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Conway, AR — A graphic video was taken over the weekend which showed a Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office deputy shooting a tiny dog simply because the dog’s owner refused to walk to the road to speak to him. What’s more, the department responded by saying no policies were violated.
Cosh once speculated that you need to start watching hockey in early years (no later than five) if you're ever going to understand —when watching on teevee later in life— where the puck is.
Not sure what I think of this. My take is that it probably didn't make any difference. Then again, my perception may be colored by my own experience. I was one of those write-in voters that some people think flipped the election, but I wasn't going to vote for Moore anyway. But the point stands that if Trump and McConnell hadn't F'ed up the primary election, Mo Brooks would have been the GOP nominee and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
I still don't have a clue about blockchain. These folks seem to have a good handle on things.
Attackers have stolen almost $500,000 worth of the Ethereum Classic digital currency by carrying out a compute-intensive hack that rewrote its blockchain, officials with Coinbase, one of the leading crypto currency exchanges, said on Monday.
The heist was the result of carrying out what's known as a rollback attack, which allowed the attackers to reorganize the Ethereum Classic blockchain, Coinbase security engineer Mark Nesbitt said in a blog post. From there, the attackers were able to "double spend" about 88,500 ETC, meaning they were able to recover previously spent coins and transfer them to a new entity. As a result, the coins were effectively transferred from the rightful recipients to new entities chosen by the attackers.
Bezos is a white cat and monocle away from being a Bond villain.
No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to join Amazon Prime.
I R A Darth Aggie
at January 9, 2019 9:58 AM
Cosh once speculated that you need to start watching hockey in early years (no later than five) if you're ever going to understand —when watching on teevee later in life— where the puck is.
That can be worked on, if you have access to live hockey. I had season tickets to an ECHL club for 7 years, and eventually you pick up on where the puck is.
Eventually you start anticipating where the puck is going. Now I can watch hockey on teevee and mostly know where the puck is, and to anticipate the play and start looking up ice.
I've wondered this, too. Every now and again some knuckleheads put out flyers locally for the Klan/Nazis/Aryan Nation/etc and people go into a tizzy. Unless you want to ticket them for littering, I'm not an actual crime to see if there's enough interest to have a meeting.
The bias crimes unit? What on God’s green Earth is the crime? Do the Seattle Police Department and, apparently, the Post-Intelligencer think that it is illegal for a group to pass out literature if it has been criticized by the Southern Poverty Law Center? Or do they think there is something about “better dead than red” that could somehow be a “bias crime”?
Scherber is walking a fiscal tightrope between following the law, keeping a fair pay scale – bumping employees’ wages up to $15 an hour while giving raises to others who were previously making more than the minimum – and running a profitable business.
“It’s not fair to just raise the bottom rung. You have to slide up the whole scale,” Pat Whelan, managing director of a Brooklyn grocery company, told WSJ, echoing Scherber. “If you raise the bottom guy and not the top guy, it diminishes what the top guy is doing.”
Ovenly co-founder Agatha Kulaga is tightening standards on hiring and looking for qualified workers rather than training new hires in-house. Kulaga cannot afford to spend the extra time paying someone to learn a job now, WSJ reported.
Eventually you start anticipating where the puck is going. Now I can watch hockey on teevee and mostly know where the puck is, and to anticipate the play and start looking up ice. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 10:22 AM
I was that way with basketball. It wasn't until the movie, Hoosiers, came out that I started picking up on the players setting up blocks. Until then, the only strategy I was aware of being used on a basketball court was Dean Smith's Four Corners, and that only because the announcers talked about it incessantly.
But hockey? Nah. That skating stuff is just something the players do between throwing punches. 😁
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Conan the Grammarian
at January 9, 2019 11:36 AM
I had season tickets to an ECHL club for 7 years, and eventually you pick up on where the puck is. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 10:22 AM
Tallahassee had an ECHL club for a while, the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks. So, while in college, I got to see a couple of games. Hockey's fun to watch live - better live than on TV. Eventually the team moved to Macon, GA and became, I kid you not, the Macon Whoopee.
“It’s not fair to just raise the bottom rung. You have to slide up the whole scale,” Pat Whelan, managing director of a Brooklyn grocery company, told WSJ, echoing Scherber. “If you raise the bottom guy and not the top guy, it diminishes what the top guy is doing.”
That's something I think the people arguing that a $15 minimum wage would be an easy hurdle to reach don't understand. It's not just raising the $7.25 folks to $15. It's raising everyone else proportionately higher as well.
The entire payroll shifts. That guy who was making $8.25 still expects to make more than minimum, more than his rookie coworkers just starting out, so he can't simply be raised to $15 and everyone's happy.
