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And then some - 21 July 2010
Jul. 22nd, 2010 10:30 amWelcome aboard, people who could use a good laugh. Enjoy the story of someone attempting to image-manipulate themselves into charity work and forge documents from charities talking about how great he was...so he could avoid a longer prison sentence. The problem? He did it so poorly that it was spotted and he instead got extra charges of fraud added on. And then, much less funny, check out the BP photoshop job of its own command centers - another hacktastic job that even amateurs could spot was a fake.
Read well this article about the consequences of The Internet, the Elephant That Never Forgets, on people's work and social lives.
And then have a laugh about libraries and librarians, the next pop-culture wave after cupcakes - or something.
Out in the world today, after a largely symbolic visit to the demilitarized zone, Secretary of State Clinton pushed for greater sanctions against the North Korean government, intending them to return to talks that would peresuade them to give up their atomic ambitions. Additionally, the Secretary of State put pressure on Pakistan's government to divulge the location of Osama bin Laden, which she believes they have.
a quick snapshot of the differing ways the NATO forces and the Afghanistan Taliban treat their women.
Doemstically, the employee forced to resign far too hastily based on a selectively-edited video will receive an official apology, although she may not want to go back to her job when it is offered back to her. (I say "when" because it's the right thing to do, even if it is an "if" at the moment.) This is also the second time something like this has succeeded. First, The ACORN pimp, which caused a too-quick reaction, and now Brietbart proves that he can make powerful people panic on cue with selective editing. We can only hope that after having been fooled again, they finally let cooler heads ask for the full video before jumping to conclusions.
Or...they could start up with something else - now we have allegations that liberal journalists deliberately plotted to keep the heat off candidate Obama over the Jeremiah Wright jeremaiad.
In more serious news, Elena Kagan cleared the Senate Judiciary committee and is now on her way to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.
Technology! Adobe has finally decided to sandbox Reader so that people who distribute malicious code in PDFs don't have a convenient attack vector! What that means, of course, is that everyone will need to update again.
Into opinions, where Gaius Publius, still self-styled, puts up graphs showing that tax cuts to the rich do not stimulate the economy - the rich take the money that you gave them and they never give it back. Which then results in politicians making even more stupid decisions, like tearing up paved roads, to fix the budget crunch, always by cutting spending and not by raising revenues to match. Which, I suppose, shows off the brokenness of the system when there's a good chance if a tax is increased, those that it was designed to affect will find a way to not pay it. When, that is, they're nto trying to repeal them outright and in so doing, unravel any good work done on other things this year. But it's not really their fault. They've committed to the narrative that things like the health care bill are really just a bunch of unconstitutional taxes with no benefits to those paying those taxes, social contract or any charitable impulse be damned, and they have to ride it through, regardless of what other evidence appears to the contrary, and that the stimulus bill was not actually effective at doing its job, because we're not back to our glorious levels of 2006 through the magic of government spending. It's part of the bigger strategy to paint the President and his administration as flatly incompetent at everything they do as well as utterly entrenched in racism, willing to say anything to get elected, and more interested in scoring political points against the truth-telling Tea Partiers than in governance so they can be ushered out of office in the next Presidential election and we can go back to the good Republican ways of starting wars, giving tax breaks to the rich, and telling the poor they're lazy, whether they're employed or not.
Bitter, party of one. Perhaps because yesterday was a "saving the world" kind of day. Not one where I saved the world, but one where to balance out the stuff that happened, I probably would have needed to save the world. As it is, today's another day.
Read well this article about the consequences of The Internet, the Elephant That Never Forgets, on people's work and social lives.
And then have a laugh about libraries and librarians, the next pop-culture wave after cupcakes - or something.
Out in the world today, after a largely symbolic visit to the demilitarized zone, Secretary of State Clinton pushed for greater sanctions against the North Korean government, intending them to return to talks that would peresuade them to give up their atomic ambitions. Additionally, the Secretary of State put pressure on Pakistan's government to divulge the location of Osama bin Laden, which she believes they have.
a quick snapshot of the differing ways the NATO forces and the Afghanistan Taliban treat their women.
Doemstically, the employee forced to resign far too hastily based on a selectively-edited video will receive an official apology, although she may not want to go back to her job when it is offered back to her. (I say "when" because it's the right thing to do, even if it is an "if" at the moment.) This is also the second time something like this has succeeded. First, The ACORN pimp, which caused a too-quick reaction, and now Brietbart proves that he can make powerful people panic on cue with selective editing. We can only hope that after having been fooled again, they finally let cooler heads ask for the full video before jumping to conclusions.
Or...they could start up with something else - now we have allegations that liberal journalists deliberately plotted to keep the heat off candidate Obama over the Jeremiah Wright jeremaiad.
In more serious news, Elena Kagan cleared the Senate Judiciary committee and is now on her way to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.
Technology! Adobe has finally decided to sandbox Reader so that people who distribute malicious code in PDFs don't have a convenient attack vector! What that means, of course, is that everyone will need to update again.
Into opinions, where Gaius Publius, still self-styled, puts up graphs showing that tax cuts to the rich do not stimulate the economy - the rich take the money that you gave them and they never give it back. Which then results in politicians making even more stupid decisions, like tearing up paved roads, to fix the budget crunch, always by cutting spending and not by raising revenues to match. Which, I suppose, shows off the brokenness of the system when there's a good chance if a tax is increased, those that it was designed to affect will find a way to not pay it. When, that is, they're nto trying to repeal them outright and in so doing, unravel any good work done on other things this year. But it's not really their fault. They've committed to the narrative that things like the health care bill are really just a bunch of unconstitutional taxes with no benefits to those paying those taxes, social contract or any charitable impulse be damned, and they have to ride it through, regardless of what other evidence appears to the contrary, and that the stimulus bill was not actually effective at doing its job, because we're not back to our glorious levels of 2006 through the magic of government spending. It's part of the bigger strategy to paint the President and his administration as flatly incompetent at everything they do as well as utterly entrenched in racism, willing to say anything to get elected, and more interested in scoring political points against the truth-telling Tea Partiers than in governance so they can be ushered out of office in the next Presidential election and we can go back to the good Republican ways of starting wars, giving tax breaks to the rich, and telling the poor they're lazy, whether they're employed or not.
Bitter, party of one. Perhaps because yesterday was a "saving the world" kind of day. Not one where I saved the world, but one where to balance out the stuff that happened, I probably would have needed to save the world. As it is, today's another day.
