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- imbecile2
I believe I am going to speak in Wichita as a community member on Jan 16, in regards to the officer involved shooting of Andrew Finch.
I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in assisting me in preparing my statement? Maybe help keep me on topic, make a strong comparison to another situation where this result would not be tolerated.
So far I'm working off these thoughts...
He should be responsible for the life he took of an innocent man that he was hired and trained to serve and protect. As an officer of the law, he should respect that same law and be held to it, being held accountable for his actions.
I hope to make the point that "I was lied to" is not an excuse that other members of society can use. "I was acting off misinformation, forgive my actions." won't keep a civilian out of jail.
Why has sovereign immunity become a catchall excuse that allows peace officers to murder innocent people?
Why did this lone officer break protocol, murdering a fellow citizen, when no other officer made the same action?
What is this officer's name and when will he be charged?
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I will have 5 minutes to speak.
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This is terrible for me as it happened a few miles from my home. I am taking it very personal.
Some of you may remember when my Jeep was stolen. When I was able to pick it up, the officer informed me that it was still in the system as stolen and could take a few hours to no longer be listed as stolen.
I told him I feared for my life as I did not want to shot for driving my own (stolen) car. He approached me angrily and asked, "you think we just shoot people?" I responded with "yesterday, I saw a video of a man getting shot 3 times for reaching for his ID after being instructed to by a peace officer, so yes." he just walked away.
At this point, I just can't believe it. I accept it when I read other articles, I justify crime in other areas, more aggressive policing tactics, anything to make me feel like this won't happen at home. It has, and as angry as I have been in the past, I want my voice heard for the families of those killed recklessly by police.
I can't write this or begin composing my thoughts without feeling the urge to cry. The flood of emotion is confusing.
- I plan on addressing Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston and Police Chief Gordon Ramsay during my 5 minutes though I will be called on by the mayorimbecile
- Not to sure if I'm qualified enough for this but I have helped film scripts a few times.
Be great if all on QBN could jump in on thismugwart
- kona1
last night i slept terribly bad.
i tossed and turned, and went from our bed to our son's beds at least 3 times in the middle of the night after they woke up crying.
at 3am our youngest woke while i was in his bed next to him and i vaguely remember rubbing my eye as it felt stuck shut. and, it felt really weird as i rubbed it.
at 4am when he woke again it was swollen shut.
at 6am when we all woke i had giant bags under both eyes, but my right eye was also swollen and puffy up top and i could barely see through it.
now, it's mid-afternoon and i feel a great sense of pressure behind my right eye. things are a bit blurry if i close my left eye only looking out the right and it's still swollen, although not as bad.
web md says I have mad cow disease and that I need to be milked within the next few hours and given a strict diet of hay and oats.
anyone experience this before?
- Sounds like just a little glaucomarobotron3k
- I was going to suggest you to go to emergency med service, prob it 's nothing serious, but you're in US...OBBTKN
- do you wear contacts? pink eye?dorf
- did the milking help?Gnash
- Sounds like some sort of infection? Could be simply due to lack of sleep + stress. Hope you're ok!studderine
- Almost certain to be pink eye... from kid poop (wash those hands!). Hot water and a clean facecloth ... gently clean gunk every hour. Will be ok in 2 - 4 days.Centigrade
- maybe bitten by an insect?sofas
- Does the U.S. have the over-the-counter pink eye meds?ETM
- well, we did have a poop fight last night like a bunch of monkeys so that makes a whole lot of sense. it's feeling a bit better and the swelling is down a bitkona
- pics?drgs
- could you please go to a doctor?oey
- just rubbing your eye wrong can fuck it up (eg—an eyelash comes loose and gets stuck/pushed under the lid left for infection)... def go see a doctor, dude.PonyBoy
- Yes, I've experienced similar. Could be a bad stye that came in and got infected when you rubbed kid germs into them. Definitely see a doc and get treated.monospaced
- I give u 24 hours topsautoflavour
- crying can rupture tiny blood vessels in the eyes and eyelids. cool compresses and drink water. maybe stop your sexual activities till things get better.omg
- ^ this guy :/monospaced
- thoughts n prayers lifted up to your eye.
