Monday OT: August 5 is National Underwear Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 5:00am

August 5 is day 217 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Boomtime, Confusion 71, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.12.18 by the Mayan Long Count

In 1735 a person was aquitted of Seditious Libel against the Royal Governor of New York because he was telling the truth. Boy was that ever another world. Today we persecute such people

In 1816, the British Admiralty decided to stick with the semaphore over the new electrical telegraph. We should not mock this, given that the first transatlantic telegraph cable only worked for a week and I'm lucky if I can get through a day without my internet provider crashing.

Japan, copying the earlier accomplishment of the UK, adopted a postal savings system in 1874. We'll never see that here because the commercial banks own Congress

1888 brought us Bertha Benz's historic first long distance automobile trip which doubled as the first long distance automobile trip by a woman.

1964 brought us carrier based bombing attacks on North Vietnam in retaliation for alleged events in the gulf of Tonkin that never actually happened, stuff we made up, and the like. It seems that the shining light upon the hill is simply a targeting beacon, and nothing more.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

On this day in history:

1735 – John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel because he told the truth
1816 – The British Admiralty rejected the electric telegraph in favor of the semaphore
1858 – The first transatlantic telegraph cable was finished, it worked for a month
1861 – The US Army abolished flogging.
1874 – Japan launched its postal savings system based on the UK's
1888 – Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back
1906 – The King of Iran, agreed to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
1925 – Plaid Cymru was formed
1957 – American Bandstand had its debut
1964 – Aircraft from the USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bombed North Vietnam
1981 – Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers
1989 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front won the majority in Nicaragua's general election

Born this day in:

1850 – Guy de Maupassant, author and poet
1876 – Mary Ritter Beard, historian and activist
1940 – Rick Huxley, bass player
1942 – Joe Boyd, record producer
1948 – David Hungate, bass player

Died this day in:

1881 – Spotted Tail, Brulé Lakota tribal chief
1955 – Carmen Miranda, singer, dancer, and actress
1959 – Edgar Guest, journalist and poet
1968 – Luther Perkins, rockabilly guitarist, the guitar behind Johnny Cash

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

National Underwear Day

Music goes here, iirc, well,

National Underwear Day

Ms. Benz's long distance round trip

Japan's postal savings system

First open bombing attacks on Vietnam

Rick Huxley

David Hungate

Carmen Miranda

Luther Perkins

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-Oregenaq Ehffryy-

Image is 2009 Central Park Underwear Run

It's an open thread, so do your thing

EDIT: fixed a bunch of typos, added info about lab tests below

I have to go out and get some lab tests done today and will try to do so early, so I may be gone a bit this morning

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August 5

undewear day

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 6:56am

good morning

I should have figured out Underwear day is a commercial ploy to push sales...
http://nationalunderwearday.com/

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We just missed nude day...

International Nude Day is a holiday celebrated all over the world on July 14th. On this holiday, people remove all of their clothing. This is done not only for the freedom it provides but also to celebrate the beauty of the human body and to embrace naturism. This day originated in New Zealand – where it was a huge success – but quickly spread to other Western countries. This holiday is celebrated by being nude. However, since being nude in public is illegal in most places, it is suggested that you observe this day in the privacy of your own home.

http://www.holidayscalendar.com/event/international-nude-day/

Nude day does seem more natural, but should be celebrated at home which limits the promotion of said event. I guess that the skinny on that....

Have a good one in your underwear (or not).

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 9:45am

Good morning Lookout. I didn't look into it, but I figure that

@Lookout
most of our holidays in the US that aren't religion based or celebrations of war, warriors and the MIC are promos of some kind. On any given day there are a bunch of saints days and feast days of religious celebrities, various nationalistic holidays from around the world, and a crap load of targeted product holidays from something specific and maybe even branded to stuff like banana day, milkshake day, chocolate syrup day and all like that. Nude day does get celebrated outdoors here and there with nude bicycle rides, I think SF has one.

