Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[y66]

Lo and behold. Savage kingdoms: Werner Herzog takes us from the Earth’s core into cyberspace

[y66]

 

A Tesla parked at a mobile home in Mountain View CA, where the median home costs $1.4 million.

Damien Maloney for The New York Times

[y66]

serious? we all miss foo and shubi.

Now more than ever, esp on the Trump thread.

[y66]

How to Argue Fairly and Without Rancor

 

Don’t think of an argument as an opportunity to convince the other person of your view; think of it as a way to test and improve your opinions.

[y66]

How a grad student found spyware that could control anybody's iPhone from anywhere in the world

 

Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages—and even record your calls. Illuminating shadowy firms that sell spyware to corrupt governments across the globe, Marczak’s story reveals the new arena of cyber-warfare.

[onoway]

There was story which I just heard bits about so there are gaps, but supposedly there are companies now that you can buy some sort of bug which will "slave" the computers in all the prosaic things that are computerized now, like refrigerators and toasters. If you get enough of them, ( again, reportedly) you can bring down the internet, someone is said to have done that in a fairly major crash in Britain a couple of weeks ago. It works by overloading the system by having all these household appliances and so forth simultaneously send multiple messages.

 

It would be nice if someone was able to do a jujitsu on these people who are hacking into our lives without permission, governments or businesses or just bored bright teenagers, a sort of intensified reflection of the death ray, :ph34r: and royally fry their computers into a molten sludge that melts through their desk and becomes one with the carpet.

 

I know virtually nothing about computers, but I bet some bright and creative soul could do something like that if they put their mind to it.

[Winstonm]

http://www.upworthy.com/this-school-replaced-detention-with-meditation-the-results-are-stunning

 

Instead of punishing disruptive kids or sending them to the principal's office, the Baltimore school has something called the Mindful Moment Room.

 

 

The room looks nothing like your standard windowless detention room. Instead, it's filled with lamps, decorations, and plush purple pillows. Misbehaving kids are encouraged to sit in the room and go through practices like breathing or meditation, helping them calm down and re-center. They are also asked to talk through what happened.

[mike777]

http://www.upworthy.com/this-school-replaced-detention-with-meditation-the-results-are-stunning

 

Winston you missed the main big point

 

baltimore

 

 

failure

 

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As usual you dont get it......

[y66]

There was story which I just heard bits about so there are gaps, but supposedly there are companies now that you can buy some sort of bug which will "slave" the computers in all the prosaic things that are computerized now, like refrigerators and toasters. If you get enough of them, ( again, reportedly) you can bring down the internet, someone is said to have done that in a fairly major crash in Britain a couple of weeks ago. It works by overloading the system by having all these household appliances and so forth simultaneously send multiple messages.

 

It would be nice if someone was able to do a jujitsu on these people who are hacking into our lives without permission, governments or businesses or just bored bright teenagers, a sort of intensified reflection of the death ray, :ph34r: and royally fry their computers into a molten sludge that melts through their desk and becomes one with the carpet.

 

I know virtually nothing about computers, but I bet some bright and creative soul could do something like that if they put their mind to it.

I have heard about new mass media techniques being used to enslave the minds of millions of Americans and Europeans and even a few members of this forum who post in the water cooler on the Donald Trump thread but so far no one has mentioned the possibility that the tweets and spam are coming from rogue toasters. That would explain a lot of what's been going on in the world as well as some of the strange posts coming out of Chicago. I like your death ray suggestion.

[Winstonm]

Winston you missed the main big point

 

baltimore

 

 

failure

 

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As usual you dont get it......

 

I wasn't talking about a main big point. What is your point and where is your data supporting your position?

[Winstonm]

I have heard about new mass media techniques being used to enslave the minds of millions of Americans and Europeans and even a few members of this forum who post in the water cooler on the Donald Trump thread but so far no one has mentioned the possibility that the tweets and spam are coming from rogue toasters. That would explain a lot of what's been going on in the world as well as some of the strange posts coming out of Chicago. I like your death ray suggestion.

 

I wonder who will play the toaster...Arnold?

