Weekend open thread
Hangin’ Around
Photograph by Douglas Gimesy, National Geographic Your Shot
“After the rain, it sometimes rains again, and when it does, what else is one to do except just hang?” asks Your Shot member Douglas Gimesy. He submitted this image of a fruit bat resting in a tree during a rain shower in Melbourne, Australia, its wings wrapped around its body for warmth. Fruit bats, as their name suggests, eat fruit and play an important environmental role in seed dispersal and pollination.
Here’s your weekend open thread. I’m out of ideas
Category: Open thread
First!
Damn! Missed it by “that much”.
Do I get Honorary First?
Nope.
Maybe if I wrote “1st” vice “First”, I would have beat you.
TODAY I’m “self-identifying” as FIRST, so NYEAAAAHHHH!!!
From your “safe space?”
*smile*
YEAH! XP
First?
2nd
Forth WTH
Ok 5 will take that lol
I think you are 3rd, Skippy.?
With what?
Damnit, I missed first because I was insulting the Marine Corps on facebook.
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Any effort to insult others in worthy of an honorary first on TAH.
Never !!!!
Just Having some Fun with my marine brothers 🙂
I know that. Me too.
Trying to figure out my next book to read, just finished “Cannery Row” at lunch. Decisions, decisions…
If you want some extremely light reading, try picking up a copy of “My Courtroom Victories”, by Daniel Bernath.
How about, “Good Decisions During My Administration”, by BObama
Both those books may be found in the imaginary fiction section of the public library.
I also recommend my book, Getting an ARCOM the Easy Way.
When it was awarded, where did they pin it?
Pinned on? – No
Inserted dry in orifice of choice? – Yes
Buy it.
David, Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row just in case you might not be aware of it. Another one that’s related is the non-fiction Log from the Sea of Cortez.
Doc and the laboratory were based on a real person, Ed Ricketts, and his business. The Sea of Cortez book is about a time Steinbeck and Ricketts went to Baja to collect marine specimens.
cool, thanks. I have been bouncing around genres lately, have over 1800 e-books and doubt I have read half of them
and have had more than a few at Doc Rickett’s in Monterey a few decades ago.
This just in: according to the State Bar of California, Daniel A. Bernath is still Not Eligible To Practice Law (Not Entitled)!
It does not appear that this ineligibility to practice law is voluntary. Anyone who is curious regarding why Mr. Bernath is no longer eligible to practice law is invited to read this.
And when that fruit bat defecates, Daniel Beenath is there to catch and consume the feces, hence his being “bat shit crazy”.
12th Maybe?
Frankie has a question about this. Frankie?
They opens up the new super PANAMAX Locks damn
Opened not opens
The image above is how this site, (and only this site), opens on my Laptop. I read this site daily, and feel that it is as good in its genre, as TAH is in its.
My question for our resident techies is: “What might I have done to cause this to open with this narrow window, while no other site does so? And what might I do to get back to seeing it in its wider, proper opening? gCaptain is one hell of a good site for following most things shipping related, and I miss it. It is not readable in that narrow format.
I will check back through the weekend to see of a solution is offered, and I thank y’all in advance for your guidance. For now I have to read it on my Android tablet.
Frankie. It’s one of life’s little mysteries. What you described happens to me now and then. It comes. It goes. I can only commiserate. I have no solution.
The same thing happened to a lawyer that I know of, but with him, he read his fuel gauge as full, when it was actually empty. It may be due to his being narrow minded.
Lots of browsers will open a site like it was last closed. In Firefox there is a button on the upper menu bar on the right (between the smiling balloon and the blue-background S) which will expand a window to full screen. In Explorer it is at the bottom of the menu under ‘View’. Try expanding your view to full screen, close the window, and reopen.
I use Firefox, and I have the “smiling balloon”, but I don’t have a blue-background S. I don’t see any buttons pertinent to expanding the window, other than the “full screen” button at extreme top right, and that does not expand the window, merely the screen size. It looks much like this center column that we are commenting on, in size. But thanks for your help. It opens normally in “Internet Explorer” but I have not used that in years, don’t care for it, especially now that it is bing dominated.
