February 2012
73 posts
“If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. This is one of the...”
– Teller Reveals His Secrets | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
Sometimes this makes me think of democracy…
“Writing for the 5-to-4 majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy suggested that...”
– Cash and Carry - NYTimes.com
Wait… WHAT THE FUCK… Let’s read that again.
“Large donors may have influence over…elected officials…but that does not mean that those officials are corrupt” - or appear to be corrupt?
THE FUCK?
Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to...
cdixon:
These people have run out of others to blame, run out of bystanders to suspect, run out of decent family people to dismiss as Godless, sex-crazed perverts. They’re turning the gun on themselves now. It might be justice, or it might just be sad. Whatever it is, it’s remarkable to watch.
- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
cdixon tumblr: Warren Buffet on gold as an... →
cdixon:
The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything, but that are purchased in the buyer’s hope that someone else – who also knows that the assets will be forever unproductive – will pay more for them in the future. Tulips, of all things, briefly became a…
Brussels Sprouts with Garlic and Bacon Recipe : :... →
There’s an irony requiring “kosher salt” and using bacon.
Moss Bike to Work Pants - Betabrand →
noted for future reference!
“So I’m happy that Ausgrid has seen the light – excuse the pun,” he said. “There...”
– Community wins war over substation in Daceyville - Local News - News - Southern Courier
Don’t know what a medium strip is. I guess it’s in between a low strip and a high strip.
Now, a median strip on the other hand…
“Australia’s schools, government and non-government, should be staffed with the...”
– School funding report released. What does Gonski have to say? Mamamia
Barry’s response in NSW: slash salaries.
“For non-government schools, there would be a minimum public contribution per...”
– At a glance : the Gonski report
Remind me why?
RSS Is Dead (In OS X Mountain Lion) →
parislemon:
As Dan Frakes notes for Macworld, there’s something missing in OS X Mountain Lion: RSS.
Previously, a (shitty) RSS reader was built into Mail. And Safari would sniff for RSS feeds. Both functionalities are now gone.
Good riddance.
Wait, is that because web is better for feed management or ?
“I’m very, very confident they will be voting for change,” Mr Newman...”
– Newman launches campaign with poll position
Pretty sure Newman has got ticket’s on himself, Tony.
“Possum Comitatus
@Pollytics
Following It also comes out in the polling. Larger...”
– Twitter / @Pollytics: It also comes out in the p …
The Possum deplores that people are getting more things wrong.
It comes down to:
A media that is exceptionally biased
A media that is after whatever passes as “current” and not about thorough investigation
A media that...
Camera, Lens & Accessory Hire | The Front →
Great pricing.
“Treasury Sec Martin Parkinson ‘I do think the whole mindset is a bit...”
– Twitter / @latikambourke: Treasury Sec Martin Parkin …
The Missing Link
Having issues with OSX Lion + RVM + Gems + Building.
ln -s /usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
Thus mimicking the same symbolic link given to /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/gcc.
Its orking now!
OS X Lion sh: make: command not found | Some Guys... →
Hopefully this fixes my issue:
/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for main() in -lobjc… no creating Makefile
make sh: make: command not found
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“You opened the document with Macros Disabled.
Close the document, and then...”
– Microsoft’s technique to managing availability of macros in Excel 2007.
“The Heartland Institute, a conservative advocacy group, is threatening to sue...”
– Heartland Institute threatens to sue journalists who covered ‘Denial Gate’ leak
Nothing like transparent accountability from those demanding transparent accountability.
Richard Littlemore | Heartland Insider Exposes... →
Heartlandgate - when will the media man the guns on this one?
“Your browser is Safari 535.19.
Your browser is Safari 535.19, which is newer...”
– IBM Lotus Sametime Meeting Room
I live IBM.
“The danger is to not move, to play safe. It’s vital to move and be thoughtful...”
– Vivek Kundra and some lessons learnt about tech in gov | what are we doing today, brain?
Important notes from the former CIO of the USA.
“Abbott, however, is rather blessed when it comes to media analysis. Don’t hold...”
