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I've had it with "Data Image"...!

When I go to Google images and find a great picture to bring over to the "ScaRatings", whoever or whatever "Data Image" is gives me great grief. I right click on the picture, go to properties, left click on properties, and drag the cursor through the URL address to copy it for pasting to the "ScaRatings". When it pops up, I get an address that is dozens of lines long, and it won't work on the "ScaRatings", when I try to paste it to my post.

At first it was just a small annoyance, however, as time has gone by, "Data Image" has claimed more and more pictures. Usually they infect the best pictures, and they will often take over most of the first page of Google images.

Does anybody know who or what these sons-of-bitches are? Does anybody know why they do this? Does anybody know a way to get around them?

Here's what Data Image gives you for the address of a Statue of Liberty picture:

data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBhQSEBUUEhQUFRUVFxQVFBQUFBQUFBcUFRQVFBQXFBcXHCYeFxwkGRUVHy8gIycpL... (This bull hockey went on for over 80 lines, which took me about five minutes to get rid of holding the delete button down. NO JOKE!)

This fuc#@ng Data Image bullshit is really pissing me off, and costing me more time than I care to admit, to hunt for and find a picture that I can copy and bring over to the "ScaRatings".

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Ships in distress often fly their flags upside down in hopes that some other ship will see it, and come to their aid.

Got a question...

How do the Japanese do this...?

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Happy Birthday to John Moses Browning... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning

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Manual deletion of an unintended duplicate post.

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The year 2013 has come and passed, but despite the fact that six years ago the Global Warming scientists predicted that the Arctic Ocean would be ice free in the summer of last year, because of Global Warming, the Arctic Ocean has not become ice free yet.

It turns out that they were not only wrong in their scientific prediction of an ice free Arctic Ocean, as the the Earth's northern icecap has not been shrinking, but growing instead.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -year.html

How can we believe these guys, when they are so completely wrong...?

My cynicism makes me wonder if these Global Warming scientists might have an agenda behind what they say that is politically motivated instead of scientific.



Periods of glaciation and warming have been going through cycles for millions of years on Earth, and it seems that the small footprint that human beings burning fossil fuels or cows' flatulence will change the cycles.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/28/white ... te-agenda/

Even though cows probably fart a lot, they still make darn good steaks nonetheless...

p.s. By far the greatest greenhouse gas is water vapor. What the Hell can anybody do to control water vapor...?

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New York State charges buyers a 5 cent fee for each aluminum can of beer or soda they buy. Yeah, you can get your nickel back if you return the cans, and spend the time to run them all through the recycle machines, but you are just getting your fee back, and they get all of those aluminum cans from you for free. Depending on market fluctuation, those cans be worth nearly $1.00 a pound. (It takes approximately 30 cans to make a pound.) I've got a feeling that New York State doesn't throw those cans away, but probably sells them to aluminum companies. When you bought those beverages, the company that created them charged you for the cost of the aluminum that went into the cans. The way I see it, it looks like New York State has in effect stolen something that was really yours, by holding your nickel hostage, until you give them the can, which really belonged to you.

I'm not sure, but perhaps it is the retailer that gets to sell all of those cans to aluminum companies. However, either way it's a rip off of the consumer.

Yeah, I recycle my aluminum cans, but when I do it in Kentucky, I get that $1.00 or so per pound, not somebody else, who effectively stole them from me, because Kentucky doesn't charge a fee for every can of beer or soda sold in the state, that forces me to give them away to get my nickel back. (The nickel fee is more than the approximate 3 cent value of the can.)

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I heard that the United States and the United Kingdom, talked the Ukraine into sending all of their nuclear arsenal back to Russia, with the promise that they didn't have to worry about it, because we would protect them if their country was ever threatened.

My source is talk-radio, so I don't know if this true or not.

Does anybody know if this is correct...?

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Why didn't the United States protest the Russian fighter's buzzing of the U.S.S. Donald Cook for 90 minutes in the Black Sea?

http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014 ... rship.html

" Russian Fighter Jet Buzzed U.S. Ship: Officials -- NBC

A Russian attack warplane engaged in "provocative action" when it repeatedly buzzed a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer in the western Black Sea on Saturday, U.S. military officials tell NBC News.

According to officials, in a 90-minute encounter, the Russian SU-24 fighter jet made a dozen low passes — ranging from sea level to several thousand feet — near the USS Donald Cook.

The crew aboard the Donald Cook made several attempts to radio the Russian warplane asking the pilot what were his intentions and sending warnings to remain at a safe distance, but the Russian pilot never responded.

The Donald Cook only responded to the Russian jet with radio warnings, and "did not go to battle stations."

I guess the Russians were testing our military, and they passed the test by not going to battle stations, and turning tail as they headed back to port. However, it concerns me that our government doesn't even have the balls to register a protest to the provocative action by the Russian fighter against our guided missile destroyer.

Hell, if I were in command of the ship, I would have shot the son-of-a-bitch down after the second pass. The Russian pilot did not respond to the ship's radio transmissions to him, it could very well have been an attack, and if the Russian aircraft launced an air-to-surface missile, the ship would have gone down. Why risk your ship and it's crew, when you are justified in defending them? Shoot down the aggressor, and let them register the protest.

