What? You want better links, try Drudge.**
Who the fuck is Lincoln Riley?
This is the angle they’re supposed to play. The answer is yes, but not why he thinks.
Christ. Where’s the fucking coffee?
**EDIT FROM GLIB’s STAFF: WINSTON’S MOM IS NOT SERIOUSLY ASKING YOU TOMGO TO DRUDGE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONFUSION OR EMOTIONAL TORMENT THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED.
She was shot by Juan Booth Ibarra outside a theater in a Ford Lincoln, you dog faced pony soldier!
(Thanks for the links, ma’am.)
Come test drive the 2024 Lincoln Riley.
Didn’t that crash in South Central L.A.?
Was that Juan? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first crossed the border illegally here that that sort of thing is frowned upon…
Hey Winston’s mom….
Wanna go out?
I fully expect she charges significantly extra for the “Girlfriend Experience”.
I’m off the clock.
I was asking for a date…
sniff, sniff..
They get REALLY pissed if you ask for free dates.
I was gonna take her out, wine and dine her, get flowers and a ride in a carriage, first….
I promise!
Now you’re really wasting her time.
Don’t white knight me,
You telling me she is such a hardcore business women she lacks time or desire for the finer things in life? Now I want to go out with her even more…
Can Krugman ever not fuck up?
He’s a useful South Pole on the political, societal and presumably economic compass — that’s for sure.
Given the way promiscuity seems (to my admittedly very square viewpoint) to have shot up (pun semi-intended) over the last few decades, my only surprise with that headline would be “Just there?”
The lack of humanity as a species to keep it in its damned pants for one generation to knock all these sexually transmitted diseases back down or completely out never ceases to astound me.
See! I can really, really fuck up WordPress tags! (Oy)
The lack of humanity as a species to keep it in its damned pants for one generation to knock all these sexually transmitted diseases back down or completely out never ceases to astound me.
Get a load of Billy Graham over here!
You can take the altar boy out of the church… but you can’t take the church out of the….
Oh wait… that’s not going to go over right, is it?
*bursts into room*
I was told there were altar boys?!
You misheard…it was altered boys you freak.
Is that kind of something like when Tres told us that you would need a crow bar to get him off big tittied chubby ladies?
I’ve been seeing papers saying that the younger generations are less likely to sleep around than the older generations. I assume, like most things, it’s probably about the same amount, with just different levels of preferences.
What I have seen is that the alpha males with good income are banging all the women they want (and probably skewing the numbers higher), while others spend the time with porn. I suspect some of it is simply fear of getting in trouble with the women by the betas/ I hear rejection these days is seen as a reason to commit suicide.
Maybe if the supposed trend of MGTOW / young men thinking pr0n + video games are enough keeping them out of the data scene combined with most of the young women using the dating apps and going after the same top 5% of guys (who are at least temporally limited, after all)… that might reduce the overall rate.
How much of all that is really true and how much is Tide Pods level of hysterical bloviating, I couldn’t tell you. I’m not of that generation, nor (obviously) was I hip when I was young anyway. But what I can do is randomly mouth off on the Internet, so I will do that — and do that with full gusto!
Yeah, moron… all that pr0n is preventing a sharp rise in Oracle analysts. Learn to proofread for once in your life, dummy.
If 5% of the guys are “circulating” with a big percentage of women, that 5% are going to be exposed to whatever the women have, and are going to spread it to the other women.
I mean, I’m no scientician, but . . . .
My wife has done a lot of research into Gen Z, and at least in America they aren’t promiscuous. Gen Z is actually rather asexual. They don’t like to go out. They have been known to go on dates…and bring their parents along and this is the norm and ok.
They are not rebellious. They are very inward looking. When they do want to settle done with someone (not married though) they want houses in which each of them can have their own master bedroom.
Porn is at play, but a lot of this is social media and modern parenting. When you are raised to think you are a special snowflake and the world must cater to you it is pretty difficult to want to have a relationship with someone else especially as said relationship might result in compromise and learning how to live with someone different than yourself
Interestingly, I see some of that in my teens and I see some of the rebellious side too. Then again, they were treated as my children and then young men.
Prude there with you.
Winner!
Meh….give it a couple of years. See the swarms of pe0ple coming over the border? What percentage of them do you think understand germ theory? How about the percentage of them infected with STDs or any of a zillion other kinds of cooties?
Remember when OBumbles took a number of STDs off of the list preventing people from entering the country? That should tell you everything you need to know about how the left regards the citizenry here.
In the old days that was called feudalism. The hereditary aristocracy looked down on the serfs as unwashed resources to use and abuse. The marxist revolution shit was just a revolution to replace the current feudal lords with a new ones and a cult-like religious obligation to these new feudal lords. Our college educated credentialled elite are right there and looking to make marxist feudalism the status quo.
“Who the fuck is Lincoln Riley?”
Kliff Kingsbury by another name.
**EDIT FROM GLIB’s STAFF: WINSTON’S MOM IS NOT SERIOUSLY ASKING YOU TOMGO TO DRUDGE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONFUSION OR EMOTIONAL TORMENT THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED.
Lame, that really fucking lame.
Glib’s staff always keeping you down.
It’s very empowering to have a mom post the links on International Women’s day
Obligatory
Hard working mom…
No pun intended…
[golf clap]
Now fuck off, Tulpa.