For those interested, this is the site. I have it bookmarked and read it daily. Lots of news about shipping, Offshore Oil, Wind Farms, etc.
http://gcaptain.com/
I Believe I have a app from them on tracking ships and watercraft it’s a awesome app and very informative I had no idea they had a website..Great Info Frankie Cee..
How come we don’t see any lien tabs in that screen capture? Speaking of which, how is the campaign that Mike Brown coming along?
Porn tabs, not lien tabs. Hack Stone Publishing regrets the error, yet again.
“Porn tabs” are the bane of those who don’t have an actual life and have to observe others who do, in order to satisfy themselves. I don’t have that problem.
Heavy Chevy does.
Hilarious stuff here:
http://monsterhunternation.com/2016/06/16/ask-kuntzman/
ASK KUNTZMAN!
“After the wildly successful feature where ace reporter Gersh Kuntzman gave us the straight scoop on what it is like to shoot the terrifying AR-15 “Black Mamba Star Killer Base” rifle, we here at the New York Daily News are happy to present our new feature ASK KUNTZMAN!
Join us as Gersh Kuntzman gives valuable life advice. Send us your questions, from lifestyle choices to product reviews, and together we may peer deep into his earth mother like wisdom. From his lilac scented crying pillow to you, rejoice as Gersh Kuntzman let’s you know what’s really going on in the world.”
I got one-
Dear Gherkin; which sanitary napkin do you recommend for when firing big black scary guns on the range?
Is Wayne Brady bout to have to choke a b!+ch?
(Honest question)
Minor change, “Ask Gash Kuntzman”
Which tampon brand most easily fits into your ears to prevent hearing loss?
Oh, BTW, that was a great fantasy hit piece.
Larry Correia rocks!
New boss over at Wounded Warrior:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/17/army-veteran-to-take-over-at-wounded-warrior-project-after-troubles.html
“Linnington became the leader of the POW/MIA mission at the Pentagon after Congress and groups that advocate for families of the missing had criticized the way the military was handling identifications.
Since Linnington took the helm, the agency’s laboratories have nearly doubled the identifications of missing servicemen.”
Looks like he did well at DPAA. Anyone know this cat?
I wish that everyone could have as good a VA experience as I have been having. I feel that I am getting the care that I need, and in fairly good time. My disappointments with them are very few.
Yesterday was no different. I drove over to Biloxi to the VA Hospital there, for a consultation with a Cardiologist. We not only discussed the results of the recent testing that I have had, but he went back to when I first went into the VA System, and covered everything, (The consultation lasted well over an hour), and in the process, also did a pretty good “heart examination” on me. The short answer is that I need a pacemaker, and sooner rather than later.
Glad to hear the good report – hope they get you wired up ASAP.
“Wired Up”, covers it very well. The Cardiologist described my problem as my heart’s wiring has blockages, not arterial blockages, but in the signal sending area.
my mom has that problem, sounds like yours is more severe than hers is.
Frankie, we’re in the same neck of the woods. I go to JACC. Actually worked old and new clinics 11 years. Care is great once past the ‘ring of apathy’, the administrative twinks. Great care. Recently got wife in system and she has labs and first appointment soon. She long avoided going b/c we have Tricare also. I’ve got a great GP, optometry, dental, other clinics are staffed by good providers. Rode that van to Biloxi several times over the years. Thankful the JACC was built in 2008.
Hey, HMC Ret, hit me up through Jonn. We can e-mail and compare notes. I will then give you my A/O, and we can see what miles are between our home areas. I am quite active in support of one of our local military units, and love to share the time out there. Jonn has my e-address, phone and more.
Looking forward to conversation.
Frankie Cee…two things I figured out recently. You may be a year or two older than me, but we live fairly close. Had planned on stopping by next time we are headed down to Ft. Walton Beach area just to say hello. In ’01 I had a five bypass surgery and did well. Fifteen years later and all is still well. There is an EXTREMELY GOOD cardiologist in the Dothan area who has done wonders for many. If EVER you have any concerns, let me know. This guy is as good as his reputation.
