I want to bring up something mentioned briefly in last night’s open thread. Microsoft ends support for Windows 11 next month. Should those of us using that operating system care? Do we need to buy a new computer if the old one can’t run Windows 12?
"Microsoft ends support for Windows 11 next month" It's actually ending for Windows 10. Win 10 will continue to work but won't get any regular bug fixes or security updates.
Just saw Darling (1965) with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarte. BW. Good: Christie often looks beautiful. Some good satire and witty language. Nice supporting cast. Bad: Too long at 2 hours. Could have been cut by 30 minutes. Christie often looks odd (depends on camera angle). Slight story.
An Oscar winner for the screenwriter Raphael, and Christie. The "daring" "edgy" sex and acceptance of Homosexuality and Abortion no longer carry any zing, and what shocked titillated then, no longer does. We do get some sex scenes but its not explicit. i think we see the men with their shirts off, and Christie in a nightie but thats about it.
And although there are some well done scenes, and lots of witty dialogue. There's not much else. Even wit and cleverness gets tiresome after a while, and the direction often seems sluggish. One of those films that are best on DVD so you can skip around.
BTW, you can look at the academy awards for 1965, and see the voters and Academy were getting way out of touch. Two of the Best picture nominees? Ship of fools and A thousand clowns!
Mediocre Shelly Winters won for "A patch of blue" while dull Martin balsam won for "A thousand clowns". Incredible. But that's nothing compared to Lee Marvin edging out Larry Olivier and Richard Burton for best actor. Man, all those academy award votes must have been high on something!
Mongo: Windows 11 support doesn't end next month but Windows 10 support does. Ending support means no more updates, so you computer will continue to operate. on Windows 10 if that is where you are, which is unlikely since Miscrosoft has had to have been bugging you to upgrade for free to Windows 11.
Windows 12 has not yet been released to the public.
Is Microsoft's Edge browser really Chrome? I just signed into my Airbnb account using Edge and got a message notifying me of a new sign in from Chrome.
Everything in history repeats, or at least rhymes (at this point, isn't the new cliche as tired as the old?). Sometimes it's easy to know when something happens for the first time or the second: Napoleon I and Napoleon III or Jack Kennedy and Ted Kennedy (or Jack Schlossberg). Much of the time it isn't. Trump as a repeat of Louis XIV is quite a stretch. And sometimes, it's the original that's the farce and the repeat that's the tragedy (or success). Random quotes from Marx aren't the best basis for an argument or analysis.
Is Microsoft's Edge browser really Chrome? I just signed into my Airbnb account using Edge and got a message notifying me of a new sign in from Chrome.
Edge uses the Chromium web browser as a base like Google Chrome does. Chromium is supposed to be Open Source and not send data back to Google, but very few people believe that is 100% true since the browser was originally developed at Google. Edge/Brave/Opera/Vivalid all use Chromium as a base. If you're really wanting to get away from Google you best bet is to use either Safari or Firefox.
Burton was in his spy film "The Spy who Came in from the Cold." Olivier was in black face for "Othello." The year before Burton lost out to (ugh) Rex Harrison.
Hollywood was going through a transition in the late 1960s. Young people and outsiders were doing creative things, but the awards were still controlled by old Hollywood. Thus the famous result a few years later when the Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde lost out to In the Heat of the Night.
BTW, why are the same people who castigated us for not paying an entry level hamburger flipper a living wage (to support a family of 4) now saying our economy can't survive unless we have people willing to work for a fraction of what that hamburger flipper makes?
It would be interesting to hear an actual answer to that question from "the same people" but I won't be holding my breath waiting for one.
What happened to Kakabich is easy to explain- he spent two years proclaiming with great authority, first, that Trump would end up in prison and could never win the nomination again; and then, when Trump didn't end up prison and won the nomination in a rout, spent almost half a year predicting that Trump couldn't beat Biden and then spent the rest of last Fall predicting that Trump couldn't beat Harris. I mean, seriously, Dingabat was almost his sock-puppet praising Kakabich's brilliance. You can make a fortune betting against anything Kakabich says in regards to just about anything. If Kakabich predicted the Sun rises in the East, I would be forced to verify it the next morning in case the Earth's rotation axis undergoes a sudden shift just to prove him wrong for the millionth time in a row.
