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Going to bed before this - 29 April 2009
Apr. 30th, 2009 01:42 amGreetings. How’s everyone doing? From what I hear, if you open up support tickets with Mozilla, you might get a Scandinavian supermodel as your support helper. Or, you could get something more akin to Dominic Elvin. Your choice.
Mark another rainbow state! Connecticut joins the parade of homosexual-marriage-OK states by passing a law, bringing the state into alignment with an earlier court decision that indicated civil union law, already present in Connecticut, was insufficient. Connecticut also put in provisions into their law that said no religious organization has to take part or preside or do anything associated with honmosexual marriages, so that way nobody feels like they’re being forced to do something against their techings. As it should be. The religious groups can refuse, and the government, the people in charge of contracts and compacts, will license the applicants anyway.
Elsewhere in the world, people are attempting to generate dead pixels in Google Earth by burning an appropriate square patch in their lawns, School-age children are seeing ghosts, and pirates had another bad day on the seas, withRussia and the Seychelles each arresting suspected pirates.
Domestically, The New York Times are cowards for not calling torture torture. Their reasoning was that the Bush Administration didn’t call it that, so they didn’t, either, despite legal precedent, cases, and declarations by the government when referring to other countries’ usage of waterboarding as torture. This is the “he said, she said” bullshit that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bradhicks, krinndnz, The Gonzo Mehum, and others say is not journalism in any form, which should get to the truth and be unafraid to speak it. That a “paper of record” engages in this is part of the reason why newspapers are failing.
The defection of Senator Specter continues to generate rumbles of the holy grail of Senate power - 60 votes. Or, would be, again, if the entire bloc planned on voting as such a bloc to push through whatever Democratic agena is on the table. They won’t, and so calling the switch a threat to the country, as the Republican leader did is a rather bonheaded move, and only seeks to make the Republicans look more like a fringe party. While the WSJ has nothing but unkind words for the Senator's defection, believing it to be a matter of avoiding the Republican primary that he trails in, they also think the Republicans need not follow the path of purifying the party, because that way lies the permanent minority. Trying to inflame panic at uncontrolled liberals running roughshod until 2010 is also not wise.
In the opinions, The WSJ extends the "honeymoon" with Barack Obama up to the point when the real costs of his agenda become realized, at which point the populace will probably remove that approval rating he currently enjoys. They’re a bit envious that the liberals have their agenda and are looking to be able to pass it, I think. Or, perhaps they believe, as Ms. Rios does, that Democrats are attempting to take over the government and institute a totalitarian regime, similar to the ones in Latin American countries and of the dictators of the past, with the implication that the results will be the same - the opposition will be rendered voiceless and powerless, and nobody will be able to stand up to the evil liberals from here on out.
Mr. Jenkins squarely blames the governent and the UAW for the mess of the Big Three, believing that a buyout where the workers would own a significant portion of the company to be the method by which the UAW will continue to extract “uncompetitive” wages and the government will continue to shelter domestic autos rather than let them compete come to the natural conclusion that union workers are too expensive to be allowed to continue.
Ms. de Rugy and Ms. Norcross believe transparency in stimulus spending means accounting for every dime, including the ones spent for coffee, or that they believe were spent on coffee, and then letting the taxpayers and voters pore over this data to see where the wasteful spending is. Which makes me wonder - what will be considered “legitimate” spending? If an employee spends part of his paycheck on Starbucks, is that going to have to be reported?
Mr. Barone beleives he has a handle on the Obama administration - make us European - but he's unsure the populace wants to go along with it, because Mr. Obama will receive no benefits from this move, only detriments - more debt, rationed care, higher energy prices, loss of respect worldwide - and the populace knows this, so they don’t want to go. Have a mini-quiche with that and enjoy Mr. Dunham's belief that the Obama phase-out of charitable tax donations is one more way to attempt to saok the rich, and will take needed resources away from charities that need it the most, because people will stop giving if they don’t get a tax break for it, leaving the government (Who Cannot Do Anything Right) to fill the gap to everyone’s detriment.
Mr. Sowell goes one better by declaring the president a "glib and sophomoric narcissist" who bends over backward to let people who should be shot on sight back out into the world to continue their bad deeds. Because he should be holding them indefinitely under the idea that enemy combatants in a war don’t have to be released until after the war is done (and this one never will be) if he wants to be charitable, and playing completely not-nice with them, up to and including executions, if he’s not, and there should be no repercussions for that, because the captured are unredeemably Bad and Evil Men, so it’s not worth wasting effort on them. Bronze your quiche and share it with Ms. Saunders, who still believes that torture should be justified based on that it yielded useful results, and the hunt now is revenge because the practice of waterboarding already stopped long before the current President took office. Sorry, no statute of limitations on that one.
