October 2011
8 posts
“I’m no sociopath. I always know what I’m doing is wrong. I’m...”
– Jeff Winger
Did Gaddafi Fool US All For Forty Years? →
I always thought that the keys to Muomar Gadaffi’s hold on power were simple; his ability to terrorize his own people combined with the oil-hungry West’s willingness to look the other way so long as Gaddafi kept the oil spigot flowing. But this article by Max Fisher paints a much more complex picture of the Libyan dictator. In contrast to his buffoonish public image Gaddafi emerges...
“Fred Phelps does not believe what he is doing. This is a scam. It’s a business....”
– Fred Phelps is a Con Man
You guys realize that the Westboro Baptist Church just exists to provoke people and get them to assault its members, right? Ignorezies, Ignorezies, Ignorezies. Unless you’re the IRS. In which case, AUDITZIES.
(via julieklausner)
Always reblog.
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“We’re not being attacked, we just are totally incompetent and can’t...”
– After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn’t Been Hacked - Slashdot
Borders Books Customers, Watch For Database... →
About a week ago, I got an email from Barnes & Noble. It was the email described in this link. While I kind of resented having to opt out at all—how dare this bankrupt company sell my information!—it was a fairly painless process nevertheless. Just click on a button, give B&N your email, and confirm that yes, I really wanted to opt-out in a follow up email sent the next day. So...
I Don't Want To Talk To My Phone
I’ve always felt that anything that requires you to talk to an inanimate object in a voice other than your normal one has a built in silliness factor which must be overcome. This is one the things that has kept from using Android’s voice control features and it’s the reason why I’m less than impressed with Apple’s new Siri personal assistant feature.
Siri has actually been available as an app for...
Why We Need Lawyers Or Need to Shoot the Lawyers
http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=11/10/01/1947203
Re:Perfect Plan (2)
by a whoabot (706122) on 05:08 PM October 1st, 2011 (#37579730)
Sense versus reference, and synchronic versus diachronic.
So right now there is a group that is the top 5% of data users. They are the ones whose usage will be scaled back. Nothing about doing this implies that some other...
