Actually a little factual logic behind that one. Everyone in America had some potion or elixir in their medicine cabinet that contained "Cannabis" or "Cannibinoids" and therefore wouldn't have backed legislation sending themselves to jail.
But, as racist demagogue William Randolph Hearst knew perfectly well, none of them had ever heard of "Marijuana". So, in his propaganda campaign that was the word he settled on, because a significant portion of the population didn't care squat about what happened to a bunch of Mexicans.
So as stupid as it is to make that distinction now, it is yet another attempt to pretend that the problems resulting from Marijuana Prohibition can be erased by semantics.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
@ShawnOL said:
I worked with a guy who got a DUI peddling his moped.
Short story long,...... I have a fishing kayak with a pedal drive. I am a member of a FB group created for a particular brand of pedal drive kayak. There are lots of posts about modifications and parts etc. Inevitably the word pedaling is often misspelled peddling. Often. Around 75% of the time by my estimate. So eventually I had this strong urge to do a little grammar policing but I knew I should just leave it be, and I did for a long time. And, I knew I would be the bad guy when I basically come right out and say, "Hey you! Bad speller!" So I softened the delivery with the distracted boyfriend meme and it got a lot of laughs. ("Cool story bro", Yeah, I know).
Those who don't like political discussions will be glad to hear that DHS has created a new agency called the Disinformation Governance Board.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
An American family visiting Israel picked up an unexploded artillery shell while touring Golan Heights. At airport check in, one of 'em pulled the shell out and asked if he could put it into his luggage.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
Outlook
Defense spending
The Javelin has been a key weapon in Ukraine's defense against Russia, with the self-guided portable missile system able to fire on tanks and vehicles from as far as 2.5 miles away. With a big Russian advance now taking place in Ukraine's east, the country is asking for more arms and supplies from Western nations, though some are concerned about their own stockpiles amid rising costs, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. Complicating matters is that some components are no longer commercially available, as well as the sourcing of questionable raw materials like Russian titanium.
Estimates: The U.S. has already sent over 5,000, or about a third, of its Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, which would take three or four years to replace, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It has also given over more than 1,400, or about a quarter, of its Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which would take at least five years to replenish at current production levels. Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Raytheon (RTX) jointly produce the Javelin, while the latter is the sole supplier of the Stinger.
As the war continues to drag on, Lockheed Martin is seeking to nearly double its production of Javelin anti-tank missiles. "We're endeavoring to take that up to 4,000 per year, and that will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to also crank up," CEO Jim Taiclet said on CBS's Face the Nation. The production ramp-up is starting even before the additional Javelins are ordered, because "we know there's going to be increased demand for those kinds of systems from the U.S. and for our allies as well and beyond into Asia-Pacific." Congress additionally needs to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act that would propel U.S. design and manufacturing of microprocessors (each Javelin requires 250), reducing American reliance on foreign supply.
Commentary: "The depressing reality is that the last 30 years of [relative peacetime] might just be an aberration," said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace consultant at AeroDynamic Advisory. "[People thought:] 'We won the cold war. Now, that's the end of naked human aggression. Excellent! Let's go start a unicorn petting zoo and everything will be fine.' And it didn't work." LMT shares have risen 24% since January, in part due to the increases in defense spending.
Excellent! Let's go start a unicorn petting zoo and everything will be fine.' And it didn't work."
c.f 10,000 years of recorded human history
add archeology back before Utzi
then go figure
Don't worry... the U.N. will fix it.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
“If there’s a Submit button on a form, the reasonable expectation is that it does something—that it will submit your data when you click it,” says Güneş Acar, a professor and researcher in Radboud University's digital security group and one of the leaders of the study. “We were super surprised by these results. We thought maybe we were going to find a few hundred websites where your email is collected before you submit, but this exceeded our expectations by far.”
The researchers, who will present their findings at the Usenix security conference in August, say they were inspired to investigate what they call “leaky forms” by media reports, particularly from Gizmodo, about third parties collecting form data regardless of submission status. They point out that, at its core, the behavior is similar to so-called key loggers, which are typically malicious programs that log everything a target types. But on a mainstream top-1,000 site, users probably won't expect to have their information keylogged. And in practice, the researchers saw a few variations of the behavior. Some sites logged data keystroke by keystroke, but many grabbed complete submissions from one field when users clicked to the next.
“In some cases, when you click the next field, they collect the previous one, like you click the password field and they collect the email, or you just click anywhere and they collect all the information....
More here:
Comments
Actually a little factual logic behind that one. Everyone in America had some potion or elixir in their medicine cabinet that contained "Cannabis" or "Cannibinoids" and therefore wouldn't have backed legislation sending themselves to jail.
But, as racist demagogue William Randolph Hearst knew perfectly well, none of them had ever heard of "Marijuana". So, in his propaganda campaign that was the word he settled on, because a significant portion of the population didn't care squat about what happened to a bunch of Mexicans.
So as stupid as it is to make that distinction now, it is yet another attempt to pretend that the problems resulting from Marijuana Prohibition can be erased by semantics.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
where have I been? I didn't know you injected the stuff.
