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Crash recovery. 1-31 October 02013
Nov. 2nd, 2013 08:52 amThey managed to avoid the debt ceiling, at least. But even woth the shutdown over, science is getting screwed by the sequester, which is still in effect. Which is a consequence of our current society, where understanding the scientific method is essential to functional democracy.
France prevents large retailers from driving out smaller bookshops by making sure they can't give deep discounts to gather business and buying high-rent buildings to rent out affordably to bookshops.
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis was required to sign an affadavit declaring she is the Wendy Davis on the voter rolls after the state of Texas deliberately made it harder for women to vote in retaliation for Wendy Davis declaring her intent to be governor. Now seems like a good time to say that the structures of evil are usually man-made, and therefore defeatable by people, even though it often seems like they are insurmountable to the single actor acting alone.
Staying in Texas, a federal judge injuncted the portion of Texas's abortion ban that required a doctor have admitting privileges at a local hospital to continue operation. And then a three-judge panel at the federal appeals level reversed the order, claiming the law served a medical purpose and didn't place an undue burden on the clinics, their doctors, or their patients. Which is entirely bullshit, but that's he United States - we are excellent at staring reality in the face and denying it exists, especially if that reality involves minorities or women.
CNN thinks it can generate a parody fake news show to drive up the network's ratings. Good luck trying, because Stewart and Colbert are he top of the game right now. Speaking of parody, Poe's Law makes it really damn difficult to do a satire of the current super-surveillance state, because the most outrageous thing that can be thought up keeps turning out to be reality.
Persons guided into or consistently choosing less risky investments may not be able to accumulate sufficient capital for a full retirement by the time the retirement age appears.
In tech, LinkedIn released an app for iProducts that provides LinkedIn data for people sending e-mail, but at the cost of rerouting all your mail through their servers. Which is very bad. It's a bad idea to give up control of your e-mail routing, no matter what the carrot is, for many reasons.
When not actively trying to get your information through nefarious means, some identity thieves just straight-up purchase your information from credit reporting agencies. At least one Senator wants answers from Experian on how they didn't flag the thieves as thieves. Of course, they do it the nefarious way, too, hacking services like LexisNexis through free accounts provided to law students, or stealing data from Adobe along with source code for programs like Photoshop.
Film and digital technology has caught up to being able to capture the nuances of darker skin as well as lighter skin.
It is possible to turn off all of the things that pull your Facebook account information when you go on the Internet. It will also disable any of those "log in with Facebook" items from effectiveness, but if you don't want those kinds of functions, you can turn the Platform off.
It is easier to do certain types of work depending on your mood. For detail work, grumpiness can be helpful, for creativity, optimism is useful. Of course, even if it does help, I'm not sure anyone wants to be in a perpetually unhappy state. To induce trustworthiness, apologize. Even for nonsensical things, like the rain.
Then, once you have gained trust, you can start to spread good ideas, as person-to-person is still the most effective way of communicating things.
Consuming popcorn during movie adverts may prevent them from effectively sticking in your brain.
Sleep is important, as it helps the brain get rid of waste products that it could not normally do while awake, because being awake is a resource-intensive activity.
Advice to writers about making their worlds feel real.
Numbers do not tell the entire story about everything, including why education scores seem to be better in other countries.
Last for tonight, a survival guide if one should realize one is in a horror story.
More seriously, an attempt at reframing the lens of depression to show the hope that is possible. Additionally, B vitamins may be able to help geat the mind in the right frame to see the hope.
France prevents large retailers from driving out smaller bookshops by making sure they can't give deep discounts to gather business and buying high-rent buildings to rent out affordably to bookshops.
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis was required to sign an affadavit declaring she is the Wendy Davis on the voter rolls after the state of Texas deliberately made it harder for women to vote in retaliation for Wendy Davis declaring her intent to be governor. Now seems like a good time to say that the structures of evil are usually man-made, and therefore defeatable by people, even though it often seems like they are insurmountable to the single actor acting alone.
Staying in Texas, a federal judge injuncted the portion of Texas's abortion ban that required a doctor have admitting privileges at a local hospital to continue operation. And then a three-judge panel at the federal appeals level reversed the order, claiming the law served a medical purpose and didn't place an undue burden on the clinics, their doctors, or their patients. Which is entirely bullshit, but that's he United States - we are excellent at staring reality in the face and denying it exists, especially if that reality involves minorities or women.
CNN thinks it can generate a parody fake news show to drive up the network's ratings. Good luck trying, because Stewart and Colbert are he top of the game right now. Speaking of parody, Poe's Law makes it really damn difficult to do a satire of the current super-surveillance state, because the most outrageous thing that can be thought up keeps turning out to be reality.
Persons guided into or consistently choosing less risky investments may not be able to accumulate sufficient capital for a full retirement by the time the retirement age appears.
In tech, LinkedIn released an app for iProducts that provides LinkedIn data for people sending e-mail, but at the cost of rerouting all your mail through their servers. Which is very bad. It's a bad idea to give up control of your e-mail routing, no matter what the carrot is, for many reasons.
When not actively trying to get your information through nefarious means, some identity thieves just straight-up purchase your information from credit reporting agencies. At least one Senator wants answers from Experian on how they didn't flag the thieves as thieves. Of course, they do it the nefarious way, too, hacking services like LexisNexis through free accounts provided to law students, or stealing data from Adobe along with source code for programs like Photoshop.
Film and digital technology has caught up to being able to capture the nuances of darker skin as well as lighter skin.
It is possible to turn off all of the things that pull your Facebook account information when you go on the Internet. It will also disable any of those "log in with Facebook" items from effectiveness, but if you don't want those kinds of functions, you can turn the Platform off.
It is easier to do certain types of work depending on your mood. For detail work, grumpiness can be helpful, for creativity, optimism is useful. Of course, even if it does help, I'm not sure anyone wants to be in a perpetually unhappy state. To induce trustworthiness, apologize. Even for nonsensical things, like the rain.
Then, once you have gained trust, you can start to spread good ideas, as person-to-person is still the most effective way of communicating things.
Consuming popcorn during movie adverts may prevent them from effectively sticking in your brain.
Sleep is important, as it helps the brain get rid of waste products that it could not normally do while awake, because being awake is a resource-intensive activity.
Advice to writers about making their worlds feel real.
Numbers do not tell the entire story about everything, including why education scores seem to be better in other countries.
Last for tonight, a survival guide if one should realize one is in a horror story.
More seriously, an attempt at reframing the lens of depression to show the hope that is possible. Additionally, B vitamins may be able to help geat the mind in the right frame to see the hope.
