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Bobbie Wickham
Apr 13, 2008

by Smythe

Inspector Gesicht posted:

As an antidote please list all the child-stars who graduated into normal people.

The kids on "Roseanne" turned out okay, even though she did not.

Edit: except for the guy who played Mark, he died from a heroin overdose.

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Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Driving some thing as big as a lorry or a bus or some thing must really suck. You pretty much know you are about to kill or seriously hurt some one but you are powerless to do any thing because you are in this heap of metal that you can barely manoeuvre.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

nexus6 posted:

I'm just sorry that this might affect the sister, as the executor, the most. Although she still did it and is really lovely for doing so, I hope the partner's lawyer can print out the reddit post to get the OP in as much trouble as well.
We only have OP's word that the sister was actually as close to the brother as they say. The fact that she was executor of the will suggests that she had some kind of relationship to the deceased brother, certainly, but that's all we know. And based on literally everything else we know about the family and how they operate, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they tasked the sister with maintaining a relationship to the brother for exactly this purpose.

SiKboy
Oct 28, 2007

Oh no!😱

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

We only have OP's word that the sister was actually as close to the brother as they say. The fact that she was executor of the will suggests that she had some kind of relationship to the deceased brother, certainly, but that's all we know. And based on literally everything else we know about the family and how they operate, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that they tasked the sister with maintaining a relationship to the brother for exactly this purpose.

We only have OP's word for literally every detail of the story to be fair.

Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


As you would expect that IGN reviewer who was fired for plagiarism did the deed more than once. I never would pegged him for a cheat as every word out of his mouth is a cliche anyway.

https://kotaku.com/ign-pulls-review-after-plagiarism-accusations-1828157939

At least when I ripped off the plot of an episode from Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids for my english-essay 12 years ago I just winged it from memory. Does anyone remember that show? With the stop-motion cryptkeeper-movie-guy?

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

SiKboy posted:

We only have OP's word for literally every detail of the story to be fair.
That's a good point actually.

So, more schad for this fine Wednesday morning.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technology/mobile-voting-west-virginia-voatz/index.html

quote:

West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad. But election integrity and computer security experts expressed alarm at the prospect of voting by phone, and one went so far as to call it "a horrific idea."

The state's decision to pioneer mobile voting comes even as the United States grapples with Russian interference in its elections. A recent federal indictment outlined Russia's attempts to hack US voting infrastructure during the 2016 presidential race, and US intelligence agencies have warned of Russian attempts to interfere with the upcoming midterm election.

Still, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Voatz, the Boston company that developed the app, insist it is secure. Anyone using it must first register by taking a photo of their government-issued identification and a selfie-style video of their face, then upload them via the app. Voatz says its facial recognition software will ensure the photo and video show the same person. Once approved, voters can cast their ballot using the Voatz app.

Ballots are anonymized, the company says, and recorded on a public digital ledger called blockchain. Although that technology is most often associated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, it can be used to record all manner of data.

Voatz is one of several companies exploring mobile balloting and recording votes on the blockchain. So far the technology has been limited to trial runs and private elections, such as balloting for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

West Virginia will limit the use of Voatz largely to troops serving abroad. "There is nobody that deserves the right to vote any more than the guys that are out there, and the women that are out there, putting their lives on the line for us," Warner said.

Officials tested Voatz in two counties during the primary election earlier this year with financial backing from Tusk Montgomery Philanthropies. Warner's office said four audits of various components of the tool, including its cloud and blockchain infrastructure, revealed no problems.

Still, state officials will leave a final decision on using the app in November to each county, Michael L. Queen, Warner's deputy chief of staff, told CNN.

Warner told CNN he is not calling for the replacement of traditional balloting, and said troops can cast paper ballots if they like. But Voatz co-founder and CEO Nimit S. Sawhney sees the state as a springboard to broader use of the technology.

Not everyone shares his enthusiasm.

"Mobile voting is a horrific idea," Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, told CNN in an email. "It's internet voting on people's horribly secured devices, over our horrible networks, to servers that are very difficult to secure without a physical paper record of the vote."

Marian K. Schneider, president of the election integrity watchdog group Verified Voting, was even more blunt. Asked if she thought mobile voting is a good idea, she said, "The short answer is no."

Related: Can this technology modernize how we vote?

Even if the Voatz app is secure -- something Schneider said she could not confirm because her organization has not vetted it -- the "attack area is much broader" under mobile voting, meaning it creates far more opportunities for hacking and meddling. She also worries about the lack of a paper trail for electronic votes. "Undetectable changes that could occur in transit," she said.

Warner is no neophyte to the need for security, and his efforts to secure the state's voting infrastructure earned praise last month from Matthew Masterson, a senior Department of Homeland Security official. Warner has lobbied the agency to share any information that might help states mitigate election meddling. He's even gone so far as to recruit the state National Guard in his fight against election interference.