People keep score. And they don't want a government-mandated shift in the minimum wage to erase their own gains, their own lead over their coworkers.
Conan the Grammarian
at January 9, 2019 11:53 AM
Just you wait when they successfully lobby to make student debt an inheritable duty.
Tallahassee had an ECHL club for a while, the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks.
That was the team that I bought season tickets for. And I am still sore about the way they left.
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Hate it when that happens.
I still recall the one and only time the Tigersharks made Sports Center. Game against the Louisiana Ice Gators, and an Antifa style brawl broke out. About 20 players involved in fisticuffs, people leaving the bench, third men in, etc. If they'd have called all of the penalties including the game misconducts correctly, they would have ended up with the net minders, and maybe 4 or so skaters. Total.
I R A Darth Aggie
at January 9, 2019 12:41 PM
> a clue about blockchain
Many experiments are underway, and many pipe dreams are being puffed.
But in my understand, there is precisely one instance of blockchain technology which is properly sustained by users with strong motive and agreeable results. One, and only one.
Remember that part about "motives," or incentives. Ethereum has problems.
BTC is perhaps the most fascinating work of human creation in the 20st century. It's a stunningly insightful piece of art, logic, programming, courage and desire. That there are thousands of pretenders and weak brother projects should surprise no one.
When the Bens of the world take dick in hand to yammer about a "centralized clearinghouse," we realize that most people move through life with a pre-schooler's understanding of the social arrangements that sustain them.
Crid
at January 9, 2019 4:11 PM
21st Century. You know what I meant.
Crid
at January 9, 2019 4:15 PM
Not every crypto is gonna be BTC... And not every rockin' teenage combo is going to be the exotic, British and talented Beatles.
Crid
at January 9, 2019 4:26 PM
First you think "I want to meet the engineer who did the calculations that could make that happen." Then you realize there was no such person.
First you think "I want to meet the engineer who did the calculations that could make that happen." Then you realize there was no such person. ~ Crid at January 9, 2019 5:06 PM
Yeah. Watch the items on the side - they keep repeating. It's a loop.
Kinda like when you start analyzing the chase scene in Bullitt and realize the same cars keep passing at the same angles.
Conan the Grammarian
at January 9, 2019 5:43 PM
Just because it is magic to you Crid doesn't mean everyone else doesn't understand how things work. But you keep digital gold bugging.
What is really hilarious is you fully admit the biggest issue is with government and then don't recognize the huge problem with bitcoin that could make it all fall apart overnight.
Ben
at January 9, 2019 7:55 PM
> the huge problem with bitcoin
> that could make it all fall
> apart overnight.
The guy who thinks it's "centralized" sees a flaw?
The globally-dispersed participants in this $70,831,772,070 capitalization won't sleep until they learn what you're talking about.
Crid
at January 9, 2019 8:28 PM
And "gold bugging"? I think you literally don't know the meaning of the words you use. Centralized gold-bugging. Hmm....
You see economics as a pitiless, sinister realm of screwing others in order to get rich quick; you assume others do as well.
For the record, I don't own the merest speck of crypto, and never have. But it's important to see the world as it is.
> the same cars keep passing at
> the same angles.
They made a movie in my hometown. The 90 second chase scene was the same two blocks from different views.
See also, the DTLA shots in Inception... Most all of it was here.
Crid
at January 9, 2019 8:49 PM
A centralized clearing house can have a distributed implementation Crid. It doesn't change the nature of the centralized clearing house. You don't have competing clearing houses for bitcoin. At least not to my knowledge. By all means enlighten us Cridster. But considering your multiyear effort at being consistently wrong I'm not hopeful.
As for that obvious flaw, the government can just make it illegal. It isn't like that hasn't happened before. Even the US has outlawed various currencies in the past. The US federal government is talking about doing just that now. Mind they've been talking for some time. Other nations have already banned bitcoin in partial or even in full. Those cute little numbers aren't worth much when you go to jail for using them.
But keep up the digital gold bugging Cridster. It seems to make you happy.
Ben
at January 10, 2019 6:16 AM
You're beautiful when you're butthurt.
> the government can just
> make it illegal
You haven't considered this at all, have you?
> A centralized clearing house
> can have a distributed
> implementation
Right... Because when words have no meaning, no one can be held accountable, and every day is Christmas.
Crid
at January 10, 2019 8:21 AM
This is the traditional nomenclature for these systems Crid. Pick up a book. As for the other . . .
