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-Short Attention Span Theater-
4th successful landing of this Falcon 9.
[Twitter]





And don't miss this in November:


More details form SpaceNews at the title link
Posted by: 3dc || 11/11/2019 10:08 || Comments || Link || [336080 views] Top|| File under:


Fresh fetish or future? Sex robots give boot to human prostitutes at Swiss brothel, charging half the price
[RT] At half the cost of their human counterparts, sex worker robots at a Swiss brothel are becoming the choice of hard-up punters. One expert claims sex with a robo-doll is a fetish among men, just like a preference for leather.

The beautiful and civilized Swiss city of Lucerne is renowned for its setting below snow-capped mountain peaks on the banks of Lake Lucerne, with its medieval architecture, picturesque Altstadt (Old Town) and brothel full of sex robots instead of real hookers.

That’s right, the nation that brought us cuckoo clocks and Toblerone chocolate has gone hi-tech in the sex industry with Lucerne brothel, Arsenal 51 (I don’t know either), introducing 90 Swiss francs ($90) an hour sessions with their sort-of real-looking love mannequins for those punters who fancy a little less conversation, a little more action, as Elvis would put it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 09:01 || Comments || Link || [336109 views] Top|| File under:

#1  but when Costco enters the Swiss market and offers sex doll sessions for $30 it will put the Swiss Arsenal dolls out of business.

by the way when a sex worker loses her job, you could say she is laid off
Posted by: lord garth || 11/11/2019 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  ...except on Twitter and Facebook where its labeled hate speech.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Do the sex robots earn a living wage?
Posted by: Crusader || 11/11/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Every one of these sexbot articles is filled with creepy looking sex dolls. If you take a creepy looking sex doll and give it anima you just have a moving creepy looking sex doll. Maybe if they add tentacles and deploy them in Japan they won't mind but pretty much everyone else is going to stay away.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/11/2019 14:07 Comments || Top||

#5  They’ll have to add another item to health class: don’t share combs and brushes, lest you pass on head lice, and don’t share your robot, lest you catch something worse.

Because unless the things are sterilized between sessions... ick.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2019 14:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Understand some early sex robots caome from manufacturers of dairy equipment; bad choice cuz the they wouldn't quit till they had a quart.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/11/2019 14:35 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Brought to us by the fine people at Farmer's Daughter Technologies?
Posted by: charger || 11/11/2019 18:32 Comments || Top||

#8  IF ... ah fell in love witch yew
Woudjer promise tah be chroo
An' help ME
Finda rule

Cuz I've been a mindless Bot
An' I knowz what LOVE is not
It ain't ... for the ... FAAAIIINT [ of heart, or battery power ]
Posted by: Lex || 11/11/2019 22:48 Comments || Top||


700 Quintilian for the taking.
[Twitter-CNET]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336102 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sure. All you have to do is get there and get it back...easy-peasy.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/11/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting there will be a bit of work, but after that, it should be super easy, barely an inconvenience. It's all down hill, gravitationally speaking.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/11/2019 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  How much is that in Quatloos?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/11/2019 8:02 Comments || Top||

#4  From Comments:

"Deer sirs I am nigerian prince who has access to an asterioid capturing rockit.
I was able to hide this rockit with my banc.
I need help getting it out my country.
I trust you can help send the sum of 100 dollars so we can share 700 Quntillion"
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 9:07 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ getoutahere , really ?!
🤣
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/11/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#6  that would pay for Liz or Bernie's programs

well, the first year anyway
Posted by: lord garth || 11/11/2019 11:33 Comments || Top||

#7  So you're saying there's a chance that a "plausible" one-in-a-billion shot at realising the thing's value might -- if I've got the zeros right (which I probably haven't) -- be worth something close to US total debt? Oughtta make for some interesting hijinks down here, at least.
Posted by: Spats tse Tung2390 || 11/11/2019 22:45 Comments || Top||

#8  = 367 Warrens
Posted by: Lex || 11/11/2019 22:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
New Jersey homeowners say aggressive turkeys are terrorizing community
[FOXNEWS] A large flock of aggressive wild turkeys appears to be exacting some Thanksgiving Dire Revenge, having swooped down out of nowhere on a once-tranquil New Jersey 55-and-over community that is now being terrorized by the unwelcome invaders.

