September 18, 2013
— Maetenloch
Because after 5 years of Obama it is 1989 income-wise.
A Census Bureau report released on Tuesday reveals that the typical American family now earns less than it did in 1989. In 1989, median household income was $51,681 (in current dollars). In 2012, median household income was $51,017.
Poverty levels in 2012 also climbed to 46.5 million Americans-15% of the country-from 46.2 million in 2011. As Washington Post economics writer Neil Irwin put it, "This isn't a lost decade for economic gains for Americans. It is a lost generation."
The 1% Are Again Getting Richer. Should the 99% Really Care?
Well I've never been bothered by this kind of inequality statistic since I've always figured that 1) the wealthy will always do well since they have access to better resources, info, tools, expertise etc. and 2) the pie isn't fixed - every extra dollar Trump makes does not make me poorer.
But the mere existence of inequality is an obsession of the Left and occupies a large part of their mind space. Hell their mental living room is mostly filled with constant concern over what the top 1% are up to - a population smaller than San Antonio who they'll likely never meet or interact with in any way.
But even an unabashed right-wing capitalist like myself has to pause for a second after seeing a chart like this:
Looking at the upper right you can see that the top 10% of earners took in 50.4% of all income last year, the highest share recorded since 1917 when the government began collecting data. That's a pretty huge differential and no doubt it sticks in the craw of a lot of people. But on the other hand is it really that much of a problem?
Well James Pethokoukis makes a good argument that as a dramatic a ratio as this is it's ultimately due to market forces rather than say cronyism or corruption. Nor is it necessarily coming at the expense of the 99% or apparently limiting the economic mobility of those in the non-1%. So maybe not an issue after all.
And even if it were an issue, all the proposed solutions to it by economists (top income tax rates > 75%, confiscatory inheritance taxes, etc.) would likely cause more harm to the average person than the income inequality itself.
Meet the Illegal Alien 'Dreamer' Poster Child
Her name is Alaa and she was born in Kuwait but grew up in Chicago and studied Architecture.
Turn-offs: the American government, white people, the American Flag, and Israel.
Turn-ons: Community organizing, Palestinian nationalism, brown people, and beautiful ocean sunsets.
She's here illegally and demands a drivers license and a green card. Oh and it's all Israel's fault.
Why do all of you rightwing nut-jobs hate hard-working immigrants like Alaa?
The TSA is Officially Allowed to Lie to You in Order to Cover Their Ass
Even if you file a FOIA request they can still flat out lie to you.
U.S. District Judge Joan A. Lenard granted the TSA the special privilege of not needing to go that route, rubber-stamping the decision of the TSA and the airport authority to write to me that no CCTV footage of the incident existed when, in fact, it did. This footage is non-classified and its existence is admitted by over a dozen visible camera domes and even signage that the area is being recorded. Beyond that, the TSA regularly releases checkpoint video when it doesn't show them doing something wrong (for example, here's CCTV of me beating their body scanners). But if it shows evidence of misconduct? Just go ahead and lie.
Cass Sunstein: How Human Psychology Is Holding Back Climate Change Action
The first obstacle is that people tend to evaluate risks by way of "the availability heuristic," which leads them to assess the probability of harm by asking whether a readily available example comes to mind. An act of terrorism, for example, is likely to be both available and salient, and hence makes people fear that another such event will occur (whether it is likely to or not). So, too, a recent crime or accident can activate attention and significantly inflate people's assessment of risk.By contrast, climate change is difficult to associate with any particular tragedy or disaster.
...Second, people tend to be especially focused on risks or hazards that have an identifiable perpetrator, and for that reason produce outrage. Warmer temperatures are a product not of any particular human being or group, but the interaction between nature and countless decisions by countless people. There are no obvious devils or demons -- no individuals who intend to create the harms associated with climate change. For terrorism, a "we-they" narrative fits the facts; in the context of climate change, those who are the solution might well also be, or seem to be, the problem. In these circumstances, public outrage is much harder to fuel.
Third, human beings are far more attentive to immediate threats than to long-term ones.
Actually I'd say that this set of psychological 'obstacles' is a pretty good filter for separating bullshit imaginary threats from ones we need to actually worry about. So maybe 5th dimensional Quasi-Morphs are currently hunting humans and will eat us all in less than 25 years - but until we start seeing actual Quasi-Morph ecto-gnawed bodies it's not worth our time to worry about this particular threat.
The Last Men of the Revolution
We have no photographs of the Revolutionary war but some of the men who fought in it lived long enough to have daguerreotypes made.
Research Suggests That More Intelligent People Drink More, And Begin Earlier In Life
So you have that going for you. Or not.
Kelsey Grammer Is Joining 'The Expendables 3'?
Grammer is near a deal to play the role of Bonaparte, an ex-mercenary who helps the Expendables in their mission. While Grammer was long identified for playing the mild-mannered shrink-turned-radio host Dr. Frasier Crane, he has transformed into a Hollywood tough guy. Most of that came from him playing a ferocious powerbroker in the recently canceled Starz series Boss.
Well it goes against his usual casting which means it could be a surprisingly awesome role for him.
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Yahoo group. That is all.
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Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 06:38 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 06:40 PM (7D6bD)
Posted by: EC at September 18, 2013 06:41 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 06:41 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Extremely grumpy momma bear at September 18, 2013 06:43 PM (54VAq)
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 06:43 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 06:43 PM (7D6bD)
That's all
Gorilla 69? Because that's always been my dream.
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at September 18, 2013 06:43 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 06:44 PM (7D6bD)
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 10:43 PM (wNF3N)
Milk is a gateway drug. Cheers y'all.
Posted by: NC Ref at September 18, 2013 06:45 PM (Myqtp)
Posted by: Gingy at September 18, 2013 06:46 PM (jt8G9)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 06:46 PM (7D6bD)
Sometimes I think 60% of academia these days consists of loads of reasoning from false premises.
Another 30% is pomo, which contains no reasoning at all.
Another 10% is still good. Thank goodness for STEM.
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 06:46 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: SuaveJav at September 18, 2013 06:46 PM (qQk+U)
Does sneaking snorts of Vicks 44 (the old stuff, back in the '60's) in my dad's (way-cool, non-orthogonal) closet count? Or asking for one or two too many extra glasses of Mogen David wine at Thanksgiving dinner, does that count?
Asking for a friend . . .
Posted by: filbert at September 18, 2013 06:46 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 06:47 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: EC at September 18, 2013 06:47 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 06:49 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at September 18, 2013 06:49 PM (a5ljo)
Posted by: .87c at September 18, 2013 06:49 PM (qZPXs)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 18, 2013 06:50 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at September 18, 2013 06:50 PM (BXLPR)
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 06:50 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Steven Seagal at September 18, 2013 06:50 PM (Dsds2)
Posted by: mallfly at September 18, 2013 06:50 PM (jDjlM)
This Evening's Flow Chart has been brought to you by "Lawnmower Beer".
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 06:51 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 06:52 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: EC at September 18, 2013 06:52 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 06:53 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 06:53 PM (HVff2)
The Way Way Back: about as wonderful as everyone says. A real movie. See it.
Oblivion: Pretty darned good, even with Scientology Wonder Boy as the star. Maybe some ripping off of another movie that I won't mention because it would spoil things.
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 06:55 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Tuna at September 18, 2013 06:55 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 06:55 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: boulder texan hobo at September 18, 2013 06:55 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 18, 2013 06:56 PM (mHUKK)
Posted by: Dave S. at September 18, 2013 06:56 PM (UvR6d)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 06:56 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 18, 2013 06:56 PM (e8kgV)
Why? I owned a tanning salon and couldn't tell you why. I went pro-paba fifteen years ago.
