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Open Thread – Anything Broken?

by $8 blue check mistermix|  March 22, 201411:01 am| 56 Comments

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I had to update our security plugin, and in the process all the plugins got de-activated. So we’re back, hopefully to as normal as this place will ever get.

By the way, this gave me a chuckle:

Warning: User authentication failed. User name: comrade-john-cole

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    March 22, 2014 at 11:05 am

    It all frrzf fine on guvf end.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2014 at 11:09 am

    “Comrade”? Not “Grand Poohbah?”

  3. 3.

    Citizen_X

    March 22, 2014 at 11:13 am

    I blame Comrade Obama.

  4. 4.

    jeffreyw

    March 22, 2014 at 11:19 am

    The html button things are gone. Nothing a puppeh can’t fix.

  5. 5.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 22, 2014 at 11:21 am

    We were about to organize a search party.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    March 22, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Am I the only one imagining Captain Kirk shouting out “Scotty, reactivate the plugins!”?

    Probably.

  7. 7.

    evolved beyond the fist mistermix

    March 22, 2014 at 11:23 am

    @jeffreyw: Fixed, thanks.

  8. 8.

    jeffreyw

    March 22, 2014 at 11:26 am

    @evolved beyond the fist mistermix: Thank the puppeh. LOL

  9. 9.

    MomSense

    March 22, 2014 at 11:27 am

    @jeffreyw:

    Such a sweet snuggle bug.

  10. 10.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    March 22, 2014 at 11:27 am

    Gophers survived the best game I’ve seen Wisconsin play in three years to move on to the final against Clarkson tomorrow afternoon with a chance to threepeat.

    The best thing about your team making the national championship game is you never face that moment when your team loses and you have to ask yourself, “Well, fuck. Who do I root for now?”

  11. 11.

    scav

    March 22, 2014 at 11:29 am

    hhgyugfyfytgn? ihgtfbmhtd. cffee rboot n prgresss.

  12. 12.

    PsiFighter37

    March 22, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Going to be a very temperate (if overcast) day here in NYC – breaking 60 degrees for the first time since early November, probably. That equates to solid 8-mile run weather on the East River…2 more weeks until the SF half, which I’m hoping doesn’t have too many killer elevation changes (aside from running across the Golden Gate).

    The last couple weeks at work have felt like an absolute slog…think my mood will change for the better when the calendar turns to April. Most of my free time nowadays is spent contemplating wedding stuff, which is a pain in the ass. All the big-picture stuff is nailed down, but we still have to get the details figured out. Like officiant at the ceremony…who gives a flip if you’re not religious?

  13. 13.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    March 22, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Peak Wingularity?

    On Tuesday, we noted that right-wing conspiracy theorist Jim Garrow — a notorious con man who now claims to be a former CIA agent — believes that President Obama blew up the missing Malaysia Airlines plane as part of a “jihad” against China.

    He said the military forced the plane to “land by wire” at a base in Diego Garcia and interrogated the “nerds” aboard the jet who are working “for China designing ‘classified’ leading edge computer/internet control software and are carrying the matching hardware with them on the plane.”

    Occasional Fox News guest and regular WorldNetDaily commentator Erik Rush, who frequently hosts Garrow on his radio show, laid out a very similar conspiracy theory about the missing plane on his blog and radio program yesterday.

    Source

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    March 22, 2014 at 11:31 am

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: Needs more Benghazi.

  15. 15.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2014 at 11:37 am

    @dmsilev: Win!

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    March 22, 2014 at 11:38 am

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:
    If there’s one thing that’s obvious to me about Capt Zaharie, it’s that he’s no wild-eyed religious fanatic.

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2014 at 11:40 am

    @Amir Khalid: Amir, as far as the wingnuts are concerned, anyone who mispronounces “God” as “Allah” is a religious fanatic.

    Never mind it’s the same supernatural entity. Jesus spoke the Sermon of the Mount in Elizabethan English.

  18. 18.

    geg6

    March 22, 2014 at 11:40 am

    Well, I’m about to sit back and watch my beloved Panthers get crushed by the Gators. So there’s that.

    In news in which I’m more optimistic, I’m going grocery shopping for the ingredients for crab cakes and an orzo salad for dinner. Not sure what I’ll make tomorrow, though. It’s supposed to be dropping temps tonight and cold tomorrow, so some sort of comfort food, I guess. I’m so sick of winter weather I could just scream. Apparently, it won’t warm up again until Thursday or Friday.

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    scav

    March 22, 2014 at 11:41 am

    @dmsilev: The Jihad waged by our Muslim Atheist Commie leader against the Atheist Commie Chinese is a clear proof of his weakness in defending “Merka against our Greatest Geopolitical Threat (now that the Ruskies have ripped open their shirts and shown their manly Grizzly-Old-Propaganda attracting charms, we are back to the next thing La Palin can see from her porch, no?).

