At long last.
Winter is over.
BREAKING: #Ticats announce video of tonight's preseason game will be streamed live on Ticats.ca.
DETAILS > http://t.co/Lxb3hsA9vs
— Hamilton Tiger-Cats (@Ticats) June 8, 2015
From a First-World Perspective
This is right up there with the Mullah’s saying Iran’s quakes are because of women, but belief is belief.
Having said that, if you don’t respect local customs, expect locals to make custom of you.
The greater lesson here? Your Facebook and Twitter world is small, you’re small and no one gives a damn about how precious you are at home. Imagine the lack of respect needed to do this. Maybe try streaking during Remembrance Day or through a Healing Lodge next time.
Relying on Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers to Tune Your Car
The TTC had a wee bit of a problem this morning.
Level Up, #Gamergate!
When Gawker whacked the beehive last fall, it ended up costing them some seven figures in ad revenue, and while some gamers were contacting the advertisers directly, other gamers were letting the Federal Trade Commission know about business practices they’d seen that they considered shady.
It appears that effort has finally paid off, as the FTC has updated its endorsement guidelines in ways that directly address the concerns raised by gamers.
So, to recap, conservative minded folks fail to influence culture or to buttress their beliefs against the tide of SJW’s, but gamers and SF readers are winning.
So we’ll probably dismiss them as teenagers and nerds some more.
#gamergate is STILL getting wins from the FTC for taking a REAL action, reporting and presenting info. You CHANGED A COUNTRY'S RULES.
— Oliver Campbell (@oliverbcampbell) June 5, 2015
I Amuse Myself
Ladies and Gentlemen, the NDP candidate for Toronto Centre.
Lets advocate "shelter in place" and be against firearm carry laws; also lets lambaste @pmharper for hiding! @SheilaGunnReid
— Lance Levsen (@LLevsen) May 22, 2015
What difference does it make?
Obama and Clinton knew almost immediately who was behind Benghazi.
As Glenn Reynolds is wont to say, Potemkin Villages, all the way down.
Well, she’s qualified for President, she can lie, cheat, and steal. She has no morals or values and her only commitments is to herself, her team, and the Democrats…in that order.
Twice the speed limit.
The Amtrak train that derailed near Philadelphia Tuesday night– killing at least seven and sending over 200 to area hospitals– appeared to have been traveling at more than 100 miles an hour, a speed twice the limit in the section, as it approached a sharp curve on the track, two people with knowledge of the investigation told The Wall Street Journal.
So, more infrastructure spending then, eh? That’ll teach them unionized workers.
Yes, it is.
Fed civil servants get 15 sick days a year which they can bank. How much has been banked? 15 million sick days!! That’s nuts.
— David Akin (@davidakin) May 13, 2015
Now, I’m no accountant, so please correct me if I’m wrong, but if they’re banked then then can be withdrawn, which if I know civil servants, means retirement date – vacation days – sick days = stop working day.
So, at $20/hour = $160/day * 15,000,000 days = $2,400,000,000.00 for zero productivity days.
That’s 2 Billion, 400 Million dollars that have to be accounted for if those days are ever used.
Use it, or lose it union lovers.
Vagina is the new black
Poor Obama, just another bigot, like the rest of us.
Brazilians are Smart
According to a GMI poll, Brazilians don’t trust people with their data. That’s wise.
Some 76 percent of the consumers polled by GMI on behalf of Fortinet have concerns over how companies are looking after their details in the event of a possible data leak.
Look at the Top 30 Targetted High-Risk Vulnerabilities as identified by US, CAN, UK, NZ and AUS cyber security organizations.
A healthy lack of faith in corporate security isn’t enough. Two-stage identification vastly improves online security.
However, when it comes to what consumers are doing to protect their own information, some 81 percent mentioned they had adopted some form of improved security measure such as better passwords, but were not aware of other ways of boosting data security, such as two-factor authentication.
Two-stage identification is such that not only the user, but the machine is authenticated as well, and if a user connects via a previously unidentified computer the user is contacted (email, text message, what have you) for permission to allow that computer access to your accounts.
You should definitely set up 2-stage id for any online account that you use.
(Crossposted from my place)
Video everything
Maybe, if the left, didn’t selectively edit everything conservatives in the public ever said there wouldn’t be a need to release full video of speeches.
Peelers
Last month, Premier Wall made headlines by reversing his gov’ts decision to allow peeler bars to serve alcohol.
He took some heat, said his mea culpa’s and spent some banked respect from his supporters.
