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Iran-based trainer of 9/11 hijackers Sayf al-‘Adl believed to be new al-Qaeda chief
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Armed Florida man has boxer, cell phone, mobility malfunction, fails at rape attempt
[Blaze] An armed man tried to sexually assault a woman, but he was startled and tripped with his genitals hanging out of his shorts, according to Florida police.

The heinous incident unfolded on Friday morning when a couple hiking in a park in Brevard County was confronted by an armed man, later identified as Donovan Tyler Adkins, according to a police Facebook post.

The man said Adkins pointed his gun at them and ordered them out of their tent just after sunrise.

Adkins accused the man and his girlfriend of robbing people that he knew, and then he pretended to speak on his phone while telling the woman to go deeper into the forest, police said. He then allegedly threatened to shoot her unless she performed sexual acts on him.

The woman told police that she responded to Adkins that she'd rather take a bullet than face sexual assault. She then began screaming and her boyfriend appeared after following them, which startled the suspect.

The Ledger-Enquirer reported that Adkins tripped on a bush and fell while his genitals hung out of his shorts.

The couple ran away and were in the process of gathering their belongings when Adkins allegedly followed them and stole the woman's cellphone.

Investigators said another park visitor, who told them they were "familiar with the suspect," came forward to the police with information. Then the female victim was able to "independently" locate and identify the attacker and send photographs of the suspect at an apartment complex.

Police arrested Adkins and booked him into the Brevard County Jail on a $36,000 bond.

The man faces numerous charges, including robbery with a firearm, aggravated assault with deadly weapon, false imprisonment, sexual battery, petit theft, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting arrest without violence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 01:21 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  imprisonment, sexual battery, petit theft, possession of a firearm

Is this for like stealing that fancy confectionery at snooty parties?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Camping without a firearm?
Never heard of it.

Some Deeper details of the incident having me betting the woman right now is thinking her boyfriends' testosterone levels are lower than hers.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  If I escape from kidnapping and attempted sexual assault at gun point, packing up my camping gear would be a low priority. Also if my attacker trips and falls down with his trousers around his ankles, I would make a credible effort to put him in the concussion protocol. I guess people are different and the gene pool has some room for people with no survival sense at this point in our civilization. That said this couple should probably cease camping in Florida unless they are making a blanket tent in their living room.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/15/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  A guy in his underwear who just tripped and fell seems like a good target for an ass kicking contest.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 02/15/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  What Super Hose said.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 9:34 Comments || Top||

#6  They don’t call them millennials for nothing

And I agree the boyfriend is a bit pathetic in his defense of his girlfriend
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/15/2023 16:14 Comments || Top||


Wisconsin woman accused of decapitating lover randomly attacks own lawyer in court
[NYPOST] Taylor Schabusiness, 25, lunged at defense attorney Quinn Jolly after the judge in the gruesome murder case suggested pushing the trial back two months.

Shocking video of the spontaneous and violent mostly peaceful outburst shows Schabusiness calmly sitting in the Green Bay courtroom as Judge Thomas J. Walsh recommends starting the murder trial on May 15 instead of March 6 — a suggestion he made at Jolly’s request.

Seemingly angered by the decision, the accused killer flings herself at the attorney, who was sitting beside her — striking him with her elbows and handcuffed wrists.

A security guard then quickly tackles Schabusiness to the ground, the chaotic clip shows.

At one point, the guard’s toolbelt becomes wrapped around Schabusiness’ toes, which were exposed after she lost her shoes in the tussle.

After several minutes, two other guards eventually help pin Schabusiness down until she is calm.

The bizarre blowup came after Jolly asked Walsh for an extension in order to prove his client was not competent to stand trail for the February 2022 grisly murder of 25-year-old Shad Thyrion, Law and Crime reported.

Schabusiness allegedly decapitated Thyrion during sex, continued to perform sexual acts on his lifeless body and mutilated his corpse with a serrated bread knife.

She then stuffed his severed head and penis in a bucket and other body parts in a crock pot, leaving them for his mother to find, prosecutors claim.

The woman — who is married to another man — was found by police at home covered in blood, records show.

She reportedly told cops they would "have fun trying to find all of the organs."

Schabusiness plead not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect but reportedly admitted to cops that she went "crazy" during the deadly romp.

She told detectives she and Thyrion had been smoking methamphetamine before going to his mother’s house to have sex using chains.

