Althouse: At the Saturday Night Cafe...

November 24, 2018

At the Saturday Night Cafe...

... talk about what you want.

60 comments:

gilbar said...: astrology has shifted from being a niche interest to a major point of enthusiasm for many women and queer people

I'm assuming that this is the Crack MC's fault ?; 11/24/18, 7:14 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: by def se ll want Althousr.

why here.

reasons?

burn-outs burn.

Never thought ofmyself as Ben Mazzel! (other side) but there ya go.; 11/24/18, 7:28 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Trump is thankful for himself this Thanksgiving.; 11/24/18, 7:28 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: love that mid-west clas sic ro k.

so easy to distinguish what's good from cool temporally.; 11/24/18, 7:48 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: The intertsted designers were Saitns in the Vinnie Vaughn (butt whoon dat?) aBu kley Buckley Jr..; 11/24/18, 7:50 PM
Merny11 said...: Where has the good Doc from Arizona been? I miss his comments on things; 11/24/18, 8:34 PM
gilbar said...: i'm afraid Dr K has forsaken us, because of all the ass holes :(
i miss him, and wish he'd come back!; 11/24/18, 8:38 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: too bad he wasnt a proctologist; 11/24/18, 8:48 PM
FullMoon said...: I am still amazed at Wisconsins property tax rate.

Went online and searched similar price home in san francisco and Madison
$1,3000,000.00 home

SF property tax, $9105.00 .067%

Madison, $26,260.00 2.02 %

And, for people who purchased home in Ca, rate increase is limited by law until home is sold.

What is the rate in other states?; 11/24/18, 8:53 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: GuidoCannabis
shines brightly tonite,
though some gets lost in translation; 11/24/18, 8:57 PM
chillblaine said...: Heh ho ho ho fellow people, today, a reading by yours truly, , Bryon. "Stanzas For Music."; 11/24/18, 9:08 PM
FullMoon said...: Ca property tax law
Proposition 13 replaced the
practice of annually reassessing property at market value with a system based on cost at acquisition. Prior to Proposition 13, if homes in a neighborhood sold for higher prices, neighboring properties might have been reassessed based on the newly increased area values. Under Prop. 13, the property is assessed for tax purposes only when it changes ownership. As long as the property is not sold, future increases in assessed value are limited to an annual inflation factor of no more than 2%; 11/24/18, 9:25 PM
rhhardin said...: Casual poking in a ham contest, got Italy(2), Hawaii, Serbia, Madeira Island, Canary Islands, and Spain. Lots of people couldn't hear me and lots of people couldn't hear anyone else either.

The islands are cool, seeming like an isolated, hard-to-hit small target.

At the moment the people who stayed up across the Atlantic are ones I've already worked, so it's not likely there's anyone else to work.

It's the second night of the contest so the competition from other North American stations is slight and my 15 watt transmitter has a chance.; 11/24/18, 9:42 PM
Kathryn51 said...: I miss Dr. Mike as well.; 11/24/18, 9:54 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: @rhhardin
were you able to pick up any cackling from Nellie Ohr?; 11/24/18, 9:54 PM
reader said...: In California property tax is also reassessed after a major remodel.

Per the San Diego Countt Assessors office: a remodel will cause a property tax increase when actual new square footage is added, or new improvements are built ( i.e., spa, swimming pool). The complete remodel of a kitchen or bath with new, upgraded fixtures and appliances will also cause an increase in the assessed value.; 11/24/18, 10:06 PM
FullMoon said...: So, anyway, couple of years ago, I posted this ad, along with an appropriate picture, on Craigslist.

Free time machine. Needs repair. (San Francisco)
Rare.
Free time machine. Needs repair. Purchased in 2053.. Starts but will not transport. Needs Cryptonic Capacitor. Easy fix Unfortunately, parts not available until 2053.
Has invisibility option
Good for younger person who can wait that long. I can't.
Creative inventor may be able to repair. I hope so, I could sure use a ride back to 2053, all my friends and family are there.
No test rides, it's broken.
Serious only, no jokers or Craigslist flakes. No out of country scammers..

