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Re: How to Home Lab: Part 3 - Host an Intranet Site with pfSense and NAT

breadteam — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 05:23:01 -0000

@DL Ford - this user has some good corrections for you!!

Re: This Week in Leases: Cal State L.A. Takes 12,000 Square Feet at The Alhambra

breadteam — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:20:59 -0000

This photo was taken on Marengo, just up the street from the Home Depot. Those are the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.

Re: Singer Beth Orton Spray Paints Protected Joshua Tree In New Music Video

breadteam — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 01:37:38 -0000

Naturally Beth Orton is an idiot for not seeing that the Joshua Tree was alive and well with green leaves, but why is no one throwing any blame in the direction of the director, Tierney Gearon?

Take a look at some of her other art ... including a photograph of a bunch of kids spray painting a small kids car in the desert. The spray painting was clearly her idea.

Look at the second photo:
http://modafamilia.com/cutu...

Re: Google will announce Pixel phones, 4K Chromecast, Google Home, Daydream VR viewer on October 4th

breadteam — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:18:01 -0000

The same can be said about your mom.

Re: The Next Great TV Show (If Someone Will Make It)

breadteam — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:53:33 -0000

God damn it, man, Stephen Maturin is a PHYSICIAN, not a mere surgeon.

Re: Text tagged with hed not found in K4 article: 07fea_milch_article

breadteam — Sat, 28 May 2016 04:29:51 -0000

You can still write!

Re: The Best External Desktop Hard Drive

breadteam — Fri, 20 May 2016 03:57:12 -0000

That's true. That Seagate drive gets HORRIBLE reviews! Yikes! Apparently, it overheats, lots of people report that it fails, and many people say that Seagate's shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology makes for a slow drive.

I love you, Wirecutter, but I've read way too many scary reviews of the 5TB Seagate drive!

Re: The End / The Dissolve

breadteam — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:09:54 -0000

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

You all are my authorities on movie reviews! I've followed you all for years from the AV Club days! Don't break up the band!!! NOOOOOOOO PLEASE NOOOOOOOO

Please don't stop writing movie reviews, people. I don't trust anyone else. Seriously!

Re: My Former Enemy

breadteam — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 22:45:04 -0000

Is there a tracklist for the music that played during the Dance Lessons segment?

I really liked the smoky, atmospheric jazz drum and stand up bass music in the beginning.

Re: KCRW Exclusive: Jokers of the Scene Guest DJ Set

breadteam — Sat, 24 May 2014 23:29:23 -0000

What an incredible night! You won a new fan. I can't wait for End Scene's release!

Re: Snake actually on a plane

breadteam — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:43:36 -0000

Then they would be Polonius

"To thine own self be true"

Re: Snake actually on a plane

breadteam — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:43:08 -0000

Snakes are venomous or non-venomous, not poisonous or non-poisonous.

Re: Batman Earth One: rebooting the bat

breadteam — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:52:15 -0000

What is the percentage of comic book readers over 13 that like this terrible style of coloring? This style of coloring where everything is reflective is just awful. I cannot read any comics that look like this because they are visually repulsive.

Is it really just me who feels this way?

Re: Make yourself healthy: Searching for the cause of acne

breadteam — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:41:59 -0000

Considering the non-quack cause she believes she found, I'm glad she went through all the shitty quack treatments first. That's what people do when they can't afford proper medical care or they cannot tolerate brute-force medical solutions to problems that could possibly be treated in other ways. Anyway, she did the quack remedy tour and concluded that the treatments she was offered sucked. That's useful to me!

As for your chemotherapy argument, I know that it works as a good reason to not seek bullshit quack remedies in general (and I'm with you there), but in this case, it's a straw man and you should be ashamed of yourself for using it in this case. Acne is not life-threatening. Give this writer some credit for doing their best to find a solution to their acne and sharing their story. Imagine what you would have done in the exact same situation.

As for the research, yeah, everyone wants thorough well-conducted research for their problems. Tell us something new.

Re: Dangerous Minds | Punk rock hippie shit: ‘Please help need LSD now!’

breadteam — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:09:14 -0000

Hey guys - big Dangerous Minds fan here. Please give proper attribution to that image!
http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: Hitchens and Orwell

breadteam — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:14:14 -0000

Actually, in the article I linked to, that you obviously didn't read, Hitchens himself acknowledges the fact that he was getting the easy treatment. He goes on to mention that despite the fact he knew what he was in for and that he had an easy way out, the experience was so utterly horrifying that he believed it was unequivocally torture.