No one appears to be happy that the mean birds ‐ as many as 60 of them ‐ have muscled in on Holiday City in Toms River and become a gobbling nuisance, according to reports.

"The turkeys are taking over," one resident told News 12 New Jersey. "It’s like an infestation."

The woman said people think it’s a laughing matter but it’s serious.

"When I can’t get out of my house to get in the car because they won’t go away and you can’t get them to go away and they go to bite you, yes, it’s a problem," she told the station.

The station reported that the turkeys have broken windows in Holiday City while WABC-TV reported being told by another resident Donna Scala that the turkeys were up on roofs, pecking away.

"Our brand-new vehicles? They're pecking at our vehicles," she told the station. "All I'm looking for is that they be moved. Put them in a big property, hundreds of acres of property."

That might be easier said than done.

Despite fielding a number of complaints, the local animal control office can't do anything about the turkeys due to state regulations.

"It's nuisance wildlife we are not licensed to trap, relocate, or as they use the word, harass the turkeys or any wildlife, for that matter, that's a nuisance," Toms River Animal Control’s Richard Barbosa told WABC.

News 12 reported being told that state wildlife officials were aware of the situation but that was all they said.

The wild turkeys weigh between 16 and 24 pounds and can run up to 20 miles per hour.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336105 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anyone, in the entire community, owns a shotgun?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/11/2019 3:43 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of turkeys* don't make it through November. Just saying.

*Ben Franklin's noble bird.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorta taste like chicken. And Thanksgiving is just around the corner.

Of course, the wild turkeys aren't like the domestic turkey in the picture. They're smart, skinny, and aggressive.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/11/2019 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  But, Rambler, they taste good. Does no one there own a baseball bat?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/11/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I have a great wild turkey recipe. We only breast them since the rest of a Rio Grande wild turkey is too stringy.
Posted by: BrujoTejano || 11/11/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Wild Turkey is tasty with ice.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems like an easy fix, but this is New Jersey after all.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/11/2019 9:12 Comments || Top||

#8  About 60 birds. An interstate gang then. Someone call the feebs.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/11/2019 9:22 Comments || Top||

#9  OH MY go out and pet them! Maybe the next bar too?? YOU LIBTURDs caused this?
Posted by: ranture || 11/11/2019 9:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Could they be exported to California? They need another pestilence.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/11/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#11  You say aggressive, I say delicious.
Posted by: Speatle Tojo5556 || 11/11/2019 16:36 Comments || Top||

#12  San Diego County has a wild turkey issue. They call it"Open Season"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2019 21:06 Comments || Top||

#13  Why do you think they call it TOM'S River?
Posted by: Lex || 11/11/2019 22:39 Comments || Top||

#14  Now, I may be yo' uncle, and my name might be Tom, but that don't make yo' ...
Posted by: Uncle Tom || 11/11/2019 22:40 Comments || Top||


‘Daddy’s Little Slut’ kid’s shirt pulled from Amazon
[NYPOST] Amazon has pulled an offensive shirt emblazoned with "Daddy’s Little Slut," thanks to some good old-fashioned Twitter shaming ‐ but allowed its third party seller to continue hawking other off-color items.

