09:20 – This morning is the first in several weeks that we haven’t had a science kit sitting waiting for USPS to pick it up. It’s gotten to the point where Lori, our USPS carrier, just says “See you tomorrow” as she pulls out of our drive every morning. I already have overnight orders to ship tomorrow morning, so this is likely only a momentary lull. With the new school year starting, I suspect we’ll be shipping kits pretty much every day for the rest of this month and into October.
Barbara is cleaning house upstairs today in preparation for our friends arriving Saturday. Colin is crouched under my desk, waiting to pounce when the vacuum cleaner approaches him.
After I read about the new BATFE regulation that defines ammunition as a high explosive, I started checking on-line sites that sell ammo. I didn’t have time to get much of a sample, but it seems that ammo prices have increased 20% or so overnight. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them double or triple pretty quickly, and to see the supply dry up. That’s what Obama intended, of course.
The federal government is fortunate that nearly all of us Normals are peaceful types. As this attack on Normals continues and accelerates, I keep halfway expecting to see reports of targeted assassinations of politicians, judges, and bureaucrats. I mean, if even 0.001% of gun owners decide they’ve had enough, things could get very exciting for our masters, and not in a good way. Literally, just 0.001% could start things rolling. And there are certainly a lot more than 0.001% of gun owners who are perfectly capable of taking down a target at 500 yards or more.
Things could get very interesting in Colorado if Amendment 69 (yes, they really called it that) passes in November. The specific language of the ballot measure calls for an immediate annual tax increase of $25 billion, doubling the intake of the state government, to establish universal healthcare governed by an appointed board.
If the amendment passes and the normals don’t at least evacuate the state en masse, there probably isn’t any hope left for the state and, possibly, the country. The name of the measure alone is something I view as “in your face” to the rest of us courtesy of the “SJW” demographic.
I think the pot is at the simmering stage now and the vast population of Normals here is waiting to see what happens in early November.
As for the ATF stuff, they appear to be backing off a tad now:
https://www.atf.gov/file/109341/download
But apparently the regime is not gonna be happy and is gonna keep pushing and pushing until the pot boils over. This is not a good idea.
“The name of the measure alone is something I view as “in your face” to normals…”
Good point, Mr. Greg; more and more we’re seeing that “in your face” attitude from our rulers and their henchmen/womyn, a giant middle finger, seems like every day lately. As I pointed out quite a while back, they openly laugh at us now. Nothing but contempt and loathing for us.
I hope things don’t get too frisky. I’m too old for this shit.
On a more cheerful note, there is zero federal government presence in this county other than USPS employees, and very little state government presence. Local politicians, LEOs, etc. are Normals. Even the few Democrat politicians up here are what would pass for hard-right conservatives most places.
The prices at Lucky Gunner don’t seem to have changed in the last 24 hours, but I’ve only been really been paying attention to the price of one item. If someone got caught by the overnight price increases, they may be the place to shop. I have no personal experience to recommend them. Glenn Reynolds has recommended them and said the place is run by one or more of his former students.
I am only 0x33, and I’m too old for this shit.
“I have no personal experience to recommend them. Glenn Reynolds has recommended them and said the place is run by one or more of his former students.”
I do, and likewise recommend them; they usually ship within 24-48 hours, too. Do a good look-through of their site, the blog, videos, etc., and their Toob channel.
“…There is zero federal government presence in this county other than USPS employees, and very little state government presence.”
Wish I could say the same, and it’s something we (I) should have looked at more closely before we moved here. Besides the local cops, we’ve got a state police barracks, the Border Patrol, and Customs and Immigration, with buildings in several AO locations. And a state office building between the rail line and the “city” downtown. Also, a couple of Army Reserve and Guard units, complete with buildings and armored vehicles. This could all work either way if SHTF around here, very hard to say.
Sunny with blue skies again, after a couple of days of rain and t-storms and wind. Should stay this way through the weekend and the big Labor Day hoo-ha. I’m off shortly to the vets group after not going for one reason or another for the past month. See who’s still above the grass and/or “in crisis” mode.