Meanwhile some time in august is our next unscheduled trip over your way. Would enjoy meeting you.
Jarhead, let’s make contact. Jonn will forward your info to me. Hit me with an e-address and/or phone number. As an old fart, I don’t text, but have no problem with phone conversations. We are but a few miles apart.
I hear you about the VA.
6 years ago I was put on a heart transplant list, #6 in WI, they also gave me 6 months to live…
Well, thanks to the great care I received in the Heart Failure Clinic at Milwaukee VA Medical Center I am still alive.
It is with no doubt to say that the VA has saved my life 3 times and saved my soul once.
I am grateful to God and the people that work in that clinic for my life today.
Going to the Blackhorse Reunion tonite and tomorrow on the Slammintonio Riverwalk. First military reunion for me – hoping to have fun.
Allons!
I have been adding upgrades to my new AR-15 to make it more usable. That it is not the “Evil Black Rifle” but is in the less dangerous, less scary, burnt bronze finish, making it less of a threat to those who don’t have a clue, makes it even more “nice”.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206851496941089&set=t.1086639350&type=3&theater
5.56 or one of the “other” calibers. In other words, plinkin’/coyote/varmint gun or hunting caliber?
It is “Multi Caliber, chambered in “.223 Wylde”, making it compatible with both .223 Cal. and 5.56 MM. Full length, (15 inch), octagon Key Mod fore piece, keyed on all facets. The Ceracote© “burnt bronze” gives it a really nice look too. Bear Creek Arsenal makes a great weapon, with all parts being American Made.
That’s good. Plink for cheap and still able to use (relatively) heavier grain bullet weights. I’ve used T&Z Armory for a few guns and looking for a place to Kote my plinking gun (My only non-6.8 SPC gun). Will check Bear Creek out.
My low cost plinking is done in .22LR, with my Henry Carbine Lever gun. I have a 2 X scope on it, or use open sights. 75 yds with the scope and 50 yds with open sights and I can shoot a consistent 4 inch group of 13 rounds.
Nice!
Whatever you do don’t tape the mags together that makes em shoot faster according to Kalifornia.
When is a 5.56×45 NOT able to shoot a .223?
Or, a .223 not able to shoot a 5.56? As I understand it, the common chamber for the .223 will not handle the 5.56 well. But, the adjusted angle of the chamber in the Wylde version makes it very usable in either ammo type.
Random thoughts rolling around in the potholes of my mind:
Whatever became of Jonn’s arch nemesis Obamagirl?
Why, whenever I hear the song Ride! by Dee Dee Sharp, do I think of Ex-PH2 and horses?
Why do we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
Why does sour cream have an expiration date?
And finally, Jimmy “One Low Ball” Walls posted a picture on the Huey site the other day (of a bird landing in the swirling air of a Goofy Grape smoke grenade) and used the term “we” six times in the caption. So he is right back to playing himself out as a 1st Cav Pilot in Vietnam instead of a Spec4 repair parts clerk.
More bovine fecal matter will follow as the day progresses.
Oh, and two pitches into their half of the first inning, the Cubs are up two – zip against the Pirates.
At least, by starting strong the coming loss won’t seem quite so painful. Only 8 more innings to endure.
Cubbies are the winningest team team in baseball right now. From a TX Ranger fan, Go Cubs!
earlier this season the two teams on top of the AL and NL were both from Chicago. Thought the endtimes were nigh
Whoo-Hoo! Cubs Win!! Cubs Win!!
Frankie, Cubbies 6 Zip over the Pie Plates.
I’m loving it.
Same here, Claw! Cubs fan all my life (even grew up on the North Side) and I can’t be happier than I am this season!
Go Cubs Go!
Once upon a time, roads often went through, by leave of the sovereign, a royal park; hence, a park way. As to drive ways, I don’t know.
A more pressing question is, Why do fairy tales begin with “Once upon a time”, and war stories begin with: “You won’t believe this, I was there, this is no shit, etc”?