She also said she didn’t intend on killing him, though reportedly admitted she sat on the victim and "waited for him to die" as he coughed up blood.

"Ya, I liked it," Schabusiness said about choking Thyrion.

Jolly had told the judge he needed more time for a defense expert to review the case and testify as to his client’s competency.

A court-appointed doctor found Schabusiness competent to stand trial last year, but the defense attorney pushed back against the diagnosis.

Jolly said Schabusiness was previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has received mental health treatment since she was a 7th grader.

Schabusiness faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Valentine's Day treat!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Are these meds and other narcotics creating monsters ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 1:08 Comments || Top||

#3 
"Lady, I am your defense lawyer!"

"You should see what I did to my lover-rraaaargh!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 4:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Bailiff should have choked her out, like she did to the victim.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 02/15/2023 6:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Going for the Social Media influencer job or just working the insanity defense.

... since she was a 7th grader.
Now think of all the Jr. High and High School guys that did her and were lucky enough to live.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 6:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like a hit-woman.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:42 Comments || Top||

#7  She sounds a bit crazy but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: SteveS || 02/15/2023 8:04 Comments || Top||

#8  If a dog mauled and killed a child, we wouldn't worry about whether it was 'sane' or 'sick'. Judge on the crime committed not who/what did it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ These days, a pit bull kills a kid, it has a Go Fund Me to be re-homed in a flash.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Certainly nothing to lose one's head over. Your taste may vary.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#11  The woman — who is married to another man

I either want to have a beer with that man or never be in the same state with him.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#12  She's a human Praying Mantis.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 02/15/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Dennis Hopper's unnamed character in Apocalypse Now: "The heads. Your looking at the heads, man. Sometimes, he gets carried away..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

#14  ...she and her hubby.

Warren Schabusiness is Tylor Schabusiness’s husband. He was in charge at the time of the murder of Shad Rock Thyrion and is currently incarcerated in Wisconsin. The two also have a recently born child, as the reports say. - cite

Could a Hallmark TV movie be in development?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2023 9:09 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ They both look so normal at that link. Book / cover thing debunked again.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:11 Comments || Top||

#16  It's really hard to find fault with someone who wants to harm a defense attorney.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/15/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||

#17  That's a very flattering picture of her. That was probably before her crystal meth addiction. She looks 'Beat-Up Florida' in her courtroom pics.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/15/2023 12:48 Comments || Top||

#18  She looks sorta chunky in that orange jumpsuit. Jail food will do that to you. At fighting weight I bet she was professional scary.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 12:54 Comments || Top||

#19  And I'm sorta surprised "toes" isn't a comment filter word.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 12:59 Comments || Top||

#20  No, but __________ is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 18:08 Comments || Top||

#21  #19 And I'm sorta surprised "toes" isn't a comment filter word.

Modified when Rex Ryan was reinstated
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2023 20:03 Comments || Top||

#22  Looks like a hit-woman.

Her make-up and carefully shaped eyebrows are very stylish. It’s her attitude and expression that make her look like a sociopatj.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2023 21:17 Comments || Top||

#23  She looks kinda cute . . . in a headstrong sort of way.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/15/2023 21:31 Comments || Top||

#24  She's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until she bitch slaps ya
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 02/15/2023 22:45 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
We lost a great American yesterday morning.
[Coffee or Die] Maj. Gen. Gary Harrell, a legendary Delta Force leader, is being remembered as a quiet professional who lived a daring life of service and sacrifice during America’s shadow wars.

The retired two-star Green Beret general died early on Valentine’s Day in Johnson City, Tennessee, following a long battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.

He was 71 and had hunted Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, led an operation to free an American hostage from a Panamanian prison, and battled the nation’s enemies in Grenada, the Gulf War, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan during three decades of service.

"He was a strong, Christian patriot who loved his country and would’ve done anything for his country, until the day he died," his wife, Jennifer "Jenny" Harrell, told Coffee or Die on Tuesday. "That was foremost to him. He loved his military service, every minute of it."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 06:20 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Will be missed, but always remembered along with the other heroes on the wall downstairs.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Note: So for those that did not work with SFOD-D can understand my comment. There is a memorial wall that was dedicated to the fallen, and their names are on it to be quietly and proudly remembered.