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 06:56 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: holygoat at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (HYFht)
Posted by: .87c at September 18, 2013 10:49 PM (qZPXs)
A decent Weller temperature-controlled soldering iron should be able to handle almost anything and usually go for less than $70.
Posted by: Mætenloch at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (pAlYe)
"Poor" people are poor for a reason and it's not that they aren't given an opportunity or "rich" people are jacking their coin.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (6v9FO)
Basically, he said "you know, all that shit you got that you really like? Like flat-screen TVs and iPhones? Yeah, the 1%ers bought that shit when it was like WAY expensive, and 'cause they did, they gave the manufacturers good feedback 'cause of the shit they bought and the shit they didn't buy, that's why the manufacturers got their shit together and figured out what kind of shit people really wanted, and then cranked up their manufacturing shit and cranked out good shit for the masses, and that's why you all have iPhones and flat-screen TVs today, homies."
I may have taken liberties with the idioms, there, but that's the basic argument from "The Constitution of Liberty."
Posted by: filbert at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (7vimm)
Home Depot, or your choice of hardware stores and look at the Weller guns. They make a variety for different applications.
Mine's been running nearly 30 years.
Posted by: irongrampa at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: boulder texan hobo at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: EC at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: Gingy at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (jt8G9)
Good night, Horde!
Posted by: logprof at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (bufJH)
Racist.
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 06:57 PM (bKA83)
Wait 'til you get a load of me.
Posted by: Flashback [h/t, dan simmons] at September 18, 2013 06:58 PM (d7tB2)
The last time the TSA got their hairy palms on me was in 2005. Sure as shit, I got singled out for 'an extended examination'. They found some kind of metal in the cuffs of my Lee jeans....
When they asked what they were, I said "I didn't sew the fucking things. Ask Lee." I wasn't nominated as one of their most cooperative passengers of 2005, that much I can tell you.
I don't fly any more since then.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 06:58 PM (wNF3N)
It reminds me of a John Denver lyric:
Sunstein on my shoulder makes me happy...
Posted by: zmdavid at September 18, 2013 06:59 PM (LlY+k)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 06:59 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 18, 2013 06:59 PM (mHUKK)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 06:59 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: filbert at September 18, 2013 07:00 PM (7vimm)
Posted by: prurp 9mm at September 18, 2013 07:01 PM (CwqiX)
Posted by: EC at September 18, 2013 07:01 PM (doBIb)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at September 18, 2013 07:02 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 07:02 PM (lq3Ak)
If you move around the room, the eyes will follow you.
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 07:03 PM (bKA83)
Is that like the David Allan Coe song "Sunsteins on the Pillow?"
Posted by: Country Singer at September 18, 2013 07:03 PM (T7XIT)
"Poor" people are poor for a reason and it's not that they aren't given an opportunity or "rich" people are jacking their coin.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 10:57 PM (6v9FO)
Well I don't have feelings as you humans would know them. But it is reasonable to wonder if having economic distribution statistics that are starting to look South American might be a bad thing in general without implying I'm going to give away my deluxe sleeping pods to poor people.
Posted by: Mætenloch at September 18, 2013 07:04 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:04 PM (qyfb5)
Decent soldering and rework/reflow stations can be had on ebay for $100.00
Don't forget to pick up a steel wool solder tip cup to keep that tip clean.
Never use a wet sponge to clean your tips.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 07:05 PM (6v9FO)
Fuck you, you lying Quisling fuck*!
*happily stolen.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 18, 2013 07:06 PM (gqgiP)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at September 18, 2013 07:06 PM (m242I)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:06 PM (qyfb5)
He obviously forgot the magic passphrase:
"Fellatio, sir? Or perhaps you prefer to perform sodomy?"
Posted by: filbert at September 18, 2013 07:06 PM (7vimm)
Knock me over with a feather.
Unfortunately, while featuring this Junior Jihadi Jane as a poster girl for the Dream Act is a major gaffe, Dick Durbin is politically invulnerable. The fine state of Sick-inois is going to send him back to the Senate forever, no matter what stupid shit he comes up with.
However, this might turn out to be useful in embarrassing other incumbents, vulnerable next cycle, who have been pushing the Dream Act nonsense.
Posted by: torquewrench at September 18, 2013 07:06 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: Leonard-Pinth Garnell at September 18, 2013 07:07 PM (PtuJp)
Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at September 18, 2013 07:08 PM (K5R1m)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:08 PM (qyfb5)
Isn't Cass a fat chicks name? Like Cass Elliot? Who would name their little boy Cass?
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 07:08 PM (jucos)
Those would be refrigerator boxes with pillows, if I have the terminology right?
Cuz I've got my own pillow.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 07:09 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: boulder british hobo at September 18, 2013 07:09 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:09 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:09 PM (qyfb5)
Good to hear, I was beginning to wonder about you.
The thought that taking from the rich and giving to the "poor" amount to anything only has to look at how much we have redistributed with the regards to the "great-society", 10's of TRILLIONS, 10's.
Yet, and yet we somehow still have poor people floating around the joint.
**scratches chin, pauses, drinks scotch, scratches, drink, .....
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 07:09 PM (6v9FO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 18, 2013 07:09 PM (mHUKK)
It's been said that Weller makes good stuff. If you are willing to spend. The electronic guys at work have something like these.
http://binged.it/14kKcuE
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 07:10 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:10 PM (HVff2)
Hic
Posted by: Last at September 18, 2013 07:10 PM (8HiDF)
I refuse to fly,something I love to do. No more, though.
First asshole tries to grope me there will be an "incident".
Even though it doesn't happen to everybody, it'd be my luck.
Posted by: irongrampa at September 18, 2013 07:10 PM (SAMxH)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:11 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Huckleberry Finn at September 18, 2013 07:11 PM (z694/)
Posted by: prurp 9mm at September 18, 2013 07:13 PM (CwqiX)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:13 PM (qyfb5)
http://www.ktvq.com/mobile/news/the-bison-got-away/
Posted by: Country Singer at September 18, 2013 07:13 PM (T7XIT)
Well here is what pisses me off more than the illegal aliens, their attitude that they have a RIGHT to all the rights and benefits of citizens and immigrants who came here legally.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 18, 2013 10:56 PM (mHUKK)
--- __________________________
It would be like a group of people breaking into your house and being pissed that you only had Bud Light to give them and your toilet paper was one ply. Fuck them. We, in the west, are truly suicidal.
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 07:14 PM (jucos)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 11:09 PM (T1005)
Obama has managed to set up a feedback loop in the economy where his policies cause the problems he claims they solve - so he can expand them and make the problems worse. Then he will propose expanding his fixes some more. It's how you make a Depression.
Posted by: zmdavid at September 18, 2013 07:15 PM (LlY+k)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:15 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 07:15 PM (wNsNP)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 07:16 PM (wNsNP)
I told you people.
Posted by: Ayn Rand at September 18, 2013 07:16 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at September 18, 2013 07:17 PM (m242I)
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at September 18, 2013 07:17 PM (SAMxH)
I just looked at a hobby who's tools cost less than $200 is cheap. And I know nothing but the guys I know who do have them. But I get that the company is paying for them so convenience is cheaper.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 07:17 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: .87c at September 18, 2013 07:18 PM (qZPXs)
...Period
Play hardball for once in this political age. For the children.
