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I'm finishing a cold Lapsang Souchong right now, Alan
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To paraphrase The Hound:
"Somebody will shut up".
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This drawing...
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Nonetheless, it seems even among these opinions, the more consequential the policy, the more negative the impact it has.
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Trump's deal has *always* been "I'll lie to you, to your face, tell you lies that I know you know are lies, and that everyone watching knows are lies." He thinks that it makes him look strong.
Zelenskyy wasn't taking that buIIshit deal. The one that basically all of the GOP seems OK with.
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It's The Bourne Defaultation
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If they agree with him on this one, doesn't it mean, as a direct consequence of that decision, that they are no longer usefully employed? They no longer need a building.
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Even if they did, it was 6 years ago, so...
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There had already been a similar bit, with golf, in Goldfinger film. And a line from book Drax, "I'd advise you to spend your winnings quickly", was used in another film. There's a fair bit of patchwork in the book-to-movie transformations.
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Roughly ⅙ of the book is devoted to the description of a bridge game (Drax cheats at bridge games with $ on them, not because he needs the money, but just to get away with it. This is what first draws attention to him).
Somehow, that didn't get into the film.
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The movie, one of the worst Bonds, has little in common with the book.
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Lovely colours
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In the 1955 Ian Fleming novel Moonraker, Hugo Drax is a wealthy guy with a clouded past (it turns out, he was a WWII Nazi) who is ostensibly doing rocket development for the UK government, but is actually planning an attack against the UK.
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Is that a "political point"?, it's more like a 5 year old doing something stupid so that he he say "see, I told you!"
Like, say, altering a weather map with a Sharpie and pretending it's real.
I guess when politics are driven by bullshit, "political point" includes things which are just plain BS.
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I built this from a kit in the 80s - maybe it still works? And Ive lost the manual but I'm pretty sure it said "Votrax (A Division of Federal Screw Works)" on it somewhere, which I found pretty amusing for some reason. It's like something out of a comedy.
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A lot of desktops with 'built in' Bluetooth have a little Bluetooth USB module, connected to an 'internal' USB connector on the motherboard, and stuck to the side of the box with Velcro or similar. Better radio signal that way. Can easily be moved from one machine to another.
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Does it say "A division of Federal Screw Works" on it anywhere?
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Will this do?
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And yeah there's another Tim's which is less than 15 min walk in a different direction
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Well you may need an app to find a mail box. Far fewer than there were 20 years ago. I think there are generally more Tim Hortons than mailboxes in a given area now. Closest one to me is a 25 min walk (and, just past the Tim's, as it happens)
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Funny thing is, he'll read that and say, "Well, good! Everyone should be saying that!"
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Didn't Alan Turing prove that it was impossible to know in advance how long the Windows update would take, or, indeed, if it would ever finish?
And Windows didn't even exist at the time. 88 years ago.
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Also, make sure it's one where it's clear where the burners are; some, clearly designed by geniuses, are marked in black ink on black glass and you need to stand to one side and find just the right angle to see them properly.
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Yes.
The ones with the touch controls on the cooktop are not so good, because when you get liquid on the controls it goes a bit nuts until you clean it off (and, even more so, while you're cleaning it off).
Just my experience - likely not all designs are the same.
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Particularly and especially the "dripping wet" synth in the chorus. I heard a cover of it this year, which had nothing resembling that in the arrangement, and it wasn't at all bad. That synth was a choice, Mr McCartney, and you, and every DJ who airs it, should be held accountable.
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Isn't that 'view' obtained from a memo specifically tailored to allow prosecution of corrupt VP Spiro Agnew, but not Pres. Nixon (who was also corrupt, but it hadn't yet been discovered)? How the hell does that still have weight?
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To be fair, having two utterly different "Ontario, CA" is just asking for trouble. I had an incoming package once that was spending too long in California, from the tracking; I was concerned that maybe it was going to the wrong one.
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Maybe the finlets on the stabilizer are optional
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No, apparently it's the 415, but it looks a bit more like the 215 in the video
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Yes, one of these I think
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Mucilage!
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.. And he said yes there was.
The discussions are fun to watch, because they use a fair bit of veiled language, so the magician knows exactly what they mean but they're not giving it away outright to the audience.
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Since that's the polite thing to do right? And I suspect he picked her out of the three as most likely to do that.
The discussion with P&T at the end was interesting: without putting it in these words, they asked him if there was another way the trick could play out if she hadn't picked that card,
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.. sit them around a table and do a different trick with each. But first he asked them to help set some things out. Which is a cooperative thing. Then he fanned out a deck and asked one of them to pick a card, and she picked the one card right in the middle, sticking up a bit.
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The "Penn and Teller Fool Us" show is great to watch closely, there is so much psych involved.
Example, audience volunteers are, nominally, adversarial to the magician; asked to pick a card, you pick a random one, right?
I saw a guy pull three audience members and ...
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.. right after, he goes up and confesses and explains what happened, so he can return the money, and she just flat out doesn't believe him.
And this is a booth on the street in Las Vegas, where you'd think the staff would know better.
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There's a Penn&Teller bit (in the "Bullsh💩t!" series?) where Penn goes up to a ticket kiosk and does a "can you change this bill" grift on the woman there. Partway through, its "oh wait, I have some 5's, if you give me that back for these..." and he rips her off $35 or so in the confusion.
But...