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Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
charlie don't strafe

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

GD_American posted:

I feel like you're slighting George W. Bush here, as there is not one single record of a successful Viet Cong sortie over Texas during is time in the Air National Guard there

Dubya’s military service controversy is so quaint by today’s standards.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AS IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!

Platystemon posted:

Dubya’s military service controversy is so quaint by today’s standards.

What's funny is it's essentially an iteration of Dan Quayle's from a decade prior to that. Both children of privilege who managed to duck into the Nasty Guard.

Except W was a fighter pilot. Quayle was a welder.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


fknlo posted:

Kansas City air traffic control center has gone atc zero. They lost everything. Radar, radio, land lines, cpdlc, literally everything. You can go to adsbexchange.com and look at the giant space with almost no airplanes in it to see how impactful this could be if it’s not temporary. I don’t know how this happens without the lines coming into the building all getting cut.

The last time something like this happened was with Chicago center when a tech ops guy cut the lines in the basement, lit a fire, and tried to mill himself. This poo poo doesn’t just happen.

Die Hard 2 was p decent

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

It’s no Die Hard 1 but what is? 2 is a legit movie that had neither Alan Rickman or Samuel L Jackson.

E: Putting down a flame trail to land on is 100% cool as gently caress

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

The numbers don't lie, we're all fucked.

Kesper North posted:

I wish I had the luxury of doing this, but I'm a dual citizen and my partner lives just across the border in BC and the covid border shutdown already seperated us for 18 months and we both have responsibilities that keep us where we are soooooooooo

To a large extent, you're likely fine doing the same thing I am. There aren't many, if any, discussions about a northern border shutdown because Canada is full of white people. Republican/Donnie screaming about the Canadian border is more about trade bullshit versus racism/immigration bullshit. I could be totally wrong though!

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Are you a lumberjack?

You’re okay.

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

goatsestretchgoals posted:

Are you a lumberjack?

You’re okay.

Unless you wear women's underwear, in which case Elon Musk's DOGE (Department Of Genital Examination) will be in touch on January 21st

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon

Kazinsal posted:

Then there's the Triforce% ACE Showcase, in which dozens of people spent years reimplementing beta code, pre-release rumours, and "my uncle works at Nintendo" style late 90s/early 00s bullshit into Zelda 64 through a series of exploits and extremely high-precision replayed button presses, and then played it live on an unmodified Nintendo 64 and cartridge in front of audience of thousands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_pqyrf9lA

For anyone who is coming into this without context, when they power the N64 on at GDQ its in the exact config you'd have had in christmas of '98 - So they're reprogramming the game with all of these extensive mods *live* as they do the run.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

Die Hard 2 is the best of the franchise. Fight me.

Voyager I
Jun 29, 2012

This is how your posting feels.
🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

GD_American posted:

Except W was a fighter pilot. Quayle was a welder.

Sounds like better odds that Quayle did something useful in his time.

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

That Works posted:

Die Hard 2 was p decent

It’s honestly my least favorite, and that was before I got into ATC and my inner voice screams “THERE ARE A MILLION PLACES THEY CAN DIVERT TO OH MY GOD”

Internet rumor mill for ZKC going down last night is that it was power related. There are backups for everything of course but whatever they did may have blown all the fuses. I’ll probably find out more on Wednesday when I go back to work.

This is another best worst case scenario in that this stuff never seems to happen at the worst time. Like if the Chicago center fire had happened a few hours later there would have been absolute chaos. Tech ops stuff that can have major impacts usually happens on the overnight shift for this reason but they won’t pay for any of those people to be there overnight so you run into “we need to do this before midnight” a lot and then weird poo poo happens. This will get a whole lot of attention though because an entire center going down is a big loving deal.

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

bulletsponge13 posted:

Die Hard 2 is the best of the franchise. Fight me.

It did have the best game in the Die Hard trilogy PlayStation collection.

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


fknlo posted:

It’s honestly my least favorite

Tell me you haven't seen any die hards after 3 without saying you haven't seen any die hards after 3.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Stealing from gibbis

The Last Call posted:


Vid: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lfpp4vurqs2m

Was that not clear?
It's what Republicans have been saying for awhile now.
lol we're so hosed

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

CainFortea posted:

Tell me you haven't seen any die hards after 3 without saying you haven't seen any die hards after 3.

Was a bummer to see Willis go from charismatic action hero with legit good (or at least passable) acting in first Die Hard, Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, and Fifth Element to stop trying for a decade and a half & show up for whatever straight to video garbage crossed his desk, especially when it wasn’t a Michael Madsen/Nic Cage one step ahead of the taxman situation.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





I thought he started doing that because he knew dementia was rolling in and he wanted as much of a buffer as possible both for himself and his family

ASAPI
Apr 20, 2007
I invented the line.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

I thought he started doing that because he knew dementia was rolling in and he wanted as much of a buffer as possible both for himself and his family

This was my understanding as well. You even notice he doesn't speak much in his rapid fire later movies, most of which were effectively "direct to video".

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
Willis peaked with Hudson Hawk.

Fallom
Sep 6, 2008

Looper owned gently caress y'all

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe

CainFortea posted:

Tell me you haven't seen any die hards after 3 without saying you haven't seen any die hards after 3.