I'm not sure I'm all that opposed Trump's continuing interest in all things dealing with appearances. I'd rather have him paving the Rose Garden than working on acquiring Greenland, or threatening Canada, or name calling Jerome Powell, or fumbling the Epstein scandal or make your own list.
If you're really wanting to get away from Google you best bet is to use either Safari or Firefox.
I'm watching the Clint Eastwood epic "Unforgiven" on Firefox right now on YouTube. I run it with Ad-Block Plus, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
Not only do I not see any ads on YouTube, these add-ons for Firefox block most of Google's revenue streams. There are some videos that YouTube is successful at blocking, so I have the Brave browser as a backup. So far, it successfully blocks all YouTube advertising and their stupid nag screens.
I love it. Ad-free experience and I get to fuck over the worst company on the planet.
Awoke at 3:00 AM for a pee and a snack and to digest prior day Althouse postings. The last read (it being a LIFO stack) was "In a clinical setting there are many things you're [sic] not allowed to say...."
Form of numeral "6" can range from a straight line (vertical or slanted) with small circle at lower right to something quite resembling numeral "8" with bit missing at 2:30 clock position. Similarly, numeral "9."
Why is it that financial institutions, where correct reading of numbers is most important, uniformly chose a font with the most similar appearing 6, 8, and 9? Why is the type size often needlessly small? Why is grey chosen for color rather than black?
These are things I ponder each month paying bills and reconciling bank statements on screen. No, I am not paranoid. There IS a conspiracy among bankers to confound, confuse, and taunt their clients.
Yes, financial institutions and especially insurance companies can choose to make things difficult for customers to pay them, It means late fees or dropping you as a customer when they reach an age their actuaries say they become a risk of payout. One life insurance company doesn’t seem to want to process paper checks and every year requires new account credentials to pay online. They change their name and the look of their website to confound…
Remember when the Commies were shouting that our immigration system was broken? That we needed “comprehensive” immigration reform? Remember when they teamed up with Sen. James Langford (R-Squish) to serve up a garbage bill that permitted the influx to continue? Then the Lone Ranger arrived!
…I’ll spare you the read of the evidence with the elegant last paragraph, what should be laser etched beside the door to the House chambers…
Returning to somewhat normal fiscal policy is not economically difficult. Our economies do not face external threats. Again, pro-growth economic policy is easier than tax hikes or spending cuts. Everything that raises GDP raises tax revenue.
In Vermont, the only memory of all of the cheese factories that used to exist is that "Cheesefactory Rd" is a common name for country roads, in Quebec, they still have these little fromageries, you know why? massive tariffs keep them viable.
I tried to pay a property tax bill where they charged a fee for credit card natch but also a fee for wire or ACH. To do the latter they hid what type it was, as if they were the same, by placing little boxes on the online form. No ‘wire instructions’ with their receiving institution. There are different numbers for a wire or ACH and OF COURSE the one I selected (wire) was incorrect, so a non-account fee charged, time spent. I know to do these things long before the due date but had I been near the due date would have been jacked with late fees, too…
Zavier and rehajm: the explanation for the ever-changing fonts, etc, is what Achilles calls the people with air-conditioned jobs. So many people with no financial or technical skills having to justify their existence, so they keep rolling out new "looks and feels." The core employees of the bank or whatever don't ever see the result or get to affect it.
Remember, Dilbert is about the private sector. RR, JSM
Lazarus said... “Hollywood was going through a transition in the late 1960s. Young people and outsiders were doing creative things, but the awards were still controlled by old Hollywood. Thus the famous result a few years later when the Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde lost out to In the Heat of the Night.” (emphasis added)
I know a significant number of people swooned over Bonnie and Clyde, but it was an abomination from a historical point of view.
Mason G said... What's more pathetic than women sports commentators who try to be "one of the guys" with the commentators who have actually played the sport?