We have one LE Center that includes the Sparta PD, the Sheriff, and the State cops. The nearest military facility is an NG Armory in Elkin, 30 miles south of here.
Speaking of the middle finger to us Dirt People:
It’s all over the innertubes that the Klinton Krime Family used tax dollars to pay for Cankles “private” email server. Doesn’t that mean it, and everything on, it, belongs to us. Yet, she deletes most of, it. What will the justice system do? Will the KKF pay back the money? Will the MSM say anything (other than cover for her and blame Colin P.)? Appanently, tax dollars also went to the Klinton Krime Foundation.
A good discussion of the alt-right, where they came from, why most people misuse the label, and why they need to be shunned by conservatives (and libertarians and liberals).
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/31/hewitt-goldberg-core-alt-right-needs-driven-conservative-ranks/
On a more cheerful note, there is zero federal government presence in this county other than USPS employees, and very little state government presence.
What are the local statistics regarding SSI Disability and Food Stamps?
When the excrement hits the A/C, a lot of those folks will do anything to literally maintain their soup bowl. Most of them have cell phones that will plug them right into the Cankles -er- Emergency Broadcast System.
I realized we may live too close to the local metro when the school system for our area held a surplus sale and the debris from the city was lined up for hours to buy $50 laptops. I’m sure the dirtbags cased the homes around the warehouse, including mine, before heading back to town.
And Yup. Got one (E6400 Dell Latitude — nice Linux box), but I was more or less threatened with physical violence when I held up the line waiting for the pregnant woman in front of me to finish picking through the piles before I took my turn digging.
Ha Ha! Facebook satellite blows up on pad:
The blast took with it Facebook’s first satellite costing the company a whopping £150 million.
SpaceX – founded by PayPal and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk – confirmed there was an anomaly on the launch pad which resulted in the loss of the rocket and its payload.
“What are the local statistics regarding SSI Disability and Food Stamps?”
Like any rural, mountain area, there’s a lot of poverty, but there’s also a strong cultural tendency to avoid government programs, even things like food stamps.
In 2010, the latest I found figures for, Alleghany County had about 1,500 food stamp recipients for 11,000 population. Call it 14%. In 2016, I’m sure that percentage has gone up, but I’d be surprised if it was as high as 25%.
OK, I have the computer nightmare story of the week. One of my customers just bought a new Dell laptop with a 15 inch 4K screen. 4K resolution on a 15 inch screen ! The default resolution is 3840 x 2160.
Anyhoo, he expects our software to work perfectly at that resolution using a 250% text magnification. The excessive text magnification is driving Windows nuts. You would not believe how many ways that Windows is blowing up our software by automatically resizing most items but not all. It is enough to rip out the remaining hair that I have.
I have gotten him to temporarily reduce his resolution back to a more normal 1920 x 1080 with a text magnification of 125%. He is even trying the 1680 x 1050 with no text magnification that I use on my 27 inch Samsung IPS and liking that.
“the one thing they all agree on is that we need to organize this society on the assumption that white people are genetically superior, or that white culture is inherently superior, and that we should have either state-imposed or culturally-imposed segregation between the races, no race mixing with the lower brown people”
This is the description used by the progs for the alt-right. The reality is simply white people asking “why should I not be proud of my culture?”. There’s no objection to Chinese folk being proud of Chinese culture, or black folk being proud of black culture, or whatever. There’s no claim of superiority. They’re just tired of being told that being proud of the white, European culture to which they belong is somehow racist. This is the culture that invented most of modern technology, and the culture that built Western civilization. There is a lot to be proud of.
The second point is that the alt-right explicitly rejects multiculturalism, claiming (a) that it simply hasn’t worked, and (b) white, European culture is destroying itself by pretending otherwise (especially with the prohibition on being proud of one’s own culture!). I find this latter point more controversial than the first, because the consequence of nationalism is war. Within a very small margin of error, all of the major wars in history had their basis in nationalism of one form or another. While multiculturalism has it’s problems, the other extreme may be worse.
“That’s what Obama intended, of course.”
