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More material for you today - 7 July 2009
Jul. 8th, 2009 09:30 amGreetings, everyone. As part of our life in The Future, we have created such interesting innovations as "juice" boxes for parents that give them something to drink along with their children's high-sugar stuff (and this triggers a story about lime drink that only people in my family would be able to recall). We also have contests like wife-carrying, of which Finland has ended Estonia's terror reign by winning the contest this year.
Our Future selves also have the treat of viewing art made in the fields of rice paddies, art made by applying color to grown strains of bacteria in petri dishes, the cross graveyard - where all those signs that tell you you're going to hell go to die, and watching someone get full extension off their bike while in the middle of a backflip trick. Bet the judges gave really high marks for that trick.
Our Dead Pool bettors can cross Robert S. McNamara, one of the architects and chief supporters of the Vietnam War, off their list, as he died at 93 years of age.
Professionally speaking, one Judge Betts does not know copyright law in a decision to prevent the publication of "Coming Through The Rye: Sixty Years Later", a work which advances the main character of Catcher in the Rye sixty years of age and provides a new narrative. The claim that the work is a critical parody and that it doesn't quote from the material it was derived from should be enough to get it to publish, but aparently the similarities of narrative style was sufficient to order the new book banned. Well, if the bar gets lowered that far, then, expect very little to actually get published or made into a program in the United States, as everyone will be suing that it's a derivative work of something else.
Internationally, the Uighurs are at the center of violence between themselves and police forces, with more than 100 dead. Each side says the other started it.
The Pope issues an encyclical on economics and globalization, saying that profits should not become the end goal to the point of chewing up people, arguing in favor of government regulation, and asking people to keep in mind that humanity is a singular family, instead of several nation-states looking out for their own best interests at the expense of others.
Domestically, Delaware signs a law that makes discrimination against homosexuals in housing, insurance, and employment illegal. While there was some inappropriate discussion for the legislature during the crafting of the bill, everything went back on its proper course. This makes the Slacktivist happy that the headline does not print the same as it has for several years before now, as well as nailing the inherent contradiction of the Nice Guy (TM). We should be happy that so many states are catching up to the Century of the Fruitbat, despite the pople who don't want to be there, and subject their children to holding signs that express their parents's opinions. After all, it looks more and more like exclusive heterosexuality would be an aberration of nature, or a flaw in the great G-dly design.
A suspected serial killer terrorizing South Carolina has been shot and killed at a scene of one of his crimes.
Police are looking for the persons that stole 18 crocodiles from a farm.
In opinions, a plan from the UK's Conservatives to give people the option store their medical records with a private company like Google or Microsoft instead of the government-run national health database. Sure, that happens here in the States, because of our mishmash of private insurance companies and the like, but since when has anything about our health care system been worth emulating? And do we really want to deal with a fallout if Google or Microsoft leaks or accidentally indexes that data?
Mr. Wiesenthal tells us anyone thinking that cars have a nationality is silly - Toyota, for example, dominates the American car market, is traded as a company in America, makes cars in America and is definitely classified as a Japanese car.
An interesting snapshot of the populace - we all say we're watching what we spend and cutting back, but we also think we aren't forced to spend too much money to meet basic needs, and that we'll have enough to continue meeting those needs. There's still a significant percentage worried about whether or not they have enough to meet their needs, though. It's a fear of the employed - "well, so long as I keep my job, I have enough to meet my needs, maybe with a little belt-tightening." Gallup didn't ask whether people thought they'd be able to meet those needs if they lost their job. Or whether some of that money is being spent on credit, with defaults and delinquincies now at a much higher rate than ever, and will keep them locked in a debt cycle for quite some time.
The General has twelve (or maybe more, soon) examples of how liberal political correctness is keeping white men from achieving their rightful position, by doing pesky things like enforcing the law on those patriotic Americans.
The General also has a clarification from Governor Palin on the reasons for her resignation of her Governorship, as well as several threats to sue us if we pry into her reasons.