Charles Stewart III, who teaches political science at MIT, said that although he doesn't consider mobile voting ready for "prime time," he credited West Virginia for being "the bold ones" testing the technology. "There is something to be said sometimes for small scale pilots where we can learn the trade-offs," he said.

November will provide just such a test. Supporters and skeptics of mobile voting will be watching closely.

aaaaaaaaaaaand already:

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026731097688887297

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026904510386585600

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Young Orc

chitoryu12 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk8g86S8CRY

This one actually has mostly videos I haven't seen before!

the water bucket one was extremely confusing, at least it ended well

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Young Orc

nice

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Inspector Gesicht posted:

As you would expect that IGN reviewer who was fired for plagiarism did the deed more than once. I never would pegged him for a cheat as every word out of his mouth is a cliche anyway.

https://kotaku.com/ign-pulls-review-after-plagiarism-accusations-1828157939

At least when I ripped off the plot of an episode from Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids for my english-essay 12 years ago I just winged it from memory. Does anyone remember that show? With the stop-motion cryptkeeper-movie-guy?

Heh, I wrote a sci-fi story for school where the main guy comes across someone covered in slime saying "kill me" before a monster bursts out of them. Everyone was like "that was from Aliens!" but I hadn't seen it, I had just picked up that scene from cultural osmosis or something.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Sir Tonk posted:

the water bucket one was extremely confusing, at least it ended well

Those blank guns are made of really brittle materials like Zamak. When he fired underwater, the expanding gases from the burning gunpowder couldn’t get through the water and pressure increased until the slide blew off the back.

Professor of Cats
Mar 22, 2009


HOLY lol. This whole thread is an entertaining read. Also LOL at "Voatz". That's some DaShareZone poo poo right there.

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Sep 7, 2014

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Plaster Town Cop
yes, I know, the Oscars are terrible, but this is a hilariously stupid move even for them:
https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1027213530842517504

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

china bot posted:

yes, I know, the Oscars are terrible, but this is a hilariously stupid move even for them:
https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1027213530842517504

wait new categories? I have a feeling...


#ANOSCARFORMEGAN

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

china bot posted:

yes, I know, the Oscars are terrible, but this is a hilariously stupid move even for them:

I clicked through and read some of the thread and I still don't understand

Sandwich Anarchist
Sep 12, 2008

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I clicked through and read some of the thread and I still don't understand

They aren't going to televise all the awards, so people won't be able to make their speeches on tv. It's very :qq:

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

that poo poo was longer than three hours before?

lmbo

china bot
Sep 7, 2014

you listen HERE pal
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Plaster Town Cop

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I clicked through and read some of the thread and I still don't understand

thread
https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/status/1027215970627145730

Ak Gara
Jul 29, 2005

That's just the way he rolls.

china bot posted:

yes, I know, the Oscars are terrible, but this is a hilariously stupid move even for them:
https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1027213530842517504

They're finally adding an Andy Serkis category!?

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



And the Oscar for making the most money goes to... *opens envelope* none of the movies made any money.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

Krankenstyle posted:

And the Oscar for making the most money goes to... *opens envelope* none of the movies made any money.

lol

Teddybear
May 16, 2009

Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!


This is basically “oh poo poo how can we avoid giving Black Panther a best picture nom” in action.

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

they played themselves, they never should have nominated any dumbshit comic book movies

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013

Inspector Gesicht posted:

As an antidote please list all the child-stars who graduated into normal people.

Wil Wheaton seems to have done good for himself, managing to go from being a hated child star into being a nerd celebrity while also remaining sane.


I like how they don't react to the hyenas but the cheetahs are recognizably "cat" enough to get them barking.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
New York Congressman Arrested On Insider Trading Charges


Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., was arrested Wednesday on charges related to insider trading.

A federal grand jury accused the Buffalo-area lawmaker of passing nonpublic information about a biotech company to his son, who traded on the information and passed it along to others.

Collins and the other defendants are charged with securities and wire fraud, conspiracy and lying to investigators.

Collins, who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, was the first member to publicly endorse Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He also served on Trump's transition team.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
It's not his first time being accused of insider trading, either.

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Weird, I didn't cows and pigs helped eachother out so much.

Clitch
Feb 26, 2002

I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus
I wonder if this is completely separate or a particle from Mueller's big chunk of fraud uranium.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

Teddybear posted:

This is basically “oh poo poo how can we avoid giving Black Panther a best picture nom” in action.

Change is in 2020, so they'll have to find a different way to do that.

This is just paving the way to give Polanski another Oscar

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45119326?ocid=socialflow_twitter

quote:

A woman who was arrested after speeding through a stop sign asked police to let her off because s he is a "a clean, thoroughbred white girl", officers say.

The arresting officer, who is white, detailed in his official report how Lauren Cutshaw, 32, appealed to him for special treatment based on her race.

When asked why, Ms Cutshaw replied: "You're a cop; you should know what that means," the report states.

