A few weeks before its annual conference, a space policy update.
Restaurants In Seattle
…going dark as a $15 wage looms.
Morons. I find it particularly amusing that they are so precise in what they think the right number is, with Obama’s imbecilic $10.10. It’s like when Roosevelt arbitrarily raised the price of gold twenty-one cents “because it was three times seven.”
Snail Sex
Everything you probably didn’t really want to know.
Netanyahu
Why is he doing so poorly? As noted, it’s certainly domestic politics — the Israelis have been living with an existential threat since the nation was founded.
[Early afternoon update]
I wish you guys could read Hebrew.. The butthurt from slanted Israeli journalists tweeting is so strong, it's gorgeous. Aww poor babies.
Hmmmm, not sure why I can’t properly embed that tweet, but here it is. he thinks the debate didn’t go well for the opposition, but we’ll see.
The Centennial Anniversary Of The Great War
Why does America ignore it?
Well, to be fair, as with WW II, America didn’t enter until a couple years after it started. But it’s true that the Left would like to whitewash its own history of our first fascist president (and the current one, who aspires to many of the same things).
Virtual Machines
So I ended up installing Windows into one in Qemu. Now I can’t get out of it. I thought that ctrl-alt-L would release it, but nothing happens. I somehow got into a full-screen Windows mode and can’t get out or even see the virt-manager. Any ideas?
[Update a while later]
OK, I figured it out. I’d accidentally clicked on “Full Screen View,” and had to get out of that mode to release the mouse and keyboard, by getting it to drop down from the top.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, next question. Anyone know how to make a physical NTFS partition viewable by a virtual machine?
[Saturday-morning update]
I decided to try to look at the drive by making it a share on the network, through the virtual ethernet port, but I can’t get Samba to work. Maybe Winscp?
BEAM
Leonard David has the story of yesterday’s roll out in North Las Vegas.
In my view, there were three events in human spaceflight this week. The SRB firing, BEAM, and the announcement by Lockheed Martin of a long-needed space tug. Only the latter two have any relevance to the future.
California’s Water
There’s one year left, if we don’t get a wet winter.
A sane electorate would start fracking the hell out of the Monterey Shale, opening up wells of shore, and use the energy to run desalinization plants, instead of wrecking the state economy with carbon mitigation that will have zero effect on the climate, and building high-speed rail.
So we won’t be doing that. Not yet, anyway.
Hillary’s Crime
She’s in a Catch-22 of her own making. What she did was far worse than what Scooter Libby did.
The Castle Doctrine
It applies to shootingdefending yourself against policemen who are entering your home illegally, too.
Yes.