... you can talk all night.
The photo is a detail from the "America Today" mural at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
June 13, 2019
At the Fearless/Honest/Able Café...
... you can talk all night.
The photo is a detail from the "America Today" mural at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Oberlin College hit with maximum punitive damages in the Gibson's Bakery case.
Covered with a pillow:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NickSSolheim/status/1139205858297024518
Why not use the image that depicts the deeply backward part of the country?
I spent the day unbricking a new windows 10 scratch'n'dent laptop that was just bricked by an automatic windows update.
Their update management is insane as to throwing its bandwidth weight around, and after that hanging everything with a never-finish reboot.
Reinstalling the operating system and starting over worked, so at least the BIOS wasn't damaged.
This computer is still XP, which seems to be a stable system. It's up for a year at a time 24/7.
I truly don't understand why I post here. I'm a curmudgeon.
To our hostess.......what did you expect??
Oberlin pics from the early 60s, when the place looked sane and was sane.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhhardin/albums/72157633024709629
(modern "scans" of old 8x10's kept in the closet)
First pic is Stravinsky at Oberlin 1963. There's even a Gibson's pic.
Rh,
The new cheese grater from Apple is supposed to be deeply secure because it has the OS on its own chip, and nobody but Apple can mess w/ it.
What say you?
You can get malware in any software whether it's in the OS or not.
No other American artist > Grant Wood > Thomas Hart Benton > Winslow Holmer > everyone else
Watching Les Mis 25th anniversary concert again on PBS fundraising night. Never tire of it. Not giving them any money though.
I would love to know who these OSC creeps are that are trying to harass Kellyanne Conway.
Not Mueller. Some basement outfit that is an Obama nest of holdouts,.
It is a daunting tome in deed:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/448515-trump-campaign-says-it-will-handle-foreign-intel-offers-on-case-by-case?fbclid=IwAR0GT93KMLVNS-uWNWZnPUL4Zj_0uz5Nb63BG18OTe1TA98Vf5fkJ63PvGc
Well the front man is a fellow from southern California ostensibly a Republican named Henry kerner, but who are his underlings
Hardin : "...I spent the day unbricking a new windows 10 scratch'n'dent laptop that was just bricked by an automatic windows update..."
Mega dittos, there. Windows 10 is awful- It's hard to find the useful parts of the OS (control panel,etc) and the automatic updates feature sometimes makes my computer unbootable. I just yesterday figured out how to turn off automatic updates.
I've played Les Mis twice now. I just don't get that show.
Miss Saigon is far better, IMHO. Plus the keyboard books are Teh R0xx0r ..
Roughly two weeks ago I heard a report on NPR that several indigenous groups in Canada have accused the government of genocide. (National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls). I see it made the Guardian, but has not gained much traction here, at least not that I've noticed. Is it only a matter of time until the same claim is made here?
Don't go away, madAsHell!
Not sure, JV, but it's a daunting list!
Yeah, Prof, let's see the image of the backward part of the country!
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What is she hiding now?
Well prime minister zoolander bought that argument.
@rightguy,
Windows 10 is awful
Yep, MS has really lost its way as a corporation. They want to get into all these niches where they have major competition, and keep bungling the niche, the office desktop & server backend, where they have none.
Nadella needs to go, and in a big way.
U.S. Extradition Order Signed For WikiLeaks' Assange
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has told the BBC that he has signed an extradition order to send WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States.
Javid said the final decision on Assange's extradition would be made on June 14 in a British court.
if we get him, what kind of testimony from him? friendly? damaging to the derp state?
Win10 is awful. My sister got her laptop stuck in tablet mode somehow a few weeks ago, and it took me an hour to figure out what was going on. My surmise it found she had a touch screen, and had no specific information on the model and just went 'what the hell: tablet'.
Yesterday updates held her up from two documents she really had to upload for work.
XP is very stable .. just don't connect it to the Internet!
Remember raymond reddington, the info broker, well Assange is like that but he doesn't sell the info.
I think it was reverse engineered from the borg.
So the norridge I mean flint area judge dropped the charges in the toxic water case, so they find other kulaks worthy defendants
Oberlin College hit with maximum punitive damages in the Gibson's Bakery case.