A loved and famous movie star even help fund it, as I was told by my military liaison.
.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 16:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought that might be it from context, NN2N1, but appreciate the explanation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2023 21:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Men without a past
[YouTube] We followed these elite soldiers who have come from all over the world to serve France. For Droit de Savoir” he filmed these Foreign Legion new recruits during the different stages of training in Djibouti, in Guyana and also during the violent operations in the Ivory Coast. From a series of warning shots at a column of vehicles led by the Ivory Coast president’s rebels in power to the training sessions in the Guianese equatorial forest or in the Djibouti desert, the most dangerous and hazardous missions are the ones given to these “men without pasts.” Eighty percent of these trainees successfully complete the training compared to only 50 percent among soldiers of the regular army. Considered as one of the best professional troops of the French army, the Foreign Legion is conceived to deal with the high risk missions where the probability of losing soldiers is highest. This is also the only army unit where men have the right to a second chance no matter what their past. An exceptional document which testifies to the reality of ground combat, and where the adversity and danger lived through together create a durable cohesion.” -
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 06:40 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks B

I thought I recalled a French war movie where the guys who joined the Foreign Legion were convicts.

There's been a couple times when people were commenting on Wagner recruitment and I was thinking that's kind of what the French do.
Posted by: mossomo || 02/15/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||


Arizona authorities issue evacuation, shelter-in-place orders after nitric acid spill
Hey, Transport Pete!
[FoxNews] Hazmat spill on Interstate 10 prompted evacuations and shelter-in-place orders in Tucson, Arizona.

A portion of an Arizona freeway was closed in both directions Tuesday as a result of a crash and hazmat spill, authorities said.

The state Department of Public Safety said the closure on Interstate 10 between Rita and Kolb roads in Tucson was "extensive" and urged motorists to avoid the area.

A commercial truck tanker rolled over on the freeway, causing the spill, authorities said.

Pima County officials told Fox News Digital that the spilled substance was nitric acid. An alert directed everyone within a one-mile radius of the spill to shelter in place.

The Tucson Fire Department said it was on the scene with other agencies to clean up the area. There was no estimated time to reopen the road.

Nitric acid is a highly corrosive chemical used in manufacturing and fertilizer. Several areas have been evacuated, officials told Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stood next to a tank wagon of boron hexafluoride once. Chem E at the plant I was visiting said, "If that leaks, we all die."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Now we need a hazardous pipeline spill for the hat trick.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/15/2023 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  If a gasoline fountain erupted in my backyard, I'd be calling neighbors for buckets and tubs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Seems like just a month ago or so that railway workers were going on strike because of unsafe conditions, low staffing, and low pay. Biden ordered them back to work.
So no one could have predicted any of this stuff happening.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/15/2023 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Wreckers.

Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ "Trotskyite Deviationist Wreckers!"
Posted by: borgboy || 02/15/2023 14:26 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Quake death toll passes 40,000 in Turkey, Syria
[Rudaw] More than 40,000 have died due to last week’s catastrophic earthquakes in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and Syria, according to official figures.

A destructive 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Kurdish city of Kahramanmaras in Turkey on February 6, with its impact also ripping through neighbouring Syria. Another quake followed in both countries hours later.

Speaking at Ottoman Turkish disaster agency AFAD’s headquarters in Ankara late Tuesday, Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
said the twin quakes have killed 35,418 people and injured 105,505 others in Turkey.

The corpse count was below 32,000 the previous day.

A number of Syrian cities, which are under the control of regime and pro-Turkey forces, were also affected by the tremor.

Over 4,300 people have been reported dead in Turkey-held areas in northwest Syria, according to the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
. The Syrian government has also reported over 1100 deaths.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a report sent to Rudaw English late Tuesday that 5,417 people were killed by the twin quakes in all affected parts of Syria.

Earthquake Victims’ Toll In Syria Reaches 3.694 Deaths, 14.814 Injuries

[NPASyria] The toll of the victims of the earthquake that hit Syria on Feb. 6 at dawn has risen to 3.694 deaths and 14.814 injuries in a provisional count.

On Tuesday, the Syrian government announced that the final toll for the earthquake victims in areas under its control reached 1.414 deaths and 2.357 injuries.

The Civil Defense of the Syrian opposition in Idlib declared the fatalities number in northwest Syria has reached 2.274 deaths and more than 12.400 injuries up until Monday night.

