POV: It’s 1995 and you just bought MechWarrior 2 (Pentium 75+MS-DOS) YouTube video by 586RETRO PCs

youtu.be/K1zNe3NYb-E

James Purefoy is great in that role.

adult forms like "professor at rural New England liberal arts college contemplates cheating on wife"

few understand upside vs downside risk

Charismatic megafauna

getting a lot of BEACON vibes from it too. nice.

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MARATHON is pretty fun. Too bad my connection isn't good and the lag and stuttering gets pretty bad.

THRAWN: you know, for the cost, material and labor you could have had several thousand SDs and SSDs

TARKIN: have you seen the bs porkbarrel giveaways the Senate slaps onto shipbuilding contracts? No, were running the whole thing in the black budget.

Your cost too high, your timelines too long, your public perception too bad.

They killed you.

The Death Star: A Pentagon Purchasing Nightmare A Pentagon acquisitions journal isn't the place you'd typically go for Star Wars fan fic. But an Air Force lieutenant colonel has an urgent message for the Pentagon: Stop buying overbudget, useless De...

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No surprise downtrend it's the AF that figured this out

Don't Come to the Dark Side: Acquisition Lessons from a Galaxy Far, Far Away apps.dtic.mil/sti/citation...

This is how I mash the "Death Star procurement analysis" writeups with my own "DS lets politicoes avoid inscrutable Navy politics & powerbase of pre-Imperial traditions" to get "Death Star procurement as endrun around ossified and dysfunctional imperial opnav"

Damn I guess I accidentally advanced the story.

Ina Garten, the Carter Whitehouse nuclear policy analyst?

so far I'm trying to stick to Omar Little's
"Look I ain't never put my gun on no citizen"

but sometimes it's more Jayne Cobb's
"I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's going to start a fair fight. Or if I'm bein' paid."

No I didn’t like your post per se but I could see it came from a good place

assigned blame for the recent past, and punished those whose cases were the most egregious or psychologically satisfying, the majority of people in the lands recently occupied by the Germans were more interested in putting uncomfortable or unpleasant memories behind them and getting on with their fractured lives. In any case, very few men and women at the time were disposed to blame their countrymen for the worst crimes. For these, it was universally agreed, the Germans must take full responsibility. Indeed, so widespread was the view that ultimate blame for the horrors of World War Two must fall on German shoulders alone that even Austria was held exempt. Under an Allied agreement of 1943, Austria had been officially declared Hitler’s ‘first victim’ and was thus assured different treatment from Germany at the war’s end. This

units during the war. Austrians had been disproportionately represented in the SS and in concentration camp administrations. Austrian public life and high culture were saturated with Nazi sympathizers—45 out of 117 members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra were Nazis (whereas the Berlin Philharmonic had just 8 Nazi Party members out of 110 musicians). In the circumstances, Austria got off lightly, astonishingly so. 130,000 Austrians were investigated for war crimes, of whom 23,000 were tried, 13,600 condemned, 43 sentenced to death and just 30 executed. Some 70,000 civil servants were dismissed. The four occupying Allied powers agreed in the autumn of 1946 to let Austria thenceforth handle its own criminals and ‘denazification’. The education system, particularly infested, was duly denazified: 2,943 primary school teachers were dismissed and 477 secondary school

teachers, but just 27 university professors—despite the notoriously pro-Nazi sympathies of many senior academics. In 1947 the Austrian authorities passed a law distinguishing between ‘more’ and ‘less’ incriminated Nazis. 500,000 of the latter were amnestied the following year and their voting rights restored. The former—about 42,000 in all—would all be amnestied by 1956. After that Austrians simply forgot about their involvement with Hitler altogether. One reason for the ease with which Austria emerged from its dalliance with Nazism is that it suited all local interests to adjust the recent past to their advantage: the conservative People’s Party, heir to the pre-war Christian Social Party, had every reason to burnish its own and Austria’s ‘un-German’ credentials so as to divert attention from the corporatist regime they had imposed by force in 1934. The Austrian Social

Democrats, indisputably anti-Nazi, had nonetheless to overcome the record of their pre-1933 calls for Anschluss with Germany. Another reason is that all parties were interested in massaging and flattering the votes of ex-Nazis, a significant electoral constituency that would shape the country’s political future. And then, as we shall see, there were the new configurations shaped by the onset of the Cold War. Calculations like these were far from absent in Germany. But there the local population was not offered a say in its own fate. In the same Moscow Declaration of October 30th 1943 that relieved Austria of responsibility for its Nazi allegiance, the Allies warned the Germans that they would be held responsible for their war crimes. And so they were. In a series of trials between 1945 and 1947 the Allied occupying powers in Germany prosecuted Nazis and their

reading Judt's POSTWAR and learned that Austria escaped even the cursory de-Nazification of East and West Germany (after which over a third of Germans surveyed thought of themselves as the primary victims of the war)

- usmc vet, gwot volunteer
- from Maine
- have a bunch of conservative signifiers
- susan collins supporter early on

-be Jared Golden

'With early detection, what was middle-aged yaoi 20 years ago can be old man yaoi today. Talk to your doctor and get screened.'

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

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also finally replacing my junky Amazon list workflow with WorldCat

A fifth library card has hit the Libby app

I'm liking my shark introduction plan more and more. Bull sharks would tolerate the brackish and fresh water better but can't take the temps (and would certainly eat a sea lion)

short of dynamiting the all-you-can-eat salmon buffet, or the introduction of Great White Sharks to the lower Columbia, a quick death may be the best option.

(Attempts to commercialize sea lion products will meet with resistance)

The River being this huge issue in the region with lots of stakeholders and a set of interlocking problems (power production, shipping traffic, salmon fishery, tourism, agriculture, Tribal rights and obligations) means there's almost no action that won't piss a lot of people off.

now the topper is on the cake

nailed it

fundamental attribution error

again I'm interested in what the film has to misstate ('lie') to us about to make it work.

"Oh no they're structuring their deposits, we definitely don't notice that or have a term specifically for that"

The Peasant (or Ploughman), from "The Dance of Death" Hans Holbein the Younger Printmaker Hans Lützelburger

eating my morning bowl of gruel while I listen to rumors of war, consider the recent pronouncement of the Pope, thank God for delivering me from the pestilence, ask if we're being punished for our sins, all before I go to work on the cathedral in the French style.

Picture unrelated.