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Greetings all. Let us begin with Mr Snicket observing the occupation of Wall Street. From there, we go to an observation that calling the occupiers the children of Hippies is a compliment instead of a slur, especially when compared to what Wall Street has done compared to what Hippies wanted done. That doesn't stop the OWS movement from being called cowardly, unkempt, and composed of basically spoiled brats who act like boors and shout a lot.
Elsewhere, if you want to equip children for the new world, best that you teach them how to tell the difference between "truth" and "truthiness". Additionally, a question that more people should be asking at all times of the day - Should I go the f*** to the library? The answer to that question, more often than not, is "YES. Go The F**k To The Library." Read, of course, in your very best Samuel L. Jackson impersonation.
Please write meaningful link text. Hopefully, the links in these posts follow the best practice design of having link text that is descriptive enough to be found at a scan...even if the volume of material is overwhelming.
Finally, a letter from one Mr. Stephen Fry about how one's moods are often analagous to the weather - both in how much control one has over their changing and how one can enjoy the good days and acknowledge the bad, and a similar letter from Mr. Paul Banks as encouragement to a fan that wrote him about her depression.
Out in the world today, systems analyss suggest that a small number of companies have disproportionate amounts of control over the world.
Gaddafi is dead, afterhaving been deposed earlier. Beaten, bloodied, and killed. Now, what does Libya do in his absence? (We don't know. Here in America, some are clamoring for an apology from the UN for having supported Gaddafi.) If you believe conservative commentary, panic, because Libya's going to the Bloodthirsty Religion as yet another casualty of the Arab Spring and the power void left behind by the dictator.
Iran's Supreme Leader has suggested the position of the President of Iran can be removed at his whim, as a pointed reminder of who is Actually In Charge.
The President of Afghanistan said that they would side with Pakistan over the United States should the U.S. and Pakistan formally declare a war on each other.
The United States asked its Syrian ambassadr to come home to discuss strategy and issues arising from what the U.S. government believes are credible threats against the ambassador's safety. In response, Syria's ambassador to the U.S. was also asked to go home.
A faction of Anonymous took down an entire darknet of child prnography using onion-routing software to hide themselves from the Internet at large. The reach of Anonymous is great - one must hope, I think, to avoid their Eye if one wishes to stay on the Internet.
Last for tonight, The United States announced that they will stick to the timetable previously announced by the previous administration and get all of their troops out of Iraq at the end of the year. Cue the accusations of surrender and defeat of the United States and the rise of Iran and insistence that the nine years that have been spent in Iraq have not been long enough to accomplish U.S. ends there in building a friendly government that can defend U.S. interests against others in the region. They will be bolstered by friendly articles dedicated to officials that claim the same thing as their own viewpoint, whether political or in the military and claiming problems.
Domestically, one particular credit union in Washington has seen a giant increase in accounts and assets, to the point where it will take losses from having its debit card fees cut down due to such large amounts of assets. Said credit union said they won't raise any other fees to compensate for this. If you want to tell the multinational corporate banks that screwed the economy to get frakked, consider a credit union nearby. You can usually get a major credit card from them, and their rates are better than others, both in paying to savings and in charging for loans.
And if you wanted a reason for it, take a look at this - Bank of America wants to move their junk derivatives into another of their company that has savings backed by deposit insurance, so that when the derivatives collapse, the creditors grab assets backed by deposit insurance, which the government will have to make good on. The FDIC is understandably pissed off about this and would not like to see it happen.
Mr. Huntsman, Republican candidate, suggests what a lot of people were clamoring for at the beginning of the financial crisis - banks and other large institutions should fail if they make stupid decisions.
Elsewhere, a reminder of an obvious consequence of severe immigration policies - farmers can't find enough workers to harvest the crops in the fields - and they find that unemployed Americans can't do the work, so they have to use convict labor now that the immigration pool has dried up.
The state of Louisiana has banned the use of cash in the buying and selling of secondhand goods, in an attempt to prevent criminals from selling their stolen goods for quick amounts of untraceable cash. Of course, a lot of legitimate sellers are getting caught up in this, too, but anyone objecting to that must be in league with the criminals, right?
