February, 2016 archive
iJunk, Their Day in Court Dept. 0
This should be fun.
Law firm PCVA said on Friday that it had brought a class-action lawsuit in the US district court for the northern district of California in response to Apple’s “error 53” iPhone controversy.
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He (attorney Darrell Cochran–ed) dismissed Apple’s security argument as spurious. “If security was the primary concern, then why did the phones work just fine without the software update?”
Anatomy of an Election 0
BadTux has a theory.
Comment Rescue, National Theatre Dept. 0
George Smith points out that the Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln, but is now the party of John Wilkes Booth.
He’s quite right, you know.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing.
Facebook Frolics 0
A Parisian protests the petty puritanism of prissy poseurs. A precis:
The ruling by the Paris appeal court could set a legal precedent in the country, where Facebook has more than 30 million regular users.
A court will now be entitled to hear the case of the 57-year-old Parisian teacher and art lover whose Facebook account was suspended five years ago without notice. It was closed on the day he posted a photo of Gustave Courbet’s 1866 painting The Origin of the World, . . . .
They Do Id with Mirrors* 0
In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland ponders the appeal of Donald Trump and concludes that Trump is not so much a leader as he is a mirror.
Trump has been the dirty mirror of the American mind for decades; his whole enterprise on NBC built up to the act of telling people more famous, wealthy and attractive than the viewer that they’re fired, and if he looked like a goblin while doing it, so much the better.
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*With apologies to Agatha Christie.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in your neighborhood mercantile center.
The individual was visiting the business, and was in the back of the store away from customers when the gun went off.
Afterthought:
“Individual . . . themselves.” Jeez Louise.
For Christ’s sake, bring back copy editors.
The Virus Is Spreading 2
This can’t be good.
Announcing his decision to stand, the 83-year-old construction entrepreneur said he plans to put his name forward as Austrian president, and that he thinks his former Playboy bunny wife would be a perfect First Lady.
He said he was inspired by the fact that fellow building magnate and outsider Donald Trump had managed to notch a big victory in the US. “I am going to make sure we copy the same voting strategy as Trump,” Lugner said.
‘Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
This seems to have Wingnut World and the New Secesh in the uproar of the day.
After all, it’s not as if white folks have anything to feel guilty about . . . .
There’s the “Golden Mean,” . . . 0
. . . then there’s the Republican mean.