I got a reply from somebody who wanted it.
Thirty minutes later, I got another email from the same person:

"My Dad says you are full of bullshit"; 11/24/18, 10:12 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: should have sold him your used bullshit detector; 11/24/18, 10:17 PM
David Begley said...: Saw Green Book. Excellent! I couldn’t have written it any better myself.; 11/24/18, 10:30 PM
Original Mike said...: So, is the time machine still available?; 11/24/18, 10:32 PM
FullMoon said...: Blogger Original Mike said...

So, is the time machine still available?

It will be available last year.; 11/24/18, 10:38 PM
FullMoon said...: Formal reprimand for flatulance (alamo square / nopa)
DECEMBER 21--A federal employee was formally reprimanded this month for excessive workplace flatulence, a sanction that was delivered to him in a five-page letter that actually included a log of representative dates and times when he was recorded "releasing the awful and unpleasant odor" in his Baltimore office.

In a December 10 letter accusing him of "conduct unbecoming a federal officer," the Social Security Administration employee was informed that his "uncontrollable flatulence" had created an "intolerable" and "hostile" environment for coworkers, several of whom have lodged complaints with supervisors.

The worker, a 38-year-old Maryland resident, reportedly submitted evidence that he suffered from "some medical conditions" that, at times, caused him to be unable to work full days. But a SSA manager noted in the reprimand letter that, "nothing that you have submitted has indicated that you would have uncontrollable flatulence. It is my belief that you can control this condition."

A redacted copy of the letter was recently circulated among officers of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union that represents the SSA worker. Contacted today at his office, the employee said, "I can't talk to you about this, I'm sorry." The employee is being represented in connection with the reprimand by a lawyer for his union, AFGE Local 1923. Cynthia Ennis, president of the Baltimore-based local, did not respond to e-mail and phone messages about the matter.

According to the letter of reprimand--which is the least severe administrative sanction that can be levied against a federal worker--the man was first spoken to about his flatulence during a May 18 "performance discussion" with his supervisor. He was informed that fellow employees had complained about his flatulence, and that it was "the reason none of them were willing to assist you with your work." The supervisor referred the employee to a SSA unit for "assistance with what could have been a medical problem that was affecting everyone in the module."

Two months later, on July 17, a second SSA manager spoke with the man "in regards of your releasing of bodily gas in the module during work hours." The manager asked the employee if he could "make it to the restroom before releasing the awful and unpleasant odor." She also recounted what appeared to be a prior conversation during which the worker suggested that he would "turn your fan on when it happens." The manager recounted advising him that, "turning on the fan would cause the smell to spread and worsen the air quality in the module."; 11/24/18, 10:42 PM
FullMoon said...: Continued

On August 14, a third administrator--a SSA "Deputy Division Director"--spoke with the worker about his "continuous releasing of your bodily gas and the terrible smell that comes with the gas." The manager noted that the worker had said he was lactose intolerant and planned to purchase Gas-X, an over-the-counter remedy. The manager informed the employee that he "could not pass gas indefinitely and continue to disrupt the work place."

Despite these repeated warnings, the man apparently continued to struggle with his flatulence throughout the late-summer and fall.

After stating that, "It is my belief that you can control this condition," the author of the reprimand letter then noted, "The following dates show the time of your flatulence." What followed was a log listing 17 separate dates (and 60 specific times) on which the employee passed gas. For example, the man's September 19 output included nine instances of flatulence, beginning at 9:45 AM and concluding at 4:30 PM.

The man was also accused of launching a trio of attacks on September 11.

The reprimand letter does not reveal how the worker's flatulence was memorialized, nor whether that unfortunate task fell to labor or management.

The letter's author wrote that the employee's conduct had been "discourteous, disrespectful, and entirely inappropriate," and was worthy of a formal sanction, which is placed in a worker's personnel files for up to one year. The reprimand, the manager noted, "is the least severe penalty available to impress upon you the seriousness of your actions and is necessary to deter future misconduct." (5 pages); 11/24/18, 10:43 PM
walter said...: Maybe he could wear one of those methane collectors the CAGW crowd wants cows to wear.; 11/24/18, 10:48 PM
Original Mike said...: ”It will be available last year.”

