The Old Hack

The pun is flightier than the sword, if you please.

By now I have long given up any hope of expecting decency out of the muskrat. *sigh*

I am reading the EGS OOC forums. ...this suddenly seems a bit recursive.

One reason that they had trouble spotting him in time was that he was a complete amateur. Pros can at least be predicted. Amateurs will do something so mind-bogglingly stupid (using an officer staging ground as your base springs to mind) that eventually one will slip through due to a combination of unorthodoxy and the law of large numbers. There's a lot of amateurs in the world, far more of them than professionals. We are not in danger of running out of them any time soon.

Perun's latest video deals with this exact topic. One thing he pointed out was that they didn't actually need to empty them out to run out. They just needed to take all the vehicles that could reasonably be restored, often by cannibalizing the rest. The storage parks might still hold a lot of vehicles, just not any usable ones.

Darn cats. My partner is convinced that her cat possesses both her internet password and credit card numbers and regularly orders high quality cat treats on Amazon.

Ah. But still concerning, and I just realized that this actually makes it more convenient for foreign agents looking for chance spills of vital information. Then again I wouldn't expect them to loiter on Total War: Rome forums hoping to obtain vital information about the latest generation of onagers or siege ballistae.

The net is full of conspiracies but there is a depressing likelihood that the shooter was just a bullied kid who wanted to make a name for himself. Admittedly all possible reasons for the shooting I can think of strike me as depressing. It's just that this particular one strikes me as especially sad and futile.

I find it a little concerning that such leaks occur with predictable regularity and even more so the inference that it happens on multiple game forums.

So? According to SCOTUS, that is completely legal. I can't see what their problem is.

Fair. A friend of mine told me another phone story just earlier today. He had an old, old phone that could barely run a not completely outdated Android OS upgrade. He was so happy because now it could just about keep up. Then a week later he accidentally ran it through the laundry. That was too much for it, which I really can't blame it for.

I am not going to approve of any political violence or attempt thereof. That being said, I feel no sympathy at all for the Mango Mussolini. He made his own bed, now he can lie in it. I mean why not, he lies everywhere else, too.

Isn't this more a case of "Technology that should work, but doesn't"?

Oh, that's easy. The laser satellites look like this.

"Ukraine DARES to engage in active warfare with us just because we invaded them without provocation!" Idiots. I hope they send it to keep the Moscow company. With luck the Russians will have an entire carrier escort fleet down there eventually.

It was digital. It cost a lot more than just repairing the old one but it also had a ton of new functions. It was in all ways superior to the old one. Even the secretary who hated me loved that darn thing.

You would think yet there are still sufficient numbers of gullible thimblewits that believe in Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'Jewish Space Lasers.' Certainly enough to get her elected and re-elected.

It's not as much that as a permanent dictatorship by any President after Trump I am worried about. That absurd SCOTUS decision will make it possible for any unscrupulous person of whatever party gets elected to basically do what they want.

Around that time I had bigger troubles with the 1998 problem. Yes. The 1998 problem. At the time -- July 1997 to be exact -- I worked in a small branch office that served as a connecting point and legal advice for a lot of bigger office. We had a LOT of mail going in and out. I had just finished reading another depressing article about the Y2K problem and my eyes landed on our old and cantankerous postage machine which was very much mechanical all the way through and thought, "Thank God we at least won't be having any year 2000 problems with that." On an impulse I opened it up to see how it worked. And to my astonishment the wheel that stamped out the dates ended at 1997. If we wanted to be in business after new year, we would need that entire wheel replaced. Really terrible design. So I went into the office of the engineer who was running the place and told him, "Boss, we have a 1998 problem." He replied, "We have a WHAT?" After I had explained he assigned me the job of finding out how to upgrade the darn thing. I soon learned that this would cost so much that we could very nearly buy a brand new machine for that much money and told him so. He got so mad that he assigned me a new job: finding the best possible new machine that would not have this problem. I spent about a week comparing offers and we finally decided on one. Incidentally, during that I found out that normally people who used our old model didn't find out until just before or right after new year, and were always in a terrible bind as a result. My idle curiosity saved our office a lot of trouble and frantic effort.

They are patiently waiting for a cosmic event to mutate them anew. Then the Chicken T. Rex shall rule the Earth again, its fearsome BAWK echoing across the lands!

Moreover, the above is an idea Trump is utterly opposed to. The faster he can kill it the better, he thinks.

Lincoln at Gettysburg: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Trump at a rally near Gettysburg: “Our nation was saved by the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. The battle of Gettysburg, what an unbelievable. I mean it was so, was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways — it represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow! I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And uh the statement of Robert E. Lee, who’s no longer in favor — did you ever notice that? He’s no longer in favor. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.’ They were fighting uphill, he said. Wow, that was a big mistake, he lost his great general and uh they were fighting uphill. ‘Never fight uphill, me boys,’ but it was too late.” It may just be me but I feel Trump's Gettysburg Address kind of lacks a certain je ne sais quoi compared to the original.

I don't care how it reflects on my psyche. I just acknowledge that deep inside me I am a malicious bitch full of Schadenfreude and roll with it. But to each their own.

Speaking of fireworks, this is a simple tale of inconsiderate people, carelessness and heavy-handed justice from the weather gods. It is well worth reading. https://www.tumblr.com/gallusrostromegalus/754913870711291904?source=share

Well if you don't break it, you can't fix it.