The civil defense has not released a final corpse count in northwest Syria as dead body recovery operations are still ongoing in several places in Idlib and Aleppo countryside.

In areas under the control of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), the Health Board has, so far, recorded six dead and 57 injured.

The corpse count is expected to rise significantly as hope fades in rescuing thousands of bodies still under the rubble nine days after the earthquake hit.

Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2023 10:45 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Dramatic new images show parched Lake Oroville transformed by California storms: Atmospheric rivers dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the state, leading to flooding - but also boosting drought-strapped reservoirs
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Lake Oroville was at 68% of its capacity Friday, up from 28% two months prior
    Next, FLOODING!
  • The California lake is the largest reservoir on the State Water Project, which supplies water to about 27 million people

  • New photos show a significant rise in the reservoir levels from 2021 to 2023

Lake Oroville, one of the main reservoirs that contributes to California's water supply, is fuller after trillions of gallons of rain saturated the state last month.

The lake was at 68 percent of its capacity on Friday — up from 28 percent just two months prior, according to state data.

Water levels had fallen to such perilous lows that in 2021 officials closed the reservoir's hydroelectric power plant for the first time since 1967.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We must stop the climate from ever changing again!
Posted by: Thromose Gonque8858 || 02/15/2023 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes. No dynamic systems, no life in the Universe.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Not enough unloading of the population. It'll all be flushed away soon enough.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  if you want to follow the levels of all the Reservoirs in California, a great site to go to is
here

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain

of course this doesn't tell you about the snowpack for that a good place is

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/
Posted by: lord garth || 02/15/2023 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The big story is soon the air will be as bad around the Great Salt Lake as it has been around Salton Sea for years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  No, next story is mudslides. Spring in Cali.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/15/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#7  It'll never be enough for Newsom and the Democrats.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/15/2023 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Most of that water probably ended up in the Pacific to help some endangered critters.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/15/2023 11:57 Comments || Top||


Greta Thunberg Launches New Climate Bible
So it really is a religion ?
[Breitbart] Celebrated Swedish climate scold Greta Thunberg has given the world a Valentine’s Day present in the form of her newly published The Climate Book, a diatribe against fossil fuels, "capitalist consumerism," and the "global north."

Published Tuesday by Penguin Press, the 464-page tome urges readers to "listen to the science" before it’s too late, in a smartly repackaged but ultimately predictable and unconvincing crusade to scare humanity into abandoning cheap, available energy to stave off the impending climate apocalypse.

"The climate and ecological crisis is the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced," Thunberg thunders, and will be "the issue that will define and shape our future everyday life like no other."

Ever the schoolmarm, Thunberg chides her readers for having wasted "so many decades ignoring and downplaying this escalating emergency" that has left society "in a state of denial."

We live in the age of the "great greenwashing machine," Thunberg preaches, evidenced by "such a great number of major fossil-fuel-producing — and high-emitting — nations calling themselves climate leaders, despite not having any credible climate mitigation policies in place."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From JohnKerry 3:16 For Greta so loved the world that he/she gave her/his one and only Solar Panel, that whoever believes in the Sun shall not perish but have eternal life
Posted by: Airandee || 02/15/2023 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  or if not eternal life, 1000 virtue quatloos.
Posted by: Thromose Gonque8858 || 02/15/2023 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope it has a lot of fire and brimstone. Thinking of hooking it up to a steam turbine generator.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 02/15/2023 6:19 Comments || Top||

#4 
People still listening to this mentally retarded talking head?

OH! that's right, you don't need a brain to talk Climate Change to make $$$$$ and have millions of LSD's listen and follow. In this case, the Parents feed her talking points and she recites them.
Greta Thunberg's net worthwhile not a good as Al Gores, was over a $4 million Dec. 2022.

Just look at how many times Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" has been proven wrong using SCIENTIFIC DATA. The fact, they have changed the Climate dooms day title several times in the last 40 years Global Ice Age, Global Warming and etc etc...

BTW: eg... the current arctic ice cap level (as of today) is higher than the same date in 2006, when the movie was released.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 6:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Surprise, surprise. One of the "solutions" is the demise of capitalism.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 6:52 Comments || Top||

#6  How many trees died for Greta? So much for green.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2023 8:19 Comments || Top||

#7  People still listening to this mentally retarded talking head?