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 07:18 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 18, 2013 07:18 PM (9MLX+)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 18, 2013 07:18 PM (4p5/2)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:18 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 18, 2013 07:19 PM (mHUKK)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:19 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 07:20 PM (wNsNP)
Isn't the availability of all these freebies part of the reason why some people don't try very hard to get out of the underclass?
Ding, ding, ding!
Get this man a cigar stat!!!
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 07:21 PM (6v9FO)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at September 18, 2013 11:20 PM (lr3d7)
____________________
Gold clap......
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 07:21 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:22 PM (HVff2)
Holder: Motion for summary dismissal because plaintiffs lack standing.
Judge: Granted. Next case.
That's about the way its gonna go down.
Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 18, 2013 07:24 PM (9MLX+)
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 18, 2013 07:25 PM (XdnQT)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at September 18, 2013 07:26 PM (wNsNP)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 07:27 PM (els09)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 18, 2013 07:29 PM (cj2js)
Soon we will all have standing to sue over Obama's Fascist Healthcare System.
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:29 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Hrothgar at September 18, 2013 07:29 PM (XdnQT)
Posted by: Chief Justice Roberts at September 18, 2013 07:30 PM (Dsds2)
Does that mean that when they calculate a families' income they don't include food stamps, rent subsidies, child care, cell phone, and medicaid?
Isn't the availability of all these freebies part of the reason why some people don't try very hard to get out of the underclass?
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 18, 2013 11:19 PM (mHUKK)
Yep. Which is why the poverty level percentage is meaningless - it counts people's incomes before they get any benefits, subsidies, or freebies. So statistically the poor will never become less poor no matter how much we give them.
Posted by: Mætenloch at September 18, 2013 07:30 PM (pAlYe)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at September 18, 2013 07:31 PM (m242I)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:31 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 11:09 PM (T1005)
Obama has managed to set up a feedback loop in the economy where his policies cause the problems he claims they solve - so he can expand them and make the problems worse. Then he will propose expanding his fixes some more. It's how you make a Depression.
Posted by: zmdavid at September 18, 2013 11:15 PM (LlY+k)
*Ding, ding, ding* We have a winner. Yup.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:31 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:32 PM (0axsw)
I just looked at a hobby who's tools cost less than $200 is cheap. And I know nothing but the guys I know who do have them. But I get that the company is paying for them so convenience is cheaper.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 11:17 PM (XjG0F)
Shouldn't that be "the anal version"?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:32 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 07:33 PM (jucos)
Why is there no judgement for standing in frivolous lawsuits? That shit costs us billions every year.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 07:33 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 07:34 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:34 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 07:35 PM (t8kby)
As far as the 1%, 5 % 05 whatever. The myth on the left is that somehow that guy has my money or took it from me. No, that guy in most (not all) earned his money. And even if he inherited it, who cares, it's not taking money out of my pocket. Like any of us would say, gee, thanks rich uncle for leaving me millions, but nah.. I'm good with my 50K per year. Most of them earned it though by working their ass off and risking it many times over. I am so tired of the evil boogeyman rich guy. Sure, many are assholes. I know many lower and middle class assholes too. I don't care if someone is rich though. Many of them are miserable too. Whatever I don't care. I have a lefty douchebag brother in law. He rails on it all the time. So I finally asked him one day. I said. O.K. Lefty douchebag brother in law. You have more than 93% of the rest of the world. Literally. If you own a car you're in the top 5% in the word. Living in the US literally puts you in the top percentile of wealth in the world. So why don't you owe those people? Or why shouldn't they be entitled to what you have? He rambled incoherently and changed the subject.
Posted by: Minnfidel at September 18, 2013 07:35 PM (bXdYS)
Posted by: Country Singer at September 18, 2013 07:35 PM (T7XIT)
Posted by: John Roberts at September 18, 2013 07:35 PM (aDwsi)
If we want to fix the problem the answer is really very simple.
Stop voting for Democrats.
If you want a more level playing field let people play the game. Things even out. If you want an unfair playing field mess around with it. There is no way to stop the invisible hand.
Posted by: petunia at September 18, 2013 07:36 PM (DAcBA)
Posted by: CarolT at September 18, 2013 07:36 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:36 PM (HVff2)
If I were to ever buy another, it would be a gas torch version.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 07:36 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:37 PM (0axsw)
Why would you tap when you could use a steel wool cup to remove excess solder?
Never tap your tip.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 07:37 PM (6v9FO)
Do you use a Geiger counter to check if their right?
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 07:37 PM (XjG0F)
**runs around the classroom sticking his tongue out at the dumb kids**
Posted by: Country Singer at September 18, 2013 07:38 PM (T7XIT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 07:38 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 18, 2013 07:38 PM (CeNUw)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:39 PM (HVff2)
How to fix healthcare?
1. Tort reform
2. Allowing Ins Companies to sell across state lines
3. Decoupling Health Ins from employment
4. Making insurance high deductible/ catastrophic coverage
5. Health savings accounts
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 07:40 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at September 18, 2013 07:40 PM (m242I)
If we want to fix the problem the answer is really very simple.
Stop voting for Democrats.
If you want a more level playing field let people play the game. Things even out. If you want an unfair playing field mess around with it. There is no way to stop the invisible hand.
Posted by: petunia at September 18, 2013 11:36 PM (DAcBA)
Alas, that won't do it -- it will, at best, pause the problem. If we actually wanted to fix it, we'd have to do something like a constitutional amendment to clarify the Commerce Clause -- and the RINOs we got in the GOP would certainly never do that.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:40 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at September 18, 2013 07:41 PM (m242I)
I don't like most horror movies, so there is your review.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 18, 2013 07:42 PM (wNF3N)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 07:42 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:42 PM (0axsw)
How to fix healthcare?
1. Tort reform
2. Allowing Ins Companies to sell across state lines
3. Decoupling Health Ins from employment
4. Making insurance high deductible/ catastrophic coverage
5.Health savings accounts
I would like to purchase one subscription to your newsletter, and a gift subscription for a Mr. Boehner.
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 07:42 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: Dude's toilet at September 18, 2013 07:42 PM (V/HqN)
Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at September 18, 2013 07:44 PM (U0t2o)
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 07:45 PM (6v9FO)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:45 PM (HVff2)
How to fix healthcare?
1. Tort reform
2. Allowing Ins Companies to sell across state lines
3. Decoupling Health Ins from employment
4. Making insurance high deductible/ catastrophic coverage
5.Health savings accounts
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 11:40 PM (jucos)
You missed one -- everyone pays the posted prices. The "secret price" that varies by insurance carrier with a rack rate that could fund the Apollo program is horseshit and hogwash on a stick.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:46 PM (T1005)
Sounds like good advice...until one gets to the part where you want me to rub it on steel wool instead.
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 07:46 PM (bKA83)
Posted by: CarolT at September 18, 2013 07:46 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: CarolT at September 18, 2013 11:46 PM (z4WKX)
Must've been pretty bad.....he's still cryin' and whimperin' about it.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:47 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 07:48 PM (V/HqN)
My understanding is that that crap comes straight from the Medicare laws. They insist on paying a massively discounted price, so people had to make up a massive list price. In times of not being insured, I have had to pay that actual list price. How does 2 grand for a CAT scan that the connected pay less than $400 for sound?
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 07:48 PM (bKA83)
1. Tort reform
2. Allowing Ins Companies to sell across state lines
3. Decoupling Health Ins from employment
4. Making insurance high deductible/ catastrophic coverage
5.Health savings accounts"
Posted by: Truck Monkey
^THIS^
No matter how many boulders you wish to toss into the Free Market, it will flow. Top-Down Government intrusion, however, includes its exclusion from "savings" and/or "marriage".
