I was raised to be Christian, but someone screwed up and taught me to care about others instead of teaching me that God wants me to profit from their suffering. I think because of that I could never look at it the way they do.
During one of the times that Haiti was the "focus of God's wrath", I said that it seemed more like a consequence of our godlessness rather than theirs.
If God can let innocent people die when we care about them, why do we assume God is punishing the people who die that we don't care about. Maybe God is taking the people we abuse away from us. Maybe the lesson we should be taking is that we should do more to stop poverty and illness and suffering rather than patting ourselves on the back for being lucky in our birth.
Of course, I don't actually believe in God, so I don't make those arguments. However, those would be the arguments I'd make if I did believe.
So, you say spying wasn't done outside of war prior to WW2, then I provide examples of intelligence organizations prior to WW1 and you wave it away with talk about Britain not being "normal", while at the same time ignoring the link indicating Germany had intelligence agents operating in other countries.
There's something pathetic about someone not being able to admit they were wrong.
There's MAGA that think they aren't fascist, and there's MAGA that embrace the fascism. That might be the political difference between my parents.
My mom didn't want any of his DVDs, but I'm always down to add more movies to my media server, so I took them. Among the westerns and the war movies were some documentaries about WW2 German military leaders which I didn't find particularly surprising or disturbing. However, there was also a copy of Triumph of the Will.
It's very strange for me. I loved my father, and I know he loved me. I'm pretty sure I was his favorite. I'm also the most farthest left of his children, and two of my three kids are trans.
Complicated doesn't even approach the same universe as my relationship with my father.
By the way, anyone ever see any of them wearing that hat when they aren't in a big group of them? I never see any of these pussies wearing that hat by themselves.
My dad did. He's dead now and my mom opted not to put the hat on him in the casket, so not anymore.
She also decided to throw out his "Nazi shirts" (her term) rather than donate then with the rest of his clothes.
She's also MAGA, but not quite as rabid sr he was.
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
I used to believe the whole distraction theory, but now I think he's just that much of an idiot. Suggesting that there's a strategy just gives him far too much credit.
Every time in his life that he fucked up before now he's been able to cheat his way out of it. All he knows is fucking up and cheating. If he had ever faced a consequence, he might have at least the intelligence of a slug, but he was never forced to develop his mind in any way other than cheating.
Guinea pig babies are pretty damn adorable, but so are adult guinea pigs. I don't know how to calculate the difference in cuteness.
https://youtu.be/9sWn1Z3AO5g
"They put the boy in with the girls, and this is the result."
I feel like to really bust the myth they should have then unfolded it to make sure it was still intact.
I don't believe in air, but damnit, it keeps pressing down on me!
"Great. The monkeys are calling me Larry now like they know me. I will tear their hearts out. MY NAME IS CUDDLES, DAMNIT!"
This made me think of this story:
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/why-was-he-using-a-wheelchair-in-the-1st-place/1879349/
I was raised to be Christian, but someone screwed up and taught me to care about others instead of teaching me that God wants me to profit from their suffering. I think because of that I could never look at it the way they do.
During one of the times that Haiti was the "focus of God's wrath", I said that it seemed more like a consequence of our godlessness rather than theirs.
If God can let innocent people die when we care about them, why do we assume God is punishing the people who die that we don't care about. Maybe God is taking the people we abuse away from us. Maybe the lesson we should be taking is that we should do more to stop poverty and illness and suffering rather than patting ourselves on the back for being lucky in our birth.
Of course, I don't actually believe in God, so I don't make those arguments. However, those would be the arguments I'd make if I did believe.
So, you say spying wasn't done outside of war prior to WW2, then I provide examples of intelligence organizations prior to WW1 and you wave it away with talk about Britain not being "normal", while at the same time ignoring the link indicating Germany had intelligence agents operating in other countries.
There's something pathetic about someone not being able to admit they were wrong.
I looked it up. I didn't put a ton of effort into it, but I found some things.
First link I found was this one, https://www.mi5.gov.uk/history/between-the-wars/the-inter-war-years, talking about spying going on between WW1 and WW2.
British intelligence service was started in 1909. They weren't at war, but they were concerned about spying, German spies in particular:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Steinhauer
No, it's never the fault of billionaires in any media comparison. If it serves the corporate interests, the media are happy to blame older people.
Also, you don't know what happened an hour before you showed up. Triage doesn't mean a serious case doesn't have to wait or a minor one does.
There's MAGA that think they aren't fascist, and there's MAGA that embrace the fascism. That might be the political difference between my parents.
My mom didn't want any of his DVDs, but I'm always down to add more movies to my media server, so I took them. Among the westerns and the war movies were some documentaries about WW2 German military leaders which I didn't find particularly surprising or disturbing. However, there was also a copy of Triumph of the Will.
It's very strange for me. I loved my father, and I know he loved me. I'm pretty sure I was his favorite. I'm also the most farthest left of his children, and two of my three kids are trans.
Complicated doesn't even approach the same universe as my relationship with my father.
My dad did. He's dead now and my mom opted not to put the hat on him in the casket, so not anymore.
She also decided to throw out his "Nazi shirts" (her term) rather than donate then with the rest of his clothes.
She's also MAGA, but not quite as rabid sr he was.
Pro their own family.
Oh God, not the crowds!
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
Cow pies
It's not classist, it's stupid. Only an idiot would replace all four tires because of one flat.
I used to believe the whole distraction theory, but now I think he's just that much of an idiot. Suggesting that there's a strategy just gives him far too much credit.
Every time in his life that he fucked up before now he's been able to cheat his way out of it. All he knows is fucking up and cheating. If he had ever faced a consequence, he might have at least the intelligence of a slug, but he was never forced to develop his mind in any way other than cheating.
So, President Pedo fucked up in Iran so now he wants to switch back to a war with Canada?
I just paid for one for my son and it was $672.
At those prices, he damn well better be autistic. You don't want to pay $672 just to find out he's weird.
I talked to my wife about getting evaluated myself, but apparently that's too much money to just confirm what everyone already knows.