In competition for flaky pastrystuff, The Campaign For Liberty is probably doing things best left in private over the insertion of the entirety of an Audit the Fed bill from Ron Paul into an appropriations bill, and the subsequent stripping of that text, along with other audit requirements, once it was pointed out those aren't legal under the rules, either. It's become a "See? SEE? They're intentionally preventing us from passing our preferred agenda! We're being discriminated against! They're afraid! Pour on the pressure and make them do what we want anyway!"
Better than that by enough to win, The American Thinker uses the NYT rediscovery of a student paper on nuclear testing and test bans by the current President to insist that he hasn't changed from that position, and that all the grown-ups over here in the real world long since abandoned all those ideals, because Reality and the end of the Cold War (attributed to Reagan's massive defense spending) proved them wrong. So not only do they think the President is naive, they think he's "sophistic, jejune and purblind to everything isn't a neat fit into ideological cubby holes that haven't change in two decades", and surrounded by sycophants who tell him he's doing a great job with his decades-old thinking on nuclear tactics. Yes, Reagan's defense spending cracked the Soviet Union. Nothing else matters except that Reagan forced those dirty commies to spend more than they could afford on weapons. Plus, anyone who thinks we might be able to achieve an age where the world's governments have abandoned atomic weapons is just thinking fancifully and should be dissuaded of it immediately.
In technology, VW rolls out plans for an electric vehicle in four years, Facebook finds it has more 55-plus as the high school and college age target demographic shrinks, some Google apps, including GMail, so out of beta status, research underway to create an artificial nerve cell that can communivate using body neurotransmitters, mimicking bats in the newest generation of artificial fliers, making metamaterials that make it look like things aren't what's actually there, a request for better randomization of SSNs, based on recent successes at predicting what those numbers would be by security experts, and a spider that builds decoy objects into its web to attract prey.
Last for tonight, taking the idea of poisoned files that media cabals gave us, the No-Kids project offers what looks to be kiddie pr0n but instead sends files with a message to get counseling or help, and then tracks where those files are being downloaded from to generate a map.
The truly awesome, though, is this chart that tells us what programming is now available on alien television, if they've been monitoring our broadcasts (or are now just tuning in). The universe may not yet know about some of our triumphs (and some of our disasters.) Or they may have a really good idea of what we think is out there.
Our Future selves also have the treat of viewing art made in the fields of rice paddies, art made by applying color to grown strains of bacteria in petri dishes, the cross graveyard - where all those signs that tell you you're going to hell go to die, and watching someone get full extension off their bike while in the middle of a backflip trick. Bet the judges gave really high marks for that trick.
Our Dead Pool bettors can cross Robert S. McNamara, one of the architects and chief supporters of the Vietnam War, off their list, as he died at 93 years of age.
Professionally speaking, one Judge Betts does not know copyright law in a decision to prevent the publication of "Coming Through The Rye: Sixty Years Later", a work which advances the main character of Catcher in the Rye sixty years of age and provides a new narrative. The claim that the work is a critical parody and that it doesn't quote from the material it was derived from should be enough to get it to publish, but aparently the similarities of narrative style was sufficient to order the new book banned. Well, if the bar gets lowered that far, then, expect very little to actually get published or made into a program in the United States, as everyone will be suing that it's a derivative work of something else.
Internationally, the Uighurs are at the center of violence between themselves and police forces, with more than 100 dead. Each side says the other started it.
The Pope issues an encyclical on economics and globalization, saying that profits should not become the end goal to the point of chewing up people, arguing in favor of government regulation, and asking people to keep in mind that humanity is a singular family, instead of several nation-states looking out for their own best interests at the expense of others.
Domestically, Delaware signs a law that makes discrimination against homosexuals in housing, insurance, and employment illegal. While there was some inappropriate discussion for the legislature during the crafting of the bill, everything went back on its proper course. This makes the Slacktivist happy that the headline does not print the same as it has for several years before now, as well as nailing the inherent contradiction of the Nice Guy (TM). We should be happy that so many states are catching up to the Century of the Fruitbat, despite the pople who don't want to be there, and subject their children to holding signs that express their parents's opinions. After all, it looks more and more like exclusive heterosexuality would be an aberration of nature, or a flaw in the great G-dly design.
