#1
One of the comments seen on Twitter regarding Oregon's governor now limply coming out against the 'protests' that CAN NOT be called Democratic Brownshirts.
This seems to be a common theme today among the media and democrats because you have finally realized that rioting, looting, and burning of cities aren't a good look for you in an election year.
#2
Plugs won't say or do anything. Even if cognition were not an issue, he'd be helpless to discuss the topic. Neither will most of the congress, for the same reason by the way. Hear anything from the so-called Congressional Black Caucus of late? These people are the base of the communist left.
It will very likely continue up to, and beyond the election. Urban politics wills it.
#5
I'm guessing a number of Mayors and Gov in burning areas aren't actually up for election this year so they thought they'd get away with provoking the Cheatoh Hitler into over-reacting, but he wasn't who they claimed he was and they made that clear to the nation.
#10
Wait until people who just wanted to watch the game before bed start looking into why their team just self-canceled.
Yeah, our local sportscaster talked about all the sports boycotts last night as if they are a good thing. I don't think he'll be talking about the ratings.
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#11
Guess they can start furloughing sports caseters.
What is the justice in standing up for an armed man wanted for a felony sex crime & domestic violence charges who also brawled with police responding to a woman’s 911 call? Question for both you & @trailblazers. https://t.co/G9vIi7AYSl
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Three Major League Baseball games were postponed Wednesday as players across the sports landscape drove the decisions in the wake of the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin.
Games between the Cincinnati Reds and Brewers in Milwaukee, Seattle Mariners and Padres in San Diego and the Los Angeles Dodgers and Giants in San Francisco were called off hours before they were set to begin.
"There are serious issues in this country," Seattle’s Dee Gordon tweeted. "For me, and for many of my teammates, the injustices, violence, death and systemic racism is deeply personal. This is impacting not only my community, but very directly my family and friends. Our team voted unanimously not to play tonight."
Other MLB games had finished, were in progress or just about to start as the announcements were made. Some players, such as outfielders Jason Heyward of the Cubs and Matt Kemp of the Rockies, sat out while their teams played.
All three postponed games will be made up as doubleheaders Thursday. There was the possibility, too, that other games around the majors could affected — two days before MLB was set to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day.
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#1
All sportsball should be cancelled.
Then the African-American players will not only demonstrate solidarity with social justice 'n' stuff, but they'll stop culturally/athletically appropriating games invented by White people.
#5
...The players have every right to state their opinions and act upon them. I support and will defend their right to do so.
On the other hand, I suspect that they are about to learn the responsibility of accepting the consequences of tbeir actions.
Mike
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08/27/2020 6:21 Comments ||
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#6
The NBA just might have followed MLB's drop into the ratings abyss with this move (which were bad enough already), and the NBA commissioner (just look at this fucking dweeb) doesn't have the balls to do much about it.
I was down to begrudgingly watching just the Boston Celtics but damn, they just keep antagonizing fans with this shit.
#9
I could be wrong but I thought a to of blacks enjoyed Basketball. Taking that away from them over misinformation seems unnecessarily cruel and racist.
For one I don't watch basketball so I'm just popping popcorn as millionaire athletes kill the golden goose with a thousand cuts.
#10
I'm a life-long Celtics fan, but I'm about ready to be done with all pro sports if they refuse to acknowledge that roughly 50% of us completely disagree with them. I won't continue to fund the enemy, and that's what they're painting themselves to be.
To the NBA owners, this is EXACTLY what you deserve for the BLM crap you put on all of the courts and allowed the players to desecrate the uniforms with. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
At least now Grom can stop worrying about them getting theCovids.
#15
At this point Formula 1's the only thing I'm watching, maybe some MotoGP or anything with wheels and an engine. Granted there's a bit of the BLM activism but it's minimal and probably wouldn't even be happening unless Lewis Hamilton didn't bring it up. That, and you're not gonna see it on anybody's cars or on every lap.
#19
I've watched bowling and cornhole tournaments on TV recently. Cool anyway because those are activities that old/fat people and do and with success.
[BIZPACREVIEW] Critics of mass mail-in balloting including President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... who worry about the potential for voter fraud due to outdated registration rolls were vindicated last week after canvassers discovered 72 percent of bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... ’s voting precincts did not match the number of ballots collected.Officials in Michigan’s largest county have asked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office to conduct an investigation in the findings by the Wayne County Board of Canvassers ahead of a critical November election in a battleground state that is vital to the president’s reelection after he barely won it nearly four years ago.
