Out of the Blue

Apparently I am fortunate to have power this morning, as the severe thunderstorms yesterday that are becoming commonplace in this area knocked out electricity in some local areas, as high wind and lightning strikes are not completely compatible with overhead power lines. I don't know how many people were impacted by this, or how long repairs will take, but it does serve as a warning that one of these days I may end up with problems updating if one of these blackouts strikes the BlueTower.

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Jun 25, 2015, 10:29
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 25, 2015, 10:29
Jun 25, 2015, 10:29
 
Even for you Cutter this is a new low. All of the America bashing and other silliness like holocaust apologism is just insane. I'm going to join others in putting you on ignore, when you decide to grow up you can send me a message through the board PM system and I'll check your post history to see if its improved but until then I don't want to hear from you.
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Jun 24, 2015, 20:46
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Jun 24, 2015, 20:46
 
Retired wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 18:31:
Went on vacation for a week....in 1 day I used my "50 MB" service in "roaming" from T-Mobile.

Called them, they said, oh, we don't have service there, but we will gladly sell you a data plan to cover you while you are there. FOR 7 DAYS!

We went to Best Buy and bought new phones and new service with Verizon - which we had service the whole time there and the drive back.

F you T-mobile!

Side note, we used 3GB in 5 days. Can you imagine THAT BILL! wow.

Huh, been happy with my T-Mobile service, although I don't roam much with that phone.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 24, 2015, 18:31
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Jun 24, 2015, 18:31
 
Went on vacation for a week....in 1 day I used my "50 MB" service in "roaming" from T-Mobile.

Called them, they said, oh, we don't have service there, but we will gladly sell you a data plan to cover you while you are there. FOR 7 DAYS!

We went to Best Buy and bought new phones and new service with Verizon - which we had service the whole time there and the drive back.

F you T-mobile!

Side note, we used 3GB in 5 days. Can you imagine THAT BILL! wow.
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Jun 24, 2015, 16:26
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 16:26
Jun 24, 2015, 16:26
 
nin wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:57:
jdreyer wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:39:
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean.

What the fuck????


Opposing Facism means you're a reactionary Liberal. Obviously.

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Jun 24, 2015, 16:13
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 16:13
Jun 24, 2015, 16:13
 
House cat couldn't care less about a big, scary mountain lion.

Speaking of cats being in places they're not supposed to be. That is one lucky cat.
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:57
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 15:57
Jun 24, 2015, 15:57
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jdreyer wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:39:
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean.

What the fuck????

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Jun 24, 2015, 15:43
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 15:43
Jun 24, 2015, 15:43
 
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
Why? For being hard on murderers and rapists? Oh, please allow me to mop up all that blood bleeding out of your heart for all those hard done psychopaths. I'm sure people like you think they should all spend their time at Club Med instead, but most rational people think they should be doing a hell of a lot more for the fortune they cost us. And that capital punishment should be a lot more efficient, faster, and cheaper.

Are you really childish enough to think that everyone is in prison for rape and murder? Maybe you're dumb enough to want people who commit violent crimes to have easier access to things like glass, metals and heavy machinery but thankfully most prison officials are not. I'm happy you want convicts running around the country with threadbare supervision but I don't, I want them in prison until they've done their time. A society is judged not by how it treats everyone by the way, not just the people who don't commit crimes. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that you're a nazi apologist considering you're literally coming out in favor of slavery here. As if the corporate run work programs aren't bad enough.

q[And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean.
Did you think you could slide with that concentration camp reference and no one would notice? Yeah they were wonderfully efficient at creating summer fun camps and going on joyrides through other countries. You're positively disgusting, not to mention ignorant. I'm tired of reading your tripe and its obvious you just want attention so you're being denied that from now on, you get the shit list. I would say have a nice life but its obvious you aren't having much of anything other than toxicity.
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 24, 2015, 15:39
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:39
 
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:10:
Why? For being hard on murderers and rapists? Oh, please allow me to mop up all that blood bleeding out of your heart for all those hard done psychopaths. I'm sure people like you think they should all spend their time at Club Med instead, but most rational people think they should be doing a hell of a lot more for the fortune they cost us. And that capital punishment should be a lot more efficient, faster, and cheaper.
Nice straw man argument. No one said anything about being easy on prisoners. When you use them as slave labor, you create perverse incentives for keeping them in prison longer than they normally would, beyond paying off their 'debt to society.' It becomes tempting to deny parole, to trump up charges to add years to people's sentences, etc. etc. The prison system in the US is a fairly corrupt institution that doesn't need much motivation to be even more corrupt. Throw a slave-labor-run business into the mix, and the possibilities are endless.

