Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Radical Islam still happens

It's nice to see Hollywood celebrities and liberals in general finally addressing the real war on women. One yearns for a Jack Bauer-type to take on Boko Haram and rescue those 276 Nigerian schoolgirls being held hostage probably in some primeval jungle but what we got instead is Obama's Hamlet tendencies in the foreign policy arena, hashtags, Anne Hathaway and hey can you believe they're STILL talking about Donald Sterling? At this point I DON'T CARE, don't care if he has the N-word tattooed on his ass cheek. I think the latest version of 24 rocks but if there's one thing Chloe constantly looking like Ozzy Osbourne fighting terrorism is massively distracting. 24 too is getting back to having radical Islamist elements in their plotline and all this just might take the spotlight off the far lesser threat if you can call it that of the Christian Right and Gary Bauer (BB & Saty opening). Some Techno Thoughts (Again) The other day at work everyone was walking around looking at their smartphones and the thumb was constantly scrolling. You know one day homo sapiens is gonna evolve to the point where we all have thumbs like the great apes and we'll be walking hunched over into traffic. They say technology has an asocial effect, don't wanna say anti-social but there are times to be perfectly honest when I'd rather be with my tablet than my friend no offense. Downloaded a great app the other day, not just a file manager but a real file explorer so you can actually see what's taking up all that storage space and why. Root capabilities is even on the menu but that's soapie territory and I don't intend to go there. OK so to tie it all together do you think Boko Haram really cares about the First Lady's hashtag?
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40 comments:

  1. cwhiatt5/13/2014 11:14 AM

    This > http://blogvecindad.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/BringBackOurGirls-BringBackYourDrones.jpg

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  2. cwhiatt5/13/2014 11:16 AM

    Also, if you want more storage capability you may want to explore rooting. Surely that tablet is likely loaded with gobs and gobs of pre-packed bloatware.

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    1. Z-man5/13/2014 5:25 PM

      I knew going in when I downloaded "Hunger Games - Catching Fire" there might be some memory issues...but still. Are you a log collector too soap?

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    2. cwhiatt5/14/2014 8:51 AM

      That shouldn't bog you down. The entire trilogy in ePub format is only about 3.5mb.

      No, I am not a log collector (files??). I only look at the log files when I'm troubleshooting which is rarely if ever.

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    3. cwhiatt5/14/2014 8:52 AM

      Further, you could likely store those book files in the cloud depending on which format you are using them in.

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    4. Z-man5/14/2014 9:30 AM

      Oh drat I see I should've clarified. I downloaded the movie to my tablet and it took up alot of storage. Books are no problem, in fact I just downloaded FOR FREE the first two books of "The Hunger Games" and then I didn't like the sites for the third book so bought it from Google Play. Not bad, two out of the three books of the trilogy for free.

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    5. Z-man5/14/2014 9:32 AM

      I mentioned log files because I was researching on some tech forums the whole issue of folks using their tablets and the message "storage space running out" coming up when it wasn't warranted by the user's habits. Many mentioned these log files coming up using a hell of alot of memory and then dumping them to free space up but apparently you need an app for this as you do for everything.

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  3. Satyavati devi dasi5/13/2014 4:03 PM

    And how are you feeling about these Christian 'purity balls' where girls are 'married to the Lord and their father is their boyfriend'? Because that ALWAYS keeps teenagers from having premarital sex. There is so much wrong with that I don't even have time to get into all of it.

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  4. Z-man5/13/2014 5:21 PM

    Dunno, did they kidnap 276 Nigerian schoolgirls?