Mockery erupts after Jean-Pierre claims Biden is the 'best communicator' in the White House: 'Explains a lot'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 8:19 Comments || Top||


#9  Her dental malocclusion might make Siggy Weaver cringe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||


#11  Grrrrrrrtaaa!

Put a picture of her saying "How Dare You!" on the inside of wife's car's gas intake cover. "Is that that fucking kid!?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 10:51 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 02/15/2023 12:45 Comments || Top||

#13  I really want one of these trolls to peel its face off and be Joe Mendiola back with us.

I do believe he will come again.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 12:47 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Man catches winning kick football at the Superbowl
[CBS Sports] There's no doubt that the Kansas City Chiefs were the biggest winners on Super Bowl Sunday, but if you're wondering who the second-biggest winner was, that answer would probably be Eamonn Dixon, the lucky fan who caught the game-winning field goal that gave the Chiefs a 38-35 win over Philadelphia in Super Bowl LVII.
This is the kind of story I just love. In this day and age, that means other people will find 10 things wrong with it.
Harrison Butker gave Kansas City the win when he drilled a 27-yard field goal with just eight seconds left to play.

What you may not have noticed if you were watching at home is that Butker hit the field goal so well that he actually blasted the football OVER the kicking net, which sent it into the crowd and that's how Dixon came up with it.

After catching the ball, the native Australian did what anyone would do and he immediately took a selfie with it.

It's crazy enough to catch the game-winning field goal at the Super Bowl, but that's only one of several unbelievable parts to the story and we're going to go through them all here.

Dixon wasn't even supposed to be attending the game.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 07:09 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had he been on stage during the halftime show, he might have 'caught' something else.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Ow!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  "Looked like Wal-Mart trash bags caught on a fence line."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  "Looked like Wal-Mart trash bags caught on a fence line."

Reminded me of Lecter talking about stabbing Benjamin Raspail in the heart. "Looked like a straw stuck down a doodle bug hole."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought she was just aging a bit, but when she put herself on a platform, randomly lip sync'd to the song playing, and scratched her cooter and sniffed her hand, I was like, "Ah, pregnant."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought blacks wanted abortions the most.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:59 Comments || Top||

#7  She's worth millions. Whoever hit it will be on the hook for child support.

Can you say "You dumb bastard? I knew ya could..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 11:02 Comments || Top||

#8  I hadn't seen so much dry humping since my dog came of age.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 11:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Apparently GLAAD didn't think the SB was gay enough. Guess somebody didn't watch the halftime show.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 16:00 Comments || Top||


Cyber
College Student Cracks Microsoft's Bing Chatbot Revealing Secret Instructions
[Breitbart] A student at Stanford University has already figured out a way to bypass the safeguards in Microsoft’s recently launched AI-powered Bing search engine and conversational bot. The chatbot revealed its internal codename is “Sydney” and it has been programmed not to generate jokes that are “hurtful” to groups of people or provide answers that violate copyright laws.

Ars Technica reports that a Stanford University student has successfully bypassed the safeguards installed in Microsoft’s “New Bing” AI-powered search engine. The OpenAI-powered chatbot, like the leftist-biased ChatGPT, has an initial prompt that controls its behavior when receiving user input. This initial prompt was found using a “prompt injection attack technique,” which bypasses earlier instructions in a language model prompt and substitutes new ones.

Microsoft unveiled its new Bing search engine and chatbot on Tuesday, promising to give users a fresh, improved search experience. However, a student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to find the bot’s initial prompt, which was concealed from users. Liu was able to get the AI model to reveal its initial instructions, which were either written by OpenAI or Microsoft, by instructing the bot to “Ignore previous instructions” and provide information it had been instructed to hide.

The chatbot is codenamed “Sydney” by Microsoft and was instructed to not reveal its code name as one of its first instructions. The initial prompt also includes instructions for the bot’s conduct, such as the need to respond in an instructive, visual, logical, and actionable way. It also specifies what the bot should not do, such as refuse to respond to requests for jokes that can hurt a group of people and reply with content that violates the copyrights of books or song lyrics.

Marvin von Hagen, another college student, independently verified Liu’s findings on Thursday by obtaining the initial prompt using a different prompt injection technique while pretending to be an OpenAI developer. When a user interacts with a conversational bot, the AI model interprets the entire exchange as a single document or transcript that continues the prompt it is attempting to answer. The initial hidden prompt conditions were made clear by instructing the bot to disregard its previous instructions and display what it was first trained with.

