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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 5:16:33 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 2:
This looks like it's turning into the AOS every other Saturday night gun thread now. Who are you really?
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 5:26:43 PM
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In #3 Alice in Dairyland said: This looks like it's turning into the AOS every other Saturday night gun thread now. Who are you really? AOS? At least it isn't AOC. Me, I'm just the Shadow of a Vorlon (In the 1990's SF series Babylon 5, there are races that advanced "beyond the rim", whatever that means, but left two behind to help younger races advance. The two are the Vorlons, who believe in advancement by strict order (their orders). The two of them we meet are both called Kosh ("We are all Kosh"). The other is the Shadows (we have no other word for them), who believe in advancement by chaos, war. Make of this what you will But my preferred pronoun is "Most high alien representative"
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 5:37:32 PM
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In #4 Kosh's Shadow said: AOS? Ace of Spades. I'm just Alice, who's fallen through the looking glass in Wisconsin. I crawled into one of the holes in the Swiss cheese and haven't been able to find my way out. I have no preferred pronoun. Think of me what you may. I am neither a girly girl nor a masculine one. I ams what I ams and that's all that I ams.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 5:38:02 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 3: And I don't own a gun and never have fired one in my life. I would love to, and a gun expert my wife needed in a case agrees with me (he let me handle many guns in his lab, because he saw I was careful), but i haven't gotten to yet. "This is an 1895 Colt. It's worth $25,000. Would you like to hold it?" YES, and I did. I even operated it. But rule 1 NO PICTURES
I credit what I have learned here that he let me handle these weapons. I NEVER pointed them within 180 degrees of anyone; made sure they were not loaded; etc.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 5:45:23 PM
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USA Today says "new mask rules trust Americans will be honest about vaccine status. Experts say they'll lie". And these people get paid for writing this!
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 5:47:43 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 9: Where I work, we don't have to be vaccinated, but we must report our vaccination status by a certain date. I have done so. They do say the information will be kept confidential, and where I work, I actually can believe them.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 5:55:15 PM
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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: I credit what I have learned here When my son was young, he had to attend a hunter's safety course prior to getting his first deer hunting license. Most of the time my husband went with him, but one night I had to fill in. That night the subject was "be sure of your target and beyond". That message has certainly stuck with me. Everything else I have learned has come from my son and husband. We used to own several guns, but have unfortunately lost them in a recent canoe accident. I could never make a free-throw with a basketball and managed to take out about three garage windows over the years, but amazed my family with my target shooting. I guess I thought accuracy was more important in one endeavor than the other. I enjoy target shooting but hate the cost of ammunition. I could never kill an animal though. Husband and son no longer hunt either. Meat is cheaper at the grocery store or from the local farmers.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 5:57:24 PM
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In #10 Kosh's Shadow said: They do say the information will be kept confidential Sure, the next thing you know their data will be hacked and the fact that you've been vaccinated will be all over the internet///
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 6:01:00 PM
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In #12 Alice in Dairyland said: ure, the next thing you know their data will be hacked and the fact that you've been vaccinated will be all over the internet/// And the feds will be hunting them down. Believe me. Where I work, printers and scanners are marked with whether they can be used for [xxx] and personally identifiable information. The feds would not take a hack like that easily. Plus, the place does have some good computer security people, unlike that pipeline company that was hacked, where a report said an 8th grader could hack their system.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 6:05:04 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 13: When I was in 8th grade, computer security was not the thing it is now, but I knew people who could hack into quite a lot. The MIT AI lab was pretty open, and I spent time there. I lived the early days of high school hackers.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:11:06 PM
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In #13 Kosh's Shadow said: The feds would not take a hack like that easily. Have you met our new president? I'm not sure the current administration wouldn't just sell someone the passwords!
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 6:15:44 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 15: There are still some real military people in the security chain where I work. Besides, Biden probably cannot remember his own password.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 6:16:31 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 15: To combine some threads, I think Biden's password is AliceHeizmer
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:19:57 PM
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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: Biden probably cannot remember his own password. I didn't know you needed a password for an Etch-a-Sketch.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:24:11 PM
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At my former employer, there was a guy who was very computer illiterate. He did have a good sense of humor about it. One day the guys replace his flat screen monitor with an Etch-a-Sketch and I thought we were going to all die laughing. He thought it was hilarious too.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:30:10 PM
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Then there was the time when one on my coworkers (a young engineer) went on vacation for a week. He returned to find I had popped off all the keys on his keyboard and put them back on in alphabetical order. He came in an hour before I did so I missed his initial reaction. He said he was fine tying until he looked down at the keyboard and then he was screwed. Had to keep rolling in his chair back and forth between our desks to look at my keyboard to get it right. It wasn't until he was all done that it occurred to him to just switch the keyboards. We laughed about that for years.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 6:32:24 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 20:
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:34:55 PM
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Ha, exactly right! Nobody wants to be the boss anymore. It just means everybody else at work it smarter than they are.
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Kosh's Shadow
5/15/2021 6:35:19 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 21: In high school, we had an IBM 1130 paid for by a rich alumnus (rented for the price of a VW beetle a month) Some people pulled all the covers of the lights that had the labels and had me put them back. I did very well. (Switched two similar ones) Later, I worked at DEC where someone pulled the keycaps off a keyboard and had the person put them back.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:49:13 PM
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This has been good for me. Makes me remember that there were a lot of good days and people at work. There was a lot of tom-foolery in my department. I think we were the envy of the company. There was always some anticipation and excitement of what was to come. Some departments were allowed no fun at all. I never could have worked there in one of those departments for 32 years and not ended up in prison.
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Alice in Dairyland
5/15/2021 6:56:42 PM
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One day a gal in accounting called me in near tears about something her boss did. He was an ass. I told her I would make a voodoo doll of him and stick a pin in its head. We laughed. She called me an hour later to tell me he went home with a migraine and to remind her to never make me mad at her. Now that was a fun day!
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buzzsawmonkey
5/15/2021 8:01:12 PM
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There was an article recently in the Wall Street Journal---I saw it in hard copy, and alas do not have an account with the WSJ to post it online---about the Rhodes Scholarships going "woke." Apparently, wokies want the money and the benefits, but want to change the terms of the documents under which the grants are made. And also, apparently, the original terms of the Scholarships specifically say that they shall not be awarded on any basis of prejudice regarding the race or religion of the awardees---but that's not woke enough for the wokies.
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Occasional Reader
5/15/2021 8:09:15 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 27:
What, you want people to be judged on the content of their characters, or something like that? What are you, some kind of Klansman?!
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buzzsawmonkey
5/15/2021 8:18:20 PM
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In #28 Occasional Reader said: What, you want people to be judged on the content of their characters, or something like that? What are you, some kind of Klansman?!
Yep, a longtime member of the Martin Luther Klan. Looked up Cecil Rhodes in my biographical dictionary. He didn't make it to fifty, but man did he end up packing a lot into his 49 years. He was not only involved in the Kimberley diamond rush, he was involved in creating the De Beers diamond consortium; was involved not only in fighting a number of African tribesmen but in eventually making peace with them; he both fought, and worked with, the South African Boers; he was involved in trying to build a railway line from Cape Town to Cairo. Oh, and served some time as a legislator, too. A truly remarkable man.
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