Insofar as I must travel to get lab-work done, I fear i need garments, not merely for propriety purposes, but for all that keys and money-clip and wallet, etc. song and dance that goes with all the baggage of wandering around in today's society. I can't imaging having all of one's gear in a bag and getting pulled over by the fuzz. I'll just reach into this bag for my ID - nope, bad idea.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 8:14am

50 year old chones

We used to call underwear chones, I don't know why. Mispronounced it always, like chonies. That was back in Alien times, when Sigourny Weaver climbed out of her capsule in those hot grey chones. Woo that was great. And at the end when she went all robotic with "get away from her you bitch!". stop short

Today is my day to regret like basement cat that I ever saw this coming:
http://mike.passwall.com/ars/

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That is the old ARS page, where NBLUG North Bay Linux User Group one Saturday got a behind scenes look at the giant robot picker Mike invented for the library system at SSU. I was such a nerd then it was so awesome. Linux, Netscape, and LYNX right on. I still use Linux of course, and lynx it comes with Slackware, but Icecat is my browser of choice 'cause omg wtf Mozilla. RIP digression

I finally cancelled my Amazon addiction in 2017 after 20 years, encourage others to do same. or not
Get Away From Her You Bitch
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqTwSO1DDc width:450]
bezos is just a symbol, there are plenty of symbols clashing about more than ever. good luck

PEACE

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 9:32am

Aliens was a great film.

@eyo The performances were all phenomenal, and Carrie Henn has maintained to this day that she was treated wonderfully by everyone on the set. (Which was filmed in England at the same studio that did all the old Harryhausen Movies... Funny things you learn about when you go to a Dr. Who convention. Nice woman, apparently teaches K-12 these days.)

Course the cast also got back together for the Texas Vampire Movie "Near Dark". Which was interesting, albeit a "Unique" take on the vampire lore.

Never even started Amazon, so I'm good there. Dumped all the streaming services. Been actually marathoning Hogan's Heroes when I feel like television. Because it a show that I know will greatly annoy SJWs.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLUiNd_6i-o]

We used to call underwear chones, I don't know why. Mispronounced it always, like chonies. That was back in Alien times, when Sigourny Weaver climbed out of her capsule in those hot grey chones. Woo that was great. And at the end when she went all robotic with "get away from her you bitch!". stop short Today is my day to regret like basement cat that I ever saw this coming: http://mike.passwall.com/ars/ Copyright/Trademark information: -HK Systems, Mini-Loader 750, ALSS (Automated Library Storage System) and other documents as specified here are controlled by Trademark and/or Copyright by HK Systems. Permission for my redistribution of these was granted to me from HK Systems for information purposes only. The information provided may not be used for commercial purposes unless you have written permission from HK Systems. If you wish to use any content provided by HK Systems, please contact them as I have no authority to offer authorization for more than non-commercial personal web use. -Peanuts, Snoopy, Woodstock, and Charlie Brown are all names controlled by Copyright or Trademark by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Permission for Sonoma State University to use these names for naming parts of the Jean and Charles Schulz Information center was granted. My references to these names are not to the characters from the comic strip Peanuts, but to the names assigned by the SSU Library and SSU at SSU. -Images, video and text included for archive purposes from online sources include copyright from original sources and should be consulted before you attempt to use them for purposes other than those described by their copyrights and trademarks. -All images, video and text included on my web pages not explicitly referenced for copyright by other parties are Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by ME. Permission to use my text and images for only non-commercial, non-public, personal-web-browsing purposes is granted. Please contact me for permission to re-publish my on-line content. (Content may change, and I wish to make sure that any site desiring to republish this information also remain current and cite this original site.) That is the old ARS page, where NBLUG North Bay Linux User Group one Saturday got a behind scenes look at the giant robot picker Mike invented for the library system at SSU. I was such a nerd then it was so awesome. Linux, Netscape, and LYNX right on. I still use Linux of course, and lynx it comes with Slackware, but Icecat is my browser of choice 'cause omg wtf Mozilla. RIP digression I finally cancelled my Amazon addiction in 2017 after 20 years, encourage others to do same. or not Get Away From Her You Bitch [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqTwSO1DDc width:450] bezos is just a symbol, there are plenty of symbols clashing about more than ever. good luck PEACE

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 9:56am

Morning eyo. Interesting on the library system, I loved this

@eyo
line:

"We have chosen to use a Linux kernel as the heart of our Operating System controlling the ARS operation for its robustness, fault tolerance, efficiency, aggressive development cycles, detailed documentation, and excellent support."