Answer: A pencil dick male who watches real men playing sports entertainment because it makes him feel like one of the guys while being intimidated by wlgirls who love sports so much, they have dedicated their lives to be a part of it.
Gilbert is modeled after the Scott Adams experience at Pacific Bell, a legal government approved Monopolistic public utility which in many ways is much worse than an NGO.
Trump's latest deadline for Russia to make peace with Ukraine ended last Thursday. So what is Putin's response? Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including an infant. Putin is giving a big middle finger to Trump. And Trump does nothing.
So many people with no financial or technical skills having to justify their existence, so they keep rolling out new "looks and feels." “It is not just for banks anymore”, Austin mayor.
The bad part is that it mucks with branding making it easier for hackers to fool customers, since brand no longer matters. Businesses used to cherish brand identity. I guess modern marketing schools have gone the way of other university coursework and taught students how to destroy their employers from the inside. I mean the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Guide is a “how to manual”, but it was meant to be used against our enemies.
Putin is giving a big middle finger to Trump. And Trump does nothing. Which, if true, means Trump is no worse than his predecessor or any other Western leader. But we didn’t get here overnight, and Trump won’t solve the Ukraine matter overnight, as much as he wants to do so.
That immediate reversal against the high in Friday's stock trading was ominous. Especially coming at the peak of a 30-day period with the same or nearly the same phenomenon several other times. All of which has occurred as the third upleg in a similar but much larger 5-year structure.
The long historical trend of valuations is at a never-before-seen peak. A top anywhere means a risk/reward ratio skewed bigly toward the former.
The stock markets here and in numerous developed nations are the biggest threat to the MAGA agenda. A bear market, especially of unusual significance, will be interpreted as a rejection of Trump, MAGA, capitalism, and the freedom for which those things stand.
Trump's latest deadline for Russia to make peace with Ukraine ended last Thursday. So what is Putin's response? Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including an infant. Putin is giving a big middle finger to Trump. And Trump does nothing.
I think Trump messed this up too. Trump inherited a war started by evil people and he has surrounded himself with idiots like Rubio and the CIA is openly working against him.
Trump should be arresting traitors in the CIA and firing every warmongering Neocon then putting them in stocks for stoning.
Better yet he should be shipping them all off to Ukraine and stuffing them in a trench to fight Russia.
Then we should be putting sanctions on any European country that has jailed political opponents or cancelled elections.
Whenever they want us to sign off on a war, murdered babies are trotted out. Remember when Saddam's soldiers found time to throw babies out of incubators in Kuwait? It's like the whole invasion was to get those incubators! We should have given Iraq incubators!
But Kiev (BTW-That's how Zelensky, whose first language is Russian just pronounced it this past week) has a foolproof solution for avoiding civilian casualties, they just define any populations which support the other side in their civil war that has been going on since the Maidan coup, the one where John McCain was mingling with the protesters, and where we recognized the new government that took over violently in the same day, that coup, well, they just define all of the people on the other side as "combatants" and presto-change-o, no civilian casualties, even as cluster munitions are used against "rebel-held" cities.
Zavier and rehajm: the explanation for the ever-changing fonts, etc, is what Achilles calls the people with air-conditioned jobs. So many people with no financial or technical skills having to justify their existence, so they keep rolling out new "looks and feels." The core employees of the bank or whatever don't ever see the result or get to affect it.
Remember, Dilbert is about the private sector. RR, JSM
Wherever women are included standards for performance have to be lowered. Sometimes to 0.
You can fire a man and tell him he sucks. Most men spent their lives getting kicked out of social groups or shunned and having to make themselves useful to work their way back in especially if you were not the offspring of the dominant male.
You cannot do the same thing to a woman. They cannot handle it. Women who get kicked out of the tribe die. Women have always had inherent value as the number of women you have is the upper bound for procreation.
Because of this men and women have been treated differently. Firing or admonishing women causes a much larger emotional reaction.
When you set standards for employees a certain percentage of employees have to be able to meet those standards or the employees revolt. You can set standards where the bottom 40% or performers will fail if the group is men and you wont get much push back. For women at least 95% of women have to be able to meet the standards. I asked my wife how many (female)nurses she knew got fired. She came up with 2 egregious examples.