Big deal, though, right? It's pretty clear that I could throw any number of corrections your way and you wouldn't reconsider your position on the man, or even argue in good faith.

Again, I encourage you to actually read some of Christopher Hitchens' writing before you half-bake your opinion of his work.

Re: Hitchens and Orwell

breadteam — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:40:15 -0000

What do you mean by "backed the overwhelming and oppressive "security" and surveillance states in the US and UK."?

If you mean to say that he fully supported a Big Brother-style surveillance apparatus or anything even remotely like that, you're just wrong. His support of domestic intelligence gathering on terrorists was very much conditional.

From his Wikipedia article:
"In January 2006, Hitchens joined with four other individuals and four organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Greenpeace, as plaintiffs in a lawsuit, ACLU v. NSA, challenging Bush's warrantless domestic spying program; the lawsuit was filed by the ACLU."

One of his statements regarding this lawsuit, from the ACLU's site:
http://www.aclu.org/nationa...

Information on the lawsuit itself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

I do not agree with Hitchens on many topics, particularly his support for the Iraq war, but I have tremendous respect for the man. He was a tremendously powerful and inspirational communicator and thinker. Calling him a "tool" is dismissive and simply inaccurate.

Re: Hitchens and Orwell

breadteam — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:28:19 -0000

No respect? Really? This is one of the most intelligent journalists, critics, and general polemicists to appear in the 20th century and you have no respect for him? If you're so upset because he hurts your delicate feelings, try reading more of his work. He wrote about such an incredible range of topics that I'm sure you'll find something you both agree on.

I'm not sure he really "sucked up" to George W. Bush but he did agree with some of his foreign policies. I recall Hitchens writing about him in very negative terms - despite still supporting the Iraq war until the end of his life (a topic I disagree with him on completely, but I still respect him tremendously).

As for his feelings on torture, did you ever read this article?
http://www.vanityfair.com/p...

Yes, Christopher Hitchens underwent "waterboarding" and called it torture. How far would you go to prove a point?

As for his attacks on Mother Teresa, there is no way that you can read his book "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice" and make the claim that his attacks lacked substance. Unless, perhaps, your name is Bill Donahue.

Don't want to read the book (it's not that long, really)? Take a look at this article on Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articl...
Or search Youtube for "Hell's Angel"

The reason anyone is comparing Christopher Hitchens to George Orwell is because he wrote a book called "Why Orwell Matters" and wrote and spoke about him in glowing terms at just about every opportunity.

Something tells me that you're not very familiar with Christopher Hitchens.
Try looking at the Wikipedia article about him before making uninformed comments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Lamy Safari Fountain Pen

breadteam — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:11:51 -0000

I use Sailor Jentle Ink (black) in mine and it works fine. I love the way it flows.

I lost my first Lamy Safari at the beach once and I was really upset. Then, when I went to buy a new one I realized that they only make them now with a chrome colored clip. ARGH! It's so ugly - I wish they still sold these with the black clip.

Re: Noodler’s Inks

breadteam — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:07:43 -0000

Can anyone recommend any Noodler's inks for a Lamy Safari fountain pen? I have a Noodler's Ink (I believe it is Polar Black) and it clogged up my pen something awful. It was unusable - the ink would just not flow freely.

I use Sailor Jentle Ink now with my Lamy and I love it.

Re: XKCD's "Lakes and Oceans" chart of the other 70% of the planet

breadteam — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:55:19 -0000

Question: what's the little horizontal line at ~1500m, between the aircraft carrier and the Titanic?

Re: XKCD's "Lakes and Oceans" chart of the other 70% of the planet

breadteam — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:54:00 -0000

I wonder if it means a champagne bottle full of air, not champagne.

Re: breadteamblr, Holy shit that’s intense jesusislove: you can’t...

breadteam — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:33:15 -0000

Can't get enough blonde Jesus? The artist signed his name on the table to the right: Stephen Sawyer. Here's his site:

http://www.art4god.com/html...

Re: The Incal: classic, weird-ass French space-opera comic drawn by Moebius, reprinted in English

breadteam — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:56:21 -0000

Does anyone know how this compares to the edition put out by Humanoids?

http://www.amazon.com/Incal...

I bought the Humanoids one a few months ago for about $40 ... did I make a mistake? I haven't had a chance to read it yet and I never saw the original version so I don't know if the coloring is off.

Re: Lauren Scruggs Gets Prosthetic Eye : People.com

breadteam — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:16 -0000

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to thank your doctor and prosthetic technicians before you thank God? What an ingrate.