BREAKING – O’KEEFE MEDIA RELEASES VIDEO SHOWING IBM COERCING MANAGERS TO DISCRIMINATE: CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process. I hope they sue the fuck out of this guy, and that the feds bring charges.
Not Robert Zubrin.
RE-THINKING THE MARS PROGRAM: Over at SpaceNews, Mars Society President Robert Zubrin makes a good argument for cutting our losses and sending more robots to Mars to do in-situ work, rather than continue to pursue the long-troubled Mars Sample Return mission. I hope his ideas gain traction. I also hope that someday Elon Musk strolls into the NASA director’s office and empties a sack of astronaut-retrieved sample tubes on the director’s desk and exits whistling.
The nation’s seven largest pharmacy chains, CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Cigna, Optum Rx, Walmart Stores, Inc., The Kroger Company and Rite Aid Corporation all participated in the briefings along with Amazon Pharmacy. All of them admitted to sharing records with law enforcement without requiring a warrant, the letter said, and most do not alert customers to such demands despite being legally permitted to do so.
MORE WARRANTLESS DATA SHARING UNCOVERED: We can now add pharmacies to the long list of businesses who regularly share your personal info with the police without a warrant. This was discovered by Democrat congresscritters who are concerned about the privacy of women who are prescribed the abortifacient drug Mifepristone. HIPAA seems to not apply here, or the federal government is looking the other way. HIPAA only penalizes medical industry professionals who improperly disclose such data; it does not apply to random third parties who obtain and possess such data. In related news, Apple says they will no longer release push notification data to law enforcement without a court order.
A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH AND FREE ENTERPRISE: Norfolk (VA) City Council approves permit for Armed Forces Brewing Company, avoids lawsuit. And why would this be in any way controversial, you ask? Well, apparently an owner with a minority stake in the business once said mean things about the QUILTBAG++ movement. Or something. Opponents also tried to frame this as a land use issue, ignoring that they were opposing job creation in a formerly depressed neighborhood. Their attorney, Tim Anderson, is a rising star in Virginia politics and an all-around nice guy.
THE LEGACY OF JOHN MCAFEE? Photos of a very special dolphin inhabiting the waters of Corinth, Greece are surfacing. A dolphin born with hook-shaped “thumb” flippers, was spotted twice this summer by researchers with the Pelagos Cetacean Research Insitute.
HOPEFUL NEWS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COMPELLED SPEECH: On Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a high school teacher who was fired for refusing to use pronouns that didn’t match a student’s biological sex could have his lawsuit against the local school board reinstated. This is not a win, but at least he’ll get his day in court. The government schools in the little paper-mill town of West Point (not to be confused with the town in NY where the USMA is located) has a long history of being involved in trans-related litigation.
Get your ass to Mars!
Elon needs to make it happen within 10 years.
“Walgreens Boots Alliance”
Boots alliance?
Boots. Limey chain.
Thanks. I was wondering about that.
Bootsy Collins – Bootzilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtTsfBxc40
Thanks for that. Bootsy is good people.
Dr. Martens boots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eq8TOiqkCM
Good man!
The Ginger was unavailable for comment.
“13News Now has reported before that the controversy surrounding this brewery comes from veteran and company stakeholder Robert O’Neill’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on social media.”
Such as??
“Councilman John Paige addressed the crowd speaking out against the brewery.
“You’ve learned to fight for yourselves. In doing so, you may have become the aggressors and you have marginalized someone who just wants to open up a business and all you have to do is not go,” he said. “At the same time that emails came over this issue, there were plenty of young black children dying from gunshot wounds.”
He went on to say he was fed up by what he called a lack of care towards gun violence, and said he told a fellow political leader he would vote for the brewery just to make a point.
“And stated if I get one more email, I’m voting in favor just for the fact that all of the emails I’m getting and not one person sent one email about the children that are being shot in our city,” he said.”
How is the fuck is that relevant?
The strawman is strong in this one.
If they gave you actual examples of what they consider “anti-LGBTQ rhetoric” everyone would see how ridiculous it is.
Oh no. That can’t be it. It must be that the examples are too terrible to spread in polite society.
It’s an enig ‘mo.
Huh
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ex-seal-killed-bin-laden-center-opposition-military-themed-brewery-opening-big-navy-town
I see nothing wrong there.
Where’s my pitchfork?!
And now I know why every business around here slaps a rainbow sticker in the window.
