....is seeing the products that companies are offering.
From Safariland, a holster for your lightsaber.
Over at Think Geek, it's kind of hard to figure out which product is real and which isn't. The kid-sized Mad Max cars? The Voltron Cat Condo? More likely the Steam-Powered Gaming Cabinet, just the thing if the power goes out. (They have more items.)
Samsung's SmartKnife. Try not to slice off your ear when you make a call.
The Honda selfie-cam.
Google's Smart-Mailbox.
Ms-DOS for your smartphone.
(More later)
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
The Brady Center Haz a Sad....
In an order released yesterday, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch ruled against the plaintiffs in the case of Sandy Phillips, et al., v. Lucky Gunner, LLC., et al.In the order, the defendants are being awarded their attorneys' fees. I haven't heard if they are going to step up and cover the attorneys' fee award for their sock-puppet plaintiffs (or if Former Mayor Mikey "Nanny" Bloomberg will cough it up).
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips are the parents of Jessica Ghawi, one of the victims of the Aurora movie theater shooting. The lawsuit was backed by the anti-gun Brady Center.
Curmudgeon
OK, I am getting to the point that the next person who says "brick and mortar" to me, in reference to a store that is in a physical structure, is liable to be whacked in a sensitive anatomical spot of my choosing.
I propose:
"Store": A place that you can walk into (or drive up to) in order to buy shit.
"Website": A place on the Intertubes where you might be able to buy shit.
When you "go to the store", you're going to a three-dimensional location where you can pick up merchandise, talk to sales clerks, and hopefully not get shot at by robbers.
When you "shop online", you're going to a website that may sell you good stuff cheap, or they may take you money and vacuum out your bank accounts, because you were stupid enough to use a debit card to buy crap from some fake site that was put up by Lithuanian scam artists.
The difference in reality is that if the store screws with you, you can have a process server show up and serve a summons on the manager to haul his dead ass into court. Or you can just go stomp him (but that isn't advised). If the website screws you, well, good luck with that, Bucko.
I propose:
"Store": A place that you can walk into (or drive up to) in order to buy shit.
"Website": A place on the Intertubes where you might be able to buy shit.
When you "go to the store", you're going to a three-dimensional location where you can pick up merchandise, talk to sales clerks, and hopefully not get shot at by robbers.
When you "shop online", you're going to a website that may sell you good stuff cheap, or they may take you money and vacuum out your bank accounts, because you were stupid enough to use a debit card to buy crap from some fake site that was put up by Lithuanian scam artists.
The difference in reality is that if the store screws with you, you can have a process server show up and serve a summons on the manager to haul his dead ass into court. Or you can just go stomp him (but that isn't advised). If the website screws you, well, good luck with that, Bucko.
And So, It Began
Photos from the early years of the Vietnam War.
One of the labels that I used for this post is a bit of a fib. The past isn't over on this one. Not even hardly.
One of the labels that I used for this post is a bit of a fib. The past isn't over on this one. Not even hardly.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Eugenics Is Not Dead
Eugenics, where a government forces people to undergo sterilization procedures, is still going on in this country.
You'd think that the self-proclaimed "Pro-Lifers" would be all over this like politicians on lobbyists, don't you? But it seems that you'd be wrong.
(H/T)
You'd think that the self-proclaimed "Pro-Lifers" would be all over this like politicians on lobbyists, don't you? But it seems that you'd be wrong.
(H/T)
Better Term for the Indiana Law
The "We Don't Serve Your Kind Law".
If they're going to do that, the law ought to be that the business has to post their discriminatory policy, right at the door, and in the most offensive possible terms possible.
Something like this, perhaps:
Then we can truly know the nature and quality of the owners of those particular businesses that choose to discriminate against members of the public.
If they're going to do that, the law ought to be that the business has to post their discriminatory policy, right at the door, and in the most offensive possible terms possible.
Something like this, perhaps:
Then we can truly know the nature and quality of the owners of those particular businesses that choose to discriminate against members of the public.
Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise
Air ops on HMS Ark Royal:
When she was decommissioned in 1979, the Royal Navy lost its ability to operate CTOL fighters at sea. After decade upon decade of budget cuts, the Brits are arguable done as anything other than a regional player.
If the Argies took the Falklands again, the Brits would have a far more difficult task with no carriers or long-range bombers available to them. Which is likely why the Brits are looking at making it even harder for them to do so.
When she was decommissioned in 1979, the Royal Navy lost its ability to operate CTOL fighters at sea. After decade upon decade of budget cuts, the Brits are arguable done as anything other than a regional player.
If the Argies took the Falklands again, the Brits would have a far more difficult task with no carriers or long-range bombers available to them. Which is likely why the Brits are looking at making it even harder for them to do so.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The White Privilege of Secession
One thing about the modern secessionists is that, just like the ones 155 years ago, they're all mainly white folk. And so, their bloviatings and ravings are treated with some deference.
Now imagine, if you will, that the secessionists were advocating to calve off a few states to form a Muslim republic or one for African Americans (or any other group). The FBI and the other TLAs* would be sticking them them like napalm on a child. They would be wiretapped, mail-covered, surveilled within an inch of their lives. Agents provocateur would be sent in to join them and rabble-rouse them into committing indictable offenses.
But no, that just isn't done against the secessionists.** They get to engage in their seditious rantings without any hindrance.
What I get a laugh out of is their insistence that they can break this country up without a war. For except maybe the Soviet Union (which even itself never really recognized those in the other soviet republics as equals to Russians), it's hard to find an example of a nation that peacefully dissolved. For one thing, you just know that the modern secessionists are eager to walk away from the Federal debt and if they think that the Yankees are just going to swallow that bitter pill, they're nucking futs.
Which they are, anyway. They're unable to win the battle of ideas, they can't elect their people to the White House, so they'll just tear the country apart in their bitterness.
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* Three Letter Agency.
** That we know of.
Now imagine, if you will, that the secessionists were advocating to calve off a few states to form a Muslim republic or one for African Americans (or any other group). The FBI and the other TLAs* would be sticking them them like napalm on a child. They would be wiretapped, mail-covered, surveilled within an inch of their lives. Agents provocateur would be sent in to join them and rabble-rouse them into committing indictable offenses.
But no, that just isn't done against the secessionists.** They get to engage in their seditious rantings without any hindrance.
What I get a laugh out of is their insistence that they can break this country up without a war. For except maybe the Soviet Union (which even itself never really recognized those in the other soviet republics as equals to Russians), it's hard to find an example of a nation that peacefully dissolved. For one thing, you just know that the modern secessionists are eager to walk away from the Federal debt and if they think that the Yankees are just going to swallow that bitter pill, they're nucking futs.
Which they are, anyway. They're unable to win the battle of ideas, they can't elect their people to the White House, so they'll just tear the country apart in their bitterness.
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* Three Letter Agency.
** That we know of.
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