"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Do you think if we sent a raft of these to Congress we could keep the “idjit congresscritters” busy enough to get ’em out of our hair for a while?
It’s worth a shot…
Note plans and instructions here showing how you too can make The World’s Most Useless Machine.
Things like the “Seventh Generation” ad I just saw (while watching HGTV) just make me want to puke. The ad promoted “Seventh Generation” chemical cleaners as not being “chemicals”. Assinine. Of course their products are chemicals. For example, according to the company’s own (required by law) Material Safety Data Sheet on its Chlorine Free Bleach, it contains “Cosmetic Grade (whatever that is) Peroxide” and as anyone not “educated” in public schools in the past quarter of a century knows, peroxide is a chemical. And a poisonous chemical that is a dangerous eye irritant as well. (Do note: some miseducated in public schools correct some of public school’s–A.K.A., “prisons for kids”–flaws with autodidacticism and so know that companies like “Seventh Generation” are bloviating, putrescent liars.)
Ditto for the rest of the “Seventh Generation” so-called “non-chemical” chemicals.
Companies like this depend on an enstupiated, illiterate public to survive. I say, kill such companies off, if for nothing else their dishonesty and concerted efforts to further lobotomize an enstupiated population of sheeple.
Voted for Obama? Go elsewhere for medical care.
Of course (I say, “of course” because, well, it’s a Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind organ citing an Academia Nut Fruitcake, so, of course), the linked article misses the point, with one “professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism” misstating the doctor’s notice as simply a free speech issue vs. medical ethics, when rightly the issue is also–and more importantly–one of free association. As one writer, speaking normatively, has put it,
That the Constitution guarantees freedom of association to each of us does not mean that we may each associate with anyone we choose. It means that we may associate with whoever also agrees to associate with us.
Exactly.
From iPhad.com.
Too easy. The iPad: the new low-hanging fruit in Apple mockery.
Addendum: from the site linked above:
Take a stand against vanity, conceit, and the cult of personality. Don’t be fooled by purveyors of dumbed-down, locked-down, semi-functional pieces of planned obsolescence. Computers and electronic devices are tools, not fashion accessories. They do not define who you are or what group you belong to. Any company or culture that insists otherwise is deeply creepy. Apple haters unite!
This post was not written using ANY Apple product.
Keep in mind that this “maroon” is the replacement for Cynthia McKinney in Congress, so as unbelievably stupid as he is, he’s an improvement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
[audio:What-a-maroon.mp3]But still, as a Loony Left Moonbat, he’s one of the brighter of the flock.
h.t. Hot Air
Why the %^&* are most USB ports in the back of most computers? I mean really? Sure, one needs a few in the rear, and for notebooks it makes much more sense to put things like USB ports in the rear (at least given the way we use ’em most here at twc central), but what do you need USB ports in the rear of your computer for apart from for a printer and maybe keyboard/mouse? And for a keyboard/mouse, well heck, you really need only one USB port to install a wireless adapter, right? 🙂 OK, the TV remote’s USB red-eye dongle doesn’t have to move a lot, so I’ll give you that one, too.
With almost eveything else, from thumb drives to cameras to even external drives, it’s a real PITA to plug the things into the back.
Oh, well. I just string on USB extension cables galore, since the two built-in front USB ports on this hawg are ALWAYS populated. But still. Seriously, why doesn’t my case have a built-in set of six or eight ports in front that I can attach to a mobo header or add-in card? And why do most add-in hubs only have four ports? *sigh*
Oh. Well. I’ll be adding a USB 3.0 card to this hawg as soon as the standard settles a bit and peripherals become available, anyway. Maybe by then add-on hubs with more ports will be available.
(And yeh, yeh, I know I can always add an external hub. BTDT. Just more desktop clutter. Not that it’d be noticeable. *heh*)
Those peaceful Muslims again. Combine “peaceful Muslim” with “Obama donor” and you have the perfect Leftard:
Man arrested for threatening Cantor is an Obama donor, also threatened Holder and family
More typical as a Muslim than a Leftard, though, as he threatened not only a Repugnican’t congresscritter but an Attorney General *spit* who has done everything within his power to advance the cause of jihadis.
On second thought, Leftards aren’t well-known for avoiding such stupidities as threatening those with their aims at heart…
Now, although the guy was an Obama donor and is a Muslim, he’ll undoubtedly be characterized by the few Mass MEdia Podpeople who give the story more than two sentences as a “rigfht-wing extremist tea bagger”–anyone want to lay odds?
Since most readers here use some version of Windows, this will focus on backing up one’s computer using that platform–and rather narrowly, at that. (If you’re using a Linux distro, you are likely not even in need of any pointers, as that OS is still either used by slightly more sophisticated users or Great Aunt Tilly’s Ubuntu machine is managed by her geeky 12-year-old great niece. *heh* If you’re on a Mac, you’re stuck with the Time Machine straightjacket.)
Now, I’m generally a fan of making a drive image of a working OS and then updating it whenever serious OS updates come along, then just backing up one’s data–and darned near any strategy that keeps one’s data safe of fine with me. But I’m a particular fan of remote–and especially off site–backups. It just gives me a warm feeling knowing that if a tornado swooped down and swept my computer(s) away, I could reconstruct them from remote, offsite sources. That’s why backing things up to optical media or local network drives just isn’t enough for me. Sure, it’s great that a reasonable backup software (that includes basic disk imaging!) is now included in Windows 7, and even that Win7 Pro and Ultimate include backing up over a network. But I wanted more and I wanted it for free.
Answer? It appears that GFI Backup is my answer. I just performed an ftp backup of my Win7 machine to a folder on my domain easily and quickly using the software. Checked the zip file and all seems to be as it should be. I’ve not used the software to perform a restore from backup, yet, but since the contents of the backup are readable, it looks like it ought to be fine. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just come back here and say nasty things, ‘K? 😉
There are other solutions out there, but a real backup placed on a reliable set of servers on my own domain by a software that can be scheduled to run, can run differential backups, etc., and cost me nothing? Well, that’s right up my alley.
For Win2K, WinXP, Vista and 7.
Oh, yeh. Also performs backups to local drives, local network drives, etc., in case one were to want that as well. 🙂
Instead of the fatuous (and dangerous!*) “Earth Hour” last Saturday, A Place to Stand suggested Human Achievement Hour, quite similar to Woody’s protest.
The lights were on here at twc central, but I must confess I had no thought of protesting Earth Hour. Everything was running because
1. I never shut down my Big Hawg (computer)
2. Some of my Wonder Woman’s family had come by after the wedding and reception and we spent the time visiting about important things (like our firecracker lil niece who charmed everyone in sight and was continuing to do so as we visited), instead of observing some wacko “Earth Hour” balderdash.
*Note: the linked “article” is a fable.
We need a Buck v. Bell-type case to allow us to enable us to prevent congresscritters from breeding.