08:58 – I watched with disgust last night as the authorities captured the second muslim terrorist alive instead of gunning him down as he so richly deserved. I kept thinking how unfortunate it was that the cops used flash-bang grenades instead of fragmentation grenades. Or they could have just done a Bonnie & Clyde on that boat, and put a thousand rounds or so through it.
10:51 – Barbara brought her sister’s failed desktop system home the other day. At first I thought it was a dead power supply, but replacing it did no good. I suspect a dead motherboard, and the system is old enough that it made no sense to replace a bunch of components. Instead, I just picked one of the systems sitting under the table in my office. That turned out to be an old system that we’d built as a project system for (I think) the second edition of the Perfect PC book. The system is old, but it has almost zero time on it. When I fired it up, it sounded like a leaf blower. Barbara said it didn’t sound all that loud to her, and Frances said they didn’t care because the system sits in a spare bedroom where it wouldn’t bother anyone. So I went ahead and installed Linux Mint 13 LTS on it, which gives me four years of not having to worry about updating the OS. Frances and her husband are stopping over sometime today so we can get their email, Skype, and so on set up. Right now, it’s in Barbara’s office, connected to her peripherals and Ethernet cable.
As long as I have Barbara’s system disconnected, I’m going to go ahead and swap it out for her new system. The old one is a hex-core processor with lots of memory, and was originally intended to replace my main system. Barbara’s old system failed, and the hex-core system was just sitting there, so she’s been using it for the last year or more. It’s much more system than she needs, so I built an Intel Atom system for her to replace it. The hex-core then moves to my office to replace the antique Core2 Quad 9650 that’s currently my main system. Barbara uses little more than email and browser on her office system, so a quad-core Atom is more than sufficient.
I’ve already done several backups of her hard drive, so once I pull the hex-core system from her office, I’ll put her current hard drive on the shelf, replace it with a 3 TB drive, and install Linux Mint 13 LTS on my new main system.
The only problem with your plan, RBT, is that it assumes the feebs got it right and are pursuing the correct suspect. It’s looking that way in this case, but imagine that Richard Jewel got fed up from the constant media and police attention after the feebs leaked his name and address as Suspect#1 and he ducked out of sight just to get some privacy. Proof! Proof that he’s guilty and running. We’d better gun him down before he makes another bomb. Case solved, beer and medals all around.
I don’t think there was a whole lot of doubt that they were the bombers, not even considering the armed robbery that followed, the carjacking, and the shootout. And there was certainly zero doubt that they were muslims.
My question is did they have the help of any friends in doing what they did?
They want to get info from him.
Maybe they should use some Islamic justice on him. Amputate his arms and legs and put him on the street. Obamacare you say. A fate worse than death.
Mr. Boat Owner coulda plugged the bastard right there without calling the cops and no one woulda been the wiser; woulda saved the long-suffering citizens (subjects) of the Commonwealth a BOATLOAD of money, instead of having an army of cops eat up the clock with their paramilitary bullshit; some kid had good cell phone footage of them fanning out through his ‘hood from his second-story window, just before the spurt of gunfire and flashbangs. I’m pretty sure the bugger woulda eventually bled out and croaked in that boat by now if the homeowner hadn’t gone out to check on it because of a tarp flapping in the wind.
Seems to have been a total media curtain rung down now on whatever else has transpired since he got grabbed. Interesting.
And more “friends” and associates now suddenly being ID’d and grabbed, in OFD’s original hometown:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312123/Boston-latest-Terrorista-1-license-plate-friends-Boston-bomber-arrested-female.html
My desktop system died over the summer; likely bad MB. I happened to have just picked up an HP 8510P laptop off of eBay (USAF off-lease 2.4 GHzCore2 Duo) to replace my trusty old NC 6400, so I installed openSuse 12.2, hooked up the keyboard and monitor and it’s great. I picked up a docking station for it, again on eBay for $20 with shipping and it’s like, “who needs a desktop.”? Only gripe is the DVD burner is a bit slow. I do have the 6-core Windows 7 machine for 3d-graphics, but the speed of the Core 2 Duo is more than adequate for everything else.
I picked up 5 more of them to give the kids. replacing the original one with an 8510W which is the same machine with an nvidia card and HD graphics (a bit more more Linux friendly; I use openSuSE) averaging about $105 including shipping per machine with 2 GB RAM without a hard drive. They run Mepis 12 alpha (Debian Wheezy) perfectly after setting up some stuff (hey, it’s Debian!). However, they don’t suspend well in openSuSE 12.3 nor SevenOS Neptune with the newer Kernel; it’s an upstream bug…
Cheers,
Rod
I think it’s better they caught him alive. Gives them a chance to get information from him. Then lock him up in the general prison population and give him lots of pork.
These guys want to die and go to their version of heaven. Why oblige them? Let him think about what he did for the next fifty years or fifty bubbas, which ever comes first.
Nah, I hope they just execute him. Of course, the usual suspects will demand we demonstrate our moral superiority by sparing his life and putting him up in a nice cosy and secure place where he will get three squares and protection from the other crims.
I think it’s better they caught him alive. Gives them a chance to get information from him. Then lock him up in the general prison population and give him lots of pork.
As pretty as the younger bro is, I’m that he will have lots of new friends in prison. But first, sounds like the FBI needs to break out the old waterboarding team.
I heard a radio dude say Friday that this was too big for two brothers and that they had help. Especially on building the bombs which can be very, very tricky to keep from blowing yourself up. His comment was that bombs rarely work at the time you want them to. Looks like the FBI has the same idea and is arresting all their friends.