She was arrested on Saturday night and also charged with drug possession.

Ms Cutshaw was stopped after she drove through a stop sign at 60mph (96km/h) in Bluffton, South Carolina.

Pleads
Jun 9, 2005

pew pew pew


Clitch posted:

I wonder if this is completely separate or a particle from Mueller's big chunk of fraud uranium.
Search your heart

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1027193256856117248

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1026855520148353026?s=19

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

to be completely fair this had a pretty good chance of working

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Good

Josef bugman
Nov 17, 2011

Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund

Inspector Gesicht posted:

At least when I ripped off the plot of an episode from Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids for my english-essay 12 years ago I just winged it from memory. Does anyone remember that show? With the stop-motion cryptkeeper-movie-guy?

Yes, it was painfully British.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

It's not his first time being accused of insider trading, either.

I'm amazed a Congressman was so brazen and bad at it as to actually get charged. Insider trading is *rife* among members of Congress (the signs of it during the Obamacare passage were insanely blatant, like Senators making moves that would make no sense except for the imminent passage of the regulations they were writing):

https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-insider-trading-john-kerry-obamacare-health-care-reform-2011-11

The fuckers were routinely beating the market by six percent. Any hedge fund manager that could make picks like that would be crowned in a public ceremony on Wall Street.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/05/are-members-of-congress-engaged-in-insider-trading/239564/

Insider trading wasn't even illegal for Congress until 2012, when Congress passed a bill making it illegal (and then turned right around and watered it down):

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/177496734/how-congress-quietly-overhauled-its-insider-trading-law

And in the ultimate chutzpah, Congress has since made the argument that while it's illegal for Congressmen to trade on material non-public information, it is *not* legal to investigate them for doing so:

https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/congress-argues-cant-investigated-insider-trading/

So basically for a Congressman to be nailed for insider trading takes some real stupidity.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://giant.gfycat.com/FearlessMeagerArawana.webm

MageMage
Feb 11, 2007

I SUCK AND LOVE TO YELL PERFORMATIVE HOT TAKES AND NONSENSE LIES WHEN I GET WORKED UP. SOMETIMES AUTOBANNED IS BETTER. MAYBE ONE DAY WHEN I STORM OFF I'LL ACTUALLY STOP SHITTING UP THE SITE FOR REAL

nexus6 posted:

I can't understand that family's reasoning at all. How could they possibly think ignoring a will and doing whatever they drat please was in any way OK? Do they live out in the middle of nowhere where there are no consequences for anybody's actions?

"Here's a legal document detailing my late brother's wishes. Nah, don't like that bit, or that bit, let's just change this bit here. Perfect."

Because /r/legaladvice is infamous for faking poo poo and Reddit falling for it

KingSlime
Mar 20, 2007
Wake up with the Kin-OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?!
"don't be believin' no internet stories yo"

-Michael Scott, Dunder Mifflin Infinity

Bobbie Wickham
Apr 13, 2008

by Smythe

nexus6 posted:

I can't understand that family's reasoning at all. How could they possibly think ignoring a will and doing whatever they drat please was in any way OK? Do they live out in the middle of nowhere where there are no consequences for anybody's actions?

"Here's a legal document detailing my late brother's wishes. Nah, don't like that bit, or that bit, let's just change this bit here. Perfect."

They're religious, they don't think a same-sex relationship is "real" like a heterosexual one. The OP couldn't even bring himself to use the words "boyfriend" or "partner" when referring to his late brother's boyfriend. The family is probably the type of people who call same-sex marriage an affront to "traditional" marriage. I hope the boyfriend presses criminal charges and everything takes place in a very public court of opinion.

Saint Freak posted:

New York Congressman Arrested On Insider Trading Charges

Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., was arrested Wednesday on charges related to insider trading.

A federal grand jury accused the Buffalo-area lawmaker of passing nonpublic information about a biotech company to his son, who traded on the information and passed it along to others.
Collins and the other defendants are charged with securities and wire fraud, conspiracy and lying to investigators.
Collins, who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, was the first member to publicly endorse Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He also served on Trump's transition team.

My Trump-supporter coworkers were whining about this, complaining that the FBI is corrupt and crap like that. One of them actually said he didn't appreciate what we were saying about his representative. (Collins's district is right next to mine, and it's (relatively) full of Republicans. This area voted for our hometown idiot Carl Paladino in the 2010 governor race, which he lost 65-35%. He barely held on to his seat on the Buffalo school board in a re-election; the 18-year old high school senior who challenged him, lost by only 132 votes. Eventually he got booted from the school board, ostensibly because he divulged privileged information from an executive session, but mostly because he's racist.)

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XYZ
Aug 31, 2001

https://imgur.com/gallery/sBkUB9h

:aaaaa:

https://wtop.com/national/2018/08/michigan-parents-charged-in-neglect-death-of-10-month-old/

XYZ has a new favorite as of 23:55 on Aug 8, 2018

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