07:52 – We’ve had two incidents over the last couple days of drunk drivers driving the wrong way on Interstates. In one of them, a 20-year-old UNC student killed three people, including a 6-year-old girl. He’s been released to house arrest on a $1,000,000 bond. In the second case, from reading between the lines of the news stories, it appears that a drunken Mexican sideswiped another car before a cop rammed him to bring him to a stop.
My question is, why did I have to read between the lines to figure it out? Why did the newspaper and television news not simply report something like, “Rafael Sandoval-Perez, a Mexican who is in the US illegally …” or, better still, “Rafael Sandoval-Perez, a Mexican wetback …” Surely it wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that illegal Mexicans have a nasty tendency to drive drunk, without a license or insurance, and kill innocent bystanders. Yet another reason to round them up and return them to Mexico, preferably by air-dropping them in bulk, without parachutes. Return them to their native soil, so to speak.
I’ve never quite understood how you can get onto a highway going the wrong direction. If you do manage it, somehow, how can you not notice immediately?
Anyhow, for what ever reason, there are piles of jokes about this in German, and even a special word, “ghost driver”. Just for example:
A guy is driving on the autobahn, when his daughter calls. He answers, and she says “hey, dad, be careful! I just heard on the radio that there’s a ghost-driver on the freeway”. He answers, “_a_ ghost-driver? There are _hundreds_!!!”
W10 is installed. Had to tweak a few settings to get the device to automatically switch between tablet mode and desktop mode along with the setting to get to the virtual keyboard when using Word 2013. All seems to work except for the Manifest file I had installed to get Photoshop menu items to display larger. Will probably have to wait a few weeks until some propeller head finds a solution.
Update: Did not have to wait. I already had the external manifest file. All I had to do was add a key to the registry to get W10 to accept external manifest files.
RBT – you should be old enough to remember when all the newspapers and electronic media agreed no longer publish the race of criminal perps. In Detroit, it was in the late 1960’s as I recall, with the reason that it wasn’t relevant to the reporting.
It’s at the point now where you have to read the mainstream media like Pravda and Izvestia in the Soviet empire days. It’s often more important to see what they don’t say than what they do.
Yep, I remember, and I never did buy into their arguments about relevance. I guess they don’t want people to know that a young black man is hundreds of times more likely to mug or rape an elderly white woman (or black woman) than the converse, but everyone already knows that, so what’s the point?
I wouldn’t bother to subscribe to the local newspaper, but Barbara is a Winston-Salem native and likes reading about people she knew way back when.
The lefties translate thusly: illegal immigrant > undocumented worker
Well, if illegal entry is a criminal act, how about a compacted term? crimmigrant
“He’s been released to house arrest on a $1,000,000 bond.”
In the good old days, they’d just have left him alone in a locked room with a pistol and one cartridge for it…
The US has become the dumping ground for the worlds losers.
If the libs and politicians really want to allow in all the illegals, I say we go back to the system where foreigners had to have a US sponsor that would be held responsible for their expenses if they couldn’t support themselves. I’m guessing not to many of these altruistic fools would be willing to go along with this since they’d have to put their own money on the line.
I resented having to pay taxes to support US citizens that didn’t want to work but now I’m also expected to subsidize the lives of illegals too.
How different life in the US would be if we didn’t feel the need to import an underclass and all of the problems they bring with them.
Life here in the U.S. is gonna be a LOT different real soon now and things are liable to get kinda sporty kinda fast.
Plenty of us out here feel the frustration and are more and more inclined to non-compliance and resistance.
They’re gonna keep pushing and pushing and eventually something’s got to give.
Here’s a somewhat astringent example of some thinking making the rounds out here:
http://www.thisblogisdangerous.com/the-left-must-bleed/
I prefer undocumented democrat.
“I prefer undocumented democrat.”
Fine, but it lets the Repub bastards off the hook somewhat as they enabled our hordes of illegal immigrants just as much as the Dems over the decades. This is what certain parties on this board still don’t get; it’s a Soviet-style system now, where candidates Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee are set up for us to choose from and either result is the same.
Meet the new boss…
The UNC student was set $1,000,000 bail.
The illegal Mexican $15,000.
WTF?
