JKane

Yep, the 1st amendment issue is why I don't support having him removed from Armed Forces Radio, though if all the women soldiers find him as offensive as I do and regularly get subjected to his blather... But me telling a sponsor I will never give them a cent as long as they back hate speech is a 1st amendment right too. Perhaps even more so! Another story on the subject and how he keeps making it worse.

What with it starting with a love triangle and all, I never got into Walking Dead... this comic raises a couple of the reasons why too:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/worlds-top-10-cities-best-looking-men_n_1314261.html I'm shocked! Was Tomcal lying to us all this time?

First they inject Willard into national politics for us and now they're not (yet) making the right choice for senate? Third poll shows Brown ahead of Warren in Massachusetts I luv Elizabeth Warren, have hopes for her for much more in 2016, but if she can't beat this schmuck...

Clear Channel is standing behind him still, though. Also there's a move afoot to get armed forces radio to stop carrying him, but many think that's stepping on freedom of speech a bit too much.

I've copied the bookmark to my desktop, plan to watch it soon. 'Soon' being relative, just watched the Nightline on Foxconn yesterday...

Wish the energy density was a bit better so it would be a good alternative for 18-wheelers too. But all depot and city-service type vehicles should be CNG or LNG. And there's no reason they can't be at least mild/start-stop hybrids too! And they are actually available as brand new passenger cars right now, and they earn you a carpool sticker!

And I love the picture they chose!!

KOS has a great writeup on the apology... Rush Limbaugh explains his 'apology': Obama and the Left made him call Sandra Fluke a slut

Finally found the second pic I liked on the subject...

Good job Mad, didn't realize you were still around!

I'm also a big fan of Dropbox, and the way it locally caches files instead of it being always accessed from the web is pretty cool (on computer clients, not phone Dropbox clients).

We'd certainly be in a better position today if all GM's BS flex-fuel/corn lobby cars/SUVs were instead LNG capable. But then again the big increase in available natural gas is a fairly new thing... and is largely made possible by questionable practices like fraking...

Now up to 9! Lifelock is still advertising with him, as is GoldCoinPro. Not sure much can be done against these two, as idiots are the only people who buy their crap...

Or the various browsers, last I checked.

Seeing this did my heart good too: Now 8: Limbaugh Brand So Toxic Two More Advertisers Quit After “Apology” Also, this thread's title conjures unfortunate images!

Then again... Signs Chuck Norris Is Gay

While I'm not surprised (any more than to learn this of any other right wingnut, such as Ted Nugent,) I wondered about the details. Here they are.

Thought this was the perfect description: Kirk Cameron joins former TV stars Victoria Jackson and Chuck Norris in desperately trying to remain in the public eye by using anti-LGBT rhetoric. From GLAAD press release via JMG.

I'm sorry to hear what happened to you, by the way! There are a couple of ways to deal with these devices' desirability to thieves. Pretty much all of them have a Kensington (laptop) lock port--including things like Airports, Time Machines, external drives. They're not *great* security, and (despite the name) it's not that practical to lock your laptop up all the time, but it's great for stuff that shouldn't ever move, to at least slow the thief down or make it 'not worth it'. Another path is to use an external backup drive and put it in a safe, but it's very easy to fall behind on such backups. Also, many people don't realize, it takes a *very* specialized safe to secure *data devices* against fire or water damage. And if the safe isn't huge you should also consider some way to keep *it* from walking out the door! There are also these, and these, but again, at the very minimum they need to be Kensington locked.

The problem with most cloud based storage (esp. the ones you mentioned) is that most are for files. Now I'm sure you'd love to have the latest copy of all your documents back, and they are great for that. Also for accessing them anywhere. I love Dropbox for this (especially on my phone now!) and MS is building something nifty into Windows8 to seamlessly put everything out there, if you want. But we're usually talking 5-10 GB here. You can pay for more, sure, but it's just not designed to hold a 100+ GB backup of the entire OS on your computer. There are starting to be services from backup providers and people like Carbonite, but they are fairly expensive and as your data grows they can charge you more and more, theoretically locking you in for the rest of your life! And there is the question of accessibility after an incident. How and how quickly do your get your backup back to restore the operation of your repaired/replaced computer? Some of the simpler/free-er services are trying to expand, but they even struggle to hold 20-30GB of your music collection, and none would hold my 2TB or so of collected TV and other downloads, nor would I be eager to put them on such a service given that some may be of questionable legality and either being reported by one of these services or seeing them delete my data on a whim aren't experiences I'm eager to have. --and keep the above in mind for your porn collection too! Do you have the 2257 or whatever documentation that every guy in every video is legal? And a receipt for every clip or pic you've stored? Would you even want a third party having access to such? What if a state the server is in passes an asinine law? These are just some of the reasons a home NAS-like device such as a Synology or Qnap are better, in my view.

Damn, if fishing had ever been that exciting when I was a kid I wouldn't be bored to tears by even the thought of it now!

My favorite backup strategy is a NAS type device in a closet or something with the internet router (and some routers you can just plug a USB drive into). It's always on (so your laptop doesn't need to be), can do stuff like stream media to your TV or download torrents. Plus the drives can be RAIDed, saving you from hardware failure wiping out your data. Synology makes some of the most full featured home ones at the moment. Plus you might keep porn on it instead of the laptop so when you travel you don't have to worry about the TSA loosing their minds... But as AdamSmith notes, it doesn't count for *dick* if you don't keep up with it, check on the backups regularly. Especially if you turn your laptop off all the time (or use a removable drive) you'll have to kick off the backups yourself weekly...

Yeah, a gay casino/resort/hotel in Vegas would be damn cool too!

Yeah, I think you're better off just buying (and getting miles for) anything up to the $200 range. LA to DFW was about $99, so bought it. DFW to fucking Biloxi was around $400, makes the $100 I paid in fees for two tickets seem pretty small...