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2014 at 11:41 am

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    believes that President Obama blew up the missing Malaysia Airlines plane as part of a “jihad” against China.

    Huh? I mean I know all the words in that sentence, but it still doesn’t make any sense.

  21. 21.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2014 at 11:42 am

    @dmsilev: Damn, that stupid kid took out all the isolinear control rods. Data, you don’t suppose you can put them back in the proper order in under two minutes?

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2014 at 11:43 am

    @scav: Somewhere in there you needed “Romney and McCain were right!” but otherwise I think you’ve hit most of the high points.

  23. 23.

    scav

    March 22, 2014 at 11:49 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: Too many high-points to hit in a mere few bloody sentence any more. Entire Himalayas with a touch of the frosty Caucasus thrown in too. Enough mass in those high points to bend space-time around them.

  24. 24.

    Mike in NC

    March 22, 2014 at 11:49 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: It’s a known fact that Jesus addressed his disciples as “Y’all”.

  25. 25.

    Cervantes

    March 22, 2014 at 11:50 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I mean I know all the words in that sentence, but it still doesn’t make any sense.

    Wouldn’t you be worried if it did?

  26. 26.

    imonlylurking

    March 22, 2014 at 11:50 am

    Redesigning my fabric storage cupboard for the upteenth time. Finally came to the realization that I should type out my instructions and review them so I can make a proper shopping list, then realized I should chart it out in Excel and am now on version 4. I think. My original idea would have been a joke. I think this iteration will work. (Plus it’s half the width so if I screw it up I can fix it on the next one.) There will be three, plus a smaller one to fit the leftover space.

    By the time I have finished, EVERYTHING will be in a wooden cupboard with a door. With a magnetic catch. And maybe some locks. (Can you tell I’m tired of trying to get cat fur off of my fabric??)

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    March 22, 2014 at 11:51 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    After going through this guy’s list of MH370-related accusations against Obama, I wonder about his mental health.

  28. 28.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 22, 2014 at 11:52 am

    @Cervantes: Why, yes. Yes, I would. On the other hand, do the insane necessarily know that they are insane?

    ETA: If my neighbor’s dog started telling me to shoot people, I would like to think that I would recognize that I have a problem and seek help. However, if the neighbor’s dog was telling me to shoot people, I might well be too far gone to recognize the problem.

  29. 29.

    Ruckus

    March 22, 2014 at 11:55 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    What I like is that President Obama blew up the plane in the first graph and then had it land in the second.
    Two things.
    Can they not make up their tiny little minds which lunatic thoughts to let leak out?
    What drugs are they taking? I need to know so that I can avoid them at all costs and work to have them removed from the world.

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    March 22, 2014 at 11:58 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: I was just reading this proposed list of worst TNG episodes, and that was number one.

  31. 31.

    dmsilev

    March 22, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    @Ruckus: I assume the plane was blown up after being forced to land at Area 51 Diego Garcia. Presumably that’s how They disposed of all of the surplus passengers.

    Sigh.

    Meanwhile back in reality, it sounds like there’s at least a chance that some debris has been spotted.

  32. 32.

    WereBear

    March 22, 2014 at 12:02 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: To me, it explains why their imagination is so stunted. All that brainspace is busy rationalizing all the ways their worldview does not match reality.

    Leaves very few neurons left over for other work.

  33. 33.

    Cervantes

    March 22, 2014 at 12:05 pm

    @Ruckus:

    What I like is that President Obama blew up the plane in the first graph and then had it land in the second.

    The second-hand (or was that third-hand?) version made even less sense than the original? Color me unsurprised!

    Here’s (part of) the original:

    While we are down the rabbit hole this far, lets go all the way. The jet lands by wire at Diego Garcia, the appropriate hardware and software is offloaded as are the nerds. Interrogation proceeds and all the “secrets” you would want to gain from this “intervention” are gleaned from the assets.

    You now load everyone back on board the plane and have it take off headed back to where it was supposed to go and at 35,000 ft altitude it implodes/explodes and the debris field is now found. How they missed it in the beginning is a mystery. But the western mindset is already prepared to believe that all things eastern and Malaysian/Indonesian/Muslim” are barely able to tie shoelaces let alone search an ocean.

  34. 34.

    Cervantes

    March 22, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Maybe it depends on which people the dog is telling you to shoot.

  35. 35.

    gogol's wife

    March 22, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    @dmsilev:

    We were in a hotel this weekend and watched a vintage Star Trek episode. It was about the coming of computer automation — Kirk was afraid to lose his job. The super-modern computer, which was about the size of an IBM 360, turned evil of course. We were laughing hysterically through the whole thing. I’m with Kirk.

  36. 36.