The Power of the Powerless.
https://apnews.com/article/norfolk-virginia-armed-forces-brewing-oneill-permit-6e71e20b0989b8a5ff5c91c76b2bfc95
Terrible people all around.
a conspiracy theory that the Anti-Defamation League said can have antisemitic overtones
Only if you’re retarded.
Wait… what?!
I can only SMDH. We are careening so rapidly towards a totalitarian state it’s frightening.
“can or cannot”
Only a conspiracy theorist would read the WEF website.
Soros is a Jew, in the minds of leftists. So criticizing him is antisemitic. This is so ass-backwards. Soros betrayed the Jews for the Nazis. He still works with a a Nazi, named Klaus, who is son of an actual no-shit Nazi. Soros may be Jewish by heritage, but he is no Jew and criticism of him should never be tied back to anti-antisemitism.
I love that criticizing of Soros is anti-Semitic, but criticizing Israel isn’t.
Or killing/raping jews.
“I also hope that someday Elon Musk strolls into the NASA director’s office and empties a sack of astronaut-retrieved sample tubes on the director’s desk and exits whistling.”
He absolutely will. And that useless hack will pretend he didn’t see Elon and continue to blow our tax dollars.
And the Democrat President will have him arrested for parading in the NASA office.
A magical Christmas song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=nQLJNCDa4GA
This is how I feel lately.
No Wham disclaimer??
Oh yeah, NSFW.
That was great.
RJ, this from the side bar, the earworm from hell, which is now seared, seared I tell you, into my brain is all your fault.
There I was, sitting in stunned amazement at what I was hearing and seeing, and then I noticed the musical notes. “Raspy af’ , “Irish leg shenanigans”, “show epic zebra shoes”. Not the usual musical notations.
I may never be the same.
That is fantastic! The dude must have hit a bottle of oxygen right before that. I wonder if OMWC has that in his jazz collection?
Bottle of oxygen or pile of coke.
I’ve never heard of that guy, or seen him before, but if he comes to town, I’m going.
This is what I got: Too Many Zooz. Started out as NYC buskers.
I’ve seen youtube videos of the guy busking in the subways. He plays the same piece over and over. I don’t think he has much of a repertoire.
They’re new to me. There’s a couple of things in the video and music that I find appealing, but the thing that made me snort-laugh was the non-traditional music notations. Whatever the reason, today this really caught my interest.
It’s also a nice distraction from real life.
That’s the sax player from Too Many Zoos, who are awesome.
Opponents also tried to frame this as a land use issue, ignoring that they were opposing job creation in a formerly depressed neighborhood.
“That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve.”
T-minus two days to get your ugly Christmas attire ready!
$40 in Amazonian gift certificates!
Oops, I forgot to re-run the announcement. GlibZoom Holiday costume contest,
FridaySATURDAY at 10:00 PM Eastern.[Edited to correct date. My time/date/calendar issues strike again]
Not Saturday?
It is Saturday
Tonio is spreading disinformation….
^^This!
Come get him, Feds!
I don’t need no prep time. I make any attire ugly just by wearing it.
I replied to a few comments in the previous post- in case someone has a burning desire to see them. 😛
Thanks for your thoughts.
Re pharmacies: *smooches* and that was probably 10 years ago.
Big thanks to Lackadaisical for the midday post, even without the author’s presence. Nice back and forth there.
It must be that the examples are too terrible to spread in polite society.
Don’t read that. Your eyeballs will fall out.
“Jill Biden’s White House Christmas dance troupe are radical BLM-loving activists who have demanded prison abolition and defunding the police
One link on the dance company’s website is to a pro-Palestinian site which uses the phrase ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12865453/Jill-Biden-White-House-Christmas-dance-troupe-radical-BLM-loving-activists.html
Happy Chanukkah?
Perfect.
*chef’s kiss*
They just can’t help themselves.
It looks like the flower dude raided Dr. Jill’s closet.
Welcome to Weimar America.
I cannot think of a single thing about this administration that is not a complete shitshow.
remind me again….Melania was evil because of her color scheme?
I think they called her “tacky” LOL
I meant regarding her Xmas decorations. They were blue or something. There was endless howling over that.
Also the nudez.
I would have been so, so much better with Yakity Sax!
I immediately assumed there was some sort of dispute over the “Armed Forces” name of the brewpub. We wouldn’t want the public to be duped into thinking the military industrial complex is involved.
“A Chicago man spent close to a decade behind bars for murder – thanks to the eyewitness testimony of a witness who’s since admitted to being blind.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12864947/Chicago-murder-conviction-overturned-witness-blind.html
If only he had Vincent Gambini as his lawyer.
