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Kosh's Shadow
12/18/2020 3:26:39 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 32: Good. I added some detail.
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vxbush
12/18/2020 3:31:21 PM
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In #33 Kosh's Shadow said: Good. I added some detail. Thanks. I noted that, and I appreciate the comments.
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vxbush
12/18/2020 3:35:12 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 34: Oh, one followup, just because.
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 4:03:06 PM
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Waiting for my Uber, following physical therapy for my knee, a little shopping and dinner. I think I’ve spent more on Uber in the last six weeks than I did it in the preceding two years. Tomorrow I’m going to see if I can wedge myself in my car comfortably enough to start driving again.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/18/2020 4:21:05 PM
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I note that it was Kaspersky Labs that said it was a Russian hack. Kaspersky is Russian. Putin boasting or claiming credit when it wasn't due?
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vxbush
12/18/2020 5:14:36 AM
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Morning, campers. I am so ready for this week to be over. I need some serious bumming time.
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vxbush
12/18/2020 5:52:04 AM
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This is actually a decent write up of the Solar Winds hack, except I am far more inclined to think the group starting this hack was China, not Russia. And I'm wondering if there's actually a Chinese government agent who is one of the programmers at Solar Winds. I have no evidence of this, but it might not be that hard to do. The article leads with the worrying part about the nuclear access, but I'm actually more worried about the last point--this has infiltrated so much of our networking systems that we may never get it all out.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/18/2020 6:35:34 AM
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I mentioned yesterday that the Left is treating small-business owners the way Stalin treated the kulaks. Looking at the ads in the NYC subways, I realized that the Left is also treating "first responders" and "essential workers" as the new Stakhanovites. And, between Biden invoking FDR and comparing himself to FDR as the Left shuts down small businesses all over, while at the same time demanding that the federal government bail out the people that they've ruined, it seems clear that the Left is trying to created its very own new Great Depression, with half the country on relief---whether with the intent to use this manufactured crisis sell the entire country to China or not, I am not yet certain.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/18/2020 6:40:04 AM
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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: whether with the intent to use this manufactured crisis sell the entire country to China or not, I am not yet certain. The country has already been sold to China. We'll be getting our fortune cookies after the inauguration.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/18/2020 6:45:24 AM
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In #5 Kosh's Shadow said: The country has already been sold to China. Possibly. But further increasing our debt and getting publicly bailed out by China---because of the pandemic, of course---will be a way of formalizing it in plain sight to make it clear to even the low-info population.
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buzzsawmonkey
12/18/2020 6:51:22 AM
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NPR's Morning Sedition carried a piece on Disney's Fantasia today. It appears that there's a new re-issue of the film, with the sections now deemed insufficiently "woke" because they contain racial or sexual stereotypes deemed unacceptable by the trembly-boweled, have been edited out.
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 7:21:14 AM
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In #2 lucius septimius said: Doctors say that more white people should be allowed to die of COVID to "level the playing field."
These people are monsters. There is no other word for it.
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 7:39:26 AM
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In #3 vxbush said: This is actually a decent write up Well, except for the promo for Joe Biden at the end. What the hell happened to Allahpundit?
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doppelganglander
12/18/2020 7:57:56 AM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 2: If this is what they say in public, imagine what they're saying behind closed doors.
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JCM
12/18/2020 8:22:59 AM
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WA State Dept of Health got busted inflating the COVID numbers, I posted that yesterday. Dept of Health posted revised methodology for counting deaths. This jumped out how they previous counted deaths. Until now, we correlated a positive COVID-19 lab result up to 60 days prior to death. So if the person tested positive in the last two months and dies.... IT'S COVID!
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 8:38:09 AM
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In #11 JCM said: So if the person tested positive in the last two months and dies.... IT'S COVID!
Including, if he rode his motorcycle into a brick wall at 100 mph. "Another Covid-19 death..."
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vxbush
12/18/2020 8:48:19 AM
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In #9 Occasional Reader said: Well, except for the promo for Joe Biden at the end.
What the hell happened to Allahpundit? He hated Trump so much that he totally went full Democrat. He believed every lie that came out about Trump and Russia and I don't think he ever believed any of the information put out by Papadopoulos and others about how they were set up.