But hockey? Nah. That skating stuff is just something the players do between throwing punches. 😁
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Conan the Grammarian at January 9, 2019 11:36 AM
Sadly, hockey has become a kinder, gentler version of itself. While I still enjoy a good hockey game (I miss my Anaheim Ducks season tix), rarely does a good fight break out. Which is a shame. Seems that as the team enforcers were phased out, injuries to top players increased. Hockey will ultimately implode on itself.
sara
at January 10, 2019 10:27 AM
And I am still sore about the way they left. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 12:41 PM
I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area (home of the NHL Sharks) by then, so I'm unfamiliar with what happened.
They need a new sheriff.
https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/01/08/arkansas-im-going-to-shoot-it-infuriating-video-shows-cop-shoot-a-tiny-9-pound-dog/
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 6:29 AM
Hollywood's playful treatment of the animal kingdom.
Crid at January 9, 2019 6:32 AM
Darth -- A lot of the Reason magazine crew are watching that problem pretty carefully.
Crid at January 9, 2019 6:34 AM
Love this kid.
Crid at January 9, 2019 6:47 AM
Does anyone remember the opening anecdote from Liar's Poker?
Crid at January 9, 2019 6:52 AM
Cosh once speculated that you need to start watching hockey in early years (no later than five) if you're ever going to understand —when watching on teevee later in life— where the puck is.
This could help the rest of us.
Crid at January 9, 2019 7:00 AM
Linguistic truth.
Crid at January 9, 2019 7:02 AM
Not sure what I think of this. My take is that it probably didn't make any difference. Then again, my perception may be colored by my own experience. I was one of those write-in voters that some people think flipped the election, but I wasn't going to vote for Moore anyway. But the point stands that if Trump and McConnell hadn't F'ed up the primary election, Mo Brooks would have been the GOP nominee and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Cousin Dave at January 9, 2019 8:51 AM
This is AFU.
Can't remember if they have kids.
Crid at January 9, 2019 9:23 AM
I still don't have a clue about blockchain. These folks seem to have a good handle on things.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/almost-500000-in-ethereum-coin-stolen-by-forking-its-blockchain/
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 9:48 AM
Bezos is a white cat and monocle away from being a Bond villain.
No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to join Amazon Prime.
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 9:58 AM
Cosh once speculated that you need to start watching hockey in early years (no later than five) if you're ever going to understand —when watching on teevee later in life— where the puck is.
That can be worked on, if you have access to live hockey. I had season tickets to an ECHL club for 7 years, and eventually you pick up on where the puck is.
Eventually you start anticipating where the puck is going. Now I can watch hockey on teevee and mostly know where the puck is, and to anticipate the play and start looking up ice.
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 10:22 AM
Reason has news from FIRE.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/08/chicago-state-university-lawsuit-fire-sp
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 10:29 AM
I've wondered this, too. Every now and again some knuckleheads put out flyers locally for the Klan/Nazis/Aryan Nation/etc and people go into a tizzy. Unless you want to ticket them for littering, I'm not an actual crime to see if there's enough interest to have a meeting.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/anti-communism-is-a-hate-crime.php
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 10:36 AM
Oh, look! a barrier to entry! emphasis mine.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/08/new-york-city-minimum-wage/
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 10:46 AM
I was that way with basketball. It wasn't until the movie, Hoosiers, came out that I started picking up on the players setting up blocks. Until then, the only strategy I was aware of being used on a basketball court was Dean Smith's Four Corners, and that only because the announcers talked about it incessantly.
But hockey? Nah. That skating stuff is just something the players do between throwing punches. 😁
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Conan the Grammarian at January 9, 2019 11:36 AM
Tallahassee had an ECHL club for a while, the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks. So, while in college, I got to see a couple of games. Hockey's fun to watch live - better live than on TV. Eventually the team moved to Macon, GA and became, I kid you not, the Macon Whoopee.
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That's something I think the people arguing that a $15 minimum wage would be an easy hurdle to reach don't understand. It's not just raising the $7.25 folks to $15. It's raising everyone else proportionately higher as well.
The entire payroll shifts. That guy who was making $8.25 still expects to make more than minimum, more than his rookie coworkers just starting out, so he can't simply be raised to $15 and everyone's happy.
People keep score. And they don't want a government-mandated shift in the minimum wage to erase their own gains, their own lead over their coworkers.
Conan the Grammarian at January 9, 2019 11:53 AM
Just you wait when they successfully lobby to make student debt an inheritable duty.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/09/millennials-student-debt-death/
Sixclaws at January 9, 2019 11:59 AM
Tallahassee had an ECHL club for a while, the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks.
That was the team that I bought season tickets for. And I am still sore about the way they left.
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Hate it when that happens.
I still recall the one and only time the Tigersharks made Sports Center. Game against the Louisiana Ice Gators, and an Antifa style brawl broke out. About 20 players involved in fisticuffs, people leaving the bench, third men in, etc. If they'd have called all of the penalties including the game misconducts correctly, they would have ended up with the net minders, and maybe 4 or so skaters. Total.