How do we know sour cream has spoiled?
Mold, dearie.
Here’s another one for your list, Claw:
Why does “Potholes of my mind” sound like the title of a sad country song?
😎
It sure does. They say if you play a country song backwards, you get everything back.
Here’s another subject for a country song. Feeling both happy and sad while watching your mother-in-law drive off a 500 foot cliff in your brand new pick-up truck.
Sterile needles for executions using Lethal Injection.
Why?
If you put butter on a cat’s back and then drop the cat, will it still land on it’s feet?
Why would you butter a cat instead of toast?
Cats always land on their feet.
Toast always lands on the floor butter side down.
Which law of physics is more powerful??
That experiment is either going to rip the space-time continuum, or transit your ship to Alpha Centari.
Video or it didn’t happen!
The Laws of Physics will tell you that if you butter the cat’s back, the cat will lick off the butter and leave a hairball for you as a
‘thank you’.
Besides, toast doesn’t twist in mid-air. It just flops heavy side down.
Ooooops!! hit the report button by accident! My bad!!
“If there are 23 odds and ends on a table and 22 fall off, what’s left, an odd or an end?” — the late George Carlin
Answer? yes
—–
He was Odd. Now he is at an End.
Depends on the type of 3-ply that you wipe the Phil Monkress off you backside with.
You should know this.
35!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, on the subject of movies. I am quite fond of military and action movies, if…they are done well, which includes the actors and their acting. I have come up with some absolute “No will watch” subjects and actors. First, nothing where the premise starts with any, “Ex (your favorite, former secret squirrel type here) is ‘lured’ out of retirement for one last job”. Always and I mean always a loser. If they are retired, they are old and out of the loop and if they are still “in the know”, they shouldn’t be.
Also any of the “Wrongfully accused, former (your secret squirrel type here) now on death row, is freed for a save the world mission by the (your favorite secret agency here). Again, they always seems to be a solid bust and load of bull shit.
As for actors. Nothing with most all former wrestlers. No Steven Seagal, ever. No Sylvester Stallone. No Eddie Murphy (I think I just threw up in my mouth typing that name). No Richard Queer, I meant Gere. No Danny Glover. No William Forsythe. No and I mean ever any Patrick Swayze (nobody puts action hero baby Patrick in the corner). And of course no, not ever, ever any Jane Fonda. (I’d put my eyes out with my own Red Ryder first.) There are more, way more than I have listed but I cannot think of them all right now. So you folks are free to help me out or scold me. Have a great weekend my TAH brothers and sisters!
I give extra credit to the lead actor(s) if he, she, they served in the military. That’s why I say “The Big Red One” is a better movie than “Saving Private Ryan”. And, I would sooner watch porcupines make love than anything Stallone has ever made.
Word.
What about Frank Stallone? He is a triple threat; actor, song writer AND musician!
WHAT?!?!?!?!
RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) and RED 2 were fantastic!
Bruce Willis and John Malkovich were fantastic.
And Helen Mirren with that machine gun.
Sir, you are missing out.
Concur!
^This^
Also no Tex “Hit Me Again” Cobb. Him and Swayze in “Uncommon Valor” made the puke. Additionally any remakes of good to watch movies such as “The Dirty Dozen:The Deadly Mission”, which had Cobb in it, or add on adventures where they screw up a good original movie by making sequel number(s) 1, 2…etc.
Helen Mirren any ol’ way! She still has the hotness, and I give a damn what anybody has to say about that!
IDC SARC would hit it.
Oh, that is one fine looking, classy woman. Oh, and BTW, IDC SARC would hit the hole in the e of her name. Hi, SARC.
Those were great movies. Sparks don’t hate me but, I liked Patrick Swayze in Point Break.
Check out “Cross of Iron”, Peckinpah’s most underrated movie.
I liked it.
Two that I liked that were a little different were “Serenity” and “Alien Outpost.” I really thought that last one would be a dog, and it’s actually pretty good.
Awww, no A-Team? (That was more sit-com than anything else.)
