The Swamp

Ski Demski (from the opening of the Hagler/Hearns fight posted earlier)

Because the Wall Street Bets crowd uses the term "Apes together, strong" as a way rally against the "smart people" who condemn what they're doing to the poor, poor billionaires, someone thought it was a good idea to donate to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. They've raised $100k and got a big thank you:

Badlands McNally!

Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:12 am Because the Wall Street Bets crowd uses the term "Apes together, strong" as a way rally against the "smart people" who condemn what they're doing to the poor, poor billionaires, someone thought it was a good idea to donate to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. They've raised $100k and got a big thank you:

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People in St. George drive like maniacs. That one has to hit especially close to home for you, Steve.

brian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:24 pm People in St. George drive like maniacs. That one has to hit especially close to home for you, Steve.

No shit. I've started riding outside again, and the older I get, the more nervous I am in traffic with cars coming up from behind.

You know the pandemic is almost over when Air Show Season returns.

Come see me in Tucson in November! I'll be the guy in the bottom right while my commander tried to call the manager.

Took my oldest to Sun n Fun yesterday. Blue Angels are flying some sort of advanced F/A-18 now. F-22 remains a silly ass plane.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:26 pm

brian wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:24 pm People in St. George drive like maniacs. That one has to hit especially close to home for you, Steve.

No shit. I've started riding outside again, and the older I get, the more nervous I am in traffic with cars coming up from behind.

There is a blogger (maybe former blogger) I like to follow called Fat Cyclist. He worked at MSFT and a few other tech companies. His first wife passed of cancer. He wrote about that and biking and the impact on the illness on his kids. Very interesting stuff. He has raced Leadville a ton and is just a generally good read. Raised a ton of money for Livestrong (before Armstrong's truth came out). Then he moved to Camp Kessum (sp?). Anyway, I saw a reference to him no longer riding outside except mountain biking. I think he is in St. George.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 5:53 pm Took my oldest to Sun n Fun yesterday. Blue Angels are flying some sort of advanced F/A-18 now. F-22 remains a silly ass plane.

This happened at Cocoa Beach this weekend:

Yeah, my kid was talking about that. Kinda crazy.

IT guys here might find this amusing and sad at the same time.

This is UK local news, but this has to be one of the most insane things I've ever read. The number of years and people involved makes this story just absolute bonkers. Long story short: The UK Post office used a software called Horizon to track account use, among other things. Based on the findings of that software, they took hundreds of their employees to court over a period of 15 years for misuse of funds / embezzlement, an average of one employee per week. Many settled, dozens were convicted to years in prison. Finances and families were ruined, at least one person committed suicide when facing the accusations.

The punchline: no money was actually stolen. The Horizon software (by Fujitsu) was just a bug-riddled piece of crap.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036

The real kicker: the post office knew that their program was faulty at least since 2011, but decided go on prosecuting people at least until 2015. Nearly a thousand convictions relating to this scandal are now under question, making this one of the largest incidents of miscarriages of justice in modern history.

Computer Weekly has been smelling smoke around this since 2009, and these comments are pretty damning towards Fujitsu.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252 ... ys-insider

Everybody in the building by the time I got there knew it was a bag of s**t”, he said. “It had gone through the test labs God knows how many times, and the testers were raising bugs by the thousand.

Not sure any of that is amusing.

Not even the part about the innocent worker committing suicide?

Gah! Another autoplay Reddit link from Johnnie! This time it plays 2x because someone quoted it.

Amusing is the wrong word, amusing as in unbelievable.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:59 am
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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252 ... ys-insider

Everybody in the building by the time I got there knew it was a bag of s**t”, he said. “It had gone through the test labs God knows how many times, and the testers were raising bugs by the thousand.

Seems to me the way you disprove the evidence raised against the defendant would be to prove the evidence was compromised. Faulty, bug-ridden program = break in the CIA chain. Meaning, there's zero integrity to the data.

Shirley should have a word or two when he sees this.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:45 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:59 am
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https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252 ... ys-insider

Everybody in the building by the time I got there knew it was a bag of s**t”, he said. “It had gone through the test labs God knows how many times, and the testers were raising bugs by the thousand.

Seems to me the way you disprove the evidence raised against the defendant would be to prove the evidence was compromised. Faulty, bug-ridden program = break in the CIA chain. Meaning, there's zero integrity to the data.

Shirley should have a word or two when he sees this.

Yeah, I was just about comment! This is just awful. It's somewhat amazing to me that this far into the technology age and courts still don't know how to deal with technology issues.

Terry Bradshaw Has A Show In Vegas

Tickets from $66-$250

Those 8PM performances on NFL Sundays are going to be long days. He's got more energy than I do.

After an hour they gave up and are looking to sell the $8,000 pile for $25,000.

I've never heard my friend use the phrase "my style" before, but the mustache has been around forever.

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 9:18 am I've never heard my friend use the phrase "my style" before, but the mustache has been around forever.

I want to hate on the mustache, but that thing is glorious!

Guy was born 130 years too late!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:44 am Guy was born 130 years too late!

I can't help but picture him bare-knuckle boxing or riding a Penny Farthing bicycle.

or pouring a cappuccino with disdain

Rollie Fingers or Salvador Dali?

Whatever drink he's serving me has bitters in it.

He's from Texas, so I told him several years ago that he should wear his three-piece suit and refer to himself as "The Colonel".

He was third in the world at this year's competition... behind two other Americans.

More importantly, he's a good dude. And IPA's, not cocktails.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2017 4:15 pm You guys catch Ja Rule and friend create the biggest scam of the year with the Fyre Festival? It was supposed to be a Coachella in the Bahamas but turned into Trust Fund Baby Hunger Games with a quickness. I feel bad for the swindled, but not as much as I should. There's a class action lawsuit for $100 million dollars in response.

It's Back!

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 4:21 pm

Johnnie wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2017 4:15 pm You guys catch Ja Rule and friend create the biggest scam of the year with the Fyre Festival? It was supposed to be a Coachella in the Bahamas but turned into Trust Fund Baby Hunger Games with a quickness. I feel bad for the swindled, but not as much as I should. There's a class action lawsuit for $100 million dollars in response.

It's Back!

I wonder how many documentary teams are lining up to go to this one?