Of all the wonderful football players who have done wonderful things in the world, why did they have to choose him?
He did his time and paid his debts of course and lobbied for laws to increase penalties for people participating in dog fighting rings, and his charities do good work iirc.
But I don't see why that means he gets to be honored as an NFL Legend tbh. And it's not like he even won any Superbowls with all his running yards. Confused by the decision from multiple perspectives.
Of all the wonderful football players who have done wonderful things in the world, why did they have to choose him?
He did his time and paid his debts of course and lobbied for laws to increase penalties for people participating in dog fighting rings, and his charities do good work iirc.
Because this is what the NFL is. They literally do not care a whit if a person is a murderer or a saint. If they can run fast or smash people gud or throw a ball, the soulless greedyguts in charge are going to overlook as much as they possibly can get away with.
He should have been FIRED back when this all happened, not coddled at the time and applauded years later. smh.
Also, all these people who are like "he did his time!"...cry me a freaking river. Serving jail time is a punishment for crimes, not a full tabula rasa that grants a guaranteed position back at one of the most competitive jobs in the world.
Let’s not forget that he was REQUIRED to donate time and money to animal abuse causes. He didn’t do those things because he changed, he did them because he had to and he knew he had to go above and beyond to put up a good front.
People who abuse animals like that don’t change. He’s garbage on the inside and he will always be garbage.
Let’s not forget that he was REQUIRED to donate time and money to animal abuse causes. He didn’t do those things because he changed, he did them because he had to and he knew he had to go above and beyond to put up a good front.
Of all the wonderful football players who have done wonderful things in the world, why did they have to choose him?
He did his time and paid his debts of course and lobbied for laws to increase penalties for people participating in dog fighting rings, and his charities do good work iirc.
But I don't see why that means he gets to be honored as an NFL Legend tbh. And it's not like he even won any Superbowls with all his running yards. Confused by the decision from multiple perspectives.
I have to say that this was the first thing that popped into my mind, too. Between the dogfighting thing and his performance on the field, I don't understand why he was chosen as an NFL Legend. Granted, I'm not really into football, like, at all, so maybe I'm missing something, but still. Some part of me wonders if it was a move to just garner attention since they surely know how controversial he is. Negative attention is better than no attention, I guess? I know that the pick has certainly got a LOT of people who I'm pretty sure don't give too hoots about the sport normally talking about it, anyway.
Here's a small petty, kind of nerdy rant of my own that maybe... five... people here will understand but it makes me feel silly and dumb.
I've run Linux on all of my various computers for the past seven years or so (sans the ThinkPad that I had to buy from the vet school but even then, after my dismissal, I trashed Windows and threw Linux Mint on there, haha), but since I'm hoping to back to school and I know that I'm going to need to be able to use a few programs which don't run reliably in WINE, I decided that I probably need to install Windows back onto one of my laptops. I chose my Surface Book 2 which is currently running Kubuntu (yes, I appreciate the irony of running Linux on a Microsoft-built machine) since it has an active digitizer and pen (neither of which are well supported even with a custom kernel... lame) that I can use with OneNote for notetaking things. It sucks because I really do prefer open-source solutions when available and I like the super granular level of control over the system in Linux that you just can't really have with Windows, but there just isn't anything comparable to some of the things I need to run. It is what it is; I've got a few other computers running various flavors of Linux so, I mean, one Windows install won't hurt. 😛 Also, I mean... there is the new Windows Subsytem for Linux and VMs if I really need to do Linux-y things on this particular machine for school or whatever.
So I download a Windows 10 Pro ISO. I then fire up one of my 15 GB USB drives... format it in GParted to FAT32... and then try to burn the ISO file to the drive. Receive an error about a file contained within the ISO exceeding the FAT32 size limit. Oh, right. I'd forgotten that FAT32 is limited to a max file size of 4 GB; my bad. I open GParted again and delete the FAT32 partition on the drive and create a new one that is NTFS since I know that that will work fine. Still get the same error upon trying to burn the ISO to the disk. What.
It is here where I learn that, between this and various other small mishaps that have occurred over the past few days (yay, shipping items to the wrong address!), I apparently can't ****ing read or, at the very least, I read so quickly that I don't actually fully comprehend the words I see. I missed this setting somehow:
Anyway, I'm burning the ISO now and it seems to be working fine since I changed the File system setting so clearly I just need to learn how to read better. Herp derp.
