Just now, stevemcqueen1 said:

First Kyrie injures John and then hits a dagger from half court.  ****ty night.

And is the beneficiary of some BAD calls when it mattered. 

Game never shoulda gone to OT. Wall hits his FTs and the games over in regulation. 

And Markief Morris hasn’t learned how to box out. Embarrassing to get outreboumded by a SG. 

Celtics shot 3x as many FT in the 2nd half. And they didn’t miss. Wiz missed 8 so far. 

AND Morris just got punked by a SG on defense. 

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California Man Accidentally Sets House on Fire After Trying to Kill Spiders With Blowtorch

BYJOSE MARTINEZ

Jose is a contributing writer for Complex Media. @ZayMarty

 

As someone with arachnophobia, the story of a person who accidentally set fire to his parents’ home because he wanted to kill some black widow spiders sounds like a small price to pay to remedy a bigger problem. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, a California man was house-sitting for his parents Tuesday night when he discovered the spiders.

 

Being that he was the only person in the residence at the time of the discovery, this brave individual decided to take justice into his own hands by arming himself with a blowtorch. It seems like a ridiculous plan of attack—and maybe it is—but if you want to ensure that you kill these spiders without getting anywhere close to them, you can’t go wrong with a blowtorch. 

 

Eventually, around 30 firefighters responded to the spider-related fire. Even though the second story of the home and the attic were damaged by the flames, the fire was put out quickly, and the man was able to get out unharmed. The Fresno City firefighters' account tweeted out a common sense message to their residents in light of this bizarre incident. 

 

Please don't use a blowtorch to kill spiders https://t.co/hcG3P0Pjin

— Fresno Firefighters (@Local753) October 24, 2018

 

While it’s relieving to know that the man was able to get out unscathed, what about these spiders? Did he get them all? Or are they plotting their revenge for when him and his family return?

 

Interestingly, it's not the first time someone has tried to use fire to kill a spider and ended up burning their home in the process.

Seems about right...

1 hour ago, visionary said:

Tweet about Grassley...

He is an old, out of touch, man that has no business being on any committee outside of the retiree village ROA, much less in Congress.

35 minutes ago, NoCalMike said:

I think what is most frustrating to me is that it seems like more and more people simply don't vote on the actual issues, which when I was younger, always assumed was the #1 reason to vote for a candidate.

When people talk about "America needs to come together" I feel like on more issues than they will admit, they are united already, or at least in enough agreement that there is always a clear candidate over the other that will work and fight for those issues, however so much other BS gets thrown into the mix that by the time people are at the voting booth they have all these other ridiculous reasons they can't/won't vote for the other person.

I posit that 80% of voters enter a booth and vote based on one simple criteria - party affiliation. They don't care about anything else.

Good to see this team isn’t any smarter than last year. And Brooks getting schooled on the bench. 

18 hours ago, BenningRoadSkin said:

I feel like the American media is going to head into hyperspeed over this.

 

They all see themselves as part of the story and that’s gonna bring an even greater scrutiny on Trump.

 

The only question is whether their corporate masters will allow them.

 

And if in the midst of all the anger, is anyone going to ask why Turkey has microphone and video recordings inside the Saudi Arabia embassy?

 

This is one of the craziest story I have ever seen

I saw something that indicated he was wearing an iWatch and was recording when he entered the embassy. Maybe the Turks were given access to the recording?

50 minutes ago, stevemcqueen1 said:

I  understand why you don't want to claim them, but the GoP is the conservative party.  I recognize you're a patriotic conservative who hasn't been radicalized and still has his soul.  I honestly don't know what there is for you to do.  Your party is gone and you will never get them back the way they were, say, in 2008.  Trump is the new normal and I guess you're a political nomad now.  Politics are going to get way more uncomfortable for you in the near future.  Maybe you'll have a GoP worth rejoining somewhere down the line but the far right radidcalized shrivs propping up the traitors and charlatans who run the GoP now are going to have to die off in big enough numbers to get the **** out of the way of the rest of us who actually want to live in a sane and decent country so we can clean up the ****ing turd they laid on all of us.

I’ve been a nomad since the Clinton-Bush election. I hope the blue wave crushes the GOP. I mean CRUSHES. And I hope that we as a country can start electing good people. People not defined by a party, not owned by a party, not beholden to a party. Collins, Murkowski, Manchin, Heitkamp...should all vote no, as should EVERY Senator. Because Kavanaugh failed his duty, not because he was nominated by Trump. Because he sucks. 

