And 99.9 percent of it is absolute crap that isn't worth paying for. The Graham's must be rolling over in their graves to see how hard the WaPo has fallen. Back in the 70s they were the standard bearor - the Nixon stuff and all but now... they're no better that Yahoo or the NYPost or the Enquirer.
That's a silent film (1924) by Harold Lloyd. Funny as hell and a fantastic 20 minute chase scene at the end of the movie that still holds my attention especially when you consider he's doing his own stunts and it is as real as it can be 92 years ago.
Why? Because you know damn well it isn't CGI. You don't even notice it is a silent movie. It's available on Youtube. If you don't want to watch the whole thing starting at 56:00.
Lloyd has to stop his girl from marrying the villain so he's trying to get to the ceremony to stop it.
As A Vermonter I love to see these stories. VT is increasingly a playground for the rich and those subsumed with WLG* to support the cause du jour.
Hate fracking? Vermont BANNED it in a very public legislative effort. (Even though Vermont will never have fracking due to geologic conditions in the state.) But of course the Illuminati who run the state strongly support a new, natural gas pipeline that will transport fracked NG to the most "sustainable" of towns.
Hate litter? We are all becoming professional garbage managers due to legislatively micro-managed trash laws. (Meanwhile, Keurig/Green Mountain Coffee STILL dumps millions of plastic, unrecyclable single-use K-cups into the environment.
The local "food co-op" broadcasts BUY LOCAL then sells grossly overpriced Yuppie-chow imported from California.
I can go on but you get the point. Do as I say - not as I do.
"In a time of fascist politicians spouting simplistic slogans about race, religion, terrorism, and censorship, along with whatever other pandering platitudes they believe will win them votes, prestige, power, and control..."
I almost mean that. Over the weekend I received a marketing email from our electric utility - Green Mountain Power - detailing their new program to provide Tesla Powerwalls to interested customers as part of a new program.
The problem was instead of blind copying the HUNDREDS OF RECIPIENTS they included all our email addresses in the TO: field exposing our names & addresses to everyone who got the message (in violation of their own Privacy Policies). I replied, basically asking them "WTF?" and wondered if they were as careless with their SCADA systems...
The response I got from one of their marketing droids was classic:
"Thanks so much for your email about our mistake in not bcc’ing our Tesla email list. We are very excited about the offering and made a mistake in the way we communicated with you all with the latest news. I tried to give you a call this afternoon to apologize and chat with you about it.
"Would love to connect, please let me know when might be a good time and way to reach you.
"All the best, Betsy"
I asked her why on earth I would want to "connect" with her and, well, I haven't heard back... not that I expect to.
My point being - this carelessness, lack of concern about privacy, haphazard security all has led me to all but abandon the web which is depressing considering my job IS, for the most part, web-oriented. Not at home any more. And I'm slowly but surely extricating all my online persona since nobody seems to do it right and I'm tired of preaching about it to people who don't give a shit. And why should they? There are no consequences.
Slashdot Mirror
is it going to suck.
And 99.9 percent of it is absolute crap that isn't worth paying for. The Graham's must be rolling over in their graves to see how hard the WaPo has fallen.
Back in the 70s they were the standard bearor - the Nixon stuff and all but now... they're no better that Yahoo or the NYPost or the Enquirer.
Here's my take on that.
Fuck you. We're not your children . Stop treating us as if we were.
Pluto
"...a Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAM) must be developed, approved, and tracked to closure."
But they never say anything has to actually work!
That's a silent film (1924) by Harold Lloyd. Funny as hell and a fantastic 20 minute chase scene at the end of the movie that still holds my attention especially when you consider he's doing his own stunts and it is as real as it can be 92 years ago.
Why? Because you know damn well it isn't CGI. You don't even notice it is a silent movie. It's available on Youtube. If you don't want to watch the whole thing starting at 56:00.
Lloyd has to stop his girl from marrying the villain so he's trying to get to the ceremony to stop it.
Looks like Cory Doctorow's "Pirate Cinema" alive and well...
Penn & Teller's take on anti-anti-vaxxers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
" The $225,000 DuckDuckGo is giving away is chump change compared to the $100 million Google gives away in grants ever year."
Well fuck you too. DuckDuckGo doesn't require you to sell your soul as Google requires.
I understood the main gain from this was to set up your own OC server and run it with that.
Agreed. I've used Tbird on Mac & Linux for ten years now and love it.
Does anyone else remember how blipverts seemed outrageous? We've far surpassed them...
Macbook Pro is 8 years old and still going strong. Sorry, no upgrade for me.
Like taxes. Maybe they'll start paying them!
As A Vermonter I love to see these stories. VT is increasingly a playground for the rich and those subsumed with WLG* to support the cause du jour.
Hate fracking? Vermont BANNED it in a very public legislative effort. (Even though Vermont will never have fracking due to geologic conditions in the state.) But of course the Illuminati who run the state strongly support a new, natural gas pipeline that will transport fracked NG to the most "sustainable" of towns.
Hate litter? We are all becoming professional garbage managers due to legislatively micro-managed trash laws. (Meanwhile, Keurig/Green Mountain Coffee STILL dumps millions of plastic, unrecyclable single-use K-cups into the environment.
The local "food co-op" broadcasts BUY LOCAL then sells grossly overpriced Yuppie-chow imported from California.
I can go on but you get the point. Do as I say - not as I do.
*White Liberal Guilt
It is important because it has the word "Oculus" in it.
That's the group that sold-out to the NSA, right?
It is wonderful. I first read it 54 years ago and picked up a new copy last year. It still holds up as a good read.
I can imagine Kip and Peewee slogging through that landscape...
"In a time of fascist politicians spouting simplistic slogans about race, religion, terrorism, and censorship, along with whatever other pandering platitudes they believe will win them votes, prestige, power, and control..."
Which is to say *all* politicians.
Still works. Use it as a notepad. Four AA batteries keeps is running for a month. Great keyboard.
You're either:
1) trolling, or
2) the most profoundly stupid person in the world.
I vote for #2.
Racket!
I almost mean that. Over the weekend I received a marketing email from our electric utility - Green Mountain Power - detailing their new program to provide Tesla Powerwalls to interested customers as part of a new program.
The problem was instead of blind copying the HUNDREDS OF RECIPIENTS they included all our email addresses in the TO: field exposing our names & addresses to everyone who got the message (in violation of their own Privacy Policies). I replied, basically asking them "WTF?" and wondered if they were as careless with their SCADA systems...
The response I got from one of their marketing droids was classic:
"Thanks so much for your email about our mistake in not bcc’ing our Tesla email list. We are very excited about the offering and made a mistake in the way we communicated with you all with the latest news. I tried to give you a call this afternoon to apologize and chat with you about it.
"Would love to connect, please let me know when might be a good time and way to reach you.
"All the best,
Betsy"
I asked her why on earth I would want to "connect" with her and, well, I haven't heard back... not that I expect to.
My point being - this carelessness, lack of concern about privacy, haphazard security all has led me to all but abandon the web which is depressing considering my job IS, for the most part, web-oriented. Not at home any more. And I'm slowly but surely extricating all my online persona since nobody seems to do it right and I'm tired of preaching about it to people who don't give a shit. And why should they? There are no consequences.
There. I feel much better now.
"to catch guys and girls".