The original $18 shirt sold by OnlyBabyCare started going viral Friday morning, as images of the shocking slogan circulated Twitter. It’s been available on Amazon since June, with a description claiming it was "suitable" for "playing outside, birthday party, baby shower, baptism," among other family friendly activities.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336092 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Says it all about our society.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 11/11/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2  From Pr0nhub to Amazon - way to go, guys.
Posted by: Raj || 11/11/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Suitable for playing outside, birthday party, baby shower, baptism, and visits to Pedophile Island.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/11/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  "Daddies Lil' monster" T-shirts are from the film "Suicide Squad"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/11/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  So I wonder if it's a chinese re-translation that caught on with the 'rad' crowd.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/11/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
In Kimberley, the world's diamond capital, illicit mining fight flounders
KIMBERLEY, South Africa (Reuters) - The first South African project to bring illegal miners into the formal fold has been plagued by violence in diamond capital Kimberley, dealing a major blow to national efforts to stem a booming illicit trade.
Die Groot Hole (The Big Hole) and town of Kimberley in the background. The mine was closed around the WW1 time frame and has not reopened. It is surrounded by a modern fence, warning signs, sensors and cams. 'Room with a View' - Protea Hotel by Marriott Kimberley
The project was launched 18 months ago in Kimberley, the site of a 19th-century diamond rush that lured fortune-seekers from the world over. Mine owners granted more than 800 unlicensed, or informal, small-scale miners the right to legally mine around 1,500 acres of diamond-rich waste fields.

The aim of the government-backed scheme was to curb illegal mining and black-market trade of diamonds, and serve as a blueprint for future attempts elsewhere in the country, not only in the diamond sector, but also potentially manganese, gold and chrome.

However the project has been hit by violence, with informal miners not included in the scheme attacking infrastructure and even members of the newly licensed cooperative, according to mine owner Ekapa Minerals which is running the initiative.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/11/2019 01:35 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijan Encroaches Into Georgian Territory
[Bellingcat] Georgia
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 07:45 || Comments || Link || [336104 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Azerbaijan 'Taking Into Account' Russian Military Base in Armenia

Note AK bayonets worn as field knives
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 12:54 Comments || Top||


Russia's Napoleon scholar confesses to dismembering young lover
[TWITTER]
Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old history lecturer who received La Belle France's Legion d'Honneur in 2003, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of murder after he was hauled out of the icy Moika River with a backpack containing a woman's arms.
"He had a disarming personality"
"He has admitted his guilt," Sokolov's lawyer Alexander Pochuev said, adding he regretted what he had done and was now cooperating with police.

Sokolov was reportedly drunk and fell in as he tried to dispose of body parts.

After getting rid of the body, he reportedly planned to commit suicide at the Peter and Paul Fortress, one of the former imperial capital's most famous landmarks, dressed as Napoleon.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "... the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce"
Posted by: Glaque Gurly-Brown4062 || 11/11/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Hong Kong spirals into rare daylight violence as police shoot protester
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police shot and wounded one protester who hospital officials said was in critical condition on Monday as the Chinese-ruled territory spiraled into rare weekday violence in the 24th straight week of pro-democracy unrest.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/11/2019 01:30 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under:



Cyber
Bots? ‘Thousands' of newly-created generic Twitter accounts defend ‘right-wing coup' in Bolivia
[RT]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 08:56 || Comments || Link || [336092 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "right-wing" is anything not controlled by the socialist/communists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, and anytime a commie goes down it's happy time.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/11/2019 16:16 Comments || Top||


Data leak from neo-Nazi website may reveal personal information on extremists, reports say
[FoxNews] Data from a defunct neo-Nazi website leaked online last week, potentially revealing the personal information of hundreds of extremists, some of whom have been linked to acts of terrorism, according to reports.

The data, which comprised the contents of the former website “Iron March,” was posted by the user “anti-data” on archive.org.

Contents of the leak made it possible to obtain match usernames with registered emails, IP addresses, forum posts and direct messages, according to the open-source journalism website Bellingcat, which first flagged the leak.

“Iron March” was founded in 2011 by Russian nationalist Alexander “Slavros” Mukhitdinov. It has been used by an organizational tool by multiple extremist groups, including Atomwaffen Division (AWD), a U.S.-based group that has been tied to at least half a dozen murders and multiple acts of violence over the past few years.

