The new Planet of the Apes movie appears to be quite disturbing. [Warning: Spoilers]
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Lois Lerner
“Hey, if we do this in IM, can we hide it from Congress?”
“Sure”
“Great!”
[Thursday-afternoon update]
And finally, it’s off to the pokey for Lois:
Resolved, That the Speaker issue his warrant, directed to the Sergeant-at-Arms, or his deputy, commanding him to arrest and take into custody forthwith, wherever to be found, the body of Lois G. Lerner, and bring her to the bar of the House without delay to answer to the charge of contempt of its authority, breach of its privileges, and gross and wanton insult to the integrity of its proceedings, and in the meantime keep the body of Lerner in his custody in the common jail of the District of Columbia, subject to the further order of the House. While in custody, Lerner shall enjoy no special privileges beyond those extended to her fellow inmates, shall not access any computer or telephone, and shall not be visited by anyone other than her counsel, clergy, physician, or family.
Boo hoo. Should have happened months ago.
[Bumped]
[Friday-morning update]
“That was false…that was false…that was false…”
[Bumped]
[Update early afternoon]
A second judge has demanded that the IRS explain the “lost” emails. Maybe the persecuted groups and the judicial branch will get the goods on them.
Videoing Police
Instapundit has a modest proposal:
When police trespass on your property to stop you videoing them, you should be allowed to kill them, put their heads on pikes as a warning to others, sell their organs to Chinese organleggers, and use the money to buy billboards mocking their superiors for lawlessness.
Having to sell the organs to the Chinese seems like kind of a hassle.
Arianespace
How SpaceX is shaking it up.
That’s what disruption looks like.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Not to mention what’s happening to ULA.
The Costs Of Living On The Moon
How we could have better spent the money spent on the F-35.
The SLS costs are BS, though. If you really wanted to colonize the moon, you could actually get a lot more bang for the buck than this.
Mars 2021 Flyby
It looks like Taber and Jane haven’t given up yet. But they need to give up the SLS fantasy.
Space-Based Solar Power
I haven’t perused this article yet, but Japan has always taken the concept more seriously than we have (well, except briefly in the late seventies).
Rehabilitating Dan Rather
Really, Robert Redford? Really?
Here‘s what I had to say about the idiot Mary Mapes at the time:
…some of them (unlike you, apparently) were smart enough to call the fax number on the memo, and determine that it came from a Kinko’s in Texas. And though there was in fact analysis of what the documents actually said, which also helped torpedo them, it was in fact enough, Mary. It’s hard (perhaps impossible) to prove that a document is authentic, but it only takes one solid strike against its validity to show it to be inauthentic. And the fact that you still don’t understand that, or understand basic logic at all, is why you are now out of a job, and should never have had that job to begin with.
This isn’t merely “stuck on stupid.” This is turned all the way up to eleven on stupid.
It’s amazing that there are still fools who want to defend these people.
Don’t Learn To Code
Always good advice, in any field of endeavor. Sadly, it doesn’t happen that much in education these days.
I Want To Do Apollo Again
Nothing has changed in four years, except the name of the rocket.