April, 2009 archive
Bushonomics: Hit the Road, Jack, Dept. 0
The unregulated free hand of the market:
The joblessness is perverse: It is the direct result of the battered economy and the major reason economic recovery will be slow and painful – with most analysts foreseeing little in the way of even a modest turnaround until midway through next year.
Meanwhile, consumer spending and the housing market – to name two key economic drivers – are certain to suffer prolonged damage by the high level of unemployment.
Debian Linux 0
And you are still using Windows why?
Learn how to install Debian here: Step One, Step Two, and Step Three.
Greater Wingnuttery VI 0
Fruitcakes. All fruitcakes.
It’s Comcastic. Well, Not So Much. 4
Not just me.
Judging from the error messages that their POP3 server has been throwing, they’ve suffered a major hardware failure and their IT gnomes are trying to pick up the pieces.
It is a good day not work in Comcast IT. I’m sure the adrenaline level is out the roof.
Slightly later:
It appears to working again.
Much Ado about Not Much of Anything 0
Not that I’m a big fan of Larry Summers or of the whole Wall Street rat pack, but the only significance of this is to illustrate what an incestuous inbred little group sits at the top of the financial hill.
Stand and Deliver, Mark to Market Dept. 0
Fiduciary smiduciary.
Disregard market value. Just make stuff up:
The vote by the Financial Accounting Standards Board followed a debate in which members of Congress pushed for steps to help banks weighed down by troubled assets, while some investor groups warned that the plans would allow executives to cover up losses. The rules change spurred Thursday’s stock-market rally.
From an interview I heard on Marconi’s Magic Box this morning, but which I cannot find to cite (I’ll keep looking):
“My only hope is that it does less damage than it’s going to do.”
“You’re (persons who ignore market value–ed.) disguising reality.”
Dodgy 0
Taxes are the fees for living in civilized society.
Prem Sikka in the Guardian on corporate tax dodgery (emphasis added):
Stray Thought 0
There are few things more frustrating than losing your morning cup of coffee while you’re still too asleep to look for it.
PEBCAK 0
The weakest link in security: the Problem Exists Between the Chair And Keyboard.
The moral of the story: Whatever OS you use, do not go online without a firewall and an anti-virus.
Dustbiter Watch 0
None so far tonight.
The Truth Shall Set You Free (but Only If You First Set Free the Truth) (Updated) 0
Evil has no better friend than the dark.
What, one wonders, do they fear, other than the truth.
Via Andrew Sullivan.
Addendum, the Next Morning:
The Booman has some thoughts.
Greater Wingnuttery V 0
MalkeH talking about his or her father’s reaction to Fox News. Note that the father, having grown up in Germany before World War II, had been raised as a Hitler Youth, though he later outgrew the indoctrination.
Godwin’s Law does not apply, because it is a historical reference, not invective:
Greater Wingnuttery IV 0
WATB want a do-over.