Toni’s thanks for the raw egg article yesterday. I don’t have time to expound on it but would add the white guilt doesn’t even require someone to lose their Christianity like bushbell did. My wife is leaving the clergy roster if her mainline denomination as it is clear the leadership has lapsed to idolatry and swapped the salvation of Christianity for the eternal guilt of white guilt/ progressivism of the monent
Where does Tomgo again?
I am gonna rack up some credit card debt and not paying it of while pulling this shit when they call me….
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Looks like my kids/grandkids on their birthday after they open up the birthday card, shake it out, look at me, shake it out again, then start crying.
It looks like Monumental Sports is not going to get state taxpayer subsidies for a new stadium. All the stand-alone bills for the authority were rejected. It is also excluded from the budget bill.
Stunning defeat for Gov. Youngkin!
Why would the people of Roanoke not want the rich suburbs of DC to get a new arena?
Like with funding WMATA, why should the rest of the state get a say?
The funniest thing about the Laken Riley kerfuffle is that Brandon had that button all ready to go, but then couldn’t deliver a one liner. I’m sure they all thought that having a button with Laken’s name on it would totes slay MTG. But then he muffed it all.
What the fuck was that second bit about the thousands of people being killed by illegals supposed to mean? And of course, he had to do his usual one up deal by talking about how he lost a kid too. (Wasn’t it in a kitchen fire?)
Especially problematic that he used “illegal” isn’t it?
Talking heads tried to whitewash his use of ‘illegals’ immediately. I thought MTG gave that button to him…
I hadn’t heard that about him getting the button from MTG. I thought it was one of those attempts at a “gotcha” that Jr. High debaters think are so cool.
I found this story trying to figure out where he got the button and it made me laugh.
Icing on the cake that he tried to pretend he was reaching out to the parents when they weren’t there.
The thing is, the migrants aren’t “undocumented” once they are granted asylum as potential refugees.
They still aren’t here legally until their hearing, though. Essentially, enforcement/deportation is stayed until then. So I think a case can be made that “illegal” is more accurate than “undocumented”.
They’re not citizens, so aliens is also correct. And back to illegal aliens.
Shockingly, the Dems aren’t particularly interested in “accurate”.
“Illegal” is also the term used in immigration law most frequently.
—“Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, the speaker emeritus”—
Should we also call Kevin McCarthy the speaker emeritus, not that I ever heard anybody called that until now.
Dems pirouette: “it’s just a Joe thing, it has nothing to do with his age”.
Correcting Joe saying the real thing by accident, version 1,00300,099!
Beau was burned to death in a pit in Iraq. By Christian Nationalists screaming “This is MAGA country!”
An Illegal immigrant killed (and raped) the head coach of USC?
That’s the problem with never coaching defense.
☝
I guess, when the polls tell you that more than 80% of the American public has a problem with this shit and sees it as an illegal invasion, despite the fact you have tried your best to use language morphing to hide that from them, and it is happening in an election year, then you are forced to do a readjustment to reality….
Someone surmised that it was “…thousands of people being killed by LEGALS”.
Which makes it even worse if that was the case.
From the image, I think this might be a Gemini AI thing..
My brain saw that as a German AI thing and I was worried it was going to be a really scheisse image….
I like to keep those for myself…
Update on the moose-shooting musher: He was penalized for improper gutting.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/sport/iditarod-musher-penalized-moose-spt-intl/index.html
Now I’m wondering about other sports that have ancillary skills required in the rulebooks.
So is that a DQ or just a time penalty?
2 hour time penalty.
So you lose time either way. Penalty might be the lesser evil.
Depends on how fast you are. If you fail completely, the penalty is 8 hours. He spent 10 minutes, so not a particularly great tradeoff.
https://iditarod.com/dallas-seavey-penalized-for-rule-34-infraction-regarding-dispatch-of-moose/
LMAO – rule 34? Really?!?
NO KINKSHAMING!
My grandpa who spent his teens as a poacher in Canada used to tell stories about how moose were the animal that scared him the most. According to him, if you got in their way they were far more prone to attack than any other animal.
His advice was to find a tree and use it to shield yourself. They can’t corner as fast as a scared kid, so you can play ring around the rosie until they get tired and leave.
I’m wondering what he used to take it down, and if they’re going to sponsor him now. Obviously, the best narrative would be a Ruger Alaskan. Honestly, I think I’d be packing some sort of mare’s leg in .500 S&W rather than a handgun.
A moose once bit my sister…
I didn’t see Fetterlump at the SOTU..he would have outclassed MTG’s getup and the dude wearing a shitty Trump mugshot t-shirt.
I did not participate in the annual humiliation ritual of being yelled at and insulted by a senile old asshole. Did I miss anything?
Being yelled at and insulted by a senile old guy…
No. I regret watching part of it and then going to bed angry. Not my best decision.
Last night I was at a pep rally for teachers…. errr…. SB2 deliberative session in my town for schools. There is another one coming up for general town issues.
It was four hours long.
Only one spending change, which came from the school board, was approved. All others, whether increases or decreases, were shot down.
The teachers showed up in force to pat themselves on the back, cheer themselves on, and heckle anyone that spoke against them.
Oh well. In a month or so we have town elections and I’ll vote no.
