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exactly. I was reading the items first, and then I realized the article was more than just rectal insertions, and went back and saw where the objects were being inserted. Then I cringed a great cringe.

some things cannot be unread.

Indeed. It's a conversation worth having to figure out all the angles.

The issue you run into with having mental health checks (and I'm not saying I'm necessarily against it, I'm just trying to consider the different angles), is then you're potentially creating a scenario where people will avoid seeking help because they know that will put them in a database to limit their rights.

reading the part you quoted, did you mean the myth the non-anonymity would help with online behavior? Either way, I'll keep my anonymity, thank you. Only thin requiring me to identify myself to join a community would do is convince me that I want nothing to do with it.

probably four lost fumbles on sacks.

The first one is being remade right now (I never played the original; looks like it may be a little too dated). System Shock 2 is still quite playable these days, though. Anyways, the antagonist is an AI named Shodan, which I am positive is the namesake of that search tool used to find all of those vulnerable MongoDB databases.

my take away from this: The antagonist of System Shock is real.

An antenna has access to a number of live channels.

I think they're saying that Google and Apple, as companies with competing products, cannot ignore Alexa.

We can't be sure what was edited out from the beginning of the video. We do know that the videographer is a friend of the younger guy, so I think it not unreasonable to be skeptical. We never did see what set off the old man.

What I saw was two people arguing. How did it start? There were threats flying around from both sides. But then since a racial epithet is used in the course of this verbal altercation, that makes it not only okay, but satisfying for a youthful, fit man to assault an old man? Can't say I subscribe to that notion.

That was supposed to be satisfying?

He would be that narcissistic.

Ugh, reading that reminded me that Alex Kurtzman is producing it.

Finally saw Star Trek: Beyond (it was in-flight entertainment, so I didn't spend any money on it). Terrible movie. I'll use the spoiler tag just because I don't want to make choices for others, but if you haven't seen the movie already and you're on the fence about it, I really don't think you'll care about the spoilers because you probably won't care for the movie. anyways... You know, I give the first two movies of the reboot a lot of crap for not being very Star Trek, but at least they could be enjoyable as summer action flicks if you ignore the fact that they're supposed to be Star Trek. But this one just fell so flat even as that, in my opinion. I didn't find myself at all engaged in the action sequences, the plot was nonsensical, and the dialogue really brought nothing to the table.

Use a good picture source. Back when I was in Virginia and still on Cox Cable, there were horribly noticeable (to me, at least) compression artifacts. Then I moved away and went on antenna. The picture on the over-the-air HD channels is so much better than the picture I had gotten on cable as they don't use lossy compression to save bandwidth for antenna broadcast. tl;dr: using an antenna for Network stations and whatever else may be floating in the air by you may get you better HD picture than cable.

Of course it's still a thing. Heavy metal never dies.

that's really just what Death Metal logos look like. There is something to be said for it, though. As unoriginal as it is, it does communicate to someone who sees a band's logo that they are a death metal band and said person may further look into the band when they may have otherwise not done so.

I'm gonna have to go with Origin. What is that, Times New Roman?

Machete Kills - I was woefully unprepared for this one despite having seen the previous movie. They really upped the ante with the ridiculousness of this one. And just when I thought I'd seen everything, Elon Musk is brought in to send him up in a Space X rocket! Oops, spoiler alert, he goes to space. (Not actually a spoiler since they play a trailer for the sequel before the movie: Machete Kills Again... In Space!) Fantastic Beasts - It's Harry Potter: Starring some guy who should probably be the 13th doctor. Hacksaw Ridge - Interesting WWII movie following the exploits of a man who refused to touch a gun. Got a bit preachy/bible-thumpy, though, which I guess I should have expected from a movie directed by Mel Gibson.

Yuck.

Is Cortana the new Clippy?

I don't recall having it as a plugin, but it WAS nearly a decade ago (man, where did the time go?). I definitely recall using the windizupdate site and having checkboxes next to each item if I wanted to update through it. Maybe the plugin was needed for the site to work. Anyways, that was a thing I did. I don't remember how/if this relates to anything that was being discussed anymore. Plus windiz apparently doesn't work anymore, so I guess it'd be moot, anyways. Also, to hell with Windows and their update policies. I was dual-booting my laptop with Windows and I recall specifically setting it to NOT do ANY automatic updates. And then one day I needed to quickly boot into it for something and the ****er updated on me. I was between classes at the time the update decided it was gonna go through. 45 minutes later, still updating, I had to go to class, so I just left the laptop in the computer lab to keep updating against my will. Came back from class hours later and the thing was STILL updating. Microsoft, you are the devil.