On the “go see” side of the coin, 75th Ranger’s Tim Abell stays busy, and has had some great roles. Check him out here, and see what he has worked in:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008543/
Since I have been dropped from the distribution list of All Points Logistics news releases, does anyone whether Phil is scheduled to work balls this weekend?
Why should this weekend be any different from his usual weekend ball working schedule?
So many truck stops, so little time.
Probably at the “Less-Than-Honorable” COL W’s III house.
On a bed of taxpayer money.
Each and every member of the Dutch Rudder gang can GO FUCK THEMSELVES yet again!
And have a steaming pile of Phil Monkress for dinner chow.
Kuntzman: Your fave singer, Justin Bieber, fell through a trap door on stage this week while performing. I mean he freakin’ disappears … all except an arm. I know you’ll be heartbroken to see it but here it is:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/justin-bieber-falls-through-trap-door-during-purpose-world-tour-recovers-like-a-cat/ar-AAhdY6H?ocid=spartanntp
Also last week a video made the rounds showing him getting his clock cleaned by a guy who probably outweighed him 75 pounds. It’s easily found.
(Hoping the above video comes through. Damn it’s hilarious.)
I’m thinking seeing the Biebs in these situations is difficult but, hey, if you can fire a rifle and survive, you can probably survive watching these.
+50
+500 if gates of Hell were under the stage.
LMAO!!!! Love it! Loved the “thud” and I hope…he broke something. Please Justin, stay in Canada…forever.
From what I hear, they don’t want his limp-wrist ass either.
I emailed CUNTzman a strongly-worded rebuttal focused on his “temporary PTS” crap. He responded with excuses and patronizing platitudes. And then the fucker asked for my phone number. I refused and informed him that my voice is loud and deep, and would certainly terrify the shit out of him.
I hope we can get a refund on those tickets if he cannot perform.
I will be upset and I know Sparks will be beside himself.
SF vet destroyed Michael Moore LOL
http://cravenews.com/pics-green-beret-blasts-michael-moore-youre-king-turd-sht-mountain/
I don’t know what Moore’s contribution to society is supposed to be. I can think of no redeeming social value. He’s a liberal skank who knows everything but simultaneously totally ignorant of everything except buffets in proximity of his residence. He’s pretty much a liberal prostitute. And those are his good attributes. Please tell me he has no children. PLEASE! Actually, that’s pretty gross. Ugh
Moore’s contribution is eating anything that won’t eat him first, including big hairy men’s asses! Nothing ever goes to waste there’s and nothing left for the “poor starving kids in China”, as my mother put it. Plus his plumber stays employed plunging his toilet three times a day. He would do it himself but if he every grabbed a plunger the second thing he would do is stick himself in the eye with it. The first would be, trying to eat it.
His ass got fat because it was eating a lot of cocks.
He should cut back.
No kids for Mikey, he couldn’t find anyone to lift the four or five folds of his puss-gut hanging over his miniature man part out of the way.
THIS JUST IN! Immoderately dressed women cause change:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/06/17/iranian-cleric-improperly-dressed-iranian-women-cause-climate-change/
Next up, flying pigs and frost on Hell’s gates.
I long suspected the same. Algore recently made that claim. I wonder what those male pigs in Moozlum countries will do when the college students/youngsters rise in revolt and the women tell the male pigs to go f#^* themselves? I gotta believe those two groups are simply tired of their crap.
Well, I do hope that one of those old, extinct volcanoes in Iran does not decide to come back to life after several thousand years of dormancy. Whatever will that ignorant old fart do if that happens? After all, Mt. Damayand may be quiet right now, but it sits right on the fold & thrust belt of the Arboz Mountains.
http://www.volcanolive.com/damavand.html
We gave them billions of dollars to correct the problem, did we not…..?
Saw this on another blog. I though you airborne types might offer commentary.
https://theaviationist.com/2016/06/14/check-out-this-video-of-a-paratrooper-using-reserve-parachute-to-save-his-life-during-nato-airdrop/
Its looks fun to this paratrooper.
