- Remember those amazing glasses from They Live? They’re now in beta on Kickstarter. (Well, sorta. H/T MJR)
- Dems introduce an Internet Bill of Rights. Some of it’s excellent, some not. Methods for achieving it are likely to be maximum dubious.
- Bear Bussjaeger on Trump going ahead with the bump-stock ban, disregarding both physics and the will of those who know what they’re talking about and took the time to say so.
- The water crisis that may dwarf them all (and possibly explain a whole lot of problems, from soaring levels of autism to sinking fertility).
- At least one major police department tries to build an anti-SWATting tool.
- In a divorce, who gets the dog — and how has the jurisprudence on this issue evolved?
- Pix of things defying the law of gravity.
I trust Washington to protect my privacy from Silicon Valley – in some universe other than this one. In no universe at all do I expect help protecting my privacy from Washington.
As for water, sounds more like potential smoke than serious. Yes, drinking water pollution is hardly new, or seriously reported. (Even Kubrick had it right, albeit couched in humor, way back in “Doctor Strangelove.”)
And why blame anything Big Brother wants to push for tons of new and coming maladies on their Public-Private Partners, like Big Pharma, and Big Comm? (Not that the concept of “two-factor interactions” isn’t important to remember. The best poisons are much harder to spot that way.)
Yet another advantage of being off-grid. Even if we have haul some during a drought, it’s still possible (and thank Berkey, too) to avoid Chorine, flourine, wonderful mandated MTBE in groundwater, and other people’s recycled SSRI and birth control effluents.
I know the best way to end SWATting– abolish SWAT teams.
If the internet Bill of Rights doesn’t protect us from government (and it won’t) then they aren’t “rights.”
And for some good news, ex-cop always a pig, Van Dyke has been found guilty in Chicago of killing Laquan McDonald (though he’ll likely only get 6 years or less)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-laquan-mcdonald-jason-van-dyke-trial-verdict-20181005-story.html
When the judge had the litigants stand in opposite directions and call the dog, the dog ran to the judge. It never ceases to amaze me how perfectly animals can understand situations.
A town in Bosnia has the right idea
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/enough-lies-bosnian-village-bans-politicians/article25113909.ece
I’m going to have to get a pair of those glasses. Hi-def screens give me migraines. At home that isn’t a problem, but when traveling it is. You wouldn’t believe how many places have hi-def screens everywhere you look.
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