Football on ice, courtesy of Germany
I remember when I had a kid in school I would get a call from the town teachers to go vote on the school budget (which indubitably had an increase). I always voted no. Then once my kid graduated the calls stopped coming. Not stopped happening, just coming. And practically always the money went to bureaucracy growth and not more, better, or rewarding the few good teachers.
Every teacher’s dream is to become an administrator in the district and not have to deal with the lunkheaded kids.
I can’t say I blame them, but for people who are always telling me that teaching is a calling and not just a job, they sure don’t seem to like kids.
The real sweet gig is to be one of the 7 assistant vice principals.
They had a couple of students there.
You have to be a registered voter in order to speak publicly or amend articles. So the usual suspects got a couple of 18 year old students at the high school to register to vote by the deadline. Now they can speak publicly and amend articles. All these students spoke about how wonderful the schools are and how anyone that thinks the schools are pushing a political agenda are far right wing hate groups and of course we need to spend more money on the schools.
At that age the only people engaged in politics tend to be the people with plans to go do Studies studies or get BA degrees with low employment opportunities in college. And then. most of them will do it while racking up huge debt. The kids with dreams & aspirations to succeed in the real world have no time for that shit and want out of the high school prison system as soon as possible.
Did you talk about letting Indian kids smudge in school? If not, you suck.
I love how second hand smoke is an absolute killer and must be stopped with indoor smoking bans, but somehow Indians smudging is totes harmless. If I was a shithead teen, I would so want to sue to smudge as well. Why can only the Indian kids do it?
At the least my European heritage should let me rip the entrails out of a bird or something to decide if it was an auspicious time to take that trigonometry test.
Don’t forget chewing tobacco under those same bans!
There was an article, by petition, to prohibit teaching SEL, Common Core, 1619 project, socialism, climate change doom, and a bunch of other like minded stuff.
The teachers were ready for it. They had parents, students, teachers, and other allies lined up. First was an amendment to the petition to gut it, and then person after person talking about how schools never indoctrinate people. There is no pushing of a political agenda. This article is being pushed by extreme far right haters.
The amendment passed. I’m voting no on that article in the upcoming town elections. I want the original petitioned article.
The schools have all been about indoctrination, ever since we imported the Prussian model. It’s just the nature of that indoctrination that is under dispute.
Marxist indoctrination is a problem. That pile of dead bodies and the billions fucked over by that cult seem to be insufficient evidence this crap is evil for so many driven by greed, envy/jealousy, and the feeling they are important even when all they do is waste air.
Really this shit isn’t even Marxist. Marxism is about economic classes, not all this other bullshit. Sure, it’s revolutionary-wannabe, but revolution for its own sake, much more like the Jacobins (who really influenced Marx’s disciples).
What we have going on in the US is the usual marxist cultural revolution where instead of class they made it about race/gender/sex (identity). You might want to read Xi Van Fleet’s book about how she sees the same shit she saw in Mao’s China as a child happening here. Only because in the US the class warfare bullshit simply can’t work because of economic mobility, the people peddling this new Americanized cultural revolution – Marcuse, Freire, Alinsky, and the other students from the Frankfurt school – pivoted to identity politics.
See that’s just it – Marx wasn’t about cultural revolution. It was all about dialectal materialism! Sure, later theorists, e.g. Gramsci, went off the reservation – but true Marxists don’t deviate. The Frankfurt school are all degenerates!!!
This of course points out how wrong Marx was. No matter, the Jacobins didn’t care about economics, and neither do these assholes.
I think of it as crypto-neo-Marxism.
Crypto – it hides its Marxist nature and roots.
Neo – class doesn’t work in America, so they latched onto race and then sex/gender as the divisions to stoke and the wedges to drive.
So you think it is not marxism because the people that are doing it realized class warfare won’t work in the US and thus cleverly pivoted to identity? The approved identities are the good guys, under the old system this was the serfs or the proletariat, while the unapproved ones are the bad guys, or under class based marxism, the kulaks & wreckers. The mechanisms and tactics used are the same. Divide and conquer. Tell the oppressed that they are oppressed by their oppressors, and that it is good to take out their rage/anger on them. Sooner than later it goes to violence, chaos, and destruction (summer of love?). Eventually the system is so broken that the powers that be can introduce full blow marixst authoritarianism and the people, worn out, accept it.
Marxist class doesn’t work anywhere. If it was going to work, it would’ve been England or Germany that was the flashpoint of the conflict. Russia wasn’t an industrialized country, and the Bolsheviks, like the anarchists before them, ended up with a peasant fascination.
I have a post coming up on this – that Marx is hardly the origin of the essential problem.
Never said Marx was the cause. His ideas to use to target a marginalized group as a means to throw out the current bad overlords (enemies of the good people) and replace them with new ones however, is the essential mechanism of marxism. The issue is the tactics of marxist revolution Marx presented. These tactics were well investigated and explored by the Frankfurt school crowd and continues to be one of their main mechanisms to get the chaos and revolution they need to put the people they want in power. Divide and conquer. Oppressor vs. oppressed. Chaos and anger. Even the fascist used these same tactics to divide and conquer.
I guess it is collectivist revolutionary tactics. For me it all roles up to marxist agitprop.
I agree.
We’re not getting Libertopia where parents make the decisions on how their kids get indoctrinated, so I’ll take what I can get.
