’s why I went to the much more natural sounding phonograph system attached to my stereo.
Only problem is it tends to skip when my car hits a bump.
You joke, but…
Now you need to buy a turntable. And a pre-amp. And some little towers to keep your speaker cables off the floor.
Shouldn’t be too much trouble to get a free return – hell, with amazon, sometimes they’ll just send you a replacement for free and let you keep the original esp if you point out that their site was dicked and you meant to get the CD.
Yes, but I wanna listen to my new CD now!
So make a turntable. You can do it with a high e string from an electric guitar and a lampshade, like Edison did. Hell, even that little dog from RCA can do it.
Meh.
Vinyl is acceptable for jazz and blues. Agree on all other music genres
Florida Man Surprise Party:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uMb4GAvh_x8
I am Poppy.
Ok weird. Tried to make a post just now (just a link) – and it hasn’t shown up. So I tried again and got the message that it’s a duplicate post. Still not seeing it.
It’s easy for someone to say who has billions ‘no one deserves it’. They got theirs and they know no one will take it away. If he’s to be taken seriously he should give it away.
Or else fuck off with your vapidity.
Robocop looks like a cross between a Bissell and R2-D2 and a cock tip.
They couldn’t design it to be cooler and more menacing? Like the movie. Get a freshly killed cop and make him into a robot.
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK ANYWAY?
Punk (mock dancing): Whaddya gon’ do Roboloser? You ain’t gots no arms or feet!
Robocop (vaccums punk up): Slurp!
This devil sucked the dirt up!
Stop it. Robocop will always be the Terminator’s bitch.
Hmm. Which sci-fi robot is the scariest?
Robocop was programmed to uphold the law and protect the innocent.
Terminator was a mechanical assassin, driven only by the command to kill.
Johnny 5 became self-aware and was only interested in staying alive. Also it had a built-in laser gun.
Clearly Johnny 5 is the scariest, especially when you consider it was capable of hijacking other machines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6cDbMLcxQI
The scariest robot was obviously the Class M-3 Model B-9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot.
Interesting theory. The scariest sci-fi robot however, is Wall-E.
This one has a decent body count.
Hardware was the movie that introduced me to Ministry.
I forgot my favorite sci-fi robot: the Iron Giant.
Sure, it only fires when fired upon, but has a great variety of powerful weapons, is nearly indestructible, and self-repairs.
HAL 9000, He was the Ship…
Not a robot.
How so? HAL controlled the ship, computer controlling machine = robot in my book.
ro·bot
/ˈrōˌbät,ˈrōbət/
Learn to pronounce
noun
1.
(especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically.
Oh yeah, I went all dictionary definition on your ass.
Mic drop!
Dictionary, elided! the next line:
a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.
Mic drop
Trying again.
I am Poppy.
news.gab.com/2019/10/04/christian-actress-fired-after-citing-bible-verse-on-social-media
“… in the U.K….”
Ah. No surprise.
I am waiting for someone in NY to get a 250K fine for using the term ‘illegal alien’. I want to see the ticket writer get that ticket jammed up their ass.
Phil Collins says that its no fun.
C’mon you bastard. You gotta make it at least another 43 years to bring my dystopia to life:
Ken Burns Gets To The Heart Of ‘Country Music’
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/14/760664168/ken-burns-gets-to-the-heart-of-country-music
In the Simpsons, Mr Burns is 104 years old. I freely associated from that to Ken Burns, who is currently 61.
Swiss, did you see this from the Italy/RSA game this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHCZbnv2SWA
It’s at about 1:00.
Ow.
Á propos of absolutely nothing at all. Just warmed the cockles of my cold bitch heart.
Re: the shooting. That is the second one of those I have heard of and in both cases it was someone from out of the country. Some years back a visiting Japanese kid in a student exchange program tried scaring a guy by banging on his door in Baton Rouge late at night. He caught a 44mag right through the chest.
The kids American friends say they tried warning him, that you don’t do shit like that here but he did it anyway. Just awful. I think it was some kind of international incident and the Japanese govt was pretty upset about it…..but you just don’t do shit like that here. Anyway, in that case also no charges were filed.
The guy just shot through the door?
No, the kid was banging like hell on the door and yelling and screaming. Then he went and hid in the bushes next to the door. When the homeowner, a complete stranger to the kid, came out on his stoop the kid leapt out at him. I guess in Japan that would be considered a harmless prank. Here….not so much.
I think it was 2 in the morning or something like that. It has been a while so I may not have all of the details right. An awful tragedy but understandable.
I am not sure I believe the friends that said they Warned him. I wonder if they didnt dare him to do it. If so that is one hell of an evil thing to do.
