War Room Lounge v104: Fred content and pole pending

[JDragon]

MI5’s director general has called on technology companies to find a way to allow spy agencies “exceptional access” to encrypted messages, amid fears they cannot otherwise access such communications. (...)

Parker called on the tech firms to “use the brilliant technologists you’ve got” to answer a question: “Can you provide end-to-end encryption but on an exceptional basis – exceptional basis – where there is a legal warrant and a compelling case to do it, provide access to stop the most serious forms of harm happening?”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-for-exceptional-access-to-encrypted-messages




The answer is no.

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

I know this is figurative, but people literally did line up for shitty cheese (made from bits of Colby, cheddar, cheese curd, or granular cheese mixed with emulsifiers):

Yeah but that’s communism for ya. Bread lines and what have you

 

[Gregolian]

https://www.ksl.com/article/4672187...usly-approves-bill-to-drop-penalty-for-bigamy

I hate fundamentalists.

 

[sickc0d3r]

I guess my point is that the culture around the UFC in particular is just saturated with degenerate shit like booze and gambling. Other sports may have shady shit behind the scenes but the overt culture might not be as degenerate as what the UFC peddles.

Look I still love MMA and the UFC, just don't love everything about it.

Keep talking shit about booze, man, see what happens. You’re this close to dropping off my coveted favorite poster list.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Yeah but that’s communism for ya. Bread lines and what have you

The actual story is interesting, and there is kind of an anti-communism (in some sense of that word) lesson. Good piece here:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wn7mgq/wtf-happened-to-government-cheese

Meanwhile, as part of price support programs for farmers enacted in the 30s, the United States government began to stockpile dairy products. By the 80s, the stockpiles were so large that merely storing them became prohibitively expensive. The government even paid dairy farmers not to produce any dairy for five years, buying the farmers' cattle herds. The cheese would have eventually spoiled without any outlets, and there was no more space to store it. In 1981, the Reagan administration decided to distribute free processed cheese to America's poor under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program.

It's surprising how much fuckery in America is related to protecting farmers from the free market, and also how little farmers are inclined to want others to be similarly protected. Basically, farmers are the worst.

 

[Andy Capp]

Why did you have to say nickel though?

Because that's all I'd ever bet on account of that self-absorbed douchenozzle. Well, that and because a pennies are literally worthless in this country.

 

[Prokofievian]

Keep talking shit about booze, man, see what happens. You’re this close to dropping off my coveted favorite poster list.

Fuck you @sickc0d3r , fight me, see what happens.

 

[Andy Capp]

To be fair I am confused by the gambling sponsorships as outside of like Nevada and Atlantic City most people can’t place bets remotely.....

Serious gamblers will find a way.

@Kafir-kun
I understand your concern about the ties to gambling, but if it weren't for the largest bookies in Britain taking over World Snooker, the pro sport would be dead except for some die hards in the UK. Now it's bigger, better run, and far more popular than any earlier time in its history, all thanks to gambling money. It doesn't seem to have led to higher pay for fighters in the UFC like it did for snooker pros, though, so that's where I'd direct my ire if ire you (LOL).

 

[Islam Imamate]

Serious gamblers will find a way.

@Kafir-kun
I understand your concern about the ties to gambling, but if it weren't for the largest bookies in Britain taking over World Snooker, the pro sport would be dead except for some die hards in the UK. Now it's bigger, better run, and far more popular than any earlier time in its history, all thanks to gambling money. It doesn't seem to have led to higher pay for fighters in the UFC like it did for snooker pros, though, so that's where I'd direct my ire if ire you (LOL).

I had no idea wtf Snooker even was until I googled it so no offense but not really a very powerful argument to me.

 

[Andy Capp]

I had no idea wtf Snooker even was until I googled it so no offense but not really a very powerful argument to me.

I didn't expect it to be powerful, but rather pointing out one person's degeneracy is another person's sponsorship money and I don't think it makes sense to claim the person taking the money is the degenerate if they don't have other options. Even that doesn't necessarily apply to the UFC. Just sayin'.

 

[irish_thug]

It has its places, but usually as a complementary flavor.

Obviously, no one is lining up to eat a block of blue cheese.

If there's enough chicken wings, I would. In sauce form of course.

 

[irish_thug]

Okay, so who here likes blue cheese, and who here would like to be the first against the wall when the revolution comes?

Love it.

 

[Trotsky]

If there's enough chicken wings, I would. In sauce form of course.

Without the chicken wings themselves being flavored or seasoned? Or with the chicken wings themselves being fried and buffalo'd. In the latter case, the blue cheese taste is secondary to the buffalo taste imo.

 

[irish_thug]

Edit:

I was pranked for 10 seconds, terrible

At least you owned up to it.

 

[weed]

 

[irish_thug]

Without the chicken wings themselves being flavored or seasoned? Or with the chicken wings themselves being fried and buffalo'd. In the latter case, the blue cheese taste is secondary to the buffalo taste imo.

Plain is fine. Hell I even dip the carrot sticks that come with them in the blue cheese. And a nice aged crumbly blue cheese on a cracker? That ain't no secondary flavour.

 

[Islam Imamate]

Keep talking shit about booze, man, see what happens. You’re this close to dropping off my coveted favorite poster list.

People who drink should be more like smokers. Enjoy your vice but at least have some shame over it.

 

[irish_thug]

People who drink should be more like smokers. Enjoy your vice but at least have some shame over it.

*checks location* Nope.

 

[Quipling]

Without the chicken wings themselves being flavored or seasoned? Or with the chicken wings themselves being fried and buffalo'd. In the latter case, the blue cheese taste is secondary to the buffalo taste imo.

Blue cheese (sauce) is a big part of buffalo-style wings.

 

[weed]

Fuck you @sickc0d3r , fight me, see what happens.

Shorsey's the best