-GOPBonSeff - http://youtu.be/QvPC…bezoar
- the family probably uses the same bar of soap or body wash sponge in the household. just saying...omg
- Slept badly * not slept badset
- The fight to stop Americanism ruining the English language is futileset
- Welcome to parenthood ;-)mugwart
- All is well. After a decent nights sleep and a little nap this morning while at work my eyes are back to their normal size and 20/200 vision.kona
- thanks all for caring and thank you set for always jumping at the chance to correct everyone's grammatical errors and misspellings!kona
- lol forever a cunt I'm afraid.set
- Glad you're feeling better xset
- Serious question omg: are you retarded?monospaced
- I want to see a reality show about kona's family on TVdrgs
- maquito-3
Homepage flooded with Trump. Keep it classy qbn...
- Maaku1
Does anyone use JIRA?
They love it where I work, and I see the good things it offers for developers for tracking bugs and issues, etc.. But for design work, it sucks.
Addressing UI/UX problems like they are bugs doesn't really help the person in charge of improving them.
"It is confusing for the user which tab he/she is in if they select List View tab and then move to Map view."
You're pointing out a problem but you're not telling me if it's because maybe they can't see it, or the color contrast makes it impossible to find, or the text is hard to read... JUST TELL ME WHY!!
</rant>
- Sounds less like a problem with Jira itself and more the person logging the issue - though I agree that Jira was created for dev work, not design.bulletfactory
- ^Yeah, I find myself having to go back to the issuer to figure out what they're saying/want.Maaku
- I use it at work and its terrible!!!mugwart
- I want my memory back!mugwart
- Bennn0
I switched to Spotify this morning because the UI of Google Play Music sucks. I like it very much! BUT BUT BUT... I just discovered that there's a limit of 10,000 tracks you can add to your library.... WTF WTF!!!!!!!!! I just reached it.... Now I'm supposed to delete stuff to make room.
- WTF x1000 it sucks big time!Bennn
- 10,000 tracks? How many Albums is that?oey
- like ~600 albumsBennn
- It really sucks... I prefer the UI of Spotify but it looks like I will need to stick to Google Music... their limit is 100,000 songs. Fuck!Bennn
- Spotify is made for millenials who started listening music in 2008. I started listening music in the 80's ive got a lot to add! lolBennn
- Just read each Playlist you create can contain 10,000 tracks max. So the solution is to split my main Library in Playlists...Bennn
- good to know - am about to sign up for the free 3-month trialFax_Benson
- "At the moment we don’t have plans to extend the Your Music limit. The reason is because less than 1% of users reach it."
- SpotifyBennn - I'm creating Playlist like Main Library [A - J], Main Library [K - P] etc. to resolve the problem... it sucks cuz the albums are shown in big in the Library butBennn
- only as a text list in the Playlists.Bennn
- Music has changed people. We now have to think Playlists and not Music Library...Bennn
- Why do you need to add them to your library? If you've got 10,000 you'll need to search to find things, so you may as well just search Spotify.MrT
- Cuz I like to look in my Library to rediscover my music... Otherwise I may forget about some stuffBennn
- I'm building genre Playlist at the moment to split the library. Its the only way. Like ive said each Playlist can contain 10,000 songs.Bennn
- nahhh you switch because of the 3 months free deal.
i was about to switch but too late when i remembered....pango - lol i just hit random most of the time. or search the artist or album when it pops into my head. never really save anything.pango
- Try buying music and giving money to the artists instead of renting it.face_melter
- Yea, I don't really save anything either, maybe a few songs here and there.futurefood
- I stopped building a collection on spotify years back after licensing issues would make albums disappear. Annoying as hellfuturefood
- Spotify has changed the game, I have not opened iTunes intentionally for like 4 years at least. if you want to optimize how you search tunesMiguex
- having multiple categories is way more efficient than having everything on a single folder, you might as well have no folder if you want to search 10.000 songsMiguex
- I've had Spotify for 5 years now ..
