Gorth Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 He did give a great performance in the Sydney Opera House a few years ago (I was there), with Jan Vogler and friends. A journey through classical US literature and writers as well as some excellent cello music https://9now.nine.com.au/today/bill-murray-and-friends-tour/ff73da53-4dd3-470d-846f-2161c4e7805f “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Raithe Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Azdeus Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 This is so cool to see, and I'm looking forward to what it's successors can do! It even sort of sounds like one would expect! 2 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 Good to see Ian back to regular stuff, last week he decided to step on a land mine by promoting some mercenary's book 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Raithe Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 BBC - EncroChat: Selfie lands cocaine dealer in jail A drug dealer who sent a picture of himself in an encrypted phone network which linked him to a £225,000 conspiracy has been jailed. Jon Hassall, 23, from Birkenhead, Wirral, distributed cocaine and cannabis through the service EncroChat. Merseyside Police tracked his messages sent on the dark web which revealed his part in the plot. Hassall admitted conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs and was jailed for seven years at Liverpool Crown Court. Using the EncroChat handle, Trusted-bat, Hassall had distributed about 3kg of cocaine and 40kg of cannabis, police said. Hassall was caught after he sent a selfie to another EncroChat user which identified him. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Azdeus Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Malcador said: Good to see Ian back to regular stuff, last week he decided to step on a land mine by promoting some mercenary's book Yeah, that was a mess, I feel bad for Ian, and Karl aswell, he got shat on too for being associated with Ian before he went full workaholic on Forgotten Weapons/Headstamp Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 41 minutes ago, Azdeus said: Yeah, that was a mess, I feel bad for Ian, and Karl aswell, he got shat on too for being associated with Ian before he went full workaholic on Forgotten Weapons/Headstamp Yeah, topped his time with Larry "I miss Rhodesia" VIckers. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Azdeus Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 15 minutes ago, Malcador said: Yeah, topped his time with Larry "I miss Rhodesia" VIckers. Did that actually blow up like this though? I don't remember it as such. I might have just been oblivious to it though. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Malcador Posted February 12, 2022 Posted February 12, 2022 22 hours ago, Azdeus said: Did that actually blow up like this though? I don't remember it as such. I might have just been oblivious to it though. Nah just in my mind, at least then he kind of just hurried past before Vickers could start up. Ian is still a straight up guy, just may be a nit naive at least from not seeing how people might get angry over some far right merc's book being touted as non political. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Raithe Posted February 14, 2022 Posted February 14, 2022 BBC = "Good sex can be safer sex" says WHO researchers Teaching people about achieving sexual pleasure can help sell safe-sex messages, say researchers from the World Health Organization. Programmes using this approach improve condom use more than ones that focus only on the dangers of unprotected sex, their study has found. They say enjoyment - rather than fear - is a healthy motivator. Sex can be safe as well as enjoyable, according to one of the research project's co-authors. Billions of dollars are spent around the world each year on sexual and reproductive health and rights services, yet many programs do not address one of the fundamental reasons many people have sex - to feel good. Anne Philpott, a public-health professional, set up The Pleasure Project - the group that worked with the WHO team - in 2004, as a result of the frustration of "endless Aids meetings where no one talked about people's motivations for having sex". She said: "Pleasure is arguably the most powerful motivating factor for having sex and yet has been absent from sex education or sexual-health interventions. "If you ask most people, 'Did your sex education equip you for your relationships and sex lives?' they will say, 'No'. "Sex can be safe - and enjoyable. It's about having open conversations and giving people confidence." 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Raithe Posted February 14, 2022 Posted February 14, 2022 5 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Raithe Posted February 16, 2022 Posted February 16, 2022 https://frankonfraud.com/fraud-operations/12-things-only-old-timer-fraud-managers-can-appreciate/ Ah, that turn of history... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Malcador Posted February 16, 2022 Posted February 16, 2022 Elegant bit of work. 3 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Guard Dog Posted February 17, 2022 Posted February 17, 2022 Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever When I want to make time speed up I just play Crusader Kings 3 1 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gorth Posted February 17, 2022 Posted February 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Guard Dog said: Scientists Make Breakthrough in Warping Time at Smallest Scale Ever When I want to make time speed up I just play Crusader Kings 3 “What’s more, the team managed to keep these atoms dancing in perfect unison for 37 seconds, setting a new record for the duration of “quantum coherence,” or the state in which the behavior of these atoms can be predicted.” Oh come on... who wants to watch boring atoms dance in unison... I wonder if they could dilate stuff around public transport and thereby make trains and buses run on time? 2 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Azdeus Posted February 17, 2022 Posted February 17, 2022 5 hours ago, Gorth said: I wonder if they could dilate stuff around public transport and thereby make trains and buses run on time? I think that would qualify it as an infinite improbability drive. 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Gromnir Posted February 18, 2022 Posted February 18, 2022 U.C. Berkeley Says It May Have to Cut Student Admissions by Thousands Freezing enrollment at that level means the university, already one of the nation’s most selective, would have 3,050 fewer seats for incoming first-year students and transfer students than it had planned for the fall of 2022. Typically, U.C. Berkeley said, it offers admission to about 21,000 first-year and transfer students and about 9,500 of them enroll. ... the housing situation in berkeley is near as bad as the santa barbara problem mentioned on these boards. am understanding why townies is rebelling given the prospects o' an ever-increasing horde which the university had no desire to moderate given the need for the tuition revenue. even so, the numbers offered represent a huge cut and UC schools got a Constitutional mandate to take qualified californians, so is gonna require some o' that new math to keep out-of-state, foreign and underprivileged student ratios anywhere near same as recent years. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