When women were included in the work force standards just have to come down. In the end this can prepare us for what AI is about to do to society. Humans are in general about to become pretty obsolete and we will have to do something about that.
I think Trump's post about having lost Russian and India to China was an "I told you so" to Lindsay Graham.
The people in Washington DC who decided we would side with Europe and Ukraine against Russia, India and China are fucking retards. Anyone in the government who made these decisions and was paid more than 6 figures should just be executed for stupidity.
We should have been working with Russia and India against China and told Ukraine/Europe to sit in the corner and shut up.
Achilles: "we should be putting sanctions on any European country that has jailed political opponents or cancelled elections."
Wouldn't that basically be all European countries, on both sides?
Britain - jailed Tommy Robinson. Also will use the new statutory law to stay in power till '29 even though the norms would probably call for a no-confidence vote sooner than that.
France - ok, didn't jail Marine LePen, but they have her in an open-air jail
Romania - yup
Russia - jailed or assassinated oppos, so he doesn't need to cancel elections
Jaq: "Just as an aside, I miss the days when liberals weren't egging Presidents on to start WWIII over stuff happening on the other side of the planet."
That was really a blip in the Left's history. As Bob Dole said before the uniparty made Bob Dole apologize for what Bob Dole said, all the 20th century wars were Democrat wars. RR, JSM
john mosby (11:44pm): Russia also has a two-term limit for President, just like the US, but somehow Putin is in his fifth term. Odd that those who call Zelenskyy a dictator because the Ukrainian constitution forbids elections under martial law never mention that.
Weevil - good point. Yet another reason for Daddy Trump to stop the car, make all the Europeans of all flavors stop poking each other, and get back on the road to crush the ChiComs. RR, JSM
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I want to bring up something mentioned briefly in last night’s open thread. Microsoft ends support for Windows 11 next month. Should those of us using that operating system care? Do we need to buy a new computer if the old one can’t run Windows 12?
Meat Head
@markeatsmeat
RFK didn't link Tylenol with autism.
The dean of Harvard's School of Public Health did.
https://x.com/markeatsmeat/status/1964366062121603162
What's more pathetic than women sports commentators who try to be "one of the guys" with the commentators who have actually played the sport?
"Microsoft ends support for Windows 11 next month" It's actually ending for Windows 10. Win 10 will continue to work but won't get any regular bug fixes or security updates.
Big if True:
Start getting healthy now
Because tomorrow's doctors are
In school right now
Asking chatGPT
How many kidneys we have
Lem--too close for comfort!
Who dat in the underbrush? Another dawn-lover or just one of the local unhoused individuals? I suppose they could be both.
The Lambeau sign says: "Thanks, Jerry!"
Just saw Darling (1965) with Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarte. BW. Good: Christie often looks beautiful. Some good satire and witty language. Nice supporting cast. Bad: Too long at 2 hours. Could have been cut by 30 minutes. Christie often looks odd (depends on camera angle). Slight story.
An Oscar winner for the screenwriter Raphael, and Christie. The "daring" "edgy" sex and acceptance of Homosexuality and Abortion no longer carry any zing, and what shocked titillated then, no longer does. We do get some sex scenes but its not explicit. i think we see the men with their shirts off, and Christie in a nightie but thats about it.
And although there are some well done scenes, and lots of witty dialogue. There's not much else. Even wit and cleverness gets tiresome after a while, and the direction often seems sluggish. One of those films that are best on DVD so you can skip around.
"Who dat in the underbrush? Another dawn-lover or just one of the local unhoused individuals?"
Bigfoot.
BTW, you can look at the academy awards for 1965, and see the voters and Academy were getting way out of touch. Two of the Best picture nominees? Ship of fools and A thousand clowns!
Mediocre Shelly Winters won for "A patch of blue" while dull Martin balsam won for "A thousand clowns". Incredible. But that's nothing compared to Lee Marvin edging out Larry Olivier and Richard Burton for best actor. Man, all those academy award votes must have been high on something!
