29 September 2022

In Case You Haven't Heard - part the first

In January 2013, DeSantis — newly elected to Florida's 6th Congressional District, which covers Jacksonville through the north of Orlando — was one of the 67 House Republicans who voted against flood insurance assistance for victims of Hurricane Sandy, after it recently wreaked havoc on the New York-New Jersey area.
-- that was then

As part of this request, Governor DeSantis is also asking that President Biden approve a FEMA federal cost share of 100 percent for 60 days to support recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Ian.
-- this is now

Low lifes have no shame.

24 September 2022

By The Numbers - part the eighteenth

Vlad the Imbecile is waving the nucular threat wrt Ukraine. Not the first time for Vlad, of course. By this one surmises he's talking about, so called, tactical nukes. So, what is a tactical nuke?
For example, the U.S.'s newest version of its B61 nuclear bomb can release 0.3, 1.5, 10 or 50 kilotons of explosive energy. In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was about 15 kilotons.
-- here
Would Sleepy Joe and the fractured European NATO folks reply in kind?
[S]ome 2,000 of Russia's nuclear warheads are short-range, so-called "tactical" nuclear weapons kept in storage facilities throughout the country.
-- here
Sleepy Joe has: 230. So it happens that Sleepy Joe does have some amount of missile-delivered tactical nukes:
We estimate that one or two of the 20 missiles on the USS Tennessee and subsequent subs will be armed with the W76-2, either singly or carrying multiple warheads. Each W76-2 is estimated to have an explosive yield of about five kilotons.
If you tldr; the link, the USS Tennessee is a missile sub.

For comparison, the biggest chemical bomb has a yield of a mere 11 tons. OTOH, the largest bunker-buster (aka, penetrator weapon) carries 5,300 lbs of explosive.

21 September 2022

By The Numbers - part the seventeenth

Back when post-Maris home run hitters got close to 60/61 for the season (not their indiviual number of games played, or at bats), carpers carped that the 154 game season was gone (1962, cute), so any 60+ season was de-valued. Don't hear that much anymore, and even the drug shooters get a pass.

Anyway, Judge went yard in game 147, so he's got 7 more for a 'legit' record and a full dozen to get it honestly

I'm Back

Well... it turns out that fixing a fucked up Ubuntu upgrade can be salvaged. It's not possible to do it by hand, following the various recipes available on the innterTubes, for the fucked up reason that the programs/functions one needs (using just the live-USB Ubuntu) can't be built to the USB.

But, if you have access to the innterTubes with some other machine, then this program (with some help from Window's World linux support) will allow you to fix a busted MBR. It also claims to work for UEFI issues, and trolling the innterTubes finds posting attesting. There was a time, lo these many years, when I had to fix machines at the store front (for-profit, of course) 'computer school' where I taught the illiterate, unwashed, and often court-compelled, Office Automation (the term not yet au courant). The tool of choice was Norton Disk Doctor. Ah the days of PC/MS DoS.

12 September 2022

No Class Act

The Government generally points to the alleged urgent need to conduct a risk assessment of possible unauthorized disclosure of purported 'classified records.' But there is no indication any purported 'classified records' were disclosed to anyone.
-- latest Batshit J. Moron filing/2022

Well, boy howdy! The NSA knows all, and they will have to disclose what's been going on with respect to these documents since 21 January 2021. I'm willing to bet there's a bunch of traffic between The Moron and the Russians. Trump Tower Moscow is in the offing. It wouldn't be the first time that The Moron has 'declassified and disclosed' secrets to the Russians.