2015-10-31
Well look who knew about the potential dangers of fossil fuels, global warming, AND chose to hide it - Exxon!
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/08/exxon-climate-change-1981-climate-denier-funding
“Exxon first got interested in climate change in 1981 because it was seeking to develop the Natuna gas field off Indonesia,” Lenny Bernstein, a 30-year industry veteran and Exxon’s former in-house climate expert, wrote in the email. “This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70% CO2,” or carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.
However, Exxon’s public position was marked by continued refusal to acknowledge the dangers of climate change, even in response to appeals from the Rockefellers, its founding family, and its continued financial support for climate denial. Over the years, Exxon spent more than $30m on thinktanks and researchers that promoted climate denial, according to Greenpeace."
Here's best part -
“Exxon first got interested in climate change in 1981 because it was seeking to develop the Natuna gas field off Indonesia,” Lenny Bernstein, a 30-year industry veteran and Exxon’s former in-house climate expert, wrote in the email. “This is an immense reserve of natural gas, but it is 70% CO2,” or carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.
However, Exxon’s public position was marked by continued refusal to acknowledge the dangers of climate change, even in response to appeals from the Rockefellers, its founding family, and its continued financial support for climate denial. Over the years, Exxon spent more than $30m on thinktanks and researchers that promoted climate denial, according to Greenpeace."
Here's best part -
2015-10-29
US Senate betrays Americans by passing CISA.
Handing over peoples' personal data to corporations to freely share and distribute back to the government, which includes the NSA.
Yeah - that NSA.
Yeah - that NSA.
Can you say 'Conflict Of Interest'?
http://fair.org/home/buckraking-on-the-food-beat-when-is-it-a-conflict-of-interest/
"Haspel had previously criticized Ruskin for filing Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) requests to investigate the ties between the agrichemical companies, their PR firms, and academics at public universities. "
Read the link above to see why.
But wait, it gets better -
"Haspel’s column relied on sources who downplay risk (including fellow BLP faculty member David Ropeik, author of “How Risky Is It, Really?”), used chemical industry talking points (salt fish is carcinogenic, too), and ignored the most pressing health concerns about glyphosate — farmworker exposures and community exposures in heavily sprayed areas — to cast doubt on concerns arising from the recent listing of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen by the world’s cancer experts."
"Haspel had previously criticized Ruskin for filing Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) requests to investigate the ties between the agrichemical companies, their PR firms, and academics at public universities. "
Read the link above to see why.
But wait, it gets better -
"Haspel’s column relied on sources who downplay risk (including fellow BLP faculty member David Ropeik, author of “How Risky Is It, Really?”), used chemical industry talking points (salt fish is carcinogenic, too), and ignored the most pressing health concerns about glyphosate — farmworker exposures and community exposures in heavily sprayed areas — to cast doubt on concerns arising from the recent listing of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen by the world’s cancer experts."
2015-10-27
One asshole corporation swallowing another.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/27/us-rite-aid-m-a-walgreens-boots-idUSKCN0SL2D020151027
Doesn't change much. I won't shop at either one - the bigger asshole, or the smaller one.
Walgreens says will buy smaller drugstore rival Rite-Aid
Doesn't change much. I won't shop at either one - the bigger asshole, or the smaller one.
2015-10-26
Last decade it was 'Agile' and 'Scrum'. This decade it's 'DevOps'.
Next year it'll be something else.
Some how it all just comes together like magic (no really that's a quote from one of these idiot IT managers who spout off on the latest shiny thing being sold to them, but whose shit has to be cleaned up by everyone else).
Of course the missing pieces in all of these things is testing. You can't go live until you can to the best of your organization's ability really know what your solution, your product, your code, your anything is really doing.
That's there testing comes in. That's where critical thinking comes in. That's where observation, scientific evaluation comes in. That's where paying attention comes in. That's where learning from mistakes come in.
I've found that people who push things like Agile and DevOps often forget or try to deny that testing is the glue. And then those that do, So naturally just say (after they acknowledge that reality) is, 'we'll automate all the testing'.
These people don't really understand how software works.
Until these kinds of 'methodologies' truly embrace and respect the place testing has (here's a start, include it in your brand/title), you won't catch me espousing this bullshit.
So many when 'DevOps' becomes 'DevQAOps' (or just plain Sustainment, which is what it really is), then maybe I'll listen.
Some how it all just comes together like magic (no really that's a quote from one of these idiot IT managers who spout off on the latest shiny thing being sold to them, but whose shit has to be cleaned up by everyone else).
Of course the missing pieces in all of these things is testing. You can't go live until you can to the best of your organization's ability really know what your solution, your product, your code, your anything is really doing.
