StrangeSox

Just so we're clear, you're asserting that marginalizing an entire religion that makes up about 20% of the world due to a small percentage of extremists is on par with pointing out that the sort of ideas trump is proposing and his supporters want are radical, hateful and pragmatically counterproductive? And this somehow means that Democrats are equally to blame for the racist idiot conman that's the nominee of the other party? Obama wasn't saying that calling out radicalism is bad, he was saying that lumping all Muslims in as radicals or at best complicit is.

Trump doubling-down on OBAMA SECRET MUSLIM ISIS SYMPATHIZER! today good lord what a dumpster fire

We just switched over to a new travel agency for work. I want to book an 8AM nonstop to Oakland from Midway on SWA. The "least cost logical" flight according to them is a Delta flight out of Ohare that has 2 stops and will take 14+ hours of travel time, but it's $60 cheaper! lol nope eta: the kicker is that our customers pay for our travel expenses as part of our contracts anyway

That was a pretty boring episode overall, but the Pod/Bronn scene made me laugh.

Trump doesn't believe Muslims ever assimilate https://mobile.twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/...929105209987073

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 08:52 PM) Which is funny, because I sure see the right wing labeled as radical... Did you listen to trumps speech on Monday?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 15, 2016 -> 01:59 AM) Because, coworkers tried to turn the killer into HR and they'd have none of it at his work because of PC concerns. He could sue for harassment. Because neighbors can't turn guys into the police when they see something unusual cause they don't want to be labeled minority haters. He was investigated by the FBI twice, and he was removed from his position at the court house when coworkers complained about him. How do you think "pc" stopped the FBI from doing their jobs? edit: he was also given the MMPI, a standard in-depth psychological screening, at least once by his employer. He had originally been assigned to the county court house, but people there complained that he prayed in arabic several times a day. Around that same time is when the FBI did their investigation. Due to tensions with coworkers and complaints from the customer (the court house), his employer reassigned him to a different post at a gated residential community after putting him through another background check and after the FBI completed their investigations finding no cause for arrest.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 02:33 PM) Anderson Cooper calls out Pam Bondi's superficial pandering to the LGBT community in the wake of the Orlando shootings after a history of persecuting LGBT and opposing marriage equality. Plenty of other conservatives doing the same thing despite their less-than-happy responses to Obergefell less than a year ago. Oh and just a couple of weeks ago, the House GOP opened a session with a lovely "homosexuals worthy of death" reading from the Bible, and then voted to kill a bill that had an amendment to protect LGBT rights.

The man so racist that he couldn't get confirmed by the Senate for a judicial appointment and he's named after two slave-holding treasonous scum! He's rumored to be on Trump's short list for VP.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 02:33 PM) Anderson Cooper calls out Pam Bondi's superficial pandering to the LGBT community in the wake of the Orlando shootings after a history of persecuting LGBT and opposing marriage equality. Plenty of other conservatives doing the same thing despite their less-than-happy responses to Obergefell less than a year ago. or they're trying to take this absurd stance

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 02:51 PM) That "franchise" radicalization is a pillar of ISIS though. They use media to basically call out anyone to do these attacks. They are uncoordinated, but that he attributed his attack to them is kind of what makes them a f***ing s***ty group to deal with. He also attributed his attack to the Boston bombing brothers and a different Islamic group in Syria that's fighting ISIL. Compare that to the Paris attacks is what I'm saying, not that domestic self-radicalization isn't a problem.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 01:49 PM) I prefer to focus on all of the Republican Senators refusing to comment on Trump's speech from yesterday, even going as far as pretending the reporters aren't even there. or Trump just openly accusing the President of treason The ones that are commenting aren't offering support of the speech, either.

Anderson Cooper calls out Pam Bondi's superficial pandering to the LGBT community in the wake of the Orlando shootings after a history of persecuting LGBT and opposing marriage equality. Plenty of other conservatives doing the same thing despite their less-than-happy responses to Obergefell less than a year ago.

