Hixter
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I don't know that the Mexican government is at the forefront of advocating for illegal immigrants in the U.S.
They've even gone as far as to distribute pamphlets instructing illegal immigrants on how to cross rivers and deserts and how to avoid being caught by the authorities. They also loudly decry the deportation of those who are caught, many of whom have criminal records.
The Mexican government essentially wants their citizens to have free access to the United States, while blocking immigrants into their own nation. Although when those immigrants inevitably arrive, the government is quick to shoo them north across the Rio Grande.
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Last night my neighbor stepped in a puddle of my cat's vomit while fetching beers during a Game of Thrones viewing. Twice. He's a good egg and just laughed it off.
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Care to elaborate? I wanna know if it just your love of guns that will cause you to vote for a serial liar, bigot, and misogynist.
Nope, I don't think I care to.
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I don't see much downside to voting for Clinton. You get big Bill back
I'd call that quite a large downside.
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My nearest cinema is an Alamo Drafthouse franchise and for years my neighbors and I would get a growler or two of an IPA to enjoy with the movie, but all of a sudden they changed their policy to forbid growler fills above 8%. It seems that a couple of guys couldn't hold their beer and got a little rowdy.
It's frustrating to be denied a 4-pint growler to be shared by 4 people, but they have no qualms about selling 4 individual pints at a higher price than the discounted growler price.
Instead of punishing good customers, how about just cutting off the bad apples or barring them from the establishment? I understand the cost of big beers can warrant a smaller pour, but I should still be able to purchase a full pint if that's what I'd like.
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I'm nearing the end of a three-month free trial of Apple Music and it sucks in so many ways I can't imagine paying for the service. For one thing, say you're listening to an album and you quit the app. The next time you open it, you get a welcome screen with no way to play from where you were. You have to search for the artist/album again to play it (you can also open History but that only goes back so far). It's ridiculous, and there's a hundred little fucked up things like that about Apple Music that turn me way off.
Sounds like they're redesigning the app: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/04/apple-music-design-overhaul-wwdc-in-june/
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Thanks for mentioning this! It is indeed free and I did it - my iTunes library is now uploaded and streaming from the Google Play phone app. Hot DAMN!
Glad it worked for you!
I still dream of the day when we can access any song, any TV show/station, any movie, any radio station and any book from any device, without having to amass huge stacks of physical media or terabytes of physical storage. I think the media companies would be pleased as punch if every person paid $50 for cable TV and bought one CD/DVD/book per month and attended one movie, so just charge us $100 per month and give us access to everything without restrictions. They're still mired in the past, but they'll have to come around eventually. As it stands, it's cheaper, quicker and easier to pirate content than it is to obtain it legally. It's infuriating to buy a DVD that's packed with unskippable advertisements and FBI warnings, yet the same content can be acquired for free without all the annoyances. Services like Hulu make you sit through commercials, but 10 minutes after a show finishes airing, helpful pirates have already uploaded it sans commercials.
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I had uploaded all my files to my own server space a while ago thinking I'd figure out some way to stream directly from there, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
It may not be within your host's terms of service, but you might be able to try something like these:
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I'm confused as to how Plex or MyTunesRSS (or similar software) work. You keep a computer on at all times that stores your files?
Yes, that's the only way to do it if you aren't using cloud storage (and that's essentially just using someone else's always-on computer.)
You could probably use a $35 Raspberry Pi microcomputer or some other piece of cheap gear. It may take some geeky knowhow, but if you Google it someone probably already has step-by-step instructions.
I think Google Play Music used to allow you to upload 50,000 songs for free, but I don't know if that still holds true.
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Trump's foreign policy speech was pretty good. He'd have to actually implement it, but it's probably the best foreign policy platform that I've seen from any of the current candidates. It will make me feel slightly less icky about voting for him if the only alternative is Hillary. If he presses hard against her recent gun comments he might actually win the election. What a world we are living in...
http://time.com/4309786/read-donald-trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-speech/
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It's ridiculous, and there's a hundred little fucked up things like that about Apple Music that turn me way off.
I wish there was some simple way to stream my own music library.
I'm fairly happy with Apple Music, although I mainly use the app to play my own tunes from the cloud. There are plenty of ways to stream your own library; I use Plex for movies and TV, but it also does music.
I used this app many years ago before there were any cloud music services and it seemed to work well. I can't vouch for it in its current version, but you can give it a shot: http://www.codewave.de/mytunesrss.php
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Guitar and Pen, Music Must Change and the title track are lifelong favorites. A slightly sad coda to the original band, but still enjoyable.
And I love the crap out of By Numbers. Quadrophenia is practically a religious document in my life.
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Twitter is saying that Prince has died.
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Angus Young joined the band for a couple of songs at Coachella last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW7wwIRm-9E
I appears that Axl is confirmed to replace Brian Johnson on AC/DC's tour.
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The company that stages the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is planning a three-night event featuring Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Neil Young and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters — all Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees — Oct. 7-9 at the Empire Polo Field in Indio
Tickets will probably cost a fortune. They might as well try to talk Led Zeppelin into reuniting while they're at it.