Or not anything like that at all as Derp linked below…
And, while I can see letting the killer off because his error was understandable (in the case below, or even in the inked article) let’s not pull some uber redneck “It’s legal to shoot people for popping out of the bushes here ” thing. No it is not legal, but a reasonable misapprehension as to what is happening is a a potential defense to the fully justified manslaughter charge in these cases. You shoot a kid because he startles you, you did something awful. Period. Your right to self defense comes with a responsibility not to fly off the handle and shoot people who are not threats. If they create a reasonable perception of threat you MIGHT get away with it, but do not bet on it and sure as shit do not pretend it’s all good.
“…let’s not pull some uber redneck “It’s legal to shoot people for popping out of the bushes here ” thing.”
Who is trying to do that?
you don’t do shit like that here but he did it anyway
.but you just don’t do shit like that here.
I guess in Japan that would be considered a harmless prank. Here….not so much.
I’m sorry if I am reading you wrong, but this sounds to me like : Whooo hoo fuck em, we don’t put up with that shit, round these parts.
This is a tragic misunderstanding and unless the homeowner is a psychopath he will spend every minute of the rest of his life traumatized because he took an innocent life, and thanking his lucky stars that the jury believed him when he claimed he thought the camera was a gun. Even in the most forgiving self defense States, you have to have a reasonable fear for your life to shoot someone, and being startled really does not rise to that level absent additional facts. Ding dong ditch doesn’t carry the death penalty.
Unless you’re a cop, in which you can say anything made you afraid for your life and the prosecutor will believe you.
I didnt mean that at all. Both incidences are horrible tragedies created by one mistake after another.
In both cases had the shooter known all of the facts obviously they would never have pulled the trigger. In both cases, I think, a better understanding of the culture here would have the victims behaving in a different way.
I have carried a gun my entire life. I have never harmed anyone or damaged any property. I am fully aware that you don’t take a human life except under the most extreme circumstances when you are in fear of your own or someone else’s life and would never argue any different.
But yeah, you don’t do shit like that here. You are setting yourself or someone else up for trouble.
Fair enough.
Ted S: That little snark crossed my mind as well but I didnt add it.
Not to pile on (he piled on) but don’t you Gun Nutz™ always preach about three or four gun safety rules that you beat into your children and if some yokel breaks one you smack him down and never let him near a gun again, and isn’t one of those that you never shoot unless you know your target and whats behind your target and whats behind whats behind your target. Isn’t another that you don’t shoot unless you are willing to destroy everything in the line of fire? Seems that “dude was scared and startled and shit happens’ should fall outside those guidelines. He fucked up and killed a kid, “an I oop” doesn’t cut it.
wiki sez
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Yoshihiro Hattori (服部 剛丈 Hattori Yoshihiro, November 22, 1975 – October 17, 1992, often referred to as Yoshi Hattori[1]) was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was on his way to a Halloween party and went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs (/piːrz/)[2] fatally shot Hattori, thinking that he was trespassing with criminal intent. The shooting and Peairs’ acquittal in the state court of Louisiana received worldwide attention.
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Outside, Haymaker inferred that he and Hattori had come to the wrong house. They were preparing to return to their car when Rodney Peairs opened the carport door, armed with a .44 Magnum revolver. Hattori stepped back towards Peairs, saying, “We’re here for the party.” Peairs pointed the gun at him and yelled, “Freeze!” Haymaker had caught sight of the firearm and shouted a warning after Hattori,[8] but Hattori had limited English and was not wearing his contact lenses that evening, and it is possible that he did not understand Peairs’ command to “freeze”,[9] did not see his weapon,[2] or might even have thought that this was part of a Halloween prank.[10] Hattori was holding a camera which Peairs mistook for a weapon.[9] Hattori continued moving towards Peairs; Peairs fired his gun at him from a distance of about 5 feet (1.5 m) away, hitting him in the chest, and then retreated back inside the house.
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Ah, ok. I got the details wrong or got it mixed up with another incident. Well that shows you how accurate my memory is. I must be getting dementia.
My point was that the culture here is quite different from other places. I was raised to expect a bullet doing things like that. You. knock and wait in plain sight…politely.
No worries. Happens to everybody.
When I was a wee lad, I went to a science museum in Baltimore, I think. Anyway, one of the exhibits was called Memory Diner. The goal was to show how hard it is to put together the details of a crime from witness statements and forensic evidence. Young me was disappointed that I couldn’t get the correct answer.
https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/1999/sepoct/feat3.html
Good grief, I just noticed the date. I would have guessed it was only a few years ago. That was almost 30 years ago.
I have told this story before but here it is again. I went and walked the lines on a piece of property because I knew the adjacent landowner was about to cut timber. That property owner was a timber company famous for creeping their lines over, and sure enough they had moved the line several feet. I went and told my grandfather.
“Well that cant be right. I was just up there looking at those lines….uh…well….holy shit that was 20 years ago”
I am getting old.
Huh. youtube.com/watch?v=xObSJWIWui0
What’s so hard about memorizing “procedures were followed, furtive gesture, clean shoot”
WRT nothing……what do you call Bauhaus without Peter Murphy?
