tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4205441336857113100..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Memories, misty watercolor memories ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45470123005707902072012-05-02T09:29:22.798-07:002012-05-02T09:29:22.798-07:00During wide-spread, prolonged power-outages, landl...<i>During wide-spread, prolonged power-outages, landlines will also often work even when cell-service and internet phones go dark.</i><br /><br /> They used to, because the phone company was also its own power company, with 48 volt battery banks and DC gensets. My mother was an operator and a supervisor with the Bell System and I remember being in a call center during an outage. The whole building had a second DC system that ran lights, fans, you name it. They had 48 volt DC stuff of all sorts, a whole catalog of it, for phone facilities. <br /><br /> Then came the MBA mentality, outsourcing and VoIP on fiber. Now, the CO may still run but after a couple of hours the fiber is going dark as the distribution boxes lose power. Some have a small natural gas genset but if that fails you are out of luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66242758053851645822012-05-01T20:27:22.692-07:002012-05-01T20:27:22.692-07:00"Steve Sailer said...
Those old AT&T lan..."Steve Sailer said...<br /><br />Those old AT&T landline phones delivered very nice sound. Teenagers talked for hours. Now they text, in part because cell phone audio is so grating."<br /><br />During wide-spread, prolonged power-outages, landlines will also often work even when cell-service and internet phones go dark.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52942594970760782352012-05-01T20:24:57.384-07:002012-05-01T20:24:57.384-07:00Helamonde:
Is there a link to the full and edited...Helamonde:<br /><br />Is there a link to the full and edited versions somewhere, say on Youtube?<br /><br />Are you okay with the power for the government to stop TV stations showing footage the feds don't want shown in general? Because I can think of about a hundred times more ways I'd expect that to be misused than ways I'd expect it to be used for good purposes. Our media is already tame enough.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33327544107459754652012-05-01T13:52:00.933-07:002012-05-01T13:52:00.933-07:00I not only still use Western Electric 500 and 1200...I not only still use Western Electric 500 and 1200 sets at home, my home office has a working four line 1A2 system. Mine are all the touch tone, square selector button 70s style but the kind on Mad Men works on this exact same system. I have two "real" copper pairs coming in the house, plus a common MagicJack VoIP and an inside only pair we use as an intercom. (Yes, I also have a Selectric typewriter-works great for envelopes.) <br /><br /> Also, I think the photographer who shot the Rodney King footage is not so much responsible for the riot as the news media who showed ONLY the beating footage and refused to show the whole thing. Some Senator should have said that this was seditious and that their broadcast license would be terminated if they did not show the whole thing. It took a long time for all of the footage to finally air and few sympathized much with King after they saw the whole thing.Helamondenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4782874165232111562012-05-01T13:09:41.645-07:002012-05-01T13:09:41.645-07:00Anon at 11:41 am;
"But of course, despite al...Anon at 11:41 am;<br /><br />"But of course, despite all the black bitching about 'white racism', all blacks know they wouldn't amount to a plate of beans if not for white wealth, white productivity and white competency."<br /><br />SO TRUE. This is why so many blacks have had no shame at all in inviting themselves to live in almost 100% white countries like Britain, France and Canada among others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35831981238607490392012-05-01T07:46:30.730-07:002012-05-01T07:46:30.730-07:00I prefer knowing what reality looks like to being ...<i>I prefer knowing what reality looks like to being kept in the dark to maintain social order or achieve other goals of the media, however worthy.</i><br /><br />I don't watch TV to know what reality is like. I already knew that cops often give miscreants a well-earned beat down, and I personally would have never made/shared that video. 54 dead for 15 minutes of fame is not my idea of responsibility.Paul Mendeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66758794604852756742012-05-01T07:22:08.443-07:002012-05-01T07:22:08.443-07:00"'As for cell phones, I never use mine if...<i>"'As for cell phones, I never use mine if I can avoid it'<br /><br />Here is a revolutionary idea: don't own one. I don't"</i><br /><br />Actually, I ended up getting a cell phone because the revolutionary idea I tried (living with a spouse who, when apart from me, couldn't get in touch with me if he needed to) didn't pan out. <br /><br />He dispensed with our land line years ago; a cell phone makes more sense for him at work because he has no ready access to a land line and he didn't want to pay two phone bills.<br /><br /><i>"Considering how much more expensive cell phone services are, their ubiquity is an ultimate triumph of marketing."</i><br /><br />Mine's cheap and of the 1000 minutes my husband put on it last year, I still have nearly 700. I only used as many as I did because I traveled last summer.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50421810525186847382012-05-01T06:04:07.605-07:002012-05-01T06:04:07.605-07:00The riots started mid-day, but kept on going. So f...The riots started mid-day, but kept on going. So folks gathering for church-and-marching-orders that very evening isn't a stretch.