Justice meted to diversity and social justice activists. Progress.
We are visiting WI, Belleville to be exact. We went to the Deluth Trading Store in Mt. Horeb and their outlet here in town and bought some good, sensible items on sale or clearance, including, I’m sad to admit to Ann, two pair of shorts for me, one of them cargo...
Assange will be kept out of sight and presented as a madman, which he may well be by now.
We know how vindictive the DS is, and he's in for a world of hurt.
I give him 18 months. To live.
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If that
Re Windows 10 -- I do the "tech support" for the family, and I'm seriously thinking about taking W10 away from my in-laws, and setting them up with Ubuntu instead.
All they're doing is Facebook, email, and bills. Who needs W10 for that?
And it would be the end of all the malware hassle.
They could use WINE for anything Windows-centric that they absolutely needed.
I swear, just one more malware attack and I'm pulling the trigger.
"You can get malware in any software"
I'm most worried about the lowest level malware. I need a rock solid base from which other stuff can be sussed out.
Anywho, from a history of being stingy w/ max available memory in their laptops, to now letting you get 1.5 terabytes of memory in the new mac pro, that's something. Though I'd imagine that this option won't be cheap.
Quote from the Gibson's lawyer in his final argument to the jury before the jury awarded the Gibson's $22 million in punitive damages as well as $11 million in damages; and attorneys' fees to be paid by Oberlin:
“Why is the country watching you. Because the country agrees that what happened to the Gibsons should not happen to anyone, but could happen to everyone.”
” Colleges are watching us and you. Because they all know the way colleges are run will be affected, and by your decisions, they will be”
A tipping point?
"I truly don't understand why I post here. I'm a curmudgeon."
Stand down, good sir. I will not be so easily dislodged from my position of Her Grace's Most Grumpy Curmudgeon, Esq.
Meet on the Greens at sunrise with your Second. Your choice of pistols or rapier.
Or a vintage bottle of Jack Daniels and two mugs.
Windows 10 tattles. The old joke about a medical bracelet "delete my browsing history" no longer applies.
I was trying to clean out some er artsl last week and it was like playing wack a mole.
was it sly of Liz to blame trump for the tanker attack then weasel back?
Congratulations to the Toronto Raptors. Bucks turn in 2020.
"The new cheese grater from Apple is supposed to be deeply secure because it has the OS on its own chip, and nobody but Apple can mess w/ it."
Monday I parked the car but was so phased out over some deep thought, I left the lights on.
I like to pretend its my absent minded genius personae, floating in the ether, but it's more likely I'm going senile.
Anyways... what was I?... Oh yeah, got a jump next morning, all good. Except the fricken radio is now asking me to type in a 4 digit security code before it will work. WTH? Why would you make the radio dependent on a dead battery? You charge the battery, you turn the radio on. The code is buried in a 200 page user manual that is... somewhere I haven't looked yet.
Same thing with the odometer. It's digital, not like the old dial thing. So I enrolled in some IT classes so I can learn how to find out my car's total mileage.
Hang on. Those kids are on my lawn again. Brb...
Fen, I had a Honda (1996) with the same "feature". I swapped out the battery and lost the radio. took me about two years before I found the documentation. As I recall, it wasn't in the manual but was on a separate card- because it was a unique number. Very aggravating!
Yay Raptors!
Odious officiating.
Assuming the law prof is waiting for Dilbert to issue the “I’d take it...” talking points.
Focusing on first world problems
https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1131743320412180480
I have found Win10 remarkably stable and tolerant.
Better than Win7.
Get the latest build.
Granted, I am speaking of a population of ... many thousands, lets say.
And managed with professional systems and by a professional staff, and not patched by MS.
As for facebook and email and browsing and your bank, get an Android tablet.
In the June 3 edition of The New Yorker, there's an article about Salieri. He's the composer who was so comically jealous of Mozart's gifts in the movie Amadeus. Apparently there's nothing to the rumor that Salieri poisoned Mozart or that Salieri was anything but a friend to Mozart and an admirerer of his work. Apparently the libels directed against Salieri have caused some to pay attention to his work. He was not the prince of mediocrities as depicted in the movie. In his own time he was a successful compose and his work continues to have resonance in our era. Several of his operas have been revived and he has a vogue among the cognescenti......There's something to be said for achieving fame as a villain. Attention must be paid....I wonder who will be the household name in a few hundred years: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill, or FDR?