Hopefully they'll influence Clinton's. Her hawkishness is one of my major reservations about her. eta: watch Obama's speech to get the full impact, he was in one of his "legitimately pissed off and disgusted" modes

Obama's speech today and it's thorough take down of the "he didn't say the magic words!" nonsense we've heard from Republicans for months/years was refreshing. He must have been reading my SoxTalk posts to greg yesterday. http://time.com/4368733/barack-obama-donal...lando-shooting/

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 02:05 PM) Just because he didn't have an ISIS membership card doesn't mean it wasn't terrorism. And you say 'at most' as if that makes it less evil. That "at most" is in reference to the actual ties to ISIL, and you're right that him having any sort of real connection to ISIL or any other group doesn't determine whether it's terrorism. That post was about what sort of threat ISIL and ISIL-organized groups or individuals poses to America, and that this isn't evidence of that sort of threat. As I said earlier in the thread, domestic self-radicalization poses its own threat to be sure, but that sort of context is necessary if people want to have intelligent conversations about what can or should be done. Ranting about the threats of ISIL and Muslim immigrants is a pretty unintelligent response to an attack carried out by a person born and raised in America.

I prefer to focus on all of the Republican Senators refusing to comment on Trump's speech from yesterday, even going as far as pretending the reporters aren't even there. or Trump just openly accusing the President of treason

being able to boot other people offline lol

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 11:38 AM) I'm nostalgic for the old AOL. Welcome....You've Got Mail! Despite it taking forever to download a picture of Sunny from WWF to whack...I mean look at. Remember the world of "download managers" that would let you pause those HUGE 3MB downloads because there's no way you were going to stay online long enough in one sitting for that to finish downloading?

QUOTE (CB2.0 @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 09:26 AM) Nope. "God will punish those involved in homosexuality. [it's] not an issue that humans should deal with." ~Seddique Mateen Link Ok? Lots of people around the world hold s***ty LGBT views, including this guy, but the primary motivation behind his (the father's) politics looks like the Afghan-Pakistan border dispute. That's what he's spent tons of hours broadcasting satellite and now internet shows about, not gay people or being pro-Taliban in general.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 09:53 AM) I was a pretty early adapter, probably because the rise of the internet also coincided with me getting ready to graduate from HS, go away to college, etc. I remember using Netcom to be able to get online, circa 1993/4/5 and chat with friends, etc. I remember being in my dorm room in the Fall of '95 and doing Google and Yahoo searches and there being hardly any hits. When I first began dial-up in my home, I was told by the phone company (I believe it was Ameritech) that the dial-in number was local. Low and behold, a bill came from AT&T for like $1600 in long distance charges. My mother was not pleased about me always being "online." Anyways, luckily, AT&T was awesome and dropped all the charges to the long-distance number AOL used to dial-in. I'll always have a soft spot for AT&T for bailing me out of that mess. If you look through that somethingawful (somewhat of an internet relic itself these days, lol) thread, there's lot of chat about that sort of stuff. Back in the 90's, Google didn't exist yet and search in general was terrible. It was very, very specific compared to the magical ways Google can figure out what you're trying to say that is only loosely connected to the information you're looking for. For most people, the AOL gated world was a great introduction to the internet. Otherwise it was sort of a mystery as to how you'd find anything, which is why you'd end up with printed internet directories like this. It was before my time, but a lot of the early adopters of the internet (primarily Usenet users) refer to September 1993 as the September that never ended. Prior to that, the internet was mainly available on college campuses, so every fall there'd be a wave of people getting online for the first time, making asses of themselves, and then eventually settling down. September 1993 is when AOL launched, making the internet available to the whole public. The s***posting hasn't stopped since. For whatever reason, my mom jumped on the internet bandwagon early, so we got a second phone line and AOL pretty early on. We also got cable internet as soon as it was available.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 09:08 AM) Fun fact, there's a lot of 90's AOL legacy stuff that's still out there like keywords and chatrooms and "latest news" splash pages from 1999. It's not easy to get it, and they somewhat recently blocked being able to use AOL 4.0 which cut off access to a chunk of the content, but some of it is still out there. bunch of info on that here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthrea...mp;userid=26746 some screencaps (keep in mind, these were all taken in April 2016): The early days of the internet are pretty interesting to look back on.

I'm confused as to why Microsoft paid $26B for LinkedIn.

NPR had a story yesterday on the shooter's father. He seems a bit nutty and is obsessed with the Afghan/Pakistan border (long-running border dispute, apparently). His political concerns seem to be entirely centered around that border dispute and not religiously motivated, and he believes himself to be the head of some sort of provisional Afghan government.