Category Archives: Weird

Administrative, Business, Law, Weird

Non-Military Affidavit

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This law seems absurd.

We’re living in a Carl Hiaasen novel, with a crazy tenant who is destroying the property, and we want to evict her ASAP. Why is it incumbent on the landlord to prove a negative?

It seems like the first condition could be satisfied simply by pointing out that she’s been renting a home in Boca Raton, Florida, and there are no commutable military bases nearby.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary, Weird

Military Morale

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If you wonder why it’s low, it’s because of things like this:

“Attendance is mandatory and if we miss it we get a negative counseling and a ‘does not support the battalion sharp/EO mission’ on our CDT OER for getting the branch we want. So I just spent $16 on a pair of high heels that I have to spray paint red later on only to throw them in the trash after about 300 of us embarrass the U.S. Army tomorrow,” one anonymous cadet wrote on the social media sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.

What has this country come to?

[Afternoon update]

Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.

[Friday-morning update]
a sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.

What has this country come to?

[Afternoon update]

Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.

[Friday-morning update]

It was female officers who made the cadets march in high heels. Seems like sexual harassment to me.

Also, Alinsky wears high heels.

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Administrative, Technology and Society, Weird

Ubuntu

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Partly out of interest, and partly because there don’t seem to be any yum packages for Kerbal, I decided to load it on a spare SSD (not using grub, I just go into the BIOS and decide which drive I want to boot). I set up an account. It didn’t ask me to create a password for root, just a personal account. I try to ‘su -i’ and it asks me for a password. I use the one I created for my personal account. Nope.

Way to go, guys.