20 minutes ago, stevemcqueen1 said:

Get out of here with this ****.  Like you or any conservative give a damn about unity or consensus.  Your party is tearing this country apart.

This is bull****.  Conservative isn’t a party. There are plenty of conservatives that give more than a damn about unity and this country. This hyper-partisan environment didn’t start with Trump, he is the result of it. This started way back in the days of Nixon and kept slowly decaying the political landscape. The Republican Party is literally a disaster, but let’s not pretend like the Democrat’s hands are clean. 

48 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

I prefer the term trailer.

Trailer Park Boy!

13 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

I am not smart enough to understand this conversation. 

Well, you do live in a <literally> mobile home...

Larry, there can be no agreement if you continue to insist that data sent/received from/to your cell phone via a 3G/4G connection is no different than data you sent/received from/to your laptop via WiFi/Ethernet. 3G/4G data is classified differently than WiFi/Ethernet data. Whether it should be classified differently is something I'm pretty sure everyone in the debate is in agreement (no).

It is a fact that NN did not apply to cell data caps.  That's why AT&T can stream DirecTV without counting it against data caps and T-Mobile can do the same with Netflix.  If NN applied, the carriers would be in violation because they would be "throttling" other traffic but not the data they prefer.

I did tell PB that. I'm pretty sure PB can handle a random dude on the Internet telling him he didn't have to do any unbillable research. 

1 minute ago, BenningRoadSkin said:

That's not what Burgold is saying.

 

He isn't saying Kavanaugh raped her or is a rapist. He is saying that the event has a traumatic effect on her life. I do not agree with it being the same as rape like Burgold said - mostly because I cannot speak on those two situations - but I am bothered that posters in here are not attempting to read his words correctly.

Yes. But he responded to me making a distinction between the accusation and a poster who said Ford was raped.  His response was a justification for treating them the same because the alleged actions had a profound affect on Ford's life.

It is more than a philosophical debate. It is a trend in society to intentionally distort facts to make the situation more sinister or more innocent. The facts of the situation need to be treated as gospel, with no movement permitted. Otherwise, there is no basis from which to debate and formulate opinions. Shifting sands do not serve as a foundation.

12 minutes ago, Burgold said:

I never said Kavanaugh raped Dr. Ford. I don't know that he even sexually assaulted her. What I did say was the effect of this attack to her was profound, devastating and life changing. She seems to have experienced many of the worst traumas and aftereffects of physical rape.

 

So, I disliked any trivialization of the attack upon her. The attack's impact on her life was serious and very real.

Come on Burg. No one here ever said the impact wasn't serious and very real. WE SAID IT WASN'T RAPE. There is a reason rape and sexual assaults have different penalties. You know this. And pointing out the difference between the two is not trivializing...

1 hour ago, Burgold said:

Emotionally, to Ford the attack may have been just as profound. We saw how she was impacted, right? We saw how that attack has played over her entire life, right?

 

Would the damage to her life be that much greater with penetration? 

HOLY ****. I never thought we would get to the point that someone would try to justify purposeful exaggeration.  This is now 2 posters that are perfectly OK saying Kavanaugh raped Ford. JESUS CHRIST. 

22 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

Tell you what.  Quote the post of mine in which I have "refused to acknowledge that telco carriers and ISPs are classified differently".  

 

Or apologize for lying about me.  

 

Just in case you've forgotten, this derail began with this post of mine:  

 

 

First, drop the butthurt schtick, it’s not a good look. Second, I am not going to apologize for anything, because I didn’t lie about anything. You keep using ISP in place of carrier so your point can be “technically”’correct while ignoring the fact that in this ****ing situation Verizon was acting as a carrier. And that tue FCC permitted carriers to throttle cellular data without violating Net Neutrality. 

Fine Larry, you win. Even though we all have said that the data should be treated the same, and that the data is structured the same (basically), but you simply refuse to acknowledge that telco carriers and ISPs are classified differently, you win. 

Do me a favor though. Try to run a traceroute from your phone with WiFi turned off. Tell me what the first hop is. 

6 hours ago, China said:

‘Aggressive, monstrous’ mosquitoes 3 times bigger than normal swarm North Carolina after Hurricane Florence

 

North Carolina has recently become home to some very large mosquitoes following Hurricane Florence.

