Fojar38 posted:

The advantage of the American roach is that they generally don't infest buildings and prefer the outdoors

German roaches are the real indoor terrors (although they eat bedbugs)

BUG JUG posted:

I am just here to say the superior work on this is American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund Morgan and Parent just ripped Morgan off. Also it was a Dutch Man of War that brought the first slaves to Virginia -- who had been captured by the Dutch (who were pirates, working in conjunction with an English pirate ship) off of a Portuguese ship the San Juan Bautista -- in 1619.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

tangling genitals.

Covok posted:

Why do people keep proposing this scenario where Utah goes 3rd party and no one gets 270? It could happen, but it's unlikely and seems odd to harp on it.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

American roaches are tolerable. They're big and they'll fly at you, but that's not so bad.

Fojar38 posted:

The advantage of the American roach is that they generally don't infest buildings and prefer the outdoors

German roaches are the real indoor terrors (although they eat bedbugs)

Trilas posted:

Minnesotan chiming in to say that the only thing hellscape winters do for us is save us from dealing with spiders outdoors during those months.

Dexo posted:

No I mean why would you put your washing machines and poo poo outside.

Potato Salad posted:

If you need on-prem: Windows Server 2008r2 at absolute oldest, Windows Server 2012r2 if you're actually good. Exchange 2013. Use multifactor authentication. Use mobile device management controls.

Alternately, reach out to a good IT consulting firm *cough* There are benefits to having your own desktop support guys but more complex systems handled by pros who do nothing but this poo poo all day, provided they aren't hacks.

What Trump's email resembles is a broom closet nobody has touched in 15 years, seriously, no troll.

Alternately, use Office365 email and be done with on-premises email and concerns about infrastructure and maintenance forever (insert insane laughter here)

Trilas posted:

Minnesotan chiming in to say that the only thing hellscape winters do for us is save us from dealing with spiders outdoors during those months.

WampaLord posted:

Are you loving kidding me, here?

Fangz posted:

It's silly and people like sillyness.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

It may be one of those regional things, like how the two coasts use "daddy long-legs" to refer to completely different animals.

Here is what the name water bugs refers to in Virginia:

They're "true bugs." That means their wings form a distinctive triangle shape on their back, and that they have hollow, sword-like mouthparts used to suck juices out of things. Unlike stink bugs and aphids, water bugs are carnivores. I'm told their bite is extremely painful. Sleep poop tight, don't let the water bugs bite your tangling genitals.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to one crawling on me. I fling him across the room and go back to sleep. If it happens to my girlfriend, she leaps out of bed, turns on all the lamps, and throws the sheets across the room.

Stupid roaches. I just wanna sleep.

Potato Salad posted:

If you need on-prem: Windows Server 2008r2 at absolute oldest, Windows Server 2012r2 if you're actually good. Exchange 2013. Use multifactor authentication. Use mobile device management controls.

Alternately, reach out to a good IT consulting firm *cough* There are benefits to having your own desktop support guys but more complex systems handled by pros who do nothing but this poo poo all day, provided they aren't hacks.

What Trump's email resembles is a broom closet nobody has touched in 15 years, seriously, no troll.

Alternately, use Office365 email and be done with on-premises email and concerns about infrastructure and maintenance forever (insert insane laughter here)

WeAreTheRomans posted:

Doctor Butts posted:

My house has more house centipedes than spiders, for some reason.

Doctor Butts posted:

My house has more house centipedes than spiders, for some reason.

Potato Salad posted:

Mind you, this is the guy who says he will take national IT seriously. I see his type on a monthly basis: big-talking CEO says he's serious about security until he sees the bill.

Instant Sunrise posted:

It's where most black people in the south live.

because that was where most of the plantations were prior to the civil war.

because that was there the best quality soil for planting and growing was.

because that area was a shallow coastline during the cretaceous period and had a ton of marine plankton in those seas at the time.

boner confessor posted:

please clean your room

quote:

Portia often hunt in ways that seem intelligent.[11] All members of Portia have instinctive hunting tactics for their most common prey, but can improvise by trial and error against unfamiliar prey or in unfamiliar situations, and then remember the new approach.[8]

Portia species can make detours to find the best attack angle against dangerous prey, even when the best detour takes a Portia out of visual contact with the prey,[8] and sometimes the planned route leads to abseiling down a silk thread and biting the prey from behind. Such detours may take up to an hour,[13] and a Portia usually picks the best route even if it needs to walk past an incorrect route.[14]:422 If a Portia makes a mistake while hunting another spider, it may itself be killed.[13]

Portia uses trial-and-error to successfully solve a confinement problem (i.e. how to escape from an island surrounded by water) both when correct choices are rewarded and when incorrect choices are punished.[15]

Nonetheless, they seem to be relatively slow "thinkers", as is to be expected since they solve tactical problems by using brains vastly smaller than those of mammalian predators.[11] Portia has a brain significantly smaller than the size of the head of a pin,[16] and it has only about 600,000 neurons,[17] hundreds of thousands of times fewer than the human brain.

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Their favorite prey appears to be web-building spiders between 10% and 200% of their own size. Portia look like leaf detritus caught in a web, and this is often enough to fool web-building spiders, which have poor eyesight.[11]

Laboratory studies show that Portia learns very quickly how to overcome web-building spiders that neither it nor its ancestors would have met in the wild. Portia's accurate visual recognition of potential prey is an important part of its hunting tactics. For example, in one part of the Philippines, local Portia spiders attack from the rear against the very dangerous spitting spiders, which themselves hunt jumping spiders. This appears to be an instinctive behavior, as laboratory-reared Portia of this species do this the first time they encounter a spitting spider. On the other hand, they will use a head-on approach against spitting spiders that are carrying eggs. However, experiments that pitted Portia against "convincing" artificial spiders with arbitrary but consistent behavior patterns showed that Portia's instinctive tactics are only starting points for a trial-and-error approach from which these spiders learn very quickly.[18]

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Correct me if I'm wrong but aside from the moderator tomorrow's debate has zero affiliation with Fox News right?

Blue Footed Booby posted:

You mean yours don't??

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to one crawling on me. I fling him across the room and go back to sleep. If it happens to my girlfriend, she leaps out of bed, turns on all the lamps, and throws the sheets across the room.

Stupid roaches. I just wanna sleep.

Doctor Butts posted:

My house has more house centipedes than spiders, for some reason.

A Winner is Jew posted:

True, but he literally accused Bill Clinton of doing 9/11 so don't have high hopes.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to one crawling on me. I fling him across the room and go back to sleep. If it happens to my girlfriend, she leaps out of bed, turns on all the lamps, and throws the sheets across the room.

Stupid roaches. I just wanna sleep.

Night10194 posted:

Yeah but when he did Bill took him to the loving woodshed. I give even odds he's scared of trying that on Clintons again versus him wanting revenge.

Fojar38 posted:

House centipedes loving own and you should leave them alone when you can, they kill roaches, bedbugs, flies, you name it

Barudak posted:

Burn your home down and just start walking until you're so far away you can't remember your old life and start again

WampaLord posted:

Well, I am definitely not sleeping tonight, thanks.

Covok posted:

Why do people keep proposing this scenario where Utah goes 3rd party and no one gets 270? It could happen, but it's unlikely and seems odd to harp on it.

Dexo posted:

No I mean why would you put your washing machines and poo poo outside.