But the winnder of a golden quiche, set a-fire, and delivered at high velocity, is Representative Virginia Foxx, who did the comedian one better, going on the record to declare that Matthew Shepard's murder was simply the result of a robbery gone wrong, calling the homosexual-hatred motive "a hoax", despite the people who committed the crime confessing to hatred of homosexuals as the reason for their actions.
is still-unfunny comedian David Limbaugh, going for serious F.U.D. that federal hate crime legislation will be used to silence religious objections to homosexuality as hate speech. He points out the Perez Hilton/Carrie Prejean exchange as a true example of hate speech, putting forward the idea that Hilton probably cost Prejean the Miss America crown, all over her beliefs. There’s also a weak states’ rights argument in there that could have been developed into an actual critique, but it’s dismissed all too quickly in favor of going straight to the “They’re going to make it illegal for you to speak what you believe! Christians everywhere will be arrested for saying that homosexuality is an aberration and sinful!” line. Except for the part where he even admits that the legislation says you have to commit bodily harm (or try to do so, in the cases of guns or explosives) to be charged under it. Way to kill your own argument, David. Speech is still protected, demonstrators are still free to declare how much God Hates Fags, it’s just that now the federal government will prosecute when people get beaten and killed because someoe else found out they were homosexuals, instead of some of them potentially getting away because their state hasn’t decided that homosexuals are a class deserving protection from hate crimes, much like other minorities are.
In technology, a theory that claims to have unified the biology and physics of evolution under one set of arguments, digital warfare and defense are being steped up significantly, an automated process that can recognize and diagnose epilepsy from EEG readings, prototypes of optical invisibility cloaks, the opening salvo of the robot wars, or, Swedish company gets fined for robot malfunction, Ugolog, a site designed to help people set up and then view all their surveillance feeds in one spot, turning their webcameras into motion-detection cameras as well, and getting closer to the day where laser pulses can be used to control human behavior.
Last for tonight, also a technological story, but one where large amounts of human brainpower gets put to a task. Yes, it’s for the lulz. Anonymous strikes again, this time hacking an on-line "most influential" poll so as to put the 4chan founder on the top of the list and make an acrostic with the results underneath. Some more details of the precision and technical knowledge of the people doing the hacking versus the incompetence of Time at stopping them. This was an operation where a lot of people banded together to produce a desired result .IF it could be harnessed in any way, it wouldn’t be 4chan, really, but I think there’s another lesson, other than “Don’t trust on-line polls” that can be extracted here - poperly motivated, people will do awesome things, whether alone or in concert with others. If a company wants maximal productivity out of its workers, it should be able to tailor their work experiences in such a way so as to bring out maximal motivation for each of the workers and work-groups. Goodle has it figured otu they’re working on being sustainable, but they’ve got the idea - company time to personal projects, having noshables, big social spaces, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some workers at Google spend time hashing things out while network gaming or next to each other on the consoles. Innovation looks like goofing off a majority of the time, but it’s usually backgrounding a process so as not to think to hard about it.
To help them, consider lettign them sleep in. Apparently, those who rise later can be more productive because they can stay up longer without hitting mental faitgue.
Mark another rainbow state! Connecticut joins the parade of homosexual-marriage-OK states by passing a law, bringing the state into alignment with an earlier court decision that indicated civil union law, already present in Connecticut, was insufficient. Connecticut also put in provisions into their law that said no religious organization has to take part or preside or do anything associated with honmosexual marriages, so that way nobody feels like they’re being forced to do something against their techings. As it should be. The religious groups can refuse, and the government, the people in charge of contracts and compacts, will license the applicants anyway.
Elsewhere in the world, people are attempting to generate dead pixels in Google Earth by burning an appropriate square patch in their lawns, School-age children are seeing ghosts, and pirates had another bad day on the seas, withRussia and the Seychelles each arresting suspected pirates.
Domestically, The New York Times are cowards for not calling torture torture. Their reasoning was that the Bush Administration didn’t call it that, so they didn’t, either, despite legal precedent, cases, and declarations by the government when referring to other countries’ usage of waterboarding as torture. This is the “he said, she said” bullshit that
bradhicks, krinndnz, The Gonzo Mehum, and others say is not journalism in any form, which should get to the truth and be unafraid to speak it. That a “paper of record” engages in this is part of the reason why newspapers are failing.The defection of Senator Specter continues to generate rumbles of the holy grail of Senate power - 60 votes. Or, would be, again, if the entire bloc planned on voting as such a bloc to push through whatever Democratic agena is on the table. They won’t, and so calling the switch a threat to the country, as the Republican leader did is a rather bonheaded move, and only seeks to make the Republicans look more like a fringe party. While the WSJ has nothing but unkind words for the Senator's defection, believing it to be a matter of avoiding the Republican primary that he trails in, they also think the Republicans need not follow the path of purifying the party, because that way lies the permanent minority. Trying to inflame panic at uncontrolled liberals running roughshod until 2010 is also not wise.
In the opinions, The WSJ extends the "honeymoon" with Barack Obama up to the point when the real costs of his agenda become realized, at which point the populace will probably remove that approval rating he currently enjoys. They’re a bit envious that the liberals have their agenda and are looking to be able to pass it, I think. Or, perhaps they believe, as Ms. Rios does, that Democrats are attempting to take over the government and institute a totalitarian regime, similar to the ones in Latin American countries and of the dictators of the past, with the implication that the results will be the same - the opposition will be rendered voiceless and powerless, and nobody will be able to stand up to the evil liberals from here on out.
