Bob_Church

Personally I vote to keep it. Russia, like the US, is a huge country with a lot more aspects to it than Putin just like there's a lot more to the US than Trump. Most if not all of the people involved in this heroic deed are dead but the memory should live on. Someday Putin and Trump will be dead and gone. All of the complaints that people are citing as reasons to reject the monument will be gone with them. The memory of the people who helped defeat the Nazis should not be gone.

A town in North Carolina is offered a monument commemorating and thanking them and the US for help in WWII. Specifically for supplying military versions of the PBY Catalina and training flight crews. The previous city administration voted to keep it but since then a lot were replaced in the city's election and the new members are leaning against.
One thing I've already done is order the book they mention about Project Zebra. I just copy and past the info into an email to our local bookstore.
So what do you think, keep the million dollar gift or tell them where to shove it?
If they don't want it I'll take it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/25/596148097/north-carolina-town-accepts-then-spurns-russian-gift

kallend

Learn CPR.

Moron.

I think all students should learn CPR. But it has jack shit to do with this. It's just a cheap shot by Santorum.

BIGUN

Morning, Bob.

I'm going to suggest contacting username IrishRigger
If he can't directly help you; then perhaps he can help get you one level of separation closer.

Thanks,

Bob

This is a longshot but do any of you know the jumpers doing this demo?
"Ballintogher Community Sky Dive for Pieta House" in Ireland.

What I'm really trying to get is info about a photograph and there's very little out there. It's the photo that this charity was named for. Normally if you want to get a handle on how much a piece of Art is worth you look for other sales but once Benetton bought the rights it was no longer available so there's not much to go on. I'd like to find out how Benetton handles people wanting to display a copy of the photo and what I'm really interested in is its value if one were for sale, which of course would be influenced by that availability, at least a little.

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/12/01/142998189/the-photo-that-changed-the-face-of-aids

Edit, after Therese won the contest in Paris that brought it to their attention Benetton acquired the rights to it from her with the agreement that the image couldn't be sold. I have no idea how that can be applied to something being used to sell clothes, but it seriously limits the number of prints available for sale.

PS. did I mention that it's a long shot? I've been chasing this down since last century.

AlanS

***I’ve been waiting a year for this movie.

Is this just a coincidence at the the 54 second mark?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5104604/videoplayer/vi1400682777

I don't watch many movies, but I'm looking forward to this one.

Got tickets for the first showing of the movie in my area.

This looks like one of those rare films that's worth going to a theater for rather than just watching at home.

gowlerk

Yes, most of my thinking on this is based on the Canadian model. Because it seems to be working fairly well and at the same time is less restrictive than the European or Australian models. The biggest weakness in our system is that determined gangs can still fairly easily get handguns over the border. Which is making for too much gun play on the streets of our largest cities.

We still have men doing murder-suicides sometimes. The level of restriction needed to stop those is beyond the tolerance of our society for gun rules. It is not all that different than the US situation except for where the lines are drawn.

The 2nd amendment has been around for a long time. The problem of mass shootings is much more recent. I feel that it's largely a side effect of the culture wars. Amassing arms and fighting for the right to amass arms is part of that. An unfortunate side effect is that unbalanced people with a score to settle, or who want to be famous can easily get these tools. And media attention is justified, but it also shines the light and shows the way to fame and glory.

In the 70s the Saturday Night Special was a big problem. You could buy a cheap gun, maybe under $25, use it once and toss it. Those were banned. But then with drug dealing, and imo especially crack, suddenly paying $400 or more for a gun wasn't such a problem. There are a lot more drugs besides crack but it seems like the surge in big money and with it the ability to buy small arsenals kicked in about the same time that crack hit the streets.

RonD1120

My wife and I watched a Netflix documentary "Take Your Pills." It focused on the over medication of children and young adults by the daily use of ADD, ADHD pharmaceuticals.

How many here are using any of these chemicals.

At the School of Art a popular form of cartoon was of someone like Van Gogh getting meds then not needing to paint, or having a very short lived career of painting happy clowns.

BIGUN

******
We have officially lost our collective minds.

“Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone,” Helsel explained about his Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, northeast of Harrisburg, in a video broadcast by ABC affiliate 16 WNEP. “If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/?utm_term=.e68510f7fcb2

Yeh, but if it calms people down and settles that knee jerk "we have to do something, anything" urge without arming even more people it's a bargain.

I was looking at it more as a "Palestinians vs. Guns" proposition. Bringing rocks to a gun fight isn't a good long-term plan (ask the numerous Palestinian children that have been shot with that plan).

Maybe, but I was thinking it might be more of about "ok, can we get back to the lesson plans now?

