CatBus

Bah! Shows what I know, modern Tagalog uses Latin characters. Nevertheless, we have some very plausible scenarios where we could end up with a subtitle in a new script (Tamil, just by transcribing the dubs, would be pretty quick work). So we’ll have an improved backup font in 10.1 to cover any eventuality. Over 60,000 characters at this point, covering nearly all of the language groups in the BMP, and a smattering in the SMP. And I’ll be incorporating ConScript Unicode Registry glyphs so people can do subtitles in Sindarin or Klingon, because why not?

Also, the term “active informant” comes up in the Papadopoulos documents. A lot of people have been saying this is law enforcement-speak for “he wore a wire”. If so, this investigation is truly Nixon-bound.

The real interesting story of the day seems to be George Papadopolous. He talked, he was charged, he pled guilty. His active part in this story is already over.

But the story he told indicates things are just getting started:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4163402/Papadopoulos-Statement-Offense.pdf

TV’s Frink said:

First time I’ve ever heard “Rick” and “Gates” as consecutive words.

Rick “Olie” Gates?

What’s Monday going to throw us?

The mainstream pick: Manafort
The wishful thinking: Jarvanka
The obscure but important curveball: Sater
The nobody of consequence: Pence (hee hee)
The beginning: multiple persons, like Manafort/Stone/Kushner, etc

Just continuing to go down the line of absolutely everything in this project to see if it could be improved for the next release, and I hit upon the font resource called Droid Sans Fallback which has been included with this project since we went Unicode. It’s basically a Unicode fallback font I kept in my back pocket for new languages. I never actually used it, but upon testing, it actually does a pretty dreadful job, so it’s going away.

So I’ve chosen a new Unicode fallback font for the next version, a customized version of the Noto Sans font (which is actually Google’s successor to Droid Sans) merged into a single file. The CJK flavor I’ve chosen is traditional Chinese, simply because I’ve already got all the major CJK languages covered with their own fonts, and any future CJK language support would have to be some regional Chinese dialect, which tend to favor traditional Chinese characters. Will I actually use this font? Probably not – but we could get a chance with the Tagalog subtitles, assuming there’s not a preferred font for Tagalog. But those who are on the lookout for a font covering a really wide range of the Unicode spec could do a lot worse.

You have to be using a font that handles Egyptian hieroglyphs, but…

EDIT: Removed. Better safe than sorry. Unicode 130B8 for the curious.

Well, maybe it’s not technically punctuation, but I bet there are people out there who would try to stick this anywhere.

SilverWook said:

And all those calls are probably being recorded by someone.

And there’s a pretty good chance it’s not just the GRU recording them.

The best thing about sealed indictments in an ongoing investigation of an amateur operation is the phone calls. Who’s calling who tonight… that may just be enough to add an obstruction or conspiracy charge for those lined up for the next round.

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

CatBus said:

It’s hard to feel like Trump is the worst human on Earth when there is so much competition these days.

Here’s more!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/26/560149316/10-year-old-girl-is-detained-by-ice-officers-after-emergency-surgery

Rosa Maria Hernandez was brought to the United States illegally from Mexico in 2007 when she was 3 months old, according to her mother, Felipa de la Cruz, to get access to better medical care. The family lives in Laredo, Texas, and all are undocumented.

The girl was traveling in an ambulance — accompanied by her cousin — to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi on Tuesday when federal immigration officers stopped the vehicle at a checkpoint.

The Border Patrol agents followed the ambulance to the hospital. According to the family’s lawyer, Leticia Gonzalez, the agents insisted the door to her hospital room be left open at all times to keep an eye on her.

On Wednesday, the hospital discharged Rosa Maria. The lawyer, reading the discharge papers on a conference call with reporters, said doctors recommended the child be released to “a family member who is familiar with her medical and psychological needs.”

But officers decided to transport the girl to a government-contracted juvenile shelter in San Antonio, 150 miles from Laredo, and put her into deportation proceedings.

