Kosh's Shadow 11/13/2025 8:30:56 PM

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It looks like this song was correct

Adolf Hitler likely had micropenis, Kallman syndrome, DNA study finds

This, the researchers say, is consistent with a 1923 medical examination revealed in 2015, which suggested that Hitler had an undescended testicle. 

Kosh's Shadow 11/14/2025 6:58:35 AM

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If the culture back then had been similar to what it is now, that song would have been labeled "Naziphobic"

buzzsawmonkey 11/14/2025 7:15:36 AM

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The tune, by the way, is called "The Colonel Bogey March."

JCM 11/14/2025 7:40:00 AM

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And if he'd been Chinese his name would have been Won Hung Lo.

JCM 11/14/2025 7:59:01 AM

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New Glenn launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission, lands booster

Blue Origin, second flight puts payload into orbit for Mars transfer. Lands the booster on bridge.

Landing booster is still so "science fiction" to me... All the early scifi had tail landing rockets.

The new generation of lifters is online. ULA Vulcan, ESA Ariane 6, Blue Origin New Glen.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 9:06:43 AM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

Technology has long been something to admire, to drool over, to worship.  These days, media in its broadest sense and those who excel upon it are in the same category.  (Musk said he'd have millions of people on Mars within a few decades, and was idolized by ass-kissers.)

But beyond the joyous Pied Piperism, their greatest value is squelching the need to look at oneself in the mirror.  Because of that, societal maturation is moving backwards.  The everyday street culture is more immature than it was 65 years ago.  "Civilization" is regressing.

We build marvelous rockets, and our present and two immediate past Presidents are utter jackasses.

A used bookstore 28 miles from the house has all 3 volumes of Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Notebooks" ($130 plus tax.  Same store a few months ago, I bought a copy of Oswald Mosley's autobiography.)  Neither Marxism or Gramsci (nor Mosley) is around anymore, but the culture's hegemony is swiftly transferring into its own masturbatory hands.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 10:06:33 AM

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And for the record, beginning reading history in the late Fifties, by the late Sixties I was firmly sold on the historical correctness and economic  benefits of classical (secularist) Zionism.  I had copy of Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad" which described his trip through the Holy Land of the 1850s, and was very aware of what Zionism had turned the southern Levant into.  1970 (I think), I saw an article in a major US news magazine, written by or about Meir Kahane and his vision of things which must happen.

Today I have a dozen books on the history of the nation/state of Israel, and several more on advocacy of it.  Apart from Yehoshafat Harkabi's "The Bar Kokhba Syndrome", I have none on Judaism itself, and no interest in the topic.

(I also have about 4 dozen books on Islam - led perhaps by one titled "Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism".)

10-15 years ago, certain of you quietly agreed with Revobob regarding what he thought I was.  You are free to stuff that up your Kahanist ass.

You are also hereby free to scrub me from this blog.

JCM 11/14/2025 10:26:47 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 6:

I'm an aerospace geek, especially since I spent the last few years working on a satellite project that will launch with those platforms.

The general ignorance of Marx and Gramsci by the very people who espouse their support of ideology is most definitely an issue.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 10:56:59 AM

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#1 Aerospace workers are excepted.  That's your job.

Electronics types are generally excepted because in the industry two decades ago, we knew what the design team working on what became the iPhone, wanted the thing to do.  And by the mid-Nineties, strong rumors were floating around about Bill Gates' lack of mental capacity and his hyper-sexual behavior.

#2 In my arrogant opinion, circa Lenin & company, Marxism boiled down to class warfare and to hell with the masses.  Stalin was all about his own political power (which is why he didn't want Germany reunited as a Communist country.)  Today's "Communism" is most-likely a coverup for anarcho-syndicalism, which is openly focused on lethal class warfare (what the Bolshies did to the kulaks.)  Anarchist is what Saul Alinsky was, as early as when Hillary called him, her hero.  Salvador Allende's Cuba-supported 1970-73 "communists" were actually way down the "Anarchist Blok" road.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 11:05:32 AM

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An addition to #2 --- The Bolsheviks and Stalin were why European Communism so desperately tried to reinvent Marxism. ... Part of the reason behind the Frankfurt School. ... The entire message of (anti-communist but firm-socialist) Blair/Orwell's book "Animal Farm". ... Gorbachev + Yeltsin + early Putin.

Kosh's Shadow 11/14/2025 11:08:47 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 9:

Bill Gates' success with DOS and then Windows is because his grandmother(?) knew the CEO of IBM, so they could negotiate the rights for DOS.

CP/M would have been better developed into a 16-bit and beyond operating system. But Gates got the dealf and the guy who wrote CP/M killed himself.

Original DOS and Windows are crap. Newer ones are based on NT, which was partially developed by Dave Cutler, who was an architect for VAX/VMS and took all the bad parts with him to Microsoft. And made further mistakes. (VMS never had "DLL Hell" but Windows sure did, and their fix for it is a Rube Goldberg system, or at least was, probably improved by now)

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 11:22:33 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 11:

I never got fed-up enough to switch to Apple or Linux.  Now I'm still on Win7 and Word95 (which has a lot of macros which I wrote), and have no intention of switching, unless Microsoft makes the damn things quit working.  They are tools.  If the claw hammer works in repairing the front porch, why switch?