<br /><br />The part that strikes me is "everyone's pager was going off." That doesn't mean (as he suggests) that the news that a riot was <b>starting</b> was coming in fresh, right there in church. Maybe he's conflating all the events of the day. It could be that the latest developments in the already started but growing riot were occurring, and this is what was popping the pagers. (I.e., many were following it for some hours before they decided whether to join in.) Also, "pagers and phones" in that era and place indicate a significant presence of drug dealers and maybe people connected with prostitution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63480314100935650392012-04-30T22:24:37.226-07:002012-04-30T22:24:37.226-07:00I still have two Bell (Western Electric) rotary di...I still have two Bell (Western Electric) rotary dial telephones. From time to time I plug them in and, having become inured to ragged cell phone sound, I'm pleased by the fidelity of those old handsets' audio. Their weight, their heft does become onerous when you've become unused to holding them up for a long conversation, and it is disconcerting to find my travel limited to the four-foot extent of their spiral cords. I've not tried to dial out on them, so I don't know if their rotary-pulse signals would intiate a call, but for incoming calls they still ring their glorious old rings. In fact, one of the things I dislike about cell phones are their ringtones - even the ringtone on my own cell phone grates on mey nerves. The other lovely thing about hard-wired telephones is that they ring until you can get to them to lift their handset to take a call, unlike the rude brief ringtone duration of my cell phone which caterwauls for only about six seconds before it shifts the caller off to my voice-mail and forces me to return the call instead of having allowed me sufficient time to have answered the incoming call.Auntie Analoguenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74245009242566268642012-04-30T21:37:34.165-07:002012-04-30T21:37:34.165-07:00As for cell phones, I never use mine if I can avoi...<i>As for cell phones, I never use mine if I can avoid it</i><br /><br />Here is a revolutionary idea: don't own one. I don't. Nothing's fundamentally changed in my life since the time when cell phones were not common. Survived then, still survive without it now. Threw some $30 prepaid cheapo into the car's glove box in case of emergency. That's all. If someone needs me, I have land line at work and at home. Considering how much more expensive cell phone services are, their ubiquity is an ultimate triumph of marketing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33951578541939827172012-04-30T19:27:49.465-07:002012-04-30T19:27:49.465-07:00Those old AT&T landline phones delivered very ...Those old AT&T landline phones delivered very nice sound. Teenagers talked for hours. Now they text, in part because cell phone audio is so grating.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32263074216006742792012-04-30T19:22:39.527-07:002012-04-30T19:22:39.527-07:00"'The old-fashioned cars and clothes don&...<i>"'The old-fashioned cars and clothes don't faze me but the telephones just crack me up.'<br /><br />they were built like german tanks. They could easily last 20, 30 years. can you say that about any cell phone??"</i><br /><br />I'm not ridiculing the heavy old phones. I much prefer them to the new-fangled models. I loved my granny's heavy old black phone. When we moved to our new house in 1965 and got two telephones, I was thrilled, until I discovered they were plastic donuts, not Bakelite tanks.<br /><br />As for cell phones, I never use mine if I can avoid it.<br /><br />But seeing actors use those old phones, which look like oversized versions of Maxwell Smart's shoe phone just cracks me up. It's like the old sci-fi movies in which the computers are huge machines requiring their own rooms.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79966455931969741732012-04-30T17:35:37.801-07:002012-04-30T17:35:37.801-07:00If it was a funeral, I think he would've menti...If it was a funeral, I think he would've mentioned it. It seems like a pretty important detail to omit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6703926328606538392012-04-30T16:45:28.718-07:002012-04-30T16:45:28.718-07:00Paul:
I prefer knowing what reality looks like to...Paul:<br /><br />I prefer knowing what reality looks like to being kept in the dark to maintain social order or achieve other goals of the media, however worthy. Thus, I am glad that the video was taken and run, just as I'm glad the video of Denny being beaten was taken and run, the Wikileaks collateral murder video was leaked, the various footage of urban black kids beating whites unconscious is leaked, etc. <br /><br />The shitty media we have is largely the result of thinking like that in your comment. I don't want socially responsible media, I want honest media portraying the best available picture of the world.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57047898624919532562012-04-30T15:50:51.202-07:002012-04-30T15:50:51.202-07:00I took a history course on the 1960s in college. O...I took a history course on the 1960s in college. One day, we were covering the Chicago riots. To explain what motivated the rioters, my professor showed pictures of buildings while describing living conditions all of which looked and sounded exactly like my neighborhood in the old country. I raised my hand and said, rather indignantly, "Hey! That is exactly like where I was born!" He looked me straight in the eye and said, "And THAT, precisely, was the problem."Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54215612500258718232012-04-30T15:29:16.934-07:002012-04-30T15:29:16.934-07:00Well, I guess my working class white privilege ha...Well, I guess my working class white privilege has robbed that lad of any dream he might have wanted to grasp. Guess I should just leave my doors unlocked so that he and his pals can come in and take what they want. That way no one gets hurt on shards of broken glass.<br /><br />I wonder in how many college classes in American one hears the phrase "white privilege." For all the civil unrest when I went to school, I never once heard it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80954962575467453632012-04-30T15:17:01.838-07:002012-04-30T15:17:01.838-07:00drug dealers did, at least in urban areas.