And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean. America has done far worse and is in a lot worse shape, they simply have better PR. Or maybe you feel the system is just awesome as is and things are only getting better. Only a child or an idiot thinks in terms that something is utterly good or evil.
When you paraphrase "Arbeit macht frei" from Auschwitz and relate it to American prisoners, you're implying that they be treated the same as concentration camp victims. Given the history of that phrase and its infamy, there's really no other conclusion. If you want to have a discussion of the socio-economic effects of Nazism in Germany post W.W.I, that's a separate conversation, and not what you did. You threw out the single-most reviled phrase of the holocaust, and you deserve to be called on it.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:17
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 15:17
Jun 24, 2015, 15:17
 
Extreme Metal Music and Anger Processing.

Among our sample of extreme music fans in the normal range on symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress, the majority reported that they listened to extreme music for a range of emotional effects – most pertinently to fully experience anger and to calm themselves down when feeling angry.

These reports were supported by the experimental results. The anger induction was successful, as shown in increased ratings of hostility and irritability and increased heart rate at the end of the anger interview. Those who listened to music when angry did not show an increase in heart rate or subjective hostility and irritability. Rather, they showed a decrease in subjective hostility and irritability that was equivalent to those who sat in silence.

Huh, who knew?
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:10
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:10
 
jdreyer wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 15:00:
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:43:
And easy solution for recycling plants, make the convicts work them. I never understood why there wasn't more of a gulag style system for prisons. People just sitting around burning up tax dollars is insane. Put them to work.
In Japan, they citizenry has been manually separating paper, glass, steel, plastic, and aluminum into separate bins for decades. It's not that hard people.

As for using prisoners as slave labor, you create perverse incentives for keeping them in prison. Also, locating a recycling center in a prison creates all sorts of escape opportunities with large trucks constantly going in and out of a sprawling facility.

Work makes freedom.
You're not helping your reputation as a Nazi sympathizer there bub.

Why? For being hard on murderers and rapists? Oh, please allow me to mop up all that blood bleeding out of your heart for all those hard done psychopaths. I'm sure people like you think they should all spend their time at Club Med instead, but most rational people think they should be doing a hell of a lot more for the fortune they cost us. And that capital punishment should be a lot more efficient, faster, and cheaper.

And the Nazis weren't all bad, so stop with the shrill liberal reactionary bit. They had a lot of good, common sense reforms in government and making things efficient, productive, safe, and clean. America has done far worse and is in a lot worse shape, they simply have better PR. Or maybe you feel the system is just awesome as is and things are only getting better. Only a child or an idiot thinks in terms that something is utterly good or evil.

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Jun 24, 2015, 15:02
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 15:02
Jun 24, 2015, 15:02
 
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:35:
Task wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:18:
Weed would be far more effective at mellowing out soldiers, some depression drugs are really NOT ok to take no matter who you are - as some have been linked to pushing people over the edge.

Its insane how high suicide rates and PTSD is right now among soldiers - constant (illegal) war on behalf of politicians, the 'defense' industry, pentagon, etc. is causing serious problems on multiple societal levels. Even Drone pilots are reporting PTSD, especially after finding out a high percentage of "targeted killings" ended up with heavy civilian casualties.

What Martin Luther King said all those years ago is still as true today as it was then - "spiritual death."

They shouldn't be invading other countries to begin with. They have a moral obligation to ask if what they're doing is right. No one can count how many atrocities have happened down through history all because someone was "just following orders". When the Bush junta started their illegal invasion and occupation there were soldiers who refused to go. Same like Ali did with Vietnam. I have a lot more respect and sympathy for those men then for those borderline psychos who think invading other countries just so they can feel like big men kicking ass and them come back even worse. And of course, and the end of the day, who *really* benefits from it? Sure ain't them.