Dat B how it is here now. And U questioning it in such a hostile manner is a microaggression. Check yer privilege, dude.
The wetback’s bail isn’t even enough to cover the damage he did to the car he sideswiped and the police cruiser that had to ram him to stop him from hitting more people.
Oh boy, now we have multiple microaggressions here!
Check yer privilege.
Yes repubs aren’t much better. But here in Upper Upper Baja the dems have decided to give the uds driver licenses. Now they’re talking motor voter registration. Whose ranks will that grow?
It’s all just moot now anyway, a bit of kabuki. They already have the demographics/numbers to put their own in various offices around the country and the WH and Congress and pack the SC.
Let it rip.
And get ready.
Semper paratus.
Tyrants always keep pushing.
Many, many microagrresions here today. Yay!!!
Trump 2016! “WWTD ™ “
You mentioning those microaggressions and then cheering them on constitutes a macroaggression, hombre.
You are being referred to the appropriate re-education facility.
Can’t we all agree to maintain civil discourse and just smack progs in the head with 2×4’s? Preferably from behind, catching them unaware. It’s cruel to let them see what’s coming.
@rbt,
Since their personal narrative says they won’t be hurt no matter how stupidly they behave, even see ing it coming wouldn’t let therm believe it was happening.
And it might be fun to see the expression change just as it his their nose……
Nick
Had to tweak a few settings to get the device to automatically switch between tablet mode and desktop mode along with the setting to get to the virtual keyboard when using Word 2013.
Mr. Ray would you mind posting the tweaks you made? A Surface Pro 3 showed up on my desk a couple of days ago. Waiting for the W10 download since I’m just a commoner.
Hmmm….smacking progs in the head from behind w/2×4’s….major macroaggression here…wow.
Many of them seem to have very thick skills/hard heads so I dunno if a plywood board would suffice; perhaps a nice ash Louisville Slugger? With a lead core. Whoops, shades of “Inglorious Basterds!”
I’m waiting on the W10 “upgrade” to rear its head on this W8.1 machine, mainly for boffo laffs. I have all my chit backed up and a bootable USB rescue disk ready to go, “just in case.” Also my list of apps and the original 8.1 DVD and license keys, etc. Assuming the usual mess and bollixed stuff on the box thereafter, I’m hoping to persuade The Spousal Unit to let me dump Winblows and go All Linux All the Time. Of course she’d keep it on her netbook/laptop, I think it’s still W7. She has Orifice on that already and could always hook it up to our MF printer anyway.
“A Surface Pro 3 showed up on my desk a couple of days ago.”
Is that anything like boxes of ammo showing up on my back porch?
Mr. Ray would you mind posting the tweaks you made?
Settings -> System -> Tablet Mode.
There I turned off Tablet Mode and set the “When this device automatically switches tablet mode on of off” to “Don’t ask me and always switch. I also set “Make Windows more touch-friendly when using your device as a tablet” to off.
Go to this link:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
to start the download process. A small program gets installed and run that will do the download. You don’t need an activation key as the install will use your W7 or W8(.1) activation key. However, on a Surface and many newer systems the activation key is built in to the BIOS. You also have the option to download a complete ISO.
Just start the process and let the update trundle. Had no issues and have done three systems thus far, the Surface, a system at work, and a small older HP Netbook.
I am also one of the crazy people who is running Windows 10. I have only had one issue. After my first install, networking did not work. I installed the next build and then I had a working network connection.
“I installed the next build…”
Meaning an update, or did you have to reinstall the whole enchilada from scratch again, or did you have a Beta or Eval copy on there first? Network connection should have been the very first thing for the o.s. to do, as has been my longtime experience with Linux.
Googling W10 update tells me peeps who installed early versions get dibs on downloads. The rest of us will be phased in as reports come back to MS on how it goes. “Microsoft has no comment on how the updates will be phased in” but will be after the 29th for pussy Apple users. lol Still waiting for the little pop-up that says ready to install. I’m reserved for W10, though.
“…but will be after the 29th for pussy Apple users. lol”
Microaggression!
Check yer privilege!