“Euopean heritage should let me…”
LOL good one
Wait a second…we can lean into this. Just claim cultural heritage for all the worst aspects.
Well, my Irish heritage requires me to drink whiskey and fight.
Well, my Italian heritage requires me to coordinate protection for the teachers.
Well, my German heritage requires that I annex the neighboring classroom.
When we were having the big fight in Minnesoda about the Indian treaty rights that allowed the tribes to net walleye because it was their traditional way of life, someone called into a radio show and basically said “I’m Norwegian, does my cultural heritage and traditional way of life make it ok for me to take my boat across the lake and pillage and loot my French neighbors cabin?”
Send the Indian kids to TX, let them stand in the smoke for a few days, be smudged for life
“tobacco smoke is not generally inhaled during these ceremonies”
Because magic?
Give the kids Zyn and coffee.
Every time there’s a moral panic about bullying in the schools, I think about union stunts like this.
Meh. Not my best — not my worst.
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Still trying to see how we won’t have ‘boots’ on the ground when Biden is giving a military order to build a pier in Gaza. I know was asked here..who is going to protect it? Contractors? Mercs? UN? NATO? The Palestinians (Hamas)? Beirut and Somalia are rushing back into my mind.
Next you’ll say they should learn from their mistakes.
They should name it “Target” and paint it accordingly.
“Fat Rainbow” by Sherwin Williams
I hope it’s the Palis protecting it, and the Israelis bomb it.
I didn’t see the State of the Union address. Is the Biden Administration going to use materials from the border wall to build this pier?
Editorial in today’s WSJ
It’s a guest editorial. Anybody want to guess who wrote it?
Bernie or Warren…or Biden ghost writer
Warren!
I would have guessed Richard Cordray.
What a shame consumers are completely unable to get credit cards issued by their local bank or (better yet) credit union! 🙄
I’ve seen more that this was so that Capital One could get off the Mastercard/Visa processing networks and issue ones using the Discover network. But of course, they’re doing it for fees.
Oh no, the predictable consequences of my actions!!
You mean regulating smaller firms out of existence leads to only mega-corps that can afford to comply! Why I never!
What Drudgery is this?
All companies do this. It’s just a matter of to what degree. This one is basically off the charts.
Chemours Executives Improperly Shifted Deals to Boost Their Pay, Probe Finds
CEO, CFO delayed payments, accelerated collections to hit annual cash-flow goals, investigation reveals
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/chemours-executives-improperly-shifted-deals-to-boost-their-pay-probe-finds-8a88be55?st=dx41dx2b9640i0b&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s a guest editorial. Anybody want to guess who wrote it?
Elizabeth Warren? Bernie Sanders? AOC? John Thune?
Looking at the timestamp you beat Ownbestenemy. It was our beloved Sen. Warren.
My first guess, but the headline seemed mild and didn’t call for some extortion or boondoggle. Dimon would have been another unsurprising guest.
You see there is “safety” and there is “27,000 jobs”.
U.S. Military to Resume Osprey Flights After Grounding Over Deadly Crashes
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-military-to-resume-osprey-flights-after-grounding-over-deadly-crashes-ea4bafad?st=ivi1ew2llsqmsyq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When there are 27,001 dead, then they’ll re-evaluate.
It’s only killed 62 people over the past 32 years!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_V-22_Osprey
Over 450 units.
It would be interesting to know how many flight hours in those 32 years.
To add some perspective, I think we should consider how polluted water (fuel leak into the water table) at Camp Pendleton killed a shit ton more Marines. All the advertisements I keep seeing about ambulance chasers telling people if they have cancer or had a loved one that spent time at Pendleton and died from cancer to call in to get a government payout. That was something that impacted a lot more lives.
Military tech, especially the more experimental shit, is dangerous. Now the fact that the companies making this shit have gone woke and replaced competency with DEI?CRT shit. That should frighten people. Unfortunately this impacts people even outside the military.
Lejeune, not Pendleton.
Have a friend who was based there in the 80s. He was deployed all the time – Beirut, Grenada, Panama, floats – and he has no symptoms. Unfortunately, he wife and daughter lived on base while he was deployed. They both have cancer and his wife suffered multiple miscarriages.
My bad, thanks for the correction. and I have a lot more problems with this shit, cause the government knew the leaks were happening.
The Osprey can take off and land like a helicopter, then fly fast like an airplane. Aka it can complete military missions other vehicles can’t. Sounds like a tradeoff between functionality versus peacetime safety.
But, most people don’t like to think about inevitable tradeoffs, aka “economics”.
I get 100% get that. I don’t believe when it was created those risks and tradeoffs were properly discussed or revealed.
If knowing that we still built it I wouldn’t have an issue with it assuming people are willing to voluntarily fly in it.
I am fairly certain that during the initial acquisition program they pointed out the complexity of the tech would make the Osprey expensive to use and then also at a higher degree of risk. Like with helicopters, they made the decision that the tradeoff was worth the risk. And even the potential loses/casualties acceptable, because in combat the ability to move both faster and further than traditional rotary aircraft would save more lives. Peacetime however. Well then deaths are tragedies.
Which also makes you wonder how you use it in peacetime to keep proficiency with it as well as keep it in service.
I have essentially a neutral opinion on it, but believe the public was sold a bill of goods during its procurement.
I think the information was shared. Most people just didn’t pay attention. I knew because I did.
