FuriousWeasel

The press has always been all about "yellow journalism"... and one of the greatest hoaxes ever performed on the public was the one where they convinced everyone they weren't biased. Kind of like that saying about the devil's greatest triumph. At the local raw news level, they're generally OK enough. Though to get into the editorial board of even the smaller city newspapers, you'd better toe the line. Once you get to the national level however, you ideology better damn well fit the narratives, because it's one big club.

Niacin. Normal type acts like viagra, fast acting, the slo-niacin type is more like cialis, ready to go any time of day if taken every day.

Now that kind of review I'm a big fan of!!!

I know when I read some reviews, you can tell that when the provider reads it for the first time it would be like a smack in the face. And then have to write a rebuttal that may or may not help others reading the review who might just consider it sour grapes. It is all about communication though, isn't that the key? Talking up front before things start about the goals of the session is key for me, and afterwards too.

Would you prefer feedback in a private message for things that might be improved but not necessarily bad, where a public review might not be appropriate or misleading to others?

Oh I think you should be able to protest anything you want, especially Sonic getting rid of their fiesta steak breakfast burrito last year. My problem is with some of the tactics used, being so counter productive that even the middle of the road, thoughtful people that might become allies are turned off. I'm more of a soap box, ballot box, bullet box type, in that order. I can't stand the NFL as an organization. Actually I would have liked it more if Kaepernick was protesting the NFL itself... As for Milo, yeah, he's a smart guy, and the recent issues are caused by him telling the truth people don't want to hear, of course, it was all edited and presented by the media through the lens they wanted to portray.

Infotainment... that's the perfect description. For me, I look at the football protests as messed up, only because that's their job, that they are actively being paid to do at the time. It does seem that their employers don't seem to have a real issue with it, since they're not shitcanning players. Prior to a couple years ago, the national anthem was played while the teams were still in the locker room, and only changed because the gov't paid the NFL to have the players out there. So a government I'm extremely distrustful of is mucking around in things they have no business in. To go farther, I know that it's tradition, but I am still conflicted on whether or not a private sporting event is the right place to even play the anthem. It's one thing for national olympic teams and such, however it seems very bread and circuses to me. Actually, that's exactly what it is, with taxpayers funding stadiums and all that crap that shouldn't be happening. On to the Oscars: Here, I don't have much of a problem with them doing their 2 min speeches for whatever the hell they want. They're not really getting paid at the time and all, and I don't have to watch it. Plus, it's nice to have it out in the open. If Actor/Actress Whoever goes up and says something repugnant to me, I don't have to support their movies if I don't want to. More public protests, I'm highly against "free speech zones" and shit like that, and also against rioting, blocking traffic, and the like. The middle ground has always worked, and despite what some radicals think, they get more people to consider their positions by behaving rationally and friendly to those going by. You're right about preventing others. Those types of "protestors" stopping speeches by invited guests, etc., that's so popular now, they need taken out and whipped. Those shitheads are just creating sympathy for their targets, so not only is what they're doing wrong, their doing the worst possible thing to really prevent the opposing messages from getting out. I mean, how many conservatives would have actually listened to Milo had the idiots at places like Berkeley not stopped his speeches?

Cockpit of a C-130 in a war zone.

Starting to sound like a game show. "Roll around in a pile of various denominations. Whatever sticks you get to keep." Ok, that might have went too far...

I think the problem is, especially for me, the hysterics. If someone starts saying "Trump is a nazi, here come the death camps, etc," then I tune them right out, because they're not living in reality, so any solutions would be the same way. If one came up to the stand and said "I didn't vote for candidate X, but I support them now though because I want everyone to do better, and I would hope that they would pay attention to the cause I support Y, and the proposed solution Z because ..." then I would treat them as a rational human being.

Mine's a picture of my soul though...

Now if someone says they prefer a giant stack of 2 dollar bills...

So it looks like the New Zealand Herald is doing a whole series about their legalized sex work. A few weeks ago, I posted a story about a brothel there, with free child care, etc., but it seems they're falling afoul of laws saying no brothels within X number of meters from a child care center, so they now need a zoning variance. Here's today's story though, talking about how sex work can go well for one person, but not for another. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11806166 The previous stories: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11797730 and their editorial about how legalization made everything safer: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11798507 This is good stuff I think.

I wish I could find the video I had seen a year or so ago. I think that would have been a better example, for what you want to see, because it was all true working girls who got together and set up more of a non-managed brothel, they all worked together in almost a commune setup.

Darn tootin'. Almost all AV solutions are crap. The info sec folks are among the worst though. Want to know if any particular info sec guy is good or bad? Ask them their preferred password policy. If they say complex passwords, change regularly, etc., I'm not saying laugh directly in their face, but ...

So sorry! Just been a busy few days for me to get in and do a batch of posting... Welcome, and it's wonderful to have you here! I really mean it!

That's a valid answer to some problems. However, the trick to be a great IT guy is to know when it's the correct answer and when it isn't.

We had a thread on this not too long ago. The problem was the volatility of bitcoin, transaction fees to turn it back into cash, etc.

I agree with pretty much everything you've said. I think it would have been better had the madame both been from NZ herself, and worked her way up. Then again, in the day job, I hire managers not because the know all the details about the job and can do it blindfolded, I hire them because they know how to manage, which is a skill set in itself. They can learn the things they need to know about the job from the folks who work for them as to what's important. In NZ, they suffer from tall poppy syndrome also. Anyone who rises too high, they get torn down by everyone else. That happens everywhere of course, but in NZ, its a way of life. So for me, reading this in their main news site every day is remarkable that while not normal yet, it's becoming more normalized and accepted. There's also many other brothels in NZ in most of the larger towns and cities. I think this particular one in the articles isn't the best example as you've pointed out, but maybe its the appropriate one to change the greater public opinion. So I know in NZ, they are actively looking at Colorado concerning medicinal and recreational legalization stories, and are moving in that direction, slowly but surely. Maybe by focusing on these "positive" stories coming out of NZ and sharing them with elected officials, it can become a two way trend.

Always wished the ATMs let you pick what bills you want...

Here we go...

I'm low carb so... "Ohhh would you like some bacon?!?"

Same here, I use macs primarily anymore, but on my PCs, I put on Linux Mint because it's just rather nice to use...

I think there's 2 separate things. The recovery disk mostly covers how you'd be able to recover from local accounts password loss only. The online method, you do by logging into the local account, open the password reset through a web browser, and reset your Microsoft account password. Then you go back in to log in through your normal login linked to the online account, and just use the new password you just reset. Unless I'm misunderstanding, which would make sense, sinc Microsoft has been making things more difficult than they should...