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    1. Z-man5/14/2014 9:39 AM

      I was mulling your comment over some more. Some thoughts: look it's a wide and big country and when it comes to sex POVs run the gamut from folks having sex maybe twice a year to full-blown orgies. Look it's a free country and while I personally find these purity balls pseudo-cultish, a kind of odd social outpocket kind of thing I don't think they're a threat to the Republic as Islamic terror is. Are they preventing you from shopping, doing your chores, driving around, going on vacation? OK so here's why I don't think the chastity balls work - the whole concept of chastity goes front and center, the mind therefore focuses on it but the mind also knows it's the opposite of something and that opposite is Sex. It's just the way the mind works so ultimately these balls might be pretty horny places down the road. It's like if you had a bunch of high school students who weren't even thinking about touching alcohol and then the school administrators make them take some alcohol course I'd bet dollars to donuts many of them pick up a bottle. But hey as I said it's a free country, I don't get caught up in all this stuff.

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    2. cwhiatt5/14/2014 9:51 AM

      Actually they are in a threat to the republic. Can't have tax slaves if people aren't having babies. ;-)

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    3. Z-man5/14/2014 11:00 AM

      Thanks for tapping on the larger issue here. I think the late Ed Koch had the best advice on premarital sex. As a practical matter he said we should do all we can do to discourage teens from having sex and as an aside PP doesn't do this imo. Then Koch said but leave the adults alone, that you're crazy if you think you can stop adults from having sex. I think this is a good breakdown of the issue and you don't have to be a purity baller to subscribe to it.

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    4. Satyavati devi dasi5/14/2014 3:15 PM

      What do they need Nigerian schoolgirls for if they've got their own daughters as girlfriends? The whole concept is effing creepy. You ought to see the pictures.

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    5. Z-man5/14/2014 4:34 PM

      Where do you get this stuff?

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  5. Z-man5/14/2014 11:02 AM

    Had this depressing thought yesterday. You know you're getting up there in age when if an older woman goes after you she no longer qualifies as a cougar. At your age a cougar would have to be at least 90. GOD where does the time go??

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  6. Dave Miller5/14/2014 1:21 PM

    Well Z-man... does Boko Haram care? Probably not. Does the hash tag stuff work? Maybe as a way to move the needle of awareness. I mean, did Ferdinand marcos care about yellow rags back in the 80's? No, but they became a symbol that moved the world to support those wanting a different government.

    And they eventually persuaded him to leave.

    Isn't that what this is?

    On a side note, when i first heard the news of this guy, I thought it odd that he was named after the old rock group, Procol Harem...

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  7. Z-man5/14/2014 2:48 PM

    There is nothing wrong with a hashtag or two but in these type cases time is of the essence. To reiterate to Saty though here you have a real war on women in the name of radical Islam but she prefers to talk about the latest chastity fete.

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  8. Satyavati devi dasi5/14/2014 3:18 PM

    Really? You don't find the Republican party to be waging war on women? Attacking and derailing equal pay? Eliminating access to women's healthcare by closing down clinics? Criminalizing miscarriages and birth defects? There is a real western hemisphere 21st century industrialized nation secular war against women and it is being run by the Republican party.

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    1. Z-man5/14/2014 4:40 PM

      & Democrats and feminists and health inspectors turning a blind eye to murderous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell for years and years? NYS health inspectors hardly ever conducting inspections of abortion clinics but going after tanning salons instead, that ain't a Republican thing.

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  9. Satyavati devi dasi5/14/2014 3:20 PM

    No, of course you don't... you find it easier to blame "radical Islam". Let me tell you that there is just a half a hair between the Taliban and the American Christian Taliban, and half of that half a hair is the delusion that the Muslims are 'inhumane' to do what they do.

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  10. Z-man5/14/2014 4:46 PM

    You're in denial. If you were being held hostage by a jihadi terrorist tomorrow I'll bet you wouldn't be thinking about Gary Bauer hosting the next big Miss Virgin America Pageant.

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  11. cwhiatt5/15/2014 8:46 AM

    "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."

    H. L. Mencken

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  12. Z-man5/15/2014 9:08 AM

    Amen to what that famous crankster said.