Who knew that Boston was so full of terrorists? I am sure am seeing large and expensive homes where these guys, the older brother’s wife and the two brothers families.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311809/Tamerlan-Tsarnaev-Boston-bomber-married-Katherine-Russell-converted-Islam-marry-him.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311580/Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-Boston-bomber-brother-partied-college-friends-days-AFTER-marathon-massacre.html
Congress will never let a tragedy go to waste in their never ending grab for more power (and money).
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/20/17830619-lawmakers-want-more-surveillance-on-the-ground-and-in-the-sky?lite
I am sure that such systems will not come cheaply and their are probably some relatives of the congress critters that are in the business of selling surveillance systems. Won’t be long until your every move, including taking a crap at a public toilet, will be on a video somewhere.
This is all just a convenient dress rehearsal for Things To Come with our Brave New World of Homeland Insecurity and Our Nanny the Almighty State. They are now going over what went right, what went wrong and how best, during future crises, of whatever origin, to control the masses. Mainly through slick manipulation of the MSM and the internet, and by making certain the local “authorities” are on the same page of the playbook in telling their citizens (subjects) what they can and cannot do. Between the drones overhead, surveillance cameras everywhere (as in Londonistan for a while now) and massed stormtrooper assaults on whoever lights up their radar, whether it’s some Tea Party moron waving his AR around at a rally or Ray “taking a crap at a public toilet.”
Rest assured any number of hadji raghead fucks will not light up their radar, which will have been programmed in advance to not register them, as has been the case, evidently, for quite a while now. Meantime Mrs. OFD still has to take her goddam shoes off every time she flies and/or pass through a scanning device, you know, OFD’s 5’10” redheaded, blue-eyed wife, face like the map of Ireland??? And while all this crap was going on, which could have been handled by one sheriff and one deputy, even Barney Fife, we got to hear various infamous pundits in the Left MSM hoping desperately that it would turn out to be white American males instead of hadji bastards. Actually titled their screeds as such and came right out and said this. I was almost gobsmacked but then remembered what sort of regime we live in now.
What a country!
For this to be true, wouldn’t her head have to be shaped like a potato? I guess that would be appropriate.
Yep, we’re the original models for Mr. and Mrs. Potato-Head.
Actually she’s all Irish-(American) and I’m only a quarter-so, the rest being mostly of English ancestry with some Scottish and Algonqian.
In any case, it appears that the Authorities of Homeland Insecurity are profiling middle-aged Caucasian American citizens in their valiant crusade against terrorism. I gotta say, though, I would not have thought Boston a target, and certainly not the Marathon. I figured more of the same against NYC and Mordor. But these pieces of shit lived there for quite a while and no doubt inspiration came to them during their five-times-a-day prayers in their religion of peace.
Won’t be long until your every move, including taking a crap at a public toilet, will be on a video somewhere.
I have been wondering how they are going to enforce the new one sheet law.
And while all this crap was going on, which could have been handled by one sheriff and one deputy, even Barney Fife, we got to hear various infamous pundits in the Left MSM hoping desperately that it would turn out to be white American males instead of hadji bastards.
I wish that was true but a dead MIT police officer says no. Was somebody watching his back? My understanding is that he was by himself.
Something is really wrong with the MSM in the USA. When they have a self announced proclivity to vote Democrat over 90% of the time, that should be screaming to them that something is wrong. Really wrong.
The deceased MIT officer was responding to a disturbance call and a backup was on the way but he got hit before he could even exit his cruiser, basically an ambush. Young guy who’d previously worked in IT at a local PD and wanted to get on that department. Not second-guessing him or speaking ill of the dead, but knowing the two buggers were on the loose in the area and I might have been a bit more careful on my approach to any such call and gone in simultaneously with my backup car; even that may not have saved me. Anyone can be ambushed.
The MSM here has long been pro-Dem and pro-Prog and pro-Left and still people swallow their bullshit continuously. Then the other side has only Faux Nooz Nitwits to listen to and watch and get all their info from them, which is almost as bad as the lefty imbeciles who are glued to NPR and Democracy Now.
On another board not long ago I opined how the news was more reliable and accurate coming from RT and Al-Jazeera, even on stuff happening here; I’d add the Daily Mail to that now after this latest horror show. So my supposed fellow right-wingers got all upset and jumped in my shit for that and one accused me of being a secret plotter for Putin’s KGB all along. They’d rather sit in front of MSNBC and bitch about it on that board all the time and then get their “real” news from Fox. What a bunch of jokers.
I have been wondering how they are going to enforce the new one sheet law.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/2007-07-11-kimberlyclark-toiletpaper_N.htm
I have been wondering how they are going to enforce the new one sheet law.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/2007-07-11-kimberlyclark-toiletpaper_N.htm
Oh gosh. I’ll just go back to carrying a package of tissue around with me. I will be the lucky one to have the batteries on this device of evil to run out on. That is what I did in Japan as none of the public toilets had TP. In fact, you were lucky if they had running water instead of just a hole in the ground.
My church has these new electric paper dispensers for drying the water off your hands. The little eye to trigger the paper ejection mechanisms is very difficult to trigger. I have seen the other guys resort to beating on these pieces of junk.
My work site building bathrooms have those faucets that are motion detectors but they don’t work half the time anyway; paper dispenser is old-school, though.
OFD is a fairly big boy and can put away the chow so the one-sheet law ain’t gonna fly up here.