Earn that jump pay and have a good story for around the campfire or Valhalla.
Recreation of “A Bridge Too Far” with better results…
Keep cool and hydrated, people. Heat indexes of 110+ over most of the country this weekend.
Full moon tonight thru Sunday. If the sky is clear, look to the Moon’s right for a red spot. That’s Mars. To the left is a yellowish dot – Saturn.
They’re all in the constellation Scorpio tonight, then the Moon goes on its way and Mars moves closer to catch up to Saturn. Then they both move into Sagittarius.
Up here in NE Washington we will be seeing a high of 54 on Sat and 60 on Sun. It is our rainy season right now. Last week we used the AC one day and yesterday my wife asked me to cut some kindling for the wood stove. If it weren’t for Global Warming we would be freezing to death.
I get to go to a wedding reception today, outdoors!! It’s supposed to be 90° and the heat index about 105°. Fun times!!!!
James Walls phony UH-1 pilot aka “The Cocksucker” is still a cocksucker.
The Kardashians, you know … those who have everything augmented and who have frequent wardrobe ‘mishaps’ and whose collective contribution to society is to produce carbon dioxide … recently wore Slayer tees. In response, the Slayer guitarist wore this tee:
https://www.google.com/search?q=slayer+guitarist+kill+the+kardashians&safe=active&biw=1829&bih=890&tbm=isch&imgil=vDH_A5xqVIWK3M%253A%253BTcc9H5RzzwYqrM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.riffyou.com%25252Fslayer-kardashians-t-shirt%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=vDH_A5xqVIWK3M%253A%252CTcc9H5RzzwYqrM%252C_&usg=__PXC-DxMYNxhfmyfKiSNaqODHhHU%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjAyb-rlrDNAhWEdSYKHQXiBE8QyjcIJw&ei=UIJkV8DhGoTrmQGFxJP4BA#imgrc=vDH_A5xqVIWK3M%3A
Man, I hope this comes up for you. I have to send the entire thing. I don’t know how to separate all the stuff.
I like it. A lot. Almost as good as Bieber taking a header.
Got this video from a friend. Thought you all might find it a little inspiring.
https://youtu.be/lwgr_IMeEgA
I have an idea.
Everyone call The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) and ask him about his fake Native American, Navy SEAL and Law Enforcement claims.
His nefarious and felonious senior staff will get angry, but hey, your checking in on a “legitimate” business.
Then as about their security clearance(s) protocol.
It gets even better.
Also, check in with different offices.
A great stress reliever and a good laugh.
“Phony” Phil leads the way….to the toilet.
Shitbags.
Phildo works hairy balls at all of the local biker bars. He’s a Glory Hole warrior!
I was in Bethesda MD earlier today, so I tom a drive down to 4800 Hampden Lane to check out the new corporate headquarters of the proud woman owned software vendor. I didn’t bother going in, but I assume that the Doir on the mailbox drop is missing.
The drop box is the easy entry to his backdoor.
Starting about noon on Sunday, Scooby and I will be eating bologna sandwiches for about 9 or 10 days.
Yep, the wife is flying off to Denver to do another white glove Sergeant Majors inspection on the son’s barracks room. So I fully expect to start getting phone calls from him every two hours asking me to talk Mom into coming back early.
But we’re pretty proud of that son in Denver. This past Tuesday he was awarded his 25 years of employment with the Post Office pin and a Certificate of Achievement for 20 years of accident free driving the tote motor machine he operates as part of his job.
The other son is up in Bangor, Washington right now. One of his Navy Submariner Senior Chief buddies retired today and he went to the ceremony.
You and Scooby will do fine even if Mrs Claw is in CO. That Sizzler that we ate at can keep you sustained. Plus, you have a butt load of P38’s.
Yep, gonna have to make another supply run to restock on the P-38’s.
My new supply of mess hall style coffee cups and 10 ounce tumblers should be delivered on Monday.
The mess hall trays turned out to be pretty expensive though, so I don’t think I’m going to try to procure any of those.
