- Whatever your view of their politics, this is a clever bit of resistance.
- Four things to spend your money on if you want to buy happiness.
- “Not everybody gets a cookie”. But every social-justice pecksniff can turn a gesture of kindness into an occasion for a display of vicious narcissism.
- The left. It had a miserable week.
- Bastiat’s goofy story and real-life folly in the solar-panel industry as solar power begins to become cheap enough for the masses.
- No wonder Comey decided to let Hillary skate on all those sloppy security violations.
- Creative lifesaving.
- Will this be the well-deserved ruination of Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann?
- Oopsie. Seems the History Channel failed to do basic research on the photo that “proved” Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were captured alive by the Japanese.
- Weird factoid. In Britain, you are now statistically more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than you are to get married or have your first baby. (Standard caveat that all statistics are suspect these days.)
- Abandoned dog refuses to be rescued until the kind rescuer also finds his non-canine buddy.
- We really do not deserve dogs. (H/T MtK) (Video; may not work on overly secure browsers.)
Heh: “overly secure” browsers. I wasn’t that long ago that Twitter did an update that caused their videos to stop working for me. And if I ever do give birth, that’ll definitely be and odds-defying event. Might even be ground for starting a new religion, or embracing UFOlogy.
Sure do wish the warmists would take Mann’s broken hockey stick and go home, but it’s far too entrenched, wrapped up as it is with the anti-corporate left-wing ideology. And too many apparatchiks are making too much money to give up their spots basking in the warm glow of the adoration they get for flying around in private jets to preach to their choir.
Twitter is doing some really stupid and intrusive things. ANY normal security features cause their videos to puke.
On the photo that “proved” Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were captured alive by the Japanese, bah. Everybody knows they were taken by a UFO and transported to the Delta Quadrant and found by the good crew of the USS Voyager.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaEpei8GLA
If a guy behind the counter gives a cop a brownie, I would probably just quietly take my business elsewhere. Places that fawn over cops don’t get my business. Of course, I wouldn’t have been in line with a cop in the first place.
We’re talking about one kid who, out of his own impulse and own income, decided to treat a cop to a brownie. It’s hardly a business that fawns over cops — especially considering that the business suspended him for his act.
“Twitter is doing some really stupid and intrusive things. ANY normal security features cause their videos to puke.”
Unfortunately Twitter seems merely to be joining a growing pack. In the last month alone I’ve had four or five regular sites “improve” themselves to the point where I could no longer use them.
There have long been a lot of sites that wouldn’t work on Firefox with normal security features. Now I’m running into more and more of them that are useless unless I use a browser with virtually no security on it.
““It’s hardly a business that fawns over cops…”
True, but standing in that line at that moment I wouldn’t have any way to know that, and I wouldn’t want a cookie that badly.
There are local businesses here that have “We support law enforcement” signs, and I simply choose to not do business with places that support gang violence publicly. To me it’s worse than a “no guns” sign, since I know in some cases “the law” dictates that dangerous policy to some businesses.
> There have long been a lot of sites that wouldn’t work on Firefox with normal security features. Now I’m running into more and more of them that are useless unless I use a browser with virtually no security on it.
It’s only going to get worse. Latest development is the endorsement by Tim Berners-Lee of adding DRM to the HTML standard. I guess this is all part of “innovation”.
OTOH, as a trade-off, we get such things as the internet cat simulator.
Well, I’m sure an internet cat simulator is important.
Probably much more important in the long run than browser security — at least judging by the testimonials of the users who would have slit their wrists or melted down into quivering puddles of anxiety without it.
(Where on earth do you find these things, jed?)
Typically, at Fark. I was a little disappointed; I was thinking it’d be more like the goat simulator
With regard to the Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann story. It would be nice if it was true, but I doubt it. Here is a post from the other side: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/07/08/michael-man-did-not-sabotage-his-law-suit-but-deniers-are-sabotaging-the-planet/
It is long and mostly propaganda but at the very end is a comment from Mann’s attorney where he says “No judge has made any order or given any direction, however minor or inconsequential, that Michael Mann surrender any data or any documents to Tim Ball for any purpose.”
Given that the link is from July 5 and we still haven’t heard that Ball has asked the BC court for a summary ruling, I’d say it is probably untrue.
I’m glad he made a stand, but it’s one less reasonable person to push back against the idiocy: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/michael-bonesteel-resignation-saic-henry-darger-comics/Content?oid=27428790
Wonder where the cop went? Must have been far enough away to not hear the threats from the customers.
Hmmmmmm….
Mike