Mongo:
Windows 11 support doesn't end next month but Windows 10 support does. Ending support means no more updates, so you computer will continue to operate. on Windows 10 if that is where you are, which is unlikely since Miscrosoft has had to have been bugging you to upgrade for free to Windows 11.
Windows 12 has not yet been released to the public.
All of Trump’s Tacky and Trollish White House Renovations ~ The New Yorker
Paving over the Rose Garden and gaudily embellishing the Oval Office make Trump look desperate.
Like a tacky baroque sun king, but as the saying goes, first time round its a tragedy, second time its a farce.
He will always be the outer borough boy shunned for his vulgarity and lack of charm.
Is Microsoft's Edge browser really Chrome? I just signed into my Airbnb account using Edge and got a message notifying me of a new sign in from Chrome.
“ Who dat in the underbrush? Another dawn-lover or just one of the local unhoused individuals? I suppose they could be both.”
That’s Meade!
Meade is Bigfoot?
I knew it!
"That's Meade!"
I should have known.
Big Foot spotted in must win state of Wisconsin.
Everything in history repeats, or at least rhymes (at this point, isn't the new cliche as tired as the old?). Sometimes it's easy to know when something happens for the first time or the second: Napoleon I and Napoleon III or Jack Kennedy and Ted Kennedy (or Jack Schlossberg). Much of the time it isn't. Trump as a repeat of Louis XIV is quite a stretch. And sometimes, it's the original that's the farce and the repeat that's the tragedy (or success). Random quotes from Marx aren't the best basis for an argument or analysis.
Original Mike said...
Is Microsoft's Edge browser really Chrome? I just signed into my Airbnb account using Edge and got a message notifying me of a new sign in from Chrome.
Edge uses the Chromium web browser as a base like Google Chrome does. Chromium is supposed to be Open Source and not send data back to Google, but very few people believe that is 100% true since the browser was originally developed at Google. Edge/Brave/Opera/Vivalid all use Chromium as a base. If you're really wanting to get away from Google you best bet is to use either Safari or Firefox.
Khakis racy: you finally got it! Trump is a working class guy from Queens! And that’s why he is so loved.
kak at 814 - Sad. Pull some more money out of the trust fund account and double up on medication and psychiatrist sessions.
Burton was in his spy film "The Spy who Came in from the Cold." Olivier was in black face for "Othello." The year before Burton lost out to (ugh) Rex Harrison.
Hollywood was going through a transition in the late 1960s. Young people and outsiders were doing creative things, but the awards were still controlled by old Hollywood. Thus the famous result a few years later when the Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde lost out to In the Heat of the Night.
Over on RCP there is an article about how the strike on Venezuela drug runner boat is reestablishing the Monroe Doctrine.
That is what I voted for.
"If you're really wanting to get away from Google you best bet is to use either Safari or Firefox."
As it happens, I am transitioning from Microsoft to Apple; depopulating my Windows 10 computer and moving everything to a Mac.
I am surprised that Brave has Google ancestry.
Question asked elsewhere on the intertubes:
BTW, why are the same people who castigated us for not paying an entry level hamburger flipper a living wage (to support a family of 4) now saying our economy can't survive unless we have people willing to work for a fraction of what that hamburger flipper makes?
It would be interesting to hear an actual answer to that question from "the same people" but I won't be holding my breath waiting for one.
Paving over the Rose Garden and gaudily embellishing the Oval Office make Trump look desperate.
Like a tacky baroque sun king, but as the saying goes, first time round its a tragedy, second time its a farce.
He will always be the outer borough boy shunned for his vulgarity and lack of charm.
Not our sort, deah, don'tyouknow.
My goodness. Kak. "Desperate"? Marble tiles so women's heels don't sink into the turf are a mark of "desperation"?
"My goodness. Kak."
Clearly, he prefers presidents with more class. You know- like the kind that shower with their daughters or get bjs from interns in the Oval Office.
@Mongo
Consider Linux (I use the Mint version). Get an old laptop to experiment.
Paving over the Rose Garden
He didn't pave over a damn thing. An area that was prone to flooding is now actually usable space.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Caddyshack covered this over 45 years ago- Kakabich is played by Ted Knight and Trump is played by Rodney Dangerfield.