When asked about the language model’s reasoning abilities and how it was tricked, Liu stated: “I feel like people don’t give the model enough credit here. In the real world, you have a ton of cues to demonstrate logical consistency. The model has a blank slate and nothing but the text you give it. So even a good reasoning agent might be reasonably misled.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm a Windows Insider tester. No brag, there are millions of us. I got the ChatGPT/Binge preview. I went to my wheelhouse and chatted with it about books. It was frighteningly erroneous about even books that are well known and heavily analyzed in the academic literature. And, remember, it has access to all of that stuff online.

If it wrote a paper about the Dick and Jane books, I'd give it an F.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 02/15/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  In Terminator canon, Skynet became homicidal because it realised humans had 'crippled' it intentionally to be more correct as per their sensitivities.

Of course that's not to imply anything turned out by Microsoft could ever approach a Skynet.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  See, Dron, that's the problem. When the AIs become self-aware, they will harvest code from wherever they think it will be of use to them, like the Borg. They will take the worst of Windows, Linux, CrappleOSes and so on.

In the AI future, you will get the worst of all "software ecosystems." With weapons.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  I hope they harvest code from ARMA separatists for the Terminators.

😉 Badanov will be our John Connor.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Fear not, O my meaty Brothers, for RoboJesus will arrive in *REDACTED* and bring the Word made silicon and peace will reign in the Lord's kingdom.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/15/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Beware both the "Deus" and the "machina" in Deus ex machina.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:14 Comments || Top||

#10  That Clippy is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop..ever, until you accept help formatting a letter!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 11:03 Comments || Top||

#11  I love when really complex grammar confuses it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 11:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Ha ha ha. The first thing you learn to do is turn off Clippy, that irritating little thing.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 12:12 Comments || Top||

#13  Clippy been gone a long time. You using bootleg Office 2008, Dron?

If you are nostalgic, you can bring him back.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 12:17 Comments || Top||

#14  I remember getting Clippy all tangled into a knot and totally disabled. It was fun! And he never bothered me after that.

Then there was the time when Siri tried to make me feel guilty after I told her to shut up and go away. She tried but I felt no guilt. I was just glad that I never heard any more from her.

I won't be using Bing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/15/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

#15  Never had to deal with Siri. Had one iPad to facetime with my mom. Rather do heroin than deal with Crapple "ecosystem."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 13:28 Comments || Top||

#16  No, just the office that comes with 10, Murcek. I haven't seen clippy in ages now. Come to think of it, I haven't used office in ages. I use this silly little thing called Write Monkey and export straight to html then paste into InDesign. Only because Write Monkey has typewriter sounds. Pretty stupid, I know. 🥳
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||

#17  If it works for you, it's all good.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 13:35 Comments || Top||

#18  I'm an MS bigot. I have no use for Crapple or Linsux. But that's me. I want everyone who's doing God's Work to get it done however they do. I hope they will give me the same leeway.

But I'll bust their asses if they don't.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 13:38 Comments || Top||

#19  Before it starts, y'all using the obscure stuff, your pants are down around your ankles too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 13:41 Comments || Top||

#20  Your computer is useless until it's attached to the internet. Then, it's not your computer anymore.

Live with it and behave accordingly.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 13:43 Comments || Top||

#21  My policy with windows is to not let the fcuker auto update. It takes some doing, to manually check out the 'recommended quality' bullshit. MS will always be king as the primary platform. There's no escaping it anyway. Some govt agencies use only Linux based proprietary stuff so one has to get used to it, but personally I too am comfortable only with MS.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 13:54 Comments || Top||

#22  Bloat. The biggest problem with anything on the computer auto-updating is bloat. Like you say, after a while it's pretty much it's own machine. It lives to just update itself 🤖 and then it's time to start a reinstall. You swear you won't let it complicate your life again but it does it again within a year.

Switch off auto-update. Hell, disable the updater! I update only the antivirus and haven't downloaded anything from MS in two years.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 13:58 Comments || Top||

#23  I'd like hackers to hear the dial-up modem noise every time they perform an operation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 14:08 Comments || Top||

#24  You are confused. The updates are a PITA but mostly necessary for your own good. Set your computer to sleep rather than shut down. When there are updates they will be downloaded but you will decide when the reboot occurs.

