The received wisdom would suggest they're going to need to extend the y-axis on that graph for Clacton. And it shows that even saving their deposit would be an exceptional result for Binface.
I've often thought it must be an expensive hobby for these 'joke' candidates.
Latest on the Mich McConnell is just restin' saga.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2075589852712570881 New footage reportedly shows Sen. Mitch McConnell being loaded onto a stretcher and taken by ambulance after collapsing. EMS audio reportedly references an unconscious patient in cardiac arrest with CPR in progress, according to CNN.
https://x.com/DissentinBloom/status/2075625400386904236 Medical here. If this video is real, there's a couple things that stand out to me after watching at 0.25x speed. 1) they have a sally transfer sheet underneath of him, which means he was not assisting or mobile at all. 2) they have like no equipment with them; I don't see a bag mask, a LUCAS, intubation. Nothing. This is consistent with the transfer of a dead body...
I spoke on the phone for 30 minutes with Mitch this morning, and he categorically denied being dead.
Schrödinger's Senator. Both dead and alive until he is observed. Then he will collapse into a single state.
It's going to have its own Weekend at Mich's meme isn't it?
If it doesn’t already, then the entire internet is composed of slackers.
There’s plenty of memes already. When Scott Jennings said he’d spoken to McConnell for 20 minutes, about 500 other accounts posted almost exactly the same.
Not just Jennings.
..A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he had spoken with McConnell by phone on Monday and that the two had a "lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security."..
..Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, had a 20-minute conversation with McConnell on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman. The two discussed Senate races ahead of the midterm elections, the Supreme Court and other topics, the statement said..
So, he can have lengthy conversations with Republican colleagues, but not with one political journalist?
He's a very poorly man. If you were in that state, would you rather have lots of conversations with Republican politicians or with journalists?
If I was very poorly, I’d only want to talk with friends. I’d definitely not want to talk to Republican politicians!
Mitch has reportedly had cumulatively hours of conversation with multiple colleagues. That isn’t what a “very poorly” man would do. If he’s really that capable, he could kill all this speculation in 3 minutes.
Btw, when the site migrates presumably new accounts will be the order of the day?
If you can get the data out of Vanilla in SQL or similar format, it should be easy enough to batch create accounts on Wordpress to import the users list, then write a script to email everyone with a password reset link.
If you want to transfer the comments surely that's the only viable way, or else there's no way to link the comments with the right user - someone could register someone else's name which we would not want doing.
Correct.
You probably have a table called USERS with fields ID USERNAME PASSWORD (hash) DATE_CREATED DATE_UPDATED etc.
You then have a table called COMMENTS with fields COMMENT_ID DATE_TIME USER_ID COMMENT_TEXT.
You have a join between the field ID in the USERS table, and the field USER_ID in the COMMENTS table, which is how you associate each comment with the user.
That looks relatively straightforward, a MySQL file with almost the entire DB of users and comments.
A wry smile that the standard export also includes private DMs.
A reminder that lots of things you might think are private, are not actually private.
Indeed. Anything you do on a website is likely to be visible to the admins, if no-one else. Your password will be hashed rather than encrypted, so they shouldn't be able to get that. But private messages, public posts, etc. will all be visible.
Just to clarify the difference between encrypting and hashing for anyone non-technical... Encryption is a two-way process. If I have the keys, I can decrypt anything that has been encrypted. Hashing is in some ways similar to encryption in that it scrambles the password, but it is a one-way process. There is no way to get back from the hash to the original password.
As a side-note, I remember in the late 1980s discovering that the email software my employer used could be hacked easily. Passwords were stored encrypted. When a user logged in, instead of encrypting the password entered and comparing that with the one stored, it decrypted the stored password and compared that with the one entered. Using debug (which was part of MS-DOS), it was easy to put a breakpoint in the right place so you could see the decrypted password.
The best approach would be to wipe all comments and just let us start again. Jacques Derrida wrote that writing is inherently unstable and the original meaning begins to decay as soon as the words are formed. Therefore written forms thought only survive through continuous restatement and reinterpretation.
