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Please Buy Me A Replacement Power Adapter For My MacBook Pro
If you can help me out, please post in the comments so only one person buys me one.
Last night I left my bag at a light rail station in downtown Portland. It was gone when I came back.
The only item that I lost, that I really need is an Apple Wall Wart. The connection is magnetic, it will disconnect if someone trips over the cord. However the very fine springs that push the brass pins against the brass cups in my power jack tend to fatigue and break, so no one sells used MagSafes.
Other World Computing has then new for $54.99.
On a different page is another 85W wart for MacBook Pros. The one I need is for "Retina Display" units at the link above. The retina display has a square array of four or more physical pixel for each logical pixel. It's real nice on my eyes.
Shipping address:
Michael Crawford
650 NW Irving St
Portland, OR 97209-1272
USA
+1 (971) 386-3996
mdcrawford@gmail.com
FedEx Ground shipping is free. I'm cool with the 4-5 day delivery - there are some other MacBook Pro users here at NedSpace, enough of them that I only need to pester just one person each day.
The Musky Settling
Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit
The SEC’s “Punishment” of Elon Musk Is Exactly What Tesla Needed
Tesla Is 2 Years Ahead Of Schedule On Gigafactory 1
Tesla will screen 'Cars 3' at Gigafactory as thank you to employees
The Future We Need — From The Tesla Gigafactory To A Chain Of Terafactories
Thrown in here to avoid Tesla fatigue.
Yet more evidence Kavanaugh committed perjury
(In July) Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, and his staff were reportedly sending text messages to former classmates to underplay allegations that he exposed himself during a party at Yale University.
The text messages, which were obtained by NBC News, were reportedly between Kavanaugh's friends, Kerry Berchem and Karen Yarasavage. Based on the contents of the messages, Kavanaugh himself may reached out to his classmates to undercut the claims made by former classmate Deborah Ramirez, who told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh had exposed himself in front of others at a dorm-room party during the 1983-84 school year.
According to one message, Yarasavage said that Kavanaugh had asked her to defend him on the record, NBC News reported. Other messages indicate that Kavanaugh's surrogates had communicated with his former classmates before the story's publication.
Yarasavage said in a message that she corresponded with "Brett" and "Brett's guy." Bercham also claimed Yarasavage told her friend that she sent a copy of wedding party photo that included Kavanaugh and Ramirez "to Brett's team."
However...
"All right," an interviewer said in a redacted Judiciary Committee report. "My last question on this subject is since you graduated from college, but before [The] New Yorker article publication on September 23rd, have you ever discussed or heard discussion about the incident matching the description given by Ms. Ramirez to [The] New Yorker?"
"No," Kavanaugh said, according to the transcript.
Text messages between Brett Kavanaugh and his classmates seem to contradict his Senate testimony
Good news everybody, Clinton is innocent!
According to all the conservative legal scholars here on SN you can't even vote against a person unless they've been convicted of a crime.
So it's good to know they're finally all admitting that Hilary Clinton is completely innocent!
Baby steps.
People Saying "It Can't Happen Here" Is Why It Happens Here
There was a massive ICE raid a couple of days ago on the east side of Madison, one which I apparently missed by mere moments. The Madison law enforcement were NOT notified of this, as stated by both Mayor Soglin and Police Chief Koval...though, of course, their primary concern (at least on the air) was "breakdown in communications" rather than "Jesus fuck, WHY are these people conducting damn near paramilitary raids without warning?!"
There is a way to fight illegal immigration. This is not how. Instead of enforcing the laws we have and going after the causes of the problem--this being large businesses like meatpacking plants who bring illegals in as essentially slave labor--they go after the individuals themselves. Not only is this about as useful as locking the barn door after the horse bolts, not only is it a tacit wink and nod to said virtual slavers, but it ends up being open season on these people. Because they're illegal (presumably; we do NOT know everyone targeted in these raids is!), they are not truly human in the eyes of many, and I guaran-fucking-tee you the kind of person who signs up for ICE is even less likely to see them as human beings than the average Joe or Jane on the street.
It's Happening Here.
"Oh, it's JUST the spics," people will say. "They ought not to come here illegally," they say. Well, that last one is true, but they ARE here, and how we deal with them speaks to who and what we are as a nation. There are better ways to handle this. What is being done is possibly the worst way aside from simply rounding up any suspected illegal immigrant and summarily executing him or her...and, frankly, not that far off. What is being done is, again, tacit approval to the big businesses profiting off these peoples' vulnerability in the first place.
One of the reasons I am not a fan of Franklin D. Roosevelt for any reason aside from his economic policy is because he ran internment camps. Or as they are better and more properly called, *concentration camps.* And I don't know how else to describe what ICE is doing in these so-called "detention centers." If you ask me, "detention center" is to concentration camp as "enhanced interrogation methods" is to *torture.* Call it what you want, but if it concentrates "undesireables" it's a concentration camp.
It's Happening Here.
Because people say it can't happen here, when it *is* happening here, they refuse to understand that it is. It's not in their worldview. This is why the euphemism treadmill that, among others, George Carlin called out for its dishonesty and evil is so sinisterly effective: because It Can't Happen Here, when it *does* happen here, people will latch onto anything to believe that it's not happening here.
It's Happening Here.
What's next? Where is this going? Once the infrastructure for concentration camps is in place, once warrant standards are lax and paramilitary action against citizens is legalized, once we have secret courts, once We The People "have a reason" to suspend the Constitution--whose basic clauses apply to EVERYONE, NOT just citizens!--a turnkey fascist state is in place, just waiting for the right crisis to come along, or indeed, to be manufactured.
