Cortopassi wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:04 pm

Has it really gotten that partisan that not even one purple state democrat wouldn’t vote for nomination, whoever it might be? To think not that long ago voting on judges was nearly unanimous a lot of the time.

i think you’ve got one too many negatives in that statement.

RIP Ron Cobb
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Tortoise wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:41 pm

OPED: I was raped by whoever Trump picks to replace Ginsburg on the Supreme Court

A year old — and awesome

There’s an Australian show called The Letdown about new parents that’s pretty great so far.
I think it’s from 2016.

How bad is it? Should I sacrifice a dove or a feral cat? Trick question; it will be a feral cat. Good call, Kriegs. Doves are the wrong animal in this situation. If I'm reading the room correctly, we may need a horse head. I thought the Canadian mafia just gently slapped people with soft pillows. S...

Xan wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:16 pm

Rowan Atkinson on free speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZygU

Awesome. Such a great voice, too, whether he’s mocking Baldrick or making speeches like this.

sophie wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:02 am

Hey dualstow, check your phone. On mine, the "Racial Justice" section no longer appears!

Still on the ipad, unfortunately. Racial justice. :-/
At least the internet speed here at my folks’ place is a blazing 145/133. I can download racial justice stories at the speed of light.

Stay safe, Mark! Renting a VPS or some other "cloud" storage solution might not be a bad idea, mostly in order to get off-site backups in case of a fire or other local disaster. I would think long and hard before delivering all your data to some third party, though. You may want to recommend encrypt...

... Having a low latency requires an ISP to have lines that aren't saturated, to have good peering arrangements with many peers, and to be very good at what they do. It's hard to advertise for this because it's multi-dimensional: it isn't just a single number like the data rate. The other issue is ...

Oh, man, I thought it was a typo!

Internet test for desktop with ethernet cable: