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Had a mo to check back in. S'pose this thraid b daid, but anyway...

"You mischaracterize the nature of the problem, and therefore your subsequent understanding is flawed."

Really? That broad charge doesn't specify what that is supposed to mean. Heh. Reminds me of spam I was deleting just today, tonally inverted from "I agree with this post and want to subscribe to your newsletter," but similarly inspecific content. "You're wrong and your s#!+'s all f'd up" is not persuasive.

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Uplifting personal moral behavior is simply outside the purview of good government. Big Nanny is not an appropriate substitute for spiritual, community, and familial influence. Cops should be the absolute last resort, when the drinker turns threatening, not the front line because some Carrie Nation has a delusion of righteousness about beer.

Mmmmm.... mind-altering beeeeerrrr....

Here come de Judges... Here come de Judges...

Think of the children...!

#waronwill

bye

10 ? "Hello, world."
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Special, abbreviated Radio Shack BASIC Level I for the 4K mem unit. My first programming language.

sometimes i dont realize how long a rant has run 'til i see it posted. i am abashed and lower-cased. also, i see there's a whole lotsa comments posted while i was ranting which, now that my so-called real life calls, i prob'ly won't have time to read.

Have a day, y'all.

Respectfully disagree with D-Lamp #198, "The war on drugs is necessary." Appreciate your concerns, but...

((dusts off soapbox, straightens tie))

Any prohibitionism is tyranny. All the temperance, Putritan, Muslim, and Communist 'morals' laws, regarding drugs, sex, gambling, dancing, eating, and other 'vice' habits collectively known as the AoSHQ lifestyle. No.

Real, legally-enforceable transgressions will occur soon enough if someone has a problem, with booze, drugs, shopping, whatever. Traffic hazard, threat to children, public nuisance, all involve transgressive behavior. Possessing or using substances, not. (Manufacturing meth? Well, if you are safely away from everyone and have toxic waste cleanup insurance....)

Every life is interconnected, as is well discussed in suicide threads. Abuse is not a victimless crime. Social and familial support is supposed to precede and, one hopes, obviate involving the law — to help people before their problems become truly criminal.

Therefore, better to do away with all the un-Constitutuonal, selectively-enforced, and corruption-riddled class 'war' on some politically-incorrect behaviors-of the-week, and instead turn our guns (metaphorically speaking of courssssse) on that infinitely more destructive addiction, pluralist-socialist thinking — manifest in the maze of laws, regulations, taxes, and welfare which discourages individual initiative, achievement, and responsibility, and which punishes, hobbles, and undermines good social organizations, congregations, communities and families who would otherwise stave off the culture of indulgence and despair which foments self-destructive pursuits.

One does not have to endure the streetwalker plying her trade on main street, the needle addict shooting up in the public park, the pot peddler in the schoolyard, or the drunk drooling on your shoes at the mall, to permit them individual liberty in their own spheres - the right to do even things we might find distasteful. Your right to smoke your cigar does end where my nose begins, depending heavily on where I stick my nose, of course.

Just FTR. When my great-aunt caught the clap, her husband and the entire crew of the whore house were put on the next train out of town. My grandfathers were likely involved in this act of community vigilantism. Possibly had sanction of some with badges. Note that what had been tolerated had its threshholds. But, enforcing community standards by whatever means does presume a preponderance of the community has standards, which gets us to moral and spiritual education....

If I want a beer, or the right to have a beer even if I never have one again (mmmm... beer....), I must extend that potentially self-destructive alcoholic right to others. I don't have any interest in renting sex, and I would not recommend it to my sons, and would do whatever I could to help any woman out of the life as if she were my own daughter, but if some old widower geezer can afford to spend his casino winnings on gifts for that lady who doesn't go to church, well, if they just don't make me watch, endorse, clean up after, or pay for it, then I guess it's just none if my business. M'k?

/rant ©mww 2014 all rights reserved for life +75 years soon to be a major motion picture starring Cheech & Chong.

» ...Slick... rapist... Rodham... [not] one fucking positive accomplishment... JEF... blithering retard... Ted Kennedy... let one [woman] drown in the car that drunk oaf drove into the drink.
Posted by: Captain Hate at May 01, 2014 08:28 AM

Just highlighting the highlights.

An example of the Captain in low-key mode.

Hey, newswatchers, has that unfortunate SNAFU with the Oklahoma execution still got any legs as a story?

Are our European betters raging in horror? Are all the criminal-right-to-lifers frothing with told-ya-so's?

Thought I heard Levin touch on the story, saying the victim of the creep won't be remembered. I wonder, considering the awfulness of the crime, and the broad consensus that causing the creep a couple of hours of torment was a real shame, if capital punishment foes might prefer to pass this one up.