no complaints here.Ramanisky2 - face_melter, is best to go to their shows and pay cover/ buy merch actually. That way the money goes directly to the artist and you can skip the label cutMiguex
- and if you can't make it to the show, buy tix anywaysMiguex
- let go of your hoarding instincts and embrace the stream!fadein11
- lol fadein11
break out of the mentality that you need only those 100k tracks, there is unlimited music now and it keeps growing by the minuteMiguex - lol indeed.fadein11
- I really like Amazon Musicnotype
- whoaaaa amazon has music? and its included on prime? i'm gonna give that a go.pango
- just checked it... amazon music library seem to be a bit smaller compare to spotify and google.pango
- Amazon music sucks donkeys ballzzzzBennn
- I dont want any more physical media... take too much space, cost too much money. I go to thw shows of my fav artistsBennn
- I keep a .txt file listing all my favorite albums to never forget about one for the future if Spotify or the web explode.Bennn
- I really adopted the cloud. Im paperless, CDless, DVDless... Al digital. All my files are in the cloud.Bennn
- benn is transcendentpango
- I'm happy w/ it. Found everything I've been looking for.notype
- couldn't find any synthwave at all!pango
- What's wrong with the goblet play UI? Works perfectly and intuitively for me...set
- YT Autoplay has an amazing algorithm working right now. Choose a dope track and let YT play for a couple hours, you'll be stoked at the stuff it finds.HijoDMaite
- My favorite thing about music is exploring new artists. The related functionality of most platforms is sufficient. Hoarding digital music is new to me.imbecile
- I'm listening to Kylie Minogue now. Cuz of the damn suggestions. And I liked it... My street cred just went down so much.pango
- @set each time i delete a track or add it to a playlist, the page scroll up after a 2sec load. Its an example. Really tired of this.Bennn
- after 2 days, I can tell you Spotify is much much quicker and the UI look luch betterBennn
- The reason I switch to Google was because the 4 months free promotion.pango
- HijoDMaite3
Benn,
Why do you need to download so many albums? Aren’t you on WiFi or data 95% of your day?
I have unlimited data through my carrier, but many don’t. Is that why? You don’t want to use your data?
- it might be a Canadian thing.... we don't/rarely have unlimited data.pango
- I have 4 ipods for salefadein11
- Not downloading Hijo, just adding em to the library, not the sameBennn
- Male multiple playlists. I have way more music than 10,000 songs. They just aren’t in one list. Jeez.monospaced
- all music, absolutely all, is on youtubedrgs
- All music on YouTube is absolute, bottom of barrel shit quality sound. Worse than anything in over 50 years of music reproduction. Ugh.monospaced
- Probably the worst way to find and create playlists known to man too. Why would you suggest such garbage?monospaced
- ahh, im with drgs... youtube is the best. used to spend hours on playlists... never did me any good :) 192kbps AAC, does me fine.kingsteven
- Couldn't get rid of those ads. So no YouTube for me.pango
- lol @ using Youtube for music. Real music addict dont do that.Bennn
- "real music addict" -- makes me think of those losers with $7250 diamond-encrusted harshness-eliminatin... audio cablesdrgs
- if 10,000 songs is not enough for you, you clearly have no preference for any music, just ready to collect any surrogate trash you can finddrgs
- Lol at shitting on YT - I download live shows and tracks that only exist as white label vinyl - I don't give a fuck about quality, the music itself is importantface_melter
- I guess real music addicts stick their nose up at scratchy 7" singles from the 70's. Jesus fucking Christ.face_melter
- bennn is qbn's resident dotard. why anyone argues with or expects intelligent discourse from him remains beyond me. #likenooneimbecile
- hi imbecile!Bennn
- ugh, why are people so okay with listening to music at a lower quality than they did 20 years ago? YouTube is such shit it absolutely ruins musicmonospaced
- music addicts DO turn their noses up at scratchy records, because they sound like shit ... anyone would. comparison is meaninglessmonospaced
- @kingsteven, music on YouTube isn't recorded at or translated at 192kbps AAC, so that spec is also meaninglessmonospaced
- IF you think YouTube music sounds good, you either have really low quality (entry level) or you don't how it should sound in the first place (ignorant).monospaced
- ** low quality listening equipment (laptop speakers, gameboy headphones, iphone speaker, echo dot)monospaced
- autoflavour6
Bra shopping, is there any more pointless activity for a male to participate in. sit around waiting for wifey to show u 20 different bras which are all essentially the same, the whole time u are surrounded by lots of super fit 20 year olds ..and I don’t care how iron willed u are, it’s impossible to not to think about what they all would look like in their underwear while surrounded by lingerie.. which is of course one short thought away from what they would look like naked..