The More Local, the Better. States have to decide in an actual Representative Republic. Get It All Off of Me!
*swats and dusts shoulders and legs*
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 07:48 PM (lq3Ak)
I'm an AFB man, myself. Two stars to you if you remember what guys used to say that stood for...
Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 18, 2013 07:48 PM (JNUY4)
Posted by: CarolT at September 18, 2013 07:48 PM (z4WKX)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:48 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: and irresolute at September 18, 2013 07:50 PM (RqHWH)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at September 18, 2013 07:50 PM (jucos)
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 11:05 PM (6v9FO)
FIFY
(and using anything abrasive to clean a tip will also cause problems)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 07:50 PM (lAZep)
1. Term limits (amendment to constitution)
2. Balanced budget amendment
3. Line item veto Amendment)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 11:45 PM (HVff2)
That would require those in power willfully giving up a lot of that power.
Seems highly unlikely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 18, 2013 07:50 PM (CWLFZ)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 18, 2013 07:51 PM (CeNUw)
You missed one -- everyone pays the posted
prices. The "secret price" that varies by insurance carrier with a rack
rate that could fund the Apollo program is horseshit and hogwash on a
stick.
My understanding is that that crap comes straight from the Medicare laws. They insist on paying a massively discounted price, so people had to make up a massive list price. In times of not being insured, I have had to pay that actual list price. How does 2 grand for a CAT scan that the connected pay less than $400 for sound?
Posted by: Splunge at September 18, 2013 11:48 PM (bKA83)
It sounds like a reason to change the system.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:52 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:52 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 07:52 PM (aDwsi)
-Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Malignant Traitor.
...but we don't have to make the deposit"
Posted by: Congress at September 18, 2013 07:54 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:54 PM (HVff2)
1. Term limits (amendment to constitution)
2. Balanced budget amendment
3. Line item veto Amendment)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 11:45 PM (HVff2)
That would require those in power willfully giving up a lot of that power.
Seems highly unlikely.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 18, 2013 11:50 PM (CWLFZ)
Yeah, those sorts of retrenchments have historically been associated with large numbers of streetlamps and a run on hemp at hardware stores....but they have occasionally happened.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:55 PM (T1005)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 07:55 PM (t8kby)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at September 18, 2013 07:55 PM (JNUY4)
Suppose you don't pay Obamacare, or the fines?
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:56 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 07:56 PM (HVff2)
Should have put Carter in parentheses.
http://www.carburetorsandmore.com/afbcarter.htm
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 07:57 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: and irresolute at September 18, 2013 11:50 PM (RqHWH)
There are some where the nonstop "Special Snowflake" training didn't take. God bless 'em.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 07:57 PM (T1005)
Weighted base, temperature control and easily changed out tips.
I have a $10 job for use outdoors on equipment or a gas pencil torch (no good if it's windy).
Impromptu poll:
How many 'rons or 'ronettes can solder? Brase? Stick Weld? Mig/Tig?
Fusing metals together babeeee.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 07:57 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: flounder at September 18, 2013 07:57 PM (Kkt/i)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:58 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:58 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 07:58 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 07:59 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 07:59 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 11:56 PM (HVff2)
Some day, you might walk in there and find all the shelves bare....and, a couple of days later, you might hear amazing, commonsense, effective solutions coming from your government....
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:00 PM (T1005)
Suppose you don'tpay Obamacare, or the fines?
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 11:56 PM (0axsw)
If you're a Dem or squishy R, nothing. If you're conservative or libertarian, fines and/or prison.
Posted by: zmdavid at September 18, 2013 08:00 PM (LlY+k)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 08:00 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:00 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:01 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: mindful webworker - following the web's threads at September 18, 2013 08:02 PM (U13jb)
Seems highly unlikely."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr.
...But State Legislatures can hold Constitutional Conventions, as well. The Power of the States had always been foremost amongst the Founding Fathers.
Mark Levin's ideas, (as I've only heard -of late), are dynamically powerful.
The Power should have always been at Individual State-level. That's A Constitutional-Core Freedom.
This Top-Down Bullshit should have never been.
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 08:02 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:02 PM (aDwsi)
New soldering iron.
Turn it on to highest setting.
Remove from holder
Touch solder to tip after 2-4 minutes solder should flow onto tip.
Solder should boil and smoke as flux in solder evaporates.
Dip tip into steel wool rapidly. This will remove excess solder and leave you with a clean tinned tip.
Repeat two more times.
Turn iron off if you do not plan to use it and place in holder.
Repeat above steps while you are using your iron.
Never use wet sponge. All you do is cool your tip down and increase blackening and charing of tip.
A tip will last you a lifetime if above steps are followed.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 08:02 PM (6v9FO)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 08:03 PM (t8kby)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 08:03 PM (HVff2)
I dunno, Sideshow Bob Terwilliger was pretty badass
Bryan Cranston plays the uber badass Walter White, before that he was best known as Hal on Malcolm in the Middle and dentist Tim Whatley on Seinfeld
Talk about going against type
Posted by: kbdabear at September 18, 2013 08:03 PM (/9IC1)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 08:04 PM (RK83g)
How many 'rons or 'ronettes can solder? Brase? Stick Weld? Mig/Tig?
Fusing metals together babeeee.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 11:57 PM (lAZep)
Solder? Check. Braze? Check. Stick weld? Check, but I don't claim to be expert at it. Oxy-acetylene weld? Check. Mig? Check. Tig? Just did my first real Tig welds last week, fixing broken joints in a thin steel filing cabinet. Still very much on the steep end of the learning curve with that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 08:04 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 08:06 PM (HVff2)
Suppose you don'tpay Obamacare, or the fines?
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 11:56 PM (0axsw)
If you're a Dem or squishy R, nothing. If you're conservative or libertarian, fines and/or prison.
Posted by: zmdavid at September 19, 2013 12:00 AM (LlY+k)
There's no provision for fines and/or prison in the law. However, there's also nothing that says you can renew your driver's license by mail, view internet porn without it going public, have licenses and permits denied or just get lost.... It's all pretty much laid out in Cass Sunstein's book, "Nudge" -- http://tinyurl.com/m8ylewm.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:06 PM (T1005)
I have none of those skills but I do get to judge other people that do. AWS CWI.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 08:06 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:07 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 08:08 PM (RK83g)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 08:08 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 08:09 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 11:58 PM (aDwsi)
I think, officially, it was Aluminum Four Bore. But I think that's a distinction without a difference.
Now, what was the preceding carb model, and what did its letter designation represent?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 08:09 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 08:10 PM (RK83g)
The trouble is, we'd all have to do it or it wouldn't work. (strength in numbers).
I'm not going to play the game with them, let them levy a fine. They say they won't enforce it and I don't get a "refund". (it's not a refund if it's YOUR money).
Make your exemptions equal what you would normally pay in tax on your W-4 (that's the one where your employer asks how many exemptions to take for your pay).
If you're self employed only pay your quarterly payments the size of your actual income. (c'mon you know you can make it balance)
OR make no quarterly payments at all. As long as the difference isn't over a certain amount (I forget the amount) when filing time happens they won't fine you for not making the quarterly payments.
Best yet would be to just stop playing their game.
It's rigged anyway.
