The Other Majority Of The Time
No, don’t run away. She wants to tell you about herself:
These people are becoming gender-soup. 💀
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Alfƿold – King of East Anglia (713-749), last of the Wuffingas dynasty. Is that you?
food desert: 80% of my wealthy suburb is more than a mile from a major grocery store–food desert. Idiots.
Advanced degrees: I know of a forestry dept that strongly advises students not to major in wildlife mgt, a popular major with no jobs. Other schools not so honest. The cheap labor thing is really dishonest. A school will advertise that 80% (or whatever) of their full-time faculty have a Ph.D, while 50% of classes are actually taught by grad students or part-timers, often with only a bachelors. I was brought in to teach 2 night classes at Northwestern Univ many years ago. Geology and Evolution. While I am competent to do so (well, the geology class was a stretch), no one ever observed my classes or gave feedback. Pay was pitiful–it was for my c.v. of course.
The similarity in cognomens is coincidental.
I want to see the Swedish Chef singing the Spam song.
My apologies sire.
The woollen leggings, linen tunic and anatopistic Gjermundbu helm deceived me.
Grits and bacon and I’m good until happy hour. Maybe an apple later on. Good grits though, not the instant stuff.
So that’s where that got to.
The humanities, to the extent that they deal with people and societies as they are and not as rootless abstractions, should if anything belong more to conservatives than to liberals. But we’ve had 60 years of living the idea that a principled liberal society should provide a modest platform, for example 8 hours a day of the education system and 8 hours a day of TV, where outsiders and malcontents can express their hostility to the normal majority. And where empathy is raised to the value that trumps all others, and made to mean not that you should size up a situation based on a realistic evaluation of people’s emotional stakes, but that you should capitulate to the emotional appeals of those outsiders and malcontents.
So by now, even the dullest middle class people have some very weird foundational ideas, and obviously any attempt to recover the humanities for conservatism will either come across as some priggish homeschooler Great Books project, or will effectively only take one of those principled conservative stands for what was the liberal position in 2015.
NY Police (apparently accidentally) light a man on fire then flee the room like cowards. The guy subsequently dies. This from over two years ago. Of course the man being white it’s no big deal. The officers are not being charged. Daniel Penney however…
PhD…
Back in the 70s, my brother in law was working on a PhD in AstroGeoPhysics, specifically studying the Martian atmosphere. He produced one of the first computer models of it, a ONE dimensional model. State of the art circa 1974.
So one night a bunch of grad students were hanging out at the High Altitude Observatory (as one does in Colorado) musing about their futures. One observes that there are about 50 good jobs in the field…worldwide. Another observes that there were about 50 grad students in the field… In Colorado.
My BIL soon left to get a degree in Electrical Engineering.
No offense but this specific kind of privilege used to fascinate me. Not that I was envious or resentful, it just would cause me to ponder, especially on occasion of speaking with coeds, what I might have studied if it wasn’t imperative for me to get a job that in some way justified the cost of my education. At that time I was so wrapped up in the STEM field(s) that I was pursuing that I took my few electives in topics that I already knew something about. Ancient Greek or middle ages European history were never a serious consideration. I did stumble into a course on modern Greek literature though. I learned Kazantzakis was kinda cool.
No, that would be the device’s MAC (media access control) address. It’s hard-coded in the NIC (network interface card), but it’s not communicated in HTTP connections.
IP addresses are unique per internet-facing edge-router interface, and those edge routers are owned by ISPs. If a small ISP has one edge router, then all of its customers have the same source IP address when they’re on the internet. The router keeps track of which device sent out each connection by using a different port number for each connection. However, the web site you’re connected with wouldn’t know the difference. Most ISPs have multiple edge routers, so they control multiple IP addresses.
If you’re using a VPN, it changes your source IP address, and you can also use proxies and other devices to spoof your source IP.
Back before VPNs were a common thing, many sites who did ban people were banning them by their IP address (cough, cough…Patterico..cough). Some probably still do. I used to wonder how often innocent people would stumble onto an IP address that someone else once had who was previously banned and then be baffled as to why they couldn’t interact with that site. Granted the probabilities were a long shot but it must have happened somewhere. And the probability that a random person without much networking knowledge would figure it out…heh.
I even remember troubleshooting a particularly difficult bug that was caused by a design flaw in a software product that was caused by a dependency upon the internal network IP address remaining constant. It took a few weeks to figure out that that was the problem, partly because we were distracted by a previously known bug with assigning ports that we were having to work around due to our inability to patch that software (this was an early VisualBasic based product) because of limitations of support for some unrelated third party tool preventing us from upgrading the one that needed patching. Once we figured that that was the root of the problem I tried to design around the problem by using MAC addresses as a unique identifier instead of IP addresses. Then that solution failed because some intervening integer/long/whatever storage that could not be changed was too short to store the MAC address without digits being cut off. I forget what we eventually did but as I recall the solution had its own far less unlikely failure scenario should two other IDs clash. All the while managers further and further up the totem poke were bitching at us to fix the problem. Which was ever so helpful. Especially as it was the third party software upgrade limitations essentially imposed by them that were the main issue we were having to work around. Yes, I still have scars.
dicentra and WTP: Thanks. I never had a deep professional understanding of all this and haven’t had to think much about it. What I heard about banning IP addresses must date back to the 80’s and 90’s.I used to be aware of the distinction between MAC address and IP address, but it’s all gotten blurred over the years–although not as blurred as my memory of when events occurred (“Did we meet Mister A three years ago or ten years ago?”)
I hear Vikings.
I think that was a standard approach (as in “just do it the easy way”) until maybe 2005 or even as late as 2015. Any issues with using that approach were for the most part lost in the large numbers at play. Then other numbers got larger and problems cropped up, thanks to broad use of VPNs, that couldn’t be swept under the rug. Like the one I describe above.
I have a big, big problem with this crap. Assuming it’s real. And it’s not with the Gen-Z or even Millennial generation. It’s with the bloody idiot parents who are actually going to the interviews with them. It’s with the employers who blame the children but do not strongly, clearly, without holding back berate the bloody idiot parents for having been such bloody idiots for being there. If you’re an employer and this happens and you FAIL to address the real issue here, YOU are a part of the problem as well.
The guy subsequently dies.
Something is badly off about that whole scenario. Hand sanitizer contains alcohol, which burns with a cool blue flame and not a bright yellow-orange flare as shown in the video (cf. the Hindenbirg disaster wasn’t about the hydrogen). Burns to the head and neck are dangerous, but the fire is out within seconds and Jones is still conscious and mobile well after the flames have stopped. He died after six weeks in a medically induced coma.
I did learn that the name of the officer who tased Jones was (I am not making this up) Sergeant Nazi.
Speculation: I wonder if Jones breathed a lot of flame, fatally damaging his lungs.
According to Wiktionary, “Nazi” is a diminutive of the name “Ignaz” (the German equivalent of Ignatius. I did not know that.
I thought “banning IP addresses” had to do with the closure of public urinals?
Just use IPv6. It’s the same addy end to end!
I will berate you severely for that, just as soon as I remove the beam from my own eye.
Keep up the amazing work! Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us next.