What happened to Kakabich is easy to explain- he spent two years proclaiming with great authority, first, that Trump would end up in prison and could never win the nomination again; and then, when Trump didn't end up prison and won the nomination in a rout, spent almost half a year predicting that Trump couldn't beat Biden and then spent the rest of last Fall predicting that Trump couldn't beat Harris. I mean, seriously, Dingabat was almost his sock-puppet praising Kakabich's brilliance. You can make a fortune betting against anything Kakabich says in regards to just about anything. If Kakabich predicted the Sun rises in the East, I would be forced to verify it the next morning in case the Earth's rotation axis undergoes a sudden shift just to prove him wrong for the millionth time in a row.
I'm not sure I'm all that opposed Trump's continuing interest in all things dealing with appearances. I'd rather have him paving the Rose Garden than working on acquiring Greenland, or threatening Canada, or name calling Jerome Powell, or fumbling the Epstein scandal or make your own list.
If you're really wanting to get away from Google you best bet is to use either Safari or Firefox.
I'm watching the Clint Eastwood epic "Unforgiven" on Firefox right now on YouTube. I run it with Ad-Block Plus, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
Not only do I not see any ads on YouTube, these add-ons for Firefox block most of Google's revenue streams. There are some videos that YouTube is successful at blocking, so I have the Brave browser as a backup. So far, it successfully blocks all YouTube advertising and their stupid nag screens.
I love it. Ad-free experience and I get to fuck over the worst company on the planet.
Awoke at 3:00 AM for a pee and a snack and to digest prior day Althouse postings. The last read (it being a LIFO stack) was "In a clinical setting there are many things you're [sic] not allowed to say...."
Form of numeral "6" can range from a straight line (vertical or slanted) with small circle at lower right to something quite resembling numeral "8" with bit missing at 2:30 clock position. Similarly, numeral "9."
Why is it that financial institutions, where correct reading of numbers is most important, uniformly chose a font with the most similar appearing 6, 8, and 9? Why is the type size often needlessly small? Why is grey chosen for color rather than black?
These are things I ponder each month paying bills and reconciling bank statements on screen. No, I am not paranoid. There IS a conspiracy among bankers to confound, confuse, and taunt their clients.
Yes, financial institutions and especially insurance companies can choose to make things difficult for customers to pay them, It means late fees or dropping you as a customer when they reach an age their actuaries say they become a risk of payout. One life insurance company doesn’t seem to want to process paper checks and every year requires new account credentials to pay online. They change their name and the look of their website to confound…
Remember when the Commies were shouting that our immigration system was broken? That we needed “comprehensive” immigration reform? Remember when they teamed up with Sen. James Langford (R-Squish) to serve up a garbage bill that permitted the influx to continue? Then the Lone Ranger arrived!
"It would be interesting to hear an actual answer to that question..."
Not answering questions is what they do, it's pretty strong evidence that they know they are lying.
What Yancey said at 10:22, plus have you seen TSLA recently?
Trump obliterating a drug running cigarette boat was not just a message to Maduro and fellow criminals, it was a message to miscreants worldwide.
Monetary-Fiscal Interactions
…I’ll spare you the read of the evidence with the elegant last paragraph, what should be laser etched beside the door to the House chambers…
Returning to somewhat normal fiscal policy is not economically difficult. Our economies do not face external threats. Again, pro-growth economic policy is easier than tax hikes or spending cuts. Everything that raises GDP raises tax revenue.
In Vermont, the only memory of all of the cheese factories that used to exist is that "Cheesefactory Rd" is a common name for country roads, in Quebec, they still have these little fromageries, you know why? massive tariffs keep them viable.