A suspected serial killer terrorizing South Carolina has been shot and killed at a scene of one of his crimes.
Police are looking for the persons that stole 18 crocodiles from a farm.
In opinions, a plan from the UK's Conservatives to give people the option store their medical records with a private company like Google or Microsoft instead of the government-run national health database. Sure, that happens here in the States, because of our mishmash of private insurance companies and the like, but since when has anything about our health care system been worth emulating? And do we really want to deal with a fallout if Google or Microsoft leaks or accidentally indexes that data?
Mr. Wiesenthal tells us anyone thinking that cars have a nationality is silly - Toyota, for example, dominates the American car market, is traded as a company in America, makes cars in America and is definitely classified as a Japanese car.
An interesting snapshot of the populace - we all say we're watching what we spend and cutting back, but we also think we aren't forced to spend too much money to meet basic needs, and that we'll have enough to continue meeting those needs. There's still a significant percentage worried about whether or not they have enough to meet their needs, though. It's a fear of the employed - "well, so long as I keep my job, I have enough to meet my needs, maybe with a little belt-tightening." Gallup didn't ask whether people thought they'd be able to meet those needs if they lost their job. Or whether some of that money is being spent on credit, with defaults and delinquincies now at a much higher rate than ever, and will keep them locked in a debt cycle for quite some time.
The General has twelve (or maybe more, soon) examples of how liberal political correctness is keeping white men from achieving their rightful position, by doing pesky things like enforcing the law on those patriotic Americans.
The General also has a clarification from Governor Palin on the reasons for her resignation of her Governorship, as well as several threats to sue us if we pry into her reasons.
In competition for flaky pastrystuff, The Campaign For Liberty is probably doing things best left in private over the insertion of the entirety of an Audit the Fed bill from Ron Paul into an appropriations bill, and the subsequent stripping of that text, along with other audit requirements, once it was pointed out those aren't legal under the rules, either. It's become a "See? SEE? They're intentionally preventing us from passing our preferred agenda! We're being discriminated against! They're afraid! Pour on the pressure and make them do what we want anyway!"
Better than that by enough to win, The American Thinker uses the NYT rediscovery of a student paper on nuclear testing and test bans by the current President to insist that he hasn't changed from that position, and that all the grown-ups over here in the real world long since abandoned all those ideals, because Reality and the end of the Cold War (attributed to Reagan's massive defense spending) proved them wrong. So not only do they think the President is naive, they think he's "sophistic, jejune and purblind to everything isn't a neat fit into ideological cubby holes that haven't change in two decades", and surrounded by sycophants who tell him he's doing a great job with his decades-old thinking on nuclear tactics. Yes, Reagan's defense spending cracked the Soviet Union. Nothing else matters except that Reagan forced those dirty commies to spend more than they could afford on weapons. Plus, anyone who thinks we might be able to achieve an age where the world's governments have abandoned atomic weapons is just thinking fancifully and should be dissuaded of it immediately.
In technology, VW rolls out plans for an electric vehicle in four years, Facebook finds it has more 55-plus as the high school and college age target demographic shrinks, some Google apps, including GMail, so out of beta status, research underway to create an artificial nerve cell that can communivate using body neurotransmitters, mimicking bats in the newest generation of artificial fliers, making metamaterials that make it look like things aren't what's actually there, a request for better randomization of SSNs, based on recent successes at predicting what those numbers would be by security experts, and a spider that builds decoy objects into its web to attract prey.
Last for tonight, taking the idea of poisoned files that media cabals gave us, the No-Kids project offers what looks to be kiddie pr0n but instead sends files with a message to get counseling or help, and then tracks where those files are being downloaded from to generate a map.
The truly awesome, though, is this chart that tells us what programming is now available on alien television, if they've been monitoring our broadcasts (or are now just tuning in). The universe may not yet know about some of our triumphs (and some of our disasters.) Or they may have a really good idea of what we think is out there.
