Back in the Lower Paleolithic men and women were accommodated in segregated facilities. The parental expectation was that daughters (and even sons) were going to school to get educated, not to get laid, not even to get drugged and/or drunk. "Sexual freedom" apparently includes crappy behavior on the part of a significant number of young fellows; the term "ungentlemanly" is quaintly old-fashioned, but nobody seems to see a connection. But if the women make "slut" a term of honor than its male equivalent is bound to appear. "Unladylike" is as quaint as "ungentlemanly."
I have seven granddaughters and a great-granddaughter. I can only hope that the pendulum swings back the other way before the little ones are expected to swim in the educational cesspool.
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...It's starting to become painfully clear that the Nice Lady who wrote the damn article in the first place had an ax of some sort to grind, and she ground it on the pointy lil' heads of the RS staff. Some of the stories I'm reading today indicate the level of fury on the part of the RS leadership is reaching Bush re-election level, and that there are some folks for the chop, as Lord Blackadder used to say.
Mike
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I first became suspicious when I read Rolling Stone.
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It's never about 'facts' for the progressives. It's all about 'feelings'. Then they wonder why their plans and programs collapse or fail. The RS staff is just in damage control, as they're very unlikely to do serious soul search why they got so easily suckered - cause of their own bigotry and bias. Can't face those facts.
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Very true, P2K: now the word is that while the story may not be true, there are important 'truths' to be learned. It's another example of 'truthiness' by the Left.
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Volokh had a good piece on the legalities of defamation and libel.
RS and Erdley probably shouldn't take on any serious financial commitments (like eating at McD's) for a while.
[AnNahar] A Michigan man says his family's 5,000-pound footbridge has been recovered after being stolen from his property in suburban bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Robert Cortis filed a police report Wednesday saying that a 40-foot bridge made of steel and wood was stolen from his property in Farmington Hills.
Cortis says he discovered the bridge was missing when he stopped by his property near 8 Mile Road with plans to move the bridge this week. He planned to set it up at his catering business for taking wedding photos.
Cortis says the bridge has sentimental value because his father built it decades ago.
The Detroit News says police on Thursday found the bridge undamaged in Belleville, about 20 miles south of where it disappeared. There's no word of suspects.
I'm willing to bet that it'll be someone who's recently been to Belleville...
Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?"
The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want."
The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."
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The White House legend that is Barack and Michelle Obama’s romance is heading to the screen. Southside With You, a drama in the vein of Before Sunrise, chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side. Get On Up’s Tika Sumpter will play Michelle Obama (née Robinson), while the search is on to cast the young Barack. A shoo-in for an academy award. Gonna show to packed houses fersherrr.
As Presidential lore has it, the date took some convincing. Obama, then an idealistic first-year Harvard Law student, took a summer job as an associate at Chicago law firm Sidley Austin where he fell for lawyer Michelle Robinson, his younger boss. Southside With You spans the day she agreed to go out with him when the two visited the Art Institute, took a long walk, and caught a showing of Spike Lee’s new film, Do The Right Thing. They were married in 1992. Was that when he dumped his white girlfriend, whatsername?
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Yoohoo, Barack + Michelle, do I get a role or invite?
You know, considering our collective past ... ...
FYI I'm willing to bring Molotovs, AK's, + invite Monica to come along.
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Got to be at least one intelligent Trunk who can sneak language in some bill (you can read it after we pass it) that will kill any Hollyweird tax write off for movies.
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So Chef Fart has some wacko from out of town suicides by cop, and he uses the opportunity to call for a stasi. Nice.
I'd say anyone who uses Chef's statement to harass somebody is an actual threat to the public, knowingly putting both citizens and police in danger by creating a false situation requiring some degree of conflict. I'm talking assaulting a police officer carges serious.