Yep. Many years ago the feds were supposed to roll out a ton of new updated, uniform stuff that was supposed to be open and interoperable and everybody expected *Nix, and got Win$hit instead. ROF,L. Bet that cost Gates a ton, but probably made him multi-tons in return.

I'll have to look at Icecat when I get time. Ubuntu comes with either Firefox or Chrmium and maybe both or I installed the other one, and i'm now considering Cliqz which is somewhat based on FF by the folks who make Ghostery, but dunno for sure if it is compatible with my system, and maybe just load privacy badger onto what I gots. Too much in the hopper today, however, making bread, dinner, getting blood work done out one town further east and yard-workplus cleaning. Oy, as they say.

We used to call underwear chones, I don't know why. Mispronounced it always, like chonies. That was back in Alien times, when Sigourny Weaver climbed out of her capsule in those hot grey chones. Woo that was great. And at the end when she went all robotic with "get away from her you bitch!". stop short Today is my day to regret like basement cat that I ever saw this coming: http://mike.passwall.com/ars/ Copyright/Trademark information: -HK Systems, Mini-Loader 750, ALSS (Automated Library Storage System) and other documents as specified here are controlled by Trademark and/or Copyright by HK Systems. Permission for my redistribution of these was granted to me from HK Systems for information purposes only. The information provided may not be used for commercial purposes unless you have written permission from HK Systems. If you wish to use any content provided by HK Systems, please contact them as I have no authority to offer authorization for more than non-commercial personal web use. -Peanuts, Snoopy, Woodstock, and Charlie Brown are all names controlled by Copyright or Trademark by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Permission for Sonoma State University to use these names for naming parts of the Jean and Charles Schulz Information center was granted. My references to these names are not to the characters from the comic strip Peanuts, but to the names assigned by the SSU Library and SSU at SSU. -Images, video and text included for archive purposes from online sources include copyright from original sources and should be consulted before you attempt to use them for purposes other than those described by their copyrights and trademarks. -All images, video and text included on my web pages not explicitly referenced for copyright by other parties are Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by ME. Permission to use my text and images for only non-commercial, non-public, personal-web-browsing purposes is granted. Please contact me for permission to re-publish my on-line content. (Content may change, and I wish to make sure that any site desiring to republish this information also remain current and cite this original site.) That is the old ARS page, where NBLUG North Bay Linux User Group one Saturday got a behind scenes look at the giant robot picker Mike invented for the library system at SSU. I was such a nerd then it was so awesome. Linux, Netscape, and LYNX right on. I still use Linux of course, and lynx it comes with Slackware, but Icecat is my browser of choice 'cause omg wtf Mozilla. RIP digression I finally cancelled my Amazon addiction in 2017 after 20 years, encourage others to do same. or not Get Away From Her You Bitch [video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqTwSO1DDc width:450] bezos is just a symbol, there are plenty of symbols clashing about more than ever. good luck PEACE

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 10:59am

New bookmark UI was straw that made me switch

@enhydra lutris I think FF is probably better if you use a lot of tabs, icecat might be crashy but I never use more than one or two tabs per session, and never really save anything except bookmarks. The only extension I use is uMatrix, don't ask me why I trust Raymond Hill. I don't know, who is left to trust? I still think downloading unknown binaries from the internet, and running them on your own computer is bad security policy. But that is what the whole world does now, so... ~shrug~. My problem is I'll never be smart enough to program everything myself. short timer