I am not sure how the compelled speech issue is not a slam dunk.
Because judges don’t usually follow the Constitution – they vote on what outcome they personally like.
If Trump hadn’t appointed those three SCOTUS judges, imagine the shitshow of rulings we’d be pelted with.
I’d never leave my house.
So, feather boa and a Glockstrap?
“Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill – who got married just last month – is hit with TWO new paternity suits from separate women who say they had his babies this year and demand a big chunk of his $30m salary
Hill’s former fiancée, Crystal Espinal (pictured with their son), broke off their engagement in 2019. They have three children together”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12859617/Dolphins-wide-receiver-Tyreek-Hill-married-paternity-suits.html
I guess he knew he can afford it.
Even his sperm is fast.
Damn, I need to start identifying as female so I can get in on this.
*Antonio Cromartie has entered the chat*
“Those are rookie numbers”
David Palmer had three kids before he even showed up at Alabama.
Agree that Tyreek needs to work on his game.
Cromartie couldn’t name all of his children. That’s next-level.
Hill’s former fiancée, Crystal Espinal (pictured with their son), broke
Oof, that reminds me that that asshole broke his son’s arm.
Excuse me while I whip out my First.
You misspelled ‘Fourty-ish Or So”.
Unclaimed freight?
A bull ran through the train tracks in Newark Penn Station on Thursday morning, causing delays across several of New Jersey’s transit lines, authorities said.
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“Members of the Newark Police Emergency Services Unit assisted Port Authority PD in locating the animal and contained it inside a fenced lot without incident,” said Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé in a statement. “The animal will be retrieved and safeguarded by a local animal sanctuary.”
They should send him to the White House as a mascot.
“NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden is at the center of a much different fight in Virginia, where plans for a military-themed brewery are drawing opposition over his alleged racist and homophobic remarks.
Robert J. O’Neill has a small ownership stake in Armed Forces Brewing Company and has served as its brand ambassador. His recent social media complaint about a Navy sailor who performs as a drag queen and a police report alleging he used a racial slur are fueling efforts to stop the brewery from opening in military-friendly Norfolk…
Opponents cited O’Neill’s August arrest in Frisco, Texas, in which police said he assaulted a hotel security officer while intoxicated and used a racial slur. O’Neill, who faces misdemeanor assault and public intoxication charges, later posted on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter: “I categorically deny ever using this horrible language recently reported.”
In response to news that an active-duty sailor who moonlights as a drag queen was helping Navy recruitment efforts, O’Neill posted on X in May: “Alright. The U.S. Navy is now using an enlisted sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter. I’m done. China is going to destroy us. YOU GOT THIS NAVY. I can’t believe I fought for this bull.””
https://apnews.com/article/norfolk-virginia-armed-forces-brewing-oneill-permit-6e71e20b0989b8a5ff5c91c76b2bfc95
So apparently he got drunk and roughed up a white security guard who later claimed without evidence that he used a racial slur. And also called out the Navy for their trans bullshit.
Big fucking deal.
That is some serious hate speech. It victimizes so many people. Literally shaking.
I’m more disappointed he didn’t swear like a sailor.
Not using such language makes me question his claimed credentials.
I see a future Glibs meetup there.
“A North Carolina mom used a popular but controversial tracking app to catch her son having sex with his high school teacher in her car, according to reports.
The unidentified parent had installed Life 360 on her son’s device — and grew suspicious after she was alerted to his absence from rugby practice.
Instead, the app curiously showed that he was idling near a local park.
The mother drove to the location in Mecklenburg and found him in flagrante delicto with 26-year-old South Mecklenburg High School teacher Gabriela Cartaya-Neufeld, according to WSOC.”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/news/mom-uses-tracking-app-backed-by-mark-zuckebergs-sister-to-catch-son-having-sex-with-teacher/
Are there any female teachers not having sex with their students?
mine
Well, she wasn’t with you
Man, that hurts.
mom used a popular but controversial tracking app to catch her son having sex with his high school teacher
Sounds like it works.
“Rugby practice” = new euphemism. Heh
Also, apparently “tryst” is a verb now.
Maybe he plays number 2
/rugby joke*
*https://www.ruck.co.uk/rugby-positions-roles-beginners/
She was the hooker in the scrum.
“Life 360 has roughly 50 million active monthly users and was expected to pull in earnings of $300 million this year.”
Holy shit. That’s a lot of paying users.