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Holding the reins of two horses with one hand, Austin Police Sgt. Adam Johnson raised his service pistol and fired a bullseye into the target some 312 feet away. Down went Larry McQuilliams, and so ended his rampage through the streets of the Texas capital, where he’d fired more than 100 rounds from his AK-47 and .22-caliber rifles at buildings. The shot, from Johnson’s Smith & Wesson M&P .40 pistol, hit McQuilliams square in the chest
So not only was it 100 yards with a pistol, it was a single shot, it was one hand, unsupported, standing. And he hit center mass. Pretty amazing.
"At a minimum, it was extraordinary shot," said Army Maj. John Plaster, a retired Special Forces operator, long-range shooting expert and author of The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers. "It's not impossible," Plaster added. "Wild Bill Hickok shot bad guys from a hundred yards away with a handgun, but he was also a great shot. I would say what this officer did was phenomenal, especially if he didn’t brace his arm against anything."
This will go into the books as a legendary pistol shot. And the fact that it was in Texas, with horses? Thats the icing on the cake.
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side note: M&P .40 (in cal .40 S&W) is allegedly one of the candidates to replace the Beretta 9mm for the US Army service pistol. This is an example of why I love the .40 as my round of choice: plenty of punch even at a distance, plenty of real-world penetration, and as shown, deadly.
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new information about the incident which left 103 defects inside and outside the Austin Police Headquarters...
the FBI said McQuilliams made cursory comments expressing frustration with his inability to land a job and he felt immigrants were given opportunities not afforded to him....
The reportage is (unintentionally?) hilarious.
Meanwhile, this guy gets off a great shot, offhand, while holding two probably twitchy horses with the other hand. Bruce Willis can play him when they make the movie. Or, maybe he can play Bruce Willis, come to think of it, Bruce looks like he could use a rest lately.
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the FBI said [ ] made cursory comments expressing frustration with his inability to land a job and he felt immigrants were given opportunities not afforded to him....
You fill in the name. Add tea party affiliation if appropriate. He or she must die.
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Can you even imagine the amount of "holdover" he had to apply. I suspect he had done some informal shooting on the back 40 over the years as this is not a shot that would be practiced (or even discussed) at the police range.
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That is about what I got, Skidmark. 5 to 7 inches with 50 yd zero. Shoot for the neck and you will be close to center of mass. Awesome shot, one handed.
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Is the officer required to use a mirror as a handicap during range competitions ?
#21
The Gov rode down dark Dead Man's Canyon,
Where lay foes of his, and the handgun.
Their crackpot compadre
Was slain in an odd way:
One deadeye Lone Star Texas gunman!
Either way, it puts one helluva shine on that cannon.
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Speaking of remarkable shots, here is a video of a fellow shooting a Glock 27 (40 S&W) at a target 230 yd away. To be fair, he shot two handed and was not holding horses' reins, nor was he in a tactical situation.
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...In '94, a nutcase started shooting up Fairchild AFB WA, and was brought down by a USAF Security Policeman, with a Beretta M1986, from seventy yards. Not as impressive as this one, but still pretty respectable,
Mike
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23C is my carry sidearm. Had one since they first came out.
NYC cops Vs Texas? 312 feet, at night, one handed. Center mass, drops perp dead. NYC 19 shots of 41 at less than 25 feet into a backlit man in a doorway with his hand up holding a wallet.
h/t Donald Sensing
...Honeywell International Inc., and two smaller firms, are being sued for taking advantage of a specific provision in the ACA that allows them to lower their out-of-pocket medical expenses. Deroy Murdock at the National Review explains:
These firms are complying with Obamacare, which lets them offer wellness programs to their employees. These activities help workers lose weight, quit smoking, receive regular checkups, and otherwise become healthier. As an incentive, Obamacare offers participating employees as much as a 50 percent reduction in out-of-pocket medical expenses… The comically titled “Affordable Care Act” requires that employees in these programs undergo medical tests to qualify for lower premiums. Unfortunately, such exams violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Boston civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate suggests that the average American unwittingly commits up to three felonies each day… And he made that estimate before Obamacare,
I don't know about the 3 felonies/day. I doubt that lawyers even know. Violation of O-Care is probably a pesky civil violation.