I think with so many people working at the edge of insolvency and more on the way that many will begin to think of just saying NO.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 08:10 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at September 18, 2013 08:10 PM (HVff2)
There are some where the nonstop "Special Snowflake" training didn't take. God bless 'em.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 11:57 PM (T1005)
-----
All it takes is someone with enough awareness to see that Billy, the kid that still eats paste, is even getting unwarranted praise, along with everyone else. If everyone is getting praise, the currency is getting devalued. The smart kids will be the ones that pick up on that. If they are the only ones that pick up on that, they'll have a huge advantage when the poo really hits the wall. The dumb ones will think they are still special when all evidence proves otherwise.
Then, the gap between the 1% and the rest will only get wider, and this will be evidence that we need more government intervention, and the dumb ones will vote for it in masses.
Posted by: Dave S. at September 18, 2013 08:11 PM (UvR6d)
Coming in at number four this week is a "band that should have never been." These lads took out ads and their perseverance paid off. Techno-Pop lives at this week's #1 Song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijAYN9zVnwg
Nineteen-Eighty-Nine.
Posted by: Casey Kasem at September 18, 2013 08:11 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 08:11 PM (t8kby)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 08:12 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:12 PM (aDwsi)
I had shop in high school with the bandsaw but no welding. I did take some welding classes and can stick two pieces of metal together but will not call it a weld since I know what a real one looks like. Welding is an art and either takes a natural talent or practice to be truly good at.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 08:13 PM (XjG0F)
You just told me that it wasn't worth seeing twice.
Thank you for saving me $45.
Posted by: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel at September 18, 2013 08:14 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:15 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 08:15 PM (t8kby)
...Yeah. You should just quit. I don't approve of your methodology, but you'll be joining the rest of the folks who only care about lawns and "other idiots".
Posted by: Casey Kasem at September 18, 2013 08:15 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 08:16 PM (RK83g)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:16 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Mr. Bitterness at September 18, 2013 08:17 PM (i+osE)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 18, 2013 08:17 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:18 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Kreplach at September 19, 2013 12:02 AM (6v9FO)
I had the pleasure of laying my hand down on the tip of a soldering iron once. Once. Fuckin' OUCH!!!
Posted by: NC Ref at September 18, 2013 08:19 PM (Myqtp)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:19 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:20 PM (aDwsi)
I've heard some say they can't braze with MAPP as it's too cold, others say it can be done.
I don't know as I use acetylene.
And it depends on the metals, how clean they are and the flux you use.
Oh and Kreplach? Thanks for the advice but I'll keep doing it the way I have for 50+ years. The steel wool is good for cold cleaning and after the job while hot but during a job of unsoldering and resoldering, sometimes you need a quick wipe to clear the tip and the steel wool won't do it (in my experience). Either that or the way my old man taught me; flipping the iron at the floor. (which has a load of other consequences.)
Now if you're talking fine, close pcb soldering/repair then you should be working with as low a heat as possible anyway and a little cooling won't hurt the tip all that much. Of course it will lower the temperature but the sponge shouldn't be soaking wet and you shouldn't drag the tip back and forth enough to cool it down enough to matter.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 08:21 PM (lAZep)
The lifetime remark is for the average person who does not solder every day.
That being said, as video engineer who has conservatively soldered about 5 million connections over a 25 year period, you should not go through more than a tip a year, if that, following proper procedures.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 08:21 PM (6v9FO)
Posted by: Kreplach at September 19, 2013 12:02 AM (6v9FO)
I had the pleasure of laying my hand down on the tip of a soldering iron once. Once. Fuckin' OUCH!!!
Posted by: NC Ref at September 19, 2013 12:19 AM (Myqtp)
I tried to pick one up like a pencil -- not the tip, but the thing the tip attaches into on the wrong side of the hand guard. One reason I didn't deal with 'em frequently.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:22 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 08:23 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:23 PM (aDwsi)
One involved a plug-in iron and the other involved a Benzene Torch.
Were there a back-loading instrument, so as to allow glue-gun-type control?
...I'd purchase that implement. I'd solder the shit out of some shit.
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 08:24 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: NC Ref
-----------
Working quickly on a large number of components, I could unconsciously shove my iron back into the holder while stuffing more components. Then one morning, I shoved it into my coffee cup.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 19, 2013 12:23 AM (aDwsi)
But did you drink the reheated coffee afterwards?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:24 PM (T1005)
Posted by: The Guy Who Wants To Know Where All Da White Wimmen At at September 18, 2013 08:26 PM (dZ0Re)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:27 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 08:27 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:28 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Null at September 19, 2013 12:26 AM (xjpRj)
Even your cat?
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:29 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 08:29 PM (RK83g)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:30 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 08:31 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 18, 2013 08:31 PM (aewcS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 19, 2013 12:28 AM (aDwsi)
I actually sang that for Rum (with whistles) while driving her around San Francisco one time. She couldn't get out of the car without wiping out in the street. I don't know if she's forgiven me yet.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:32 PM (T1005)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 18, 2013 08:33 PM (aewcS)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 08:33 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 19, 2013 12:30 AM (aDwsi)
Buick, Cadillac, Chevy, and Studebaker, and others, I'm sure.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 08:34 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:35 PM (aDwsi)
I assume it's that varying amounts of lateral pressure applied to the stock yields surprising results, depending on that particular blade's metallurgy.
Posted by: adams woodrow porn at September 18, 2013 08:35 PM (gQKHE)
I just repaired a $50 appliance with 7 bucks of diodes.
Motor is dc with bridge rectifier soldered on the back to make ac into dc.
One of the diodes blew (they were sized too small $$$$) so instant short and motor no worky and breaker trips.
Bought some Radio Shuck™ diodes rated at 3A instead of the 1A's installed.
Soldered them in and away it went.
cha ching. Just saved $50 replacement cost.
Thank you Thank you. No applause please. Just send money.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 08:35 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 08:36 PM (t8kby)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:36 PM (aDwsi)
THIS! But try to explain it to a LIB or LIV and you get that deer in the headlights look or the word GREED spittled back at you.
Posted by: bill-o at September 18, 2013 08:37 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 08:37 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 08:39 PM (els09)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:39 PM (aDwsi)
I will laugh at you now since I have done the same kinds of things. Cutting metal with a sawzall we all know produces heat. But my brain says "it's not red go ahead"
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 08:39 PM (XjG0F)
Fell for the just the tip thing did ya?! : D
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 19, 2013 12:31 AM (aewcS)
It seems like "just the tip" has been a joke since grade school, but I recently learned that "point of inevitable ejaculation" is actually a medically-recognized thing.
It's even cited in unintentionally humorous articles like this one -- http://tinyurl.com/n3xtuv4 -- which contains the gem: "At times, a man may report distress because he is unable to prevent
ejaculation for 20 or 30 minutes. In this instance, the diagnosis of PE
is not warranted even if the individual reports high levels of distress."
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:39 PM (T1005)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 08:40 PM (RK83g)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 08:40 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:40 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: 1989 Loma Prieta at September 18, 2013 08:41 PM (lq3Ak)
The Boulder Valley flood analogy would be a prediction that T Rex were about to spawn and eat people, and instead we got an invasion of sabretooth cats and cave bears.
Yes, we got our douching from a spell of late-summer *cold* weather (on top of a wave of humid air).
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 18, 2013 08:41 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at September 18, 2013 08:43 PM (aewcS)
Posted by: The Hickster at September 19, 2013 12:39 AM (XjG0F)
I have two fragments of 3" high-speed abrasive cutoff wheels stuck in the gyprock ceiling of my garage. Stuck in, as in "deeply embedded". I leave them there as a personal reminder to wear safety glasses when using that class of power tool.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 08:43 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 08:43 PM (els09)
Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 19, 2013 12:21 AM
At the place I used to work at a guy was using a rose bud tip to heat up an I beam to put camber in it. Ran out of gas and changed tanks. Got mapp gas instead of the other. Melted the rose bud.