Because let’s face it.. lingerie is really just snack on the way to the main course
God I’m bored .. spent 27% of my phone battery while waiting ..
- On upside, one said 20 year just walked by with super short skirt and no panties.. and this super low sofa I’m chilling on made everything way more explicitautoflavour
- Swings and roundabouts I guessautoflavour
- 45 minutes sitting hereautoflavour
- hey! that's the chance you get to influence what style of bra she wears! use it!pango
- you're there to add sexy stuff to her bag! and to do awful things to her in the changing room!scarabin_net
- Or try some on yourself! Branch out!sarahfailin
- Might discover something new about yourself.pango
- pics?drgs
- https://goo.gl/szk6c…kingsteven
- https://www.youtube.…chukkaphob
- lolGuyFawkes
- https://media.giphy.…pango
- sorry but no man can complain about this!mugwart
- You're just getting your appetite up...robotron3k
- I’d pretend I had other things to do. Who needs to watch their wife bra shop for 40 min? So what of it contains boobs. Its passive.cannonball1978
- at least you have this XP to bitch about on QBN. worth the battery life if you ask me.notype
- lol @mugward my thoughts exactly.notype
- up until the upskirt, I was complaining, but after that, it was worth it..autoflavour
- PonyBoy1
Anyone have clients (or themselves) using domains such as .design or .event in place of your standard .com?
I’m laying out some business cards but seeing ‘companyname.events’ or even ‘www.companyname.events’ feels off. The ‘www’ def helps but I still don’t think the public is that familiar with these new domain extensions. I fear I’m going to have to label it ‘website: companyname.events’ but that’s awfully convoluted compared to the rest of the info on the card.
How are you folks handling these new extensions so as to not confuse those unfamiliar with them?
