#kim is a full green flag and i will not be hearing criticism

[zenithsky]

fist bump vs back pat

i have a lot of pit babe thoughts and my friend told me to share them here, i hope i'm doing it right but here y'all go:

i have a thought: when we first see babe appear on the race track after his concentration and he fist bumps way who (dumbed down) his someone he first thought to be a friend but then turned out to be an enemy at the end we see kim patting babe on the back when he and charlie walk on the track,,,, kim who he thought to be an enemy but turned out to be a friend

fist bump: babe is the one to initiate it while way reciprocates it their fists meet at roughly the same height, there is no power dynamic here and it is very quick like it's a pre-race ritual for them, a sign of comeradry and potentially an encouragement to do their best - but since we know that x-hunters steal is to have way block the other racers and let babe take the win it might also be a promise that they will both do as agreed upon

back pat: kim was the one to initiate it and there's no reciprocation which already creates a whole different dynamic it's also fleeting yet the impact is a bit different as a clasp/pat on the back could be done forcefully as well in terms of what it means it could portray approval - namely kims approval of babe and charlies relationship it could also mean something along the lines of "i trust you buddy" as in kim trusts babe to race well and also to follow whatever strategy they may have discussed beforehand

as a whole this means that both kim and way signal babe their approval yet there are some quite significant differences: for one, the fact that it's a different gesture in the first place signals that despite their similar roles as babes racing partner and team mate they are very different characters and have different places in babes life it's a sign that kim may step up for way but he will not replace way - which is why it's important that the action isn't something babe reciprocates but only accepts babe and kim are at a point in their relationship where babe accepts kim in the team but perhaps doesn't quite see him as a friend just yet secondly, it's the fact that kim is approving of their relationship, not just babe which is something way never did no matter at which point of the show you look, way is pretty much always trying to sabotage the couple and it's quite obvious and like of course one could argue that babe and charlie didn't meet yet at the point of the fist bump yet

id argue that it's still a significant difference that ways fist bump was only meant for babe and a fist bump is an action that only two people can perform at once without it being very awkward so there's also the babe and way vs kim, babe and charlie dynamic in place thirdly, both are promises like aforementioned and i don't think we can dismiss that while both gestures are fundamentally different and have, like stated above, different purposes this one is shared and it's the one thing babe struggles with most: trusting someone both kim and way portray here how they trust in babe and in babes abilities

i could now also dissect the fact that fists are seen as sign of aggression most of the time and that babe and way portray aggressive gestures towards each other but that would be a bit farfetched

[dani-qrt]

'Loner' student shoots and kills 10 at Texas school

SANTA FE, Texas (Reuters) – A 17-year-old student dressed in a trench coat and armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at his high school outside Houston on Friday, killing nine students and a teacher, before surrendering to officers, authorities said.

Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, joined a long list of U.S. campuses where students and faculty have been killed in a spray of gunfire.

The Texas shooting stoked the nation’s long-running debate over firearms ownership and came about three months after 17 teens and educators were fatally shot in Parkland, Florida.

Students said the gunman, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, opened fire in an art class shortly before 8 a.m. Students and staff fled and a fire alarm triggered a full evacuation.

Classmates described Pagourtzis as a quiet loner who played on the football team. On Friday, they said, he wore the trench coat to school in Santa Fe, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Houston, on a day when temperatures topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Pagourtzis obtained firearms from his father, who had likely acquired them legally, and also left behind explosive devices.

“Not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting,” Abbott told reporters, citing a police review of the suspect’s journals. “He didn’t have the courage to commit suicide.”

Ten people were wounded, Abbott said.

Pagourtzis was charged with capital murder and denied bail at a brief court hearing later on Friday, where he appeared in handcuffs and wearing a green prison jumpsuit. He spoke in a soft voice and said “Yes, sir” when asked if he wanted a court-appointed attorney, along with other questions.

WANTED STORY TOLD

Pagourtzis spared people he liked so he could have his story told, a charging document obtained by Reuters showed.

Abbott said investigators had seen a T-shirt on the suspect’s Facebook page that read “Born to Kill,” and authorities were examining his journal. But there were no outward signs he had been planning an attack, he said.

“Here, the red flag warnings were either non-existent or very imperceptible,” Abbott said.

Some aspects of Friday’s shooting had echoes of the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999. The two teenaged killers in that incident wore trenchcoats, used shotguns and planted improvised explosives, killing 10 before committing suicide themselves.

It was the second mass shooting in Texas in less than a year. A man armed with an assault rifle shot dead 26 people during Sunday prayers at a rural church last November.

Flags in Texas and in many other parts of the United States flew at half-staff on Friday to mourn the victims of the fourth-deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. public school in modern history.

A vigil was held Friday night for the victims, who have not been officially identified. Local reports said those killed included a substitute art teacher and a Pakistani exchange student.

