Tech priest support Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 As Bill Maher said once “peolle woild rather wear a filter mask and eat worms than change the way they do things". P.astic bags are choking the oceans. Peolle coild start using heavy reusable bags loke they do in europe but in america it's like "But that's a hassel. No." Until the air gets so bad you have to wear a mask or coff yourself to death like in peking (yeah i know the chinese gogernment renamedmit. I hate the chinese goverment so i call it peking to spite them) peolle just won't change unless absolutely fprced to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 Until the air gets so bad you have to wear a mask or coff yourself to death like in peking (yeah i know the chinese gogernment renamedmit. I hate the chinese goverment so i call it peking to spite them) peolle just won't change unless absolutely fprced to. Tangent which I will drop after this post: the change is not to the name but to the Romanization. Putting Chinese into Roman letters as opposed to their own script is a challenge because, like in any other language, the pronunciation is difficult to transfer. Beijung is closer to how the Chinese have always pronounced it. The city was referred to by Westerners as Peiping during the Nationalist era (where the capital had been moved to Nanking to the south) but that didn't last very long (and neither did the Nationalists). I suspect most of the residents of the city still called it Beijing. Beijing is not a perfect Romanization, but it's a better one. tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 Heads up, Georgioids and South Caroliniacs, Irma's coming for you too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 In the SyFy adaptation, Irma passes over a wildlife sanctuary before making landfall, and people are pelted with rabid squirrels. "Squirrelicane" should do boffo numbers. Nolgroth, tkdguy and BoloOfEarth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 "Authorities Urge Louisiana Residents To Evacuate Dangerous Lower Income Brackets."--The Onion megaplayboy and Hermit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 I'm just glad Irma will only have mild 120 mph winds by the time it reaches my parents' end of the state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 My best friend is in Jacksonville, so I'm terrified for her right now. Elsewhere... Employee injured by pipe bomb at East Chicago post office Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 My parents are on the Panhandle side, so they're going to have some serious weather but should be OK. If the last map posted is accurate. I was looking at another map that showed a bunch of both US and EU models for the path that basically put the whole state in the path, depending on the starting assumptions for each model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 I'm right on the Alabama coast so we're preparing for heavy rain. The house is off the ground and we can go to a cousin who live about 10 miles further inland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 My best friend is in Jacksonville, so I'm terrified for her right now. Elsewhere... Employee injured by pipe bomb at East Chicago post office Jacksonville is several hundred miles north of Miami and they will have ample notice if Irma is coming towards them at anything near full strength. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Equifax data breach the worst hack of personal information ever Everyone needs to pay attention to this one. 1. 143 million people is the vast majority of Americans who have credit cards and/or loans. Some UK and Canada residents were also exposed. 2. The hack exposed names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and driver's license numbers--more than enough information to open fraudulent accounts in your name. 3. Equifax executives sold their stock between the discovery of the breach and the public announcement. 4. Equifax's response to the breach has been pathetic at best. 5. There is almost nothing you can do to fix this. Passwords can be changed; DOBs and SSNs, not so much. 6. When your identity is stolen because of Equifax's negligence, Equifax will be more than happy to destroy your credit rating. This breach actually threatens the entire consumer finance sector. Imagine if literally everyone had fraudulent credit cards opened in their name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 I wish we'd stuck with 'pollution bad' instead of switching to 'climate change.'.. it *worked*. We stopped using CFC and the ozone layer has mostly healed itself! That's pretty cool. 'Pollution bad' shares the same solutions but hasn't been turned into an 'us vs them' buzz topic - because it's more 'tangible'. Far fewer people, no matter how 'fact resistant' humanity has become, can seriously look out their windows on the smoggiest day or look at trash floating in a harbour and say 'this is fine'. Sigh. Well, that is the thing, people can think small like that, and help on a local scale. But, unfortunately, the scare tactics have been so overdone, that you have 2 choices A)Plain ignore it, and deny B Believe the world needs to get rid of 3 billion people by yesterday. Or I should say I was A for a long time, because to hear climate change expert talk, I couldn't imagine anything less than B amounting to anything. I do think the magnitude the global warming has been played has made people choose between deny or hopeless surrender SO yeah I agree concentrating on "pollution" would have been the better play. But, if global warming/climate change comes into play you need to keep the scare down enough to give people some sense of hope and control that they can change things (which I think people in the climate change community have done an awful job with) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Yep, the Mexico quake clinches it. Time to recap the past month or so I see a bad moon a-risingI see trouble on the wayI see earthquakes and lightnin'I see bad times today Don't go 'round tonightIt's bound to take your lifeThere's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes a-blowingI know the end is coming soonI fear rivers over flowingI hear the voice of rage and ruin Don't go 'round tonightIt's bound to take your lifeThere's a bad moon on the rise I hope you got your things togetherI hope you are quite prepared to dieLook's like we're in for nasty weatherOne eye is taken for an eye Oh don't go 'round tonightIt's bound to take your lifeThere's a bad moon on the riseThere's a bad moon on the rise DasBroot and tkdguy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Equifax data breach the worst hack of personal information ever Everyone needs to pay attention to this one. 1. 