But…he wasn’t wrong.
As opposed to my youth, I’m more conservative than libertarian. The simple reason I can give is that in contrast to libertarian belief, you really can’t trust all individuals to make the moral choices.
Update: First link fixed. TY.
#Gamergate
Virginia Kruta writing on Dana Loesch’s site on #Gamergate.
#GamerGate is essentially the backlash, fueled by gamers themselves, against a collusion between game developers and certain gaming journalists to promote specific games based on their political value rather than merit.
I’ll add a simple example that doesn’t quit fit the ‘political’ narrative:
The newest Simcity came out in early 2013. It sold for around $80. The city simulation genre has millions of fans, most not normally known as ‘gamers’. It’s a concept that crosses from the traditional gaming enthusiast to the people just wanting to idle away some time. The game was unplayable on release and for at least two months after. It still hasn’t lived up to the hype that Electronic Arts payed for. Magazines were filled with glowing reviews, multi-page infomercials. The hype was unbelievable. “Finally a successor to the 11 year old Simcity 4!”, etc.
This is the Metacritic page. Look at the difference in reviews from the Critics vs the Users. One group reaped benefits from EA’s largess and the other group payed EA for the privilege of having a crap game.
The eulogy? EA shut down the Maxis studio responsible for Simcity 2013 in March. Cities: Skylines from developer Colossal Order and published by Paradox has taken the throne of city simulations, and they are doing it for around $30.
Inanity Ensues
Update: The answer that got Honey Badgers kicked out.
In case you miss it, the money quote is, “Men have issues that need to be addressed as well.” Insta-ban that!
In order to placate a bunch of male SJW’s @Calgaryexpo banned a female exhibitor from selling pro-#Gamergate merchandise, today.
For, you know, “safety” and “equality” reasons.
We're reached the point of absolute insanity. A joke is being taken out of context to intact a ban from #CalgaryExpo pic.twitter.com/OYYebXunt7
— █▌S̷c̕r͟umpmo̶͍͓nkey (@Scrumpmonkey) April 17, 2015
She Has Presidential Genitals
She may barely be competent but Hillary would be “the perfect US president,” says Guardian columnist. Because the “symbolic power” of her genitals “transcends all else.”
Mixing Business and Pleasure
Bryan Burrough on the “revolutionary” terrorism of the Weather Underground:
Outside the leadership, there was widespread confusion as to what kinds of actions were authorised. There would be bombings, everyone assumed, but what kind? “There was so much macho talk, you know, like the Panthers: ‘Off the pigs,’ ‘Bomb the military back into the Stone Age,'” recalls Cathy Wilkerson of the New York cell. “But did that mean we were actually going to kill people? I never really knew.” Bill Ayers and others would always insist there were never any plans to harm people. The handful of Weathermen who crossed that line, Ayers claims, were rogues and outliers. This is a myth, pure and simple, designed to obscure what [the group] actually planned. In the middle ranks, it was widely expected that Weathermen would become revolutionary murderers. “My image of what we were going to be was undiluted terrorist action,” recalls a Weatherman named Jon Lerner. “I remember talking about putting a bomb on the [Chicago railroad] tracks at rush hour, to blow up people coming home from work. That’s what I was looking forward to.”
Grand Egalitarians
Robert Stacy McCain on self-flattery and groupthink:
If your worldview is decisively formed within the insular climate of an elite university, the equation “liberal [i.e., leftist] = smart” is a formula you can never permit yourself to doubt, unless you are willing to admit that you have been hustled, scammed and bamboozled. A fellow with a diploma from Harvard or Stanford cannot confront the possibility that he has been swindled like an ignorant hick playing a carnival game at the country fair.
Weep Ye at Their Sorrows
As a Harvard student, all she wanted was a “safe space” to express her identity and her “more radical views.”
And then it all went wrong.
Soft Student Brains
Bill Whittle on 16-year-olds and voting:
Teen voters, the younger the better, are exactly what the left is looking for. They know no history; they base all of their decisions on emotion; they have no real world experience in terms of what works and what does not. They haven’t the slightest idea of discipline or delayed gratification. They live in a world of fantasy and wish fulfilment; they make demands that cannot be met but they’re willing to settle for an ice-cream cone. They are utterly dependent on others; they’re desperate to conform to the cultural norm, and in general they are the perfect, pliable, ignorant, utterly emotional, reason-free, easily-manipulated vote farm that the progressives need for their power grab.