@Elkhart, lemme know how you like 1909. I downloaded the ISO when it came out recently but will need to do a full clean install of my main Win10Pro 1809 system, which I may not be willing to do for months since I don't have a good NAS/backup strategy currently. I hate Win10 with a passion so bloody much. Not just the privacy nightmare and constant phoning home to countries all around the world (200 MB upload to Japan? Sure!) but the fact that Microsoft laid off their testing team and is relying on their Insiders volunteers to essentially report bugs. It's. So. Buggy. My beloved Win7Pro goes End of Life in 6 weeks!
I'd love to be able to transition to Linux (either Debian or Mint Debian or Qubes) and more FOSS but the learning curve has been a PITA. I should be studying 'nix more deeply come January. Ideally I'll only keep a W10Pro system around for a gaming system in the future and have a separate workstation computer for personal life and work stuff. I've even entertained getting an iPad or iPad Pro (with Notability, etc.) for school note-taking just so I don't have to deal with OneNote/Office/Win10/Microsoft ecosystem. I'm that fed up.
I would... if I could get this to work correctly. D:
Now I'm getting errors about the disk needing to be unmounted even though I'd already previously manually unmounted it. Tried it with both the GUI and the terminal and neither worked. Tried another USB drive to see if maybe I'd done one too many read/write cycles on the first one with all of the formatting. No cigar. Same problem.
I've used WoeUSB in the past to make recovery drives and the like for family and have never had issues like this before, so... I dunno. I guess at this point, I'm going to try Unetbootin and see if that will do it. I think it's really more designed to handle Linux distro ISOs versus Windows ISOs (and since this is a Surface, I know for a fact that UEFI will probably be a problem), so I'm not expecting much. But hey, can't know if I don't try and all of my most important data is backed up elsewhere so it's not like it'd hurt to make an attempt at least.
EDIT: Yeah, that's a no-go. Unetbootin doesn't even recognize USB drives that aren't formatted as FAT32 so that ain't gonna fly. Will have to snoop around for another method.
Maybe I'm that much of a noob and not reading it correctly, but I don't see anything wrong in that screenshot. Your USB stick is the target device (/dev/sda) which looks like it's unmounted.
The Error message says your source media is mounted, which I presume to be the SSD/HDD?
Of all the wonderful football players who have done wonderful things in the world, why did they have to choose him?
He did his time and paid his debts of course and lobbied for laws to increase penalties for people participating in dog fighting rings, and his charities do good work iirc.
But I don't see why that means he gets to be honored as an NFL Legend tbh. And it's not like he even won any Superbowls with all his running yards. Confused by the decision from multiple perspectives.
He never actually did an second of time for animal abuse. That part of the charge was dropped in a plea deal. He only did time for the monetary parts of his crimes, because society cares more about money than lives.
Maybe I'm that much of a noob and not reading it correctly, but I don't see anything wrong in that screenshot. Your USB stick is the target device (/dev/sda) which looks like it's unmounted.
The Error message says your source media is mounted, which I presume to be the SSD/HDD?
Linux (and presumably all Unix-like OSes? I don't know) by default will set a mount point for any mounted device/disk/file to a /mnt/ directory on the HDD/SSD, and ISOs are able to be mounted, too... so, yeah, presumably that directory is where the "source media" is. I played around with the ISO and the /mnt/ directory a bit in the terminal and eventually decided to try just deleting the files off of the mount point entirely, recreated it, and started over; then I mounted and unmounted it again. And... that seems to have worked somehow. Couldn't tell you how or why it worked, but hey.
The terminal interface of WoeUSB gave simultaneous "Installation successful!" and "Installation failed: write error!" messages, so uh... it remains to be seen if Windows will actually install off of this drive correctly, but I'm going to go ahead and give it a try. I did look at the drive itself and all of the correct files that I'd expect to be on a Windows install disk seem to be there and their sizes all make sense, at least.
Will report back momentarily and edit this post with how it went.
EDIT: Yeah, that's a no-go. Unetbootin doesn't even recognize USB drives that aren't formatted as FAT32 so that ain't gonna fly. Will have to snoop around for another method.
