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silveradeptHello, everyone! Let's start with some thoughtful things involving legalese and licensing. F'rex, the impermanent nature of the Internet makes it difficult for someone to prove that something that was Creative Commons, which can lead to some odd e-mail exchanges. Additionally, a service not to use, because their TOS basically makes it the easiest option to be scammed and pay a dishonest person rather than fight or dispute any issues. Finally, copyright trolls demand the IP addresses of those visitng blogs calling them out as copyright trolls and people with a vested self-interest in finding as many copyright violators as they can manufacture claim that game mods are copyrighted television shows. Of course, their system was put into place anyway.
The more data people concentrate in one place, like Facebook, the more Facebook can show off just what someone can learn about you with the right searches of that data. And even if you're on privacy lockdown, everyone else in your life might be sharing all that data you don't want shared anyway, and may have been doing so before you were old enough to sign up for a social media service.
The next time that there's a book on the shelf in the right place at your local library, thank the Tech Services people as well as your desk staff - the dedication of the Tech Services staff is what allows the front-line staff to have confidence that everything is in its place and cataloged correctly.
In historical news, A War of the Worlds-style invasion of Winnipeg, with the intent of selling war bonds for World War II.
Last out - the importance of having books that contain people that look like you and have situations like yours. Especially for teenagers who are often looking to find themselves in their literature.
Out in the world today, someone attempted to infiltrate the Vatican and observe the workings of the cardinals choosing a new Bishop of Rome, but was caught and escorted away before he could get any information. Although he tried very hard to pass himself off as a bishop. Perhaps the new pontiff will consider actually implementing all of the Second Vatican Council's recommendations? On the other end of the spectrum, a fifteen year-old girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because she said that she was sexually assaulted by her stepfather. Because admitting to being raped is confessing to "fornication" in the Maldives, apparently.
A cat cafe in London, so that people can get their kitty fix even if they can't have a kitten of their own.
Inside the United States, even back in 2012, we knew that most money in entitlement programs goes to people who are old, disabled, or working-class - so when a Republican tells you that "entitlements are out of control" or wants to scare you with stories of "welfare queens" in whatever guise they're shooting for this year, tell them that more than 90 percent of entitlement dollars go to people who deserve it by their own definition, and that they should really look into all the welfare they're giving to the rich and their corporations in the form of tax breaks. Please also inform them that requiring the poor to submit to invasive actions because they are poor is very, very problematic.
Having blocked her to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren is now putting the screws to regulators and government officials as a Senator. If this is the precedent, there's only one thing to say. Suckers! By the way, did we mention that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at a record high? Apparently, corporations are doing gangbusters still. Perhaps at some point, they'll use that wonderful amount of profit to help their workers? We're certainly not doing anything to try and force that outcome right now.
Hell, we can't even avoid self-imposed stupidity. The kind that Jon Stewart calls fucking incompetence. For a sampling, this is what the stupid looks like in California [PDF]. And have a look at how the sequester hurts people who are looking to recover from addiction, which, like a lot of government spending, often pays greater dividends in savings over the long term.
The conservative movement took offense to the idea that men are the people who should be told not to rape, claiming, instead, that women should just arm themselves against attackers. (Who are, incidentally, people that those women know and trust.) Here's the rub - you don't get to dictate what a woman does with her relationships, no matter how much you disapprove.
Last out, a waitress at an Applebee's found herself serving the person that had her stolen identification. She called the police and the thieves were arrested.
In technology, the satirical strikes scientific - Overly Honest Methods of Science.
Elsewhere, drawing the floorplans of fictional residences, which shows you just how big supposedly small apartments can be when they're on TV.
A significant amount of number-crunching and studies suggests that leaded gasoline might have been responsible for crime rate increases in the last few decades...and then the widespread adoption of unleaded gas might have been responsible for crime rates going down. Which, I suppose, is comforting, now that the lower receiver of a gun (which is normally subject to regulation) has been reverse-engineered, and then three-dimensionally printed to the ability of firing more than 600 rounds.
