Scattershots – 16sep19 (updated 17sep19)

George Rebane

The Trump haters led by the NYT did their best to relaunch the smear campaign against Justice Kavanaugh.  The formerly prestigious newspaper continued to dig its journalistic grave by publishing a carefully constructed story of another sexual escapade the Justice was supposed to have participated in as an undergraduate, and then later had to ‘amend’ it in response to a public outcry for the truth.  Well, it turns out that in the process the NYT rolled another fake news honey wagon down the street, immediately onto which jumped about twelve leading Dem presidential candidates to start spreading its contents through the lamestream media.  Our moral high-ground progressives (witness also these pages) have decided to respond with their usual crickets.  It’s telling that even Nadler is not going to touch this one with a ten-foot ladle.

Fox News should review the grade school credentials of some of its news editors.  Tonight on Bret Bayer a map showing the latest Iran/Saudi crisis had Oman labeled as the UAE, and the entire Arabian Sea as the greatly expanded Persian Gulf.  Our criticisms of the post-Great Society disaster in educating America’s kids is confirmed daily in what we see and hear on the news.

[17sep19 update]  My main desktop computer died on Sunday morning.  And I mean died, like in DEAD – even its operating system Windows10 did not load, it just got to BIOS and went belly up.  The tech mavens at Quietech (my goto PC docs) diagnosed it as having a hardware failure that required ordering a replacement part from China which will take at least a week to arrive.  Having PCs since ‘Day One’, I have never experienced such a failure in over 40 years.  We always have a bunch of computers around the house, but losing my main brain left me somewhere between devastated and discombobulated (I think psychiatrists know the difference).  The emotional experience was/is an interesting episode, and very revealing about my dependencies.  The dearly departed and about to be resurrected is a very large and very fast Alienware laptop game computer that can juggle multi-million element matrices in a single bound (yes, I still spend time messing with such beasts).  Now Jo Ann has the only working Windows box left in the house; the rest of our laptops, pads, and phones are all Apple products – e.g. I’m typing this on my MacBook Pro which lives in the front room by a comfy couch.  My self-indulging response to all this is having another super-fast (AMD 8-core, 16 thread) Windows tower built that will be delivered with a new 32 inch high-res monitor which will join my formerly biggest 27-incher.  Both of us got addicted to two-monitor setups some years back, and having only one screen to work with is now downright stifling.  Anyway, that’s more than you wanted to know about my current emotional shock and functional deficit.

Comments

[Urve]

From another Geislingen an der Steige post - 1944 resident, your perception of Trump and our chance to rescue America from the violence of the left is brilliant.

[George Rebane]

Teretulemast Urve!

[Mmm Good]

<<>> Really? Or, could it be the work of a couple of independent journalists who might very possibly be Trump Haters since most of the US are Trump Haters.

[fish]

Posted by: Mmm Good | 17 September 2019 at 08:56 AM

....Or, could it be the work of a couple of independent journalists who might very possibly be Trump Haters since most of the US are Trump Haters.

....still president dugsKKKi.

[Russell Steele]

MMMM@08:56 AM. Who is "most of US", have some number for us? Last time I checked Trump was at 50% Approval.

[Walt]

Sorry Doc. to hear your "old faithful" has gone to PC heaven.
I have one of those too. Gotta wait for my Son to come by and pick up the carcass. He may be able to resurrect it, if not will make a few bucks on making it an organ donor.

[Gregory]

George... you're bringing in another "Grandpa" box into the world?

Why not try a linux distro this time?

I'll have to poke my nose into Quietech one day.

[Gregory]

https://dilbert.com/strip/2011-08-03

[George Rebane]

Grlegory 1122am - Actually, there's nothing "Grandpa" about my new box. It will have the latest everything, and because of its larger container it will have room for enough A/C to run at very high clock speeds that laptops simply cannot handle. And since I have enough other portable boxes, the desktop Alienware was never moved. Anyway, that's the reasoning behind getting a new tower. Tell me more about the "linux distro".

[Gregory]

It sure sounds like a Grandpa box to me... I thought a bona fide grandpa wouldn't take it so negatively.

It's not so much about "the linux distro" as it is "which" linux distro. Here's a list.
https://www.techradar.com/news/best-linux-distro

I worked for a time at a startup/flamed-out in Foster City run by CentOS snobs... a go-to stable server OS but for individual workstations, not so much.

Ubuntu is a choice I've made. Mint is often recommended for recovering Mac and Windows users.

[George Rebane]

Gregory 1208pm - Thanks Gregory; hadn’t heard of the term “distro” before.

[Bill Tozer]

Re: the Kavanaugh smear.

The latest Fakenews orchestrated hate attack on Kavanaugh is just a foretaste what the next 13 months will look like. Vile, nothing but vile from the power mad unhinged mob. Buckle up. Bring back Stormy and all the gang, including Russia, Russia, Russia. It’s recycle time. All they need are the facts which somehow have eluded the evildoers for 3 years.

There are scores of good articles concerning the Slime Machine attack on Brett Kavanaugh. I chose two for their slightly different takes.

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/09/17/real-bombshell-cbs-news-hits-nyt-kavanaugh-story-focus-witness-tampering/

Which leads us to no consequences for bad behavior:
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/16/in-the-land-of-no-consequence-bad-behavior-festers/

[Gregory]

George 104pm

I can't remember a time that "distro" wasn't used as a label for linux distributions... maybe 20 years ... but that leaves the question... why not a linux install instead of Windows on a new or old PC, or even on a Mac platform (pre-2018, without the T2 chip)?