Here’s the dangerous criminal that our country is now protected from.

Guys, armadillos crossing the border is a serious problem.

Armadillos carry leprosy. They are a way more serious problem than that one time when someone’s racist grandpa had a dream where there’d been a net flow of illegal immigrants into our country sometime in recent memory.

SilverWook said:

Gorka is like a fifth rate villain in a third rate 007 knockoff.

Back to this again are we?

Goldshower
He’s the man, the man with the moistened touch
A Russian touch
Such a short finger
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don’t go in
Incoherent words he will tweet to the world
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s grabbed her (by the…)
It’s the grab of death from
Mister Goldshower

It’s hard to feel like Trump is the worst human on Earth when there is so much competition these days. Enter Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, who recently floated the idea that the modern neo-Nazi movement in the US is being funded and coordinated by a liberal Holocaust survivor. After being roundly criticized by everyone with a sense of shame, including all seven of his siblings, CNN decided to give him a chance to pretend his first remark on the matter was just a big misunderstanding. Given this chance, Rep. Gosar decided to make it clear he’s exactly as full of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories as he seems.

Please tell me Arizona voters are surprised they’re represented by an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and will kick this asshole to the curb at the next possible opportunity. Or will he get primaried for not presenting the Charlottesville Nazis in a positive enough light?

Warbler said:

CatBus said:

Good speech. This week may convince some people that as Republicans in Congress went to unprecedented lengths to grant Trump as much power to achieve his aims as possible, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Bob Corker simply would not go along with it. I suspect it won’t convince Merrick Garland, though.

convince Merrick Garland of what?

Convince him Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Bob Corker didn’t go to unprecendented lengths to grant Trump as much power to achieve his aims as possible. Considering they went to extraordinary lengths to throw him an extra Supreme Court nomination, in addition to the ones he’d normally get by being President. You know, John “we can get by just fine with eight justices for the rest of the Obama presidency and the entire hypothetical Clinton presidency but jeeze now that Trump’s nominating let’s hurry this process right up” McCain and his opposing-Trump-with-the-awesome-power-of-press-releases pals.

Good speech. This week may convince some people that as Republicans in Congress went to unprecedented lengths to grant Trump as much power to achieve his aims as possible, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Bob Corker simply would not go along with it. I suspect it won’t convince Merrick Garland, though.

It’s just as well they’re retiring, so they don’t have as much of an opportunity to fail to live up to their words.

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

CatBus said:

In completely coincidental news, the reward for information leading to the impeachment and removal of Trump has been increased to $10,025,000.

😃

darn information that would lead to Trumps impeachment and get me $10,025.000. I wish I had that info.

The trick is we all have that info. It’s public knowledge. The problem with Flynt’s gambit is that it’s seeking the wrong thing. Documentation of impeachable offenses? I think I could probably rattle off seven thoroughly documented offenses without breaking a sweat. What’s missing is the backbone to act on the evidence we already have. I suppose Flynt is maybe thinking maybe there’s something so outrageously illegal the Republicans would have to act. He probably thinks Trump’s claim that he could shoot a guy on Fifth Avenue was exaggeration too.

In completely coincidental news, the reward for information leading to the impeachment and removal of Trump has been increased to $10,025,000.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

With regards to the Pope, it seems to me that liberals are often derided for being too deferential to Muslim beliefs. But disrespect the Pope and you’re a heathen!

I think liberals tend to differentiate between criticizing people and criticizing beliefs. i.e. they can criticize the Pope as much as they want and they don’t see it as anti-Catholic at all. Criticize Catholic beliefs in a more general sense and that’s anti-Catholic and they try to avoid it. But that ignores beliefs such as Papal infallibility which join the two together. So you either are criticizing beliefs to some degree, or you never bothered to learn much about the beliefs you’re trying to avoid criticizing. With regard to religions with widely decentralized heirarchies, it’s easier to make that liberal distinction. You can criticize Islamic leaders as much as you want because they aren’t ever much more than local clerics anyway–so you often don’t bother to criticize them because who cares and nobody knows who they are anyway.