“But critics have questioned the app’s all-encompassing and sometimes oppressive presence — and data collection practices. Human trafficking activists have suggested victims are being tracked using the app, while company representatives have cast those instances as outliers.”
So. Fucking. Tedious.
This episode has “and nothing else happened” written all over it.
LOL Biden feds going after anti-white/yellow racism? Pull the other one.
Like the CA/TX allies in a civil war story . . . .
I’ve had some good news lately. A director of chemistry research accepted me in LinkedIn and said my idea were very interesting. Only three of the dozen or so people I’ve emailed about my ideas responded. Here is the meat of my pitch to NSF. I’d appreciate any feedback. I have until January to submit it. Here is the site if you want to submit your own pitch: https://nsfgov.my.site.com/mywork/s/login/
My pitch begins below:
section prompts
*13. Briefly Describe the Technology Innovation: Up to 500 words describing the technical innovation that would be the focus of a Phase I project, including a sentence discussing the origins of the innovation as well as an explanation as to why it meets the program’s mandate to focus on supporting research and development (R&D) of unproven, high-impact innovations. This section should not just discuss the features and benefits of your solution, it must also clearly explain the uniqueness, innovation and/or novelty in how your product or service is designed and functions.
*14. Briefly Describe the Technical Objectives and Challenges: Up to 500 words describing the R&D work to be done in a Phase I project, including the highest-risk research challenges to be investigated in a Phase I effort that are specific to your innovation. This section should also include a brief description of your unique scientific approach to solving those challenges and how this would lead to a sustainable competitive advantage for the company. Please note that challenges common to an industry or market are not responsive in this section.
*15. Briefly Describe the Market Opportunity: Up to 250 words describing the customer profile and pain point(s) that will be the near-term commercial focus related to this technical project.
*16. Briefly Describe the Company and Team : Up to 250 words describing the background and current status of the submitting small business, including team members related to the technical and/or commercial efforts discussed in this Project Pitch.
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My goal is to combine mineral oil cooling, overclocking, and cluster computing in a single device in order to make an affordable supercomputer for less than $10,000. These techniques have been used in various combinations over the years, but never all three of them at once to the best of my knowledge. Mineral oil has been used to cool high-voltage transformers since the late 1800s. In addition to having excellent heat transfer properties, mineral oil is cheap, non-toxic, and does not conduct electricity. Computers and other electronics can operate normally while fully submerged in it. I have done my own experiments to prove this myself. You can read more about it here: https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/04/deep-dish-2-overclock-boogaloo.html
I named that computer Deep Dish after the real supercomputer Deep Blue, the sci-fi computer Deep Thought, and because I like pizza. I successfully overclocked it to 5 GHz while cooling it with a combination of mineral oil and copper BBs. It passed CPU and GPU stress tests.
Phase I of the project would be to overclock an Intel 13900K processor while cooling it with mineral oil. In 2023, ElmorLabs successfully overclocked such a CPU to 9 GHz while cooling it with liquid nitrogen. That test set the current world record for overclocking. I believe it is possible to overclock the same chip to 32 GHz using mineral oil for cooling and 1500 W of power from a regular household electrical outlet. Once that test is successful, the next step will be to network 10 or more such devices together in order to compute large factorials. Calculating large factorials is difficult such that the online calculator Desmos can only calculate 70!, which has 300 digits. The Big Number Calculator, another online calculator, is limited to 99,999!, which has thousands of digits.
Wilson’s Theorem gives an exact formula for determining if a number is prime. Unfortunately, this formula contains a factorial which makes it impractical as a primality test for cryptographically secure prime numbers. Such numbers are critical for online privacy and cybersecurity. The CIA will pay $10,000 for any prime number they don’t already know about it. The ability to efficiently generate and verify large prime numbers would also allow a solution for the integer factorization problem. The security of online encryption depends on the fact that no one has solved that problem yet.
Nagasaki University built a supercomputer for about $420,000 in 2010 from a cluster of GPUs. Its performance was extraordinary given that budget. Unfortunately, the designer opted for fan cooling rather mineral oil. Another supercomputer, the Tsubame KFC, does use mineral oil for cooling but is not overclocked. Frontier, the current fastest computer in the world, does not use overclocking or mineral oil cooling. Its cost is a staggering $600 million. The NSA has a computer complex in Bluffdale, Utah that is cooled with water evaporation. That is an expensive and wasteful choice in a desert.
The bottom line is there is enormous room for improvement in supercomputer design.
