08:04 – Other than bottles and a couple other items, we now have pretty much everything we need in-hand or on-order to build large batches of science kits. I’ll get orders cut today for two of the remaining items, a liter of cassia oil and a couple kilos of sodium dithionite.
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
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Managed to get one of two cats off to vet this morning; second one has disappeared into a black hole, naturally, after seeing the first cat-napping.
38 right now, but on the way we passed through a snow/sleet squall outta the nearby hills.
Best time for cat-napping is when cats are napping.
We are into spring here. Tons of rain during the last week, and I am going to have to mow the grass this weekend. We have not been below 40 at night for more than a week now.
We know that about grabbing the cats and that’s how we got the adult female, who was half-asleep and pliable. The younger female saw the bit of commotion, though, and bailed into another dimension immediately. Once all that died down, hours later, she re-appeared.
22 tonight with a Real-Feel of 17. Then 62 tomorrow; we don’t mind in the least as this is perfect for maple sap production out in the woods. Could be another bumper crop this season. Not even close to mowing the grass here, though; packed mud with a few snow drifts here and there.
I am never disappointed by small numbers of dumb bastards there are out there, because those numbers are not small, they are HUGE! Somebody on my Facebook News Page linked to a video with a really dangerous event being caught on a security cam in a residential neighborhood, and 192 of the 192 commenters so far, think it was hilarious. The guy involved could have been killed, and everyone who has commented thinks it was funny.
Have no idea how to get a link to that video; it is not YouTube. I sent it privately to a couple people via email and they got “an error occurred”, so obviously, Facebook is trying to block anybody from sharing something OUTSIDE of Facebook.
On Facebook, go to “The Dave, Mahoney, & DK Morning Show” of Las Vegas, and scroll down to the timeline entry for 4 April. It shows a video of dogs behind a fence. The event is not about them, however. And it is not the least bit funny to me; it is truly pathetic how many people think it is.
BTW, I have given up entirely on Download Helper for Firefox. Now using NetVideoHunter, another FF add-on. Works like a champ. Messages at Download Helper development site indicate they are not going to fix the problem in the current version. Okay guys, then you are useless and I’m moving on.
Chuck, the Download Helper problems… Are they limited to not being able to download clips from Youtube? That hasn’t worked for me for a while. Does your alternative work on Youtube?
Download Helper was working for me on FF but I haven’t tried it lately; will do so anon.
Will also look into the NVH add-on, thanks for the tip.
Number of dumkopfen out there? Yeah, me and siblings frequently compare notes between here and down in the Commonwealth. Increasing by the month, it seems, and no time more so than the forthcoming wommuh weathuh. Can’t wait. In traffic, in stores, across the street, etc; the general IQ of the Murkan peeps is dropping precipitously. And behavior often dangerous, like in that vid. I am gradually weaning myself off FaceCrack as it is replete with these tales and pics and vids, and I wanna be off it mostly by the time elections come round again so I don’t have to read the idiots waxing enthusiastic about this or that political candidate that will Save the Nay-shun once and for all and Deliver Us From Evil.
Whichever job I get soon will take up most of my free time anyway; will have to ramp up fast on some stuff, and there is certainly no shortage, EVER, of stuff to do around the house here; my To-Do List is currently four pages long in regular-sized font. No time for FaceCrack and less time for frivolously watching movies and suchlike. Another decade will go by in a flash and I’ll be 70, and probably have gone to a half-dozen more funerals by then of my relatives and Mrs. OFD’s.
I think about 99% of politicians at all levels are psychopaths, literally.
No argument from me on that. At the very least they are quite consciously hypocritical liars. But I am beginning to wonder what the figures are for the general population.
We once had a system of mental health hospitals, but those are gone! Now we drug them and put them in jail, instead.
Not sure of the answer to those questions, Greg. Since I first reported problems some weeks back, I have not been able to download anything from YouTube. Nothing. I kept looking at complaints in forums, and somebody suggested NetVideoHunter. I tried it, and it worked; have been with it ever since. I really do not have a need to download stuff from anyplace other than YouTube, so outside of them, I do not really know.
Agreed with the stats on pols and hacks; certain types gravitate to that line of work, just as certain types are in other fields.
FF 28 is working OK here with Download Helper as of this afternoon, LOL.
iSkySoft Studio for Tube worked OK at first and then not at all. Gave up on it.
Will try out NetVideoHunter next.