Also, consider the short story La biblioteca de Babel in Jorge Luis Borge's El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan on the futility of preservation.
Speak for yourself. I want my hilarious ripostes preserved for the pearls they are.
If they are truly of value they will be preserved in the collective consciousness like my Polish brothel story. If not, nothing of value was lost.
Latest on the Mich McConnell is just restin' saga.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2075589852712570881 New footage reportedly shows Sen. Mitch McConnell being loaded onto a stretcher and taken by ambulance after collapsing. EMS audio reportedly references an unconscious patient in cardiac arrest with CPR in progress, according to CNN.
https://x.com/DissentinBloom/status/2075625400386904236 Medical here. If this video is real, there's a couple things that stand out to me after watching at 0.25x speed. 1) they have a sally transfer sheet underneath of him, which means he was not assisting or mobile at all. 2) they have like no equipment with them; I don't see a bag mask, a LUCAS, intubation. Nothing. This is consistent with the transfer of a dead body...
I spoke on the phone for 30 minutes with Mitch this morning, and he categorically denied being dead.
Schrödinger's Senator. Both dead and alive until he is observed. Then he will collapse into a single state.
It's going to have its own Weekend at Mich's meme isn't it?
If it doesn’t already, then the entire internet is composed of slackers.
There’s plenty of memes already. When Scott Jennings said he’d spoken to McConnell for 20 minutes, about 500 other accounts posted almost exactly the same.
Not just Jennings.
..A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he had spoken with McConnell by phone on Monday and that the two had a "lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security."..
..Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, had a 20-minute conversation with McConnell on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman. The two discussed Senate races ahead of the midterm elections, the Supreme Court and other topics, the statement said..
So, he can have lengthy conversations with Republican colleagues, but not with one political journalist?
He's a very poorly man. If you were in that state, would you rather have lots of conversations with Republican politicians or with journalists?
If I was very poorly, I’d only want to talk with friends. I’d definitely not want to talk to Republican politicians!
Mitch has reportedly had cumulatively hours of conversation with multiple colleagues. That isn’t what a “very poorly” man would do. If he’s really that capable, he could kill all this speculation in 3 minutes.
To be fair though, the Republican politicians likely are/were his friends.
The best approach would be to wipe all comments and just let us start again. Jacques Derrida wrote that writing is inherently unstable and the original meaning begins to decay as soon as the words are formed. Therefore written forms thought only survive through continuous restatement and reinterpretation.
Also, consider the short story La biblioteca de Babel in Jorge Luis Borge's El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan on the futility of preservation.
Yes, I sort of agree. The body of work of each PBer (esp the deeper ones) can take on new and different meanings as the world in which it resides evolves. I'd give an example but I don't think what I'm talking about can be illustrated in that way.
Point is, the PB posting history should be thought of as a living thing - and thus a terrible thing to lose.
As long as future social historians don't start from the premis that every comment necessarily relates to the header.
The best approach would be to wipe all comments and just let us start again. Jacques Derrida wrote that writing is inherently unstable and the original meaning begins to decay as soon as the words are formed. Therefore written forms thought only survive through continuous restatement and reinterpretation.
Also, consider the short story La biblioteca de Babel in Jorge Luis Borge's El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan on the futility of preservation.
Yes, I sort of agree. The body of work of each PBer (esp the deeper ones) can take on new and different meanings as the world in which it resides evolves. I'd give an example but I don't think what I'm talking about can be illustrated in that way.
Point is, the PB posting history should be thought of as a living thing - and thus a terrible thing to lose.
Think of the poor doctoral candidates for political history. No letters to read, email used less and less, WhatsApp on delete….
PB comments might be a big chunk of what’s left.
Now that is scary.
Perhaps Robert will know the exact number from the admin console, but PB averages somewhere around 1,000 comments per day.
So there’s going to be a ballpark 3-4 million comments in the database.
Of which there will be about 300k - 400k arguing about Brexit. 300k - 400k arguing about housing 600k - 800k talking about sport
And about 30k-40k tips on political betting.
And of those 30k-40k, there will be a few dozen from @Andy_JS about his Brexit night count spreadsheet, which made a lot of people here a whole pile of money.