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Overclocking the CPU while cooling it with mineral oil is the easy part. After that comes building a cluster of overclocked devices. The prototype cluster will be a small network of perhaps three or four nodes. Later, I plan expanding the cluster to at least 100 nodes. I expect to experiment with several different network topologies. At some point, I will need a facility with an industrial power supply. As I do not have a background in either electrical or computer engineering, one challenge will be teaching myself about those topics and finding experts who can help me.
The greatest challenge I anticipate is proving that my prototype can solve an interesting problem. A good benchmark would be to find a 100-digit prime number. Such prime numbers have a direct application in cryptography and are highly sought after. I’m an amateur mathematician and have spent a lot of time pondering primes. Along the way, I found a new method to approximate pi. My prototype could be used to calculate pi to an even greater degree of accuracy.
Computers are about as small as they are ever going to be. The minimum size of a transistor is about ten times the width of a silicon atom because of quantum tunneling effects. Advances in software are rare. The only real area for performance improvement is heat transfer. My degree is in chemical engineering, and so I have more expertise in heat transfer than many other computer designers. Additionally, as a former employee of the National Security Agency, I have some knowledge of cutting edge computers and computer networks. In fact, my application to be an NSA code breaker still under consideration.
Once I build and sell a supercomputer, I expect to steadily gain customers because my products will deliver the greatest performance for the lowest cost. The status quo is that the government owns almost all of the supercomputers, and those interested in using them must wait for long periods in order to rent them. However, just about every college could afford a $10,000 supercomputer and use it continuously for all kinds of research. Depending on how fast my business expands, it could create a kind of boom in scientific research.
The growth of AI represents another market opportunity for mass-produced supercomputers. In general, more advanced AI requires more computing power. I foresee a network of supercomputers capable of solving any problem faster and better than any human. It is not an exaggeration to say that the future balance of geopolitical power will depend on AI and supercomputers.
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Potential customers for budget supercomputers include colleges, corporations, and individuals. Bitcoin miners in particular would be interested in purchasing a ready-to-go device. There is already a market for oil-cooled computers, which are also called “aquarium computers” because it looks like the motherboard is submerged in a fish tank. Hardcore gamers in particular are fond of them. I suspect I could tap into that market as well with a high performance gaming computer. After I make a successful prototype with just one CPU, it makes sense to seek market share in the gamer PC market. Once I make some sales there, I can improve my designs and work toward cluster computers. There are always customers who simply want the fastest computer available simply for bragging rights. I plan on exploiting that impulse as well. My computers will be very fast, but they also need to be profitable.
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I’m the ultimate small start-up. It’s just me and my dad as a consultant. He’s been a software engineer for over 40 years. I’m more of a creative type, especially with hardware. In fact, my experimental computer attracted the attention of the FBI who came to my apartment in July of 2023 to question me about it. My business has a name (Horus) and that’s about it. If I get NSF money, I’ll open up a bank account for the company and create a website. After that, my focus will be on building a supercomputer and finding someone to buy it. Once I make a few sales and apply for a patent, I plan taking the company public, selling it to the highest bidder while retaining some stock. I don’t have much interest in being a CEO or any other kind of businessman. Someone else can do that. My only goal is to build some computers and make enough money so that I don’t need to work again. I’m semi-retired now, but my savings will run out in a few years. I expect to hire other contractors and consultants as I go along. I may end up hiring a full-time employee or two. Ideally, I’ll be able to do almost all the work myself. Once I build a sell a few prototypes, perhaps I can branch out to just selling the plans for such computers. At this stage, it’s hard to predict what will happen or how I’ll solve things.
***
end pitch
What led you to believe this method can manage 3.5x the record speed? While I buy that the cooling method could work, I’m curious about where you came up with that number.
In their experiment, the chip used 125 W. 1500/125 = 12, but my supply voltage is limited to 110 V at 15 amps. Doubling the clock speed requires doubling the power. 125 W can only be doubled 3 times without going over the 1500 W limit. So actually, the clock speed would be 8*9 = 72 GHz, not 32.
Still a good question though, as I want to make sure the math is right. Another factor at the microcode level is bus timing.