Posted by: harleycowboy at September 18, 2013 08:43 PM (+9AX9)
Catastrophic coverage is only useful if you have actual assets to protect.
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 08:43 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:44 PM (aDwsi)
Sure. First make sure the power is OFF. (teehee)
Then use a very low heat iron. (some components may not desolder as they used a higher when the board was dipped.)
Get a solder sucker to remove any solder as it melts to take it off the board.
Most pcb's these days use surface mount components so it will be tricky. If it's an older board and the part has wires, it will be easier.
Heat will kill the new component so when replacing use as little solder iron contact as possible.
After soldering in place the new component double check for solder making contact with other solder runs or that other nearby components aren't loose from the heat.
Then smoke test to see if it works.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 08:44 PM (lAZep)
The Hickster at September 19, 2013 12:39 AM
It doesn't take long to look at a hot one. We've all done it.
Posted by: harleycowboy at September 18, 2013 08:45 PM (+9AX9)
Posted by: rickl at September 18, 2013 08:45 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: _Jim at September 18, 2013 08:46 PM (t8kby)
My Grandfather (who was missing 2 fingers) told me early on. Once you think you completely control a power tool is the time it will remind you that you don't (paraphrasing don't remember the exact words but that's what I took). Which helped me keep all mine.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 08:47 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 08:48 PM (els09)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 08:49 PM (QMWjL)
General doucheness on my part inferred a shelf life in what you were saying.
Regardless of what the literature says, with regards to what I do, I can get roughly 2 years out of a tip following my protocols.
1000's of DSUBS, ALCO's XLRs, BNCs, etc.
Posted by: Kreplach at September 18, 2013 08:49 PM (6v9FO)
Dick Durbin is politically invulnerable. The fine state of Sick-inois is going to send him back to the Senate forever, no matter what stupid shit he comes up with.
_____I'd apologize to the rest of the world for this POS but I've never voted for his azz.
Can the rest of IL divorce Chicago? Please!!!
And don't blame us for Obama, he's from Hawaii or Kenya or somewhere.
Oh wait, isn't he Indonesian? Yeah, a Citizen of The World who will stop the seas from rising.
Do NOT associate this POS w/ IL, we have a bad enough time recovering from all our govs in jail, we don't claim this POS, Hawaii can have him.
Posted by: The Farmer at September 18, 2013 08:50 PM (eBupg)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 19, 2013 12:35 AM (aDwsi)
In High School chem, I had run this one assigned experiment in about 20 minutes while everyone else was floundering and looking to barely complete it in an hour...but the results looked sloppy. So, I thought -- I'll wash everything out and re-run it and see if it gets any tighter. In order to have a clean, dry beaker, I stuck it over a bunsen after cleaning, then pulled it off after it started glowing -- I mean, what the hell, it's pyrex and it's the school's pyrex at that.
So I'm reloading the experiment while the majority of my classmates are halfway through with theirs, and the chem teacher (whose normal gig was track coach) comes by and says, "Goddamn it, cthulhu! You've got to get a move on!" and picked up the beaker.
*sizzle* -- I give him credit, though, he managed to set it down on the lab bench instead of breaking it. "Sssshhh! Why didn't you tell me that was hot?" -- which lead to one of my treasured, perfect, High School moments as I went back to measuring the ingredients, when I replied, "you didn't ask me."
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:50 PM (T1005)
Posted by: rickl at September 18, 2013 08:50 PM (sdi6R)
And if you're going to be using the bandsaw, I'll be in the car.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 19, 2013 12:40 AM (qyfb5)
Miter saws are an order of magnitude more dangerous than bandsaws, and table saws require double-checked contingency plans at Casa de Cthulhu before the power is turned on.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:52 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 08:52 PM (els09)
Posted by: Thrawn at September 18, 2013 08:53 PM (Dsds2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzK7pUCXHsE
-My Prerogative
-Two Hearts
-When I'm With You
-Straight-Up
-Lost in Your Eyes
-Eternal Flame
-The Look
-She Drives Me Crazy
-Like a Prayer
-I'll Be There For You
-Forever Your Girl
-...yech 4:00 +
-5:00+
-Don't Forget My Number
-Good Thing
-If You Don't Know Me
-Horrible Chick
...aftermath
Posted by: Casey Kasem - 1989 at September 18, 2013 08:53 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: harleycowboy at September 18, 2013 08:53 PM (+9AX9)
I treat all powered tools as the death dealing gremlins they've proven to be.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 08:54 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 08:54 PM (QMWjL)
We built our own safety miter saws in high school shop. 3 boards that made a C and then we were graded on the accuracy of our angles. Modern power miter saws you are correct are dangerous as hell.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 08:56 PM (XjG0F)
I'll take Lines Never Uttered Before for $600, Alex.
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 19, 2013 12:52 AM (els09)
Yeah, he used my IRL last name...but I thought it improved the dialogue.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 08:57 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Thrawn at September 18, 2013 08:57 PM (Dsds2)
Pffft.
3 boards are easy. It's matching that 4th one to the rest that's the cfucker.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 08:58 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
I repaired a friendship with nothing more than an apology.
...and I got his Saturn up-and-running.
...after the apology.
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 08:58 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 08:59 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 08:59 PM (QMWjL)
I treat all powered tools as the death dealing gremlins they've proven to be.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 19, 2013 12:54 AM (lAZep)
I had a gf whose stepdad finally blinked wrong with a table saw at 70+ yo and lost two fingers. Every fuckin' time you use one of those bitches, you're at risk -- no matter how many times you've gotten away with it in the past.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:00 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Sphynx at September 18, 2013 09:01 PM (cll/q)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 09:02 PM (5QKVq)
Posted by: Boss Moss former editor of the Harvard Law Review at September 18, 2013 09:03 PM (0axsw)
Posted by: Sphynx at September 19, 2013 01:01 AM (cll/q)
A frightening percentage of circular saw accidents happen with feet and legs because guys get used to bracing lumber to be cut.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:03 PM (T1005)
I'd be checking for leaks if I was you.
Had a water heater came with the house. after 3 years it stopped working; pilot light out.
Pilot light was out because the water leak had drowned it.
Replaced with an electric.
A month later got the water bill. #$%&!
3,000 gals.
The water company even sent me a letter saying my usage went suddenly up and I should check my equipment.
I was reminded of the table I saw once on how much water a leak can pass. Just a little drip can amount to 20 gals a day. Or more.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 09:04 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 09:04 PM (aDwsi)
I got off lucky. People have been killed by them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 09:04 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 09:05 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 09:05 PM (aDwsi)
Though you just may be fucking with me. Yes we were building miter boxes not saws.
http://bit.ly/155nB7W
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 09:06 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 09:06 PM (aDwsi)
The method of enforcement for that problem is well established for at least 60 years.
Find a few high profile miscreants. Prosecute like a Ton. of. Bricks.
Rinse and repeat. Publicize.
The rest of us then fall in to line.
Posted by: navybrat at September 18, 2013 09:06 PM (kb15h)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 09:07 PM (QMWjL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 19, 2013 01:04 AM (aDwsi)
Yeah, they've got an awesome demo where they attempt to cut a hot dog. If I used one often, I'd pay the money.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:07 PM (T1005)
I look at cutting implements like AtC looks at "The Outdoors".