Nah, Obama hates Cankles and wants y’all to be well stocked with ammo for when she tries to ban it.
OK, I have the computer nightmare story of the week. One of my customers just bought a new Dell laptop with a 15 inch 4K screen. 4K resolution on a 15 inch screen ! The default resolution is 3840 x 2160.
Battery life on that must be awful unless a compromise was made somewhere.
I think it is long past the point where even budget laptops should be at 900 vertical for a 14 inch screen, but, IIRC, humans cannot distinguish differences above ~ 1500 vertical on a 15″ laptop at the typical working distance.
Apple would just call that a “retina display.” Their MacBook Pros and iMacs come with it.
There is a lot of GUI design out there that is not very grow-friendly as it was programmed to be x-pixels by y-pixels instead of something more dynamically relative to the DPI/PPI like points, centimeters, or inches.
“DPI/PPI like points, centimeters, or inches.”
even with that, text labels zoom in strange ways.
Autocad has been dealing with this for more than a decade.
How do you intelligently scale text, that must remain readable, at any but the most extreme zoom levels?
Even the Surface Pro displays are giving me grief. The super-high-res displays result in small icons, so folks are zooming it up. Unless your software is designed by real pros (as in MS or, well, MS), your software will show funky things when you do that.
The key is to use all of the MS “standards” as published. That means using “Button Face” instead of “Gray, RnGnBn”. Using Windows supplied UI .dlls instead of 3rd party controls. Being very careful to do everything right. Nobody does that but MS. I know I certainly didn’t.
It will take years for developers to get everything sorted to the point that 4k displays are no longer a pain in the toches to support.
Even the Surface Pro displays are giving me grief
And the same problem occurs on the Dell computers. Software that is properly behaved works just fine. Word, Excel, the MS products are outstanding on a high resolution display.
Photoshop 6 sucks unless you add a manifest file. Doesn’t really solve the problem but makes the display more usable and everything is consistent. Adobe supposedly fixed the problem with the Creative Cloud products. But I am not going to subscriber to software, ever.
Intuit products, such as Quicken, totally suck. Some text is way to small, some too big and is not fully visible in a dialog box. There is some really shitty Windows display programming in that product. Afraid to even try TurboTax.
You’re taking a description by their political and philosophical enemies as “good”? How interesting.
Just put my first CraigsList ad up:
http://houston.craigslist.org/cto/5761545748.html
Was easy to do and the price was right.
Back from vets group; good discussion of lots of stuff. One newcomer, ‘Nam ex-jarhead with mangled right hand and lots of other scarring; he’s recently retired as a teacher and coach in a small town mid-state and was homesteading down there off the Grid for many years with his family. Our peer support specialist guy (Balkans Airborne vet) is gonna hook him up with younger vets returning to farm and homestead up here. And our other ex-jarhead is MIA and having a rough time; has nothing to do now after nearly eight years as a VA peer support specialist dealing with vets in major crisis down at the White River Junction VA Med Center. He’s an ex-junkie and ex-con, and his two sons likewise, also ex-jarheads. We need to get him back under our wing, so to speak.
I’m back on the scut and grunge patrol here at home for the long holiday weekend, plus getting the windshield replaced on the RAV4, cracked by some local shitbird yoot last week.
Wife and daughter are swanning on up the northwest coast of Ireland and enjoying cozy evenings by peat fires in cute little cottages by the sea, perhaps also enjoying a wee sip ‘o the creature. Life is grand.
Expecting some ammo to show up here tomorrow, unless it’s stolen by them local shitbird yoots or another tsunami crashes ashore from the bay.
“Was easy to do and the price was right.”
Good pics there, Mr. Lynn. All those vehicles yours? You like the color red a lot, huh.
Even the Surface Pro displays are giving me grief. The super-high-res displays result in small icons, so folks are zooming it up. Unless your software is designed by real pros (as in MS or, well, MS), your software will show funky things when you do that.
The key is to use all of the MS “standards” as published. That means using “Button Face” instead of “Gray, RnGnBn”. Using Windows supplied UI .dlls instead of 3rd party controls. Being very careful to do everything right. Nobody does that but MS. I know I certainly didn’t.
