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-pers gnashing their teeth."

I just asked my client whether I should just give up on what I'm doing.

I'm trying to write a GUI uninstaller. How hard can that be?

Apple recommends that one use a very, very simple privileged helper app, because it cannot guarantee the security of its GUI libraries.

That sounds dandy but so far I am unable to get that helper app to work.

There is already a dead-simple shell script uninstaller. The GUI is intended for those users who cannot deal with command lines.

What's behind the Justin Timberlake backlash?

Timberlake must be wondering what went wrong. Because, truth be told, there's nothing egregiously bad about either Man of the Woods or his Super Bowl performance. They're just... slightly disappointing.

The backlash feels bigger than a commentary on his music. There's a mockery and a cruelty that feels personal - as though people had a lingering resentment towards the star, and they've suddenly been given licence to express it.

For some, it goes back to his relationship with Britney Spears. After they broke up, he made music and videos that traded on their story and told several interviewers he'd taken her virginity - a personal detail that wasn't his to share.

For others, it's about his failure to support Janet Jackson after exposing her breast to millions of TV viewers at the 2004 Super Bowl.

Timberlake's half-hearted acknowledgement of that moment at this year's show did not go unnoticed.

"He chose to perform the song Rock Your Body, during which the famous wardrobe malfunction took place, and yet he didn't mention Janet: He didn't shout her out, and he stopped the song right before the line during which he ripped off her costume," pop critic Ann Powers told NPR. "It was almost like he was trying to erase what had happened in the past, but that is just not flying in 2018."

"The Super Bowl performance invited people to reflect on the time Justin threw Janet Jackson under a bus, and what that said about race and gender," agrees Peter Robinson, editor of Popjustice.

As The Pop World Seeks Accountability, Justin Timberlake Seems Lost In The Woods

You say "not right for this moment." Explain what you mean by that.

Justin Timberlake's entire career and art is based on his ability to be smooth — his ability to be easy, to create music that seduces us with references to the past, with appropriations, with artful mixes, and never quite shows any struggle. But we are living in a moment of struggle, and we want our pop music to also reflect that struggle. And frankly, Timberlake now embodies that phrase so often spoken today: white male privilege. It's just not a good look for 2018. And it's really, in some ways, not his fault — it's just who he is.

Why Prince fans are bashing Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl halftime performance

In a 1998 interview with Guitar World magazine, Prince was asked directly about the use of digital editing to "create a situation where you could jam with any artist from the past." He was not a fan.

"That's the most demonic thing imaginable," he said. "Everything is as it is, and it should be. If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing ... it really is demonic. And I am not a demon. Also, what they did with that Beatles song (Free as a Bird), manipulating John Lennon's voice to have him singing from across the grave ... that'll never happen to me. To prevent that kind of thing from happening is another reason why I want artistic control."

Last one could plausibly form the basis of a tech-related submission, although it is a little late.

tl;dr: I got blown and therefore regard this evening's extracurricular activity to have been a success.

There was even a woman there - attractive even - but I had the sense she wasn't looking for anything but a romantic night with her man.

That's not always the case. It's common for women to enjoy fornicating in front of an audience. On very rare occasion, women turn up who want to do the dirty with every last man in the place.

I was disappointed at first, I expect because the superbowl had Portland's degenerates otherwise occupied. I did not at first see the woman as she and her man were behind an oddly out of place wooden structure. I figured the management used that for storage. But this evening I noticed a man enter it through the door. It was then that I realized the structure consisted of six Glory Hole Booths.

In pornographic motion picture theaters men often have totally meaningless, anonymous sex with each other. With the aid of a glory hole one can get it on with a complete stranger without obtaining the first clue as to what one's partner even looks like.

After receiving fellatio I went across the street to a really high-end tea shop. There were many kinds of high-class teas to choose from but I wasnt really in the mood to decide which among them would get brewed for my cup.

"What would you like?"

"Surprise me with your favorite."

"Caffeine ot no caffeine?"

"Caffeine."

From time to time I ask a restaurant waitress to surprise me. They always have the same reaction as did the guy on Star Trek when Spock said to him "I am lying". So I was quite delighted that the barista was into it.

Without a doubt she gave me a cup of uncommonly exotic tea but it was everything I could do to drink all of it. It really tasted foul. I am absolutely serious. It was like that fancy coffee whose beans are fed to weasels or some such, then collected from that weasel's turds when it is to be brewed.

I Am Absolutely Serious.

But drink it I did because I did not want my barista to be disappointed or insulted. It tasted better to me after I drank about half the cup.

I debated whether I should go home or go back to the theater. Really I should have gone home, but one has unlimited re-entry all day long and I did not want that valuable commodity to go to waste.

Back in the theater I shook hands with William Jefferson Clinton for a little while but realized I just wasn't into it anymore and so went home.

Portland's Oregon Theater is quite a long way from where I live. I can easily get there on the bus and the light rail, but it's two hours each way.

There is a video shop that is far closer, that is also equipped with glory holes in all but one of its video booth. The booth without the glory hole is quite large and contains a desk.

Yes: a desk. Just like what your keyboard rests on when you're at work. I remain puzzled by that one.

No chair though.

Upon arriving home I had a couple slices of 7-Eleven pizza. That is damn near the cheapest pizza known to Man but it's so much less expensive than Domino's that I can set aside its inferior crust and take gustatory delight that I am saving so much money that I could go to the porno theater TWICE with the money I save.

The 7-Eleven cashier doesn't even expect a tip. How cool is that?

Paul Ryan, our Speaker of the House, shared some tremendous news. About the massive Tax Cut we gave our Middle class. Which means so many can now afford those things they only dreamed of before. "A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week. ... she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year." Amazing!

"'I have heard time and again that the middle class is getting crumbs, but I’ll take it!'
twitter.com/APBusiness/sta…" https://twitter.com/PRyan/status/959519794138509312

Army: 2 deaths, 60 hospitalizations blamed on vaping oils

The U.S. Army is warning about the dangers of vaping synthetic cannabinoid oil after about 60 soldiers and Marines in North Carolina and 33 troops in Utah experienced serious medical problems in January. In a Monday public health alert, the U.S. Army Public Health Center said military personnel have suffered headaches, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, dilated pupils, dizziness, agitation and seizures.

All the symptoms are associated with synthetic cannabinoids. Two Marines have died in accidents blamed on synthetic cannabinoid-induced seizures.

"This problem has the potential to spread quickly across the Army," the alert said.

Army regulations ban the use of so-called CBD oil or any products derived from marijuana, so some soldiers are using synthetic replacement oil.

Vivo’s Xplay7 may be the first Android smartphone with 10GB of RAM

Sub it when it's no longer a rumor.

Previously: Samsung Announces 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM, Could Enable Smartphones With 6 GB of RAM

Amazing speech, airing now! On all channels. #TrumpTV

Somebody please inform Jay-Z, the very foolish owner of the BADLY FAILING Tidal, that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER! He needs to DUMP his failing businesses, buy himself a good suit and tie, and find a real job. So many of his people, of our wonderful African Americans, did. I did.

Russia's Navalny detained as protesters point to poll fraud threat

Russian presidential elections: Navalny freed after day of protests

Found this comment while I was searching for NASA GOLD stuff.

Zuma!