That having been said, I am for anything that helps make the Osprey safer, but there is a cost vs. benefit balance that makes it impossible to go for zero casualties.
risks and tradeoffs
Like the original Bradley design? [Or even purpose]
Pentagon Wars.
The sad reality is that humans are considered expendable in the military.
Inferior Russian aircraft get shot down. Superior American aircraft crash and kill their occupants without even being fired upon.
audio-visual aid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8i8mVxt258
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The Mark 14 torpedo was the United States Navy’s standard submarine-launched anti-ship torpedo of World War II. This weapon was plagued with many problems which crippled its performance early in the war. It was supplemented by the Mark 18 electric torpedo in the last two years of the war. From December 1941 to November 1943 the Mark 14 and the destroyer-launched Mark 15 torpedo had numerous technical problems that took almost two years to fix.[3] After the fixes, the Mark 14 played a major role in the devastating blow U.S. Navy submarines dealt to the Japanese naval and merchant marine forces during the Pacific War.
By the end of World War II, the Mark 14 torpedo was a reliable weapon ultimately remaining in service for almost 40 years in the U.S. Navy, and even longer with other navies.
…
There were numerous reports of the Mark 14 running erratically and circling back on the firing boat. Grunion is thought to have been sunk by a circular-running Mark 14 hitting the periscope tower without exploding, and jamming the diving controls at full emergency dive position.[92] A circular run sank the submarine Tullibee, but it may not have been a Mark 14.[39][93] Likewise, Sargo was almost sunk by a circular run, but the circular run happened because the gyro had not been installed.[39] The subsequent Mark 18 torpedo was no better, sinking Tang. The surface-launched Mark 15 torpedo had collars to prevent circular runs, but the Mark 14 was never given this feature.
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[head desk]
Sounds like the Patriot missile – which can famously decide to take a nose dive if it loses lock on a target. Not a feature when it’s set up to defend troops or a city.
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The Patriot was originally designed as an anti-aircraft weapon and meant to be operated up to 14 hours at a time, after which it would be shut off for routine maintenance. During the war, however, Patriot batteries typically operated for more than 20 hours at a stretch.
The system that never fired a missile at the incoming Scud at Al Khobar had been running for more than 100 hours, Army officials said today.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/06/world/us-details-flaw-in-patriot-missile.html
State of the art 1975 technology…
The system clock of the fire control computer accumulates errors the longer it runs.
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On February 25, 1991, during the Gulf War, an American Patriot Missile battery in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, failed to track and intercept an incoming Iraqi Scud missile. The Scud struck an American Army barracks, killing 28 soldiers and injuring around 100 other people. A report of the General Accounting office, GAO/IMTEC-92-26, entitled Patriot Missile Defense: Software Problem Led to System Failure at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia reported on the cause of the failure. It turns out that the cause was an inaccurate calculation of the time since boot due to computer arithmetic errors. Specifically, the time in tenths of second as measured by the system’s internal clock was multiplied by 1/10 to produce the time in seconds. This calculation was performed using a 24 bit fixed point register. In particular, the value 1/10, which has a non-terminating binary expansion, was chopped at 24 bits after the radix point. The small chopping error, when multiplied by the large number giving the time in tenths of a second, led to a significant error. Indeed, the Patriot battery had been up around 100 hours, and an easy calculation shows that the resulting time error due to the magnified chopping error was about 0.34 seconds. (The number 1/10 equals 1/24+1/25+1/28+1/29+1/212+1/213+…. In other words, the binary expansion of 1/10 is 0.0001100110011001100110011001100…. Now the 24 bit register in the Patriot stored instead 0.00011001100110011001100 introducing an error of 0.0000000000000000000000011001100… binary, or about 0.000000095 decimal. Multiplying by the number of tenths of a second in 100 hours gives 0.000000095×100×60×60×10=0.34.) A Scud travels at about 1,676 meters per second, and so travels more than half a kilometer in this time. This was far enough that the incoming Scud was outside the “range gate” that the Patriot tracked. Ironically, the fact that the bad time calculation had been improved in some parts of the code, but not all, contributed to the problem, since it meant that the inaccuracies did not cancel, as discussed here.
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Did that 24-bit register ever get upgraded? Who cares? Raytheon gets their money whether it works or not.
The Ukrainians have had similar experiences with them.
Great moments in cherry picking, part 300,871:
Article yesterday on how it was the warmest February EVAH. Aka “a mild and pleasant reprieve from the January cold snap this year.”
Funny how none of these climate doomporners said anything three years ago when we had the coldest February since the 1940s.
“Extreme weather is also driven by climate change…”
Wet streets cause…oh, fuck it. They aren’t worth engaging with.
True to form, we got Angry Joe last night doing his best to escalate every situation. He seems to forget he’s the president of the entire US, instead he sees half the country as mortal enemies of freedom. If anything can be called “hate speech”, it’s that.
More like mortality enemies of his agenda to take away freedom. Hence the shouting.
It riles up the base, and in modern America – that is all that matters.
I remember growing up, the SOTU was about what was going on in the country. Now it’s just a political rally where the opposition is forced to sit and watch.
Really? I don’t think it has been anything but theater for as long as I can remember. Televising has only made it worse, and Reagan has no small part of the blame for that (since he really understood theatrical production).