At another level,
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Bremermann’s limit, named after Hans-Joachim Bremermann, is a limit on the maximum rate of computation that can be achieved in a self-contained system in the material universe. It is derived from Einstein’s mass-energy equivalency and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and is c2/h ≈ 1.3563925 × 1050 bits per second per kilogram.[1][2]
This value establishes an asymptotic bound on adversarial resources when designing cryptographic algorithms, as it can be used to determine the minimum size of encryption keys or hash values required to create an algorithm that could never be cracked by a brute-force search. For example, a computer with the mass of the entire Earth operating at Bremermann’s limit could perform approximately 10^75 mathematical computations per second. If one assumes that a cryptographic key can be tested with only one operation, then a typical 128-bit key could be cracked in under 10^−36 seconds. However, a 256-bit key (which is already in use in some systems) would take about two minutes to crack. Using a 512-bit key would increase the cracking time to approaching 10^72 years, without increasing the time for encryption by more than a constant factor (depending on the encryption algorithms used).
***
You are not only limited by power, but also by reactance.
On a side note, my dad had a computer business in the early 1980s. He tried to sell a computer system to a hospital. He really wanted the sale, and so went through two rounds of negotiations where he added features and lowered the price. At the end, the customer said there was no need for computers in medicine and the deal fell apart.
One of the features of the system was the ability to interpret the shape of heart waves. That was all done by eye back in the day, back when machines graphed heart waves with ink on paper.
“HIPAA only penalizes medical industry professionals who improperly disclose such data; it does not apply to random third parties who obtain and possess such data.”
HIPAA absolutely applies to hospitals, insurance companies, clinics, ASCs and, yes, pharmacies. What’s more, they can’t disclose your medical information to third parties in many circumstances without those third parties signing an agreement that, essentially, subjects them to HIPAA. Bottom line – not many people at all who get medical information (without stealing it) aren’t subject in some way to HIPAA.
Now, the government gave itself a double-fistful of workarounds for getting your medical information anyway. But most of them require you to be told about it. Although most of them also require you to ask first.
I still can’t believe that statement in quotes. It is contrary to any yearly required HIPAA training.
I seem to remember back at TOS the commenter Dunphy, between winning surfing and weightlifting competitions and fucking…Morgan Fairchild?…..bragging about haven gotten medical Information about a suspect by intimidating a pharmacist.
Illinois 3, Second Amendment 0
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday left in place an Illinois ban on AR-15 semiautomatic weapons.
Two lower courts have upheld the law, and Thursday’s Supreme Court action marked the second time in six months that the justices have declined to intervene.
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An ideologically mixed panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, however, writing that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the right to bear arms “extends only to weapons in common use for a lawful purpose,” not to semiautomatic weapons that “are much more like machine guns and military-grade weaponry than they are like the many different types of firearms that are used for individual self-defense.”
Gun groups countered that the State’s ban on arms amounts to a prohibition of arms that “are chosen by millions of Americans for lawful purposes.”
The court’s action on Thursday, leaving the Illinois law in place, is not a decision on the merits of the case; as of now, there have been no conflicting decisions by lower appeals courts, and the justices may well have felt there was no need to intervene without such a conflict.
The AR-15 isn’t in common use for lawful purposes?
How about the BAR? That is used in hunting and comes in many calibers, just like the AR-15. It just doesn’t look scary.
Even machine guns are perfectly legal to own with a $200 tax stamp.
At least the ATF itself is honest about the purpose of that tax:
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While the NFA was enacted by Congress as an exercise of its authority to tax, the NFA had an underlying purpose unrelated to revenue collection. As the legislative history of the law discloses, its underlying purpose was to curtail, if not prohibit, transactions in NFA firearms. Congress found these firearms to pose a significant crime problem because of their frequent use in crime, particularly the gangland crimes of that era such as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The $200 making and transfer taxes on most NFA firearms were considered quite severe and adequate to carry out Congress’ purpose to discourage or eliminate transactions in these firearms. The $200 tax has not changed since 1934.
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Those English cigarettes in women’s robes can get fucked. This basically gives the green light anywhere they can manage to do it. They fucking suck.
JFC. If assault weapon bans are allowed under the 2A, what’s all the kerfuffle been about. It’s a blatant Bruen violation, and they just weaseled out of it because there isn’t a conflict in the circuits. Which is buy no means required for them to take up a case.
Never forget, though: the Justices are all members of the ruling class, and ruling class hates guns and gun owners.
This is more than an assault weapons ban, it’s a semiautomatic weapons ban. That includes a hell of a lot of handguns. Astonishingly huge overreach,
“The AR-15 isn’t in common use for lawful purposes?”
It’s the most popular rifle in the U.S.
Watched the latest episode of Fargo. An excellent episode marred by them characterizing a right-statist sheriff who literally claims to own his former wife as a … libertarian.