Courtney Marshall, 15, said the gunman came into her art class shooting.

Two young girls pray during a vigil held at the Texas First Bank after a shooting left several people dead at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, U.S., May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Trish Badger

“I wanted to take care of my friends, but I knew I had to get out of there,” Marshall said, adding that she saw at least one person hit. “I knew the guy behind me was dead.”

‘ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC

Two school officers engaged the shooter, including school district police officer John Barnes, who was in critical condition after a gunshot wound to his elbow that almost caused him to bleed out, hospital officials said.

Two others among the injured were also in critical condition.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told CNN authorities were investigating whether anyone else helped in the attack.

The school, which has some 1,460 students, will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump called the latest school massacre “absolutely horrific.”

Days after the Parkland massacre, Trump said elected officials should be ready to “fight” the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group, which argues that any gun control contradicts the constitutional right to bear arms.

But no major federal gun controls have been imposed since Parkland, and early this month Trump embraced the NRA, telling its annual meeting in Dallas, “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege. But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.”

At the vigil in Texas, many sought solace with friends and classmates.

Slideshow (10 Images)

“This will bring us closer together – hopefully, a positive impact from something negative,” said Clayton George, 16, who played football with the suspect.

Reporting by Liz Hampton and Erwin Seba; Additional reporting by Ernest Scheyder in Houston, Gina Cherelus and Peter Szekely in New York, Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson in Washington and Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Writing by Daniel Wallis, Scott Malone and Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bill Tarrant, Leslie Adler & Kim Coghill

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'Loner' student shoots and kills 10 at Texas school

SANTA FE, Texas (Reuters) – A 17-year-old student dressed in a trench coat and armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at his high school outside Houston on Friday, killing nine students and a teacher, before surrendering to officers, authorities said.

Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, joined a long list of U.S. campuses where students and faculty have been killed in a spray of gunfire.

The Texas shooting stoked the nation’s long-running debate over firearms ownership and came about three months after 17 teens and educators were fatally shot in Parkland, Florida.

Students said the gunman, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, opened fire in an art class shortly before 8 a.m. Students and staff fled and a fire alarm triggered a full evacuation.

Classmates described Pagourtzis as a quiet loner who played on the football team. On Friday, they said, he wore the trench coat to school in Santa Fe, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Houston, on a day when temperatures topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Pagourtzis obtained firearms from his father, who had likely acquired them legally, and also left behind explosive devices.

“Not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting,” Abbott told reporters, citing a police review of the suspect’s journals. “He didn’t have the courage to commit suicide.”

Ten people were wounded, Abbott said.

Pagourtzis was charged with capital murder and denied bail at a brief court hearing later on Friday, where he appeared in handcuffs and wearing a green prison jumpsuit. He spoke in a soft voice and said “Yes, sir” when asked if he wanted a court-appointed attorney, along with other questions.

WANTED STORY TOLD

Pagourtzis spared people he liked so he could have his story told, a charging document obtained by Reuters showed.

Abbott said investigators had seen a T-shirt on the suspect’s Facebook page that read “Born to Kill,” and authorities were examining his journal. But there were no outward signs he had been planning an attack, he said.

“Here, the red flag warnings were either non-existent or very imperceptible,” Abbott said.

Some aspects of Friday’s shooting had echoes of the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999. The two teenaged killers in that incident wore trenchcoats, used shotguns and planted improvised explosives, killing 10 before committing suicide themselves.

It was the second mass shooting in Texas in less than a year. A man armed with an assault rifle shot dead 26 people during Sunday prayers at a rural church last November.

Flags in Texas and in many other parts of the United States flew at half-staff on Friday to mourn the victims of the fourth-deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. public school in modern history.

A vigil was held Friday night for the victims, who have not been officially identified. Local reports said those killed included a substitute art teacher and a Pakistani exchange student.

Courtney Marshall, 15, said the gunman came into her art class shooting.

Two young girls pray during a vigil held at the Texas First Bank after a shooting left several people dead at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, U.S., May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Trish Badger

“I wanted to take care of my friends, but I knew I had to get out of there,” Marshall said, adding that she saw at least one person hit. “I knew the guy behind me was dead.”

‘ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC

Two school officers engaged the shooter, including school district police officer John Barnes, who was in critical condition after a gunshot wound to his elbow that almost caused him to bleed out, hospital officials said.

Two others among the injured were also in critical condition.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told CNN authorities were investigating whether anyone else helped in the attack.

The school, which has some 1,460 students, will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump called the latest school massacre “absolutely horrific.”

Days after the Parkland massacre, Trump said elected officials should be ready to “fight” the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group, which argues that any gun control contradicts the constitutional right to bear arms.

But no major federal gun controls have been imposed since Parkland, and early this month Trump embraced the NRA, telling its annual meeting in Dallas, “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege. But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.”