I do have a Win10 desktop sitting on a table about 5 ft from the desk, but haven't turned it on in 4 years.  (Just checked.  It's not even plugged in.  The boot chip battery's probably drained.)

JCM 11/14/2025 11:25:45 AM

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In #9 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: #1 Aerospace workers are excepted.  That's your job.

I've been airplane and space nerd for as long as I can remember. The best part for me is my name is etched on a satellite in orbit, along with everyone else who worked on it.

JCM 11/14/2025 11:28:29 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 10:

I had a delightful conversation with a liberal co-worker once who claimed critical theory was a conspiracy theory of the right. I introduced this person to Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse. They were not happy with me.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 11:37:34 AM

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Marcuse's second edition to Eros and Civilization (published after the Stonewall Riots) was used as the "theological" underpinning of the Gay Lib manifestos of the early 70s.

Kosh's Shadow 11/14/2025 11:37:51 AM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 12:

Be very careful where you go on the internet. Win7 is not secure.

I would suggest Linux; Ubuntu is easy to set up. Fedora is harder, and those are the only 2 distros I've used. 

Macros probalby won't work in Open Office or Libre Office, the Word/Excel/etc equivalent on Linux.

I do actually still use Windows, largely because it comes with the systems I buy (don't want to build my own) and some software only runs on it.

After about 3 years, I get another computer and put Linux on the old ones. 

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 11:41:29 AM

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Reply to JCM in 13:

     "my name is etched on a satellite in orbit"

(grin) You will be sorry you mentioned that.  Opportunities abound. (suppressing laughter)

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 11:48:57 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 16:

Thanks for the heads-up that Word Basic macros might not work on other systems.  I'll try to keep that in mind, just in case.

(And I'm extremely careful on the Web.  I have ESET Internet Security, but it hasn't seen a need to go off in a few years.)

Kosh's Shadow 11/14/2025 12:26:59 PM

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Old Word macros might not even work in newer versions of Word.

buzzsawmonkey 11/14/2025 12:33:47 PM

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In #7 preBoomer-Marinebrat said: 10-15 years ago, certain of you quietly agreed with Revobob regarding what he thought I was.  You are free to stuff that up your Kahanist ass.

I don't remember anything about that.  And I'd hate to not see you here.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 2:05:42 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 19:

Redmond's Word Basic was replaced by Visual Basic in the late Nineties.  I have books on the latter but have admittedly cringed at learning how to make the shift.  Word 95 works on my Win7 machine, so I use the old tactic of "duck and run".

Kosh's Shadow 11/14/2025 3:02:26 PM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 21:

I worked for a company that had a Visual Basic-based scripting language, with customers having at least thousands of lines of scripts, but the scripting engine was antique and hard to maintain. Couldn't build it on newer compilers.

The problem is, changing the scripting language removed the tie to customers; if they had to rewrite scripts anyway, they could go to a competitor.

Oh well, private equity vampires ruined the company anyway. Anyone, if your company is bought by a private equity firm whose initials are the same as tuberculosis, look for another job RIGHT AWAY.

preBoomer-Marinebrat 11/14/2025 3:29:42 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 22:

My 'scripting' was 'spoken' by my fingers on a keyboard.  Back in the decades, every electronics OEM that I worked for had its own version of Basic, using it in the test rigs on the factory and design room floors.

25 years ago at Texas Instruments, I had to add a very short subroutine to such a program - simple - done it before - 5 minutes at most.

I made a dirt-stupid mistake.

I got into the editor and added JumpSubroutine ("JSR" or whatever it was) at "00601" in the program.  I should have specifically put the "Return" at 00602.  (I didn't think to do that, and hence, the TI-Basic system would automatically send the subroutine back to 00601.)

FileSave+Run  The edited program went into an endless loop.  The system was late-60s or 1970s vintage, and fortunately that particular hard drive had gone into park after initially offloading the program into memory.  The only way out, to get back into the editor, was to hit the circuit breaker.

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The problem isn't the computer.  It isn't the software in the computer.  It's the people who wrote the software.

Kosh's Shadow 11/14/2025 4:27:46 PM

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Reply to preBoomer-Marinebrat in 23:

Reminds me of this high-end timesharing system, MULTICS - I think it was Honeywell then bought by GE or the other way around.

Big mainframes. In the same building as MIT AI lab, where I hung around on Saturdays when I was in high school.

Had multiple types of accounts, and I got to try the lowest-end one. Typed a program that had an infinite loop. No way to stop it so when it ran out of the allowed CPU time, I got logged out with no way to save or edit it.

MULTICS was supposed to do a lot of things well. Those working on an simpler operating system decided to say theirs did one thing well, and named it UNIX. Linux is an open source UNIX compatible operating system; Bell Labs required big licensing fees for commercial use of Unix. Free for academia, though, so computer science students would want it where they worked.

Also crappy code - I had both VMS and ULTRIX (Digital Equipment Corporation's licensed Unix - I still have a fake New Hampsire license plate that says "UNIX"). Unix had stuff like u.u.u.u something. What was each u?

Not that I didn't write crappy code, but I learned from my mistakes. Today, they want cheap H1B programmers who make the same mistakes and probably cost more fixing them. Oh, well. My contract ran out after I turned 70. I can have fun writing code now.