[mikeh]

I have heard about new mass media techniques being used to enslave the minds of millions of Americans and Europeans and even a few members of this forum who post in the water cooler on the Donald Trump thread but so far no one has mentioned the possibility that the tweets and spam are coming from rogue toasters. That would explain a lot of what's been going on in the world as well as some of the strange posts coming out of Chicago. I like your death ray suggestion.

I am pretty sure that the toasters are merely the dupes of the microwave ovens.

[ggwhiz]

My wife spent a week in California over Thanksgiving and brought a wish list for her daughter and her friends of Eatmore chocolate bars, Bacon and Buffalo wing flavoured chips.

 

Her daughter works at a winery and gets a 50% discount. Sweet deal or what? :blink:

[y66]

I wonder who will play the toaster...Arnold?

Arnold Ziffle? No way. It's true that pigs sleep and root in sh*t but Arnold is way too charming and way too conscientious to root in that stuff unless you mean by toaster the guy who gets to use the death ray. He might go for that if he's still around which would be something.

[y66]

This is a dead deer. Don’t look away. by Tamar Haspel, food and health writer. Just a reminder to bacon lovers and deer lovers that animal husbandry matters.

[Al_U_Card]

A real explanation of what is going on in Syria. Not surprising, how our view is warped by politics.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VNQGsiP8M

[y66]

From The Year in Pictures 2016 at NY Times.

 

 

BATON ROUGE, LA. 7/9/2016

Ieshia Evans confronted law enforcement officers in riot gear during a protest following the shooting death of Alton Sterling by the police.

Jonathan Bachman/Reuters

 

IT WAS A YEAR to be confounded, shocked, humbled.

 

Donald J. Trump won the American presidency, defying polls, mockery and fear to defeat Hillary Clinton. Britons jolted their country and the world by voting to leave the European Union. Syria’s agony played out before a largely indifferent world, its children staring into the camera with eyes wide in terror, blood flecking their clothing.

 

The president of the Philippines unleashed a merciless war on drugs, boasting of killing drug dealers himself when he was a mayor, and many of his citizens cheered him on. Climate change created a new class of refugees, even as climate-change skeptics were nominated to key United States cabinet posts.

 

And talk about shocking: The Chicago Cubs won the World Series after a drought of 108 years.

 

It was a year so unexpected, so tumultuous, that the fight has just begun over which narrative might possibly explain it. For some, it was the comeuppance of the elites and the rebellion of the forgotten white working class. Or it was the triumph of resentment, rage and racism. Or payback for identity politics. Or perhaps it was a rallying cry for identity politics.

 

One lesson was clear: Economic and cultural upheavals have consequences. Free trade and globalization, many economists argue, are inexorable forces. But in the United States as in Europe, the exodus of high-paying manufacturing jobs has taken a political as well as an economic toll. Chancellor Angela Merkel lifted many hearts and outraged others when she opened Germany’s doors to desperate refugees. But as in Britain, France, and Italy, there was a backlash from those who conflate Muslim refugees with terrorism, and migrants with economic competition. After terrorist attacks from Paris to Nice, Berlin to Brussels, a frightened world is further barring its doors.

 

Was there ever such an American election? The spectacle that was the Trump campaign riveted the world. The images are indelible: Mr. Trump in silhouette drawing thousands to ecstatic rallies where he pledged to bring back jobs, but also of crowds spewing hate.

 

Hillary Clinton raced to make history as the first female president, allowing herself a brief moment of exultation, arms thrown wide. Then the surprise of her narrow defeat: Women pasted “I Voted” stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s grave, while soon after, President Obama welcomed President-elect Trump to the White House.

 

Violence struck in Orlando, with gay revelers attacked at the Pulse nightclub, and in Dallas and Baton Rouge, where the targets were law enforcement officers. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were gunned down by the police. Rape, as ever a tool of war, was deployed by the Islamic State against Yazidi sex slaves. Mexican women, sexually assaulted by the police, broke their silence.

 

Meanwhile, Zika continued to ravage its victims. Cholera was the latest of the scourges visited on Haiti. Empty shelves and emaciated mental patients showed the worsening toll of Venezuela’s failing economy.

 

It was a year in desperate need of grace notes. Simone Biles and American gymnastics team entranced the world at the Olympic Games in Brazil. Vienna waltzes soared at the New York City Ballet. And then there was Zarifeh Shalabi, elected prom queen in Fontana, Calif., with her crown atop her hijab.