BIGUN

We have officially lost our collective minds.

“Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone,” Helsel explained about his Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, northeast of Harrisburg, in a video broadcast by ABC affiliate 16 WNEP. “If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks, and they will be stoned.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/03/23/this-school-districts-plan-to-stop-shooters-a-bucket-of-rocks-for-students-to-throw-at-them/?utm_term=.e68510f7fcb2

Yeh, but if it calms people down and settles that knee jerk "we have to do something, anything" urge without arming even more people it's a bargain.

ryoder

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CNN is infotainment. They are often accurate, but will usually go for the starlet sex scandal over the budget talks. Their reporting is shoddy and superficial at best - but tends to be accurate at a 10,000 foot level.

You left out "missing airliners".

When I worked on the phone company line crew they all called CNN the "Commie News Network" and condemned it for it's left wing bunch hippies bias. When I went to work at the School of Art I got used to it being referred to as a tool of the Right Wing Fascists.
Personally, I just found that it had way too many commercials to wade through.

What really bugs me are the people who instantly respond with "well, if you didn't get your news from Fox" anytime you disagree with them. I've accumulated maybe an hour of Fox while stuck in waiting rooms, but say something they don't like and that's the instant assumption.
The other one that I hate is people who think that since i'm past 60 I must like country music.

jclalor

I’ve been waiting a year for this movie.

Is this just a coincidence at the the 54 second mark?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5104604/videoplayer/vi1400682777

I'm definitely looking forward to Isle of Dogs. I was reading an article about it and it mentioned Fantastic Mr Fox, which I somehow had missed. Mr Fox a great movie and the animation is almost up there with the series version of Wind in the Willows. Now I'm really looking forward to "I Love Dogs."

ryoder

You just won $96,000 in a lawsuit settlement.
Do you:
a) Deposit it in a bank?
b) Deposit it into a stock or bond fund?
c) Put $96K in cash in a suitcase, take it to a motel, and invite some hookers over to party with you?

https://nypost.com/2018/03/22/man-finds-out-spending-96k-settlement-on-hookers-was-a-bad-idea/

He said he wanted to use the money to move his family. I suspect they'll be moving all right, but not giving him the new address.

rushmc

***"Now that you-tube is banning gun video's. Where are you going to learn about shooting, guns, etc.?"

I was flicking through channels the other day and an ad for an upcoming series was showing. Every single scene had sexy young people shooting at each other, often with nice closeups of the gun as some beautiful woman squeezes the trigger.

And some of those weapons are really damn cool!

And the girls aren't bad either.

JerryBaumchen

Hi folks,

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Global Temp Changes

It looks like some companies are looking to the future:

http://www.king5.com/article/tech/microsoft-makes-largest-corporate-solar-deal-in-us-history-buying-315-megawatts/281-531035886

'Microsoft makes largest corporate solar deal in U.S. history, buying 315 megawatts'

Jerry Baumchen

And yet, people deliberately waste electricity to create bitcoins.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/17/bitcoin-electricity-usage-huge-climate-cryptocurrency

"Bitcoin’s electricity usage is enormous. In November, the power consumed by the entire bitcoin network was estimated to be higher than that of the Republic of Ireland. Since then, its demands have only grown. It’s now on pace to use just over 42TWh of electricity in a year, placing it ahead of New Zealand and Hungary and just behind Peru, according to estimates from Digiconomist. That’s commensurate with CO2 emissions of 20 megatonnes – or roughly 1m transatlantic flights."

and

"Burning huge amounts of electricity isn’t incidental to bitcoin: instead, it’s embedded into the innermost core of the currency, as the operation known as “mining”. In simplified terms, bitcoin mining is a competition to waste the most electricity possible by doing pointless arithmetic quintillions of times a second."

JerryBaumchen

Hi Eric,

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Mid-west manufacturing is never going to come back the way it was. The skills gap is just too large., If you look at the newest factories they are increasingly replacing as much labor as possible with robotics. When you decrease the number of workers needed and then require the remaining workers to be more highly skilled its not looking good for the local areas. SpaceX has decided to build all their rockets in Los Angeles - not exactly the home of cheap labor. This was due to the skills and knowledge needed. Ford just retooled another factory last year and converted another 800+ jobs from factory worker positions to higher skilled Robotics repairs / tool makers so the workers were told to train up or find another position. Older workers are not being replaced, they are just hiring new skilled labor instead.

Environmental rules impacted some but not near at the level of the robotics revolution that occurred in the 80's and is only accelerating today. When the number of workers can be cut in half if not to a quarter and the output increased - it works great for profits but it comes at the cost of lower skilled jobs.