I can wait.; 11/24/18, 10:50 PM
FullMoon said...: Posted 5 years ago
/white-house-looks-to-regulate-cow-flatulence (WTF?)

The Obama White House has proposed cutting methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. Although U.S. agriculture only accounts for about 9 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, it makes up a sizeable portion of methane emissions -- which is a very potent greenhouse gas.

Some of these methane emissions come from cow flatulence, exhaling and belching -- other livestock animals release methane as well.

"Cows emit a massive amount of methane through flatulence," according to How Stuff Works. "Statistics vary regarding how much methane the average dairy cow expels. Some experts say 100 liters to 200 liters a day. . . while others say it's up to 500 liters. . . a day. In any case, that's a lot of methane, an amount comparable to the pollution produced by a car in a day."; 11/24/18, 10:55 PM
narciso said...: Can't quite figure his angle:

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN1NT0G5; 11/24/18, 11:06 PM
narciso said...: Compare and contrast:

https://t.co/E205Vm6k6j?amp=1; 11/24/18, 11:14 PM
eddie willers said...: The smartest kid I ever knew lived in the house whose backyard touched our back yard.

I mean, this is a kid that made his own gunpowder and built huge, sparking Tesla Coils when he was 12.

So anyway, I heard he went to MIT and was going around measuring smells around landfills. I thought, "that's pretty undignified for such a brain".

Well, he later invented a new sniffer and became a millionaire, so sometimes there IS justice.; 11/25/18, 12:17 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Brexit: "Can't anybody here play this game?" What the heck is going on. Most of the world is not in the EU and manages to have a relation with it just fine.; 11/25/18, 12:32 AM
Yancey Ward said...: The people who voted for Brexit have been betrayed by their own government- it really is that simple. May's goal for 2 years now has been to make such a mess of things that she is "forced" to call for a second referendum- a referendum the Remainers intend to win by hook or by crook.; 11/25/18, 1:06 AM
Oso Negro said...: Has anyone heard of Valentina Zharkova or her work on sunspot activity? If she is right, it’s a good time to leave Wisconsin.

http://electroverse.net/professor-valentina-zharkova-breaks-her-silence-and-confirms-super-grand-solar-minimum/?fbclid=IwAR0UrPm-Jkg0TBzdi3oyTbmRHfpEiyv9_uL8aVzHk-2CpZFVLHD2fXC9mDo; 11/25/18, 2:09 AM
Original Mike said...: There’s a much simpler explanation for the recent sunspot deficit. I bought a solar filter for the refractor.; 11/25/18, 5:07 AM
Jaq said...: https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2018/11/21/more-migrants-arrive-overnight-tijuana-mexico-overcrowded-shelters/2077635002/

Fake election year news! The migrants took a collection among themselves to pay for the chartered buses!; 11/25/18, 5:35 AM
Jaq said...: The most ridiculous position of the warmies is that the conditions of the past few decades are the ideal conditions for the planet and that the climate would never change without the intervention of mankind. I once again blame the hockey stick, because of the nature of the mistaken assumption, it produced a stable climate until it gets to the stick. Well, if you average random data, you get stability.; 11/25/18, 5:39 AM
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Jaq said...: When Co2 was far higher and the planet was far warmer, there were something like 20 - 30 species of great apes like ourselves.

Until the past 4 million years, the planet was far warmer than it is today with all of our “warming” Four million years ago we fell into a period of ige ages that last hundreds of thousands of years with short breaks of 10 thousands years or so, like the one we have been in for about ten thousand years.; 11/25/18, 5:52 AM
stevew said...: I'm going to be a skeptic on this climate change thing so long as the proof of human caused catastrophic climate change is in the form of a consensus of opinion from the same people whose climate models have consistently failed to accurately predict the observed trend of the climate. And their hyperbolic claims arguing that we have to start now serve to further undermine any confidence in their predictions. Oh, and the unexplained manipulation of the raw data.; 11/25/18, 6:28 AM
gilbar said...: a period of ige ages that last hundreds of thousands of years with short breaks of 10 thousands years or so, like the one we have been in for about ten thousand years.