On the matter of the Occupy movements (although there's a case to be said to call them the Decolonize movements, instead), police in Oakland fired tear gas and rubber bullets on the encampment in an ultimately successful attempt to clear it out and dismantle the protests. Elsewhere in the country, the Bureau of Prisons is experimenting with social isolation prisons, made chiefly of Muslim prisoners, because All Muslims Are Terrorists, and so they're the natural fit for testing what are ostensibly Terrorist Isolation Prison experiments.
In tech, data security experts in Europe suggest that cloud computing is insufficiently secure to be compliant with data protection laws present in much of the Eurozone. And then others demonstrate that security in the cloud is not exactly up to the standard.
Consider the possibility of books as by-products or artifacts of a conversation/argument/debate, because debates and arguments and public events are how ideas tend to spread, and books are fairly static and don't lend well to going viral without significant compression of their text, often into a distorted soundbite. With the way ideas are moving forward, our books might end up being the transcripts of the discussion, perhaps edited a bit for readbility and flow, but otherwise the archive of the evolving conversation. Our books might go back to being records of, well, Socratic activities. (Nice big full circle thing going on there.)
In opinions, Mr. Bennett believes that we have forgotten how to raise Proper Manly Men, because women are getting all the education, fathers aren't getting married to mothers, and nobody has (Christian) religion as a solid moral grounding any more. The pillars of the Past That Never Was are pointed to as the way to fix the future and take it back from the women! (Even if that's not his intended message, it's pretty much the gist, as I read it.) Mr. Pendry is far more explicit about the need to go back to the Time That Never Was, when Christian morality ruled, Communism was denounced as evil, and everyone was ruggedly Galt-like individuals who only accepted the barest minimum of government control.
Mr. Shapiro blames the NBA Players Union for the possibility of a lockout, pointing out all the money stupidity he can see, how it's no business of the players what the owners want to do, since its the owners money that makes the league go around, and I wonder whether he hopes you'll generalize that into not liking unions at all.
Mr. Sabato blames Florida moving up their candidate-picking as the reason why we have such long campaign seasons, both now and in 1972, when they did it to help Jimmy Carter. Mr. Barnes says television gives the mid-tier and never-going-to-win candidates free exposure and no incentive to drop from the race once its apparent they're going nowhere, as well as allowing the incumbent to get free strategy advice and see the weaknesses of potential challengers. Unless, that is, you're Herman Cain, and in a Republican field that doesn't want to choose their frontrunner, but doesn't want to choose anyone else, and then you can go from zero to hero in 9-9-9 flat (or, if you're poor, 9-0-9 flat, leaving the regressive taxes in place and getting rid of the progressive ones) and force other candidates to go the flat tax route to try and claim some of that space. Ms. Noonan believes all the fighting in the debates is showing off the vitality of the Republican Party and positioning them well for the general debates.
On the need for the Occupy/Decolonize movements to expand worldwide, but also to mutate and adapt to the local conditions they face upon arrival, so as to present a meaningful message to the powers that be. That way, they can fight the message that says reducing the taxes of the richest people actually increases revenue for the government to spend, and is better for everyone all around. You know, "a rising tide lifts all boats" and all that. There's also the message that suggests that government's growth is the root cause of the economic problems, rather than any activity by Wall Street which needs to be fought as well.
The Washington Post fact-checks Mr. Biden's assertion that lower police forces result in higher crimes, and finds that the numbers don't quite add up to the claims made - although that's not to say that all of the crimes have gone down.
The editors of the WSJ laugh at the federal government's relaunch of a jobs website, because they take pleasure in pointing out the servers allocated to the task weren't enough to handle the load.
Last for tonight, Mr. Pendry accuses Occupy Wall Street of being Communists that want to kill Americans, compares Iraq to Vietnam in being military victories snatched away by politicians, and claims the world is going to hell in a handbasket, all because of liberals.
Last for tonight, it's still no secret that women in video games are often designed as much for their...animations as they are their character designs. Having women on the design and art team helps to avoid the trope, but it apparently can still show up a lot when the characters aren't the leads.