It will take years for developers to get everything sorted to the point that 4k displays are no longer a pain in the toches to support.
For a long time, Windows software was designed at 100 dpi. That 4K 15 inch display is around 400 dpi. That means that text is incredibly small unless the user increases the text magnification. Or the user zooms in.
And yes, we have a lot of custom built controls to meet our exotic software needs. A lot of software just tells you something went wrong when you click on OK. I prefer to build the dialog controls so that they point you in the right direction (OK, north or south). And we have over 200 dialogs in our software.
What is a toches ? Do I really want to know ?
“What is a toches ? Do I really want to know ?”
OFD, Hyperliterate Recovering English Major is here to help:
” toches(Noun)
The buttocks, rear end, butt.
Origin: From תחת, “beneath/under”, pronounced according to the Ashkenazi (European Jewish) Hebrew accent, “toches” (a Modern Israeli would pronounce it “tachat”, a Sefardi Jew taḥat and a middle eastern Jew taḥath).
“Was easy to do and the price was right.”
Good pics there, Mr. Lynn. All those vehicles yours? You like the color red a lot, huh.
Both of those red pickups belong to my son. My white Expedition is in the corner of the first picture. And that is the parking lot of my office building. Which, you can see at:
https://www.winsim.com/contact.html
My son has an old red 2003 F-150 with V6, 5-speed manual, 130K miles, and NO air bags that he needs to get rid of. His grandfather just gave him his red 2005 Chevy Silverado with 100K miles. He is about to get an ultimatum since the F-150 has been parked in front of the office for three months. My dad could not find his title so they had to get the paperwork lined out.
“The Legality of Body Armor”
https://www.texaslawshield.com/the-legality-of-body-armor/
“Recently, a Texas Law Shield member was arrested for the possession of body armor. Ultimately, the member was released from custody and no charges were filed. One question we’ve received is: Am I legally allowed to have body armor? If you’re not a convicted felon, the answer is yes.”
So, clothing is regulated by the federal government. Who would have thought ? Weren’t we born free ?
I see that Obama is a prepper.
Wow, RBT. You’re usually really good with not making typos, but writing “prepper” instead of “pig poker” is a doozie.
Good pics there, Mr. Lynn. All those vehicles yours? You like the color red a lot, huh.
Although, I am thinking about buying this red F-150 to share with my daughter.
http://helfmanford.com/new/Ford/2016-Ford-F-150-00432d620a0e0adf2d1dc2788596ffea.htm?searchDepth=3:190
V6 (non-turbo) for good gas mileage (18/25 mpg).
“I see that Obama is a prepper.”
Is he, really?? Got his top-secret underground bunker all set up and configured, has he? Sharing it with the Mooch, and Valerie, and Angela, and Janet, et.al…..Good luck to him. Sooner or later he’ll have to pop the lid and crawl on up above and I’m betting he ain’t gonna last very long. Not even with battalions of SS all around, assuming they’re still getting paid by somebody.
Otherwise, what is this latest bit of nooz?
So, clothing is regulated by the federal government.
Next up, steel toed shoes declared body armor. Absolutely ridiculous. I’ve mentioned before, NV is an open carry State, try it and you will be harassed to jail.
My son has an old red 2003 F-150 with V6, 5-speed manual, 130K miles, and NO air bags that he needs to get rid of.
Sounds like something I’d like. However. I have my mom’s van. It’s a 2004 Freestar, base model. I’ve swapped the am/fm radio out for a factory 6 disc changer. Added cruise. Added the buttons to the steering wheel pad for cruise and radio control. Maybe $400 plus my time. She paid for the window tinting.
Had to swap out the coil pack a few months ago. All I got to say about that is “fuck you Henry”. Put the thing on the back side of the engine…. bastard.
When she moved in it had all of 25,000 miles. Now, 3+ years later, it has 36,000 miles. It’s a weird vehicle. Some days the power locks work and 15 minutes later they don’t. A pain in the butt. The only door with a keyhole is the driver’s door. I can open that and unlock the slider and crawl in to unlock the other doors. But I’m screwed for the tailgate. I need to figure that out, I’m sure the answer is in the shop manual.