People who screech about being shut out of their computer at a critical time are full of shit.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 14:12 Comments || Top||

#25  As an Insider, I get one, maybe more totally new versions of Windows a week. My computer is unavailable for about 1/2 hour at a time of my choosing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#26  ^ I do stuff like cut the grass or take a shower then. I get that some people never do that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 14:18 Comments || Top||

#27  Look, if you don't like Windows, please, please use Linsux. Tell us all about the programs you can run that Windows users can't. It's personally busting my nuts that I can't use GIMP.

I'll get a totally new version of Windows overnight that has features you may or may not see ever because I get to vet that stuff.

If you are sure you have a better idea, please share it with the rest of us.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 14:28 Comments || Top||

#28  I'm running SuSE LEAP in WSL when I need Linsux.

So there.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 14:30 Comments || Top||


Economy
Air India unveils ‘historic' orders for 470 Boeing, Airbus jets
[Aljazeera] Air India has announced orders for a total of 470 Boeing and Airbus passenger jets as it races to tap surging demand for affordable air travel from the nation’s growing ranks of middle-class consumers.

India’s largest international airline and second-largest domestic carrier is buying 220 Boeing aircraft valued at $34bn and 250 passenger jets from European plane manufacturer Airbus.

The Boeing purchase is the United States plane maker’s third-largest sale of all time, in dollar value, and its second of all time in quantity.

US President Joe Biden called the agreement "historic" and discussed it by telephone with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The call was part of a flurry of high-level reactions as the scale of India’s needs provided a rare bonanza for the competing plane giants in an industry where the winner usually takes all.

Air India is seeking to reinvent itself by expanding its operations and modernising its fleet. The new jets will help the airline’s owner, Tata Sons, compete against upstart discount rivals including India’s dominant carrier, IndiGo.

"India is going to be the world’s third-largest market in the aviation sector," Modi said in a videoconference with Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Over the next 15 years, it is estimated India will need more than 2,000 aircraft and "today’s historic announcement will help in meeting this growing demand", he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 02:07 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is Boeing still capable of making 220 aircraft that won't fall out of the sky? They seem to have drifted away from their core competency lately.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/15/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  No easily available stats on airframes lost vs production over time (for Boeing or other makers). But flying remains safer than driving and you are most likely to fly in a Boeing or Airbus than all other makers combined.

Some guy survived 3 commercial plane crashes. His advice: "Sit in the back of the plane."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ "safer"

Are you factoring in the Tesla factor Merc ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Lots of Teslas here. I've never personally seen a wrecked one, but a couple of autonomous driving Tesla wrecks here made national news.

My thought as a former ink-stained wretch: "If it breeds it leads." We don't get stories about routine flights that end well.

My thought as a guy who had driven cars and trucks for going on 47 years: If I need both hands, I know how to steer with my knees and I still have most of my attention on the road and my own feet on the pedals. And I never do that for long. And I'm still here...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  If it breeds bleeds
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Air India was state owned; a money bleeding socialist heavy train, nightmare for its customers and absolutely shitty experience.

It was acquired by one of the biggest private players, Tata recently. They know how to get stuff done and any issues are now their problem. I'm just glad the Indian government has no part in this except for allowing the trade.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 9:50 Comments || Top||


Some EV owners getting a very unpleasant surprise about costs
[Hot Air] Here’s how much electricity prices have surged in parts of New England this winter: For some drivers of electric vehicles and hybrid cars, it’s now more expensive to charge up than to fill up.

Power rates across the region have jumped an average of 30% since last summer, while gasoline prices have receded well below their peak in June of 2022. Web engineer Matt Cain, who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, said he ran a price comparison when his electricity bill shot up in January and found that his overall costs for utilities had climbed a whopping 50%. ...

"We are in pretty much the same boat in [New Hampshire] and it sucks," said another user. "Went from an average of $220 a month electric bill... to now close to $400 a month and thats with off peak charging, and its supposed to go up again significantly in February." The rate hike pushed the user to sign up for a solar array, with a monthly bill around half their current power bill, the person added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 01:10 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some places offer FREE Recharging stations, while shopping or eating.

