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Boston Dynamics unveils 'nightmare-inducing' hybrid robot (video)
theguardian.com ^ | Alex Hern

Posted on 02/28/2017 7:23:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux

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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; stephenjohnbanker
"That future could be as close as tomorrow or far away as next Monday."

Many of the world's problems can be attributed to people who have an insufficient concept of the importance of time as a factor in our lives and influence for humanity.

It's good to see that your time-sense can last for as long as a week. I've seen people who don't even notice the red light in front of them until they're only two car-lengths from it.

Stretching your time-sense is what allows you to plan for a future for your progeny, even if that future merely grants you a vision of their moving out.

1,261 posted on 04/10/2017 9:29:27 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Tax-chick; stephenjohnbanker

I felt better after talking to Charlie, but one of our other neighbors said that some woman is telling people that write-ins have to be “vetted” and then that it was in the by-laws. Neither thing is true.

So I’m just going to let them do what they want until The Suits get ahold of it. This is straight from the Klingon. It has her hairy little fingerprints all over it.

They all must be Liberals because they don’t care who they lie to.


1,262 posted on 04/10/2017 10:52:16 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Your first mistake was to assume I'd be one of the sheep. FB)
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To: NicknamedBob

It’s definitely a vision.


1,263 posted on 04/10/2017 11:01:14 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: Monkey Face; ArGee

AVG IS Avast...


1,264 posted on 04/10/2017 11:40:15 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: ArGee; Monkey Face
That’s a bug.

Feature.

The word is 'feature'...

1,265 posted on 04/10/2017 11:41:47 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I already have Avast. AVG doesn’t look the same as Avast. But I’ll take your word for it! :o]


1,266 posted on 04/10/2017 11:46:21 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Your first mistake was to assume I'd be one of the sheep. FB)
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To: Monkey Face; ArGee
tom's guide says this about AVG Free: "Besides a really obnoxious installation process full of opt-out checkboxes that are exceedingly easy to miss, AVG is still one of the best free anti-virus platforms out there"...

"AVG AntiVirus is a family of anti-virus and Internet security software developed by AVG Technologies, a subsidiary of Avast Software." (from the repository of the sum total of the knowledge in the universe, Wikipedia)

If you have Avast you should have it. Unless you have an old copy (the free versions tend not to update themselves, it's something you are left to do) in which case uninstall it and install the new. If you download it, download it from the company, not any of the myriads of 'free download' sites out there (e.g. C-Net) because those 'free' sites tend to load the link with a glob of crapware that if you aren't watching will install on your machine too. Here's the link to Avast Free direct from them..

1,267 posted on 04/10/2017 12:05:32 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Monkey Face
It is possible that they are the same under the skin with a different face. What I did notice when going to both pages is that the download link at Avast sends you to C-Net and serves up a download that c-net has renamed with 'cnet' in the name (meaning for sure they have stuffed it full of crapware). That right there makes me frown. The download link at AVG takes you to the download page on their own site.

Looking at both sites though it looks as if the current versions of both have the same 'look'..

1,268 posted on 04/10/2017 12:22:23 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; Tax-chick

Sound logic as usual : )


1,269 posted on 04/10/2017 1:32:39 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Monkey Face; Darksheare

Correction: The link goes to AVG Free not Avast free. Probably Dark’s fault it got typed wrong.. ;-)


1,270 posted on 04/10/2017 2:12:41 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Monkey Face

Well? What happened? I’m all a-quiver at the suspense!

(I have an unexciting life.)


1,271 posted on 04/10/2017 2:34:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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1,272 posted on 04/11/2017 12:26:09 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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I see Dirt at the Nevada Northern made the list of 6 NEVADA MASCOTS SURE TO INSTIGATE A ROAD TRIP..


1,273 posted on 04/11/2017 12:42:16 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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1,274 posted on 04/11/2017 1:38:20 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: NoCmpromiz; ArGee

When I went to the websites for AVG and Avira, I wasn’t bothered with pop-ups. I just downloaded the programs. The only problem came at the end of the installation when Avira locked up the laptop.

But both are installed. It takes a few minutes longer to boot up, but if that means the programs are working, that’s fine with me. I don’t like viruses and in the last three weeks, I’ve had two, which is surprising, because I use DuckDuckGo for my search engine and I haven’t been to any sites that are not normally visited by me.

One virus was a Trojan, so no telling where that came from. I just know that once I shut down and went to a restore point, things were OK. But the second one is when I asked for help. So thanks, guys!


1,275 posted on 04/11/2017 4:48:30 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Your first mistake was to assume I'd be one of the sheep. FB)
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To: Tax-chick

Wellnow...where did I end off? Oh, yes. Since Zeke was gone in the morning, he was on his way home (by bus) when he asked for an update. I told him after I talked to Sean and heard what he was told by the Klingon, I was so angry, I could hardly stand myself.

He said he would take it from there. He made a call to HUD in Vegas, telling them that what the Klingon did was illegal, because “she was preventing people from voting and causing her people to be voted in because there was no choice.” (Does this sound familiar?)

The text conversation covered about 15 minutes, and I haven’t heard from him since. They all should have gotten the letter yesterday, although not in time to stop the election, but what makes me almost apoplectic is the fact that I asked them in a previous letter not to let the Klingon near the election.

I’m going up to open in a few minutes and will see if anything is posted.


1,276 posted on 04/11/2017 4:55:23 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Your first mistake was to assume I'd be one of the sheep. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

Oy, I was hoping you would say it was all resolved!

I’m going to Weight Watchers this morning, with a stop at the bread outlet on the way home. I got up about 4:30 because I had a headache, so I’ll probably crash by early afternoon.


1,277 posted on 04/11/2017 5:02:51 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: NoCmpromiz

I’ve heard of all of them but the moose. Weird.


1,278 posted on 04/11/2017 5:11:12 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Your first mistake was to assume I'd be one of the sheep. FB)
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To: Tax-chick

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. I didn’t see anything when I unlocked, but Zeke said it was in the “glass case” (locked) but stated, “It ain’t over ‘cause the Irish are pi$$ed off!” So I texted back, “So are the Sioux!” So no, it isn’t over. And I suspected there will be another election before all is said and done.

And Zeke just sent a text confirming my worst fears: The Klingon-Bots are in power.


1,279 posted on 04/11/2017 5:17:26 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Your first mistake was to assume I'd be one of the sheep. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

Well, nothing like a good battle to keep everyone’s spirits up!


1,280 posted on 04/11/2017 5:46:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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