^^^^ This.

We usually call it 'survival of the fittest.'

Evolve or be gone,

Jerry Baumchen

PS) The first emergency parachute I packed was in the Spring of 1965; a gut pack with a round canopy, no pilot chute, no diaper, etc. Look at what it takes today to pack ( virtually ) the same parachute; a square canopy, multiple flaps that must be in just the right order, an RSL ( they vary in design ), possibly a MARD ( numerous types ), etc. The world continues to change.

When you have serious laws that apply to one set of businesses but not the other based on a line on a map it's a very different thing altogether.

riggerrob

Did anyone else notice that many of those cities are in the "Rust Belt?"
After heavy industry moved out, the least-skilled workers remained. With little work, they turned to crime.

Has anyone else read the book "Hillbilly Elegy?" Those are the same sort of "white trash" who elected Donald Trump because they believed his promises to "Make America Great Again." Too few of those people understand that heavy industry has left the "Rust Belt" and will never return.

I think it could. I think it has to. In the 60s and 70s we passed environmental laws in the US to protect the environment. If you want to manufacture something you have to do it in an at least partly responsible way. But we didn't pass anything saying that you couldn't import and sell things made this way. In one move we increased pollution and killed the US' middle class.
That just doesn't even make sense.

"Now that you-tube is banning gun video's. Where are you going to learn about shooting, guns, etc.?"

I was flicking through channels the other day and an ad for an upcoming series was showing. Every single scene had sexy young people shooting at each other, often with nice closeups of the gun as some beautiful woman squeezes the trigger.

oldwomanc6

BTW, the proper phrase is "Holy thread necromancy, Batman!"

Easy for you to say.

oldwomanc6

*********Holy shit thread resurrection batman!

Spam from someone selling shoes,

Sure looks like it, but why this specific thread?

IDK, but in the spirit of the thread: Turtle's going to have to wear sexier shoes than that to get any business.

The nerve of it. RW boots in this forum!

nolhtairt

***Well, that worked out about as well as it could have. The Austin bomber was about to be arrested and blew himself up. But from what I've heard so far he didn't kill anyone else in the process.

Let this be a public service message to all who know they are guilty of a heinous crime. Do us all a favor, just kill yourself and save us taxpayers the money spent on trials and prison care. Fuck you.

What really pisses me off is these losers that kill a bunch of people then commit suicide. Why can't they do it in the right order?

BillyVance

I don't know if this is for real, but I'll just leave it here...

I'm sure you mean that you don't know if the story is for real or not. As for the dildo some of the especially playful lesbians that were graduate photo students brought much bigger ones into the studios and created "Art" with them. I think it all comes down to lubricant. As for me "yeh, I know, I work here, these are my studios, but I am NOT cleaning that up."

gowlerk

Self driving cars are being tested in AZ, and some parts of CA an NV. Because the weather conditions are close to perfect. They need technicians to clean their delicate sensors at least daily. Even in the land of sunshine. When the sensors get dirty, the machine will get confused and just pull over and stop.

This shortcoming is going to be VERY difficult to overcome. And that's why a licensed driver is going to be needed in every one of these machines for a very long time. You are not going to be able to just summon one of these and not worry about driving. The first time it snows, or even rains the roads will be littered with out of service vehicles.

We've had people die because self serve gas stations, often the only ones you can find, don't check things like air in the tires and most drivers wouldn't know how or bother with it if they did. This could get pretty bad.

PhreeZone

Here was an interesting situation around prison for profit: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/etowah_sheriff_at_center_of_ja.html

Basically state law said that the sheriff could keep any excess funds from the inmate food budget to use as needed. This sheriff put all the inmates on minimum rations and then pocketed $750,000 over 3 years on top of his normal pay and went out and bought a beach house with it. The original intent was to use those funds for department needs post WW2 - in this case he kept the money as income and spent it on himself.

When you thing about the relatively low cost of food, then going to something like Aramark where now you also pay their employees and they make a profit means serious cuts in amount and quality served. For some real horror stories look up reports about Aramark. Here's a company that' so bad that the Florida prison system threw them out. But they've got lots of other customers, like the West Virginia DOC.
For that matter, why can't they go with something like the Angola system? They were feeding their inmates grade A steaks that they grew, it didn't cost them a thing. Then someone in the La government found out, now they have to ship the beef they produce out and use the money to buy lower quality stuff.But still, they're eating better than most, and not just most inmate, but most, and I believe they'e turning a profit. Inmates learn to work. It's farm work and might not translate skills wise to what they'd do after they get out but that's not the important thing. They learn to work, which many of them never did and didn't know how to start.