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Right Angle: Backstage (01-05-2021)

Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Stephen Green, dress in their Tuesday best and lament their first-world problems.

Right Angle: Backstage (01-02-2021)

For the first Backstage meeting of the new year, Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Stephen Green, dress in their Tuesday best and lament their first-world problems.

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50 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (01-05-2021)”

@18:00 I agree with Stephen. If we ever “buy American”, it is because foreign investments OWN the what is being manufactured HERE. You want to know why Foxconn built a facility here? It was to import what was manufactured over seas and assembled here. So much for tariffs. Just under charge the import and slap the vendor price domestically. China isn’t stupid, and neither are the sell outs.

Hey scott, if you are still getting distracted with the pc, there should be some buttons on top or on the front that change the color settings, press or hold them to test out what you like, if you don’t have those buttons, try searching for “chroma” or things related to color on your pc, you might have software that lets you customize the lights.

Also im not a fan of the glowey computers either, id much rather have a beige pc that looks like it will overheat my house that could also run everything on ultra settings.

I just joined because the purge phase (to be followed by the punishment phase) is in full swing. Please do a show on alternative social media outlets.

One of my very early posts on BW.com was a review of The Death of Stalin. I did it in order to share a very well made and darkly entertaining film. If you haven’t seen it yet I urge you to watch it, not for entertainment now so much as instruction. It might help you get through the next few years.

Wow! The palpable disgust in Bill’s countenance is almost too hard to watch. Bill, I share you passion, but don’t let what’s going on in America today eat your core. We need your voice too much.

yes scott, we are at war with china, and yes every chinese company should be considered a puppet for the ccp, because they are. its called communism, there were no independent companies in the ussr, why would you think there are in china

How about you actually connect a person to your idiot buttons and reply to requests for help and contact made. As it is now [Help] and [Contact] aren’t either of those. I expect a reply or I am cancelling my subscription. I will not cooperate in being exploited. If you want support then respond in kind.

Yeah, you missed out. That’s what happens if you’re the instant gratification kind.

Scott, as a coder from way back, I understood everything you said about why your queries are slow. The slowness might also be due to the latency of the network.

@Scott Glad to hear the site will eventually migrate, this is pretty sub-par. In the meantime if you share details on the technical problems, indeed we may point to solutions.

Nicholas Moran (AKA The Chieftain) describes the Abrams MBT he commanded in F-istan as follows: ‘It is an American tank with British designed armor; German designed main gun; Belgium designed coax, Italian designed sidearms and a tank commander made in Ireland. Go figure.’
Nicholas Moran (AKA The Chieftain) describes Th Abrams MBT he commanded in F-istan as follows: ‘It is an American tank with British designed armor; German designed main gun; Belgium designed coax, Italian designed sidearms and a tank commander made in Ireland. Go figure.’

There was a Haggar The Horrible cartoon where a bar was doing weapons check on customers. If you did not have a weapon; you were not allowed in. The next panel showed Hagar kissing his sword & saying ‘I love being a Viking!’

“My Phone Magnets Are Too Sticky” is the name of my new band.
They’ll be playing at the Imaginary President’s Ball following Biden’s Imaginary Virtual Inauguration.

Sad to see but these backstage episodes just keep getting more and more awkward. The angst Bill is carrying opposed to Scott’s Mary Sue counter reply to everything just makes Bill’s blood boil. It’s great they have 3 different opinions but man is it just awkward with the facial expressions, dead air, VERY awkward giggle/laughs from Scott. Hopefully you guys hammer through this as I’ve always enjoyed the 3 amigos here.

Scott, it’s easy to tell hospitals what to do when you firmly believe you’re the smartest person in any room. On a power trip. And have been given awards and laurels from equally bright sycophants.

Ford’s in water going through a lengthy shakedown. Kennedy’s been launched and is fitting out. Enterprise is still on the slipways being built. And long-lead items for the Miller have been ordered.
I seem to recall reading that the DoD or Navy has said the Miller will be the last Ford class. Cause the class hasn’t been a resounding success.

I worked at the State Capitol quite briefly when I moved back here. It was a huge rig-a-ma-roll to get in the building. Pat downs, metal detectors, state troopers…. Until I got my badge (simple little process). I could just walk past all that.

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against. We’re after power and we mean it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”

– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Not only do these politicians think they’re doing the right thing but they also think they’re admired by the people. What else explains DeBlasio’s New Year’s dance?

I can’t wait until this weekend when he tries walking among the Bills Mafia. As a former Philadelphia eagles fan (I’m done with the NFL), Buffalo’s was the one fan base I’d call more hardcore than ours. At least, I don’t know of fans RKOing each other while tailgating at The Linc…

Lived in Buffalo for two football seasons. Those folks are hard core. No way Cuomo has the nads to walk through a tail gate of those guys. They are not as normally violent as Eagles fans, but they are nuts, in a good western NY kind of way.

I have seen that one.
There is also one where a guy belly-flopped onto a table from his big pick up tail gate.

Tariffs are a bad idea. Why punish your own citizens? In the end they’re the ones paying the tariffs. If a company in a non-enemy country can produce equal quality at lower prices, let them. If they’re doing it via government subsidies, they’re also screwing their own people via higher taxes. Not our problem if they’re being stupid.

And no trade with enemy nations.

I used to believe that was the realistic attitude to take. But at some point, a country destroys it’s own means of production if it lets aggressive other countries consciously lower their prices to hurt you. China has been doing that for years, maybe decades.
By the way, just in time inventory was a reaction to bad tax law. Politicians decided to tax companies on their inventories. So companies learned how to minimize inventories. Inventory helps a company keep going if something screws up the supply line. Change that tax law and businesses would start keeping some inventory again.

How does it hurt us if a country lowers its prices to below what it costs us? Note that I make a strong distinction between enemies like China and allies like Britain. We should be trading only with allies and my thoughts on tariffs above only apply to them.

There’s a German physicist that I talk to who is going to send me an autographed copy of one of her books. As soon as the shipping cost drops back to normal from three times the price of the book.

Yeah, things are hard to get.

Scott, Steve and Bill welcome to the Brave New World. The election in Ga. seems to be a repeat of the last one already this early in the evening. Cowardice seems to be the main ingredient that has allowed this to happen. I think there will be a HUUGE demonstration tomorrow but due to cowardice I fear it will not make one bit of difference. I pray that I will be proven wrong but after 70 years on the planet I have learned to temper expectations.

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