"Without an explanation from Detroit election workers for the mismatches," the Detroit News reported, the board — which is tasked with certifying election results — asked "Benson’s office to examine the ’training and processes’ used in Detroit’s Aug. 4 primary, which one official described as a "perfect storm" of challenges."
The paper reported that, in 46 percent of the city’s districts in both absentee and Election Day ballots, vote tallies were out of balance, according to results posted by the board earlier this month.
In particular, "the number of ballots tracked in precinct poll books did not match the number of ballots counted," the paper reported, adding:
The situation could amplify the spotlight on absentee ballots in Michigan ahead of an election for which record levels of mail-in voting are expected and President Donald Trump is already raising concerns about how votes will be handled.
According to Jonathan Kinloch, a Democrat on the four-member canvassing board, the election results were not wrong. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... there was some sort of imbalance linked to tracking ballots from precinct to precinct, suggesting that there could have been some form of manipulation.
In Michigan, it’s vital to have balanced precincts because "precincts whose poll books don’t match with ballots can’t be recounted, according to state law," the Detroit News noted, meaning that initial election results would be recognized.
"It was a perfect storm," said Kinloch, the outlet reported.
A record number of absentee ballots were cast in Michigan during the primary, Kinloch said, noting further that experienced poll workers were also not on hand to help with the election over concerns about COVID0-19.
The canvassing board requested that Detroit native Benson investigate "the training and processes used by the City of Detroit" during the Aug. 4 primary. In addition, members requested Benson appoint a state monitor to supervise absentee ballot counts in the coming general election.
Already sensing that election day drama, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said he would be contacting the secretary of state as well as Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, the official in charge of administering elections in the city, "to make sure this gets fixed immediately."
"We cannot have a recurrence of these problems in November," he said.
But balloting problems are not new to the city. In 2016, Detroit experienced precinct count variations; election officials could not reconcile ballot totals for 59 percent of districts following a citywide canvassing of ballot results, "with most of the issues involving too many votes," the paper reported.
Eventually, Michigan was certified for President Trump by a slim 10,704-vote margin, his smallest in the nation and the first GOP presidential victory in the state in 28 years.
Though Democrats and others in the media have regularly claimed that there is little-to-no vote fraud in the country, the fact is, Detroit’s voter mismatches are not unique.
Judicial Watch and other organizations have been winning lawsuits against states and jurisdictions requiring them to update outdated voter registration rolls that still list people who have died, moved away, or are otherwise not eligible to vote.
#5
One more reason to keep the Electoral College. Blue states like New York, Illinois and California can count as many votes as they want but it won't affect the outcome in the Electoral College. But Detroit is a problem.
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#6
You've got 67 days. Jocelyn, get to work!
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#7
So, things are moving along SOP then?
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#8
Should the Electoral College somehow go away, then this country's done for (if it isn't already).
[NYPOST] Disgraced former Albany power broker Sheldon Silver surrendered to federal prison on Wednesday — bringing an end to a stunning fall from power by the one-time speaker of the New York State Assembly.Silver turned himself in Wednesday morning at Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security federal prison about 80 miles northeast of New York City, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons said.
For the past five years, Silver — who for decades wielded immense power in Albany as "one of the three men in the room" — dodged serving his time while he mounted appeals of his two corruption convictions.
But his prospects of freedom ended last month, when Manhattan federal court judge Valerie Caproni sentenced him to 6 1/2 years in prison.
Caproni, calling Silver’s conduct in office "corruption pure and simple," dismissed final attempts by his legal team to delay his prison term because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic at the sentencing hearing.
#2
He needn't worry too much. As soon as the commies donks get back in power, they're going to abolish prisons. Left unsaid (for now) is how all of those empty prisons will make perfect concentration re-education camps for you & I.
[ColumbiaJournalismReview] Last August, NPR profiled a Harvard-led experiment to help low-income families find housing in wealthier neighborhoods, giving their children access to better schools and an opportunity to "break the cycle of poverty." According to researchers cited in the article, these children could see $183,000 greater earnings over their lifetimes—a striking forecast for a housing program still in its experimental stage.