Hey, Saddam was abusing the shit out of his oil. We had to liberate that oil from him. Not sure what further justification is required...
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:00
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Jun 24, 2015, 15:00
 
Cutter wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:43:
And easy solution for recycling plants, make the convicts work them. I never understood why there wasn't more of a gulag style system for prisons. People just sitting around burning up tax dollars is insane. Put them to work.
In Japan, they citizenry has been manually separating paper, glass, steel, plastic, and aluminum into separate bins for decades. It's not that hard people.

As for using prisoners as slave labor, you create perverse incentives for keeping them in prison. Also, locating a recycling center in a prison creates all sorts of escape opportunities with large trucks constantly going in and out of a sprawling facility.

Work makes freedom.
You're not helping your reputation as a Nazi sympathizer there bub.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends. Slava Ukraini!
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Jun 24, 2015, 14:04
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Jun 24, 2015, 14:04
 
It's kind of crazy how aware that lion is about how a sliding glass door opens...
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Jun 24, 2015, 13:33
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The better part of the house cat, mountain lion video is the woman asking "where are the kids?" and the husband casually replying "oh they're just out back". Her reaction is priceless.
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 24, 2015, 12:43
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Jun 24, 2015, 12:43
 
Wow, half a million bucks for a few insults while under sedation? Jesus for that kind of dough you can insult me any time. The false diagnosis however is quite serious.

And easy solution for recycling plants, make the convicts work them. I never understood why there wasn't more of a gulag style system for prisons. People just sitting around burning up tax dollars is insane. Put them to work. Work makes freedom.

"The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip." - Henny Youngman
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Jun 24, 2015, 12:35
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Jun 24, 2015, 12:35
 
Task wrote on Jun 24, 2015, 12:18:
Weed would be far more effective at mellowing out soldiers, some depression drugs are really NOT ok to take no matter who you are - as some have been linked to pushing people over the edge.

Its insane how high suicide rates and PTSD is right now among soldiers - constant (illegal) war on behalf of politicians, the 'defense' industry, pentagon, etc. is causing serious problems on multiple societal levels. Even Drone pilots are reporting PTSD, especially after finding out a high percentage of "targeted killings" ended up with heavy civilian casualties.

What Martin Luther King said all those years ago is still as true today as it was then - "spiritual death."

They shouldn't be invading other countries to begin with. They have a moral obligation to ask if what they're doing is right. No one can count how many atrocities have happened down through history all because someone was "just following orders". When the Bush junta started their illegal invasion and occupation there were soldiers who refused to go. Same like Ali did with Vietnam. I have a lot more respect and sympathy for those men then for those borderline psychos who think invading other countries just so they can feel like big men kicking ass and them come back even worse. And of course, and the end of the day, who *really* benefits from it? Sure ain't them.
"The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip." - Henny Youngman
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Jun 24, 2015, 12:31
 
but it does serve as a warning that one of these days I may end up with problems updating if one of these blackouts strikes the BlueTower.

What???! ... No!!
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Re: Out of the Blue
Jun 24, 2015, 12:18
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Re: Out of the Blue Jun 24, 2015, 12:18
Jun 24, 2015, 12:18
 
Weed would be far more effective at mellowing out soldiers, some depression drugs are really NOT ok to take no matter who you are - as some have been linked to pushing people over the edge.

Its insane how high suicide rates and PTSD is right now among soldiers - constant (illegal) war on behalf of politicians, the 'defense' industry, pentagon, etc. is causing serious problems on multiple societal levels. Even Drone pilots are reporting PTSD, especially after finding out a high percentage of "targeted killings" ended up with heavy civilian casualties.

What Martin Luther King said all those years ago is still as true today as it was then - "spiritual death."
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Jun 24, 2015, 09:11
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A surgical team mocks a sedated patient — and it’s all recorded

Holy cow...those "doctors" should not be in their field. That's just crazy...

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