Let's see how much trouble this gets me into...

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1760826

Recently a security camera caught a teenager pissing into an Oregon reservoir, and the environmentalists, who oversee the reservoir, immediately decided to dump more than 38,000,000 gallons of treated water, because the water was no longer pure.

This is pure stupidity for a number of reasons:

1- The teenager's urine would at best represent one in a billion particles in the reservoir. (If it had been arsenic that he pissed, it would have been so diluted that it would have had no effect on anybody.)

2- Human urine has no germs. (In fact prisoners held by despots, and deprived of water, have been know to drink their own urine to stay alive.)

3- I would guess that this reservoir is visited by ducks and geese. Lord knows that these fowl deposit much more excrement into the reservoir than one teenager taking a leak.

4- When the ducks and geese poop into the water, they release millions of fish eggs that they gobbled up eating vegitation form the ponds they just left, which become fish. These fish deposit 100% of their excrement into the reservoir's water.

The decision to drain the reservoir was absolute insanity. How much this insanity cost people in Oregon is something I don't know, but I would guess it was more than 10 cents a gallon. I will add, aren't we supposed to be concerned about wasting water these days?

I am more than willing to read posts that tell me that I'm full of shit and I pissed you off.

(Belated edit: I was full of shit, when I guessed that "The teenager's urine would at best represent one in a billion particles in the reservoir." I now hear that it represents only ONE IN 10 BILLION PARTICLES. I'm still waiting for someone, who thinks I'm full of shit, to take me to task for this post.)

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Poof... the double post is magically gone, thanks to the secret Buzztime manager's code, which I used to poof it.

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"Lafayette, we are here!" is what we told the French, when our first troups joined their fight against the Huns in WW-I. They were soon to be followed by over 1 million doughboys, who turned the tide of the war.

Looks like the Ukraine might be okay, and possibly the Russians won't dare push farther into their country, because the United States is sending 150 troops over there to stop any more Russian advances. (A hundred and fifty soldiers is Not a joke.) This will be a difficult task for our guys, because it doesn't look like our boys will have any tanks, armor, or artillary. It also doesn't look like they can expect a million soldiers and Marines to follow them. Worse yet, it's not likely they will get to listen to this George M. Cohan song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbggEGUaE28

(Belated edit: I was incorrect when I said that we have no tanks in Europe. This evening I talked with Dan McGowan, a former Army tank commander in Europe, and he informed me that the United States left 90 M1 Abrams tanks behind for training, after we pulled all of the rest of them out. Today the Russians have nearly 400 T-90 tanks in service, and an unknown number of the new T-99 tanks, which should be ready for battle in 2015.)

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World War III is possibly getting ready to break out, and you're concerned about my use of the definite article "the"...?

p.s. I know that the name of the country is not "the Ukraine", however, I believe that my use of the definite article, "the", was used correctly in the sentence.

p.p.s. I used the secret Buzztime manager's code, and poof, my double post was fixed.

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IT WAS 42 YEARS AGO TODAY...

We never landed on the moon, and Charlie Duke's LEM blastoff was filmed on some secret Hollywood back lot.

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I've figured out a way to get around Data Image's death hold on Google images that you would like to bring over to the "ScaRatings". Left click on the Google image, and most of the time it will pop up again, but the large image will still have "Data Image" at the front of the properties that you need to copy to post it on the "ScaRatings", and it won't work. However, most of the time, if you look to the right of the big image, there will be a box, with several small images, including the one you want. Right click on the small image you want, and you will be able to get to the properties you need, without the "Data Image" curse.

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Will Russia cut off the West from their oil and gas...?

I've heard that some are worried about this, but I don't think so...

I belive that at least 50% of Russia's revenues come from oil and gas sales to the West, and some estimate it could be as high as 80%. The Russian economy would collapse without these sales.

Anybody else have any thoughts about this?

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I think that Western Europe is more worried than we are. I'm not sure if we import any oil from Russia at all.

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This is why Europe is mad, but isn't inclined to do too much. They need the pipeline, and Russia needs the currency.

Though it will likely cost more, Europe can get their oil and gas from sources other than Russia. What other market does Russia have to sell their oil and gas to keep their economy afloat other than Europe? Without sales of oil and gas to the West, the Russian economy will collapse, and their country as well.

Russian exports of Vodka (which can be obtained cheaply elswhere) and Matryoshka nesting dolls won't do it.

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Maybe you should consider China as a customer of Russian oil too. If not now, probably later.

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Maybe...? China does import oil from Russia today, and may increase what they buy. However, my feeling is that an abrupt ending to Russian oil sales to Europe, would have an immediate devastating effect on the Russian economy, and it's not likely that increased sales to China could offset that loss quickly enough to save the Russian economy.

p.s. China has more than 1,000,000,000 bicycles, and I don't think they have a problem with riding them to work.

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If some people aren't able to get themselves out to pick up a free state issued picture I.D. to be able to vote, how would they be able to get themselves to the polls to vote?

(If anyone finds this post objectionable, please send me a private message, and I will gladly delete it.)

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