My favorite car ever was a 1978 Plymouth Volare. Slant Six. A Super Six with its 2 barrel carb. I did the valve lash on it and it would sit at idle and you could stand a nickel on edge on the air cleaner. Great car, even if the Earl whotshisname paint job was wearing off.
“All I got to say about that is “fuck you Henry”. Put the thing on the back side of the engine…. bastard.”
I had the same reaction to the Saab engineers who put the driver’s side headlight bulb-changing access right up against the fucking battery. No way I could get my paw down in there; wife couldn’t, either.
Favorite car: My 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 V8 4wd truck. Had to let it go a couple of years ago ’cause I couldn’t afford to fix all the rust on the rocker panels, bottoms of the doors and underneath. Nearly twenty New England winters.
Nissan 300ZX. Man that thing drove good. Got married and traded it in on a minivan. lol!
From the Tramps for Trump Department:
http://freedomoutpost.com/this-porn-star-is-coming-out-as-pro-trump/
Oh my!
“Got married and traded it in on a minivan. lol!”
Got married. There’s your problem right there.
What is WRONG with us???
Paging Mr. SteveF…paging…can I get a witness??
We’re pussies that can’t support ourselves?
A witness? A witness to what? Perhaps the murder of my desire to go on living? It might be unfair to tar all marriages with the same brush, but the 5% of good marriages can just deal with it.
More info on the Ammunition/Explosive issue:
http://www.snopes.com/atf-reclassifies-wetted-nitrocellulose/
Spent most of the day fighting with IP cameras. Every camera has a different URL to access its stream, usually more than one, and they all have settings and parameters. Further, the viewing software (or in my case the open NVR recorder software) has config settings for each stream. Getting them to match up and produce an image is seriously frustrating if it doesn’t “just work.”
It would be impossible if not for the web. Manuals, firmware, updaters, default passwords, hard reset procedures, all online. But it takes freaking forever to apply, reboot, reaquire, test, apply changes, restart, reaquire, test, repeat…
On the plus side, I’ve got about 100 cameras for $1 each, and most of them seem to be working. Nothing state of the art, but plenty to choose from.
I do love PoE. So much easier….
nick
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-01/august-auto-sales-disappoint-ford-admits-we-think-sales-have-reached-plateau
yep, down, with lots of incentives
n
“More info on the Ammunition/Explosive issue:”
I dunno about Snopes, but yeah, other sources confirm that ATF has backed off for now. Still: get yer guns and ammo NOW anyway.
“We’re pussies that can’t support ourselves?”
No, we voluntarily gave up our formerly remunerative and rewarding careers so that our women can have a place in the future of our nation and validate their lives and struggles for equality. Or something. Did I screw that up?
“Perhaps the murder of my desire to go on living?”
I get those days once in a while still, but they pass, lol. Then I have that desire to go stop someone else from living.
“Spent most of the day fighting with IP cameras.”
I may get into that this fall at some point, in conjunction with property security here. Thanks for the depressing heads-up, lol.
“yep, down, with lots of incentives…”
I saw pics a while back of many hundreds and hundreds of new vehicles just sitting in lots and on roadways in the greater Babylon-on-the-Hudson area. Unsold. Not gonna be sold anytime soon. May as well just give them to ISIS. After fitting them beforehand with various test devices and experimental explosives. Or just leave them in the right ‘hoods likewise in any of the big cities.
@ofd,
yep the ole quality triangle hits again. I got em cheap, but I’m spending time to get them integrated.
My advice to anyone looking for IP cameras for surveillance, buy everything from one manufacturer. I like Speco as ‘pro-sumer’ level gear. Some of their gear is even better, some a bit cheaper. Any problem I’ve had they took care of it. (a REAL system has mix and match cameras, each chosen for its position and use, not 8 the same and an cheap NVR.) Any is better than none though. And NO DEPENDING ON THE CLOUD!
nick
I don’t think I’ve ever had a suicidal thought in my life. Well, not regarding myself. I’ve thought many a time that suicide should be #1 on the To-Do list of quite a few people. Even though I’ll never understand contemplating suicide.