 

The mosquitoes are described as “aggressive, monstrous pests with stripes on their legs” by USA Today.

 

North Carolina State University entomologist Michael Waldvogel told USA Today the large pests are called “Gallinippers” or “Psorophora ciliata.”

 

They can be three times as large as average mosquitoes. The floodwaters after Hurricane Florence can cause dormant eggs to hatch, spiking their population into the billions.

 

North Carolina resident Cassie Vadovsky posted video to Facebook showing a swarm of the blood-thirsty insects outside her car at her home.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video

 

 

My first ever trip to the OBX was right after a hurricane and another hurricane came up through Florida and stayed inland. These ****ers were EVERYWHERE. You couldn’t go outside with any skin showing between 6pm and 10am or they would swarm you. It was September and I was walking the dog in sweatpants tucked into socks, a hoodie with the hood drawn tight around my face, and a bandana over my face so only my glasses were visible. I also wore gloves. I would literally have hundreds on me the entire time. It was a plague. Poor dog got eaten alive. It was miserable and we almost ruled out ever going back. You could feel them stick you. I had to have 300 bites on my legs alone. 

To summarize, **** those assholes. 

1 minute ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

I care about the big picture. Not the exact dimensions of a grain of salt. Drowning in a dictionary isn’t caring about facts.

This is a ridiculous take. Like a Colin Cowherd bad take.

Larry, when your wi-fi is turned off on your iPhone, all data sent to and from the iPhone is using frequencies reserved for cellular data over a radio designated as the cellular radio. When wi-fi is turned on, your iPhone is using a different radio to transmit on whatever frequency the network you are connected to is set to. 

Additionally, when you are on a 3G/4G cellular network, your cellular data is not sent directly from your iPhone to your ISP. It is sent from your iPhone to a microwave tower, that is cross connected into the Internet via whomever the carrier uses as their transport network (T-Mobile leases space on other carriers towers and uses that carrier as transport. So if the tower is a Verizon tower, T-Mobile provides the packets to Verizon and Verizon transports them to the destination/peer).  

The data is different. The technology is different. The data is treated differently. It transmits differently. 

And i I agree that it should be treated exactly the same. But we have morons writing the laws that deal with technology. 

1 hour ago, Larry said:

When I connect my cell phone to AT&T, I am using equipment specifically designed to connect IP-using programs directly to my ISP.  

 

Note for emphasis:  When I am using AT&T, I am using equipment designed to directly connect me to my ISP.  When I am using WiFi, I am using my phone to connect to somebody else's network (here at home, I'm connecting to a network I built myself), and that network then connects me to an ISP.  

No, your iPhone is connected using equipment specifically designed to connect IP-using programs directly to your carrier.  Carriers and ISPs are treated differently, for reasons only known to old geezers writing laws and lobbyists. When operating in 3G/4G mode, your iPhone is NOT connecting directly to an ISP.  When it is using WiFi, your iPhone is connecting directly to an ISP. 

1 hour ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

even if she did lie, mocking her story of rape is still unacceptable.

This has to stop. She. Wasn’t. Raped. There is a HUGE difference between what she accused Kavanaugh of and rape. People continuously referring to her allegations as rape needs to stop. The allegations are bad enough on their own. 

1 hour ago, Larry said:

You might want to look at the word I've bolded in your post, there.  

 

Cellular data is Internet data.  (Unless you want to claim you're talking about something like SMS messages, or some such.)  Your argument consists if "Your ISP didn't throttle your data between the ISP and the Internet, it only throttled your data between you and the ISP, and that doesn't count (because I've said so, and capitalized a word)".  

Incorrect. Cellular data is a 3G or 4G cellular connection to a cell tower, via cellular frequencies, that are then transmitted to the internet.  Internet data would be wi-fi data, transmitted to a router that is connected directly to the Internet (via your LAN).  The FCC wanted to classify cellular data as broadband (and tried to), but couldn't do it successfully because they are old people that don't understand the technology fully so there were loopholes created that exempted data throttling as part of cellular service plans. 

9 minutes ago, mistertim said:

Sounds more like prison than the armed services. Gotta get down with the people in your car if anything jumps off in the yard.

Well, I'm fairly confident that prisoners have more rights than military folks.  They can't send prisoners to clear buildings room by room in Fallujah.  Or to wade through human excrement in the dumpsters at Ft. Polk.

Only half joking...