[01:18] <bananahands> JupiterBroadcasting
[01:25] <cmaloney> That's pretty random
[01:32] <bananahands> wrong window.
[01:32] <cmaloney> ;)
[12:23] <mrgoodcat> morning
[12:23] <wolfger> morning
[12:26] <cmaloney> Good morning
[12:43] <_stink_> yo
[12:50] <mrgoodcat> the chancellor of uc davis has been put on leave over her handling of the whole pepper spray thing apparently
[12:50] <wolfger> paid administrative leave?
[12:50] <cmaloney> are they trying to scrape up $175K to wipe her mistake from the internet?
[12:51] <cmaloney> Maybe they should raise tuition to raise the money.
[12:51] <mrgoodcat> i'm not sure if leave is paid or not. but the leave is just during the investigation
[12:52] <mrgoodcat> i'm sure she'll end up with some other consequence
[12:52] <mrgoodcat> hopefully they terminate her
[12:52] <cmaloney> Damage is done, sadly
[12:53] <cmaloney> That they tried to bury it on the net is the proverbial spray-topping.
[12:53] <wolfger> I'm sure it's paid leave and I'm sure they'll find that she really wasn't involved.
[12:53] <wolfger> after the spotlight fades
[12:54] <wolfger> or perhaps they'll hang her as the scapegoat
[12:54] <wolfger> probably give her a nice termination package, and she'll go somewhere else, richer for it.
[12:55] <cmaloney> I sense cynicism that things will change.
[12:55] <wolfger> bingo
[12:56] <wolfger> read two news articles today about Prince. Both contained the exact same fact, but the spin was drastically different.
[12:57] <mrgoodcat> about the percoset?
[12:57] <mrgoodcat> percocet*
[12:57] <wolfger> One said "Prescription painkillers were found in Prince's possession", the other: "Powerful opiates found in Prince's possession"
[12:58] <wolfger> this is where cynicism comes from.
[12:59] <wolfger> "News" never presents facts without painting some sort of picture or another, to instruct you how you should feel about it.
[12:59] <mrgoodcat> both articles are attempting to do the same thing tho
[12:59] <mrgoodcat> farm clicks
[12:59] <wolfger> sure
[13:00] <wolfger> they are milking the fact that people want to know how he died, and there's no official announcement yet. Time to start all the rumor mills.
[13:00] <cmaloney> It's all story-telling.
[13:00] <cmaloney> I can die from dihydrogen monodixe poisioning, or I can drink too much water.
[13:01] <wolfger> so at the end of the day, the chancellor will be painted one way or the other, and however that is, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle
[13:02] <cmaloney> We've become a culture where nuance is a dirty word
[13:02] <wolfger> but I think she's going to come out of it just fine, because people that high on the food chain always seem to.
[13:02] <wolfger> If she was a janitor, she'd be hosed. Already "let go", no compensation.
[13:02] <cmaloney> where understanding both sides takes too long, and the best we can hope for is finding someone we mostly agree with
[13:03] <cmaloney> wolfger: Oh totally
[13:03] <cmaloney> That Hastert isn't currently rotting in jail is a testament to the two-power system
[13:03] <cmaloney> vis a vis someone who allegedly had child porn on their computer getting locked up before all of the facts are in place.
[13:03] <wolfger> This is why we need Trump to make 'Murica great again....
[13:04] <cmaloney> Yeah, that'll work
[13:05] <wolfger> xD
[13:05] <wolfger> <--troll
[13:05] <cmaloney> only if we can sell The USA to The Trump USA Inc and fold the old USA into a shell company that we can sell off to pay for the acquisition costs.
[13:05] <wolfger> sadly, it looks like Bernie will not be in the election, so I probably just won't vote. My conscience forbids me from voting for either Hillary or The Donald.
[13:07] <_stink_> i just write in my wife for president
[13:07] <cmaloney> I don't want to believe in conspiracies, but part of me wonders if Trump's candidacy is to ensure Hillary makes it in
[13:07] <_stink_> she says she doesn't want the job
[13:07] <cmaloney> She's clearly not insane then
[13:07] <wolfger> I used to think that Trump was a guaranteed Democrat win, regardless of who the candidate was, but now I'm not sure.
[13:08] <cmaloney> (your wife, not HC)
[13:08] <wolfger> _stink_: you have an intelligent wife
[13:08] <wolfger> I used to be dumb enough to think I wanted to be PotUS...
[13:09] <cmaloney> Well, we couldn't afford it
[21:29] <cmaloney> http://decafbad.net/2016/04/28/learning-challenge:-6502-assembly-language/
[23:28] <brousch> I'll finally be dipping my toe into development at work. However it will be in Android, not Python