I tried to pay a property tax bill where they charged a fee for credit card natch but also a fee for wire or ACH. To do the latter they hid what type it was, as if they were the same, by placing little boxes on the online form. No ‘wire instructions’ with their receiving institution. There are different numbers for a wire or ACH and OF COURSE the one I selected (wire) was incorrect, so a non-account fee charged, time spent. I know to do these things long before the due date but had I been near the due date would have been jacked with late fees, too…
Zavier and rehajm: the explanation for the ever-changing fonts, etc, is what Achilles calls the people with air-conditioned jobs. So many people with no financial or technical skills having to justify their existence, so they keep rolling out new "looks and feels." The core employees of the bank or whatever don't ever see the result or get to affect it.
Remember, Dilbert is about the private sector. RR, JSM
Lazarus said...
“Random quotes from Marx aren't the best basis for an argument or analysis.”
Yes, but “I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Have Me as a Member” is just so quotable.
Lazarus said...
“Hollywood was going through a transition in the late 1960s. Young people and outsiders were doing creative things, but the awards were still controlled by old Hollywood. Thus the famous result a few years later when the Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde lost out to In the Heat of the Night.” (emphasis added)
I know a significant number of people swooned over Bonnie and Clyde, but it was an abomination from a historical point of view.
Yes that’s part of it, especially with retail banks, but only part. Often there’s also malice involved…
Rocco: I prefer "how the elephant got in my pajamas, I'll never know." RR, JSM
My brother is still using Windows 7 on a computer he uses for work (1 day a week now).
Mason G said...
What's more pathetic than women sports commentators who try to be "one of the guys" with the commentators who have actually played the sport?
Answer: A pencil dick male who watches real men playing sports entertainment because it makes him feel like one of the guys while being intimidated by wlgirls who love sports so much, they have dedicated their lives to be a part of it.
Gilbert is modeled after the Scott Adams experience at Pacific Bell, a legal government approved Monopolistic public utility which in many ways is much worse than an NGO.
Trump's latest deadline for Russia to make peace with Ukraine ended last Thursday. So what is Putin's response? Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including an infant. Putin is giving a big middle finger to Trump. And Trump does nothing.
The nice thing about blogger is that it still works with Windows XP. You can read and comment.
So many people with no financial or technical skills having to justify their existence, so they keep rolling out new "looks and feels."
“It is not just for banks anymore”, Austin mayor.
The bad part is that it mucks with branding making it easier for hackers to fool customers, since brand no longer matters. Businesses used to cherish brand identity. I guess modern marketing schools have gone the way of other university coursework and taught students how to destroy their employers from the inside. I mean the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Guide is a “how to manual”, but it was meant to be used against our enemies.
Sports is like real-time history, but unlike the news, the commentary isn't chock full of lies. But it exercises all the same parts of the brain.
Just as an aside, I miss the days when liberals weren't egging Presidents on to start WWIII over stuff happening on the other side of the planet.
Putin is giving a big middle finger to Trump. And Trump does nothing.
Which, if true, means Trump is no worse than his predecessor or any other Western leader. But we didn’t get here overnight, and Trump won’t solve the Ukraine matter overnight, as much as he wants to do so.
Here's some partial results...
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1964084123326099490
They're finding the children, most alive, some dead.
Democrats.
"That’s Meade!"
Better check him for ticks.
That immediate reversal against the high in Friday's stock trading was ominous. Especially coming at the peak of a 30-day period with the same or nearly the same phenomenon several other times. All of which has occurred as the third upleg in a similar but much larger 5-year structure.
The long historical trend of valuations is at a never-before-seen peak. A top anywhere means a risk/reward ratio skewed bigly toward the former.
The stock markets here and in numerous developed nations are the biggest threat to the MAGA agenda. A bear market, especially of unusual significance, will be interpreted as a rejection of Trump, MAGA, capitalism, and the freedom for which those things stand.
lonejustice said...
Trump's latest deadline for Russia to make peace with Ukraine ended last Thursday. So what is Putin's response? Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including an infant. Putin is giving a big middle finger to Trump. And Trump does nothing.
I think Trump messed this up too. Trump inherited a war started by evil people and he has surrounded himself with idiots like Rubio and the CIA is openly working against him.
Trump should be arresting traitors in the CIA and firing every warmongering Neocon then putting them in stocks for stoning.
Better yet he should be shipping them all off to Ukraine and stuffing them in a trench to fight Russia.