Enjoy the cornfields on your way to Nashville and points east.
Here’s something we should all be aware of.
“It’s make or break for the internet as we know it. Unless Congress acts this summer, the Obama administration will end U.S. protection of the internet, handing authoritarian regimes the power they have long sought to censor the web globally, including in the U.S.” – L. Gordon Crovitz, “The Battle Over Obama’s Internet Surrender,” Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2016.
This isn’t something new. It’s been under discussion for a while, but if you value your freedom of speech and to get the real news, you need t be aware of this.
Here’s a link to the full WSJ article.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-battle-over-obamas-internet-surrender-1465770111
The comments are interesting, since the whole thing revolves around domain names and who does what.
Tinfoil hats.
While it’s true the current administration is likely somewhat clueless about the implications of ICANN, the WSJ writer misses what’s probably a more important point. Those who work with servers on TCP/IP networks have always been able to block or whitelist based on IP address space. Blocking can include down to the level of a single machine, or up to the level of an entire country.
The root DNS boogeyman is also somewhat spurious in that anyone who breaks root DNS is likely to find out that an alternate, or series of alternates, is likely to emerge fairly quickly.
The larger key issue, at least it seems to me, is that network technology is currently making a transition from IPv4 to IPv6, sometimes called IoT or Internet of Things and with a hugely expanded address space. There are still a lot of details about how IPv6 is supposed to work that haven’t yet been figured out. Including how to fold in legacy IPv4.
In that context, putting ICANN up for grabs, particularly at this point in time, is a needless complication. It would mean letting political issues get in the way of technical ones. Then too, we built it– and paid for it– and we’re giving it away because?
— because IDIOT!
Thanks, Perry. I agree that after reading the article, it seems like a ‘we’re doomed!’ reaction to something that is easily resolved. Nothing, including the internet, is fixed or cast in stone.
As I understand it, the expansion of the internet itself means that the increase in memory is expanding so rapidly with it that the cost per gigabyte is now down to less than 50 cents/GB. I have a 16GB jump drive that cost me $7 at the checkout stand at Staples. A 1TB backup drive used to cost over $350 and now is barely $50, and you can carry it in your jacket pocket. The drive to expand memory parallels the internet’s increasing reach.
Since it’s all radio band transmissions, anyway, how would any other government shut down US use? That seemed claim kind of silly and shortsighted to me.
So I don’t have to go back to using the typewriter unless I want to, after all, although the typewriter might be a safer way to work on something really important.
Not exactly, ma’am.
Storage capacity, measured in bytes, is a separate animal from frequency spectrum , which is different from DNS namespace.
Think of it like this:
You have a big storage tank of data, and you want to send part of it, a photo, to somebody at 101010 Tech Street in Bitsville. The storage tank is the disk drive in your computer, and since you can’t send the entire photo all at once, it gets dipped out in buckets which get checked once they arrive at your destination. If a bucket is empty, it gets re-sent. That’s a simple explanation for how packet switching works. And, indeed, some of the technology has its origins in sending text via radio.
Where ICANN and Domain Name Service (DNS) comes into play is that in order for you to send your photo, you need to have an address to send it to, such as 101010 Tech Street. If such an address doesn’t exist, your photo can’t get there.
An internet protocol network also doesn’t actually care about names of websites as much as it cares about the network number assigned to the server willing to accept your photo. Names are a convention to make network places easier for humans to remember. MyGoofyBlog.com instead of 192.135.323.123, for example. Such an IPv4 network address, called dotted quad, is different from the newer and much longer IPv6. The reason for the switch is because even though IPv4 can support millions of addresses, it still presents a potential hard limit problem that needs to be solved.
ICANN functions to both assign blocks of network addresses, and to determine how those numerical addresses resolve to human readable names.
Huh?
I did not know that. Unfortunately, I do not read ‘Wired’ or PC Mag, or any of those other techgear magazines. I try to stick to simple things like figuring out how much to reduce a photo file size if I’m sending six of them through e-mail.