Chats from the leak suggested that the website attracted users from around the world who shared material and offered support to each other.

Its users were closely affiliated with the ideas and publications of James Mason, an American neo-Nazi who has been involved in white-supremacy movements since the 1960s, The Guardian reported.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 08:32 || Comments || Link || [336097 views] Top|| File under:


Rumor: YouTube will only allow monetized Channels after Dec. 10.
[Twitter]


This opens so many questions.
What about all the conferences live or recorded on youtube?
What about public events?
What about streamed meetings?
What about all the repair your car whatever videos?
What about people posting news or scenery stuff?
What about free education or science video?
.. stuff like This?
LiveStreams like these SpaceX windows? HERE
What about ....?

Is Google Photos next?
Maybe Google Docs?

Is Google a safe place to put anything?

Is Google in money trouble?
Is Google's stock entering a questionable state?
Posted by: 3dc || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..and only left wing/progressive channels can 'monetize'. Cats hit hardest.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Everything within the Google, nothing outside the Google, nothing against the Google.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/11/2019 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The Google is the march of the slob on Earth.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/11/2019 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I call BS. There is no reason to remove non monetized stuff. This just reduces the number of people who will ALSO view monetized stuff.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/11/2019 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Youtube will probably make your videos come out of your own google account storage if you're not monetised.

They did some recent changes to accounts IIRR.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/11/2019 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Stop whining about their platform and build your own.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/11/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||

#7  This has to be fake news or partially true news as it would kill YouTube almost instantly. More likely they are creating a non-commercial version with a new name and will force a migration of those that don't make money.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/11/2019 14:14 Comments || Top||


Economy
Kaiser Permanente CEO's death postpones strike by 4,000 medical professionals
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 07:26 || Comments || Link || [336076 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My wife is a psychotherapist for Kaiser
I can tell you that everything the Kaiser spokeshole said was pure crap
Kaiser want to eliminate pensions for retiree psychologists and cut their benefits package
The backlog of patients awaiting access to a therapist is 6 to 8 weeks after waiting 4 to 6 weeks to get an initial intake appointment
The latest contract proposal from Kaiser does not even match cost of living and contains no provisions for periodic cost of living increases
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/11/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  ...so sort of like the VA?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||


25,000 University of California workers to strike Wednesday
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2019 07:25 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a great cover for a RIF.
Posted by: Speatle Tojo5556 || 11/11/2019 16:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Career Diplomats Pushed Back on Trump's Attempt to End ‘Temporary Protected Status' for Central American Migrants
[National Review] The early Trump administration batted down warnings from career U.S. diplomats who warned that some hardline immigration policies could have dangerous national security consequences, according to diplomatic cables released by Senate Democrats Thursday.
We need these people for the garden and the silver.
Some diplomats, including those at the U.S. Embassies in El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, were concerned that the administration’s plan to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for undocumented immigrants would cause a spike in transnational crime and illegal immigration, and would damage the relationship between the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean.

"A sudden termination of TPS for El Salvador would undermine additional cooperation to tackle the root causes of illegal migration and overwhelm the country’s ability to absorb the refugees," then-U.S. Ambassador Jean Elizabeth Manes wrote to Washington, D.C. in July, 2017.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon objected even more strenuously to ending the program for the three countries.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/11/2019 05:41 || Comments || Link || [336088 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Show me your country on the map"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 11/11/2019 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Deep State speaks
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 6:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Career diplomats, eh? Two words into the sentence and I'm already against whatever it is they're going on about.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/11/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Time for a new batch of diplomats.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/11/2019 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  the CARTELS no likey?? Hurts dip de do's wallets??
Posted by: ranture || 11/11/2019 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  But guys - they objected strenuously - I mean, that's gotta count for something, right?
Posted by: Raj || 11/11/2019 10:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Is that above or below a 'strongly worded' statement from the UN?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2019 11:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Shitshow Part 181.