All but Mussolini
Indeed, this was 16 years ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/19/classicalmusicandopera.italy
Blame it on pushkin:
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/guides/did-salieri-murder-mozart-mythbuster/
But there is the power of narrative il machiavelli wrote a seemingly definitive account of Italian history, like thucydides nearly 2,000 years before on the wisdom of pericles
I have found Win10 remarkably stable and tolerant. Better than Win7.
I like Windows 10, but I would only recommend it for a new computer. I tried it once on a Win 7 machine, and there were compatibility issues with some of the installed software. Having a Windows 10 upgrade compatible with everyone's unique combination of installed software is not realistic.
Hitler has the brand recognition. He'll be the most notorious madman tyrant of the 20th century, and he was not competing against underachievers in the field of mass murder. He'll be the name every schoolboy remembers on the test.. I think Churchill will survive as his antithesis. The narrative demands a counterweight to Hitler's villainy, and people seem to be making Churchill the hero of that era. In a perverse way, Hitler will ensure Churchill's lasting fame.
Only in a world where they value history and the truth, in such a world antifascism and pro colonial sentiments cancel each other out.
Pianoman said...
Re Windows 10 -- I do the "tech support" for the family, and I'm seriously thinking about taking W10 away from my in-laws, and setting them up with Ubuntu instead.
All they're doing is Facebook, email, and bills. Who needs W10 for that?
I am in a class that uses MySQL Workbench. I couldn't load files from my computer in the local environment.
So I put Workbench on a virtual box running Ubuntu 18.
It might let me load files now. But I have to restart the server and the client. I restarted the server once but I am too tired to figure out how to do it again. I have to use a restart command but I have to be in a specific directory when I do it.
But it wasn't any different operationally. Just a different default homepath.
The most frustrating part of development is getting your environment set up.
Enraging is more accurate.
And the only reason there isn't as much malware on Ubuntu is the hackers just don't bother. Same for Apple.
Hitler’s mistake was Germanic Tidiness. If he hadn’t kept such exact records, who would know what he did? OTOH, his mad scientists’ records and experiments form the basis of much useful knowledge today......
And for the record, Win10 is light-years better than XP or any other version of Windows. Unless you have an incredibly old machine. In that case, why do you? A new Lenovo laptop is $250.
$250 is $250. I was able to run a decent FreeBSD X windows environment on my 1998 IBM Thinkpad until 2010 or so when it finally gave up the ghost when I tried to change the bios battery and pulled the socket off the motherboard.
It did what I wanted it to do X/ssh/Firefox for 10+ years.
And I'm driving a 1980 Corolla..
Call Honda (or Acura) to get the codes for the radio and nav systems if you lost the dealer card. You give them the VIN, they give you the codes.
I had to give up several XP and Vista boxes a couple years ago after Dropbox dropped support for them. Been running Win NT for better than two decades now. I actually had NT 3 running for a bit, but NT 4 was the big change, with the Win 95/98 UI grafted on top of the NT core. Nicest feature was that you could kill programs without rebooting the computer, which was the case for 95/98 built on top of DOS. NT 4 was stable as a rock for me - I would reboot my home machine every year or so. New job in maybe 98 meant a new laptop, where I had the choice of 98 or NT 4. Picked the latter, and after some growing pains, used to laugh at my boss, who had picked 98 for his new laptop, when an app would freeze, and he would have to reboot. I just had to keep that laptop away from one woman in IT, whose solution to everything was a clean installation of everything. I was able to talk the senior IT guy into install disks for everything I needed for just that reason.