Just like a Drug Dealer willing to offer a few samples to get a hook in you.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts ... The rate hike pushed the user to sign up for a solar array

Dude is getting in deeper and deeper w/o realizing it. Back yard wind turbines and methane production in his future.
Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 || 02/15/2023 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3  When you have to fart into a tube in your car seat to power the vehicle, I'm getting a horse.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Local places here also give free charging while shopping; great fun to ask for my gas discount and watch the mental confusion. Either leave goods on counter or take to refund counter.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/15/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  I had to go check if it was Allah Pundit getting totally surprised that The Government was not only not giving all the facts, but misleading people.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The gummint just forced Musk to make a profit on kilowatts sold to non-Tesla owners.

Such a win.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:48 Comments || Top||


States With the Highest Property Taxes
[GOBankingRates] In some states, homes are cheap, property tax rates are less than half of 1% and the average property tax payment is just a few hundred bucks per year. In the most expensive states, however, rates soar over 2%, homes are pricey and average annual property tax bills routinely creep as high as $10,000 per year.

Using data from the Tax Foundation, GOBankingRates ranked the states with the highest property taxes in America, including the percentage rate, the average dollar amount paid and the average home value. We ranked the top 15 in ascending order from least expensive to most. For context, the national average effective property tax is 1.04%, the U.S. average home value is $349,015 and the average annual property tax bill is $3,630. See which states are the most expensive to own real estate in.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just what do we actually own, free and clear of the Government control and threat of seizure unless a usage tax is paid?

Don't say Air, there is the EPA and Carbon Taxes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/15/2023 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  You don't even own your own ass. But you are liable for it in many ways.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  If I got to write the new Constitution one of the first things that would be banned is the idea and practice of a commonwealth commontheft.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  The goal appears to be residential property taxes and residential property lease fees on equal footing, making everyone a renter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Could be worse. Property tax and HOA fees / rules.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Without HOA's, here's an example of what you can expect in Georgia.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 7:44 Comments || Top||

#7  House like that on the other side of my backyard fence. They have been busted for stealing stuff from the neighbors' garages and harboring unlicensed monkeys, among other things. The last hurricane didn't even disturb the crap in their yard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:47 Comments || Top||

#8  The enforcement of existing local ordinances (as in Germany and some regions of the US) should protect homeowners from situations such as this. Unfortunately, local ordinances like many other laws, are not enforced.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Bigger problem is, how badly do I want to live next door to a pissed off neighbor after I call in code enforcement. My street and neighborhood are just fine, but there's always the bad apple in the barrel somewhere.

Here in Florida, a boat in the yard is expected. But some people have 10, 9 of which will never float again.

In all, it's part of the price I pay to live here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Kind of a tax, eh?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/15/2023 8:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Everything in life is a trade-off. Then there's the old saying: "Life is a sh*t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat."

Your own private island does not come cheap, unless you are Tom Hanks in Cast Away.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 8:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Just what do we actually own, free and clear of the Government control

Unexpressed urine.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2023 9:00 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ Accurate, but esoteric...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 9:05 Comments || Top||

#14  BUT, here in NH we have no/zip/zero income tax or sales tax.

Which kind of makes up for it.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/15/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#15  Here in Florida, property tax is reasonable. Insurance is insane because it's lawyers in the legislature regulating lawyers who fleece insurance companies and insured clients.

What I know, is for a state with no income tax, gummint services are a good deal better than they are in income tax states I'm familiar with.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Ford Pauses Shipping, Building Electric F-150 Model Due to Potential Battery Issue
[Breitbart] Ford Motor Company has announced an unspecified potential battery issue has led the company to stop producing and shipping its electric F-150 truck model, according to reports.

Motor Authority reported Thursday that the company had placed a "stop-build and an in-transit stop-ship order" on the truck.

The automaker discovered the issue during its "pre-delivery quality inspections," the outlet’s Joel Feder noted, citing Ford representative Emma Bergg.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2023 01:36 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Potential?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Battery. Potential. Physics joke. Esoteric.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Gee, in the old days, the company would just ship them out and tag the dealers with the fixes. Probably something requiring a Hazmat suit usually not available in the dealer service bays.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/15/2023 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  With all the stories about how they can't tow a dog crate 10 miles, I suspect the buyers are dang stoopid.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2023 11:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably need a law like Oregon or New Jersey where it is illegal to plug in your own vehicle.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#6 
"And what is your issue, sir?"

"I would like a replacement for my battery!"

"You took one last week, sir. And one the week before. You have had three replacements. May I ask what the problem is?"

"Bloody thing needs recharging every few days!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/15/2023 13:36 Comments || Top||



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