A compelling reason for a space program - to map out the large chunks of space rock that can kill or severely hurt humanity, and figure out whether or not Terra is going to hit them.
A person in North Las Vegas is the unfortunate victim of a Sprint bug that pinpoints the GPS signals of lost phones at his house. Even though the phones in question are nowhere near him. And this has happened in cases of 911 calls as well, which has brough armed police responses to his house. Thankfully, he hasn't been shot over them.
Last out, the reason why one needs science education - a state lawmaker in Washington claimed biking was worse for the environment, in terms of greenhouse gas production, than cars, because cyclists breathe harder when they exert themselves.
Into opinions, why criminal background checks should not be a blanket requirement to obtain employment in all industries - they tend to discriminate against people, and your employer doesn't always deserve to know that information about you.
Another suggestion that in-person institutions of higher learning need to figure out what is actually valuable about their experience and provide that at a cost comparable to on-line courses. Otherwise, the in-person educational experience will quickly price itself out of the range of even the most ruinous student loans. And the experience won't be as helpful as the online courses, too. Which, if it's all just about learning, makes sense. If, however, it's not just about shoveling information to as many people as possible, but about other things, then the in-person college and university still has value.
Chainging one's name is more of a woe-and-spiders proposition in the United States than it needs to be, so talking about whether doing the change is feminist or not is useful, but not the main issue. Elsewhere, if you're trying to appeal to not-normally-part of your demographic group, your adverts should probably not try to reinforce cultural stereotypes that discourage those people not of your demographic group from trying your product.
Do not annoy the librarians. Lest they do something like neglect to fully explain the distinctions between traditional publishing, self-publishing, and vanity presses.
Last out, twenty minutes worth your time - how video games have tended to make women into Damsels in Distress. And the realization that romantic comedies have had difficulty being good movies, because the things that would normally be insurmountable barriers are now laughably easy to overcome. Or perhaps because society hasn't gotten any better, and we're getting tired of the plots of rom coms still being relevant to our lives. Your choice.
Last out for tonight, an image captured shows the juxtaposition of the innocent and the symobls of hate, which then resurfaced later on as an image to help fight hate in modern times. (And The Beatles playing Carnegie Hall, and the songwriter that inspied the Beatles.)
The more data people concentrate in one place, like Facebook, the more Facebook can show off just what someone can learn about you with the right searches of that data. And even if you're on privacy lockdown, everyone else in your life might be sharing all that data you don't want shared anyway, and may have been doing so before you were old enough to sign up for a social media service.
The next time that there's a book on the shelf in the right place at your local library, thank the Tech Services people as well as your desk staff - the dedication of the Tech Services staff is what allows the front-line staff to have confidence that everything is in its place and cataloged correctly.
In historical news, A War of the Worlds-style invasion of Winnipeg, with the intent of selling war bonds for World War II.
Last out - the importance of having books that contain people that look like you and have situations like yours. Especially for teenagers who are often looking to find themselves in their literature.
Out in the world today, someone attempted to infiltrate the Vatican and observe the workings of the cardinals choosing a new Bishop of Rome, but was caught and escorted away before he could get any information. Although he tried very hard to pass himself off as a bishop. Perhaps the new pontiff will consider actually implementing all of the Second Vatican Council's recommendations? On the other end of the spectrum, a fifteen year-old girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because she said that she was sexually assaulted by her stepfather. Because admitting to being raped is confessing to "fornication" in the Maldives, apparently.
A cat cafe in London, so that people can get their kitty fix even if they can't have a kitten of their own.
Inside the United States, even back in 2012, we knew that most money in entitlement programs goes to people who are old, disabled, or working-class - so when a Republican tells you that "entitlements are out of control" or wants to scare you with stories of "welfare queens" in whatever guise they're shooting for this year, tell them that more than 90 percent of entitlement dollars go to people who deserve it by their own definition, and that they should really look into all the welfare they're giving to the rich and their corporations in the form of tax breaks. Please also inform them that requiring the poor to submit to invasive actions because they are poor is very, very problematic.
