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I ran an update for the BIOS this evening, which incidentally took out the system access password for this particular machine. That was interesting, as I now had an inaccessible brick. Sure, we have other systems here, but it was annoying. It took the better part of half an hour to regain system access and control. I could have regressed to the original BIOS, I suppose, but some people like puzzles. My wife likes jig-saws with pictures. To each their own; I prefer different puzzles.
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Fake Indian Lizzie Warren is now planning to hobble for President in 2020. That ought to be entertaining.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took the first major step toward launching a widely anticipated campaign for the presidency, hoping her reputation as a populist fighter can help her navigate a Democratic field that could include nearly two dozen candidates.
Um, no - she has a reputation as a fake Indian, but that's about it. She's right up there with Occasional-Cortex.
If these are the best that Democratics have to offer, 2020 should be a breeze for Republicans.
Hey, is Lizzie "middle class"? Nope. Yeah, but she's "fighting" for the rest of us. Never mind that she lied about being an Indian to get preferred treatment for jobs, as a "minority".
Pocahontas somehow has convinced herself that she's relevant.
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"You're not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? How does that make you interesting? You didn't get shot, you pushed some fat kid in the way!"
Actually, Louis C.K. got it wrong; Hogg wasn't even at the school when the Parkland shootings occurred. He did, by his own admission, subsequently hop on his bicycle and pedal over there afterward. And media still refer to him as a "survivor".
Unsurprisingly, a lot of folks crawled out from the baseboards to express their "outrage" over the comedian's take on the "survivor". In some respects, C.K. reminds me of Carlin, who routinely "outraged" people in his later years.
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A 22-year-old intern at a North Carolina zoo was killed Sunday after a lion escaped a locked space. The victim was identified by the Caswell County Sheriff's Office as Alexandra Black, 22, a native of New Palestine, Indiana, and a recent graduate of Indiana State University.
Obviously, the animal was not locked in. This seems to be an ongoing issue in American zoos: they bring in kids fresh out of college with no real-world experience because the managers now view the places as educational, so the animal management part is dismissed. If you're a girl and young and can give a good song and dance, you're in.
You may have heard of Tillikum, an Orca who killed its supposed "trainer" down in Florida at Sea World a while back. Yeah, the "trainer" was busy performing for the visitors and not paying attention to the animal.
The so-called "professionals" these days seem to be nothing of the sort.
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Most Union-Tribune subscribers were without a newspaper this morning as a virus in computer systems controlling production of newspapers across the country hobbled our ability to publish. Production problems at the California Times printing plant in Los Angeles affected print runs of the U-T, the Los Angeles Times and the Southern California editions of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
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Perils of early adoption, especially with Apple products these days.
A man from Columbus Ohio claims that his three-week-old iPhone XS Max caught fire and exploded in his pants.
https://www.idropnews.com/news/iphone/exclusive-ohio-man-asserts-iphone-xs-max-exploded-in-his-pocket-photos/90418/
He is not a happy customer.
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When you've run off from San Quentin prison, you get hungry.
California authorities have captured an inmate who escaped from San Quentin and went on the run for four days. Shalom Mendoza, 21, was taken into custody at a Taco Bell in Paso Robles, more than 200 miles southeast of the prison, on Saturday after receiving a tip from a member of the public.
He was running toward the Mexican border.
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Changes in the tax law mean that you won't be able to write off the value of donations and/or cash that you used to be able to deduct. This is going to impact not only your tax situation, but the bottom line for a large number of charities and other NPOs.
I used to keep records of donations, even though in the great scheme of things, ours have never been of massive significance. Still, even small deductions were sometimes useful in slightly lowering the tax bite. One thing I really dislike about Republicans is that when they're allowed to change the tax code, it's never in your favor.
Until Oregon's Bob Packwood got involved back in the 80s, there were all kinds of taxes you could deduct on your federal return: fuel taxes, excise taxes, hotel taxes, and many more. Those all went away, thanks to his "leadership on tax simplification". The idiot actually ran for reelection with a campaign in which he claimed that he had "put more money in your jeans". It didn't work; people aren't really as stupid as he thought. So he lost, and was replaced with a Democratic - Ron Wyden (D-NY). Ron maintains a small apartment in Portland so that he can continue to campaign as a Senator from Oregon, although he actually lives in NYC and D.C.
Politicians....
Ron at least understands that people here really are as stupid as he thinks.
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TDS is actually pretty entertaining:
You probably should turn the volume down for this one. Oh, oddly enough, the guy's unlikely to find a replacement gig any time soon, as the video's certain to follow him around.
Amazing.
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