    Amir Khalid

    March 22, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    Garrow’s theory is all kinds of crazy. If China wanted to develop “classified” leading edge computer/internet control software, whatever that is, why involve Freescale Semiconductors, an American company? Why bring Malaysians into the project? Why carry hardware onto the plane, when you can electronically send the plans to China and have it made there?

  37. 37.

    Cervantes

    March 22, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That’s DR. Garrow to you, pal.

  38. 38.

    Amir Khalid

    March 22, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    @Cervantes:
    He probably got his doctorate at the same university as Dr. Evil.

  39. 39.

    scav

    March 22, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    @Cervantes: Dr Garrow to bookend Dr Homodemons, neither of which need any mere “Reality” or “Chain of Logic!” to express their Deep Transcendent Truths to an Unready and Unbelieving populace! The Shackles of Mental Oppression and SpaceTime Physics have been shed by these brave Truth Revealers.

  40. 40.

    MomSense

    March 22, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    All kinds of crazy is right. The president launches aggressive jihad against China and then sends his wife, MIL and daughters to China. Uh huh. Makes total sense.

  41. 41.

    CaseyL

    March 22, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    Garrow isn’t the only one to theorize China grabbed the plane so it could kidnap the tech-savvy passengers. But that doesn’t make sense even on the face of it, even without wingnut theories giving the idea a special gloss of Crazy.

    Isn’t China alleged to be where the hackers are who’ve stolen mass quantities of credit card numbers live?

    Isn’t China alleged to be where the hackers are who’ve launched various attacks against financial and governmental databases live?

    Why would China need to hijack an entire jet in order to score experts in high-tech data control systems? Seems they’ve got plenty of ’em already.

  42. 42.

    Cervantes

    March 22, 2014 at 12:46 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    He probably got his doctorate at the same university as Dr. Evil.

    Yes, I’m sure he does not have an actual doctorate from anywhere. I see that he was given an honorary doctorate by some sham “theology” school in North Carolina. (I’m going to call them on Monday to see if they’ll give me one as well.)

  43. 43.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 22, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    @jeffreyw: Want that puppeh.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    March 22, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    @Cervantes:
    At least they know they are going down the rabbit hole.

    And with those clues I’d say it’s the brown acid. They were told about it, some guy with a bull horn went around telling everybody but do they ever listen?

  45. 45.

    Ruckus

    March 22, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    @CaseyL:
    Especially since the plane was headed there anyway. They go to all the trouble and expense and risk when they could have just let it land at their airport.

  46. 46.

    Frank

    March 22, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    Can anyone remember the term the Bircher’s used to describe when a crypto-commie did something anti-commie to obscure their obvious secret commie-ness?

  47. 47.

    Cervantes

    March 22, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    @Frank:

    Can anyone remember the term the Bircher’s used to describe when a crypto-commie did something anti-commie to obscure their obvious secret commie-ness?

    Er … fluoridation?

  48. 48.

    Mnemosyne

    March 22, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    “land by wire”

    I freely admit to being a lifelong civilian, but WTF does this even mean? Is he actually picturing a 777 — a 242-foot long, 660,000-pound jet liner that needs about 10,000 feet of space to safely land — landing on a 300-foot aircraft carrier runway?

    I think that when this guy is playing with his model airplanes in his sandbox, someone needs to show him this clip to explain the difference between his toy planes and an actual airplane.

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    March 22, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Moderation? Really?

  50. 50.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    March 22, 2014 at 1:13 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I wonder about his mental health.

    I think that horse has been out of the barn for quite some time now, as a guess.

  51. 51.

    Gravenstone

    March 22, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I don’t believe there’s much question, he has no mental health.

  52. 52.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    March 22, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Freescale has offices in China, Singapore and Malaysia (and elsewhere). The conspiracy theories are not just crazy, they’re stupid. Unsurprisingly. ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  53. 53.

    danielx

    March 22, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Warning: User authentication failed. User name: comrade-john-cole

    Confirmation of what I have long suspected. Yes, Cole is an islamofascistsoshulist.

    @Amir Khalid:

    I’d say we’re way past the wondering stage. But then after years of observing such leading lights as Louie Gohmert, Steve King, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, etc…I may be a tad jaded.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    March 22, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    @imonlylurking:

    Glass doors. That way, you can see what’s on the shelf without having to open the door.

  55. 55.

    craigie

    March 22, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    Genius:

    Why so few have postulated that this facility may have played a part in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may or may not seem odd at first blush given the circumstances: I mean, it’s not a secret base, though clandestine activities conducted there certainly would be.

    Yes, that would be the meaning of the word “clandestine”.

  56. 56.

    muddy

    March 22, 2014 at 4:28 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I thought I was being very organized when I photographed all my fabric and made a file where I can look by location, type of fabric, amount etc. I never look at it though, as of course one wants to get the fabric out and fondle it periodically.

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