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 09:07 PM (lq3Ak)
I have but i don't understand the demos. Who pushes their stock with their wiener?
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 09:09 PM (XjG0F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 09:09 PM (aDwsi)
Okay.
I misunderstood. I thought you were making miter cuts.
You were making a MITER BOX.
Still, when making like a frame, it's that fourth side that I always get wrong.
But I bought a sears hand compound miter saw so I'm hoping the next mitering project I do they'll come out correct.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 09:10 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: bill-o at September 19, 2013 12:37 AM (AWwDY)---
----
Here's an anecdote. There is a 400 Million Powerball drawing tonight (or was it last night). I had a co-worker holding court in the lunchroom about how "they" should just take that 400 million, and give the money equally to every American citizen. (Or at least the 99 percent). By this guy's math, every American would get 1.3 million dollars and be on easy street. Recession over, blah blah blah.
You should have seen the looks I got after I pointed out the blatant, ridiculous math error. (400 million divided by 310 million does not equal 1.3 million, for those keeping score)
So, yes, explaining the minimum wage and tax rates with these people is a futile exercise.
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at September 18, 2013 09:10 PM (jSmN1)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 09:11 PM (QMWjL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 09:11 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 18, 2013 09:12 PM (4p5/2)
It's additive and it doesn't show till the forth.
Posted by: The Hickster at September 18, 2013 09:14 PM (XjG0F)
I have no idea.
The IRS can make your life in to a Hell. You may not have a moment's peace for years.
Posted by: navybrat at September 18, 2013 09:14 PM (kb15h)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 19, 2013 01:11 AM (aDwsi)
Hell, somebody's got to tamp the dynamite into the holes when they shoot a round at the face in the Siberian gold mines.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 09:14 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 18, 2013 09:14 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 18, 2013 09:15 PM (4p5/2)
Posted by: The Hickster
------------------------------
Putin?
Putin stops the blade with his weiner. From horseback.
Posted by: Sphynx at September 18, 2013 09:15 PM (cll/q)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 19, 2013 01:07 AM (QMWjL)
The money that paid for my college education came from my dad building 5 houses in SoCal in the late '70s....which he drafted me into, bitching and whining -- and which have been some of the most worthwhile things I've ever done.
Around the time we were putting the roof on house #3, I was bitching and whining that he should get a new blade for his little black-and-decker circular saw and he finally gave in. That morning, he had been -- as usual -- shoving the saw through a sheet of plywood and backing a smidge and shoving and backing, all while smoke was coming out of the cut. So I changed the blade over lunch.
So he puts up sheet of plywood, gets the saw going, and shoves the blade into it -- and went all the way across the sheet, catching the edge in the gut, and almost dropped the saw off the other side. It was so startling and so out-of-control that I was in shock when it happened, but it's always good for a chuckle now. After that, he got a new blade for each house.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:16 PM (T1005)
But that only works if the penalty is higher than the reward.
With so many out of work or working less and the high cost of compliance, I predict that more and more will take that route.
Perhaps even a preference cascade.
They can't prosecute everyone and yes they do tend to do high profile cases and then publicize them especially around April.
The actual numbers of investigation, prosecutions and trial are lower than you think. Usually if they find out (and they have snitch program just for that. Think ex-gf/bf, ex and current wives/husbands, employers, fellow employees, your neighbor etc.) they do a quit research and then send a letter saying they have found you were remiss in whatever and for you to refile/file and send the money tout suite.
It works in most cases because most people have more to hide than what they got caught at so they settle for paying them off and the IRS cost was some research time and a stamp.
But what if 40 million people decide to say "NO MORE"?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 09:17 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 18, 2013 09:19 PM (omCZ7)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 18, 2013 09:19 PM (YNK3y)
And gave them guns?
And bought ammo for them for the next decade?
Read about that somewhere...
Posted by: navybrat at September 18, 2013 09:20 PM (kb15h)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 18, 2013 09:20 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 09:23 PM (QMWjL)
Posted by: Lauren at September 18, 2013 09:25 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: 1975 Porsche 930 at September 18, 2013 09:25 PM (xxXq7)
Yes, tell me more about this so called tax rebellion.
Posted by: navybrat at September 18, 2013 09:25 PM (kb15h)
Posted by: model_1066 at September 18, 2013 09:25 PM (QMWjL)
-Two Hearts
-When I'm With You
-Straight-Up
-Lost in Your Eyes
-Eternal Flame
Was that the playlist you chose at the last biker bar you attended?
And at which song was it that you got your ass beat?
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at September 18, 2013 09:27 PM (d7tB2)
http://tinyurl.com/kgfvudr
Since my blog is seriously FARKED for the duration, well, hell, you might as well suffer along with me. Click. CLICK DAMN YOU.
Posted by: Null at September 18, 2013 09:27 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: John Taylor Gatto and Charlotte Iserbyt [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 09:29 PM (qyfb5)
Just looked it up on the yootubez. That's amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD3agP5hv0
Posted by: Waterhouse at September 19, 2013 01:19 AM (omCZ7)
If I were using one once a month, I'd own one of those. As it is, I use one a few times a year so I am merely extremely cautious. But I knew someone who was missing body parts from one.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:29 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Imam of Dearbornistan at September 18, 2013 09:29 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 09:31 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 09:33 PM (qyfb5)
http://tinyurl.com/kgfvudr
Since my blog is seriously FARKED for the duration, well, hell, you might as well suffer along with me. Click. CLICK DAMN YOU.
Posted by: Null at September 19, 2013 01:27 AM (xjpRj)
I'm thinking drops of mercury on an aloe....is that a work-in-progress or is it finished? [da Vinci: "Art is never finished, only abandoned."]
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:33 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at September 18, 2013 09:35 PM (w45V0)
Posted by: Lauren at September 18, 2013 09:36 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 18, 2013 09:37 PM (8Fl6F)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 09:40 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 18, 2013 09:41 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Null at September 18, 2013 09:43 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: Null at September 19, 2013 12:26 AM (xjpRj)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkKuMnJFx18Posted by: bill-o at September 18, 2013 09:45 PM (AWwDY)
Bingo. Several books have laid out in detail how utterly disconnected the 2008 crisis was from Main Street's finances and how very few companies would have actually folded outside of Wall St. Even a lot of the ones considered at grave risk on Wall St. were later revealed to be perfectly capable of weathering the storm minus a few scapegoat employees, who would still walk away as members of the 1%.
In other words, TARP was completely unnecessary. All it did was preserve some bonuses of existing multimillionaires rather than let be a bit inconvenienced. It's almost enough to make you sympathetic with the OWS crowd except I've never heard a single one of them discuss Wall St.'s crimes in any clear rational manner and generally made it clear they didn't understand the actual problem.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 09:46 PM (kcfmt)
I know as some of the tools I've had to use were unable to perform the job unless the safety devices (shields and such) were removed.
So, yeah the 2nd or 3rd time that the device interferes with a project, that'll be it.
(and it may not be the fault of the project as some devices just aren't designed with the work in mind but in showing safety inspectors that the machine is "safe". Safety inspectors don't care if the machine does the job or not.)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at September 18, 2013 09:47 PM (lAZep)
Posted by: Filly at September 18, 2013 09:48 PM (y+gTB)
Posted by: Lauren at September 19, 2013 01:36 AM (ELdpj)
It's just a new name. They've been doing it since before I was born.
