Here's something a Solid State Drive can do that I've never seen a normal drive do: when shut down due to a system crash, silently sprinkle an untold number of read errors all over the file system.

And you won't know about it until you notice that a some apps have started failing in strange ways, that random files have become corrupt, that Visual Studio will start, but it won't compile anything because some DLL somewhere is broken.

And then you look in the system events logs and notice the hundreds of read errors.

How can you tell which apps were affected without running them and testing every bit of functionality? You can't! How do you know if parts of Windows itself were affected? You can't!

This is an exciting time to own a PC.

I think Jesus said that.

On yesterday's radio broadcast, Bryan Fischer read from a recent Wall Street Journal article reporting that the top 1% of Americans account for nearly 30% of all federal tax revenue.

To Fischer, the poor and middle class families in this country "ought to be kissing the ground on which [the rich] walk" because it is the top 1% that is paying for EBT cards and food stamps and federal housing.

The rich, Fischer asserted "ought to be given ticker tape parades once a week in all of our major cities to thank them for funding welfare for everybody"

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What you need to do is to find a guy with some money, marry him, and STFU about how much you earn.

By the end of the month, there will be pressure on CBS to change their mind about having Colbert replace Letterman from "conservatives" who think Colbert is insufficiently "conservative" for America.

O'Reilly and Shapiro have started laying the foundation.

There it was.

The big square box from Touch And Go.

The boxed set had arrived.

Left on his driveway by the lazy postman.

The rain waited until he could bring it inside.

But no longer.

Inside, he cut the paper tape.

With scissors from the drawer.

With scissors from the junk drawer.

And inside the box.

Was the foam. The dry, brittle foam.

So white. So squeaky.

So arrangeable.

Signed. Remastered. With DVD. Three LPs. Two CDs.

104 page photo book.

Replica 1989 tour shirt made from the original silk screen.

Collector bait.

Collected. Hooked.

I have you.

I have you.

I Have You!

A feghoot is a brief story, usually in a science-fiction setting, whose punchline is an elaborate pun.

I should read some.

...in 2012 more American parents named their daughters after characters on Game Of Thrones than “Betsy” or “Nadine”—both super boring names that have never appeared on any TV shows about dragons

via The A.V. Club

Yes, Lenny the black and white domestic shorthair stray was rescued from a Rochester park in February, nursed back to health at Scottsville, adopted out last month, and within two days, returned to the shelter because "he farts all the time," according to the intake papers filled out by his two-day owner.

... back in 2008, the tut-tutting sensitive wingnuts got all sad and brokenhearted when a gun maker fired their CEO for supporting Obama?

The company posted a statement Wednesday night on its website that said:

"The employees, shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper. Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms. The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President."

Yeah, me neither.

Some gun bloggers, such as one who blogs on snowflakesinhell.com, had posted the company's e-mail address and telephone number, encouraging gun owners to boycott Cooper Firearms the company and contact its top executives.

"This needs to get around," wrote the blogger who identifies himself only as "Sebastian, a thirty something, self professed 'gun nut' living somewhere in Pennsylvania." He added: "Gun owners need to know which companies sell their interests down the river. Here's contact info for Cooper Firearms. I would talk to them, and be sure they know Obama's record, why you're not voting for him, and why you'll never buy one of their products."

Tolerance!

At least the SnowflakesInHell crowd had the good sense to recognize their own history. Though they seem to insist that the Eich situation is totally different. Of course they do.