He never actually did an second of time for animal abuse. That part of the charge was dropped in a plea deal. He only did time for the monetary parts of his crimes, because society cares more about money than lives.
Hahaha, yeah, the drive didn't work. Tried to boot from it, got a brief blip of a GRUB error message that appeared and disappeared so quickly I couldn't read it, and then the machine just went straight back into Kubuntu. Clearly something went wrong with WoeUSB. I'll try dd later (I'm actually kinda surprised I forgot that that command was even a thing; I've had to use it before), but I need to get up and do actually productive adult things for a bit. 😛
I also can't believe I've spent two whole hours on this stupid thing.
Hahaha, yeah, the drive didn't work. Tried to boot from it, got a brief blip of a GRUB error message that appeared and disappeared so quickly I couldn't read it, and then the machine just went straight back into Kubuntu. Clearly something went wrong with WoeUSB.
Is there an analogous saying in vet med to the human med saying, "When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras"? I wouldn't draw the conclusion that WoeUSB messed up just because you saw GRUB flash quickly then your usual OS start screen. Just means that you are booting to your Surface's internal drive instead of the USB stick. [Edit: I could be wrong, see below re: NTFS.]
Is there something here that applies to your Surface Book 2? Get into the UEFI, make sure Secure Boot is disabled, then switch the boot order temporarily to boot from the USB stick instead of the HDD/SSD (or just swipe to boot from it?).
Edit: It's possible the Surface Book 2 doesn't recognize NTFS-formatted USB flash drives? I've read conflicting information. And if FAT32 doesn't work simply because install.wim (or whatever) is an obese mofo, try formatting it as exFAT.
Re: Michael Vick, I didn't know a lot of the details of the dog fighting ring he operated before, since this all happened when I was younger and not into the news and things, and now I wish I'd never looked it up. It's horrifying.
Re: Michael Vick, I didn't know a lot of the details of the dog fighting ring he operated before, since this all happened when I was younger and not into the news and things, and now I wish I'd never looked it up. It's horrifying.
Edit: It's possible the Surface Book 2 doesn't recognize NTFS-formatted USB flash drives? I've read conflicting information. And if FAT32 doesn't work simply because install.wim (or whatever) is an obese mofo, try formatting it as exFAT.
After trying a few more things and looking around various forums, I am 99% sure that this is the issue, unfortunately. Secure boot was already previously disabled through UEFI and the BIOS is already set to boot from USB first by default (had to do all of that to get Kubuntu installed in the first place haha), so that shouldn't be it. I was previously able to successfully install Windows 10 on this computer from an ISO on USB a year back, but I'm pretty confident that the maximum file size was <4 GB and that I had formatted it as FAT32. I've looked into formatting the drive as exFAT as that was going to be something else I would try, but support in Linux is... spotty. I have what exFAT utilities are available, as well as the FUSE, installed on the system, but it appears that that only allows for very basic, limited operations (Comparison of file systems - Wikipedia and Why is exfat greyed out in gparted?), so I have hit a roadblock again. It would seem. 🙁
But, yeah, I think you're right. From what I've read, booting from an NTFS-formatted USB drive seems to be more or less a no-go for the Surface Book. Lame. I'm more than fine continuing to run Linux since I prefer it, anyway; I guess I could always just use Windows 10 in a VM when needed, which works pretty well. NBD!
It is an interesting dilemma though, when thinking about whether to boycott the NFL entirely. I don't think I'll be watching the pro bowl, but I also don't think the other players or teams have a hand in choosing the pro bowl captains, it sounds like they're selected by NFL higher ups. So for someone who has a lot of family history and tradition tied up in NFL football, it's a hard sell to say to disregard all of that because some faceless committee made a stupid choice (and one that I do believe was entirely for publicity).
After trying a few more things and looking around various forums, I am 99% sure that this is the issue, unfortunately. Secure boot was already previously disabled through UEFI and the BIOS is already set to boot from USB first by default (had to do all of that to get Kubuntu installed in the first place haha), so that shouldn't be it. I was previously able to successfully install Windows 10 on this computer from an ISO on USB a year back, but I'm pretty confident that the maximum file size was <4 GB and that I had formatted it as FAT32. I've looked into formatting the drive as exFAT as that was going to be something else I would try, but support in Linux is... spotty. I have what exFAT utilities are available, as well as the FUSE, installed on the system, but it appears that that only allows for very basic, limited operations (Comparison of file systems - Wikipedia and Why is exfat greyed out in gparted?), so I have hit a roadblock again. It would seem. 🙁
But, yeah, I think you're right. From what I've read, booting from an NTFS-formatted USB drive seems to be more or less a no-go for the Surface Book. Lame. I'm more than fine continuing to run Linux since I prefer it, anyway; I guess I could always just use Windows 10 in a VM when needed, which works pretty well. NBD!