Then the need to avoid racal stereotypes in Costume Day outfits. Because the people whose culture is being appropriated, generally speaking, don't appreciate it.
Elsewhere, if you want to equip children for the new world, best that you teach them how to tell the difference between "truth" and "truthiness". Additionally, a question that more people should be asking at all times of the day - Should I go the f*** to the library? The answer to that question, more often than not, is "YES. Go The F**k To The Library." Read, of course, in your very best Samuel L. Jackson impersonation.
Please write meaningful link text. Hopefully, the links in these posts follow the best practice design of having link text that is descriptive enough to be found at a scan...even if the volume of material is overwhelming.
Finally, a letter from one Mr. Stephen Fry about how one's moods are often analagous to the weather - both in how much control one has over their changing and how one can enjoy the good days and acknowledge the bad, and a similar letter from Mr. Paul Banks as encouragement to a fan that wrote him about her depression.
Out in the world today, systems analyss suggest that a small number of companies have disproportionate amounts of control over the world.
Gaddafi is dead, afterhaving been deposed earlier. Beaten, bloodied, and killed. Now, what does Libya do in his absence? (We don't know. Here in America, some are clamoring for an apology from the UN for having supported Gaddafi.) If you believe conservative commentary, panic, because Libya's going to the Bloodthirsty Religion as yet another casualty of the Arab Spring and the power void left behind by the dictator.
Iran's Supreme Leader has suggested the position of the President of Iran can be removed at his whim, as a pointed reminder of who is Actually In Charge.
The President of Afghanistan said that they would side with Pakistan over the United States should the U.S. and Pakistan formally declare a war on each other.
The United States asked its Syrian ambassadr to come home to discuss strategy and issues arising from what the U.S. government believes are credible threats against the ambassador's safety. In response, Syria's ambassador to the U.S. was also asked to go home.
A faction of Anonymous took down an entire darknet of child prnography using onion-routing software to hide themselves from the Internet at large. The reach of Anonymous is great - one must hope, I think, to avoid their Eye if one wishes to stay on the Internet.
Last for tonight, The United States announced that they will stick to the timetable previously announced by the previous administration and get all of their troops out of Iraq at the end of the year. Cue the accusations of surrender and defeat of the United States and the rise of Iran and insistence that the nine years that have been spent in Iraq have not been long enough to accomplish U.S. ends there in building a friendly government that can defend U.S. interests against others in the region. They will be bolstered by friendly articles dedicated to officials that claim the same thing as their own viewpoint, whether political or in the military and claiming problems.
Domestically, one particular credit union in Washington has seen a giant increase in accounts and assets, to the point where it will take losses from having its debit card fees cut down due to such large amounts of assets. Said credit union said they won't raise any other fees to compensate for this. If you want to tell the multinational corporate banks that screwed the economy to get frakked, consider a credit union nearby. You can usually get a major credit card from them, and their rates are better than others, both in paying to savings and in charging for loans.
And if you wanted a reason for it, take a look at this - Bank of America wants to move their junk derivatives into another of their company that has savings backed by deposit insurance, so that when the derivatives collapse, the creditors grab assets backed by deposit insurance, which the government will have to make good on. The FDIC is understandably pissed off about this and would not like to see it happen.
Mr. Huntsman, Republican candidate, suggests what a lot of people were clamoring for at the beginning of the financial crisis - banks and other large institutions should fail if they make stupid decisions.
Elsewhere, a reminder of an obvious consequence of severe immigration policies - farmers can't find enough workers to harvest the crops in the fields - and they find that unemployed Americans can't do the work, so they have to use convict labor now that the immigration pool has dried up.
The state of Louisiana has banned the use of cash in the buying and selling of secondhand goods, in an attempt to prevent criminals from selling their stolen goods for quick amounts of untraceable cash. Of course, a lot of legitimate sellers are getting caught up in this, too, but anyone objecting to that must be in league with the criminals, right?