How is this possible
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-man-faces-dui-manslaughter-165620240.html
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Don't think the same rules apply to golf carts and vehicles licensed to be operated on all public roads.
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
In our state you can get a dui on a pedal bike on the sidewalk. FYI
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FIFY
I worked with a guy who got a DUI peddling his moped.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Short story long,...... I have a fishing kayak with a pedal drive. I am a member of a FB group created for a particular brand of pedal drive kayak. There are lots of posts about modifications and parts etc. Inevitably the word pedaling is often misspelled peddling. Often. Around 75% of the time by my estimate. So eventually I had this strong urge to do a little grammar policing but I knew I should just leave it be, and I did for a long time. And, I knew I would be the bad guy when I basically come right out and say, "Hey you! Bad speller!" So I softened the delivery with the distracted boyfriend meme and it got a lot of laughs. ("Cool story bro", Yeah, I know).
I would find it awesome if you guys are hitting the awesome button sarcastically. If not, somebody ought to be making fun of my grammar police urges.
.I hate kids
Those who don't like political discussions will be glad to hear that DHS has created a new agency called the Disinformation Governance Board.
Stole this from @Rhamlin
An American family visiting Israel picked up an unexploded artillery shell while touring Golan Heights. At airport check in, one of 'em pulled the shell out and asked if he could put it into his luggage.
Hilarity ensued.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61267265
Outlook
Defense spending
The Javelin has been a key weapon in Ukraine's defense against Russia, with the self-guided portable missile system able to fire on tanks and vehicles from as far as 2.5 miles away. With a big Russian advance now taking place in Ukraine's east, the country is asking for more arms and supplies from Western nations, though some are concerned about their own stockpiles amid rising costs, supply chain disruptions and labor shortages. Complicating matters is that some components are no longer commercially available, as well as the sourcing of questionable raw materials like Russian titanium.
Estimates: The U.S. has already sent over 5,000, or about a third, of its Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, which would take three or four years to replace, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It has also given over more than 1,400, or about a quarter, of its Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, which would take at least five years to replenish at current production levels. Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Raytheon (RTX) jointly produce the Javelin, while the latter is the sole supplier of the Stinger.
As the war continues to drag on, Lockheed Martin is seeking to nearly double its production of Javelin anti-tank missiles. "We're endeavoring to take that up to 4,000 per year, and that will take a number of months, maybe even a couple of years to get there because we have to get our supply chain to also crank up," CEO Jim Taiclet said on CBS's Face the Nation. The production ramp-up is starting even before the additional Javelins are ordered, because "we know there's going to be increased demand for those kinds of systems from the U.S. and for our allies as well and beyond into Asia-Pacific." Congress additionally needs to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act that would propel U.S. design and manufacturing of microprocessors (each Javelin requires 250), reducing American reliance on foreign supply.
Commentary: "The depressing reality is that the last 30 years of [relative peacetime] might just be an aberration," said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace consultant at AeroDynamic Advisory. "[People thought:] 'We won the cold war. Now, that's the end of naked human aggression. Excellent! Let's go start a unicorn petting zoo and everything will be fine.' And it didn't work." LMT shares have risen 24% since January, in part due to the increases in defense spending.
c.f 10,000 years of recorded human history
add archeology back before Utzi
then go figure
Don't worry... the U.N. will fix it.
let freedom ring, lol.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/10/school-library-database-book-ban/
EDUCATION
The next book ban: States aim to limit titles students can search for
“I’m from the government and here to help.”
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I know huh!!!! They lit that perfectly good barrel on fire!
Look on the bright side……the mower isn’t on fire.
Yet.🤔
He'll practice on that World War 2 era snow mobile first..... then move on to modern day yard equipment.
Good eye
It's actually pretty badasss
good lord. Get your Madonna/Beeple NFT here:
https://motherofcreation.xyz/
“If there’s a Submit button on a form, the reasonable expectation is that it does something—that it will submit your data when you click it,” says Güneş Acar, a professor and researcher in Radboud University's digital security group and one of the leaders of the study. “We were super surprised by these results. We thought maybe we were going to find a few hundred websites where your email is collected before you submit, but this exceeded our expectations by far.”
The researchers, who will present their findings at the Usenix security conference in August, say they were inspired to investigate what they call “leaky forms” by media reports, particularly from Gizmodo, about third parties collecting form data regardless of submission status. They point out that, at its core, the behavior is similar to so-called key loggers, which are typically malicious programs that log everything a target types. But on a mainstream top-1,000 site, users probably won't expect to have their information keylogged. And in practice, the researchers saw a few variations of the behavior. Some sites logged data keystroke by keystroke, but many grabbed complete submissions from one field when users clicked to the next.
“In some cases, when you click the next field, they collect the previous one, like you click the password field and they collect the email, or you just click anywhere and they collect all the information....
More here:
https://www.wired.com/story/leaky-forms-keyloggers-meta-tiktok-pixel-study/
Damnit…
@Rdp77
Those little rascals can be a real annoyance, and dangerous if they have a mind to be.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17