Here's a postulate:
A) there IS manmade global warming: cows, coal, oil, etc
B) THAT'S Why there isn't a mile of ice on top of Madison Right Now
C) This is a GOOD THING!
D) Liberals and Progressives want to change A because of C; 11/25/18, 6:50 AM
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rhhardin said...: This morning, while the 40m path is still dark, I picked up Hawaii(2), Norway and NSW Australia. Norway was a surprise but maybe the path to it, being very northy, is still dark this time of year. Maybe it's climate change.; 11/25/18, 6:51 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Let's say, hypothetically, that they are correct about human activity causing warming. And drastic action is taken to counteract that. And recent reports about decreasing solar activity leading to a cooling off period are also correct. We're really fucked.

We just don't have accurate enough information to warrant making the massive changes that are being asked for. But the left operates almost completely on emotion, not logic, so they can't see that.; 11/25/18, 6:53 AM
chillblaine said...: Hi Fam-a-lam, two telecom posts for anyone.

Wires & wires

Telecom Gear

plus a night prowl for a black widow, she here; 11/25/18, 6:53 AM
Jaq said...: If you buy into the hockey stick, the "handle" is on a steady down slope until we are saved by the "blade."; 11/25/18, 6:53 AM
rhhardin said...: Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) is a nice romcom about a guy building a time machine needing a companion. The logic pretty well works out, with one very nice touch.; 11/25/18, 6:54 AM
chillblaine said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/25/18, 6:59 AM
chillblaine said...: Hi thanks, and here is my process for dream interpretation.; 11/25/18, 7:00 AM
gilbar said...: rhhardin, why do you use a 15 watt transmitter? Can't you afford more? :)
heck, back in the day, mine was 35 watt; 11/25/18, 7:05 AM
Jaq said...: Why play tennis wwithout a net?; 11/25/18, 7:11 AM
rhhardin said...: The thing (KX3) fits on the desk where the coffee cup was. 15w makes distance amazing instead of an everyday thing. You've got to work the band, call at the right instant in the right place, for the pile-up conditions.

Picked up another Australia and Hawaii.; 11/25/18, 7:19 AM
rhhardin said...: The contest gives zero points for working the same country so the band isn't full of Americans working each other and blocking everything interesting.; 11/25/18, 7:21 AM
gilbar said...: rhhardin, how do you do tuning now (for reception?)
is it digital, or do you still spin dials? If digital, how do you fine tune? or does it do it for you?; 11/25/18, 7:40 AM
rhhardin said...: It's got a tuning knob. The readings are digital. Paddles attached to the edge so it's all self-contained. Look up KX3.

The huge improvement in stuff is the quality of the receivers and bandpass filters. You can block out everything even slightly off frequency.

That's actually how low power works so well, the other guy can hear you with his high quality receiver.; 11/25/18, 8:00 AM
Original Mike said...: Say G’Day! to my mates in Oz, rh.; 11/25/18, 8:11 AM
gilbar said...: thanx rh!; 11/25/18, 8:20 AM
Gahrie said...: Until the past 4 million years, the planet was far warmer than it is today with all of our “warming” Four million years ago we fell into a period of ige ages that last hundreds of thousands of years with short breaks of 10 thousands years or so, like the one we have been in for about ten thousand years.

We are actually in the fourth of a series of ice ages, which is why it is called the Quarternary. It began about 2.5 million years ago. We are also in an interglacial called the Holocene that began about 12,000 years ago. All signs actually point to the end of the Holocene and the resumption of a much cooler climate.; 11/25/18, 10:05 AM
chillblaine said...: Thank you and respect, rhhardin, Sensei. I admire your touch with the long wavelengths, truly, and this is coming from a telecom guy. Best. mb; 11/25/18, 1:06 PM
gilbar said...: 40m not long wavelength!!!!!
hell! AM broadcast band isn't long :); 11/25/18, 2:42 PM
chillblaine said...: gggrrrhhhharrrrrghhh11 matey she be a relatively long wavelength commander, ayhye!!! but capppannn the little tiny waves is messin with me head sarh, all durespect sarh, it be the she-beast and all!!!; 11/25/18, 8:15 PM