Trying to figure out if they have never met an actual libertarian, or met one and completely failed to understand the philosophy, or they are knowingly being disingenuous pieces of shite and setting up a strawman characterization. 🙄
Both. Most liberal writers have never met a libertarian. Also most liberal writers are cunts. See the entire Gawker network of sites for proof of the inner thought process of lefty writers.
There was an episode of Bosch where a victim was described as a “libertarian.” When asked how much of a libertarian he was, the reply was: “somewhere to the right of Ghengis Khan.” 🙄
It’s the last one. So many people desperately need to slander individualists because if they tell the truth it will highlight what shitheel authoritarians they are themselves.
It gets tiresome after a while.
This is why we need to make parallel libertarian institutions.
Ordering “The Idiots Guide to Making a Pretentious TV Show” right now.
The $200 tax has not changed since 1934.
I dread to think what that would be in BidenBux.
A quick calculation tells me it is now approximately
‘a billion, three hundred million, trillion, three hundred million dollars’
Around $4,600 – if you are naive enough to trust the government’s inflation calculations.
Using the price of gold as a proxy for real inflation – about $7,200.
That $200 would have been, what, 6 ounces of gold back in the day?
More like $12,000 today.
So only rich gangsters could afford them.
“Fuck You, Chris! Butter Your Own Biscuit, Fat Ass!”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/f-you-chris-butter-your-own-biscuit-fat-ass-cuomo-cursed-out-girl-tourettes
All it took was Chris Cuomo interviewing a Tik Tok star that has Tourette’s to say what we all wanted to say. Good on her…
Thank you for making my day better. I am no longer bitter and angry. I am filled with joy.
Ded
The middle finger right in his face 😂
Must see TV
It’s been about 2 years since a friend read the first version of my autobiography, which I have been posting here as Story of My Life episodes. This is what he wrote to me later:
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I’m not totally sure what to make of all this. It was a fascinating story and I couldn’t put it down. It’s also not one that I can be like “Cool story, bro” and walk away.
I know you said you’ve been having a rough year or so, and yeah, sounds like it. I’m worried about you now. So, there’s two logical possibilities for what’s happening. One is that you’ve lost touch with reality and need help finding yourself again. On a literal dark and stormy night seventeen years ago I drove a good friend of mine to the insane asylum (he also preferred to call it that instead of mental ward or whatever, though he was self-admitted). It was pretty fucking horrible for him and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but I’d do it again because I’m pretty sure it’s the only reason he’s alive today. He was in and out of those places for years. Now he’s a post-doc studying cold weather plants in the Czech republic, so eventually he made good things happen for himself.
The other possibility is that everything you described actually happened, and that actually worries me more. I know enough about computers and security and stuff to know that everything you described is 100% possible. It’d also be really fucking expensive. Like probably a million dollars expensive, not to mention illegal as fuck. If the cloak and daggers are doing this to try and recruit you, it’s not to figure out secure hashing algorithms. An intelligent engineer/linguist with a history of insubordination and mental illness is the scapegoat poster child. Plus there’s the part where it’s pretty well-known that the U.S. isn’t the only espionage game in town. The previous statement makes you a poster child for them too.
I don’t really know what to say. Go dig dinosaur bones in Wyoming or something. Just don’t end up dead in a ditch. I’ve actually spent the last eight years living in Wyoming. I’m out of here in a couple weeks, as I kind of overshot the “leave while you still love it” idea, but that’s okay.
I guess the thing I’m trying to say, is that either the first thing is true, and you need some help, or the second thing is true and you need to get the fuck out, then get some help. Maybe you’ll think I’m an asshole for saying that. If so, I’m sorry. But seriously, don’t let this country eat you too.
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A typical NSA analyst makes about $40/hour and assuming 24/7 coverage at around $1,000/day, that means they’ve spent about half a million at least spying on me.
It was a relief to get some assurance of my sanity from someone with expertise. The guy who wrote to me has been a software engineer for 15 years. We were in Peace Corps together.
It is complicated!! says the people who got caught out.
Local proggie new outlet tries to cover for why rich people are leaving the state. It isn’t very easy to figure out!!!
I know at least 5 people who have established residences in different states to avoid Minnesoda’s income taxes. They all will tell you all the dodges to make sure you don’t run afoul of the local tax collectors. And it turns out that Minnesoda spends a lot of money on people to track down and bust scofflaws who didn’t really move out of the state.
1) Fly into Fargo, Wisconsin, Des Moines or some other airport and drive back into Minnesota.
2) Pay for all your gas in Minnesoda with prepaid credit cards or cash.
3) Burner phones. Use google voice to forward your calls.