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It's a great pale, give it a try. Make sure the price is right, some places try to charge the same $15/6-pack that they charge for Sculpin. They finally dropped Grunion to $10 and now it's my standard beer.Never tried the Grunion - I have seen it in the stores up here, though.
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I'm sure the Ballast Point bean counters are trying to make sense of a rash of Grunion sales in a 3-store region of grocers. Myself and a few neighbors buy the stuff a case or more at a time. My current go-to beer.Finding fresh Sculpin or Grunion in the store always makes my day.
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Most of my neighborhood saw him and Willie last year and he bested Mr. Nelson as far as I'm concerned. They were scheduled to play the same gig next week, but Merle pulled out a few weeks ago.
RIP.
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Godwin FTW.
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Still, the fact that a self described democratic socialist is a potentially viable nominee shows a shift in the American political dialogue.
Or perhaps it show to what extent Americans dislike Hillary and/or the prospect of another Clinton White House.
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i've never spent $26 (retail or otherwise) on a bottle of beer before, but i was kinda tempted:
http://www.trilliumbrewing.com/trillium-cuvee-de-tetreault-american-wild-ale
That sounds very tasty. I usually plop down $25 for Firestone Walker's anniversary beer, but I try to avoid the hype of expensive, limited release brews. I just can't see myself waiting in line or buying tickets for a special release when there are so many other great beers out there.
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My assumption here is that the Alchemist was accommodating not because Hixter flew in, but because he was getting beer for a vet returning from Afghanistan.
I'm sure that was the case. I told my neighbor that she shouldn't even bother calling, but they were very cool. They let me wander around the brewery and were exceptionally friendly. They must be doing a roaring merchandise business, because there were huge stacks of shirts and stuff upstairs and they seemed to have a couple of people filling orders the whole time I was there.
The woman said that the new brewery was completed and equipment was being moved in "slowly but surely."
Man, Vermont is beautiful. I'd only seen it in the summertime, but it's still quite scenic when it's gray, barren and snowing.
Hixter, if you didn't stop by Trillium while you were here, that's a damn shame.
I landed in Manchester after midnight, drove to the brewery at 7:30 AM, picked up a few bottles in Montpelier and barely made it back for my 3:00 flight. I have friends in Brookline and I hated to be so close without meeting up with them, but I'll do it another time. But I've already arranged for them to ship 12 bottles of Trillium's wares for my neighbor's return.
I almost melted down at the Southwest counter at the airport in Manchester. I was the only person in line and there was only an older woman behind the counter, but she processed me quickly and in a few minutes I was heading up the escalator. I was halfway up when she yelled at me, so I did the comical run-down-the-up-escalator thing and when I returned to the counter she informed me that one of my bags was 1 pound over the limit. I opened it up to remove a 1-pound hoodie and when she saw the case of Heady Topper she got worked up and told me that I couldn't pack beer in my luggage. She'd "never heard of someone flying with a suitcase full of beer" so I told her that she'd probably checked in hundreds of cases in the past without knowing it. I told her that I've flown with beer dozens of times, but she insisted that the cans might "explode" and make someone else's luggage stink of beer. I said that the same thing could happen if an old lady's bottle of perfume broke in transit, but she remained steadfast and called her supervisor.
The supervisor turned out to be a cool young guy and he high-fived me for flying home with 2 cases of Heady Topper. He said that he'd just returned from a trip to Florida with a case of Jai Alai and was planning a trip to San Francisco to bring back some Pliny the Elder. He apologized for the inconvenience and we had a nice conversation about beer as the counter clerk continued to fret about the possibility of my beer exploding.
EDIT: All the cans and bottles survived the journey. The cans of Heady Topper were still cold from the canning line.
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Probably my favorite UK show of the last year. Very enjoyable.It's great - dry humour very well done.
Politics 2016 (election edition)
in Tongue-Tied Lightning
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They're doing it because Mexico's second-largest source of income is remittances sent from individuals in the United States to family members in Mexico. Like most things, it all comes down to money and/or power.
The majority of immigrants these days are from other Central American countries, not Mexico, but the Mexican government is happy to see them leave Mexico for the United States. I wouldn't laud Obama's immigration policy, since deportations continue to drop and people continue to stream across the border and agents are almost powerless to stop them. I have friends who own ranches in south Texas and this crisis affects them on an almost daily basis. Illegal immigrants cut their fences (expensive) and their cattle run off (even more expensive). The illegals break windows, steal food, ransack buildings and literally shit on the floors. Then there's always the danger of coming across a human/drug smuggling operation and getting shot on your own property.
I've had friends in bands who were turned away at the Canadian border because of years-old petty convictions like DUI. But here we are turning a blind eye -- and even encouraging -- criminals and uneducated men, women and children, to enter our country and have a path to citizenship and access to taxpayer-paid medical and financial support. And let's face it, American politicians aren't encouraging them out of the kindness of their heart, they're doing it because they see millions of future votes. As I said, money and power...