Wrangler Riggs Workwear Men’s Short Sleeve Pocket T-Shirt
December 22nd, 2019Are you tired of poorly made, tight fitting, negligee thin t-shirts?
I have finally found a high quality heavy weight t-shirt: Wrangler Riggs Workwear T-shirt.
Imagine the nicest t-shirt you have ever had, maybe from 20 or 30 years ago, and now try to imagine it even better. Much better. Not only is this Wrangler Riggs t-shirt made out of extremely heavy 7oz cotton, it fits the way t-shirts used to fit; loose, with plenty of room to move. The workmanship is far beyond anything else I’ve ever seen. It also features vented side seams, a taped neck seam and a hidden utility loop to keep a pen (or something similar) secure in the pocket.
Yes, this Wrangler Riggs t-shirt is much more expensive than a commodity t-shirt, but there’s no comparison. I’m going to stock up on these, because you know what will happen with something this good: It won’t be around for long.
Boeing’s Starliner Enters Wrong Orbit, Won’t Dock with ISS
December 20th, 2019Via: Daily Mail:
Boeing’s new Starliner capsule won’t dock with the International Space Station on Saturday after launching into the wrong orbit just minutes after blasting off on its first test flight.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said it burned more fuel than anticipated to maintain control which ‘precluded a space station rendezvous’.
The Starliner capsule went off course into the wrong orbit just minutes after blasting off on its first test flight – a crucial dress rehearsal for next year’s inaugural launch with astronauts.
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices
December 20th, 2019Via: Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data such as internet connectivity directly to its devices, according to people familiar with the work.
The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design industries working on the project with the goal of deploying their results within five years, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal company efforts. Work on the project is still early and could be abandoned, the people said, and a clear direction and use for satellites hasn’t been finalized. Still, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has shown interest in the project, indicating it’s a company priority.
Google Goes Offline After Fibre Cables Cut
December 20th, 2019Via: BBC:
Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday.
The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to happen.
Google said its services were among those unavailable in the region for about 30 minutes.
The company told internet service providers to connect to its other servers to “route around the problem”.
In a statement, the company blamed “multiple simultaneous fibre cuts”, which are very rare.
BBC Monitoring confirmed that internet access in Bulgaria, Iran and Turkey had been disrupted for about two hours on Thursday morning.
Sadjad Bonabi, a director at Iran’s Communications Infrastructure Company, said two cuts happened at once, one between Iran and Bucharest and the other on a line to Munich.
This disrupted traffic on one of the major fibre cables in the region. But Mr Bonabi said traffic had been routed on to “healthy” connections in western and southern Iran.
No explanation for the cut cables has been offered.
Pig Ebola: Chinese Banks Offer Pork to Reward Customers for Opening New Accounts
December 19th, 2019Via: South China Morning Post:
Handing out servings of expensive pork as a reward for opening an account is the latest gimmick being used by a growing number of small local banks across China to lure new depositors.
Banks are being forced to go to greater lengths to attract new deposits, since they generally earn less money from lending and have fewer funding options than their larger peers.
The fact that pork could be seen as a desirable reward for opening a bank account also speaks to the country’s massive shortage of its favourite staple meat.
Warrant Not Always Needed for ‘Inadvertent’ NSA Surveillance of Americans
December 19th, 2019This sort of fluff is nothing compared to: “It’s just like laundering money – you work it backwards to make it clean.”
Enjoy your 4th Amendment.
Via: Reuters:
The U.S. government may collect information about U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant if the information is gathered inadvertently while legally carrying out surveillance of non-nationals abroad, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
Vampire Squid May Admit Guilt, Pay $2 Billion Fine in Corruption Scandal
December 19th, 2019Via: Reuters:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc is in talks with the U.S. government and a state regulator to possibly pay up to $2 billion and admit guilt to resolve investigations into its role in the 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The bank and U.S. officials have discussed a deal in which a Goldman subsidiary in Asia would plead guilty to violating U.S. bribery laws, the Wall Street Journal first reported on Thursday.
3 Victims & 3 Shooters Dead After “Terrorist” Attack On FSB HQ In Moscow
December 19th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge:
RT reports that three gunmen entered the lobby at FSB headquarters in Moscow and opened fire, killing three security guards. All three of the shooters have now been neutralized in what officials are calling a terrorist attack.
Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas an Hour
December 19th, 2019Via: Fox 5 NY:
A robot will be serving food to thousands of guests at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Seattle-based Picnic says its automated food assembly system will produce up to 300 12-inch customized pizzas an hour on the CES show floor.
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The company ran a test pilot with the robot at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park baseball stadium in October.
The robot is initially focused on the production of high-volume, customizable pizzas. But the company says it could be used for many types of food, whether it uses a bun, bowl, tortilla or plate.
The machine uses deep learning AI technology to continually learn as it functions.
Open Thread: Donald Trump Impeached on Two Charges
December 18th, 2019My guess: This is noise, which I’ve mostly ignored.
The people involved with this, on all sides, are so corrupt that I physically can’t stand trying to pretend to be interested one way or the other. As the public facing bipartisan goon squad tries to out ratfuck each other, the Military Industrial Complex quietly swallows another another trillion dollars.
Why isn’t there ceaseless outrage in the media about this?
*crickets* *blank stares* “Conspiracy theorist!”
Yep, so, back to the Trump impeachment circus. Enjoy the show!
Via: DailyMail:
Donald Trump became the third president in American history to be impeached on Wednesday on a largely party line vote, setting up a formal trial next year in the Senate.
The impeachment vote capped off a three month investigation into the president’s actions in regard to the Ukraine. The vote came at the end of a day long partisan debate on the House floor with Republicans charging Democrats with wanting to over turn the last presidential election and Democrats arguing the president tried to use a foreign power to help him win re-election.