Mr. Jenkins squarely blames the governent and the UAW for the mess of the Big Three, believing that a buyout where the workers would own a significant portion of the company to be the method by which the UAW will continue to extract “uncompetitive” wages and the government will continue to shelter domestic autos rather than let them compete come to the natural conclusion that union workers are too expensive to be allowed to continue.
Ms. de Rugy and Ms. Norcross believe transparency in stimulus spending means accounting for every dime, including the ones spent for coffee, or that they believe were spent on coffee, and then letting the taxpayers and voters pore over this data to see where the wasteful spending is. Which makes me wonder - what will be considered “legitimate” spending? If an employee spends part of his paycheck on Starbucks, is that going to have to be reported?
Mr. Barone beleives he has a handle on the Obama administration - make us European - but he's unsure the populace wants to go along with it, because Mr. Obama will receive no benefits from this move, only detriments - more debt, rationed care, higher energy prices, loss of respect worldwide - and the populace knows this, so they don’t want to go. Have a mini-quiche with that and enjoy Mr. Dunham's belief that the Obama phase-out of charitable tax donations is one more way to attempt to saok the rich, and will take needed resources away from charities that need it the most, because people will stop giving if they don’t get a tax break for it, leaving the government (Who Cannot Do Anything Right) to fill the gap to everyone’s detriment.
Mr. Sowell goes one better by declaring the president a "glib and sophomoric narcissist" who bends over backward to let people who should be shot on sight back out into the world to continue their bad deeds. Because he should be holding them indefinitely under the idea that enemy combatants in a war don’t have to be released until after the war is done (and this one never will be) if he wants to be charitable, and playing completely not-nice with them, up to and including executions, if he’s not, and there should be no repercussions for that, because the captured are unredeemably Bad and Evil Men, so it’s not worth wasting effort on them. Bronze your quiche and share it with Ms. Saunders, who still believes that torture should be justified based on that it yielded useful results, and the hunt now is revenge because the practice of waterboarding already stopped long before the current President took office. Sorry, no statute of limitations on that one.
But the winnder of a golden quiche, set a-fire, and delivered at high velocity, is Representative Virginia Foxx, who did the comedian one better, going on the record to declare that Matthew Shepard's murder was simply the result of a robbery gone wrong, calling the homosexual-hatred motive "a hoax", despite the people who committed the crime confessing to hatred of homosexuals as the reason for their actions.
is still-unfunny comedian David Limbaugh, going for serious F.U.D. that federal hate crime legislation will be used to silence religious objections to homosexuality as hate speech. He points out the Perez Hilton/Carrie Prejean exchange as a true example of hate speech, putting forward the idea that Hilton probably cost Prejean the Miss America crown, all over her beliefs. There’s also a weak states’ rights argument in there that could have been developed into an actual critique, but it’s dismissed all too quickly in favor of going straight to the “They’re going to make it illegal for you to speak what you believe! Christians everywhere will be arrested for saying that homosexuality is an aberration and sinful!” line. Except for the part where he even admits that the legislation says you have to commit bodily harm (or try to do so, in the cases of guns or explosives) to be charged under it. Way to kill your own argument, David. Speech is still protected, demonstrators are still free to declare how much God Hates Fags, it’s just that now the federal government will prosecute when people get beaten and killed because someoe else found out they were homosexuals, instead of some of them potentially getting away because their state hasn’t decided that homosexuals are a class deserving protection from hate crimes, much like other minorities are.
In technology, a theory that claims to have unified the biology and physics of evolution under one set of arguments, digital warfare and defense are being steped up significantly, an automated process that can recognize and diagnose epilepsy from EEG readings, prototypes of optical invisibility cloaks, the opening salvo of the robot wars, or, Swedish company gets fined for robot malfunction, Ugolog, a site designed to help people set up and then view all their surveillance feeds in one spot, turning their webcameras into motion-detection cameras as well, and getting closer to the day where laser pulses can be used to control human behavior.
Last for tonight, also a technological story, but one where large amounts of human brainpower gets put to a task. Yes, it’s for the lulz. Anonymous strikes again, this time hacking an on-line "most influential" poll so as to put the 4chan founder on the top of the list and make an acrostic with the results underneath. Some more details of the precision and technical knowledge of the people doing the hacking versus the incompetence of Time at stopping them. This was an operation where a lot of people banded together to produce a desired result .IF it could be harnessed in any way, it wouldn’t be 4chan, really, but I think there’s another lesson, other than “Don’t trust on-line polls” that can be extracted here - poperly motivated, people will do awesome things, whether alone or in concert with others. If a company wants maximal productivity out of its workers, it should be able to tailor their work experiences in such a way so as to bring out maximal motivation for each of the workers and work-groups. Goodle has it figured otu they’re working on being sustainable, but they’ve got the idea - company time to personal projects, having noshables, big social spaces, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if some workers at Google spend time hashing things out while network gaming or next to each other on the consoles. Innovation looks like goofing off a majority of the time, but it’s usually backgrounding a process so as not to think to hard about it.
To help them, consider lettign them sleep in. Apparently, those who rise later can be more productive because they can stay up longer without hitting mental faitgue.
