Is the solution massive civil disobedience?
I think it will come to that in California, for sure. The new water rules are asinine and intrusive.
The American Physical Society
Still seems to have ethical and integrity issues on the subject of climate research.
Sexual Re-Education Camps
Coming to California soon?
Commercial Crew Emergency
Contact your representative tonight or early tomorrow and tell them to support full funding for Commercial Crew. The House is going to be voting on the appropriations budget.
VirtualBox Problem
I’m trying to set up Fedora as a virtual machine on a Windows 8.1 host. I want to attach the physical boot disk to the machine with a vdmk file. But when I try to add the drive, it tells me I have a permissions problem on the file. The file has full rights for System, Admin and user. Anyone know what the problem might be?
A Blood-Pressure Vaccine
Faster, please.
Kickstarter Progress
Well, that was a nice bump. John Walker just kicked in a grand. That puts me over 10% of the goal on the first full day. Not sure how many more of those I’ll get, though.
[Update a while later]
I’ve gotten a couple emails wondering if there’s some way to contribute anonymously. Unfortunately, I don’t think Kickstarter allows that. I can understand how there would be a lot of people who’d like to support it, but would suffer repercussions if they did so publicly. However, if I get funded, I’d be happy to take more money under the table for equivalent rewards, and just keep track of it myself, instead of Kickstarter. That would have the additional advantage of eliminating the take from the middle man (7-8%).
Climate Change
…has done more good than harm, and will likely continue to do so.
Sauce For The Goose
…was sauce for Laura Kipnis’s gander:
It’s hard to work up too much sympathy for Kipnis, though. One wonders where she’s been for the past two decades when kangaroo courts were set up at institutions of higher education all over the country.
Has she been rushing to defend all the men convicted by campus courts of sexual assault with no lawyers present?
Kipnis learned (much to her surprise) that, as she wrote, “any Title IX charge that’s filed has to be investigated, which effectively empowers anyone on campus to individually decide, and expand, what Title IX covers. Anyone with a grudge, a political agenda, or a desire for attention can quite easily leverage the system.”
No kidding. And Title IX is only the tip of the iceberg. Anyone with a political agenda and an ax to grind can get professors reprimanded, students kicked off campus and commencement speakers disinvited.
Did self-described feminist Kipnis rush to the defense of Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Condoleezza Rice when they were told they couldn’t come to Brandeis and Rutgers? (In an essay for Slate, Kipnis referred to Condi as President George W. Bush’s “Stepford Wife.”)
Has she been defending Christina Hoff Sommers when the students at Georgetown and Oberlin tried to prevent her from giving a visiting lecture and then demanding “safe spaces” to be protected from her harsh words?
Somehow, one suspects not.
[Update a few minutes later]
“I pity the fool, for not opening her eyes and seeing what little fascist enclaves universities have become thanks to progressive intolerance and lack of ideological ‘diversity.’ Other than that, as a court of equity would say, Kipnis has “dirty hands,” and her involvement in the progressive cabal diminishes her entitlement to relief.”
For Bernie Sanders
It seems unlikely he’s capable of learning.