Maybe I can state that better. They at least pretended it was about what’s going on in the country, but yes it was a commercial for themselves. That’s why they always had a rebuttal from the other party. Pelosi ripping up the speech was a low point, and we’ve gone downhill from there.
Things went downhill when Obama told everyone he planned to change the country fundamentally, and everyone thought that meant for the better. Me, I have never wanted to change anything I liked, let alone loved, fundamentally. I would only want change something I hated or abhorred in that way fundamentally. we are now living with those changes….
I watched a ’70s version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar last night. I had completely forgotten about Marc Antony’s funeral speech. He (Charlton Heston) got the crowd good and wound up.
Stunner
A majority of Americans who watched had a positive response to President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday evening, a CNN flash poll found.
More than 6 in 10 Americans who watched the speech had a positive reaction to the president’s message, the survey conducted by SSRS shortly after the address found.
They clapped like trained seals.
Meh, it’s bullshit.
“The sample leaned more Democratic than the public is at large, but it’s typical for more Democrats to tune in when a Democratic president is delivering the State of the Union, as it is for Republicans to watch the address when a Republican is president.”
At least they were honest about that.
Put these in order of likelihood of watching the speech:
A. Biden sycophants
B. Trumpalo hatewatchers
C. People who are earnestly needing more information before deciding on a candidate in November
D. People who DGAF.
There was a speech?
who watched the speech
And no mention of what slice of the population that was, of course.
These people were surveyed via text earlier in the year and responded they would be willing to do another survey.
Still no actual demographics as they just claim “Survey respondents were recruited via the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults ages 18 or older recruited using probability-based sampling techniques…The benchmark for party identification was taken from CNN’s national poll conducted by SSRS via web and phone from November 1-30, 2023.”
That’s my point – nationally representative? Based on how much of the country watched the speech. If that’s 10% – then the survey isn’t really nationally representative.
Hell, last year wasn’t even 10%.
“A Facebook billionaire is using a government loophole to quietly place followers of the controversial “effective altruism” movement in key national security roles in the Biden administration.
Dustin Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm mate, is paying the salaries of a group of aides in the White House’s National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Department of Commerce in an arrangement which puts advocates of the movement at the heart of government.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/us-news/effective-altruism-placing-followers-in-biden-white-house/
WCPGW?
I remember when this was called Operation Snow White.
Money and power always find each other.
A Soviet joke: In America, the rich become powerful. In the USSR, the powerful become rich.
What causes those Osprey crashes? Is it some sort of fatigue failure in the engine orientation mechanism? I guess the better question would be is there an obvious pattern of failure? It’s a very complicated machine.
Maybe Joe would like to go for a ride in one.
It’s caused by physics. The rotary engine mechanism is super complex and involves some real heavy stresses. There is a reason that the Osprey has an even higher on the ground maintenance ratio than that of other rotary wing aircraft. For those that don’t know, there is a ratio of time in the air vs. time spent on maintenance for aircraft. Fixed wing aircraft do more hours in the air compared to hours requiring maintenance because the mechanism is far less complex and more robust. Rotary wing aircraft have a one hour of flight to 6-8 hours of maintenance ratio. The Osprey has an even higher one because they take it all apart to verify no metal fatigue has occurred. Mechanical failures are hard to pick up in these complex mechanisms.
NEEDZ MOAR COMPUTERIZATION TO FIX COMPLEXITY
I would be curious to see what the actual ratios are, for example, the UH-60 is something in the neighborhood of eight man/hours for one flight hour. Which is reasonable for a vehicle type that attempts to pull itself apart in the course of normal operation.
I haven’t looked at it for a while, but isn’t the basic problem that the design just doesn’t work? But the genius of the Osprey is that it sources parts and materials from an ungodly number of Congressional districts so there is no way you can stop the program.
The Osprey was just starting when I was still in. And you heard a lot of scary stories about them. If I remember correctly only the Marines got them back then. Given that the Marines normally only get the leftovers of the other services, you know the Osprey must have been bad if they got them first.
Goddammit. Mrs. Suthenboy recorded the SOTU speech and is actually watching it now.
It is maddening. The same old unadulterated horseshit every commie ever puked up.
He is on the ‘fair share’, ‘millionaires and billionaires’ plus ‘KKKorporashuns’ part now. This, coming from a cockroach that never paid taxes in h is life.
I am blocking it o ut. How can she stand it?
As usual, they have nothing but envy/jealousy and anger to peddle. What do you expect? That they would run on actively supporting an invasion to replace the voters they hate, inflation to keep pissing away our tax dollars on adventurism that makes their friends rich, or on the lawlessness that comes from basically only prosecuting thought crimes?
Shya!
Commies be commies.
Derp from the 4th – “What do you think about communism?”
“I think it’s bad because it brings bad results. They talk big about helping everyone, but it always turns into a dictatorship with secret police.”
Add in the soul smothering hopelessness and bone crushing poverty to sum it up nicely.
When your focus isn’t to create more wealth but to take it from the haves and to redistribute, the end result is always the destruction of wealth in addition to massive body count.
And the last good Republican SOTU speech? It’s all fucking political theater and we around here aren’t fans of that.
I got it I got it
Officials from Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health and an eye witness told CBS News that five people were killed Friday by an aid airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and a parcel fell on them. The people were in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Eastern).