At the vigil in Texas, many sought solace with friends and classmates.

Slideshow (10 Images)

“This will bring us closer together – hopefully, a positive impact from something negative,” said Clayton George, 16, who played football with the suspect.

Reporting by Liz Hampton and Erwin Seba; Additional reporting by Ernest Scheyder in Houston, Gina Cherelus and Peter Szekely in New York, Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson in Washington and Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Writing by Daniel Wallis, Scott Malone and Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bill Tarrant, Leslie Adler & Kim Coghill

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'Loner' student shoots and kills 10 at Texas school

SANTA FE, Texas (Reuters) – A 17-year-old student dressed in a trench coat and armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at his high school outside Houston on Friday, killing nine students and a teacher, before surrendering to officers, authorities said.

Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, joined a long list of U.S. campuses where students and faculty have been killed in a spray of gunfire.

The Texas shooting stoked the nation’s long-running debate over firearms ownership and came about three months after 17 teens and educators were fatally shot in Parkland, Florida.

Students said the gunman, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, opened fire in an art class shortly before 8 a.m. Students and staff fled and a fire alarm triggered a full evacuation.

Classmates described Pagourtzis as a quiet loner who played on the football team. On Friday, they said, he wore the trench coat to school in Santa Fe, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Houston, on a day when temperatures topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Pagourtzis obtained firearms from his father, who had likely acquired them legally, and also left behind explosive devices.

“Not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting,” Abbott told reporters, citing a police review of the suspect’s journals. “He didn’t have the courage to commit suicide.”

Ten people were wounded, Abbott said.

Pagourtzis was charged with capital murder and denied bail at a brief court hearing later on Friday, where he appeared in handcuffs and wearing a green prison jumpsuit. He spoke in a soft voice and said “Yes, sir” when asked if he wanted a court-appointed attorney, along with other questions.

WANTED STORY TOLD

Pagourtzis spared people he liked so he could have his story told, a charging document obtained by Reuters showed.

Abbott said investigators had seen a T-shirt on the suspect’s Facebook page that read “Born to Kill,” and authorities were examining his journal. But there were no outward signs he had been planning an attack, he said.

“Here, the red flag warnings were either non-existent or very imperceptible,” Abbott said.

Some aspects of Friday’s shooting had echoes of the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999. The two teenaged killers in that incident wore trenchcoats, used shotguns and planted improvised explosives, killing 10 before committing suicide themselves.

It was the second mass shooting in Texas in less than a year. A man armed with an assault rifle shot dead 26 people during Sunday prayers at a rural church last November.

Flags in Texas and in many other parts of the United States flew at half-staff on Friday to mourn the victims of the fourth-deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. public school in modern history.

A vigil was held Friday night for the victims, who have not been officially identified. Local reports said those killed included a substitute art teacher and a Pakistani exchange student.

Courtney Marshall, 15, said the gunman came into her art class shooting.

Two young girls pray during a vigil held at the Texas First Bank after a shooting left several people dead at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, U.S., May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Trish Badger

“I wanted to take care of my friends, but I knew I had to get out of there,” Marshall said, adding that she saw at least one person hit. “I knew the guy behind me was dead.”

‘ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC

Two school officers engaged the shooter, including school district police officer John Barnes, who was in critical condition after a gunshot wound to his elbow that almost caused him to bleed out, hospital officials said.

Two others among the injured were also in critical condition.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told CNN authorities were investigating whether anyone else helped in the attack.

The school, which has some 1,460 students, will be closed on Monday and Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump called the latest school massacre “absolutely horrific.”

Days after the Parkland massacre, Trump said elected officials should be ready to “fight” the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group, which argues that any gun control contradicts the constitutional right to bear arms.

But no major federal gun controls have been imposed since Parkland, and early this month Trump embraced the NRA, telling its annual meeting in Dallas, “Your Second Amendment rights are under siege. But they will never, ever be under siege as long as I’m your president.”

At the vigil in Texas, many sought solace with friends and classmates.

Slideshow (10 Images)

“This will bring us closer together – hopefully, a positive impact from something negative,” said Clayton George, 16, who played football with the suspect.

Reporting by Liz Hampton and Erwin Seba; Additional reporting by Ernest Scheyder in Houston, Gina Cherelus and Peter Szekely in New York, Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson in Washington and Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Writing by Daniel Wallis, Scott Malone and Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Bill Tarrant, Leslie Adler & Kim Coghill

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August 2, 1998

The Hacker Myth Crumbles at Convention

AS VEGAS -- Seventeen-year-old Heath Miller has come to his first Def Con hacker convention in full battle array, wearing a black T-shirt depicting a shrieking skull and army-green shorts so baggy they can keep his ankles warm. In short, he looks precisely like the devious computer whiz your mother warned you about.

