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| AHCA - One More time With Feeling! |
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Posted by: ordnance11 - 05-04-2017, 01:30 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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One more time and possible outcomes
Actually this might be a good thing. A lot of people would lose their health insurance. A lot of people would go bankrupt. A lot of people would die. The result:
Quote:The news media will be filled with horror stories of people who lost
their coverage, and in some cases their lives, because of what
Republicans did. If the bill passes, it will result in an outpouring of
rage, particularly on the left but among all kinds of voters, that will
vastly increase the chances of a Democratic wave in 2018 and even 2020.
Looks like a win for me. A win for the GOP because they kept their promise. A win for the Democrats because it gives back control of the government. All you need is a few folks dead and sick. I hope they're not Trump voters, but oh well. you get what you voted for. (Disclamer: *Major sarcasm here*)
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
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| Other WTF moments.... |
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Posted by: Star Ranger4 - 05-03-2017, 08:16 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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Well, we have ones for images, and news articles...
but not one for things like:
So, back on Friday Google obligingly put up their 'its your birthday' homepage. And out of curiosity, I did some diging.
and found out that I share the same birthday as Sadam Hussein?!?!? Well, Jessica Alba too, but the former was much more mind boggling.
So... Who else? Not just sort of birthday, but general WTF moments that dont have to do with images or news articles?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
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| Need some opinions for a gaming computer |
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Posted by: ordnance11 - 05-03-2017, 07:59 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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I bought a decent gaming computer 4 years ago and it has been working fine until it started crashing repeatedly about for the last 4 months when I play World of Warships. I narrowed it down to the memory requirements, but I have a motherboard that only accepts 8 gig of ram max. I am not a computer techie, so doing it myself is a non starter for me. And the old shop I go to for upgrades is in the other side of the country. I have 2 options:
1) Find a reputable place that can do the installation
2) Just buy a whole new system and figure out what to do with the old one.
Any opinions?
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
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| Teaching qualifications |
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Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 05-02-2017, 09:21 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk S: Heart of Steel
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The following is actually a passage (mostly) excised from chapter 3 of DW8, but I've just pulled it out of my discard file for that Step and pasted into the master dev file for DWS. I don't know if I'll actually use any of it, but I have several points coming up in the next few dozen kilobytes where at least a summary of this would be an appropriate answer to questions from Usagi.
To start with, at the time of my exile I was one of the primary
combat trainers for the Warriors' powered infantry corps.
Skilled soldiers and volunteers all, from the militaries of every
member nation of the U.N., these were the guys who served as our
ground troops, doing everything from security at the Mansion to
backing us up on the really *big* operations. I was one of the
Warriors tasked with getting new troops up to speed on using
powered armor to combat metas, and with keeping the experienced
troops in fighting trim.
In addition to that, like every other Warrior I had taught the
occasional class at Warriors Academy, our in-house private school
for kids with early-manifesting metatalents. The only real
difference I could see between Hogwarts and the Academy was the
class size -- a half-dozen students at the most in an Academy
class vs. twenty or so here. And none of the Hogwarts students
would call me "Uncle Doug" like Nina, Ruth and Gracie did.
After being ejected from my home timeline, teaching naturally
became one of the ways I chose to support myself. Over the past
75 years, I'd have to say I've been a teacher of one stripe or
another more often than any other single occupation. Hell, it
was the way I initially earned my keep in Velgarth, the first
world I was stuck in after I fell through that damned teleport
gate in Piccadilly Circus. Starting with Alberich, their
existing instructor at the Collegium at Haven in Valdemar, I
taught unarmed combat to Heralds who were interested -- and it
kept going from there.
A few years after that, I was a bodyguard-slash-tutor to the
twelve-year-old fireball that was Kurata Sana. To be honest,
though, that wasn't a classroom situation -- it was more like
structured homework time plus catch-as-catch-can life lessons.
(And no small amount of early-pubescent relationship advice --
something I dearly hoped I wouldn't be called on to provide for
a few hundred underaged wizards and witches). Still, it *was*
teaching.
Then when I ended up among the Hong Kong Cavaliers, I earned my
way in part by providing unarmed combat training again -- this
time both to interested Cavaliers and to their auxiliary corps,
the "Blue Blazers".
Almost a quarter-century into my exile, I actually ran a
storefront dojo in a place that, although it was on the site of
the Japanese city I knew as Hakone, was called "Tokyo-3". There
I had dozens of students, but none more special to me than three
very exceptional teenagers and their guardian. (I had foolishly
left them behind as soon as an opportunity to move on had
presented itself, and I was still kicking myself over that. If I
ever found my way home again, I was going to convince the
Warriors to make a sortie to their world to offer them all the
help we could give.)
And of course there was the training I gave Utena as we crossed
from the East Coast to the West, not many years back: combat,
both armed and unarmed; tactical and strategic thinking; bringing
her English up to native-speaker level; and generally being the
parent and general question-answerer she'd been denied for most
of her childhood.
In other worlds I've helped a tribe of Bronze Age nomads reach
for the Iron Age, "invented" 20th-century first aid for several
different medieval armies and trained their first true medics,
helped a time-traveling doctor teach 21st-Century medicine in
19th-Century Tokyo, and taught at every level from kindergarten
to grad school wherever local customs (or the ease of
counterfeiting teacher certifications) allowed. I've been a
martial arts sensei/sifu almost as often. And then there was the
year I spent as a general science instructor at St. Trinian's
School for Girls... the less about which I admit to, the better.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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| This is just plan silly and stupid |
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Posted by: ordnance11 - 05-02-2017, 03:07 PM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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The House is trying to pass any version of the zombie ACA bill. Their reason: to protect their seats in the 2018 election. Then they punt in to the Senate where it dies. but who cares? They can crow to their base that they did pass one. Even if it's not going anywhere. Truly pathetic.
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
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| Trump misses his old life |
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Posted by: ordnance11 - 04-29-2017, 02:58 AM - Forum: Politics and Other Fun
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Trump agrees with most americans he wasn't ready to be President
Still isn't to my way of thinking...my metric? How many positions have he filled in the government? Too many chiefs and not enough indians in the WH. not to mention it seems that he values loyalty more over competence. Even his cabinet secretaries can't hire the people they need. If you can't nominate the 2nd and 3rd tier positions in each department, you not get much done. That''s going to be critical in the DoD and State Department. Once his tax plan goes down in flames, he'll do something. I don't know what but something.
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
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| Would this be a story if it was a different airline? |
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Posted by: robkelk - 04-28-2017, 11:59 PM - Forum: General Chatter
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/giant-rabb ... -1.4085923
First, that rabbit's dynamite huge.
Second, would we have heard about this if it was British Airways or Air Canada that operated the aircraft? it seems to me that United's getting a lot of flack lately (not undeservedly, mind you).
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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