Supposedly used to be two Win NT development teams, one good, one mediocre. Or maybe that major level releases alternated as to stability. NT 4 was stable as a rock, 2K was not. XP was stable, while Vista was not. My last employer, with over 500 seats, kept with Dell and XP, until forced to jump to 8.1, completely skipping Vista. I have Vista on 3 different old laptops, but my previous desktop was purposely bought with XP installed well into the Vista era. Extremely stable. Newer desktop runs 8.1. Was thinking last year of building a new one to support my five monitors, but instead went for a big upgrade in memory and a 500 GB SD drive as my primary boot device (can still boot to the HDD, of course, but that hasn’t been necessary). My new laptop runs 10, and in over a year, cannot get Sleep of any sort to work properly. I either need to Hibernate or reboot. Which is a pain, because that means that I can’t just let it idle for awhile. I like the 10 UI better than 8.1 UI, and don’t really miss that much the old 95/98/4/2K/XP/Vista UI.
The first thing that I do, when initially configuring any computer, iPad, iPhone, or application is to turn off automatic updates. I am old fashioned that way, but so far, it seems to have kept me out of trouble.
Funny thing is that I have moved so much into the Apple orbit, despite hating the company, since Steve Jobs came back, more than I do MSFT. I run 4 iPads, 2 iPhones, and 1 Apple Watch, and being mostly retired, don’t need the apps that are best utilized on computers. I love the integration, but it does drive my partner crazy when an incoming phone call will be ringing on 3-4 devices at once.
Yeah, but it's not Today, today.
Today, I feel like pleasing you more than before
Today, I know what I wanna do, but I don’t know what for
To be living for you is all I want to do
To be loving you it’ll all be there when my dreams come true
Today you’ll make me say that I somehow have changed
Today you’ll look into my eyes, I’m just not the same
To be any more than all I am would be a lie
I’m so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry
Today, everything you want I swear it all will come true
Today, I realize how much I’m in love with you
With you standing here, I could tell the world what it means to love
To go on from here, I can’t use words they don’t say enough
Please, please listen to me
It’s taken so long to come true
And it’s all for you, all for you
I'll see your Les Mis and raise you an Oklahoma! Going to see it tomorrow. It's kind of a chick flick of a story, a romcom if you will, but I'm a sucker for the singing and dancing.
“but it does drive my partner crazy when an incoming phone call will be ringing on 3-4 devices at once.”
I should add that part of the problem there is that I have custom rings for maybe 8 of the numbers I receive most often. Some are pretty obnoxious, because I try to tie the custom ring to something about the person calling. So, for example, the custom ring that I use for her daughter has the same name as the daughter. Good friend who calls at least once a day has a pretty obnoxious ring. And that’s the One that drives her the craziest, esp when it is ringing on several devices at once.
What I keep explaining to her is that she is the reason that I started using custom rings in the first place. She, being a woman, expects me to answer her calls. Always. I am supposed to drop everything and answer the phone if it is she calling, and a custom ring is how I know that it is she calling. While I chafe at this, I understand the necessity, given some of her health issues. In any case, my initial custom ring was not very soothing, so I would find myself being a bit short when answering her calls. So, to increase the probability of domestic tranquility, I changed it to something very upbeat. Seems to work, because it lets me respond cheerfully, even when I am talking to a cashier in front of a long line when she calls.
So, night before last, she heated up some cheese potato soup she had in the freezer from last year, and added some chili cheese Fritos. We left the bag of Fritos on the table when we went to bed that night. Then yesterday, while I was at the library, she called to ask if I knew where the remaining Fritos were, strongly suggesting that I might have absconded with them. Nope. Too well trained, and not on my diet. She wasn’t completely convinced, but finally gave up. Then she called back 15 minutes later (identified by her uplifting custom ring) to tell me that she had found the missing Fritos. I had been joking with her for the last several weeks any time she assumed that I was somehow, by process of elimination, the culprit for something, that she check with “Buddy” (my name for the cat). That was how I had ended her call about the missing Fritos. Her second call was to tell me that she had, indeed, thought that maybe there might be a third party in our house with agency. She had gone upstairs and checked his hiding places. And, lo and behold, he had pushed the bag off the table, then dragged it through the kitchen and living room, then up the stairs, to his idling place up there, with the top still rolled up. Still technically a kitten for another two months, and he is doing this sort of thing. Too smart for his own good. Then, she called up five minutes later to tell me that she had gone back up there to see what else may have been stashed up there, and found some of the table scraps that she had been feeding him to keep him off the table while we ate, also hidden there and now pretty gross and moldy. I had been wondering why, all of a sudden, his table scraps bowl was so empty. Now we knew. My response to this sort of thing is that maybe we need to “articulate” him. We have very good taxidermists around here, and we can probably find one that could build an articulated version of the cat. Then, we (I) could just pose him here or there around the house in one of her favorite poses, changing location and pose every once in awhile. No buy in there yet. We shall see. I will, of course, continue to suggest this whenever she seems vexed with the cat.
I see that Huckabee Sanders is busted by the Mueller Report where she said “countless” FBI agents hand contacted the WH happy about Comey’s firing, when the truth was that it was only “a bunch.” This is the kind of partisan crap that’s in the Mueller Report. The man had a serious case of TDS.
“I acknowledge that I had a slip of the tongue when I used the word ‘countless’ but it’s not untrue … that a number of both current and former FBI agents agreed with the president,”
You could actually count the number if you put your mind to it, therefore Sanders had uttered a five pinnochio, bring on the Drudge siren, lie!
That detail does more to undermine Mueller’s impartiality than any other I have heard.
Funny thing is that I knew that would be the explanation before I even looked for her explanation, because I know Mueller’s a dishonest hack and I know Sarah Huckabee Sanders is fundamentally honest.
Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from “countless members of the FBI” was a “slip of the tongue.”482 She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made “in the heat of the moment” that was not founded on anything.
So who’s lying here? Sanders or Mueller in his report> I notice that Mueller did not include any text from the “separate press interviews” and seems to conflate the two statements and substitute the retraction of the word “countless” for “a number of” with the others, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to nail down the “lie” just from the Mueller Report, just the accusation of a lie and protection of the FBI through a smear for which no basis was given.
Maybe somebody who was such a good friend of Comey’s shouldn’t have been the one investigating his firing? Naah!
No wonder Mueller doesn’t want to answer questions!
Having played basketball for 50 years, I still refuse to watch the NBA games. It's not the game I played. However, it piqued my interest to read the misguided Warriors coach, Steve Kerr, wore a gun control shirt to the finals. Go Raptors!
Then I read that Steve Kerr's father was shot and killed by two gunmen in 1984. Hmm, digging deeper. He was shot in Beirut. From wiki: "Years later, information regarding Kerr's assassins and their motives still remain uncertain, but an Islamic Jihadist took credit for the murder."
Maybe Coach Kerr could tour the Middle East wearing his gun control shirt.
“Call Honda (or Acura) to get the codes for the radio and nav systems if you lost the dealer card. You give them the VIN, they give you the codes.”
You can get your code on the Honda website.
I love Thomas Hart Benton. Regionalism forever.
I mean the painter.
"countless"--could be any number. Can't count 'em.
"a bunch"--a lot of 'em.
She should have said a bunch.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/06/14/ilhan-omar-call-your-office/
That there’s a good link if you are interested in how dishonest the Star Tribune is in Minn.
I still get a little chuckle about the guy who tattooed Mueller’s face on his back.
Congratulations to the Gibson family, their remaining employees, and their legal team. Although information about the case could be hard to find unless one follows Legal Insurrection, the world was indeed watching. Now on to the Sandmann vs. the Media Scum case. We're watching that one, too.
That's the artist Thomas Hart Benton at far right.
You are correct, Unknown@826.
I went through the whole series--reminded me why I like THB.
So full of homage, so appreciative and reflective of the country's diversity and drive, but also of its traditions, like visual Copland and just as distinctive.
The Southern scene I found particularly interesting, of course.
As far as all this tech-talk, face it . . . we are doomed.
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But I feel fine
THB was a camoufler in WWI. If I knew that I'd forgotten.
Hitler was the most consequential political figure of the 20th C., as far as impact on populations and popular culture, and as the role model for most dictators since. Though he neither invented nor perfected terror and atrocity, his regime used them in memorable ways as bases for an idealized social order.
That the Third Reich was a chaotic self-destructive pigpile doesn't affect the cachet, as far as would-be dictators are concerned.
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Real showmen, them Nazi bastidges
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