It is an interesting dilemma though, when thinking about whether to boycott the NFL entirely. I don't think I'll be watching the pro bowl, but I also don't think the other players or teams have a hand in choosing the pro bowl captains, it sounds like they're selected by NFL higher ups. So for someone who has a lot of family history and tradition tied up in NFL football, it's a hard sell to say to disregard all of that because some faceless committee made a stupid choice (and one that I do believe was entirely for publicity).
My argument is that if skeezy scumbags run a business and choose to employ some sketchyass people, I don't want to shop there. Doesn't matter if I like most of the stuff they have to offer.
NFL higher ups make money from people supporting their franchises. They, in turn, pay their players. Some players use that money to do some hella bad illegal stuff. They also use that money to make legal settlements and contribute to plea deals in sentencing.
Therefore, I honestly feel like supporting the organization means I'm personally enabling this stuff to happen and allowing vicious, abusive criminals to face lesser consequences for their actions. It's like feeling as if my family gave money to help Michael Vick with his weekend hobby of murdering dogs.
It's definitely unfortunate for the good people in the sport that this goes on, but there's also an excruciatingly sad amount of deflection and avoidance from those good people and good fans. People who just shrug and say it's really too bad, something should be done, blah blah. As long as people keep continuing to downplay the crimes against women, animals and more and chalk it up to "just a few bad eggs" or "nameless committees with poor judgement," it's going to keep happening.
So no more, not in this house. Not going keep being part of the problem, even if it's only by cheering.
At the risk of sounding hypocritical to people who know me well -- I should probably also add that I've stopped watching horse racing following the blatant disregard for animal and human safety at Santa Anita over the past 14 months or so.
Which is really sad for me, because as a horseback rider and former competitor I obviously Love the idea of equestrian sports with a capital L, but the degree of not-caring from the industry as a whole is at a level that breaks my heart.
At least we won't need to pay for cable anymore haha.
My argument is that if skeezy scumbags run a business and choose to employ some sketchyass people, I don't want to shop there. Doesn't matter if I like most of the stuff they have to offer.
NFL higher ups make money from people supporting their franchises. They pay their players. Players use that money to do some hella bad illegal stuff. They also use that money to make legal settlements and contribute to plea deals in sentencing.
Therefore, I honestly feel like supporting the organization means I'm personally enabling this stuff to happen and allowing vicious, abusive criminals to face lesser consequences for their actions. It's like feeling as if my family gave money to help Michael Vick with his weekend hobby of murdering dogs.
It's definitely unfortunate for the good people in the sport that this goes on, but there's also an excruciatingly sad amount of deflection and avoidance from those good people and good fans. People who just shrug and say it's really too bad, something should be done, blah blah. As long as people keep continuing to downplay the crimes against women, animals and more and chalk it up to "just a few bad eggs" or "nameless committees with poor judgement," it's going to keep happening.
So no more, not in this house. Not going keep being part of the problem, even if it's only by cheering.
Not saying that nothing should be done or that any of those things should be downplayed. There are certainly systemic issues in the NFL currently, some of which are a microcosm of societal issues that I don't think will ever completely go away, some of which can certainly be improved by changing the way that these issues are handled and how players are viewed when they're involved in them. I guess I'm more on the side of encouraging change and seeing what can be done in that regard rather than abandoning the whole thing altogether. There are also a lot of good things, memories and life experiences and community-type things, tied up in football for my family and for many many people - not quite the same as a store that sells some products you like. You certainly don't have to feel that way and are free to boycott, I just don't think not doing so means I'm supporting animal cruelty.
^Mostly for my mom's sake anyway. There's something to be said for being part of a community that goes back generations. I don't have cable myself, but when I am visiting my mom you can bet I'm going to watch a Steelers game or two with her, and I don't think that makes either of us bad people.