We really need an entirely new political class. Clean sweep.
Posted by: Lex || 11/11/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  would undermine additional cooperation to tackle the root causes of illegal migration and overwhelm the country’s ability to absorb the refugees

The USA passed that point 30 years ago.
Posted by: Speatle Tojo5556 || 11/11/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||


New #MAGACHALLENGE videos flood internet as Trump dangles White House visit as prize
[FoxNews] President Trump announced Friday he will select the winners in the months’ old #MAGACHALLENGE as he retweeted a video posted by a supporter who rapped his love for the president and challenged others to do likewise.


Trump supporters got to work right away. Below are some samples.
Go to the link to see delightful videos of admittedly varying quality, including one that’s flat-out country (or western — I’m not clear on the difference) I had no idea this was going on, but kudos to all the happy warriors.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336076 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
14-year-old solved the problem of blind spots with award-winning science fair project
[MYSANANTONIO] Over 840,000 of the car crashes that occur on U.S. roadways each year can be traced back to a problem area with which all drivers have experience: the blind spots caused by the A-frame of a car's structure.

Despite over a century of constant improvements to automobile, there's still no perfect fix for blind spots that the auto industry has uniformly accepted. But that might be about to change thanks to an ingenious solution from an unlikely engineering hero who can't even drive.

Alaina Gassler, 14, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, has designed a technology that makes the A-frame pillars of a car "see-through" by using projectors that cast images of what's really behind them onto their surfaces.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336093 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Smart kid. Integrate it with a HUD, bring in a "less ethnic" partner, and this could be a runaway hit with the Mohammedan market.
Posted by: Spats tse Tung2390 || 11/11/2019 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Things obscured by the A-pillar can hit you ? I bet you have to be yakking away to passengers or high to do that. Has anybody here suffered this kind of accident ?

This tech can be useful for pillboxes, shooter hides and bunkers. And tanks. Why not tanks.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/11/2019 4:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Typical crap journalism. This issue already been "solved" many times in the past.
Posted by: Spanky Whuter1088 || 11/11/2019 4:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, I remember some story about a kid who invented a clock...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/11/2019 7:01 Comments || Top||

#5  It's been solved before. I have it on my new car. This is a better mousetrap.
Posted by: Gloria || 11/11/2019 10:48 Comments || Top||

#6  A-Frame refers to front suspension parts; really kind of hard to steer if you are down there, bouncing off the pavement; A-Piller, B-Piller, ect are the norms for referrting to the structural piese that keep the roof up off the belt line..... ( later stated in the pice, sort of)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/11/2019 13:35 Comments || Top||

#7  That's exactly what happened to me last week. I'm passing on the right and at the precise moment when my front bumper was even with her rear door, when she decides to switch into my lane without using her blinkers (natch). I must have missed her car (or she missing my car) by 1/2 an inch.

Yes, she was a young blonde - why do you ask?
Posted by: Raj || 11/11/2019 14:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Even if we didn't have high tech solutions, it would seem to me that the ceiling supports could be made far thinner with stronger materials if this was a serious problem, or even move the supports forward so that they don't have issues with the coverage of the side-view mirrors.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/11/2019 14:12 Comments || Top||

#9  I use a panoramic mirror for rear view, since I can't turn my head very much. Works nicely for me. But I do like the idea of seeing through the pillar. It looks neat.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2019 18:42 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Najib faces day of reckoning in first Malaysia 1MDB trial
[Al Jazeera] Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will find out on Monday whether he has to enter his defence to charges he siphoned millions of ringgit into his personal bank accounts, in the first of a series of trials related to the multibillion dollar corruption scandal at state fund 1MDB.

Judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, an Oxford graduate who was once the legal counsel at Malaysia’s biggest bank, will start delivering his decision at 10am (02G). If the judge decides the prosecution has established a prima facie case, 66-year-old Najib will need to enter his defence. If not, he will walk free.

Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336082 views] Top|| File under:



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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