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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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orange juche posted:

quoted from previous thread


I spent a couple minutes in paint circling the locations where Russian troop movements have been noted in the last couple of days.



those look like pretty significant locations?

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

I can't help myself with dogs. I broke up a dog fight yesterday.

I also can't help myself with cats either, but I've had several and one currently, so maybe it's the toxoplasmosis.

I used to be that way, but now I have added bunny rescue to the list

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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shame on an IGA posted:

buns are the best, it's on the whole a similar experience to having a cat but with completely bizzaro alien body language

The bunny thread is currently yelling at me over things I learned working at the shelter, so its gonna be a super fun experience 😂

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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maffew buildings posted:

I'm more alarmed that the spending accelerated and tapping the line items saying "Ah well they bought file cabinets this time!" doesn't make me feel good about them having the spending power going forward

Was it spending? I thought that program was donations of gear from the military to the police

As far as the harmless poo poo, they should be paying for it, not getting it for free, not with the budget they have, or better, give them(some of) the free poo poo, but ake their budget away to go to useful poo poo.

And nothing they can't get without their military connections ffs

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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maffew buildings posted:

Not spending, thank you for catching. Still alarming for all the reasons everyone has stated.

Yeah, the lack of spending doesn't make it better

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Are there.... three of them?

would you have shown up?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CBJSprague24 posted:

Is it bad I would've expected Big Strong Babby to try and get something similar passed had he won?

I'm pretty sure everyone expected it

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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shutting it down on 4/20

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Mr. Nice! posted:

I don't think we'll find a good car analogy, and I don't think a legal contract is a good analogy either. That's just a form, and the API is more than just a form. And yes, I understand the API is only a small part of the enabling code, but that's the part that is necessary for java programs to be able to interact with android without having to learn new functions and their associated syntax.

Should Oracle be the only entity that gets to decide what devices run java or java like programs using the java api? No, I don't think that's right. Should google get to use the java API without some compensation to Oracle? I don't think they should, either.

the API should be open simply because all it is in a language that my program uses to talk to yours. if the API is part of my code, it should behoove me to make it available so other people can work with my product.

like, suing over someone using your API is something only Oracle, a company notorious for high level patent trolling, would try to do. hating google is well and good, but oracle has been refining their brand of petty evil in courts for decades

And after they spent so much effort ripping off RHEL wholesale that Red Hat had to change their entire pipeline to block Oracle from stealing their work and charging money for it, its pretty funny watching them try and sue for something like this

RFC2324 fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Apr 5, 2021

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Mr. Nice! posted:

We really need something new to regulate this field.

this is without a doubt true. its a new form of IP, and we need rules made for it.

maybe later some grand unified theory of copyright, IP, and trade secrets can be established

Mr. Nice! posted:

I think that oracle should have some right to control their programming language.

maybe, but when its part of the underlying infrastructure of the internet at this point its like the inventor of concrete, Jimmy Concrete, wanting to demand what dams get built.

RFC2324 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 5, 2021

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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ASAPI posted:

Yes. A thousand times yes. Their timesheet is total garbage.

I don’t understand how/why there are so many garbage timesheet programs. It shouldn’t be that hard.

at a guess the interface that the HR people use is super nice, and you don't have to sell it to the schmucks who punch a clock

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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ASAPI posted:

It isn't just Florida with this. Sister-in-law that lives in California works with all right wingers. They convinced her somehow that the vaccine was bad and produced from the dead bodies of aborted babies. We need more than deprogramming.

A friend in europe was just telling me how their sister was refusing the vaccine because it was so obviously unsafe. I armed them with some facts, but its not even an american chud thing

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Milo and POTUS posted:

Jesus christ this'd be an empty rear end country if that were the case

That was my thought. Dude was a crazy rear end evangelical who just happened to put some legit very bad people at the top of his hate list. Make no mistake, he hated the rest of us too.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Well that too. He would havea long way to go before he got to everyone else

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Pine Cone Jones posted:

I like to think of it like the Zap Brannigan Killbot strategy. Eventually he'll get tuckered out after all the confederates and nazis.

:kiss:

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Lake of Methane posted:

How much of EVE is specifically goons compared to being its own thing that is goon-adjacent?

Considering I had someone with a GEWNS tag(which requires an SA account)freak the gently caress out on me for saying that I am an active poster, I'm going with basically entirety goon adjacent

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Violent sports aren't going away, but I do hear parents actually deciding not to let their kids play full contact stuff any more.

Football as a game will likely slowly transition to one of the safer variations we have now(like touch or flag), and will become a sport you encourage your kid to do because they have no other options, not instead of other options.

I feel like hockey is already there. I don't think many canadians are giving up futures as surgeons to play hockey, tho I may be wrong

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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I mean, Americans too, so we will always have violent sports. But parents are getting less likely to let little Timmy play football until its clear that yeah, his destiny is hitting people.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CBJSprague24 posted:

Or repeat the same propaganda hoping it lands:


I can tell just by looking at this douchebike that he's probably got skeletons in the closet somewhere, so I'm hoping he gets caught up in a scandal five minutes ago.

e- I'll put $5 on crack habit.

I'll bet on 'so racist it makes the GOP blink'

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Buy 5 acres north of Fort Collins, put up a barn bar, make it vets only and call it The Farm Upstate. A place for vets to play and run free in their elder years.

I'm joking but kinda not really. Buying plots of land and having a communal grounds to gather would be helpful as gently caress. Buy enough land, and you could build something useful, like a transient/homeless vet small home community, donation and distribution center, gently caress, even just a softball diamond to compete against other Farms Upstate.

Officers welcome, but not for leadership roles. We all know where that would get us.