Then we should be putting sanctions on any European country that has jailed political opponents or cancelled elections.
Whenever they want us to sign off on a war, murdered babies are trotted out. Remember when Saddam's soldiers found time to throw babies out of incubators in Kuwait? It's like the whole invasion was to get those incubators! We should have given Iraq incubators!
But Kiev (BTW-That's how Zelensky, whose first language is Russian just pronounced it this past week) has a foolproof solution for avoiding civilian casualties, they just define any populations which support the other side in their civil war that has been going on since the Maidan coup, the one where John McCain was mingling with the protesters, and where we recognized the new government that took over violently in the same day, that coup, well, they just define all of the people on the other side as "combatants" and presto-change-o, no civilian casualties, even as cluster munitions are used against "rebel-held" cities.
I think Trump's post about having lost Russian and India to China was an "I told you so" to Lindsay Graham.
john mosby said...
Zavier and rehajm: the explanation for the ever-changing fonts, etc, is what Achilles calls the people with air-conditioned jobs. So many people with no financial or technical skills having to justify their existence, so they keep rolling out new "looks and feels." The core employees of the bank or whatever don't ever see the result or get to affect it.
Remember, Dilbert is about the private sector. RR, JSM
Wherever women are included standards for performance have to be lowered. Sometimes to 0.
You can fire a man and tell him he sucks. Most men spent their lives getting kicked out of social groups or shunned and having to make themselves useful to work their way back in especially if you were not the offspring of the dominant male.
You cannot do the same thing to a woman. They cannot handle it. Women who get kicked out of the tribe die. Women have always had inherent value as the number of women you have is the upper bound for procreation.
Because of this men and women have been treated differently. Firing or admonishing women causes a much larger emotional reaction.
When you set standards for employees a certain percentage of employees have to be able to meet those standards or the employees revolt. You can set standards where the bottom 40% or performers will fail if the group is men and you wont get much push back. For women at least 95% of women have to be able to meet the standards. I asked my wife how many (female)nurses she knew got fired. She came up with 2 egregious examples.
When women were included in the work force standards just have to come down. In the end this can prepare us for what AI is about to do to society. Humans are in general about to become pretty obsolete and we will have to do something about that.
Jaq said...
I think Trump's post about having lost Russian and India to China was an "I told you so" to Lindsay Graham.
The people in Washington DC who decided we would side with Europe and Ukraine against Russia, India and China are fucking retards. Anyone in the government who made these decisions and was paid more than 6 figures should just be executed for stupidity.
We should have been working with Russia and India against China and told Ukraine/Europe to sit in the corner and shut up.
YouTube captions offer "This [NJ] station is going to be a game-changer for middle sex county"
it's the trans nationalism movement.
Achilles: "we should be putting sanctions on any European country that has jailed political opponents or cancelled elections."
Wouldn't that basically be all European countries, on both sides?
Britain - jailed Tommy Robinson. Also will use the new statutory law to stay in power till '29 even though the norms would probably call for a no-confidence vote sooner than that.
France - ok, didn't jail Marine LePen, but they have her in an open-air jail
Romania - yup
Russia - jailed or assassinated oppos, so he doesn't need to cancel elections
Who would be left? Luxembourg? Andorra? RR, JSM
Jaq: "Just as an aside, I miss the days when liberals weren't egging Presidents on to start WWIII over stuff happening on the other side of the planet."
That was really a blip in the Left's history. As Bob Dole said before the uniparty made Bob Dole apologize for what Bob Dole said, all the 20th century wars were Democrat wars. RR, JSM
john mosby (11:44pm):
Russia also has a two-term limit for President, just like the US, but somehow Putin is in his fifth term. Odd that those who call Zelenskyy a dictator because the Ukrainian constitution forbids elections under martial law never mention that.
Weevil - good point. Yet another reason for Daddy Trump to stop the car, make all the Europeans of all flavors stop poking each other, and get back on the road to crush the ChiComs. RR, JSM
Howard @ 6:46
Like Cosell and Co. calling boxing matches. For anybody that knew anything about the sport it was maddening and hilarious at the same time.
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