A reflection of a federal government too big. I've often thought the legislative branch ought to be more like Texas who meet every other year for a 140 days. The reasoning is that they might do less damage by meeting less often. Texas is one of only four states whose legislatures convene in regular session every two years. Lawmakers in Texas meet in odd-numbered years only — as do legislators in Montana, Nevada and North Dakota — while those in the 46 other states hold legislative sessions yearly, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Another suggestion might be to mandatorily remove a law for everyone passed. I know, I'm dreaming.
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We need a 3rd branch of the legislature dedicated to review and disposition - basically its job is to thin out the Federal Register, and to strike laws from the books. That and a "sunset" amendment to the constitution would be nice
"No law nor regulation shall remain in force for more than 5 years. A law may be renewed by a simple majority vote of Congress after its 4th year of effect, which shall start a new 5 year period. All laws passed with a supermajority of both houses (2/3 + 1 vote) are exempt from expiration. All executive branch orders and regulations must be posted for public review and comment 6 months prior to renewal, and are subject to extinguishment after 5 years by a presidential statement of 'decline to renew'"
Side effect is that congress gets completely stuck with weeding out old laws, and cannot pass new ones.
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All laws passed with a supermajority of both houses (2/3 + 1 vote) are exempt from expiration for ten years instead of five.
There. I think that will help.
You'd also have to do something about all the regulations-with-the-force-of-law and none of the representation. And the equivalent of laws made via the 'sue and settle' process.
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Same needs to be for entries in the federal register. Expire in 5 years, unless opened for public review and re-approved. Or, president can sign a "decline to review" statement which drops the review and drops the regulation.
Basically its all about making it systematic for laws and regulations to go away - scraping the barnacles off the ship of state, as it were. Thats the major problem now: programs, regs and laws are basically forever.
Posted because of what I hope it means in terms of Israel's growing oil bidness.
[AnNahar] A major pipeline leak has caused oil to gush into the Arava desert in southern Israel, threatening a protected nature reserve, officials said Thursday.
The incident took place just north of the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and 500 meters (yards) from the border with Jordan.
The spill was "a couple of kilometers long", according to an Israeli environment ministry spokeswoman.
Gilad Golub of Israel's Environmental Services Company told Agence La Belle France Presse that 1,000 cubic meters -- the equivalent of 40 tanker trucks -- of oil had been spilled.
Golub said the environmental damage could be serious, pointing out that the spill occurred in an area that is a protected nature reserve.
He said it could take several weeks to clear all traces of the oil, and months to ensure that it had not seeped underground.
"We do not suspect an act of sabotage," he added, saying it appeared a vehicle had hit part of the pipeline, causing the leak.
Jordanian authorities said dozens of people there had sought medical treatment because of the fumes.
But the gas was not poisonous and most of the cases seen by hospitals were the result of "panic and fear caused by the strange smell," the civil defense department said in a statement.
The leak involved a 245 kilometer (152 mile) pipeline carrying crude oil from the southern port city of Ashkelon on Israel's Mediterranean coast to Eilat.
Ronen Moshe, front man for the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC), said the spill happened at 8:45pm (1845 GMT) on Wednesday in a new section of the pipeline.
"The leak has been stopped," he said. "There are dozens of people in the field taking care of the aftermath."
According to the company's website, the EAPC was founded in 1968 and serves as a land bridge for transporting crude oil between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
[NETWORKWORLD] Microsoft's Windows 10 is still in testing, but hardware makers can't wait for the day the OS replaces the controversial Windows 8. Nobody seems sure what happened to Windows 9. Maybe it deflated to Windows 8.1.
Millions of PCs are aging, and those who have resisted Windows 8 will likely upgrade to computers with Windows 10. The initial reception to a test version of Windows 10 has been positive, as it resolves many usability issues affecting Windows 8. I'm guessing that was because it wasn't Windoze 8.