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JCM
12/18/2020 9:33:54 AM
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NYSlimes vaccine distribution is RACIST Marc Lipsitch, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, argued that teachers should not be included as essential workers, if a central goal of the committee is to reduce health inequities.“Teachers have middle-class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees,” he said. “Of course they should be treated better, but they are not among the most mistreated of workers.”
** Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities. “Older populations are whiter, ” Dr. Schmidt said. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
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buzzsawmonkey
12/18/2020 9:36:32 AM
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Is Tide laundry detergent going to start claiming its washday miracle is to make clothes blacker than white?
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Kosh's Shadow
12/18/2020 9:57:16 AM
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In #16 JCM said: Seattle police begin clearing homeless camp from Cal Anderson Park The homeless need somewhere to go. I suggest the homes of the City Councilors who have voted to provide for the homeless. Let them put their money where their mouths are.
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JCM
12/18/2020 10:12:55 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 17: I would have no problem with a designated area. A vacant lot, preferable a large vacant warehouse. You can't live in parks or on the street, you can pitch your tent here. Control access, have security, provide sanitation facilities, etc... Yeah it would cost but the cost of not doing something like that is higher.
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doppelganglander
12/18/2020 10:26:30 AM
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Reply to JCM in 18: It would inevitably become a drug-infested, dangerous slum, but at least it would be contained. Remember when hobos took over a really nice park in an upscale neighborhood? All the rich white libs were thrilled until the hobos started smoking meth in the open and stabbing each other.
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JCM
12/18/2020 10:45:15 AM
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In #19 doppelganglander said:
It would inevitably become a drug-infested, dangerous slum, but at least it would be contained. It would... once it is contained start working on the enforcement. First on the human trafficking. Then when someone ODs they get they get the choice treatment or jail time.
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 11:25:49 AM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 19:
Your use of the term “hobo“ to describe these people is unfair to actual hobos!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo “ Unlike a "tramp", who works only when forced to, and a "bum", who does not work at all, a "hobo" is a traveling worker.”
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doppelganglander
12/18/2020 11:32:42 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21: Thanks for the clarification. In my family we often call them hobos because of a note my son wrote me when I was going to the library. For some reason, the homeless were allowed to congregate near the Young Adult section, where the books he wanted were shelved. He listed the titles and added "Watch out for hobos."
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 11:40:40 AM
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In #22 doppelganglander said: He listed the titles and added "Watch out for hobos." How hobophobic.
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doppelganglander
12/18/2020 11:55:11 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23: LOL!
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vxbush
12/18/2020 1:12:58 PM
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For anyone wonder what the heck this SolarWinds security issue is, I have spent a lot of time today gaining more understanding of it, even though I won't be doing any work on mitigation. I'm just trying to explain to my coworkers who aren't technical what it is and how it works. I have what I think is a reasonable explanation that a kindergarten student would understand. If folks want it, I can put it up in the Frontier.
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Occasional Reader
12/18/2020 1:49:16 PM
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In #25 vxbush said: If folks want it, I can put it up in the Frontier Please!
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JCM
12/18/2020 1:57:59 PM
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Had to run an errand, the Dr. Jill Biden controversy was nooze.
I had a BRILLIANT insight, if I say so myself. Jill should just declare her preferred pronoun is Doctor! Problem solved.
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Kosh's Shadow
12/18/2020 2:16:18 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 29:
An example WHAT follows is a description taken from the course catalog of the
Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. The first word
has been blanked out by our informant, who intended to protect the
perpetrator, obviously the one who teaches these blankety-blank courses: –?– courses involve the inextricable
interrelationships of different disciplines, but linguistic
sophistication and communicative competence to improve interpersonal
communication and international understanding are the all-encompassing
objectives.
So how’s that for linguistic sophistication and communicative
competence? (The latter can only mean “any competence that
communicates,” and not, as the writer imagines, “competence in
communicating.” The difference is important. This writer has no
competence in communicating, and his competence, such as it is, is all
too communicative of that fact. )
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vxbush
12/18/2020 2:52:59 PM
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In #28 Kosh's Shadow said: I will let vxbush put up her explanation, but here are three articles on it I have one piece of research to do for the daughter on something completely different, and then I'll post it.
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vxbush
12/18/2020 3:10:50 PM
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Go to the Frontier to see my description.
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