The collusion starts paying off.

EDIT: Hey, that may be the only time I’ve ever linked to the National Review, so get your ideologically conservative news served up by CatBus while the limited-time offer stands.

moviefreakedmind said:

CatBus said:

Warbler said:

To some the Confederate flag is about heritage, not hate. Not saying they are right, but that is how some feel.

The heritage canard gets thrown around for more than just the Confederate flag.

Asked about the pin he was wearing during the interview, Fears said “it’s basically just like an SS thing.” Explaining the significance of the pin would require an extensive conversation about World War II, he said. “And it’s my heritage, I’m German.”

Yup, just heritage. Nothing to see here. The fact that they single out the most racist possible symbols of that heritage is just a coincidence I’m sure. The Nascar folks were evenly split between the Confederate flag and William Faulkner to represent Southern heritage, and just randomly picked the flag with a coin toss, I’m sure.

I see your point, but the Confederacy and Nazi Germany are a false equivalence.

There’s a difference between false equivalence and an imperfect analogy – otherwise you could say false equivalence for any analogy. If someone said a bird was as blue as the sky, you couldn’t really say “false equivalence, the sky is airy and the bird is all feathery”. You have to consider the quality for which they’re being compared – the blueness. As far as foundations firmly rooted in brutally racist ideologies, Nazis and Confederates are pretty close. But there were differences: the Confederacy was more focused on forced labor camps than extermination, the Confederacy was much more limited in the scale of its military ambitions to only attacking the United States, and Germany was a legitimate nation, to name a few.

Probably the closest modern analogue for the Confederacy I can think of is ISIS. A group of fanatics with delusions of statehood, trying to enforce a brutal medieval philosophy already abandoned by the rest of the world on the population unfortunate enough to live under their control, with surprisingly capable military commanders for an otherwise backward operation, but ultimately doomed to lose the fight they started. And even then there’s a few differences.

Warbler said:

To some the Confederate flag is about heritage, not hate. Not saying they are right, but that is how some feel.

The heritage canard gets thrown around for more than just the Confederate flag.

Asked about the pin he was wearing during the interview, Fears said “it’s basically just like an SS thing.” Explaining the significance of the pin would require an extensive conversation about World War II, he said. “And it’s my heritage, I’m German.”

Yup, just heritage. Nothing to see here. The fact that they single out the most racist possible symbols of that heritage is just a coincidence I’m sure. The Nascar folks were evenly split between the Confederate flag and William Faulkner to represent Southern heritage, and just randomly picked the flag with a coin toss, I’m sure.

NeverarGreat said:

CatBus said:

I can’t even.

I even.

You would.

I can’t even.

yhwx said:

Holy shit NRA.

https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/921390510576562176

“We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president & the people who voted for him…in American history." -@DLoesch #NRA

https://www.nratv.com/series/freedoms-safest-place/episode/freedoms-safest-place-season-2-episode-5-the-ultimate-insult

Hm. Worse than what they did to Lincoln and the part of America that stood by him. I did not know that.

All hail the great Alliance.

EDIT: Oh, and that building in SilverWook’s photo says “WORLD CENTER OF RACING” with an “NG” at the end. I swear those last two letters were different when I first saw it.

Harmy didn’t really say:

The current Despecialized Edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The other versions, they’re on the torrents, if anybody wants them. To me, they don’t really exist anymore. It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed restoration and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be.

But I bet he’s thought it 😉

Pretty common scenario: Sports confederate flag, goes on tirade against various perceived traitors against the USA, sees no irony. History weeps.

And I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: When Sinclair Lewis said fascism would come to America wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross, I always assumed he meant the American flag and an unlit cross. Silly me, I know better now.