- Seattle police continue to adapt well to cannabis legalization. (Though you may have to read carefully all the way through to hear their quiet chuckling.)
- I don’t know how good this “uncrackable” texting app is. I do know it’s yet another great sign that the tech world will smack down the NSA. (Tip o’ hat to MJR)
- And this is great, too. Kicking the No Such Agency and defending the Fourth while doing good deeds. In public.
- Here’s one I’ve been meaning to write a longer screed on but just haven’t been able to get to: the difference between knowing you live in a police state and living in a police state while believing it’s the land of the free.
- Is it a good thing or a bad thing that one of Congress’s most execrable totalitarian toadies doesn’t seem to know what martial law actually means?
I tried, but I just can’t get excited about anything Sheila Lee says anymore. It’s like watching Hee Haw: At some point the jokes stop meaning anything and it’s just schtick.
These are the people behind Safe Slinger. Makes one a little suspectious.
“We gratefully acknowledge support given to this project. This research was supported by CyLab at Carnegie Mellon under grants DAAD19-02-1-0389 and W911NF-09-1-0273, from the Army Research Office, and by support from NSF under award CCF 0424422, and CNS-1050224, and by gifts from Google.”
Mac — Yegads! I admit I didn’t notice that. Well, mebbe it’s best to wait for something developed by real people. And under open-source rules. Still, it’s a sign of hope that so many alternatives are already emerging.
Martial law? Really?
Running a Government for Dummies, Chapter 1: Don’t piss off the military.
The Fort Hood attack was “workplace violence?” Business as usual after the Navy Yard mass killing? Blocking Honor Flight WWII vets from THEIR memorials? Cutting off death benefits for families who have just lost loved ones in combat?
Martial law = “be careful what you wish for” right now.
Whether they know what it means or not, one of them is admitting they want it. The fact that they haven’t been crucified for that quote says more than the quote itself.
There’s a bit of a conundrum here: We know they’re seeing how far they can push, trying to provoke a violent reaction. If we give them one we might be playing into their hands. But at the same time, I don’t intend to be sitting in some camp thinking back to all the times we might have stopped this.
When is “go” time? Will they back down before we get to that point? I honestly don’t know the answer to that. Lots of theories, yes, but not answers.
Cute puppy video: http://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/2958629/