– Australia Day Tent Embassy analysis: riot, protest and media | Crikey
Sad, yet true…
“OMG, it was an alternator!…World-shaking news. Get it here folks before...”
– Stranded Audi could have driven from tunnel
gold
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“Exemptions from solemnising marriages of gay couples may appear to solve a...”
– With credibility and integrity gone, so too trust
Wait, the sole reason for religious leaders to be allowed to perform marriages is because they believe that it is a man and a woman (ignoring potential polygamous relationships some interpretations the Abrahamic faiths may take)?
And by being able...
“It seems you can’t win in politics. Peter Costello was universally...”
– With credibility and integrity gone, so too trust
Like the situation, or not, Alan Coggins has it in one.
“The best thing about startups is you get to work with great people on...”
– Between failure and Facebook - Chris Dixon
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“Commenting for this article is no longer available, try one of the articles...”
– No comment | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
But was commenting for this article *ever* available? If not, is the Herald Sun (in addition to Andrew Bolt and his editing staff) attempting to.
If commenting was never available, and taking into account that News Limited themselves do not regard blog...
“Sorry, the new password you have selected cannot be used because It is longer...”
– Change my UniKey password - The University of Sydney
University of Sydney fails their students. The unipass cannot deal with authentication passwords not meeting the following:
contain both upper and lower case letters and at least one number
be between six and eight characters
not contain...
“Jobs & the economy. Businesses all over the world need more programmers....”
– Who should learn to program? - Chris Dixon
Interesting comment (and thought) from Chris Dixon on issues in the US with the degree programmes people are undertaking.
“He expects loyalty but he is not prepared to give it back in return.”
– Rudd should go: ex-Labor minister
So, Rudd is a keen businessman then? Interesting.
“Toby Nieboer’s myki card has failed four times in 18 months”
– Myki meltdowns: minister apologises
Holy shit - a man’s smart card has failed four times in 18 months is evidence everything is broken.
Welcome to modern production statistics mate - things don’t always last uniform lengths of time.
To the journalists, can you do a better story, with...
Greens move to axe Medicare surcharge →
Do the Greens leadership have a fucking clue about how parliament works? Jeez
gay marriage bills →
Such anger at the ALP over having a conscience vote. Yet no heat applied at all to the LNP over forcing their members to vote along Abbott’s lines.
Disappointing day for the gay rights lobby. You’ve got to wake up and realise how you’re going to win this is not by railroading those that support having an opinion, but by targeting members of a party preventing freedom of...
“Thus are sanctions circumvented, not without a large surcharge taken by the...”
– Sanctions squeeze all but the tycoons
This is why China looks to Singapore as a model to follow in Western engagement.
We shouldn’t act so surprised to see that our favoured SE-Asian trading partner is, to put it bluntly, a corrupt, single party, anti-democratic state.
“Would all parents who want their young children to be independent, travel...”
– Company collapses point to major industry crisis
Oh ffs. To quote Tony Abbott “shit happens”. Even if you’re the one in charge, you’re not homeschooling them and coddling them all day, every day.
“If that was one of ours when we were in government, they would have been forced...”
– Tough choices an opportunity for O’Farrell
On Education Minister Adrian Piccoli’s monumental f*** up regarding contract management for disabled student transportation.
The question is, why did the media barely touch the O’Farrell’s NSW State Government over it?
“Why is no one asking the real question: did the Coalition’s forcing of...”
– Company collapses point to major industry crisis
This. Absolutely this. The oversight in the media of the ALP governments under Rudd and Gillard are magnitudes above that applied to the decade-plus rule of the Howard Government. Why not, since Abbott is so happy to proclaim his shadow ministry is...
“Independent MPs thinking of supporting the rebate changes should also consider...”
– Company collapses point to major industry crisis
Those private specialists will be available for those with private cover, even if further away. The bigger problem is the availability of public specialists - long since diminished due to private-flight subsidised by the taxpayer for benefits to the...
Model X | Tesla Motors →
'Every time we get ahead, they hit us again' | The... →
Irony: all the areas mentioned by Shaun Richards would struggle for support in the public system. Do they really think that they get all they get now for nick?
As for “self insurance” - heh, we’ve seen that work well (fires + floods).
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