No, pa...<i>drug dealers did, at least in urban areas.</i><br /><br />No, pay phones themselves endured well past 2000 even in the cities. All the drug trade did was limit them to calling out- no receiving.alonzo portfolionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49572291886469525972012-04-30T15:00:45.079-07:002012-04-30T15:00:45.079-07:00I don't know why anyone commented about the ar...I don't know why anyone commented about the article regarding Brain Atrophy and religion here on this post, but I followed the link and read (in the first two paragraphs no less):<br /><br /><br />"Older adults who say they've had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.<br /><br />According to the study, people who said they were a "born-again" Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or "atrophy") compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again."<br /><br />...but with a headline of "Being 'Born-Again' Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study"<br /><br />Yeah it's pretty irritating when science reporters of all people have such clear biases. I was raised in a protestant church but can't say I have had any "life changing religious experiences." I'd say the results probably just show that people who have gone through trauma are more likely to have both brain atrophy and "life changing religious experiences" or some form of condition like bipolar, depression, etc...<br /><br />Well, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that people who rebel heavily against their religious upbringings might also be people who statistically are more likely to have experienced trauma, feelings of rejection, depression, bipolar, etc..Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998228889982961028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64234929534633806232012-04-30T14:57:27.759-07:002012-04-30T14:57:27.759-07:00As far as I'm concerned Rodney King should be ...<i>As far as I'm concerned Rodney King should be brought back and beaten all over again. He should be beaten on every anniversary of the LA riots.</i><br /><br />Along with the jackass who took the video, and the TV station that ran it. <br /><br />I've often wondered if the guy who took the video of King's beating ever felt guilty for burning down LA in exchange for his 15 minutes of fame.Paul Mendeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78589302832548287142012-04-30T14:17:56.369-07:002012-04-30T14:17:56.369-07:00"atheists also had more brain atrophy."
..."atheists also had more brain atrophy."<br /><br />I guess PC too is a form of religion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34915697989046799322012-04-30T14:03:38.517-07:002012-04-30T14:03:38.517-07:00Wednesday evening church services -- but the riots...Wednesday evening church services -- but the riots broke out in the middle of the day on Wednesday.<br /><br />A funeral is still possible.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53383828236315206262012-04-30T14:00:51.340-07:002012-04-30T14:00:51.340-07:0060 posts in and I don't think anyone remarked ...60 posts in and I don't think anyone remarked on the one 'gangster' bragging about his military training.<br /><br />Nowadays having a Confederate flag tat can be grounds for dismissal for being part of a 'hate group'. Meanwhile Crips/Bloods et al tags have been popping up in Afghanistan and Iraq for years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38932989366650551922012-04-30T13:55:31.272-07:002012-04-30T13:55:31.272-07:00"http://www.philly.com/philly/health/13245688..."http://www.philly.com/philly/health/132456883.html<br /><br />Being 'Born-Again' Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study"<br /><br />The headline is deceiving: atheists also had more brain atrophy. It's the people who had stable religious affiliations who had less atrophy.<br /><br />So actually, the paper is saying traditional religion is good for you.SFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32336285275521232672012-04-30T13:45:28.510-07:002012-04-30T13:45:28.510-07:00Anonymous said...
"Also, why was he going to ...Anonymous said...<br />"Also, why was he going to church on a Wednesday (which was what "April 29, 1992 was)? A funeral, maybe, but why not say funeral?"<br /><br />Baptists? Not that I'm 100% sure this article is genuine either."<br /><br /><br />I know of a lot of Protestant churches, especially black and protestant hispanic, that have Wednesday evening services. <br />But if he's hispanic, perhaps he was going to stop in church and say the rosary.Charlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41247008281012508362012-04-30T13:25:08.614-07:002012-04-30T13:25:08.614-07:00The Methodist Church in my hometown always held We...The Methodist Church in my hometown always held Wednesday services in additional to Sunday services. Wednesday services always began at 7:00 PM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com