I don’t hate 4. The one after that doesn’t exist.

LongDarkNight
Oct 25, 2010

It's like watching the collapse of Western civilization in fast forward.
Oven Wrangler

Mr. Nice! posted:

Willis peaked with Hudson Hawk.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Utterly Dethpicable

Tiny Timbs posted:

Looper owned gently caress y'all

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Was a bummer to see Willis go from charismatic action hero with legit good (or at least passable) acting in first Die Hard, Sixth Sense, Pulp Fiction, and Fifth Element to stop trying for a decade and a half & show up for whatever straight to video garbage crossed his desk, especially when it wasn’t a Michael Madsen/Nic Cage one step ahead of the taxman situation.

Willis first major role was Moonlighting with Cybill Shepard. He became the action hero after his passible acting phase.

And yeah he has aphasia and did a bunch of poo poo movies so his current wife and younger kid would be set. He’s kids from Demi Moore are already loaded.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AS IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!

Tiny Timbs posted:

Looper owned gently caress y'all

I don't think anyone's roping Looper in with his direct to video dreck

At least, nobody with taste is

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006

I LOVE STICKS!!
the only thing i remember about looper is that tommy solomon is in it and thats good enough for me

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

fknlo posted:

It’s honestly my least favorite, and that was before I got into ATC and my inner voice screams “THERE ARE A MILLION PLACES THEY CAN DIVERT TO OH MY GOD”

Internet rumor mill for ZKC going down last night is that it was power related. There are backups for everything of course but whatever they did may have blown all the fuses. I’ll probably find out more on Wednesday when I go back to work.

This is another best worst case scenario in that this stuff never seems to happen at the worst time. Like if the Chicago center fire had happened a few hours later there would have been absolute chaos. Tech ops stuff that can have major impacts usually happens on the overnight shift for this reason but they won’t pay for any of those people to be there overnight so you run into “we need to do this before midnight” a lot and then weird poo poo happens. This will get a whole lot of attention though because an entire center going down is a big loving deal.

Fuses wouldn't surprise me, we had an install into a new data center and when we powered up the racks had a very satisfying WOOOM *black* KACHUNK *lights* WOOOM *black* as the primary and backup breakers both tripped. Turned out the installers had put the wrong fuses into both, and it was good enough to handle the first few sets of racks that went in but we were the straw on the (improperly built) camel's back.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

bird food bathtub posted:

Stealing from gibbis



lol we're so hosed

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1879226367847608788

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

Man we are so lucky that American Fascists are loving stupid as poo poo. If they were slightly more competent I'd be much more concerned.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Utterly Dethpicable

While that's a terrible answer, and it kind of indicates that he may not even know what Asean is, I wouldn't expect even a top level American appointee to have memorized the membership of every economic partnership we deal with. Its the kind of question that just having a cheat sheet for would be acceptable for.

There are better examples of this guy's insuitability for the position.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Tiny Timbs posted:

Looper owned gently caress y'all

I think looper was his last good movie?

Fallom
Sep 6, 2008

I checked his filmography and I am confident that’s the case

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006

I LOVE STICKS!!

hobbesmaster posted:

I think looper was his last good movie?

looking at his imdb, this is a pretty safe statement

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sausage.

Smellrose
I met two of the mythical "average American voters" at a bar today and oh my God we're hosed as a nation. Spoiler alert: They had strong views on issues but also no idea which historical president belonged to which political party.

In short it convinced me of something I already suspected: Biden's PR team should be put to death for sheer incompetence.

Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jan 15, 2025

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

A.o.D. posted:

While that's a terrible answer, and it kind of indicates that he may not even know what Asean is, I wouldn't expect even a top level American appointee to have memorized the membership of every economic partnership we deal with. Its the kind of question that just having a cheat sheet for would be acceptable for.

There are better examples of this guy's insuitability for the position.

the lack of a cheat sheet is in itself utterly disqualifying for an executive position because he's demonstrating he doesn't have a team whose only job is to keep him from embarrassing himself and would be too stupid to delegate to them if he did

finding such people, keeping them, and placing them to best effect is literally the entire job

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sausage.

Smellrose
Man, if I was even theoretically a possible nominee for SecDef I'd try to bone up on basic geopolitical facts like which countries are in a partnership with which.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

The numbers don't lie, we're all fucked.
dude's a long-term drunken fox news host with a penchant for philandering and fleecing a veterans nonprofit

he's not being nominated for his competence :v:

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Man, if I was even theoretically a possible nominee for SecDef I'd try to bone up on basic geopolitical facts like which countries are in a partnership with which.

Seems like a big deal to have a broad understanding of "The block that basically contains most of the land mass bordering the south china sea which china has geopolitical aims on." if you're either SecDef or SecState, but that's just my opinion.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sausage.

Smellrose

facialimpediment posted:

dude's a long-term drunken fox news host with a penchant for philandering and fleecing a veterans nonprofit

he's not being nominated for his competence :v:

I mean yeah but I made the mistake long ago of behaving like a responsible adult.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Does your average schlub on the street need to know it? No cause it is a bit of a wonk question.

When you're looking for nomination to a secretary position for an organization that does a lot of international diplomacy work the rubric changes a little bit.

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