At the risk of sounding hypocritical to people who know me well -- I should probably also add that I've stopped watching horse racing following the blatant disregard for animal and human safety at Santa Anita over the past 14 months or so.
Which is really sad for me, because as a horseback rider and former competitor I obviously Love the idea of equestrian sports with a capital L, but the degree of not-caring from the industry as a whole is at a level that breaks my heart.
At least we won't need to pay for cable anymore haha.
Not to go off on a random tangent but because I was interested and hadn't heard much on this story recently, has there been any progress in figuring out what the heck is wrong with that track? Or what has been causing all of the injuries, if there is some big underlying cause?
Not to go off on a random tangent but because I was interested and hadn't heard much on this story recently, has there been any progress in figuring out what the heck is wrong with that track? Or what has been causing all of the injuries, if there is some big underlying cause?
The person who shares a lab with the person I worked for over the summer is involved with the investigation and everything is being kept pretty confidential. However, I heard from someone else entirely, and not related to the investigation in any way that they suspect it is due to the fact that they have been racing more even when conditions would normally prohibit racing. It leads to a messier track and more injuries but it's completely hearsay
The person who shares a lab with the person I worked for over the summer is involved with the investigation and everything is being kept pretty confidential. However, I heard from someone else entirely, and not related to the investigation in any way that they suspect it is due to the fact that they have been racing more even when conditions would normally prohibit racing. It leads to a messier track and more injuries but it's completely hearsay
That first sentence is a doozy haha
I've now been reading to try to answer my own question (who needs to study for the NAVLE anyway) and yeah, sounds like that was one of the more common theories, though they still had injuries leading to euthanasia after the track had been deemed safe. Probably a host of contributing factors.
Mick Peterson, a track and safety expert brought in from the University of Kentucky, proclaimed the track "100 percent ready" to resume racing.
Peterson said radar verified that all of the silt, clay and sand, as well as the moisture content, were consistent throughout the track. Its dirt surface was peeled back 5 inches and reapplied.
That first sentence is a doozy haha
I've now been reading to try to answer my own question (who needs to study for the NAVLE anyway) and yeah, sounds like that was one of the more common theories, though they still had injuries leading to euthanasia after the track had been deemed safe. Probably a host of contributing factors.
I was reminded about #whamageddon this morning and decided to play since I don't go out to stores etc much so figured I'd make it so far this year.
My boyfriend is very neutral about Christmas but knows I love it. Decided to have a Christmas playlist ready to play for me when I got home today to make me happy.
So I walked into my apartment today to the dulcet tones of Last Christmas.
I'm sorry, what do you dramatically sing in the kitchen while you bake Christmas cookies? Honestly I figured you would know this song is up my alley given my entire desired aesthetic is "suspicious looking widow" lol
I mean, the drama alone. It's basically this and Mariah Carey and I refuse to apologise
(I listen to a lot of Sufjan Stevens Christmas songs too, because I am dramatic but also sad)
Someone recently let their dog **** all over the sidewalk right by my vet school. It's around sort of blind corner right by the bike racks and leads into the side entrance of the school that several hundred people use per day. The dog was clearly pooping and walking, as there's a trail of over 5 feet of **** nuggets all over the cement. In the past week they've been run over by peoples' bikes and I'm assuming many people have stepped in it. It's so gross. Like literally who thinks it's ok to allow their dog to poop somewhere, especially somewhere so centralized, and not clean it up?! Hopefully the poop doesnt stick around that much longer...
I am sorry for your predicament, it brings up a repressed memory of one time when I stuck my hand in cat diarrhea (accidentally of course).
Someone recently let their dog **** all over the sidewalk right by my vet school. It's around sort of blind corner right by the bike racks and leads into the side entrance of the school that several hundred people use per day. The dog was clearly pooping and walking, as there's a trail of over 5 feet of **** nuggets all over the cement. In the past week they've been run over by peoples' bikes and I'm assuming many people have stepped in it. It's so gross. Like literally who thinks it's ok to allow their dog to poop somewhere, especially somewhere so centralized, and not clean it up?! Hopefully the poop doesnt stick around that much longer...
I am sorry for your predicament, it brings up a repressed memory of one time when I stuck my hand in cat diarrhea (accidentally of course).