So IPv4 is becoming limited in scope and will some day replaced by IPv6, which is more – flexible? If that’s so, will my 13-year-old 32-bit computer still function? I’m waiting until next year to retire it and buy a new one, but the CPU chips keep getting upgraded so should I wait a little longer?
Ex, IPv4’s main problem is in the limit– in terms of total numbers– of machines that can be assigned a network address. IPv6 also has a limit, but it’s such a vast number that the limit won’t be reached for a long time.
Back in the day, if you wanted to get one computer to talk to another computer, your choice was either do it yourself or hire somebody to do it for you; which tended to be very expensive. If you were willing to spend time with the technical documentation, it actually wasn’t all that difficult to figure things out. In my experience, people working on emergent systems circa 1995 weren’t always regular readers of Wired or PC World. That would be like a car mechanic reading Motor Trend instead of a shop manual.
My own interest in a lot of this isn’t as a proto nerd wanting to fondle the latest iPhone. It’s instead in the ways the news business, among other things, has been altered in ways that might not be best for the Republic.
If your current machine is 13 years old, the real issue isn’t with CPU speed as much as operating system and available peripherals. Moving big files off a digital camera using a USB 2 cable is lots faster than with USB 1, for example. Memory is also relatively cheaper on newer systems. Graphic cards able to drive a big crisp monitor are also a plus. Switching from a 32-bit to 64-bit system is probably most important if, say, you plan on doing a lot of video editing, but it’s a fairly painless transition and most of your 32-bit software should still work okay.
Thanks for the feedback.
I think my biggest issue is ROOM in the RAM and room on the hard drive. Not even close to enough any more.
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Brain glitch. Good catch…
So, I’m watching TV yesterday and A DirecTV commercial comes on, featuring some guy with a guitar who sinfs a few lines. I was sure that he was supposed to be recognized by viewers and his voice sounded somewhat familar. His name wasn’t given. A while later, the same commercial comes on and I have no clue who this guy is. Today, I asked my wife when the commercial came on once again and she didn’t know. Google answered the question for me: Bon Jovi. I heard of him. The End.
Thank you, that’s been bothering me, too. Then again, who is Bon Jovi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bon_Jovi
“He also campaigned for Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election, John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, and Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential election.”
And that pretty much sums it up.
Bon Jovi; The Other Rock Guy From New Jersey.
Caught this one on youtube the other day.
https://youtu.be/eSTC6nnbaRo
Might be good, if they do it right. I believe Nicholas Cage can make a good movie, it’s just that he usually doesn’t bother. As for Sizemore, good actor, tremendous douchebag in real life. Ditto Tim Robbins. And they used USS Alabama, digitally modified to sort of resemble a hugely-oversized Portland-class heavy cruiser, as their set. YMMV on that one.
Anyway, think I’ll give it a shot.
Whatz up you bunch of sociopaths?
I’ve been spending the past few hours reading the death threats to me on FB and my email account. Bwhaaa
If you want to watch a real gut using laugh out loud television show, checkie out Angie Tribecca on TBS. Just like Police Squad! (In Color!), there are a lot of visual gags, along with the nonstop puns. Hack has been laughing his ass off. Check your video on demand for any Season 1 episodes that may be available.
In case any of you have forgotten, it’s Father’s Day weekend.
Happy Father’s Day tomorrow to all dads.
Except to Bernath cause he is a MUTHA.
I wonder if Danni-boi’s kids from his first marriage still keep in touch with him since he has his license suspended a long time ago for being a DEADBEAT DAD?
Guess things are going to be quiet in a certain house in Florida tomorrow, huh Danni?
Something I’ve been thinking about …
Initial reports were that 50 were killed by that moozslum terrorist in Orlando. Later that number was reduced to 49.
Have any thought that in the week since then, not one of the 53 (?) have died. Many of them were horribly wounded or crushed in the melee. Can you imagine the outstanding surgical skills of the physicians and care by nurses and others they received? Kudos to those who delivered such outstanding medical care to them. Well done.
The 50 went to 49 when the media decided not to count the terrorist as one on the victims. 50 died and 49 were victims.