 

So much to absorb. Yet if 2016 was a world turned upside down, as the cast of the Broadway hit “Hamilton” sings of the American Revolution, just wait until next year.

 

— SUSAN CHIRA

[Winstonm]

Lest we forget:

[y66]

From Things We Learned In 2016:

 

One minute of all-out exercise may provide the benefits of 45 minutes of moderate exertion.

 

Sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts.

 

Death from gun homicide in the United States is as common as dying in a car accident. In Japan, it’s as rare as a fatal lightning strike.

 

American men in the top 1 percent in income live 15 years longer than the poorest 1 percent; for women, the gap is 10 years.

 

Deaths from overdoses are reaching levels similar to the H.I.V. epidemic at its peak.

 

Private equity firms are taking over services usually reserved for the government — from water to public transportation to 911 call centers.

 

There were more than 700,000 Google searches looking into self-induced abortions in 2015.

 

Terrorism deaths have increased in the West. But, worldwide, they’re declining.

 

Rising sea levels are changing the way people think about waterfront real estate. People across the nation are growing wary of buying property in areas most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

 

Belgium has opened a two-mile beer pipeline. [There were no protests]

[y66]

[onoway]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158066330720074&set=gm.910022639098735&type=3&theater

[y66]

From Roger Federer, Defying Age, Tops Rafael Nadal in Australian Open Final:

 

Federer played here with verve and precision but had to scrap his way through three five-set matches in the final four rounds, receiving plenty of treatment between duels. Although he did not have to deal with the world’s two leading players, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, who were upset in the first week, Federer did face top 10 opponents aplenty.

 

He defeated four of them: Tomas Berdych, Kei Nishikori, Stan Wawrinka and — most important — Nadal, the swashbuckling Spanish left-hander who has so often thwarted Federer on big occasions but who failed to seal the deal on Sunday despite taking a 3-1 lead in the fifth set.

 

That was perhaps when Federer’s tempered expectations helped him most. This really did feel like gravy after all the major meals he has enjoyed through the years, and he stuck with the game plan he and his coaches, Severin Lüthi and Ivan Ljubicic, had discussed.

 

“I told myself to play free,” Federer said. “You play the ball. You don’t play the opponent. Be free in your head. Be free in your shots. Go for it. The brave will be rewarded here. I didn’t want to go down just making shots, seeing forehands rain down on me from Rafa.”

[gwnn]

history of the entire world, i guess.

 

[Aberlour10]

Who has stolen the Hillary Step ???

 

 

 

 

[y66]

Perfect climb

 

Excerpt:

 

In the weeks before the final ascent, Chin told me, he came around to believing that Honnold was ready and gave an explanation along the same lines. “If you look at Alex’s body right now, I have never seen anything like it,” Chin said. “But he also has this capacity to compartmentalize fear, to rationalize it. His brain is so powerful that if a thought or feeling is not serving him he can put it away.”

 

That’s not to say that Honnold’s friends stopped feeling wonderment and worry. During Honnold’s final practice run with Caldwell, Honnold climbed first through the hardest single section on the cliff, a spot more than 2,000 feet up called the Boulder Problem — a short and extremely intricate sequence of delicate movements that Honnold worked for years to master and memorize. After Honnold finished the Boulder Problem, he perched just beyond it to give precise instructions to Caldwell, who is inarguably the better technical climber.

 

“It’s a very glassy, smooth, insecure crux,” Caldwell told me. “You have just a couple of little ripples for your feet and some very bad small, sloping handholds. Alex was right above me and I followed his instructions and I still fell.”

 

Honnold himself never grew comfortable enough with that move to have a member of Chin’s film crew present. “It was a little too intimate and if I did fall, some dude would be traumatized,” Honnold said, explaining that he asked Chin to deploy only a remotely operated camera there.

 

“Something definitely could have gone wrong,” Chin told me, of Honnold’s climb. “But Alex was going to ace that exam. There was no doubt. He had prepared in every way possible and he functions best when the stakes are that high. Was I nervous, still? Of course, but if you saw him climbing … Alex moved beyond the zone. It was effortless. It was brilliant. I don’t even know if he was breathing hard.”