rjshae Posted February 19, 2022 Posted February 19, 2022 I wonder if we'll have a big tutu turnout next 2's day? (I.e. Tuesday Feb. 2, 2022.) Or perhaps a teutonic tutelage? "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Raithe Posted February 19, 2022 Posted February 19, 2022 "Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. Born in Milwaukee, she was 26 when she moved to Germany to pursue a PhD. As an American grad student in Berlin, she saw Germany swiftly progress from democracy to fascist dictatorship. She and her husband Arvid began holding secret meetings in their apartment. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. "Mildred Harnack nicknamed their resistance group “the Circle.” The group was diverse: its members were Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, atheist. They were factory workers and office workers, students and professors, journalists and artists. Over 40% were women. ... "The Gestapo arrested Mildred Harnack on Sept 7, 1942 and gave her group a name: the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). Postwar testimonies and notes smuggled out of a Berlin women's prison describe the daily interrogations and torture that Mildred and others in the group endured. "Mildred Harnack and 75 of her German coconspirators were forced to undergo a mass trial at the highest military court in Nazi Germany. A panel of 5 judges sentenced her to 6 years at a prison camp but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution "Before her execution Mildred spent the last hours of her life in a prison cell translating poems by Goethe. The title of my book ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS is a line from one of them. A prison chaplain smuggled out the book of poems under the folds of his robe "On February 16, 1943 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin, Mildred Harnack was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. According to all available records, she was the only American in the leadership of the German resistance to Hitler." 1 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Guard Dog Posted February 20, 2022 Posted February 20, 2022 Wary of Being Left in the Dark, Americans Produce Their Own Power I was ahead of the curve at my old place. But having moved up from Florida and weathering numerous hurricanes I had first hand experience how fragile the public power system is. 1 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Raithe Posted February 20, 2022 Posted February 20, 2022 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Guard Dog Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Let’s go Brandon: Driver caught in unwinnable culture war I feel bad for this guy. He had just won his first NASCAR race and had every reason to be happy in the moment. Then a news reporter says something stupid (maybe she really believed what she was saying but I think not) and he has literally been dragged into a political mudpit against his will. 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gromnir Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 22 hours ago, Guard Dog said: Let’s go Brandon: Driver caught in unwinnable culture war I feel bad for this guy. He had just won his first NASCAR race and had every reason to be happy in the moment. Then a news reporter says something stupid (maybe she really believed what she was saying but I think not) and he has literally been dragged into a political mudpit against his will. am actual feeling bad for the reporter. for sake of argument let's assume she knew what were being chanted. even if her reimagining o' the chant were wrong, were arguable not stoopid to pretend the chants were innocuous as 'posed to venomous. gd is no doubt aware, but most europeans and canadians won't realize, just how harsh fcc penalties can be if a network knowing allows profanity to be spread on airwaves. a repeated chant is not a spontaneous outburst. if nbc knowing continues broadcasting the chant, the fcc can come down on 'em with stoopid levels o' fines. aside: this curious bit o' american stoopid goes back to an old george carlin radio bit which resulted in american broadcasters complete changing their guidelines regarding profanity. what were undeniable stoopid were the american right taking a sportcaster's comment as somehow indicative o' lib media gaslighting. tired o' the complaints 'bout trump and alt-right gaslighting, the gomer pyle portion o' the country decides to use a nascar interview o' all things to channel their whataboutism? is one o' those absurdities we never woulda' predicted. regardless, to keep on -topic o' random-interesting-weird, am gonna offer a link to the george carlin history, assuming we can dig up a decent link 'cause is unlikely boardies wanna hear Gromnir rail 'bout fcc v. pacifica bit. "About a year and a half after the gig in Santa Monica, John Douglas was driving with his 15-year-old son back to New York from a college visit at Yale University. It was an early Tuesday afternoon in 1973, the day before Halloween. Douglas, a CBS executive and a member of a pornography watchdog group called Morality in Media, was flipping through the radio when he landed on 99.5 WBAI-FM. Paul Gorman, the host of WBAI's "Lunch Pail" afternoon program, warned listeners that he was about to play Carlin's "Filthy Words" bit, a modified version of "Seven Dirty Words" recorded on the Occupation: Foole album, and that some of the language could be deemed as offensive. Douglas kept the dial on WBAI. A month later, Douglas filed a complaint with the FCC, calling the monologue "garbage." "He was the funniest comedian of his generation," Douglas told the Chicago Sun-Sentinel in 2008, shortly after Carlin's death. "I didn't turn him in. I was turning in WBAI."" situation is so utter contrived. hardly a wee tyke is the fifteen-year-old. original complaint is filed by a leader o' the Morality in Media group who just happens to tune into the show during what would otherwise be school hours, a time when his son would typical be in school, so that we got a situation wherein an infant (anyone not yet reached their legal majority is legal an infant) is in a situation where they is s'posed caught unawares by a radio broadcast. nevertheless, the law ignores such transparent bs and the Court pretends as if the situation weren't a complete fabrication to trigger a planned legal action. *insert eye roll here* HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
rjshae Posted February 22, 2022 Posted February 22, 2022 On 2/20/2022 at 3:10 PM, Raithe said: That's your tailgater's wet dream, right there. 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
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