- http:// ?detritus
- http://ponyboy.horse…detritus
- <3detritus
- it's ugly... but it's short... might work
⚣PonyBoy - I have one. Absolutely everyone is confused by it. But maybe in a few years...?monNom
- when someone has to google your exact url to find you,,,
well that's not good at all.moldero - i worked on pitches for a bunch of gTLDs... absolute BS most are set up to make massive profits off trademark protection.kingsteven
- Take a look at Donuts DPML, domainers are just fucking scamming bottom feeders.kingsteven
- set6
A lightening bolt is hotter than the surface of the sun
- For every grain of sand on Earth there are 10 stars in the universe.inteliboy
- If you type in 52.376552, 5.198303 on Google Maps, you can see what is allegedly two guys dragging a dead body into a lake.GuyFawkes
- crazynotype
- Photons will communicate with each other on other side of the universe or trillions of miles away simultaneously.utopian
- http://www.nytimes.c…utopian
- If you add an onion to a martini, you call it a Gibsonfuturefood
- lol nice. Moar!set
- Farm pigs are the same species as wild boar. If you release them in to the wild, within three weeks their hair starts turning dark and they grow tusks...set
- Because they don't have to fend for themselves when farmed, they stay in a pre pubescent state...set
- From a photon's point of view, the moment it is emitted it is instantaneously reabsorbed - hence it never knew it existed.inteliboy
- that pig/boar fact is nuts.inteliboy
- as long as we're sharing information, the correct spelling is "lightning" bolt.imbecile
- I had to sit down after reading thisdrgs
- Haha indeed imbecile, phone typing =Pset
- @inteliboy... I know! Read it the other day... Fucking crazyset
- I had no idea about the pig boat thing. I wonder what specific things cause the infantile appearance. Fascinating.monospaced
- Pig boat lol. Funny mental imageset
- Can we start a Neat of the Day thread for these factsnb
- http://www.qbn.com/t…set
- I swear I typed boarmonospaced
- Steven Seagal was once choked out on set and shat his pants in front of the entire crew.garbage
- But a tiger....antonyjwhite
- I thought this was a Benn post. lolsea_sea
- if you type a precise sequence of brackets in a sidenote, the QBN crash.Bennn
- lol sea_seaBennn
- xDsea_sea
- notype1
Bad idea to "like", on dating site, a colleague working in another department (rarely x paths)? Great match, I think at this point I can just go up and talk to them.
- *with themnotype
- It's better to pretend never seen their dating profile in my opinion if they are your colleagues. Just fake bump into them and ask out for coffee.pango
- People usually use dating site for people out side of their circle.pango
- good point.notype
- I've had people I'm connected to on FB reach out to me on dating sites, I always wonder why they just couldn't say hello on FB? What has social meds done to us?notype
- I'm guessing contacting you / them through a dating sites makes your intentions clear right away ?spl33nidoru
- yeah don't "like" someone you could actually talk to face to facesarahfailin
- ^notype
- mekk3
Is there a way to mute a topic? Don't want the fucking Dotard to shit everywhere I am.
- scarabin4
i live next to a freeway so after a few days my car looks like a mad max prop from all the dust. got this app "mobilewash"... you schedule a time and people come wash your shit. pretty spiffy if you're lazy like me
- right on! is this available everywhere?kona
- What world problem is this? So torn.monospaced
- you know, it's be kinda cool if they dressed all in goth and wash and detailed your car... I'd pay good money to see that.robotron3k
- pretty sure they do that for an extra chargescarabin
- I'd be more concerned about your lungs than your car scarabin.microkorg
- i_monk4
Another interview lined up, literally across the street from the last one. Don't fuck this up for me pango!
- PonyBoy0
Which is more important to boost search engine rankings?
Proper SEO / Keywords... or a constant flow of new content to index?
I was recently informed by 'an expert' that proper SEO / keywords are great at the outset but once the site has been online / idle it's ranking could go down if you're not constantly feeding Google new info to index (ag— a Blog).
Anyone have experience... any articles / forums they've read / visited regarding 'flow of content' being the driving force vs. proper SEO?
- both man, sup w/ dvmoldero
- fixedmoldero
- DV's seem to follow me regardless of the legitimacy of the post...I have a troll or two...or nine as of late...God forbid my opinion differ from time to timePonyBoy
- It is still both yep with a slight bias towards relevant and shared content.fadein11
- keywords will be dead soon. google's algorithm won't need such basic pointers.fadein11
- AI baby!fadein11
- Yes, content freshness matters. I've used SiteBeam for years and it's always been a metric that your site's SEO ranking is scored on.fate
- PonyBoy-4
to follow up that last post...
Has anyone heard of the term 'Search Pirates' used in reference to larger companies (yelp, white pages etc)? They index your name as part of their service BUT will allow negative comments on their sites about your biz...
How do you not only combat the negativity on those sites BUT avoid the initial hijacking of your company name / location etc being returned by google as a Yelp listing long before you see your company's website in search results?
