No, I regret to say that sometimes “hate” is exactly the appropriate word, and this would be one of those times.
True.
Scum.
Yeah. Fully agree.
I’m still damning the asshole who drove over my cat back in 1984, and didn’t stop.
Internet Archive is still off line ( and I presume badly damaged ).
Damn Those Hacker Bastards!!! Don’t they know that for some of us poorer folk, that’s how we celebrate Halloween…?
Fuckers.
And just like that… my router crashed…
It’s been online for me since yesterday. I was using it all day today. Still there as of right now.
I’ve been using a link to Forbidden Planet as a test…
Maybe they’re bringing it back slowly… region by region or library category by library category…
That link works for me…
Maybe try deleting your cache for archive.org?
I’ve cleared what I usually clear and it’s a no-go. If I clear more that that, it will take all day to sign back into all of my apps ( and some of them are have obnoxious work arounds already).
I tried Microsoft Edge ( which I hate ) and that didn’t get past the dreaded “Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 101104)” either.
But I’m glad yours works. And Hackers still Suck.
Oh I see! Yes, the embedded video player is not yet working, but if you click on one of the direct links to the movie files in the list on the right, they will open and play. Or you can download them to your hard drive and watch from there.
You’re a good man, @Monty.
I’m feeling distressed today about my mom’s health, which is continuing to deteriorate. She’s my grandmother’s caretaker also. My daughter is going to spend the coming week with them, after that, nobody has much of a plan. I am supposed to be travelling out of the country next weekend, not feeling too good about that right now. I’m hoping we can get some kind of in-home care cobbled together this week.
Plus politics, ya know. It’s a stressful time.
Oak, pecan, and many other nut trees have “mast years” (where they put out a shitload of nuts) and then off years, where they … don’t.
I’m guessing this is an off year in your area?
I’ve never seen one squirrel. If it’s habitat for one, it’s habitat for many.
Also … possums?
Good point. And I have been more careful with the garbage cans ( locking them in the shed until garbage day ). I know that’s ‘rude’ but it’s annoying to clean up kitchen garbage that has been ripped out of its Hefty bags by Trash Can Rats that like our choice of Take Out.
Honestly, it’s like our cans get attacked by a gang of tiny Jamie Kennedys.
Thanks, I appreciate the advice (and also, @commasense recommended Hanes as another alternative).
Honestly, I never imagined that this could turn into such a problem. My current rant on the subject is that both of my recent purchases turned out to be worse than just disappointing – the word “useless” would be more appropriate. The cheap “Fruit of the Loom” brand I got from Amazon turned out to be smaller than the size guide would lead you to believe, and the high-priced Jockey brand turned out to be even smaller, even though – mark my words carefully here – they are sized according to specific numeric sizes and are exactly the same size number as my old ones. Yet compared to my old Jockeys of exactly the same size, you can see just by looking at them that they’re visibly smaller. WTF is the point of even selling anything by size if the damn number no longer means anything?
My recourse now is to visit a nearby Walmart and pick up anything that looks promising, but in a larger size than any of these. If they don’t have anything appropriate, The Bay is just a little farther away and is likely to have higher quality stuff. If and when I find something decent in the right size, I’m going back and buying about 100. 
I was buying Hanes from Walmart for a number of years until their quality went downhill, likely due to cost pressure from Walmart. I would be wary of buying more than a test package at first to check if they have improved.
LOL!
About 15 years ago, I got the occasional fax of a medical nature to my work email/phone/fax (we had a gateway where incoming faxes could come in to our phone number, and would get converted to email).
I finally figured out why, when one of them came with a cover sheet with the destination number on it - and it the area code was different from mine by 1 digit - e.g. 201 versus 202, or whatever.
Then there was the time my husband’s employer’s 800 number was very, very close to the one for a major sex-toy seller…
Then 20ish years ago, I held an internet domain, {something} dot org. Emails sent to unknown addresses at that domain would get forwarded to me as the admin. Every now and then, someone would send a message that was, from what I could tell, intended for {something} dot com.
I would usually reply to the sender saying “Sorry, think you got the wrong address”.
Then one day, when I did that, I got another email from the same doofus, quoting his/her original message AND my reply, saying “This keeps happening. What is going on???”. Moron didn’t even READ the message I’d taken the time to send.
THAT one, I forwarded to admin at {something} dot com, saying "hey, this seems to be related to your business, you might want to maybe let the person know to correct their address book.
Again, I appreciate the advice. I think I’ll just head up to The Bay next week for a much more pleasant shopping experience than Walmart and the opportunity to browse much better quality merchandise. (No way I’m going to a big shopping mall over the weekend – I’m not a masochist!)
I think I mentioned earlier that the Jockey briefs that fit me so well and have lasted so long were originally purchased at The Bay. Currently they no longer have them in stores and the ones online are listed as “clearance” and being discontinued. Now I know why. The new stuff is crap. I assume the products they’re currently selling, of whatever brand, will be good quality.
As for my experimental purchases of Fruit-of-the-Loom and these new Jockey briefs, what I now have are pristeen, brand new, 100% cotton cleaning rags. One can always use good cotton cleaning rags, so not a total loss! 
God Spectrum SUCKS SO BAD. Outage after outage out the ass. I’m using my phone’s hotspot as I speak because the actual Wi-Fi is literally unusable. And it’s not like we’re close to the hurricane or anything - I’m all the way up in freaking Wisconsin. I see no excuse for this. We replaced our modem last night but the problems have started AGAIN. Fuck Spectrum.
It’s likely if you were to purchase Hanes from elsewhere they would be of better quality. Many brands have a line for just Walmart, due to Walmart’s cost pressure.
WTF are the Frenchmen in Quebec thinking when they name some of their streets and towns? Allow me to describe what I mean.
I sometimes do mail-merge tasks for a friend who runs a home-based business, basically creating mailing labels from customer data in Excel spreadsheets. It’s quite easy to do because this aspect of MS Office integration is something that, surprisingly, Microsoft has done quite well.
A mailing label will typically look like this:
JOHN SMITH
100 PLEASANT AVE
NICEVILLE, ON {Postal Code}
I shudder when I have to do this for customers in Quebec, though. Here, the mailing label often ends up looking something like this:
JEAN-PIERRE-HENRI GASTON
100 RUE CLAUDE-REMY-BOUZEMONT-DE-LA-GRANDE-FROMAGE
SAINT-MARIE-DE-SACRE-BLEU-SUR-LA-RIVIERE-PUANTE, PQ {Postal Code}
Tell me, oh wise Frenchmen of Quebec, how I’m supposed to fit that in the space of a standard adhesive mailing label? And why is it that you feel that instead of just giving your streets and towns names like everyone else does, you feel that the name has to be a lengthy descriptor of all of the place’s attributes? A name should be a handy identifier, not a short story! 
Admittedly, they’re not the only ones who do this. Some old English place names in the UK are like that, and some aren’t even hyphenated. “Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch” is a village in Wales, and it means “The church of St Mary at the pool of the white hazels near the fierce whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave.” I don’t think even our local Frenchmen have gone quite that far. The UK has tons of hyphenated place names, like “Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe” and just about anything “… -upon-Thames”.
My guess is that these names were bestowed before the age of automated mailing label creation.
All I can do is use the smallest and most compact reasonable font size, and even then a few addresses may need some manual adjustment.