If you squint as you read the story, you’ll notice that every quoted expert is connected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which helps fund the project. And if you’re really paying attention, you’ll also see the editor’s note at the end of the story, which reveals that NPR itself receives funding from Gates.
NPR’s funding from Gates "was not a factor in why or how we did the story," reporter Pam Fessler says, adding that her reporting went beyond the voices quoted in her article. The story, nevertheless, is one of hundreds NPR has reported about the Gates Foundation or the work it funds, including myriad favorable pieces written from the perspective of Gates or its grantees.
And that speaks to a larger trend—and ethical issue—with billionaire philanthropists’ bankrolling the news. The Broad Foundation, whose philanthropic agenda includes promoting charter schools, at one point funded part of the LA Times’ reporting on education. Charles Koch has made charitable donations to journalistic institutions such as the Poynter Institute, as well as to news outlets such as the Daily Caller, that support his conservative politics. And the Rockefeller Foundation funds Vox’s Future Perfect, a reporting project that examines the world "through the lens of effective altruism"—often looking at philanthropy.
As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation, a leading donor to newsrooms and a frequent subject of favorable news coverage.
I recently examined nearly twenty thousand charitable grants the Gates Foundation had made through the end of June and found more than $250 million going toward journalism. Recipients included news operations like the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and the Center for Investigative Reporting; charitable organizations affiliated with news outlets, like BBC Media Action and the New York Times’ Neediest Cases Fund; media companies such as Participant, whose documentary Waiting for "Superman" supports Gates’s agenda on charter schools; journalistic organizations such as the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Press Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists; and a variety of other groups creating news content or working on journalism, such as the Leo Burnett Company, an ad agency that Gates commissioned to create a "news site" to promote the success of aid groups. In some cases, recipients say they distributed part of the funding as subgrants to other journalistic organizations—which makes it difficult to see the full picture of Gates’s funding into the fourth estate....
#1
When a man's computer operating system has been a virus breeding hell hole for 40 years why would anybody expect his treatment of human viruses would be any better?
#3
Also, look at how it got his first OS contract with IBM just before DOS 1.0.
I'll always remember how he fucked over Digital Research with Windows 3.11 - it wouldn't install on top of DR DOS, so at the time I had to go back to original DOS to finish the Windows install. Digital Research was bankrupt at some point thereafter.
My computer tech friend who turned me on to Linux years ago has such detest for MS and its "virus breeding hell hole" that he writes [w]indows and [m]icrosoft in lower case.
#5
My first PC ran on DR. That was just before IBM declared they were going to get into the business. The story I heard was IBM was shopping for a OS for their new toy. When the IBM reps showed up at DR, management was out on the golf course. The reps moved on to Seattle.
Similar story about fast food on military installations. The Army put out a request for bids. McD's thought they had it sown up. Burger King got the contract and is still there. When the Air Force followed suit, management got serious.
#6
Dont' forget how Gates would lock competition out of the OS market. If you were a hardware manufactured and offered a choice of OS'es - the price per unit for MS-DOS would go *way* up and you wouldn't be able to compete. You could only price match your competition if you only offered MS-DOS.
Even IBM often could not offer OS/2 on their own hardware.
And didn't NT have aspects of VMS in it?
(I think Microsoft the company has matured past that with the current CEO. Visual Studio on Mac? .NET on Mac and Linux?)
#7
...MS got cut out of the tablet market because they wouldn't listen to people who didn't want bloatware for their internet experience and entertainment.
#9
#7 - I understand the pricey Surface 3's are selling pretty well. Even the off-brand tablet I got at Amazon (<<$) uses Win 10
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That's CP/M AlanC. And it's multi-user big brother MP/M. I think I still have a couple of computers running CP/M. Microsoft wrote a lot of compilers (BASIC, FORTRAN, Assembler, etc..) and stuff for CP/M before MS-DOS came along.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...Oh, noze! Not him!...
[NYPOST] Disgraced former Albany power broker Sheldon Silver surrendered to federal prison on Wednesday — bringing an end to a stunning fall from power by the one-time speaker of the New York State Assembly.Silver turned himself in Wednesday morning at Otisville Correctional Facility, a medium-security federal prison about 80 miles northeast of New York City, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons said.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
