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Harvard Business School? The Historic Brass Society? Harry Benjamin's Syndrome? ...The Hogere Burger School? Screw it, I can probably just search online real quick. Oh, Harebrained Schemes. Right, those guys. (e): A classic reference, Sandy.

Did you read the actual report? While perhaps a little overstated at times, I really don't think the unclassified report itself is anything crazy, and certainly does not say anything like "Veteran = Libertarian = Conservative = Gun Owner = Terrorist". The bits on veterans weren't terribly large, and mainly concerned themselves with previous attempts during the 90s to recruit veterans for terrorist activities. If anything, with time, it's (overall) proved a little more true than I would've expected it to have at the time of publishing... (e): My post was directed at Guard Dog.

I thought the original was alright. I personally hate the setting, and I'm not terribly keen on either of the two main characters. And Disney sequels...well, we'll see. (e): On a side-note, I'm not sure what "the Deadpool of kids' movies" actually means. I haven't seen Deadpool and don't know what it's about, though, so that might be why.

Ehh. Hmm. Maybe it'll be alright.

*Picard face*

It was a bipartisan decision, and it was made with pretty good reasoning. It is a limited ruling that doesn't set precedent due to issues with this specific case. While this baker wins, the issue has more or less been punted down the road.

Yes...the difference, I feel, is that past administrations were, for the most part, rational actors. Not always on every issue, and just because they were rational doesn't mean they were kind or just or lawful (just the opposite in many cases!). There are some benefits to having a federal government that's acting like a chicken with its head cut off (there's not much permanent legislation going through, for example - that's both good and bad in different ways), but there are consequences as well (these executive "czars", Trump included, are massively empowered in acting policy in the face of legislative standstill, just as it was the case under Obama - for better and for worse under him, and I would personally say almost entirely for the worse under Trump, but I'm sure people have their own opinions on that). These past three presidents (in all their own ways, starting with Bush and including Obama but now especially Trump), have really proved that we need to reign in the executive branch something fierce...but uh, Congress collectively has shown no interest in doing that, and in fact has pretty much encouraged the opposite...so screw us, I guess?

Don't ever buy anything online from WalMart. They sent me the wrong item, and for whatever reason, they have absolutely 100% steadfastly refused to authorize a return and refund for their mistake over the past month. Thankfully, I never go to WalMart to begin with, but this cements it as policy.

"Oh, don’t forget: He has 962 days left in this term." ****

I remember that dog, surprisingly. It's funny how seemingly totally incidental occurrences can play such large roles in our identities and life courses. A username is a smaller one such of those occurrences, but the realization that such chance events can do so much is difficult to comprehend at times.

Heh, compared to the current state of affairs, it's easy to have your perspective warped to the point of thinking the previous administration was perfect. It doesn't help any of us to not remember clearly, though - to not do so just means things will become more and more far-gone as our standards for normalcy and "rightness" get lower and lower.

was her name "rasputin" by any chance

but the embarrassing visage that is that thumbnail tells me not to listen actually I listened to it and it wasn't that bad

Yeah, I'm more of a 60-70F (16-21C) kind of guy, but the difference between 100% humidity 90F and 0% humidity 90F is the difference between "it's a bit too hot" and "I'm about to die of heatstroke". It's the same thing with sub-freezing temperatures and wind - air is a pretty terrible conductor of heat EXCEPT when it's moving, so I'd always rather have a -10 day with no wind than a positive ten day with anything more than occasional breezes.

And here I am wishing it'd be windy and rain every day. The world's so much prettier...

the real version of this song is blocked on youtube, but this one's not bad

I already said that like 4 replies ago!

That's pretty fair. There's much, much, MUCH more to criticize about Trump than a few seconds of poor posture - that's not much different from the dijon mustard incident.

"At this point"?

Remove all but one stick of RAM and swap it out with the other(s) (also, this can be used to reduce power draw if that's part of the issue). Go to integrated graphics to reduce power draw even more if you can (or stick in a low-end card for much the same effect, if you have one).

Are you on a laptop or desktop? Are you running system repair off of your local copy of Windows, or an external Windows installer (i.e. flash drive/disc).

That's depressing to think about.

Yeah, I assumed you knew what you were talking about more than I did, but those movies were somewhere between bad and really terrible with the exception of Serenity (which I think is simply fine - I'm not really a Firefly fan, most obvious since I'm not raving mad about it).

I don't watch basketball at all, but I like following the various sports subreddits come playoff time to join in on the excitement. I just realized that I should probably be cheering for the Warriors (being part-Californian and all), but I've been quietly cheering for the underdog this entire time. Plus, Houston and the hurricane and all... Decisions, decisions...

Wow, didn't expect it to happen that quickly. Life can be gone in the blink of an eye... RIP.