CBS News was told there were two boys among the five people killed and that 11 others were injured in the incident. The exact ages of the casualties was not clear, but those injured were said to be between 30 and 50 years old.
Oops.
Stop giving them aid.
^^^^THIS^^^^
BWAHAHAHAHAH!
*gasp*
AHHAHAHAHAHA!
They weren’t dropping turkeys by chance?
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
More rain today and unseasonably warm. Nice. Everything I planted is sprouting. The only drawback? Skeeters.
I have to get some fogger juice today.
Same here – I’m worried a late frost will do some damage.
One year we had an early few weeks of warm weather, then one late hard frost. All the mosquitoes had reproduced and then died. It was a glorious summer.
A faint ray of hope in my dreary world: $400 AR-15 works like a champ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGtjx_2qbQ
STDs: Bad science/journalism/branding. I’ve never (knowingly?) had one, but it’s WAY too big an umbrella. Obv, HIV is scariest(?), but many can now be treated. Chlamydia, gonorrhea many+ were historical game changers vis a vis migration and conquer/rape/pillaging. Now, certainly treatable. I think most STDs are and shouldn’t be a big deal. (OTC meds for shit like that best be available, but me strongly-suspecty they ain’t anywhere close.)
Fun Ev: Shingles tremendously sucked. I was only 18. (Not only my hips, but add gout as some good Old Timer hindrances. Shingles? Get VALTREX. It worked wonders immediately. Shingles, chicken pox and herpes all belong to the same organic Family. (I like to think I’m a Local Emissary for the King of The Cripples. I’m oddly mix-n-match fucked yet I pass as one of the Normal Folk w insane ease. (Two hip replacements, shattered skull+coma, physical brain damage, ~25 broken bones before that, lots more! All before age 33. YET! I DO NOT get sick. Injured? Often/Always! Sick?! I legit don’t.)
Ev’s take on SOTU: I was at first ‘impressed’ w Biden. As a career politician, he’s learned to memorize and deliver his lines in the right atmosphere. Like many great thespians, I was internally piqued w his meds and dosage. I just started some STRONG Rx ADHD shit. (Um. Literally “Amphetamine salts.”)
Then Biden’s started wearing off. Strange tangents, intersecting into different ones, all arriving to the confusion of nothingness. Other Dems looked worried for the Banner’s image. IMO many applauses were to purposefully interrupt Biden. Let him catch his breath and hear/read/see instructions for what/how next.
It was pretty long. The longer that was, the worse. I know there’s lots of makeup just for being in front of the camera. But even around the older pols at the end, to present a chatty and with-it-dude Biden, he looked AWFUL. Aging, white discoloration and melt.
(My 6-year older bro could pass for 27, easily. I also look young. This Not Just In: When it happens, I’m gonna be a fiiiiiine, fiiiiiiiine Salt ‘n Peppa fox. (But oddly crippled and short. But fit and wiry! Evan could use a sexy cougar to keep me on my toes.) Other Dems were trying to get him off, I thought. Even I was just squirming and telling him to just get off…like a band-aid. RIGHT OFF!
Well. Looks like my youngest nephew is here! My bro hasn’t shut me off from him! So I get to be Uncle Evan! I will likely never be a father, so this is my last chance to get it. Shall not be stupid and waste it.
Math idea I had last night:
Euclid’s formula states that all perfect numbers can be written as (2^p – 1)*(2^(p – 1)), where 2^p – 1 is a prime number.
Thus, a list of perfect numbers gives all the primes of the form 2^p – 1, which are also called Mersenne primes.
The gaps between Mersenne primes are large, which is helpful in the search for cryptographically useful prime numbers.
A program to find large primes would have the following steps:
1. Evaluate 2^p – 1 for value p
2. Check if the last digit of the result of step 1 is 1, 3, 7, or 9
3. If step 2 is passed, evaluate (2^p – 1)*(2^(p – 1))
4. Check to see if the result of step 3 is a perfect number
5. If the result of step 4 is a perfect number, 2^p – 1 is a Mersenne prime
All the numbers given by Euclid’s formula are even, thus the factorization of any perfect number is much easier to compute than the integer factorization problem. The test for whether a number is perfect is also much easier than trial division of a suspected prime.
Example: if p = 5, we get
2^5 – 1 = 31
(31)*(2^(5 – 1)) = 31*16 = 496
The factors of 496 are 248, 124, 62, 31, 16, 8, 4, 2, and 1, with 31 and 2 being the prime factors.
The sum of all the factors of 496 is: 248 + 124 + 62 + 31 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 496
Thus, 496 is a perfect number and 31 is prime.
A key step in the program would be recognize the first odd number and then go to the next power of 2 lower.
I saw a Veritasium YouTube video on that last night, very interesting .
More rain today and unseasonably warm. Nice. Everything I planted is sprouting. The only drawback? Skeeters.
I have to get some fogger juice today.
16 degrees, currently. Last weekend’s snow is not melting very fast.
Mind wipes
A study published Tuesday provides a newly-developed way to measure whether an AI model contains potentially hazardous knowledge, along with a technique for removing the knowledge from an AI system while leaving the rest of the model relatively intact. Together, the findings could help prevent AI models from being used to carry out cyberattacks and deploy bioweapons.