Oh man, what a day. The Trane thermostat fried itself again about 9 am which I discovered about 11 am. So, we have a new Honeywell thermostat from Lowes. It has wifi capability, woo hoo! What is it with the burning need to connect everything to the wild wild west known as the internet? I can just see some moron driving down my street one day and saying, “lets hack that thermostat, dude”.
When I turned on the new thermostat, it turned on but would not crank the blower to high gear. I have a two speed compressor on my 5 ton compressor and a two speed blower on my furnace. The two speed compressor is automatic based on the return refrigerant pressure. The second speed on the blower requires a special setting on the thermostat when there is a three degree F differential between the house temperature and the target temperature. Once I figured out how to make the thermostat aware of the two speed blower, it cranked into hurricane mode and then the cooling started. Before that, with the compressor in high gear and and blower in low gear, there was almost zip cooling. All on a 100 F day. But, the house is well insulated and only got to 79 F. We should be back to 72 F by midnight.
We should be back to 72 F by midnight.
72! We keep our house at 77 during the day, drop to 76 at night. I would be cold at 72. We have ceiling fans in every room.
It was friggin’ 90 here today with a “Real Feel” of 95, and about 95% humidity, too. I spent the afternoon dunging out the cellar and got half of it done before runnin’ outta gas. I’ll do the other half tomorrow and I now have a good idea of our prep-food storage shelving areas down there.
If I have enough energy left tomorrow afternoon when I get back from the VA group meeting, I’ll mow the lawn and weed whack; otherwise it can wait until Friday.
70s here is just a tad warm for us; we likes it in the low 60s. 90 is outrageous. But no one has A-C around here. Fans, maybe, but no A-C.
I’m about to pull the pin on the W10 “upgrade.” We anticipate boffo laffs and hijinks.
The failed upgrade was from Windows 7. Then I reinstalled from a bootable usb drive using the next build.
Aha.
Mine is in-progress as we “speak.”
Will post results later.
From 8.1 machine and following their sorta convoluted and contradictory instructions so far.
Following instructions?
It was friggin’ 90 here today with a “Real Feel” of 95, and about 95% humidity, too
That ain’t hot…
Current conditions at
Bakersfield, Meadows Field Airport (KBFL)
Lat: 35.43361°NLon: 119.05667°WElev: 509ft.
Mostly Cloudy
106°F 41°C
Humidity 13%
Wind Speed NW 16 MPH
Barometer 29.79 in (1007.8 mb)
Dewpoint 45°F (7°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Heat Index 102°F (39°C)
Last update 29 Jul 4:54 pm PDT
Just turned off the swamp cooler and turned on the AC to 78F.
Not mostly cloudy but there are some coming in from the SE, that Arizona monsoon sheit. I think the humidity is higher than 13% however.
From 8.1 machine and following their sorta convoluted and contradictory instructions so far.
I have upgraded from W8.1 and W7. I found nothing bizarre or contradictory in the instructions. Clicked a few times, went away for awhile and came back to the initial setup screen. Used the express settings and in several minutes everything was finished.
Only real problem I had was I needed a setting in the registry to enable external manifest files so that Photoshop menu items were not so small. A product of high density display and not necessarily a problem with the upgrade. I had to make the same change with W8.1.
Other issue was the default settings for tablet mode which should not be an issue on a desktop system as it only affects tablets.
Other than that all my settings came across and all my programs are working just fine. Of course my programs are all fairly recent vintage, the oldest probably being Photoshop. I refuse to upgrade because I don’t want to pay Adobe $10.00 a month.
I think the humidity is higher than 13% however.
But it’s a dry heat. I think our humidity is 57% and has been as high as 90% recently. Multiple days with dew points in the mid 70’s. Good for the plants. A/C drain line runs a lot of water. Swamp cooler would be useless.
[snip]
The UNC student was set $1,000,000 bail.
The illegal Mexican $15,000.
WTF?
[snip]
In the first case, there are multiple fatalities. In the second, there were no injuries, albeit there was damage to public property. Big, big difference.
“That ain’t hot…”
Yeah, I know. Mrs. OFD told me last night on the phone how hot it was in Brentwood and the East Bay area, well over 100. And I lived through regular temps in SEA when it was 110+ for weeks at a time with steady drip of wottuh throughout. Like being in a friggin’ sauna; lost fifty pounds the first two weeks of my first tour. Spent the first week becoming very intimate with the latrine at all hours and expelling stuff from all available exits.