Love and Rockets
Tones On Tail
Point of order- that was Ash’s side project while Bauhaus was still together.
And with you in mind-
Have a 6-rotor wankel
That is music.
That cuts me up.
What you just did there. I noticed it.
I expect everyone to be playing this non-stop for the next 3-4 hours.
kthnx
Boom!
What it this? some Biesbol thing I never heard of?
I throw De ball,
I catch de ball,
When it rains,
I go home,
You love the twins?
*clicks link very apprehensively*
Oh. Actually, yes, I do.
you have an amazing memeory Ted, never quit,
How about some triplets?
Who wants to see some Dahm triplets?
Minn v. NY, Twinks vs. Handjobbers. Gay.
I would rather be listening to this. But good luck to your team, and fuck the Yankees.
Cesaer Romero Was the best Joker as Rufus said yesterday, Fight me!
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-best-joker-is-still-cesar-romero-in-the-66-batman-tv-show-hands-down
According to all the trolls, Mark Hamill is.
SMDH
Cesar Romero was in The Thin Man.
Nora Charles: What hit me?
Nick Charles: The sixth martini.
Ted S. You are not alone. I love the Thin Man Movies, Topper, and Laura is one of the greatest movies of all time. Don’t let the haters scare you off, the 30s were Cinema’s golden era.
The Thin Man movies are a lot of fun. I’ve only seen the first 2 or 3, but I really like them.
I don’t know enough to say when the golden era was, but my personal golden era is the Film Noir era.
I always liked that you could see his mustache thru his makeup.
Like when Zigfreud dressed as a woman in Get Smart, with mustache,
Thank goodness for replay to counteract the umpires who are apparently Yankee fans.
Am I the only person who still finds it wrong that the Brewers are NL and the ‘stros are AL?
No.
https://billypenn.com/2019/09/25/dick-pics-crime-pennsylvania-sexual-assault-issacson/
I thought this was a free country. ?
People need to grow a pair if they want to prosecute you for daring to show a pair.
+1 Randy Marsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2zlPNGuPbw
Neither here nor there
I was reading about what happened to the Enigma code breakers after the war. They were told to say nothing about what they did. The fear was that the Soviets would get wise and change their codes around.
Many of them became estranged from friends and family, who thought that because they told no stories, they had done nothing for the war effort.
For 30 years, the code breakers kept their promise of silence.
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Every detail about the sprawling Buckinghamshire estate was shrouded in mystery as German Enigma codes were cracked using the Bombe machine. Until wartime information was declassified in the mid-1970s, no-one who worked at the home of the Government Code and Cypher School was allowed to talk about it.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-27808962
One of the unsung heroes:
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Arthur J. Levenson (c. 1914) was a cryptographer, United States Army officer and NSA official who worked on the Japanese J19 and the German Enigma codes.
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In a 1999 PBS documentary about the decoding project, Mr. Levenson said the team at Bletchley sometimes deciphered the German messages before German forces in the field could read them. “If it was something hot,” he said, “it’d get out in the field before the German commander got his.” In one case, Mr. Levenson said, the team decoded a message from German military leader Erwin Rommel and determined that German tanks were converging at a spot in Normandy where U.S. paratroopers were planning to jump. “They were going to drop one of the airborne divisions right on top of a German tank division,” Mr. Levenson said in the documentary. “They would have been massacred.” At the last moment, plans were changed, and the paratroopers averted disaster.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Levenson
“They also serve who only sit and de-garble.” – WW2 intel slogan
That’s awesome.
Too bad his agency is spying on us now.
Looking at the UK now I imagine Hitler is laughing his ass off.
In I’m old and a geek news. I have just bought the remastered Full Throttle from GOG for $3.50 and down loaded Skyggerfall (daggerfall remake mod in Skyrim engine) and I don’t know which to play first!
Gay.
In a just world, this would be the theme of the next Team Blue debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ISBJc1wFk
“I don’t know if I have an exact threshold on what amount of money someone should have, but on some level no one deserves to have that much money,” the Facebook (FB) CEO said during a town hall event at the company’s headquarters on Thursday in response to an employee question about Sanders’ comments.
Zuckerberg currently has a net worth of nearly $70 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He has previously pledged to give away 99% of his Facebook shares.
That pledge was four years ago. Huh. I can see he takes “no one deserves to have that much money” seriously.
This beer is OK.
Give away to whom? And how does that impact, you know, that company he runs?
They clearly want a civil war.
The Hildebeast is calling for scrapping the constitution. Tlib is calling for arresting the President’s cabinet.
What the fuck is wrong with these commie rat bastards? Oh….I answered my own question.
Say it with me…2020 landslide.
Stock up on rain barrels for proggie tears.
I think they are getting past the tears stage. They are going to keep stirring the shit until they get what they want. What they haven’t figured out yet is that they won’t like it very much. Not. At. All.
*orders more 7.62×39*
Damn it Suthen.