That's there testing comes in. That's where critical thinking comes in. That's where observation, scientific evaluation comes in. That's where paying attention comes in. That's where learning from mistakes come in.
I've found that people who push things like Agile and DevOps often forget or try to deny that testing is the glue. And then those that do, So naturally just say (after they acknowledge that reality) is, 'we'll automate all the testing'.
These people don't really understand how software works.
Until these kinds of 'methodologies' truly embrace and respect the place testing has (here's a start, include it in your brand/title), you won't catch me espousing this bullshit.
So many when 'DevOps' becomes 'DevQAOps' (or just plain Sustainment, which is what it really is), then maybe I'll listen.
2015-10-24
Abandoned ThinkProgress.
After getting many of their messages and seeing how they've handled this Benghazi issue, it's clear they're too wrapped up in man-hating to be useful anymore.
They've become the very thing they appear to despise in others - a site of hatred and intolerance.
They've become the very thing they appear to despise in others - a site of hatred and intolerance.
2015-10-23
Finally the double standard in feminism is exposed.
Too bad it had to take an election to bring it out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lauren-messervey/objectifying-trudeau-not-ok_b_8343342.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lauren-messervey/objectifying-trudeau-not-ok_b_8343342.html
I admit it. I distributed the photo of shirtless, boxing Trudeau over my social media and commented on how very, very fine he is. Why did I do that? Why did I reduce a man, a respected public figure, to a sex symbol when I know for a fact that I would have been out for blood if people were doing this to a female politician? Why am I being so completely hypocritical right now?
I'm about to say something that no feminist will want to admit - there IS a double standard. We think that men can handle this kind of behaviour. They're big boys, they can take the objectification, it's not a big deal, we're only admiring their beauty, they probably love the attention... and do you see what's happening right now?
Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau worked for this position. He put in the miles for his campaign trail, held his own in the debates, showed cooperation with rival parties, and rose from third place to a shining first. His father is a Canadian legend, and for all we know, he could be cut from the same cloth. And still, I am a hundred percent sure that none of this matters to a lot of people because he is so damn sexy. This would be OUTRAGEOUS and UNACCEPTABLE if he were a woman.
I objectified a potentially great leader and I am taking this moment to say that this is a HUGE problem. We bash every man who decides to "appreciate" the beauty of women that they find attractive, but if a woman decides to do this to a man, it's fine. It's really not. Treating a human being as a sex object, regardless of their gender, is degrading and disrespectful. We feminists hate it when we are expected to love unwanted attention, so why should men be expected to love it instead?
We need to see the facts. We need to see the accomplishments. We need to see the potential, the motivation, the love, the fear, the kindness, the strength, and the position of every human being instead of throwing it down the drain because of their "pretty face". I think it's time that we, especially feminists, start practicing what we preach, don't you?
Irony: Stephen Harper's downfall?
I would tend to agree.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/10/23/how-irony-killed-stephen-harper.html
"Irony does not let pomposity and hypocrisy go unpunished. Irony pricks the bubble of the overconfident and sabotages the self-righteousness of the smug. Irony is the friend of the people. This year, it was the enemy of Stephen Harper."
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/10/23/how-irony-killed-stephen-harper.html
"Irony does not let pomposity and hypocrisy go unpunished. Irony pricks the bubble of the overconfident and sabotages the self-righteousness of the smug. Irony is the friend of the people. This year, it was the enemy of Stephen Harper."
2015-10-22
Thums Up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thums_Up
I never had very many fond memories of India. One of few however was drinking Thums Up.
It's good to know I was likely not consuming HFCS all that time ...
I never had very many fond memories of India. One of few however was drinking Thums Up.
It's good to know I was likely not consuming HFCS all that time ...
Ingredients
According to Coca-Cola's Indian website, Thums Up contains: carbonated water, sugar, acidity regulator (E338), natural colour (150d) and added flavours ("natural, nature-identical and artificial flavouring substances"). Coca-Cola also states that Thums Up contains caffeine, but does not list it with the other ingredients.[1]As if there aren't enough reasons to trust the use of drones.
Aside from them having no accountability, no due process, no adequate security controls/measures ...
They simply don't work
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/firing-blind/
... after reading this, you'll question the existence and justification in just about everything and anything being done in our names ...
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
They simply don't work
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/firing-blind/
... after reading this, you'll question the existence and justification in just about everything and anything being done in our names ...
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
2015-10-21
2015-10-20
A telling screenshot
I find it interesting that winning party elected members in every province and territory (dominating in seven provinces and all three territories), while the incumbent only really dominated in two.
Does that really reveal them to be a regional party?
Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/10/19/how-the-parties-performed-in-each-province.html
Does that really reveal them to be a regional party?
Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/10/19/how-the-parties-performed-in-each-province.html
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