Popped back upstairs just now to check on the W10 install and there was a little box telling me: “The Windows 10 installation has failed.” Nothing else, no explanation. Whatever, screw it. They had their chance.
Popped back upstairs just now to check on the W10 install and there was a little box telling me: “The Windows 10 installation has failed.” Nothing else, no explanation. Whatever, screw it. They had their chance.
If that happens on my SP3, I’m heading to the store to get it fixed.
I’m also downloading the SP3 Recovery files from MS to make a recovery USB. It is taking forever.
Stuff with M$ always takes forever. From reboots to updates to this chit right here. I’m not gonna bother anymore with it.
Linux boots and immediately tries to connect with whatever network; my RHEL and CentOS and Ubuntu machines all boot up in seconds and connect immediately. Updates? You have the option of watching them download and install, choosing which ones to do, etc.
Wanna play games, run Adobe and Quicken stuff, and some tiny little niche thing that your org has had since Windows 3.1 and DOS? Go with Windows.
Anything I need or want to do I can do on Linux. Or, run a Windows vm in it.
Just had to restart the download “This file failed to download”. 12% and then it died and wouldn’t restart.
Ho, ho, ho…fun with Winblows again! The fun just never stops!
Mr. Ray made out OK, though; you and me just committed too many microagressions and it was noted out at Redmond.
This cop had a vest camera and killed a guy, then lied to cover up his crime.
Did he forget about the camera?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-30/cincinnati-campus-police-officer-charged-with-murder/6658726
“Pooped back upstairs just now to check on the W10 install…”
Too much information Dave… 🙂
Wow, MrAtoz lives in a police state prison-city out there! Ya can’t do ANYTHING!
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30193/11-things-las-vegas-has-banned-some-reason
we have a new Honeywell thermostat from Lowes. It has wifi capability, woo hoo! What is it with the burning need to connect everything to the wild wild west known as the internet?
Because we can.
We’re suffering kind of a temperature shock here. Most of July was in the 90s, but this week has been 60s and low 70s. Last night it was down to low 40s. Brrr…
There’s no air conditioning here except in a few commercial buildings, I avoid the cities when it gets that hot. Our house is ok: open all the windows over night, close it up when the outside temperature starts to climb. It never got over 80 or so inside, the advantage of massive brick construction with 18″ walls.
Oh, of course: because we had usual our 2-3 hot weeks all in the same month, rather than distributed across a month boundary, it means that this July was one of the warmer ones on record. So, of course, the media is blathering on about global warming…
Anyhow, we should soon be back to summer weather, temps heading for the 80s again. Good, I wasn’t ready for fall just yet. Been working too damned hard during our “vacation”. I’m ready for a vacation from vacation. Next week…
Interesting to hear y’alls W10 experiences. I’m definitely going to give it a try, but want to wait a couple of weeks for the first round of patches.
Remember, any apparent rise in temperature, perception of more violent storms, apparent loss of ice, or apparent reduction in the population of any species is proof that Global Warming is Real!!!!! and we have to turn over more power and money to some group. On the flip side, any lowering in temperature or increase in ice is just weather.
Where have you been? Lowering temperatures or increases in icepack are also evidence of climate change, according to the progs.
And this is what we wake to. Thunderstroms predicted for afternoon and evening. Flash floods for the deserts and mountains.
Current conditions at
Bakersfield, Meadows Field Airport (KBFL)
Lat: 35.43361°NLon: 119.05667°WElev: 509ft.
Fair
82°F
28°C
Humidity 14%
Wind Speed NE 3 MPH
Barometer 29.92 in (1012.2 mb)
Dewpoint 28°F (-2°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Heat Index 80°F (27°C)
Last update 30 Jul 4:54 am PDT
I’m also downloading the SP3 Recovery files from MS to make a recovery USB. It is taking forever.
Took me 10 minutes to get the full download.
Mr. Ray made out OK
Computers like me because I talk nice to them.
The SP recovery file stopped at 15% this time. I’ll try it one more time. If it fails, I’ll grad the one on the SP partition instead. Quite annoying.
