Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[Piotrsko]

Ltaiagffa.

Symantec used to be a class A act

[freebeard]

"Ltaiagffa'?

I thought of Symantec as being B tier; A tier being Apple and Microsoft. When I got an M1 Mac Mini I wanted to install Macafee anti-virus but it was verboten, so I defaulted to Norton out of brand loyalty. But it was part of Norton 360 and after install I immediately regretted it and didn't trust the uninstaller. So now it's a non-world-facing machine connected by sneakernet.

I think I saw the beginning of the end. They never migrated Norton Disk Editor to Mac OSX. Once machines wouldn't boot under OS 9, you couldn't do-si-do right past the password in the boot blocks.

[freebeard]

Whatifalthist is back, with: Explaining Steppe Anti-Civilization

It turns out that the Mongols were a combination of Blitzkrieg and the American cowboy culture.

And his favorite band is Nine Treasures.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Whatifalthist is back, with: Explaining Steppe Anti-Civilization

It turns out that the Mongols were a combination of Blitzkrieg and the American cowboy culture.

And his favorite band is Nine Treasures.

I'm only halfway through the hit piece, so that'll be the next listen. Customer visit tomorrow, so I'll fall behind on the listening (and the forums).

[Piotrsko]

Ltaiagffa. Opening credit of original starwars. I find it appropriate.

Mongrols were state of the art, mobile against subsistence farmers with no real defense. No suprising outcome there.

[freebeard]

LLAIAGFA. Opening credit of original Star Wars.

I don't think Mr. Adams has been this obviously wrong about anything, ever...

35:17 ...give me a
35:24 history lesson has Russia ever shown interest in conquering any country that wasn't
35:31 really either Russians speaking or had some you know obvious uh strategic
35:38 value they're not good guys so I'm not saying Russia is the good guys don't get me wrong but do you think Russia has
35:46 ever wanted to conquer France if they ever wanted to conquer
35:52 the UK or at least let's say in the last 100 years I don't think so...

Present-day Russia [is not equal to] Soviet Russia in the same way as Prez47 [is not equal to] Prez46.

skeptics.stackexchange.com: Did Gen. Patton say "We defeated the wrong enemy?"

According to the 1987 book Cannon fodder: growing up for Vietnam the exact quote is:

We may have been fighting the wrong enemy (Germany) all along. But while we're here (on the Soviet border), we should go after the *******s now, 'cause we're gonna have to fight 'em eventually....

Another related exact quote is:

the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. It's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans.

Patton died in a hospital after a slow-speed auto accident. Nothing suspicious here. www.warhistoryonline.com: The Open Question Of George Patton’s Last Days

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@deserttortoise2227
1 hour ago
Russia took Paris during the Napoleonic wars in 1814.

110 years. Just outside his arbitrary bound.

I really wish he'd provide a citation for propellantless space propulsion. Dr. Buhler in 2024-04?

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SA is very annoying when he speculates about common knowledge topics, or things that can be answered in a 2-second query.

I managed a listen this morning as the chaos unfolded around me. Made it to the hospital and completed work ahead of expectation, and gave the extra touch of customer care with the remaining time. I prefer interaction with people over working from home.

[freebeard]

Well... how about this?

https://www.seven39.com/

"Social media that's only open from 7:39pm to 10:39pm EST."

I'll have to rethink my social media posture. Time-limited is an interesting concept. Even though it's tied to EST, my schedule isn't just flexible, it's limp.

[freebeard]

Episode 2777

6:13 ...he just didn't want Elon Musk to get a win so he left the astronauts up there
6:21 do you think those astronauts are Democrats or Republicans when they come
6:26 back I've got a feeling that they they left the Earth as Democrats but they're
6:31 coming back as hardcore Republicans

I'm reminded of a John Prine song, Space Monkey

Genius
https://genius.com/John-prine-space-monkey-lyrics
Space Monkey Lyrics: Space Monkey, Space Monkey / What you doing out there? / Why it's dark as a dungeon way up in the air / Come gather round me you little monkeys and a story I'll tell / About a..

[redpoint5]

Blood moon tonight, with maximum around midnight. Probably too cloudy here in the valley to get a glimpse.

Originally Posted by freebeard

Episode 2777

I'm not getting good AI results on the subject. I recall mentioning to my wife what seemed like ages ago (before our most recent daughter) that a Boeing rocket didn't perform correctly and that astronauts were left on the space station. That was her nightmare scenario, and my best case scenario. I like extra excitement and more than I bargained for.

Wilmore finally addressed these claims during a press conference from the ISS on Tuesday.

"Obviously, we've heard some of these different things that have been said. We have the utmost respect for Mr Musk and President Trump... but we know what we've lived up here," he stated.

When asked directly about Musk's allegations, Wilmore carefully responded: "Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual — but we have no information on that whatsoever."

Military test pilots likely left earth as military test pilots, and will return as military test pilots.