Really, a vet bar/halfway house would probably be one of the best ideas to happen to the military

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Reason I lean to a large plot property is what you can eventually do with it. Even if that's just giving a handful of vets a chance at some sort of housing.

I mean, city and county planning (in lots of places, not all) are likely to give in on some poo poo if you had an org buy 10 acres on the edge of town to put up 50-75 tiny homes (500-1000sqft cabins) for transient and homeless vets.

I really wonder what kind of grant or gov money you could get if you bought a motel (with bar lounge) and devoted it to transient and homeless vets. Find a motel on the outskirts of a city, get chummy with some VA people, get a gov check and some city/county tax leniency, start rehabbing some old Motel 6 to suit vet needs.

So what's a dying motel company? Knights Inn? Super 8?

I know this is getting way off tangent, but...

If you set it up as like, a dual sided club(half is vets only, the other half is memberships sold to the public) you could do alot more to be self sufficient, you would have more jobs to provide(need more than twice as many bartenders, plus whatever support staff), and it would likely have pretty large community support, even if you are openly left leaning (maybe even more support in some places). It being vet oriented, coming up with startup funding should be pretty easy between grants and crowdfunding.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CRUSTY MINGE posted:

So how long until a cop pulls over the wrong officer and has artillery rained on his house?

Because that would be a fun story to read.

"Oh how cute, you think you pulled a gun on me. Now, THIS is how you use a real Gun"

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Cugel the Clever posted:

The monarchy should die with the queen.

I kinda like the queen, but the only once of her spawn worth a drat is Harry.

So yeah, unless the one who has abdicated inherits, the entire moarchy should die(or be acknowledged as nothing but a high profile reality tv show)

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Wonder how many times Trump dropped a deuce in the White House hallway

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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SquirrelyPSU posted:

As far as I can tell, the J&J is not going to be an option in my locality, but it would be my preference. Much like if I take my car in for an inspection, and they tell me my brake pads are close, I ask how much and how long. And I'll pay 100$ more than normal, but I'm not going to have to make a second appointment.

While I was sitting waiting I got to listen to one of the nurses explaining that we are doing J&J because the effectiveness is too low, which got me thinking about how much more effective the vaccines are going to have to be now than in the past, because antivax idiots ruined everything

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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facialimpediment posted:

Yeah our hands aren't clean, I'm just more or less rolling my eyes at the patent thing as the topic du jour of online arguments. The equivalent of "I would simply make more graphics cards!" of the semiconductor shortage.


Or the law of large numbers:

https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/1381238747908485127?s=19

poo poo, I saw someone get wheeled away for feeling dizzy and nauseated, and I feel it slightly myself(mostly stomach cramps) but like, that was a straight "this may happen, just let us know and we will get you a place to lay down" no panic situation. Shutting down sites over a known reaction to injections is nuts

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Midjack posted:

They're just looking for excuses to not let people have their shots.

I get that, but it still feels like its giving me a stroke

This may finally be my crackping

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Godholio posted:

Yup, gun owners are all chuds.

Never change, thread.

No one said that

All anyone said is that cops are scum

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Best Friends posted:

GG is extremely impactful and good on Brazilian politics and bad but a sideshow in US politics. He's wrong here but I would not take this to mean he's a ped. Glenn has an extreme case of lawyer brain where he loves nothing more than following an argument to extreme conclusions.

The pedo defender defender has logged in

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Stravag posted:

On a different note thr new fast and furious trailer looks entirely rediculous and i called in like 2014 Han coming back from nowhere in a couple movies to save everyone's asses out of nowhere because the people making those have no actual plan lol

I read this as Han Solo at first and was suddenly far more interested in F&F.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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hobbesmaster posted:

White people get away with claiming self defense in killing non white people in ridiculous circumstances all the time.

Yeah, but they get arrested for it if it looks like a murder, even if the courts rule in their favor

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Mr. Nice! posted:

Sidebar because Dr. Tobin just mentioned a blood gas measurement.

Can we move to the Hollywood system where surprise witnesses are allowed?

Because thats some bullshit

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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I feel like all proving that it was CO from the car exhaust does is change the exact means, but without casting doubt on it. So the suffocation part of torturing and suffocating someone in your power to death is a little different.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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"your honor, it obviously wasn't murder because while my client stabbed the alleged victim 14 times, it was actually the gunshot my client dispensed that killed him"

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Its less that capitalism is cause, and more that its the thing that binds all the causes together in a much more efficient machine for loving the not-rich

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Capitalism is the motive force that has all these societal flaw marching in lockstep

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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FrozenVent posted:

I mean with an active pandemic and such it might not be a great time to encourage mass movements of people.

But gently caress maintaining any policy Trump set.

I agree with this, with a side helping of

facialimpediment posted:

I'm irrationally hopeful that the cap gets lifted in a few months once vaccines are 100% available and chudfucks can't yell about refugees getting vaccines before (white) Americans.

Ideally, we will just keep the border soft closed until we can just vaccinate people as they come in, which SHOULD wait until everyone already here is dealt with(I am in favor of roving vaccinations squads, myself. The south park antivax episode gives me Ideas)

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Iain posted:

edit: Bonus! Here is a food stand from somewhere around Orgun-E in Paktika province. Just missed it but the guy poked his head out anyway. From the top of a humvee.


this is really cool, is there a thread where you guys post pics like this?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I'm absolutely certain the Royals have a technical of some sort somewhere on their property.

I wonder if any of them has tried to make a technical out of a horse

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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A Bad Poster posted:

Good news! A lot of the shittier ones seem to be self selecting themselves for early graves.

Bad news! They are doing their best to take the rest of us with them.

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