I still have a terminal on one desktop devoted to tcpdump capturing eth0. Watching that traffic is how I know there is no escape from bezos, resistance is futile. If I block AZW, the whole planetary Internet breaks, there is no route around the damage that is amazon. good luck

PEACE

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 1:28pm

Ah, the curse of the post compile executable, as opposed to

@eyo
good old source code where one commented out the stuff not appropriate for their hardare and o/s and the compiled to create custom binaries. How much of that code, often c++ did most of us understand?. I pretty much relied upon the file header to tell me what to comment out and what to leave alone, which isn't too different from just grabbing an executable off of the shelf. Today? Way over my head.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 6:13pm

So, you open a second workspace, fire up the terminal and check

@eyo
out eth0? Are you wired in? I just did an ifconfig -a, and eth0 was mostly zeroes, as expected, but wlan0 showed up something. What exactly are you watching and watching for?

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by on the cusp on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 8:26am

Years ago, on my first trip to Africa,

I went during the dry season. Nevertheless, it rained at night, and the sound of the rain hitting the canvas tent was just mesmerizing.
And I had "The Rains in Africa" in my head the entire trip.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 10:03am

Good morning, otc. Sounds wonderful. I had never heard of it

@on the cusp
nor heard it when I went to Africa. Don't recall it raining while I was there, either. Ah well.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by lotlizard on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 8:35am

“Nobody is immune to ads”

https://hackernoon.com/nobody-is-immune-to-ads-7142a4245c2c

Which goes with the link I posted yesterday:

Advertising is a cancer on society

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 9:02am

overkill

@lotlizard shock
The Police - Too Much Information
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwd737mioM width:420]

I love this vid it makes me laugh. juvenile funnybone

a bunch of signs
Five Man Electric Band - Sign Sign Everywhere A Sign
[video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLm3HMG8IhM width:450]

gorging on tube music before it gets blocked again
Eric Schmidt overkill
thanks

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 1:22pm

decades of behavioral, psychological, and scientific study

@lotlizard
have made the parasites masers of their craft. They were already pretty damn good in the 50s and sixties, now they are grand-masters.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 8:45am

What's a Content Delivery Network? CDN

So last night Cloudfare removed 8chan from their bigly protection racket called a content distribution network. They decide what content to distribute to consumers, who have no choice at those levels above their Internet Service Providers, this is getting ridiculous.

According to Q-Trump they are running a military operation and so prepared for that long before it happened. According to them they know EVERYTHING, they have EVERYTHING, and the deep state is in chaos war right now, so just relax and enjoy the show. bloody murder

Q can keep his civil war to himself, that would be great. The whole operation stinks like a Steve Bannon production PU. I really want revenge for what Her did, but it's not worth a war those guys are sick. get real

PEACE

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 12:23pm

Hasn’t that been Q’s story all along?

@eyo That big things were happening and they’re be a massive overthrow and we just need to wait and all will be revealed. I haven’t really been following, but it just feels like there hasn’t been much delivery on the Q story.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

Submitted by FutureNow on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 10:01am

No Underwear Celebration Day for my wife and I

Freeballing and Freeboobing are two of our most deeply entrenched hippie habits.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 1:34pm

An inguinal hernia, and the grief from everyday activity while

@FutureNow
awaiting corrective surgery, plus some non-everyday activity (hiking, etc) due to pre-scheduled travel during that same interim, and recovery quickly sent me out shopping for some boxer-briefs, a much needed civilized quasi jockstrap. It seems that there can be such a thing as too much freedom.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 11:43am

Like trees

c99 is like trees to me. Thanks and sorry for burdening the community with my own fine mental health crisis, Me and chatty cathy are gonna force ourselves to walk the river path a little later, despite all the arson burns harshing my buzz down there. I need trees.

Survivors find great comfort in the solidarity unique among people who have undergone the same series of traumatic experiences.