Having blocked her to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren is now putting the screws to regulators and government officials as a Senator. If this is the precedent, there's only one thing to say. Suckers! By the way, did we mention that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was at a record high? Apparently, corporations are doing gangbusters still. Perhaps at some point, they'll use that wonderful amount of profit to help their workers? We're certainly not doing anything to try and force that outcome right now.
Hell, we can't even avoid self-imposed stupidity. The kind that Jon Stewart calls fucking incompetence. For a sampling, this is what the stupid looks like in California [PDF]. And have a look at how the sequester hurts people who are looking to recover from addiction, which, like a lot of government spending, often pays greater dividends in savings over the long term.
The conservative movement took offense to the idea that men are the people who should be told not to rape, claiming, instead, that women should just arm themselves against attackers. (Who are, incidentally, people that those women know and trust.) Here's the rub - you don't get to dictate what a woman does with her relationships, no matter how much you disapprove.
Last out, a waitress at an Applebee's found herself serving the person that had her stolen identification. She called the police and the thieves were arrested.
In technology, the satirical strikes scientific - Overly Honest Methods of Science.
Elsewhere, drawing the floorplans of fictional residences, which shows you just how big supposedly small apartments can be when they're on TV.
A significant amount of number-crunching and studies suggests that leaded gasoline might have been responsible for crime rate increases in the last few decades...and then the widespread adoption of unleaded gas might have been responsible for crime rates going down. Which, I suppose, is comforting, now that the lower receiver of a gun (which is normally subject to regulation) has been reverse-engineered, and then three-dimensionally printed to the ability of firing more than 600 rounds.
A compelling reason for a space program - to map out the large chunks of space rock that can kill or severely hurt humanity, and figure out whether or not Terra is going to hit them.
A person in North Las Vegas is the unfortunate victim of a Sprint bug that pinpoints the GPS signals of lost phones at his house. Even though the phones in question are nowhere near him. And this has happened in cases of 911 calls as well, which has brough armed police responses to his house. Thankfully, he hasn't been shot over them.
Last out, the reason why one needs science education - a state lawmaker in Washington claimed biking was worse for the environment, in terms of greenhouse gas production, than cars, because cyclists breathe harder when they exert themselves.
Into opinions, why criminal background checks should not be a blanket requirement to obtain employment in all industries - they tend to discriminate against people, and your employer doesn't always deserve to know that information about you.
Another suggestion that in-person institutions of higher learning need to figure out what is actually valuable about their experience and provide that at a cost comparable to on-line courses. Otherwise, the in-person educational experience will quickly price itself out of the range of even the most ruinous student loans. And the experience won't be as helpful as the online courses, too. Which, if it's all just about learning, makes sense. If, however, it's not just about shoveling information to as many people as possible, but about other things, then the in-person college and university still has value.
Chainging one's name is more of a woe-and-spiders proposition in the United States than it needs to be, so talking about whether doing the change is feminist or not is useful, but not the main issue. Elsewhere, if you're trying to appeal to not-normally-part of your demographic group, your adverts should probably not try to reinforce cultural stereotypes that discourage those people not of your demographic group from trying your product.
Do not annoy the librarians. Lest they do something like neglect to fully explain the distinctions between traditional publishing, self-publishing, and vanity presses.
Last out, twenty minutes worth your time - how video games have tended to make women into Damsels in Distress. And the realization that romantic comedies have had difficulty being good movies, because the things that would normally be insurmountable barriers are now laughably easy to overcome. Or perhaps because society hasn't gotten any better, and we're getting tired of the plots of rom coms still being relevant to our lives. Your choice.
Last out for tonight, an image captured shows the juxtaposition of the innocent and the symobls of hate, which then resurfaced later on as an image to help fight hate in modern times. (And The Beatles playing Carnegie Hall, and the songwriter that inspied the Beatles.)