We're too busy infighting to do anything about it or even make more people aware.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 19, 2013 01:40 AM (qyfb5)
It's been going on since the paleolithic. To be viable within a culture, slavery insists that the ruling class and slaves both work to maintain the status quo. All the crap with LIV was happening with Helots; all the crap with Capitol City -- oops, meant DC -- was happening with Rome. Republics work well until they become prosperous enough that people who are not especially driven, smart, or talented can live well -- then the lackwit idiots with no talents learn that they can vote themselves free shit and the place devolves into another pimp-hand dictatorship that is the more common lot of mankind.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 09:49 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 09:53 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 09:59 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Lauren at September 19, 2013 01:25 AM (ELdpj)
/twitch
Wow. And if this has been going on in the past, I dodged a bullet by taking grades 1-7 outside the US.
Any kids I ever have are going to be homeschooled.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at September 18, 2013 10:00 PM (0wHyk)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 10:02 PM (qyfb5)
The IRS will now have complete access to your health records. As a matter of fact, they will now be in charge of your records.
We, in the months past, have witnessed first hand the depredations of the IRS in the somewhat minor matter of granting exemptions to conservative organizations.
It is not possible to evaluate this and not draw from it the most dire concerns, as regards combining this perfidy with the power of the medical establishment.
Your SEIU doctors and nurses will now know about your voter registration, the charities to whom you give, and anything else they wish to know. Your doctors will ask if you own firearms, how many, how and where are they stored. Your nurses may take five sticks to get your IV started just for spite, yo damned racist GOPer.
Don't even get me started as to whether or not you will be allowed kidney dialysis or a cornea transplant. Those will be reserved for the Party.
Call me paranoid, but the patterns of abuse are already in place. This is s very bad situation if this train leaves the station, and everyone says it is leaving right now.
Posted by: navybrat at September 18, 2013 10:02 PM (kb15h)
Posted by: Low Mathematics Voter at September 18, 2013 10:03 PM (4yKUB)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 10:04 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 10:08 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 10:11 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: flounder at September 18, 2013 10:11 PM (Kkt/i)
Dude, you or I could go in for something minor like a tonsillectomy and while we were under they could just put a dry cleaning bag over our heads.
This shit is so fucked up, I can't even begin to figure out how anyone, in the fucking imponderable depths of their impenetrable ignorance, ever remotely thought it was a good idea.
Posted by: navybrat at September 18, 2013 10:12 PM (kb15h)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 18, 2013 10:13 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: flounder at September 18, 2013 10:14 PM (Kkt/i)
That's a 1.3 million dollars for everyone in America!
Posted by: Low Mathematics Voter at September 19, 2013 02:03 AM
I like money.
Posted by: otho at September 18, 2013 10:15 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: The Inevitable Inflation That Follows [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 10:15 PM (qyfb5)
Thing is, there was no credit crisis. It was all a fraud. There was just a handful of extremely wealthy entities who'd have a bad quarter.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 10:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 10:16 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 10:16 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 19, 2013 01:07 AM (lq3Ak)
I have visible scars on every finger on my left hand from my brief stint (2yrs) in the seafood dept of the local grocery chain.
Posted by: bill-o at September 18, 2013 10:16 PM (AWwDY)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 10:16 PM (T1005)
Posted by: People who likes them some dry cleaning bags over your head ... at September 18, 2013 10:18 PM (j/FJV)
Posted by: flounder at September 18, 2013 10:19 PM (Kkt/i)
Posted by: RWC at September 18, 2013 10:19 PM (LpbKr)
Posted by: butthead at September 18, 2013 10:20 PM (9gNQd)
Posted by: flounder at September 18, 2013 10:20 PM (Kkt/i)
Posted by: Adriane... at September 18, 2013 10:21 PM (j/FJV)
Posted by: The Drinky Hat Drinker at September 18, 2013 10:21 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Adriane... at September 18, 2013 10:23 PM (j/FJV)
Posted by: Adriane... at September 18, 2013 10:24 PM (j/FJV)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 10:25 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 18, 2013 10:33 PM (Vk2pI)
Posted by: Adriane... at September 18, 2013 10:37 PM (j/FJV)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 18, 2013 10:43 PM (KL49F)
No problem here. Sounds malware-y. Browser hijacking is a common tactic and screwing up is also common, resulting in a broken setup instead of making the victim looked at the page you've taken them to.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 10:47 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 19, 2013 02:43 AM (KL49F)
I had a similar thing on Breitbart "conversation" a few minutes ago. I had a pending mozilla update, which flakes the shit out of the browser until you let it do its thing, so I ascribed it to that. I've just let it update and haven't seen any new stability glitches yet.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 10:50 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 18, 2013 10:53 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 10:58 PM (qyfb5)
That last sentence you posted is all Greek to me, lol! I am on Firefox so for now I'll chalk it up to a Mozilla update.
Posted by: Aslan's Girl at September 18, 2013 11:02 PM (KL49F)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 11:04 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 19, 2013 03:04 AM (kcfmt)
Every freakin' time Firefox does an update, it says: "do you want to stop right now and update?" and when you say no, it continues to operate in a deliberately flaky manner.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 11:06 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 19, 2013 03:04 AM (kcfmt)
I think it likes you best.
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 11:07 PM (T1005)
http://tinyurl.com/ooyrdkb
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 11:09 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: Average Guy at September 18, 2013 11:14 PM (gitp2)
Posted by: RWC at September 19, 2013 02:11 AM (LpbKr)
Also also the yearly rent for a two-bedroom apartment.
You're welcome.
Posted by: The Inevitable Inflation That Follows at September 19, 2013 02:15 AM (qyfb5)--
==
Yep. All these people that think the government should just hand everyone a million bucks has no concept of how that would affect the economy. Costs would simply re-adjust, the "poor" would still be "poor". They would still be bitching about the 1 percenters living in their billion-dollar mansions.
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at September 18, 2013 11:17 PM (jSmN1)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 18, 2013 11:19 PM (qyfb5)
Coming soon to McDonalds: the 100 million dollar menu. Same stuff, just a lot more zeros.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 11:22 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: cthulhu at September 18, 2013 11:23 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 18, 2013 11:25 PM (zZJJp)
Posted by: Adriane... at September 18, 2013 11:31 PM (j/FJV)
Zombie Alinsky, call your office. This guy is stealing your schtick.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 18, 2013 11:31 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: SCoaMF at September 18, 2013 11:34 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 18, 2013 11:39 PM (kcfmt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts8MoqwyVLw
I'm not responsible for "Starship".
...I wanna dance with somebody. -Hot Whitney Hoston.
Heart, Los Lobos, R.E.M., U2, Crowded House and "La Isla Bonita".
Posted by: Slapweasel at September 18, 2013 11:49 PM (lq3Ak)
Posted by: Average Guy at September 19, 2013 12:04 AM (gitp2)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 19, 2013 12:13 AM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Adriane... at September 19, 2013 12:23 AM (j/FJV)
Posted by: Epobirs at September 19, 2013 12:43 AM (kcfmt)
Posted by: backhoe at September 19, 2013 01:31 AM (ULH4o)
21l bitter clinger:
Guilty on all counts. ASME qualified on stick back before they had idiot sticks.
Posted by: mac at September 19, 2013 01:40 AM (pEsGM)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 19, 2013 01:45 AM (zZJJp)
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Posted by: BignJames at September 19, 2013 02:58 AM (j7iSn)
*looks around*
Isn't Vic s'posed to be around here somewhere? Isn't it supposed to smell like coffee and brain cells firing up?
Posted by: RushBabe at September 19, 2013 03:00 AM (hrIP5)
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