“It’s like the redwood forests. Their roots interconnect to hold each other up,” Wheelwright said. “That’s how those trees get so tall.”

“We all have our own work to do,” Dunn said, “but our fate is interdependent.”

‘None of us will ever be the same’: Survivors of 2017 Tubbs Fire face long-term trauma

Take care of the ones burned after too, camp fire is one year behind us in the trauma department.

collective

amerika's coming attraction
looters

That whole long article describes what I keep calling the collapse of our mental health system, and just how great Kaiser really is. I mean really.

Now, Kaiser Permanente considers him out of plan, so his sister pays for his counseling out of pocket. In March he was told he’d be dropped from the health plan if he didn’t return to California within six months.

Tarek Salaway, senior vice-president and area manager for Kaiser Permanente’s Marin-Sonoma service area, said, “We recognize and thank Mr. Morgan for his many contributions to the community during and after the North Bay fires. We are sympathetic to his situation, and to that of so many in the North Bay who remain affected by the devastating fires in 2017. Kaiser Permanente continues to serve as a committed partner to our community ... We value Mr. Morgan as a Kaiser Permanente member and are committed to working with him to help meet his needs and resolve any concerns.”

How great is that?
good luck

Submitted by doh1304 on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 12:56pm

He's lucky

@eyo
I've said it before but I never tire of saying it: I had 5 friends who've had Kaiser. One is dead because of a drug interaction problem that Kaiser refused to fix because the correct drug costs $0.50 a day more. One is dead because Kaiser forgot to sterilize an operating room. One is in a wheelchair for life because an x-ray tech didn't want to retake a bad picture, so he just said he didn't find any bone spurs in his neck. The other two are all right. I guess Kaiser thinks 2 out of 5 ain't bad.

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On to Biden since 1973

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 1:38pm

3 out of 5, sort-of. I'v probably cost kaiser millions and

@doh1304
they've never scrimped, grumbled or cut corners, and have saved my bacon a time or two.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 1:56pm

s/b 3 out of 6, dummy (to self)

@enhydra lutris

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by eyo on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 3:13pm

Still batting .500 is pretty pretty good

@enhydra lutris thanks and good thoughts for your lab results and all that. It's great you're getting so much done I forgot you had surgery! What if everyone had Kaiser, or Medicare 4 All? That's kinda why I posted that besides my own selfish reasons. I had Kaiser once for a few years through an employer, it was okay for me at the time.

No idea who thecriticalaye is, randomly scraped this article:
Skyrocketing health care costs: Thanks President Nixon!

In 1973, Nixon did a personal favor for his friend and campaign financier, Edgar Kaiser, then president and chairman of Kaiser-Permanente. Nixon signed into law, the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, in which medical insurance agencies, hospitals, clinics and even doctors, could begin functioning as for-profit business entities instead of the service organizations they were intended to be. And which insurance company got the first taste of federal subsidies to implement HMOA73 … *gasp* … why, it was Kaiser-Permanente! What are the odds? It’s all right here to read for yourself.

And to perfectly cement HMOA73 as the profiteering boondoggle that it actually was, the law Nixon mandated also included clauses that encouraged medical providers to not CURE afflictions, but to PROLONG them by only treating the symptoms. There’s no money to be made in CURING sickness. But the sky’s the limit when it comes to forcing people to endure repetitive doctor visits, endless (and often useless and redundant) tests, and … of course … let’s not forget the ever-increasing demand for American-made prescription drugs!

Have you noticed recently that the words “prolonged coma” and DEATH have wormed their way into the fast-spoken side-effects list of just about every new drug you see on television or hear on the radio? Death! From the medicine that’s supposed to cure you! You know what? I’ll take restless legs over DEATH.

huh. So someone invented a drug for restless legs in 2011? Darn it I missed that, restless legs are a bummer. So was Nixon. lol ya gotta luv kalifornia

Birth of The HMO
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qpLVTbVHnU width:450]

may every task become complete
so mote it be
PEACE