Contemplating homicide, on the other hand… Yah, got that one nailed. Not a day goes by that I haven’t planned the death of at least one person. At least a couple times a month I think about how I’d cripple a tribe or a nation. The fact that I don’t casually murder people who annoy me, even when I could get away with it clean, and haven’t brought down even one nation, even a small nation full of idiot losers, clearly demonstrates that I am virtuous beyond all reasonable expectation and should be rewarded, like with a donut or a “buy one get one” coupon for conditioning shampoo.
Well, hell, then; I owe you a nice jelly doughnut and not just the coupon for the conditioning shampoo, but an actual bottle of it, from Bert’s Bees…oh wait…dint I see a pic of U a while back and not to put too fine a point on it….but it appears U would have no particular need for shampoo….amirite?
Hey, this chit right here:
http://buchanan.org/blog/conquistador-trump-125591
…must be getting the libturds’ panties in a freakin’ uproar. Them and the usual suspect La Raza types are LOSING THEIR MINDS over it. I am having a real good time laughing right now.
More hijinks and hilarity here:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/a-reader-sends-21/
This creature must actually go OUT OF HER WAY to dress up in the most outlandish and ugly fucking outfits. Her mind must really be gonzo. I actually think she’s possessed and some entity or other is making her function, barely, and the entity occasionally dozes off or something and that’s when she has those seizures, coughing fits, and falling down stairs. Sooner or later she’s gonna cough and we’ll see fucking bats fly out.
I told you Cankles’ outfits were hideous. Looks like a shower curtain from Motel 6. Or a lesbian dashiki. Maybe Huma is under there.
We been seeing her outfits for it seems like centuries now, and each one is worse than the last. The Mao Cultural Revolution pantsuits were bad enough; now she’s wearing fucking maps or something. Huma can actually look pretty hot but in other pics she’s a mess just as bad. But here we are, typical male pigs, dwelling on women and their looks and their clothes; doncha feel ashamed of yerself?
It almost make Alex Jones’ lizard people make sense…….
n
I shall give myself 50 lashes with a wet noodle.
@Nick re: camera software
I use iSpy which is an Open Source Camera Security Software. It is quite good and solid. I used it for the last month unattended running on a laptop in an attic with motion triggers to try and find out if I still had problems with a possum trying to get in and how would he be managing to do it. I only caught a lot of short videos with flying insects or spider webs moving because of the draughts. (It is a Very old house).
Simple to set-up and use.
Some of y’all maybe remember that mean ol’ Mr. OFD blathering several times in the past about ‘slippery slopes’ and suchlike in regard to the progs and SJWs continuing their obsession with sexual deviance and getting the State to enforce their various demands and whims accordingly:
https://lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/pedophile-disorder/
What did I say then? Something like…from “civil unions,” to homosexual “marriages,” to this next step, pedophilia, and then we’ll be off to accepted incest, bestiality and necrophilia. The various mechanisms, culturally and legally, are already in place. The West is absolutely SICK. And evil. But of course maybe I’m just a wacky old bigot.
And this:
https://lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/re-pedophile-rights/
I agree with Pastor Chuck’s list:
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin924.htm
From the Same As the Old Boss Department:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/09/john-w-whitehead/election-hacked/
Which is funny because not that long ago one of my brothers admonished me and another brother to “do our civic duty” (and vote).
So is it my civic duty to go back to making a fool of myself? To put on my voter clown suit again and provide boffo laffs for the rulers?
This is the description used by the progs for the alt-right.
No, it’s what the original alt.right was. These people have been around for a long time. I first became aware of them on Usenet (hence the original name). They are racists. They are anti-Semites. They have tried to clothe their beliefs in other language.
You’re taking a description by their political and philosophical enemies as “good”? How interesting.
Sure. Jonah Goldberg’s point in the interview is that language is important. By lumping themselves in with the founders of the alt.right movement and adopting its name, they are fellow travelers/useful dupes for a gang of racists.
To lump Trump and his supporters in with them, as Clinton is trying to do, is like conflating the Republicans with Nazis or Fascists. It’s like calling libertarians (and Libertarians) conservatives. As the article points out, based on interviews with Trump supporters, they support him on economic grounds. They are no more likely to be unemployed or poor than anyone else, but they have a deep concern for their kids and grandkids and the world they will inherit.
From the We Just Adore Hillary’s Outfits Department:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/comic/mitt-redux/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DayByDayCartoon+%28Day+by+Day+Cartoon+by+Chris+Muir%29
As usual with these things, many of the following comments are priceless. Ya gotta LOVE our fellow Normals, I am dead serious.
Now, bon soir, mes amis.
@ech: No doubt you’re right, there are alt-right white supremacists. Maybe they were even the original owners of the title “alt-right” – I can’t say. But from the stuff I’ve been reading in the past several months, they are now only a fringe element of a larger movement, one that defines itself as I wrote.
Of course, Hillary, and displaced Republicans, would like to discredit everyone in the alt-right with the “racist” label, but I don’t thing they will be able to make it stick. Time will tell…
lynn wrote:
“Exterior and interior are fairly rough”
That’s your old lady’s car isn’t it? Does she know you’re selling it? How did it get so rough? I thought wimminz took care of their cars.
Toches – I picked it up from a neighbor when I was growing up. She was an old Polish Catholic who loved to toss in some Yiddish for fun.
Makes the English language a lot of fun. We can adopt ANY word, file off the serial numbers, and make it our own. Any word.
re the English language’s amazing ability to borrow words from everyone else, the only thing that bothers me about that is that we don’t steal the words from other languages. It would be very amusing if English had half a million words and non-English-speakers were reduced to pointing and grunting. Can I get a mwa-ha-ha?
@marcelo,
yep that’s the one. Have you tried the pro version?
Their database of camera stream urls is massive and impressive, but can still have problems… specifically yesterday with ACTi cameras. Appears that the camera stream resolution and the NVR resolution must match or it won’t decode properly. ISPy was 320×240 and didn’t match any available stream.
So many details….
n
“It would be very amusing if English had half a million words and non-English-speakers were reduced to pointing and grunting.”
Last I knew, English has over a million words, the largest vocabulary by a factor of at least two over any other language (Chinese). It is truly the Borg of languages and is now the de facto language of the whole world, like it or not. From very inauspicious beginnings, like unto, perhaps, pointing and grunting in the north German forests.
The first time it struck me how impoverished other languages were in terms of vocabulary was when I had just washed my hands in a public restroom and was pulling out paper towels to dry them. The sign said, in English, “Use both hands”. Below it, in Spanish, it said, translated, “Use two hands”.
And the richness of English vocabulary may tempt me to introduce minor differences in meaning where none really exist. But sometimes they do. I remember a discussion I had with Tim O’Reilly, who absolutely despises the word “utilize”. At one point, I think he’d banned it from appearing in O’Reilly publications.
I told Tim that, in my mind, “use” implied consumption, while “utilize” did not. In other words, one utilizes a hammer to drive nails. I did grant that from a very long-term view, one does “use” a hammer, but it takes a very long time to use one up. And I note that never in history has someone utilized something up.
Yeah, English is also chock-full of funny stuff like that. And among the hardest aspects of it for someone to learn who is not a native English speaker is the way sounds don’t always match how the words are spelled. The “ough” for example, and how easily people, INCLUDING native speakers make mistakes, with “accept” and “except,” “faze” and “phase,” etc. Place names are notorious for this, especially east of the Appalachians, and back in merry old England.
A recovering English major like myself can happily get lost of an afternoon poring through the OED and various etymologies.
and then we’ll be off to accepted incest, bestiality and necrophilia.
I Love The Dead
Ah yes, Alice Cooper, the right-wing radio DJ and semi-pro golfer.
Then there’s this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8
See? We’re being set up for it all. Acceptable.
