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Wait till AI fixes this ****.

I think it would be the neatest thing EVER to figure out how to rob a place you are not suppose to be able to rob.

That if screwing up quite a few things. I got an email from the college I don't work at anymore saying Canvas, software used for for our entire learning system is down, and on social media a local restaurant posted this; Of course I have an order on AMZN I am anxiously waiting on. Wonder how much it will be delays. I could log in but not track the package.

I think you are already a programmer, so Java might come real easy for you. I tried to learn it once, back around 2005ish? It wasn't my first rodeo. I first learned a little, what was it, basic, that was one of the first DOS languages you could use? Dabbled in C, Java, a real goofy language called "Fourth", visual basic once we had windows (I did kind of like that), and an internal program used in my CAD system. I hated programming, which is why I avoided it, and made sure in every interview I told them I am NOT a programmer, if that's what you want, I'm not your guy. I get the logic and all that, but it's not for me. I think only certain people have the gyro to do that, and I respect them greatly.

Benton Harbor - a blast from the past. St. Joe/Benton Harbor was Whirlpool's mothership as I called it. I had to go up there all the time, a 3 1/2 to 4 hour drive. I always stayed at The Boulevard Inn & Bistro. Nice place, only 85 bucks a night, and about 10 minutes from the tech center campus. We had a deal for 85 bucks a night because the kid of Whirlpool's CEO at the time, owned the hotel. If you worked for WHR, 85 bucks, which also helped our travel budget as well. They beat us up on that. Peak season that was cheap, and close. I got in trouble about three times from my boss because I was staying there. First thing he would say - where are you staying. The The Boulevard. Yap, yap, yap... It's only 85 bucks dumbass, but you can't say that. Eventually, everyone who traveled to the mothership had to stay 5 or more miles away and spend 150 bucks a night for a room. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Why would we argue with Allen Trammel? I named a kid after him. I think those guys had a different approach at the plate. When you need a single or fly ball to score a run, they would find a pitch to do so. Instead of trying to hit the ball to Mars. And defense...Those guys were fundamentally better than MLB today, but so are the kids who play in the little league World Series. I can't believe what I see. I remember a game a long time ago, Detroit was playing Baltimore and Al Kaline stopped into the booth for an inning or two. Great stuff, as we would expect. I wish I could remember the year. They asked him what stuck out to him over the years of how the game has changed. He said; now days, if you can hit 20 home runs you can leave your glove in the bus. So true, then there were guys like Bob Gibson.

I think you have to go by era. The guys today are incredible athletes. The 68 Tigers, maybe not. Same game, different time, but then again, maybe not. I really want to believe those old guys could hold their own even today. But, I'm old and stupid. 🙂

Suarez looked at a first pitch right in the hot zone and looked at it. He hit a tougher pitch, outside and on the bottom part of the plate for the slam. He got it done. That was wild.

If our laws truly mattered DC would be empty tomorrow.

Yea, same kind of ****. I never got it. We had issues, and we knew we had issues, but we never addressed them. I always said "you can't fix a problem unless you admit you have one." I think it goes back to the corporate climber wannabees. It was all about them. And the bean counters. I find it really sad. Given the advances in tech, we could be doing so much more, but don't, or can't, given the system.

The irony is off the charts. John Bolton has made a career as a part of the killing machine to people all over the world, along with being a liar, and war criminal.

How about a little chart porn. I love chart porn. Below is a chart of the S&P going back to March. You can see the low bubble at 4835.04 (4/7/2025) and the high bubble at 6764.58 (10/10/2025). That's about a 40 percent rip if I did the math right. That's nuts. If you look up at the very top right, there is some interesting things going on. Let's look at a closer picture. The trading day after the market hit the top bubble, Thursday 10-9, it took a big **** on Friday. Since then the trading days have not been outside of that large candle printed that Friday. I think that is something to watch.

I will always get more complicated due to technology, but they forget (or fail to acknowledge it) the most important rule of design - the KISS rule - keep it simple stupid. I worked in a test lab starting in 1987 where we were laying the ground work for where we are today. We did some incredible stuff, then the bean counters took over...

I'm not surprised. To make a long story short, I have a 2016 Colorado, purchased new from a dealer. A few months ago i noticed my temperature gauge going up into the hot zone, then coming back to normal. I took it to the dealer, they put in a new thermostat, sensor, and flushed the coolant system. Over 850 bucks - and it didn't fix it. They wouldn't do anything about it, unless I paid more money. For what? Fixing a problem you already failed to fix? So I took it to another dealer. This one only cost me 650 bucks, and they failed to fix it as well, and they had it for 3 days. WTF? But I did get this piece of paper that was a GM service bulletin that said, and I quote; Condition deemed normal by engineering at this time. Translated - they have a piss poor design that they can't fix, and a recall would be too expensive - so we will **** you over and then let the non-existent customer service take care of the rest. TL;DR - you are ****ed.

It ain't senility.

I saw a clip of Mitch having a fall today, and another with Pelosi getting assisted. Why are these fossils still there? If they had any integrity they would have retired long ago, along with many others. They didn't because they don't have any integrity, not one ounce. We are governed by a bunch of worthless paid off and blackmailed creeps, every last one of them. And if you don't play the game you don't get there. Anyone who believe otherwise has their head firmly stuffed up their ass.

The public can't do jack **** about it (or because) the political dip****s are nothing but paid off whores who spend all their time fundraising and lying to the masses of sheep who still believe in their **** and get away with it instead of stringing them up by their nuts. (I'll probably have the goons banging on my door tomorrow for that) I can't wait for the next chapter of how we bail out the bankers when this massive cluster **** of a bubble blows up.

I would argue a capitalist system doesn't bail out swine ****ing bankers to the tune of trillions (or anyone else for that matter). But that's what the whores in DC get paid to do. The financial blowup of 2008/2009 was one of the greatest wealth transfers to the .01% in history.

I looked for that game (1968 and Gibson) and the box scores I found did not include pitch counts, which I think is more important than innings pitched. Would be curious to know how many. ON EDIT: found it - says 159 - that's quite a few

Digital scanners it sounds like. I've seen them used for scanning things you want to 3D print. Pretty slick. Thing is, how far away are the cameras, and how will the distance affect the accuracy?

How much difference is the box from the strike zone defined by the ABS system? According to what I can find, but don't know how accurate. From a search: MLB electronic strike zone percentages Top of the zone: 53.5% of the batter's height Bottom of the zone: 27% of the batter's height Total height of the zone: 26.5% of the batter's height ( 53.5%−27%=26.5%53.5 % minus 27 % equals 26.5 % 53.5%−27%=26.5%) Other details The zone's width is set to match home plate, which is 17 inches. The ABS system calculates the strike zone at the midpoint of the plate, unlike the traditional home plate zone which could include any part of the plate. This definition is used for the automated ball-strike system and is different from the traditional umpire-called zone, which may have been more lenient.

Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

I was looking into how they will determine the strike zone when/if they go to that at some point. I couldn't find out too much on how the technology worked, but it reads like it is all done with cameras. I assume this is also used to place the zone on the broadcast? Don't know. Would like to know more. Those must be some really good cameras and the technology pretty impressive. I would like to know more.

It was very light and no outline. I couldn't tell if it was there all the time or not. Kind of messed up.

If I added the numbers in the box score correctly, between the two teams there were a total of 472 pitches.