143 million people is the vast majority of Americans who have credit cards and/or loans. Some UK and Canada residents were also exposed. 2. The hack exposed names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and driver's license numbers--more than enough information to open fraudulent accounts in your name. 3. Equifax executives sold their stock between the discovery of the breach and the public announcement. 4. Equifax's response to the breach has been pathetic at best. 5. There is almost nothing you can do to fix this. Passwords can be changed; DOBs and SSNs, not so much. 6. When your identity is stolen because of Equifax's negligence, Equifax will be more than happy to destroy your credit rating. This breach actually threatens the entire consumer finance sector. Imagine if literally everyone had fraudulent credit cards opened in their name. Oh crap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagged Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 3. Equifax executives sold their stock between the discovery of the breach and the public announcement. Doesn't acting on information yet to be made public count as insider trading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Doesn't acting on information yet to be made public count as insider trading? The business periodicals seem to think so, although the executives are claiming they sold before finding out about the data leak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 The business periodicals seem to think so, although the executives are claiming they sold before finding out about the data leak. Which nobody in the business world seriously believes. If they haven't skipped town already they may want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Which nobody in the business world seriously believes. If they haven't skipped town already they may want to. Skip town? These days, that's the sort of behavior that gives you a seat in the Cabinet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Odds are they'll not deal with the fallout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Run away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 National Weather Service is literally screaming in all caps on Twitter: "THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS--NOWHERE IN THE KEYS WILL BE SAFE" This could end badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Equifax data breach the worst hack of personal information ever Everyone needs to pay attention to this one. 1. 143 million people is the vast majority of Americans who have credit cards and/or loans. Some UK and Canada residents were also exposed. 2. The hack exposed names, addresses, DOBs, SSNs, and driver's license numbers--more than enough information to open fraudulent accounts in your name. 3. Equifax executives sold their stock between the discovery of the breach and the public announcement. 4. Equifax's response to the breach has been pathetic at best. 5. There is almost nothing you can do to fix this. Passwords can be changed; DOBs and SSNs, not so much. 6. When your identity is stolen because of Equifax's negligence, Equifax will be more than happy to destroy your credit rating. This breach actually threatens the entire consumer finance sector. Imagine if literally everyone had fraudulent credit cards opened in their name. More on this other disaster. There are steps that can be taken: 1. Immediately get your free annual credit report(s) from annualcreditreport.com and check it for weird activity. 2. Consider putting a security freeze on your credit report data with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion . Might cost $5-$10 each but it will prevent people from using your PII to apply for credit or open up a cell phone account. It will cost more money to unlock. Yes I hate the credit reporting agencies too. 3. Remember to file taxes as quickly as possible to prevent fraudsters from sniping your tax refund. Or you could do what I do and screw up your personal finances so that you owe money to the government. 4. Equifax, impregnable bastion of internet security, is offering a whole year of complimentary ID theft protection and credit file monitoring to half-assedly make up for their epic fumble. They claim that by using this feature you give up your right to sue them into oblivion, but the NY AG disputes the legality of this claim. More news from this trainwreck as it becomes available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 National Weather Service is literally screaming in all caps on Twitter: "THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS--NOWHERE IN THE KEYS WILL BE SAFE" This could end badly. The comment I heard regarding Florida was this: "Dr. Nature is about to circumcise America's wang" Hang in there, Floridians, or better yet, get out if you can to say, Ohio. Enforcer84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 The one I saw: Trump: Climate change is a hoax. Climate: HOLD MY BEER. Lawnmower Boy and Pariah 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Doesn't acting on information yet to be made public count as insider trading? You're forgetting what Aristotle said about this in the Nichomachean Ethics: "It's okay when I do it." Sociotard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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