It's Happening Here. First they came for the illegal immigrants...
#SecondFrontDoor: Brett Kavanaugh hearing
Posting this in anticipation of a trending hashtag. See also: #KavanaughHearings.
https://twitter.com/mihow/status/1045325066857263104
A Second Front Door.
Consider this for a second.
A SECOND FRONT DOOR.
This is what sexual assault does to a person. This is heartbreaking. Deeply heartbreaking.
Get Mark Judge into one of these hearings.
Ooh, Dr. Ford used the encrypted Washington Post tip line (generates a "utm_term" in the URL, which doesn't sound so secure...). Good advertisement for the existence of that service, I think. The ratings for this event are probably high.
Ford mentions the death threats. We don't care!
That coffee break moment.
Dianne Feinstein enters into record 140 letters from friends and neighbors, and "1,000" from female physicians. Also she is actually asking the witness questions, whereas Grassley has deferred to his female proxy.
Turns out she has that #SecondFrontDoor. And her home is a place to host Google interns...?
She brings up epinephrine and norepinephrine to explain how her basic memory functions work and that she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her.
She brings up her hippocampus again in a response to Senator Leahy.
Party or gathering?
Uncomfortable encounter at the Potomac Village Safeway! She said "Hi" to Mark Judge, who was arranging shopping carts.
Did she say something about reporters trying to talk to her dog?
Answer about other PTSD risk factors sounds about as evasive as it does scientific.
Mitchell is attacking Ford's fear of flying!
Ford got her polygraph within 24 hours or so of her grandma's funeral.
Booker: "speaking YOUR truth".
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Kavanaugh (BK) is pissed off.
He won't be intimidated into withdrawing from the process. "I have never sexually assaulted anyone... ever."
BK has a friend who was sexually abused! BK's voice wavered as he was talking about his mother. And a lot more as he talks about his 10-year-old daughter praying for Dr. Ford.
Choked up as he talks about his father keeping detailed calendar-diaries, a practice he adopted. BK is listing actual dates he was in D.C. on weekends. June 4, August 7, August 20-22.
"I liked beer. I still like beer."
Lol: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1045396951846539265
Brett Kavanaugh notes that the summer that the sexual assault allegedly took place, when Christine Ford says he pinned her down on a bed, he had spent a lot of time lifting weights and doing strength training.
^ Tweeter is a WaPost reporter.
Good thing there is a recess, because while BK was emphatic and pretty clear in his opening statement, he seemed a bit flustered during questioning.
Chris Garrett is "Squee"!
Durbin tries to get BK to turn his head to Don McGahn. Doesn't work. But he is getting BK flustered on the subject of an FBI investigation.
Senator Lindsey Graham mounts the defense.
BK defends his use of "Ralph Club" in his yearbook. Because he has a weak stomach. And "Renate Alumnius" has nothing to do with sex.
Dem overplaying his hand: "Do you believe Anita Hill?"
Fox "News" censors the world laughing at Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump faced a round of laughter from world leaders Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations General Assembly after boasting that his presidency “has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” This hiccup didn’t bother Fox News, however, which promptly cut out the laughter on Twitter. And Fox News edits like this aren’t so uncommon.
During Trump’s UN speech to the assembly, Fox News uploaded two clips that circumvented the awkward moment. In the first clip, Fox cut off Trump’s speech as soon as he finished saying that the U.S. has accomplished more than any other presidential administration.
Three minutes later, Fox posted a second excerpt for viewers, this time beginning right after the uncomfortable moment had ended. This effectively cut out the entire moment, from world leaders snickering at Trump to the entire assembly bursting out in laughter. For Fox viewers checking their Twitter timelines during the event, it was almost as if the moment had never happened at all.
Fox News roasted on Twitter after editing out world leaders laughing at Trump
Please Recommend To Me A Good Webmail Host
When Google imposed its new look on me I at first had the option to return to its Classic theme.
Just today my Gmail returned to it's new, IMHO really poor quality look, without the option for Gmail Classic.
I've found hosting my own email server to be unreliable enough that it's worth it to me to pay someone else to host it for me.
Have you any suggestions?
Beauty and the Beholder
Why you don’t really have a ‘type’
“Beauty still is in the eye of the beholder, but our on-going work suggests that the beholder may be changing constantly,” says Haiyang Yang, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and author of a study that found that our sense of beauty can change based on other people’s opinions. “It can be argued that the advent of the internet age may be causing people to change their beauty standards faster than ever before in human history.”
[Hiring] Soggy Jobs is Now Accepting Applications
- Entry-Level Quality Assurance Developer
- Back End Developer
- Senior Front End Developer
Depending on experience, our new employees will be paid Portland area competitive market rate salaries. Look up your current job title and your actual experience at Payscale.com to get an estimate of your pay.
Please send your application in hardcopy form via postal mail:
Portland Custom Software Development
NedSpace Broadway
707 SW Washington St Suite 1100
Portland, OR 97205-3528
The start date is long time from now so do take all the time you require to write your cover letter. In your cover please list the titles and authors of a few of your favorite books.
Our hair isn't pointy; you do not need a Computer Science degree! While the Senior Front End Developer does require Javascript expertise, neither developer job needs experience with any particular framework.
We are writing our back end in Python but will happily hire a Back End coder who has experience in any of Perl, Ruby, Java, PHP, Node.js and the like.
Our Entry-Level QA position would be perfect for recent college graduates as well as technically inclined high school graduates. We will consider part-time work for current high school students.