There are about 600 million PCs that are four years or older, and those systems are ripe for upgrades, said Renee James, president at Intel, at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference on Tuesday. I've got a Dell in my basement that used to serve the Burg. I haven't upgraded it. It still runs the latest version of Debian Linux.
"When we see a healthy macroeconomic environment and an aging installed base we expect a new [OS] deployment. The [PCs] are fantastic and at new price points. That's kind of a perfect storm, combined with a new OS, and the OS usually pushes the upgrade cycle," James said. PCs are changing. Gloria still uses a desktop with Windows 7. The other machines in the house run Debian-family Linux. Most are laptops. James is "very enthusiastic and optimistic" about what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10. I'm very optimistic about having a stable operating system.
"They're being extraordinarily responsive to customers," James said. Telling the customers zackly what they need.
All major PC makers are expected to support Windows 10 when it is released early next year. Hardware makers are already customizing drivers and products for Windows 10. Advanced Micro Devices' new PC chip, code-named Carrizo, will take advantage of new features in Windows 10. The chip maker is expected to detail those features early next year. Hmmm... tail-dog dichotomy...
Dell has found that Windows 10 provides a consistent user experience and solves usability issues plaguing Windows 8 users, said Neil Hand, vice president of tablets at Dell, in an earlier interview. "Help desk!"
"I got a usability problem!"
"What's that?"
"It don't work!"
The upcoming OS will let users run the same programs on mobile and desktop devices. That solves a Windows 8 problem, which prevented a large number of programs from working across devices. "It don't work? How old's yer box?"
"A year."
"Sell it in an antique shop and buy a new one!"
"The ability to create applications that are super-scalable from phone to tablet to PC is the big step in a lot of ways," Hand said. I try not to be obnoxious when it comes to Linux. But...
Linux isn't graphics-based. You can set it up in server mode without the mouse-driven overhead.
For the desktop, you've got lots of choices. That's because the graphical part runs on the operating system, instead of being the operating system. Ubuntu decided the world needed Unity, their new GUI. I hate it even more than I dislike Windoze. Instead I use xfce, which is faster, better-looking, and to my mind more logically organized. If I get bored I can switch to a half dozen alternatives, including KDE, which is like Windows XP after four years at the gym.
It's free. Go to the Ubuntu website and download the latest version. There's noplace to pay. If you're determined to pay for something, buy Red Hat. Or buy a support contract. Or send me the money.
The software's free. I was in Best Buy yesterday and I heard a salesman explaining to an old couple--old to me, and I'm old!--how to subscribe to Micro$oft Orifice. I didn't barge in and tell them to save their retirement dollars and download Libre Office or Apache Open Office, both of which are free--and available in Windoze versions.
It's secure. I don't have McAfee or Norton or some other antivirus. We have Clam AV--also free--on the Burg server, but I don't know if it works or not. Hackers are a lot more problem than virii. KBK (bless his heart!) told me how to limit secure shell access when we first switched to Linux, so DDOS is more problem than hackers. I don't have antivirus on my Linux boxes at home.
Updates are automatic and seldom require a restart.
Windoze 10 is going to allow multiple desktops. Once you use them, you'll wonder how you got along without them. I usually use four of them by subject matter. I run music in one--I like opera and ballet. I've always got the Burg open in one, a file manager in another, usually graphics, the command line, the database and/or the Burg file manager in another, and most of the time a programmer's IDE--I use geany. Linux memory seems better managed than Windoze, so the system slows down when the wireless network takes a hit, not when too many windows are open.
It's easier to use than Windoze. I know that sounds dumb, since it's so much more stable, more versatile, etc. But the user experience is like the Mac (based as it is on a Unix system); everything just works. You can explore and play and fiddle with it, but you can also use it "out of the box" and clickety-click and typetty-type to your heart's content with logging in the most complicated step of your session.
By this point Microsoft has collaborated with hardware manufacturers to try and keep Linux off machines. The old BIOS has been replaced by UEFI, which is BIOS locked down against anything but Windows. Last laptop I bought, I called Asus and asked how to install Linux. The guy said he couldn't tell me that. I figured it for myself after trying to use Windows 8.1 for a week. It's not hard, just hidden. Next time your Windows hangs after your kid visits a games site or your home page becomes Coupon Shopper Deals Buddy email me and I'll tell you how to do it.
