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"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
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In Some Weird Countries, Elections Depend Entirely on Religious Fanatics
There is a Civil War between Christian evangelists in the United States over whether or not to support Donald Trump. Some Christians point to his moral degeneracy. Others say that God often works with flawed people. I just wonder, why do we have to care about what these crazy people think?
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A Grim New Definition of Generation X
People born in the 1960s may be the last human beings who will get to live out their full actuarial life expectancies. “Climate change now represents a near- to mid-term existential threat” to humanity, warns a recent policy paper by an Australian think tank. Civilization, scientists say, could collapse by 2050. Some people […]
So many groups counting on me to give today! I'm sure these aren't just mass mailings, but actual personal pleas! [sic]
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Won’t Somebody Think of the Guns?
Wal-mart has banned open carry and certain kinds of ammunition in their stores.
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The NY Times had to pull a controversial study from a Bret Stephens column.
Comfort is defined in both mental and physical terms.
Physical is food, clothing, and shelter.
Mental is knowing you're prepared for the future as well as the ability to be average in the present. The latter sets the terms for what is known as "disposable income" or in snobbish terms, "unnecessary spending".
In the simplest, economics is about the ability of the average person to live comfortably.
At the least, a person should be able to provide comfort for their family at the same level as their parents with the same amount of effort. If this exists, the economy is stable. If it takes less effort, the economy is growing. If it takes more effort, the economy is declining.
Again, this is for the average, so a growing economy for 1% with a declining economy for 99% should be considered a decline.
IBM said that they'd open source OS/2 when all parties (read Microsoft) holding key elements of the OS agreed. Even though OS/2 is largely irrelevant today (due to its 32 bit nature), Microsoft still won't let it be open source.
In a fair fight, Windows is dead today, and OS/2 is still being developed. (Probably not FOSS; IBM was no saint.)
Hard to believe it's been 25 years since OS/2 Warp was released. Even harder to believe it's been almost 10 years since it was my daily driver.
It was reported in the newsgroups to be the best OS you ever used, or the worst OS you ever used. (The latter claim might be just attributed to paid Microsoft plants in the newsgroups.)
IBM was way to dysfunctional to fight the Microsoft monopoly. The measure of how much Microsoft support open source still lies in how open source OS/2 remains.
Putting tracking tools in place before cracking down on dissent...
Totalitarian businesses probably prefer to hire religious people, because they're already trained to suspend reason and follow orders.
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The Great Thaw is Already Happening
We don’t think of the ground beneath our feet as anything but solid. But climate change is coming for that, too.
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We Are Choosing to Make Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Live Outside
One of the more bizarre and pathetic aspects of capitalism is the self-congratulatory coverage of free meals given to the homeless and poor on holidays like Christmas, presented as though people don’t need to eat, or live inside, 365 days out of the year. Meanwhile, millions of homes are abandoned, wasted vacation homes or warehoused […]
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The 2018 Carpenter v United States decision that police must get a warrant to access cell-site location information has been cited in hundreds of cases in 2019. Here are five privacy-invasive technologies that it has, or could, rein in. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/courts-grapple-sea-change-fourth-amendment-law-after-carpenter-v-us-year-review
Watch "Celebrating the 25 th Anniversary of IBM OS/2 Warp - on modern Hardware - 1994-2019" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/NXlrDXLGR_Y
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One thing is certain: public pressure to halt face surveillance—whether on the land or in the skies—is working. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/fighting-back-against-face-surveillance-skies-year-review-2019
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Good news...
Ring and Amazon hit with federal lawsuit over security concerns - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ring-amazon-sued-federal-court-security-hacking-2fa-2019-12?IR=T
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Antarctic Ice Melt May Have Hit an All-Time High on Christmas Eve
https://earther.gizmodo.com/antarctic-ice-melt-may-have-hit-an-all-time-high-on-chr-1840679498 #climatechange #climatecrisis
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