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A computer hacker who goes by the handle "Etherbunny" dressed in phone companies' clothes (including a Lucent Technologies flag , worn as a cape) during the Def Con 6.0 convention at the Plaza Hotel in Downtown Las Vegas.

So much for first impressions. Miller is an excellent student, hopes to attend MIT and recently placed third in a national science contest with a project that it is not exactly a nefarious bit of hacking: He built a sensor system that lets school bus drivers monitor whether students are wearing their seat belts.

The sixth-annual Def Con is in full swing in Las Vegas, but anyone who came here looking for Public Enemy #1 may want to pack up his dragnets and go home. Turns out that for the most part, this convention doesn't live up to its reputation as a gathering of clandestine, underground hackers plotting to cripple the Pentagon via modem.

Instead, many are here just to party. Others are just young and bright, with creative minds and a passion for understanding computers. Sure, they might spend too many adolescent hours tanning by the light of the monitor, but that doesn't exactly make them the next coming of Hannibal Lecter.

There were some bits of mischief. Several hotel rooms were trashed and windows broken amid the post-pubescent revelry. Also, conventioneers discovered the radio frequency of the hotel security system, then used their own walkie-talkies to request that security personnel be sent all over the building. Hotel security figured out what was happening and ignored the requests.

"Then it just went away," said Joe Gruszka, a security officer at the Plaza Hotel, where Def Con is being held. "Now, every once in a while, we just hear giggling, that sort of thing."

Giggling over walkie-talkies? How can the Pentagon ever expect to protect itself?

This is not to say that Def Con is devoid of more troubling impulses. Many here would clearly like the bragging rights granted to the discoverer of some new hack (known as an "exploit") that can be used to infiltrate critical corporate or government computers. Def Con founder Jeff Moss said that the convention has its share of "malicious" hackers.

The formal proceedings include talks on "hacking into the travel industry" and creating a false identity, plus an extensive session on how to pick locks.

And on Monday, Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the oldest and most respected hacking groups, plans to give out free copies of a program it claims can be used to hack into a Windows 95 or 98 computer from a remote location and essentially take control of it.

But Moss and others make a key, sometimes tricky, distinction: they say hackers, by definition, relish the pursuit of information, including how systems work and how they can be made not to work. But they are different from "crackers," whose overriding purpose is to hack into computer systems and destroy them.

For instance, the members of Cult of the Dead Cow defend their exploitation of a security flaw in Windows on the basis that they are pointing out a dangerous problem with the software, and also providing a possible tool. "There is a legitimate use for this as a network management tool," said a Dead Cow member, who goes by the hacker handle "Death Veggie."

Kim Kulish/SABA for Cybertimes

Hackers going by the handles of "Paydro", (L), Sloth and Spew, attended Def Con 6.0 convention in Las Vegas.

The convention undermines other hacker stereotypes. Moss, for example, is clean-cut, well-spoken and only a couple of cheekbones away from appearing in a J. Crew spread -- hardly the acne-scarred and tattooed misanthrope of hacker legend.

The trouble is, while most of the hackers vigorously denounce the media for mischaracterizing their behavior as nefarious, they also want to reinforce the mythology surrounding their craft. A handful of the younger ones, in particular, can be heard pointing out the likely "feds" in the crowd, and stating with melodrama thick as a malted milk that they would rather not discuss the illegal hacks they may or may not have perpetrated.

But the reverence for the mystique is nowhere more apparent than in their self-selected hacker handles. Some of the hackers treat their monikers like hard-earned honorifics, and they use them whenever possible. The name tags read like graffiti tags: Freaky, Phraud, Sloth, Paydro, Heph, Unix64. The bearers of these handles all declined to disclose the name that appears on their drivers licenses, presuming they are old enough to have one.

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"Spew," when asked how he got his name, said, "I've had it for a long time." Spew drove to Def Con from Sacramento, Calif., with Sloth and Paydro. All three are 17-year-old high-school seniors. Spew did say, though, that he was really just along for the ride. "Really, I'm more into playing games," Spew said shyly. "These guys make fun of me all the time 'cause I use Windows 95."

Aside from learning about the newest technology and hacking techniques, many hackers come here to meet friends they have previously met only online.

For example, Heph, an 18-year-old junior college student from Los Angeles, and Unix64, a 16-year-old from Scottsdale, Ariz., have over the last two years become virtual best friends through an online discussion system called Internet Relay Chat. They talk all the time online, but each managed to convince his parents to visit Las Vegas this summer so they could meet in person and attend Def Con.

After they met on Friday morning, it was on to the serious stuff: hearing from established hackers about how to expand their knowledge of the Unix operating system.

"I am SO into Unix," said Unix64, clad in an Arizona State University baseball cap and "South Park" T-shirt. "I'm here to sit in on the lectures and have fun. Mostly what's fun for me is learning."

Unix64 had better be careful. He'll give Def Con a bad name.