I R A Darth Aggie at January 9, 2019 12:41 PM
> a clue about blockchain
Many experiments are underway, and many pipe dreams are being puffed.
But in my understand, there is precisely one instance of blockchain technology which is properly sustained by users with strong motive and agreeable results. One, and only one.
Guess
Crid at January 9, 2019 3:49 PM
... That's right.
Crid at January 9, 2019 3:55 PM
Remember that part about "motives," or incentives. Ethereum has problems.
BTC is perhaps the most fascinating work of human creation in the 20st century. It's a stunningly insightful piece of art, logic, programming, courage and desire. That there are thousands of pretenders and weak brother projects should surprise no one.
When the Bens of the world take dick in hand to yammer about a "centralized clearinghouse," we realize that most people move through life with a pre-schooler's understanding of the social arrangements that sustain them.
Crid at January 9, 2019 4:11 PM
21st Century. You know what I meant.
Crid at January 9, 2019 4:15 PM
Not every crypto is gonna be BTC... And not every rockin' teenage combo is going to be the exotic, British and talented Beatles.
Crid at January 9, 2019 4:26 PM
First you think "I want to meet the engineer who did the calculations that could make that happen." Then you realize there was no such person.
Crid at January 9, 2019 5:06 PM
This guy.
Crid at January 9, 2019 5:07 PM
Yeah. Watch the items on the side - they keep repeating. It's a loop.
Kinda like when you start analyzing the chase scene in Bullitt and realize the same cars keep passing at the same angles.
Conan the Grammarian at January 9, 2019 5:43 PM
Just because it is magic to you Crid doesn't mean everyone else doesn't understand how things work. But you keep digital gold bugging.
What is really hilarious is you fully admit the biggest issue is with government and then don't recognize the huge problem with bitcoin that could make it all fall apart overnight.
Ben at January 9, 2019 7:55 PM
> the huge problem with bitcoin
> that could make it all fall
> apart overnight.
The guy who thinks it's "centralized" sees a flaw?
The globally-dispersed participants in this $70,831,772,070 capitalization won't sleep until they learn what you're talking about.
Crid at January 9, 2019 8:28 PM
And "gold bugging"? I think you literally don't know the meaning of the words you use. Centralized gold-bugging. Hmm....
You see economics as a pitiless, sinister realm of screwing others in order to get rich quick; you assume others do as well.
For the record, I don't own the merest speck of crypto, and never have. But it's important to see the world as it is.
Crid at January 9, 2019 8:40 PM
Meanwhile, this is a fun piece of irony.
Crid at January 9, 2019 8:41 PM
> the same cars keep passing at
> the same angles.
They made a movie in my hometown. The 90 second chase scene was the same two blocks from different views.
See also, the DTLA shots in Inception... Most all of it was here.
Crid at January 9, 2019 8:49 PM
A centralized clearing house can have a distributed implementation Crid. It doesn't change the nature of the centralized clearing house. You don't have competing clearing houses for bitcoin. At least not to my knowledge. By all means enlighten us Cridster. But considering your multiyear effort at being consistently wrong I'm not hopeful.
As for that obvious flaw, the government can just make it illegal. It isn't like that hasn't happened before. Even the US has outlawed various currencies in the past. The US federal government is talking about doing just that now. Mind they've been talking for some time. Other nations have already banned bitcoin in partial or even in full. Those cute little numbers aren't worth much when you go to jail for using them.
But keep up the digital gold bugging Cridster. It seems to make you happy.
Ben at January 10, 2019 6:16 AM
You're beautiful when you're butthurt.
> the government can just
> make it illegal
You haven't considered this at all, have you?
> A centralized clearing house
> can have a distributed
> implementation
Right... Because when words have no meaning, no one can be held accountable, and every day is Christmas.
Crid at January 10, 2019 8:21 AM
This is the traditional nomenclature for these systems Crid. Pick up a book. As for the other . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country_or_territory
Ben at January 10, 2019 10:07 AM
But hockey? Nah. That skating stuff is just something the players do between throwing punches. 😁
"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." ~ Rodney Dangerfield
Conan the Grammarian at January 9, 2019 11:36 AM
Sadly, hockey has become a kinder, gentler version of itself. While I still enjoy a good hockey game (I miss my Anaheim Ducks season tix), rarely does a good fight break out. Which is a shame. Seems that as the team enforcers were phased out, injuries to top players increased. Hockey will ultimately implode on itself.
sara at January 10, 2019 10:27 AM
I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area (home of the NHL Sharks) by then, so I'm unfamiliar with what happened.
Conan the Grammarian at January 10, 2019 5:11 PM
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