Andy, if we ever meet the beers are on me from a decade ago!
Btw, when the site migrates presumably new accounts will be the order of the day?
If you can get the data out of Vanilla in SQL or similar format, it should be easy enough to batch create accounts on Wordpress to import the users list, then write a script to email everyone with a password reset link.
If you want to transfer the comments surely that's the only viable way, or else there's no way to link the comments with the right user - someone could register someone else's name which we would not want doing.
Correct.
You probably have a table called USERS with fields ID USERNAME PASSWORD (hash) DATE_CREATED DATE_UPDATED etc.
You then have a table called COMMENTS with fields COMMENT_ID DATE_TIME USER_ID COMMENT_TEXT.
You have a join between the field ID in the USERS table, and the field USER_ID in the COMMENTS table, which is how you associate each comment with the user.
That looks relatively straightforward, a MySQL file with almost the entire DB of users and comments.
A wry smile that the standard export also includes private DMs.
A reminder that lots of things you might think are private, are not actually private.
Indeed. Anything you do on a website is likely to be visible to the admins, if no-one else. Your password will be hashed rather than encrypted, so they shouldn't be able to get that. But private messages, public posts, etc. will all be visible.
Just to clarify the difference between encrypting and hashing for anyone non-technical... Encryption is a two-way process. If I have the keys, I can decrypt anything that has been encrypted. Hashing is in some ways similar to encryption in that it scrambles the password, but it is a one-way process. There is no way to get back from the hash to the original password.
As a side-note, I remember in the late 1980s discovering that the email software my employer used could be hacked easily. Passwords were stored encrypted. When a user logged in, instead of encrypting the password entered and comparing that with the one stored, it decrypted the stored password and compared that with the one entered. Using debug (which was part of MS-DOS), it was easy to put a breakpoint in the right place so you could see the decrypted password.
You would hope so, but, alas...
Agreed! I should have said that your password should be hashed. I have come across passwords being stored unencrypted, unencrypted passwords being exposed to the browser so that anyone familiar with developer tools can get at them and so on.
The best approach would be to wipe all comments and just let us start again. Jacques Derrida wrote that writing is inherently unstable and the original meaning begins to decay as soon as the words are formed. Therefore written forms thought only survive through continuous restatement and reinterpretation.
Also, consider the short story La biblioteca de Babel in Jorge Luis Borge's El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan on the futility of preservation.
Speak for yourself. I want my hilarious ripostes preserved for the pearls they are.
If they are truly of value they will be preserved in the collective consciousness like my Polish brothel story. If not, nothing of value was lost.
I must have missed that, since I have no recollection of it at all.
The best approach would be to wipe all comments and just let us start again. Jacques Derrida wrote that writing is inherently unstable and the original meaning begins to decay as soon as the words are formed. Therefore written forms thought only survive through continuous restatement and reinterpretation.
Also, consider the short story La biblioteca de Babel in Jorge Luis Borge's El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan on the futility of preservation.
Speak for yourself. I want my hilarious ripostes preserved for the pearls they are.
If they are truly of value they will be preserved in the collective consciousness like my Polish brothel story. If not, nothing of value was lost.
I must have missed that, since I have no recollection of it at all.
The received wisdom would suggest they're going to need to extend the y-axis on that graph for Clacton. And it shows that even saving their deposit would be an exceptional result for Binface.
I've often thought it must be an expensive hobby for these 'joke' candidates.
The deposit has been £500 since 1985, before which it was £150. Had the deposit tracked inflation since 1985 it would now be £1,593.21.
So, unlike most hobbies, it's one that has been becoming cheaper over time.
The best approach would be to wipe all comments and just let us start again. Jacques Derrida wrote that writing is inherently unstable and the original meaning begins to decay as soon as the words are formed. Therefore written forms thought only survive through continuous restatement and reinterpretation.
Also, consider the short story La biblioteca de Babel in Jorge Luis Borge's El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan on the futility of preservation.
Yes, I sort of agree. The body of work of each PBer (esp the deeper ones) can take on new and different meanings as the world in which it resides evolves. I'd give an example but I don't think what I'm talking about can be illustrated in that way.