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  13. Z-man5/15/2014 9:10 AM

    Since this thread is partly about technology among other things, always among other things so the other day my friend had to take a food safety or food sanitation test. Now I took one years ago but nowadays they do it online on the computer and so there were twenty or so questions and what should have been maybe a half hour test at most turned into a couple of hours. The computers were slowing down, he had to refresh the pages alot and the thought occured what's wrong with taking a test on a good old-fashioned piece of paper? Worked in the old days.

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  14. cwhiatt5/15/2014 9:19 AM

    Hiring has become such an impersonal thing these days. A total fuckery.

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  15. Z-man5/15/2014 10:10 AM

    & firing too. Used to be the act of firing was uncomfortable for the firer, you maybe used it sparingly only when you had to but today at least in nonunion jobs it's the way to go. My ex-mgr. once told me a story about a chef who was fired simply for answering the boss's question with another question, no other reason and I'm like if you need people you need people what matter the way he said something might have annoyed the boss? Then in the union jobs you can't fire people who really need to have their cans booted unless they're actually caught in the act of stealing something. BB likes the unions, I say they've outlived their usefulness a long time ago. My most recent union newsletter soon as I got it in the mail I tore it up then threw it in the garbage. The headline on the cover said "ObamaCare is Working."

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  16. cwhiatt5/15/2014 10:15 AM

    The problem with unions is that they force, coerce, and intimidate and they do so in numbers to the detriment of individuals.

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    1. Z-man5/15/2014 1:09 PM

      & from my angle they're always raising dues even if they don't deliver the goods. Shop stewards another problem. Managers always try to get chummy with them.

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  17. Satyavati devi dasi5/15/2014 10:38 AM

    I am not the one in denial.

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  18. Z-man5/15/2014 1:05 PM

    I'm just trying to figure out how a bunch of purity-ballers pose a direct threat to me. I don't see it. Live & let live ya know?

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  19. Satyavati devi dasi5/15/2014 3:24 PM

    Republicans are all about little government but they want to be all up in women's underwear, deciding who can get married and making sure only Christians can open government meetings with prayer. They want to keep women from equal pay and are criminalizing miscartiagrs. Are you blind?

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  20. Z-man5/15/2014 3:42 PM

    & some are all for the utmost privacy re feticide but not for private speech. Go figure.

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  21. Satyavati devi dasi5/16/2014 11:50 AM

    The government gives you the right to say it. They have nothing to do with what happens once its out of your mouth. Why do you not get this?

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  22. Z-man5/16/2014 12:55 PM

    Why are you for privacy in selective cases like "reproductive rights" and gay marriage but not for privacy in other spheres??? What someone says on their own living room couch is their business. You're not concerned about the NSA either. You're not getting this.

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  23. Z-man5/16/2014 12:58 PM

    I eagerly await your blogpost about the REAL war on women in the name of radical Islam, the genital mutilation, the not letting girls get an education, the stoning, the Sharia Law. A chastity pledge threatens who exactly?

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    1. BB-Idaho5/16/2014 3:19 PM

      IMO, fundamentalism of any religion offers little for women. (or education for that matter) Boko Haram: voting and education are forbidden. Then there was the irate gunowner that called the mother of one of the Sandy Hook victims and informed her it was staged and she never had a daughter.

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    2. Z-man5/16/2014 3:40 PM

      Second-class citizens in many faith systems it seems. Wonder why that is.

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  24. BB-Idaho5/17/2014 5:44 PM

    Tidbits: have you used the Ayn Rand dating site or have the app for it? Then there is Switzerland, the place
    libertarians and gunfolk love. They have no minimum wage ,
    but vote next week
    on having one of $25/hr...and 90% of swiss already are paid more than that.

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  25. Z-man5/18/2014 6:46 AM

    I heard about the Swiss, even Obama doesn't want to go that high. So I'm reading "The Hunger Games" trilogy and can't help wondering how John Galt would fit in as a character.

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  26. Z-man5/18/2014 7:22 AM

    Galt to Katniss & Peeta: "Okay I'll help you but only because it benefits me in the long run."

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