- good questionsmonospaced
- I googled Search Pirates and aint found jackmoldero
- the term 'search pirates' was tossed at me in a group meeting today... I wrote it down thinking they may have gotten it somewhere... looks like they made it upPonyBoy
- def. a real issue to think about though... I'd think one would want their website to be listed first before some shitty Yelp listing packed w/arbitrary commentsPonyBoy
- That exact yelp behavior has made headlines more than once. Yelp even has the nerve to attempt charging owners for the listing after yelp created it.monospaced
- Happens with doctors too. They are rated on doctor rating sites all over without any consent. People usually review when it’s bad. It’s ugly out there.monospaced
- I listened to a podcast about this I think on reply all. I think there was a solution kind of. It was very convoluted.shellie
- Why downvotes? A legit industry question. Jeez.monospaced
- I’ve unlocked ‘Yuri Status’ with all these DVs. Do I get a secret key or some sort of uber weapon? Maybe an important clue to my journey?PonyBoy
- to be fair you do argue with guys here and call them idiots, i don’t think we spatted yet though did we?GuyFawkes
- PonyBoy is a reasonable person.monospaced
- to be fair... I get called an idiot, twat, dickwad etc on a regular basis... or worse I'm lumped in as a 'Trump' guy simply for differing opinions.PonyBoy
- So... if I respond the same (moldy) it's merely me working w/the conversation at hand. In person I treat you w/the utmost respect... love even.PonyBoy
- you lose your cool with those guys then you’re surprised you get downvotes? come on kevGuyFawkes
- and you probably shouldn’t care so much, i noticed as soon as anyone responds to anything you post here, you reply right awayGuyFawkes
- almost as if your hitting refresh till someone responds then you react, who gives a shit about uv/ dv or what some troll thinks?GuyFawkes
- dog ear and move on mate, like i’m doing right now, ide upvote you but i already did ;)GuyFawkes
- Claiming your business on google (google local? Google my business? Something like t) Should help. You want to show up in the 3 pack above the organic results.monNom
- As a side note. Android's autocorrect seems to prefer to delete entire words rather than try respelling them. Thanks android!monNom
- good advice, moldy... *dog-earring now
monNom... thanks for that info... I didn't even realize Google 'Local' or 'Business' existedPonyBoy
- hans_glib6
anyone know where i might find a decent dentist next time i'm in denver?
- Why do people post the spam notes like this in the blog? They won’t even be here tomorrow and this won’t make sense.monospaced
- all part of the recordhans_glib
- Tell you what, before someone posts something here they run it past you first and you can deem if it's worthwhile or not?face_melter
- -1 face_melterdetritus
- kind of want to email carl fucks lipes and let him know.kingsteven
- it’s omgGuyFawkes
- hahahamonospaced
- For a good dentist in Denver you should def check a design forumchukkaphob
- LOLKrassy
- Lol chukkafuturefood
- http://mollnerdentis…imbecile
- imbecile0
52 Essential Albums to Own on Vinyl
http://www.vinylmeplease.com/52-…Add to this list?
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Sun Kil Moon - GhostsDRIFTMONKEY - #PredictableList
Rod Stewart - A Night On The Town
Stevie Wonder - Innervisionsmicrokorg
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon
- ideaist0
Had a car issue yesterday; towed it into the shop and waited...
...Borrowed a buddies manual transmission vehicle (learned 15+ years ago on it, was rusty, but managed)...
...On my way home shifting between 4th and 5th, it started making some strange sound(s) and than started to smell of burning...
...Pulled it over, tried to restart.
No luck.
Had it ALSO towed to the same garage.
Vehicle #1 needed a simple fuel regulator replaced: $300.
Fine.
Vehcile #2 (borrowed vehicle) needs the clutch replaced: $1400.
Fuck.
- OBBTKN1
Sadly my old Fiat is falling apart, I'm trying to mantain it in driving conditions but this year it will need a lot of extra reparations and I doubt if it's worth it... 17 years driving it, this old clunky ugly car... but I like it a lot.