Point is, the PB posting history should be thought of as a living thing - and thus a terrible thing to lose.
Think of the poor doctoral candidates for political history. No letters to read, email used less and less, WhatsApp on delete….
PB comments might be a big chunk of what’s left.
Now that is scary.
Perhaps Robert will know the exact number from the admin console, but PB averages somewhere around 1,000 comments per day.
So there’s going to be a ballpark 3-4 million comments in the database.
Of which there will be about 300k - 400k arguing about Brexit. 300k - 400k arguing about housing 600k - 800k talking about sport
And about 30k-40k tips on political betting.
And of those 30k-40k, there will be a few dozen from @Andy_JS about his Brexit night count spreadsheet, which made a lot of people here a whole pile of money.
Andy, if we ever meet the beers are on me from a decade ago!
@Andy_JS's spreadsheet gave result-watching that night a depth of insight I'd never imagined possible.
Latest on the Mich McConnell is just restin' saga.
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2075589852712570881 New footage reportedly shows Sen. Mitch McConnell being loaded onto a stretcher and taken by ambulance after collapsing. EMS audio reportedly references an unconscious patient in cardiac arrest with CPR in progress, according to CNN.
https://x.com/DissentinBloom/status/2075625400386904236 Medical here. If this video is real, there's a couple things that stand out to me after watching at 0.25x speed. 1) they have a sally transfer sheet underneath of him, which means he was not assisting or mobile at all. 2) they have like no equipment with them; I don't see a bag mask, a LUCAS, intubation. Nothing. This is consistent with the transfer of a dead body...
I spoke on the phone for 30 minutes with Mitch this morning, and he categorically denied being dead.
Schrödinger's Senator. Both dead and alive until he is observed. Then he will collapse into a single state.
It's going to have its own Weekend at Mich's meme isn't it?
If it doesn’t already, then the entire internet is composed of slackers.
There’s plenty of memes already. When Scott Jennings said he’d spoken to McConnell for 20 minutes, about 500 other accounts posted almost exactly the same.
Not just Jennings.
..A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he had spoken with McConnell by phone on Monday and that the two had a "lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security."..
..Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican, had a 20-minute conversation with McConnell on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman. The two discussed Senate races ahead of the midterm elections, the Supreme Court and other topics, the statement said..
So, he can have lengthy conversations with Republican colleagues, but not with one political journalist?
He's a very poorly man. If you were in that state, would you rather have lots of conversations with Republican politicians or with journalists?
If I was very poorly, I’d only want to talk with friends. I’d definitely not want to talk to Republican politicians!
Mitch has reportedly had cumulatively hours of conversation with multiple colleagues. That isn’t what a “very poorly” man would do. If he’s really that capable, he could kill all this speculation in 3 minutes.
To be fair though, the Republican politicians likely are/were his friends.
Given the infighting among Republican Senators, I wouldn’t presume that, no.
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The received wisdom would suggest they're going to need to extend the y-axis on that graph for Clacton. And it shows that even saving their deposit would be an exceptional result for Binface.
I've often thought it must be an expensive hobby for these 'joke' candidates.
The deposit has been £500 since 1985, before which it was £150. Had the deposit tracked inflation since 1985 it would now be £1,593.21.
So, unlike most hobbies, it's one that has been becoming cheaper over time.
England's Kane confirms golf outing with Trump, praises president's game ... Speaking on Friday on the eve of their World Cup quarter-final match against Norway, Kane confirmed the round took place in Palm Beach, Florida, about 18 months ago. ... Trump had complimented the Bayern Munich forward on his Truth Social platform following England's 3-2 last-16 victory over Mexico, writing: "Harry Kane of England is a GREAT player!!!"
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Mitch has reportedly had cumulatively hours of conversation with multiple colleagues. That isn’t what a “very poorly” man would do. If he’s really that capable, he could kill all this speculation in 3 minutes.
Andy, if we ever meet the beers are on me from a decade ago!
So, unlike most hobbies, it's one that has been becoming cheaper over time.
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