The study was conducted by researchers from Scale AI, an AI training data provider, and the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit, along with a consortium of more than 20 experts in biosecurity, chemical weapons, and cybersecurity. The subject matter experts generated a set of questions that, taken together, could assess whether an AI model can assist in efforts to create and deploy weapons of mass destruction. The researchers from the Center for AI Safety, building on previous work that helps to understand how AI models represent concepts, developed the “mind wipe” technique.
Dan Hendrycks, executive director at the Center for AI Safety, says that the “unlearning” technique represents a significant advance on previous safety measures, and that he hopes it will be “ubiquitous practice for unlearning methods to be present in models of the future.”
This will come in handy when AI becomes contaminated by free market economic concepts.
Watching Dan Bongino this morning. He’s showing clips of the 2023 SOTU compared to last night. There were 20-25 instances in which Biden used the exact same paragraphs and sentences in both. The guy’s plagiarizing himself at this point. Or his staff is just phoning it in.
Or his staff is just phoning it in.
The truth is the truth, Jack.
Speaking of Drudge…. coincidentally I saw a segment from Meghan Kelly yesterday talking about Matt Drudge.
Apparently, he did not sell out and leave. According to a couple of authors, he got pissed at some of Trump’s staff who dismissed him as unimportant behind his back.
Also, they seem to think he is a crazy recluse who moves from place to place to avoid detection.
Weird. I was pretty sure that Drudgereport was not the same voice and gave up on it. But they say he has said that there will never be Drudge report without him. When he dies, it dies with him.
That’s actually worse than cashing out.
Abracadabra alacazoo
Americans are in the throes of the worst housing affordability crisis in decades. Baby Boomers aren’t parting with their homes, insurance costs are skyrocketing, mortgage rates are sky-high and half of renters say they can’t afford their monthly payment. Some have given up on ever owning a home.
The problem has been years in the making and economists agree it can’t be easily solved. But President Joe Biden said during Thursday’s State of the Union address that the government has a fix up its sleeve.
“I know the cost of housing is so important to you. If inflation keeps coming down, mortgage rates will come down as well. But I’m not waiting,” he said.
Affordable housing advocates praised Biden’s plan to help would-be homeowners afford to buy. But critics say Biden’s plan could only exacerbate the problem by creating even more demand for homes without sufficiently addressing the key factor behind the crisis: America just doesn’t have enough homes.
He’ll pull them out of his magic hat.
“The Online Harms Act that targets online content that the Trudeau government deems to be “hate speech” or “harmful content” would also have people arrested for thought crimes.
The provision enables anyone to initiate action against someone he or she believes may commit a “hate propaganda offense or hate crime.”
The Online Harms Act, introduced last week in the House of Commons as Bill C-63, indicates:
“Fear of hate propaganda offence or hate crime: (1) A person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit; (a)an offence under section 318 or any of subsections 319(1) to (2.1); or (b) an offence under section 320.1001.”
Justice Minister and Attorney General Arif Virani recently tried to justify the thought crime measure that would force a potential hate crime violator to wear an electronic tag or be banished to house arrest.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadas-attorney-general-justifies-arrests-for-thought-crimes-under-trudeaus-online-harms-act
WTF, Canada?
Housing advocates celebrated Biden bringing the challenges of renters and homeowners to the forefront.
“This is the most consequential State of the Union address on housing in more than 50 years,” said David Dworkin, president and CEO of the National Housing Conference, a nonprofit organization that supports affordable housing.
“President Biden’s call for Congress to tackle the urgent matter of housing affordability through tax credits, down payment assistance initiatives and other measures is warranted and represents a crucial step in easing the burden of high rents and home prices,” Dworkin said in a statement.
Those ideas will bring down house prices just like government “help” brought down college tuition.
Indeed. Subsidies are a proven strategy for lowering prices.
“On Thursday, Radio-Canada revealed its investigation into the Quebec health system showed that a 14-year-old female would be able to get a prescription for testosterone in ten minutes.
The French news outlet posted the video on its website with the caption, “More and more teenage girls are choosing to change their gender around the world.”
“In Quebec, the health system responds very quickly to their requests for medical transition by prescribing blockers, testosterone, and mastectomies.” It continued. “These young girls often present with several mental health problems and many wonder if we give ourselves the time to evaluate everything that is going on in their heads.”
“Is it normal for a 14-year-old girl to get a testosterone prescription within minutes? And what happens when they change their minds?” the outlet questioned.
In a post on X, Quillette editor Jonathan Kay said the video is “what real reporting looks like.” He noted, “Investigative team sends a 14-year-old actress to a Quebec clinic. She claimed she was trans & got a testosterone prescription in 10 minutes.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-minors-get-testosterone-after-10-min-appointment-in-quebec-report
First, do no harm, unless money.
I think it’s “First, do no harm to your checking account”.
The evil people pushing this and the evil people facilitating it should all be in prison. In a just universe they will all burn in hell.
What is the suicide rate for trannies?
I’m trying to find the guy’s name. He basically invented sex change surgeries. He stopped performing them because it did not improve the suicide rate of his patients. Later, he said that male-to-female transgenders are mentally-ill gay men.
https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publications/news-and-articles/bulletin/2021/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-gender-identity-clinics-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/
…or mediocre athletes. Or Spanish soldiers who want higher benefits.
Germany’s first transgender Bundeswehr commander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOhf3QVQQvk
[Kif sigh]