Deadlining, so nothing Deep and Profound at the moment (not even anything deep and profound without the capital letters). But lotsa, lotsa links ….
- Here’s some insider dope on the weird stuff you may have heard is going on at Cato.
- Mobile phone privacy tips.
- And when it comes to privacy, you just gotta love Mozilla.
- You know that stupid TSA rule against more than three ounces of liquid? Well see if you can figure this one.
- And speaking of milk, turns out you can get a bigger “price on your head” for selling the raw stuff than for oh … murder, rape, robbery.
- The thing to note here is that the utility worker who loaned his uniform to the cop was summarily fired. The cop who borrowed and wore it in hopes of making an illegal search is merely “under heavy scrutiny.” We’ll know we’re making progress when it’s the other way around.
- New! Improved! Coming soon! “Better” than a Taser! New gun shoots pepper spray 150 feet. Perfect for that new breed of scaredy-cop they’re hiring these days. (Per MtK via Twitter.)
- George Carlin. Very funny guy. But wrong about politicians.
- Hope for health care: decentralization following centralization.
- And courtesy of P from comments, here’s today’s awwwwww moment. More LOL than awwww, actually. But this would be my dog Ava’s idea of heaven.
- But wait! It gets even better. We can now combine two of our favorite things — politics and pets. (And of course, I’m on the side of Canines for a Feline-Free Future.)
Yeah, what Joel sez:
I’ve been using Collusion for a few days now. My graph always looks like a daisy so I must have gotten my Firefox settings right. Crazy the measures one needs to take to have any privacy at all. I just switched to a VPN. Still trying to get it set up correctly. After I hear from support I’ll send you a report.
Of course rqaw milk warrants harsher penalties and tactics than rape, murder, larceny and mayhem. Those are strictly crimes against the people, and within the parameters of normal. Selling raw milk is a crime against the state. Letting people decide what they want to buy and sell is not acceptable and could lead to rebellious thoughts. Independence must be stamped out at all costs.
About the case of the TSA and breast feading mother. The TSA agent was strictly supporting the FDA policy agains fresh milk, ’cause nothing is more fresh than a mothers breast milk.
Woody, I have yet to try Collusion. I have my browser so loaded up I’m always a little nervous about one more add-on. But that one is too tempting to pass up.
One thing about all the Firefox security and privacy add-ons: they may be wonderfully effective, but they don’t give reports that an average person can understand.
Well, I just tried Collusion. It doesn’t work at all for me. Instead of a real-time graph, I get a blank, black background (try saying that six times real fast) that never changes.
This may be because Collusion is designed to spot third-party cookies and I don’t allow any of those. Still, I’d expect it at least to show the sites I visit.
I guess this means my security is so really super good that even a privacy-violation tracker can’t track it. 🙂
Okay, now it’s beginning to show a handful of sites I’ve visited. But not all of them. At first I thought it might be showing only sites on which I allow JavaScript, but that theory didn’t test out.
Main thing: It’s not showing any third-party cookies, which is as it should be.
Fun graph. Easy install (as will all Mozilla add-ons). I’ll be curious to hear what others say about it.
Anybody intending to try it, know that it’s experimental.
Okay, I got it now. Collusion only shows a site when that site reports a visit to another site. (This means via cookie-setting; I can follow many links and have zero show up on Collusion. For instance, links here at BHM seem “safe.”)
So … I had already visited both The Agitator and the New York Times. One of them reported my visit to the other. So Collusion showed them both.
Then, to test, I went to Google. No report from Collusion. But when I used Google to find Radley Balko, then clicked on The Agitator — Google showed up with a line back to Balko’s site.
All the sites showing are ones where I’ve visited and allowed cookies (which will be deleted when I exit Firefox).
I have fat cat(about 15 pounds) that would make a good President. Feed him, give him some cat toys, a window to look out of,and he’ll leave you alone. He does like to be petted and a game of Chase The Red Dot(laser).
There was some sort of bruhaha about the Amish selling raw milk here, but it never went anywhere.
Scott — My resident fat-cat also thinks red-dot chasing is far more important than, say, bombing the Country of the Week back into the stone age. I agree that’s a good quality for a president to have.
However, my dogs — all three of them — spotted the red-dot ruse the moment I brought home a laser. They instantly figured out that the actual “thing” was in my hand, and thereafter they completely ignored the dot zipping about on the floor.
I do believe that this canine degree of seeing beyond appearances and thinking outside the box makes dogs superior candidates.
“Decentralizing” health care is certainly one set of ideas that might bear fruit. There would be dozens of new models tried all the time, I suppose, if there were no barriers beyond customer satisfaction and the limits of effective advertising (if there is such a thing). Not to even mention the idea of people being totally free to take care of their own health in any way that suited them.
Right now the real barrier to any sort of effective, rational health care is the entrenched idea that it is perfectly legitimate to steal from some to provide health care (or anything else) to other people.
It’s not an insurance problem, or a lack of effective organization in the health care profession, of course. As with every other aspect of our economy and non-voluntary government, it’s the delusion of entitlement and the THEFT.
My cat knows where the red dot(and green dot) comes from-he looks up at the shelf I keep it on when he wants a game. Sometimes, he will get up there and knock it off,meow and look at it,then at me.Sir Louie also knows how to get into the fridge and get what he wants(I need to set up a camera for this). He’d make a great President-he’s kind of a ham-give him a little air time(maybe a once every six months or so State-O-Th’-Union Address) to go with the food and other stuff, and he will leave you alone to live your life as you see fit.
I believe in Raw Milk.
In the Palmer case one might want to look a little deeper into her actions. Whether she scammed the Rawsome folks or not, it appears she attempted too. In a perfect world – the Freemarket would decide these issues.
http://unhealthyfamilyfarm.com
Instead .gov jumped on in to “fix” the issue thereby attempting to establish protocol “in these types of cases”.
Rawsome members and parents should decide her fate if she did indeed hoodwink them.
M — Thank you for the link. If Palmer has done even half the deeds alleged in the investigative report, then the Rawsome folks would have a good case for staking her out in the desert, slathering her with honey, and letting the ants eat her. (Or …well, something like that.)
But yeah … .gov stepping in with murderer-sized bond requirements is another matter.
How easy is must be for people to pull off that kind of scam — providing cheap, even unhealthy, food and calling it raw, organic, etc. Makes buying directly from a farm (that you can inspect) look like the way to go.
Part of the reason this type of misleading effort is so disturbing (if true) is it undermines the trust we try to establish with our “fellow farmers”. I believe that is why some fight so hard (Natural News) to find a “conspiracy” contained within stories such as these. We don’t want to believe people could be so “unnatural” toward us.
That is one reason why Politics can be so funny at times as well.
We’ll support the rulers who best fit our description of our rules that we willingly extend our wrists for the shackles to be slipped upon us. Until one day when the blinders concealing the Bull Poop are lifted and we become aware that we’ve been duped.
Or maybe not –
That is one cunning hat.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.