Wow, MrAtoz lives in a police state prison-city out there! Ya can’t do ANYTHING!
Next up, WHITE! folks will be banned. Only peeps of color allowed unless you pay reparations.
No W10 download yet, either.
Brad wrote:
“Our house is ok: open all the windows over night, close it up when the outside temperature starts to climb.”
Do you have flywire screens on windows? The lack of this in Britain and Europe is the thing I could never get used to, along with room temperature softdrink.
we have a new Honeywell thermostat from Lowes. It has wifi capability, woo hoo! What is it with the burning need to connect everything to the wild wild west known as the internet?
Because we can.
I wonder if Stuxnet will run on a Linux based thermostat.
http://wifithermostat.com/Products/WiFi7DayTouchscreenThermostat/
Question for Mr. Ray+:
What do you use to backup your Surface Pro?
What do you use to backup your Surface Pro?
I just use a 128 gig thumb drive that I got from CostCo and when I am home I backup to a network connected spinning drive. Actually connected to my Neatgear router.
I copy manually when I need to do so. My Surface is not my primary machine, just something I take with me to work on primarily pictures and some documents. Easy enough to copy what I need.
Do you have flywire screens on windows? The lack of this in Britain and Europe is the thing I could never get used to, along with room temperature softdrink.
No, we don’t. I also found it odd at first, but now I appreciate the clear view you have without the screens. We do have bugs, of course, but fewer than in the southern US. We get the occasional wasp coming in, a few flies, the odd beetle. Mosquitos would be more of a problem, but we have an oderless repellent that works surprisingly well at keeping them out.
No, we don’t. I also found it odd at first, but now I appreciate the clear view you have without the screens.
When I lived in Southern Oregon, 14.5 miles outside of Rogue River on East Evans Creek road, our house was an old house that was built with lumbered milled from trees on the land. The house was built in 1900 and had a stone foundation (rocks piled in strategic locations).
We had no screens for any windows, just a screen for the front door. Summer days were spent with the windows in the bedroom open. Along with the occasional bug we would sometimes get a bat in the room. Of course the bat could not figure a way to get out so it was necessary to catch the bat and toss it out the window. Tried to always catch the bat using a t-shirt so as to not harm the bat. The bat would fly extremely close to myself but would never actually touch me. Amazingly quiet and quite good flyers.
So… Ray got Windows 10 to install by making out with his computer? Um, ok, um, whatever works for you. I’m feeling a bit of TMI action here, though.
W10 available and I’m starting the install.
OFD gave up on the enterprise; I guess I am just not perverted enough to get it on with a machine.
But Mr. Ray may be cutting-edge here; soon, marriages between machines and peeps will be legal nationwide.
I just dunno if I could do well in a marriage with a Windows machine; the constant reboots, infections, viruses, crashes, blue screens, and mandatory automatic “updates” would put a real strain on such nuptials.
The marriage I’m in now has its occasional rough edges but hell, I can deal with the headaches, hysteria and melodrama by now, after decades of experience.
As they say, better the devil you know…
W10 installed with no problems on the SP3.
Downloading the Recovery files on the Mac. Already at 50%. I guess MS doesn’t like it’s own browser.
Ray got Windows 10 to install by making out with his computer?
I said I talk nice, I don’t fondle and caress. Well, at least not since Window 98.
M$ dumped IE and has a new browser in 10, Colonel.
Mr. Ray, talking nice is what all the feminized machines like; they consider it foreplay. You, sir, are evidently a master of the art and my hat’s off to you!
How’s that STEM education and training working out nowadays???
“Seventy-four percent of Americans with STEM degrees are not working in STEM fields, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, and only 3.8 million Americans with STEM degrees hold STEM jobs.”
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/07/another-tech-giant-lays-off-thousands-wants-access-to-more-foreign-workers/
I connected to my Mac from the Surface Pro and moved the Recovery files over. Followed instructions to set up a USB flash drive and successfully booted into the Recovery mode.
Genius!
MrAtoz 2016!
This Windows stuff is hard. Macs just work. Sniff.
And they cost twice as much for half the hardware, in a nice little proprietary garden….Snort.
Children, children!