» how pleased I am that Ace used my "you want – you'll take – you'll get - " formation

You want to be showered with accolades for initiaing a brilliant, viral idea.

You'll take credit for just having been the one to think of it.

You get your meme swiped by an Ewok with a blog.

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Morning, Glories.

» As an IT professional, I have to point out one thing about your story. The same technique works with keyboards.
Posted by: Zombie John Gotti

Keyboards: Dropping, maybe. Sometimes banging. The regular maintenance task of knocking out the keyboard dandruff helps keep keyboards in good working order!

It should be noted that "dropping" was not optimal with CRTs, although I had some success with "slapping."

Think I'll cue up Roger Rabbit. Been a while.

» Maybe God was like," I'm just going to make sure that " cocktail" doesn't work as advertised,,let this scum suffer a bit before I send him to Hell."
Posted by: steevy

Acknowledging the dark humor: heh.

But.

Don't blame the Creator for what the Regressives have done. It is they who are responsible for justice not being swift & sure. They support torture, they caused cruel and unusual execution methods.

And you know what? God bless the executioners. Character of the executed aside, that's gotta be a bummer of a job screw-up.

new new new
of morning posts there's two
Gabe is obsoleted whenk
we get the headline dump from BenK

» Speaking of relics. Of a different sort. Bet Vic invented some of them.
»http://www.ufunk.net/en/techno/relics-of-technology/
Posted by: Anna Puma

Things shown I don't have lying around somewhere:
Big ol' mobile phone
Punch cards
Desk phone (have other dial types, tho)
Are those Betamax? Never had those. I think I have one old U-matic around somewhere.

Got all the rest.

78s? I've got a bunch.

No cylinders? My brother used to have a big collection.

Punched paper-tape? My first data storage system!!

And audiocassettes - I dont think anything in computing ever impressed me as much as the first time I saved/loaded data to ordinary audiocassette with my Shack Model I. It was all such cheap plastic toy stuff, but it worked! Computing! (I've upgraded some since. Still impressed.)

Hey, I've been meaning to relate another incidence of "concussive maintenance."

A while back we got a printer at Wal-Mart, not the lowest-end, but close to. One where ink refills quickly cost more than the printer purchase.

This model had a scanner — already have a scanner, but a 2nd could be handy — and stuff I never need, like Fax and ... document feeder.

I've never had anything but problems with document feeders. But, for the price, I took it.

About the day after the warranty expires, the printer quits booting up. It announces a jam in ... yes, of course... the never-been-used doc feeder!

I open and close firmly every hatch and cover. I jiggle every component on the doc feed path. No change.

Finally, I pick the printer off the table a couple of inches, and drop it. The error message remained but changed slightly, as if it had got further in booting up.

So I drop it twice more, once impacting harder on the left side, again on the right.

Printer comes up working like it was brand new.

Itemized bill:
Dropping printer...... $1.00
Knowing how hard & where to drop it: $99.00.

Drudge headline I figure Morons will enjoy:

Town awaits explosion of rotting whale washed up on shore

It's time to feed the kittehs.
It's time to feed the dog.
Kibble bits and tins of meat.
They live high on the hog.

My animals live better than
some people do, they say.
It's true, but watcha gonna do?
Just feed the pets, and pray.

They shed and shed.
They fight. They stink.
They scratch.
They sneeze in bed.
They crap and barf.
They break your heart.
But now...
they must be fed!

-Karma Shave

In case you're still reading, JJ: greetings to your aunt!

"There are no words for how loathsome that statement is."

If there were, they would be words derived in some form from "weasel."

"A lot of late-night writing and a bottle of sub-par wine took their toll." —MPPPP

"...but mostly the sub-par wine" - right?

Health 2 you, Poppins. Recovery thereof, at least.

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When was the last time you had to say something in real life like, "you know what Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing said the other day...?" Folks don't look at you weird or anything.

My 92yo mom is amused that I hang out with the "Moron Horde," though.

As I poured myself a 2nd small cup of joe, I remembered this, c/o Drudge, .. let's see if Pixy will take a long link...

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/04/28/for-some-caffeine-addiction-is-do...

"...for some people the need for caffeine could be a psychological problem. It's being called Caffeine Use Disorder. The American Psychiatric Association is calling for more study on Caffeine Use Disorder in its latest diagnostic manual called the DSM...."

Finally! A disability under which I can get some of that sweet government money! It could... pay for my coffee beans!

Me: "I'm sad to hear of that fellow suffering a while from the execution drugs."

CrotchetyOldJarhead: "Shit happens. I have no sorrow or pity for that guy."

Yup be clear, I'm sorry for Justice's sake in that it wasn't as it should've been had asshats not made it a problem. For the murderer's sake, not so much.

Which one was killed? The one who buried the girl alive?