And yes, NVH is working OK now, too, and on a vid I could not previously download with Download Helper. Nice catch, Chuck, and thanks!
At least for today! LOL.
http://www.fnvfox.com/
seems to work fine.
We once had a system of mental health hospitals, but those are gone! Now we drug them and put them in jail, instead.
Not a bad replacement. It used to be that someone would drive up to a mental health hospital, shove a person out the car door and drive off. The orderlies would grab the person, drug them, and shove them in a ward room. Now at least you have to go through a legal process to get someone jailed or committed. Unless they want to be committed, in which case they give explicit permission and must have funding.
I think you would be surprised how easy it is to get someone committed. All that needs be done is to convince a judge that the person in question has threatened a person or two and is therefore a threat to innocents in the community, and bam! — they are drugged and locked up. I have a lawyer friend who deals in this area and his wife is a psychologist. It is hard as hell to get someone out, once a judge has given the order to lock them up for reasons of mental imbalance. The wife deals primarily with troubled teens, some whom occasionally get drunk, do something stupid, and end up in jail, locked up with the key thrown away. No funding necessary — all paid by you and me in taxes for the jail.
In fact, Tiny Town once had one of the state’s mental hospitals. It was known to locals as ‘The Village’. About 15 years ago, they tore it down when the state ended funding for mental health, and what did they do on that land? Why, built a big state penitentiary, of course. You probably saw or read about the riots they had there while I was in Berlin. We saw smoke from fires rising from the institution on the Internet from US network news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Castle_Correctional_Facility#Riot_of_April_24.2C_2007
It’s all just a huge racket, the prison industry/system and the mental health facilities. When I was a kid we lived just a short distance from the Bridgewater, MA state hospital for the criminally insane, and they had the Boston Strangler locked up there; he crafted neckties for sale, funny guy, eh? Some other creatures that would make your hair stand on end; periodically there would be an escape, and the area would be crawling with local cops and staties. With rifles and dogs. We got bundled into the house with the doors locked up tight.
A radical-type film guy did one of his works on that place, called “Titicut Follies.”
http://www.zipporah.com/films/22
Then we moved to Framingham, MA, where the women’s state prison was located, another hair-raising joint, with girlfriends and other types hanging around outside the walls, which looked kinda medieval. Not fah away, Walpole, home to Cedar Junction now.
Amusingly, we now live just a coupla miles from the state’s Northwest Correctional Facility, surrounded by high chain link and barbed wire and searchlights and miles of open farm fields around it. Once in a while somebody escapes from there, too, and last summer they had a road gang out a mile up the road here and I walked right through them and said howdy. They were polite.
How is all that cellphone information the NSA and other governments collect used? This article pretty much tells the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/world/europe/britains-power-to-disown-its-citizens-raises-questions.html
Noting singular similarities and tight cooperation between the US and Britain, the article reveals that without due process, Britain has disowned citizenship of people thought to be terrorists, and used cell phone location information to send out deadly drone attacks. If you kill the person who has been denied due process, then that mitigates the loss of due process. There is a difference between this and dictatorship? Not in my book.
We’ve had a three-ring circle jerk with Brit and Israeli intel since well before The Good War. We spy on each other and also assist each other. The Brits are masters at this and have been since Edward Longshanks, at least.
Don’t think for a nanosecond that our own regime would not do the same thing here; Chuck and me piss somebody off in that regime; they disown us as citizens and send out a drone to whack us. Screw due process and rules of evidence and habeas corpus and all that old nonsense, eh? Rules by men (and women) and not law; Magna Carta is dead and our own Constitution and Bill of Rights are now, and have been, birdcage liner and nothing more.
Obummer is simply a puppet dictator, like Bush and Clinton before him; when he no longer meets the needs of the Shadow State, away he goes, if he’s lucky, to a remunerative speaking, lobbying and diplomatic tour, plus books and a Presidential Library. Right now they’re floating the Heroine of Tripoli and Benghazi as probably the front-running Dem witch; she could roll right over any fool or cretin the Repub dipshits drum up. And the Mooch could roll over her if she so desires. I don’t really care; pick the worst and let them do their worst; sooner we topple this regime and reboot the whole system, the better we’ll be, but it will take decades to come. Most of us here will only see the beginnings.
Wonder if I am safe if I switch to a landline?
If you’re a viable intel target, these buggers will park a drone outside your kitchen window now. Keep bitching about the gummint and it will have a warhead on it. We have a landline but those have been bugged easily enough since the beginning.