“Cadaver eyes upon me see…Obola”
Well, again, I have no problem with consenting adults doing what they please, as long as it doesn’t involve the initiation of force against anyone who does not consent to it.
If Greg wants to marry three women, two men, and a New Zealand sheep, that’s his business, assuming all consent.
How do sheep, minor children and dead people give their consent?
Sheep and dead people are chattel, and have no rights. Children are, as a matter of law, incapable of consenting. As I’ve said repeatedly, biology provides a demarcation between child and adult. It’s called puberty.
Poor Colin.
We treat Colin as a full member of the family, but legally he’s property.
I suppose in that respect Colin is in the same position as family-owned slaves have been since humanity began keeping slaves, which is to say pretty much since humans have existed. Behaviorly, Colin is about as far from a slave as I can imagine, but then the same has been true of many human slaves throughout history.
Not that I’m condoning slavery. As a libertarian, I believe slavery is the most evil institution that humans have ever come up with. Ownership of another person is unacceptable under any circumstances. Treatment of slaves is an entirely separate issue. In the antebellum South, the situation of a house slave was usually far, far different from that of field slaves, just as in Classical Rome the situation of a house slave far, far different from that of a field slave, let alone a mine slave. But even slaves who were well-treated and essentially became family members were still, ultimately, slaves.
Colin wants to hump those cows.
Can chattel hump chattel w/no consent? Who owns them? Do they have a say?
PETA swat team now at your door.
“PETA swat team now at your door.”
They gon hab to wait. The local PD SWAT is there for a couple of overdue library books and the EPA behind them for unauthorized organic carrots.
I told you Cankles’ outfits were hideous. Looks like a shower curtain from Motel 6.
DBD calls her clothing an oven mitt:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/comic/mitt-redux/
lynn wrote:
“Exterior and interior are fairly rough”
That’s your old lady’s car isn’t it?
It is the daughters car. The wife drives a 2005 Honda Civic EX Coupe in red with mag wheels, spoiler, and 5 speed. 0 to 60 mph in 7 sec.
Does she know you’re selling it? How did it get so rough? I thought wimminz took care of their cars.
Are you kidding me ? Women do not take care of their cars. Men do not take car of their cars. Nobody takes care of their cars except me !
I have heard “Get your butt out there and fix my car !” more than once.
Ok, I am paraphrasing. Maybe it was more like, “Would you please …”.
Last I knew, English has over a million words, the largest vocabulary by a factor of at least two over any other language (Chinese). It is truly the Borg of languages and is now the de facto language of the whole world, like it or not. From very inauspicious beginnings, like unto, perhaps, pointing and grunting in the north German forests.
I read something recently and they claim that you are low by a factor of eight. Which, I cannot find now. Of course, there is always James Nicoll’s classic phrase:
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8302144.James_D_Nicoll
Does Colin ever ask you “Bob, is that a Mars Bar in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”
Nobody takes care of their cars except me !
I hear you, buddy.
2013 Fiesta
2013 Tacoma
2013 Escalade
2016 VW Turbo Bug
I get to maintain all of those.
PETA swat team now at your door.
What was I thinking?
PETA swat team now ready to knock down your door.
““The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore….”
I love that quote. But we can count on the one hand any peeps who attempt to defend its “purity.” On two hands, maybe, the peeps who try to keep some measly standards of common and correct usage and grammar and spelling. All moot by now, I reckon, like all the stuff that flew outta Pandora’s box.
Someone — not I, because I’m all genteel ’n’ shit — could put Hillary’s name in that phrase for no reason other than to nauseate anyone who read it. Well, anyone except Huma No-More-Weiner, who had held her tongue to keep anything from flying out.
Take more than that to nauseate OFD; it won’t work. I saw stuff that would gag a maggot.
Literally.
But I like the way you coin a phrase, esp. that last bit of Humma-Humma holding her tongue. She must have absolute carte blanche to dress like she does, marry a Jewish guy, and sleep with the SecState here, from the Musloid Brotherhood, A-Q and ISIL. It must be worth it to them in the long run, and they consider women lower than cattle anyway, so no big deal, I guess.