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Is there a product that can remotely re image 400+ Linux desktops overnight?
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With my current job I have to go back and forth between linux and a windows box.
Windows isn't intrinsically more difficult to use. The problem comes when you have to figure out the anti-virus the tech support person put on the machine, because it automatically hides/sequesters files for me when I take the thumb drive out of my linux laptop and plug it into the windows desktop. Randomly.
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You're always gonna be stuck with a machine your predecessor used to browse the seedier parts of the web and that the tech support guy had to put more stuff on top of to deal with the stuff your predecessor accumulated in the first place...
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This article should have a graphic of a hamster in a wheel. Microsoft, HP, Dell, etc. must keep forcing you to upgrade or else their revenue stream will stop flowing.
I don't mind (too much) paying for software. After all, I am a programmer and I can understand why programmers want to get paid. It helps them put food on the table.
But I don't see Windows getting better with each new version, only more and more bloated. I'd rather pay RedHat for a support contract.
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I liked that pocket TRS-80. Somebody must have spilled something on it one day, though.
One little problem with both Linux/Windows is feature bloat. What used to be adequate hardware becomes way too small after a while. At least with Linux there are options.
I dunno about re-imaging 400 desktops, though. I don't handle our server farm, but puppet seems to work pretty well for configuration.
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Chromebook is perfectly satisfactory for 90% of PC users.
No messing around installing, upgrading, or rebooting after a crash.
It does run short of memory after a few weeks though.
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I have two boxes I built 10 years ago running the latest Debian with no problems.
I decided to upgrade one of them, because I wanted to use virtualization, and that required a new processor. Which required a new mainboard. Which required a new power supply. In the end only the (really fine) case and the DVD writer survived. The new machine is a beast, four CPUs, 16GB RAM, running LVM on top of 2TB of RAID6 (I don't collect multimedia but it's easy to seamlessly add more LVM volumes if I should ever need more). It should last another decade. In all that time, I never reinstalled Debian on either box.
With Windows and Mac, some piece of software is always asynchronously nagging me to upgrade it - a real waste of time. With Debian, it all happens at once, mostly in the middle of the night, with no input needed from me. It's a smooth transition from release to release.
I use a Mac Air laptop with real MS Office and Adobe for business and browsing. Very good for multimedia and redirecting the screen to my Apple TV, etc. But one of these days, not too far off, Apple is going to tell me it's too old to run their snazzy new OS XIV. At that point I'll probably nuke the Mac stuff and run BSD on it.
I only use Windows for TaxAct (much better than TurboTax) and the sadly discontinued Flight Simulator, which I use to fly a DC-3 (dc3airways.com).
When buying a new machine or mainboard, the first thing to check is to be sure the UEFI is open.
I'm getting a Novena for Christmas. Totally open and libre hardware and software - schematics, PCB layout, boot code, Debian Linux. An amazing thing:
Play the vid and check the 20 updates for the specs and all the crazy goodies that come with it. Eat your hearts out!
This is the way the free hw/sw movement will go. If you want a multimedia viewer that talks with your phone and video equipment, get a Mac. If you want a hacker's computer, get a Novena. If you want a server, just use Debian on some old hw. Or spin up a few Debian instances on DigitalOcean.com.
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Linux bloat is easier to control. Debian lets you choose what goes into it. You can install Ubuntu server, then add GUI, office programs, whatever you need. Puppy Linux is still around; it's 128mb and can run entirely in memory. It makes old machines young again. Lots of people run Centos, which is Red Hat without the support contract. I beleve Puppet handled all the remote config at my last place of employment.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NETWORKWORLD] Microsoft's Windows 10 is still in testing, but hardware makers can't wait for the day the OS replaces the controversial Windows 8.
James is "very enthusiastic and optimistic" about what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10.
