The Crazification Factor 3
There’s that 27% number again.
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November 4, 2013 at 12:02 pm
Two observations I’ve made before. Polling may show 27 percent believe the unfortunate deserve it for being bad drug-taking people with low morals, no will to work, and of little skill or worth to society. Which is a minority that believes that LOUDLY. In practice, though, the US is now baldly a malevolent nation with policies and regulations are those that punish the same at a time of hardship. So this belief isn’t so minority in that it’s become a tacit, if often silent, belief set by a much larger coterie, close enough to a majority. The writer got at this when he addressed the election of Paul LePage in Maine. You can easily extend that to Tom Corbett in Pennsy. These governors are barely human beings using “human” as the standard for description. And the reason McC is going to win on Tuesday is because the other guy is all too obviously not a human being at all but a malicious, vengeful and mentally ill troll disguised as a normal-looking guy in an expensive suit.
That’s the spirit of WhiteManistan. It’s a place to be gotten away from at all costs but which you can’t escape yet. The Tea Party may be the vocal identifiable fringe tail but it’s way deeper.
The second observation is that philly.com now causes an immediate hang if I access its pages without filtering them through an anonymizer that strips all scripts/objects and sends the ‘treated’ page to me through a different temporary archiving server. I’ve attributed this to changes that are made in the javascript and flash coding, usually associated with new advertising or the pushing of more content on the page. It’s something I’ve noticed regularly as various places become no-go’s for me without object/element stripping. It’s the age on the device thing.
November 4, 2013 at 12:48 pm
I have not noticed any lag at philly.com, but I have the following scripts blocked:
I wonder whether one of them is the culprit. (And, of course, I’m using Opera on Slackware.)
November 4, 2013 at 1:01 pm
Might be. It’s not the problem of lag although that happens with a lot of overloaded sites. It’s that specific objects immediately get into a processing loop or hogging event that causes a hard hang. I can’t selectively block scripts with any of the add-ons for my version of Opera. So I use zend2.com as the stripper.