On the matter of the Occupy movements (although there's a case to be said to call them the Decolonize movements, instead), police in Oakland fired tear gas and rubber bullets on the encampment in an ultimately successful attempt to clear it out and dismantle the protests. Elsewhere in the country, the Bureau of Prisons is experimenting with social isolation prisons, made chiefly of Muslim prisoners, because All Muslims Are Terrorists, and so they're the natural fit for testing what are ostensibly Terrorist Isolation Prison experiments.
In tech, data security experts in Europe suggest that cloud computing is insufficiently secure to be compliant with data protection laws present in much of the Eurozone. And then others demonstrate that security in the cloud is not exactly up to the standard.
Consider the possibility of books as by-products or artifacts of a conversation/argument/debate, because debates and arguments and public events are how ideas tend to spread, and books are fairly static and don't lend well to going viral without significant compression of their text, often into a distorted soundbite. With the way ideas are moving forward, our books might end up being the transcripts of the discussion, perhaps edited a bit for readbility and flow, but otherwise the archive of the evolving conversation. Our books might go back to being records of, well, Socratic activities. (Nice big full circle thing going on there.)
In opinions, Mr. Bennett believes that we have forgotten how to raise Proper Manly Men, because women are getting all the education, fathers aren't getting married to mothers, and nobody has (Christian) religion as a solid moral grounding any more. The pillars of the Past That Never Was are pointed to as the way to fix the future and take it back from the women! (Even if that's not his intended message, it's pretty much the gist, as I read it.) Mr. Pendry is far more explicit about the need to go back to the Time That Never Was, when Christian morality ruled, Communism was denounced as evil, and everyone was ruggedly Galt-like individuals who only accepted the barest minimum of government control.
Mr. Shapiro blames the NBA Players Union for the possibility of a lockout, pointing out all the money stupidity he can see, how it's no business of the players what the owners want to do, since its the owners money that makes the league go around, and I wonder whether he hopes you'll generalize that into not liking unions at all.
Mr. Sabato blames Florida moving up their candidate-picking as the reason why we have such long campaign seasons, both now and in 1972, when they did it to help Jimmy Carter. Mr. Barnes says television gives the mid-tier and never-going-to-win candidates free exposure and no incentive to drop from the race once its apparent they're going nowhere, as well as allowing the incumbent to get free strategy advice and see the weaknesses of potential challengers. Unless, that is, you're Herman Cain, and in a Republican field that doesn't want to choose their frontrunner, but doesn't want to choose anyone else, and then you can go from zero to hero in 9-9-9 flat (or, if you're poor, 9-0-9 flat, leaving the regressive taxes in place and getting rid of the progressive ones) and force other candidates to go the flat tax route to try and claim some of that space. Ms. Noonan believes all the fighting in the debates is showing off the vitality of the Republican Party and positioning them well for the general debates.
On the need for the Occupy/Decolonize movements to expand worldwide, but also to mutate and adapt to the local conditions they face upon arrival, so as to present a meaningful message to the powers that be. That way, they can fight the message that says reducing the taxes of the richest people actually increases revenue for the government to spend, and is better for everyone all around. You know, "a rising tide lifts all boats" and all that. There's also the message that suggests that government's growth is the root cause of the economic problems, rather than any activity by Wall Street which needs to be fought as well.
The Washington Post fact-checks Mr. Biden's assertion that lower police forces result in higher crimes, and finds that the numbers don't quite add up to the claims made - although that's not to say that all of the crimes have gone down.
The editors of the WSJ laugh at the federal government's relaunch of a jobs website, because they take pleasure in pointing out the servers allocated to the task weren't enough to handle the load.
Last for tonight, Mr. Pendry accuses Occupy Wall Street of being Communists that want to kill Americans, compares Iraq to Vietnam in being military victories snatched away by politicians, and claims the world is going to hell in a handbasket, all because of liberals.
Last for tonight, it's still no secret that women in video games are often designed as much for their...animations as they are their character designs. Having women on the design and art team helps to avoid the trope, but it apparently can still show up a lot when the characters aren't the leads.
Then the need to avoid racal stereotypes in Costume Day outfits. Because the people whose culture is being appropriated, generally speaking, don't appreciate it.
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