Would be nice to ask King Walz if maybe the the Mayo sticks around because the state shovels money at them all the time.
Oh, it isn’t just about the Benjamins. It is also that the legislature is their bitch.
Narrator: The legislature gutted the bills like sissies.
And, trust me, Mayo Clinic is fucking rolling in cash. Even without the $400MM in other people’s money.
It’s cute that they describe dropping $1.1B of taxpayer money on a stadium an “investment”
NJ does the same.
The state is small so people drive. Also toll roads.
You need to avoid electronic toll readers in addition to what you mentioned above.
I have a funny story to tell.
The city came out to repair the water main. A man came by and told me they were cutting water off for at least the day. I quickly ran around and filled every tub as full as I could, then got a pitcher of water for cooking. The wife looked at me like “Why?”
Because. One should always plan. What if you need to flush a toilet? Or the water is out for days?
Four hours later my wife got hit with the screaming trots from a party she had attended two days prior. In the bathroom every thirty minutes, almost soiling herself. She thanked me profusely for having the presence of mind to fill the tubs and get a bucket for toilet flushes.
I figured it was the difference in thought between city and country folk. I always plan for the worst, I have lived in the country with inadequate plumbing and electrical. Wife lives on bottled water and internet.
Now on day two, water just came back on. I would have been living in poo house if I had not taken action.
*scribbles notes*
I have rain barrels, tub full and a hot tub.
I have 40 gallons of propane and a really nice camp stove.
I have sealed 30 gallon steel cans full of rice, beans, pasta, flour, cornmeal.
I have a wood stove and plenty of firewood.
I have plenty of first aid supplies.
I have two .01 micron water filters that claim are good for 1M gallons each.
I have about three months worth of canned soup, meats, dry milk, canned milk, tomatoes in various forms…
Yeah, I qualify as a horder. A comfortable. one.
R.J. earlier on drivers (properly angry for road blockage by protesters): The fact that a drunk dude didn’t just plow through them is astounding…It is a well known fact that pedestrians on a highway means you break into meaty chunks when a distracted driver / drunk driver comes by.”
*Narrows gaze* I wasn’t a pedestrian. (I MAY have been the distracted scooterist. I certainly shouldn’t have been drivin’ the bike at all, true dat.) It ASTOUNDS me how people are so cavalier (Read: blind) to the danger of Human v. Moving car. Ya gonna lose. Painfully. (If ya live.)
Most predictable Branch Covidian insanity: In Korea I’d frequently see un-helmeted bikers fleeting around… while MASKED! Pure adherence to The Rules rather than Actual Safety. Tragic and ever-surrounding example of princiPALS > princiPLES.
^This. Some poor sap will accidentally crush a few protesters sooner or later. It is inevitable. It will be a gory mess. And the poor sap will be in all the papers, vilified forever and probably doxed and chased down for killing some moron sitting on a highway.
*Historically evil ‘score’: Team _____ gets some openly suicidal folk, and after leading, inspiring!, get them to think they’re making a true statement with becoming martyrs.
Especially w Lefty ‘support groups,’ it wouldn’t be hard to find the “Right Folk” and twist until they snap. (And serve The Cause.)
As libertarians, We can easily solve problems like this by simply asking ourselves:
What Would Genghis Khan Do?
That sap might eventually beat the rap, but The Man will still make it tough on him.
The state trooper failed to shut down the highway properly so this guy comes along and somehow manages to not kill a bunch of the idiots who were standing in the middle of a hiway. Instead of being grateful that their incompetence didn’t end up with a bunch of people dead, they decided to charge him with a felony.
As the story above said, he was able to avoid the felony charge. But that was almost a year later.
How much did he have to spend on lawyers?
The process is the punishment.
Spectacular Rant — Disney 100
+1 quality rant. I think he’s saying what an awful lot of people are thinking
That’s hot
say hello to WWIII
Way to convince the Russians to take an even bigger chunk of the Ukraine.
I had an idea for a sci fi story called Space Tomato. Basically, it turns out that lost tomato on the space station was made super intelligent by cosmic rays or whatever, then escaped to earth to rally its peers. NASA was caught off guard and had to make up a story to cover up the scandal.
Where is the space tomato, NASA? Why come there are no pictures of the space tomato?
“BREAKING – O’KEEFE MEDIA RELEASES VIDEO SHOWING IBM COERCING MANAGERS TO DISCRIMINATE: CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process. I hope they sue the fuck out of this guy, and that the feds bring charges.”
If this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention. Every single large company is doing this.