We aren’t hearing about it much here, but Calais is turning into the Rio Grande of England.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
#Elx42
Well. Away we go.
With friends like these.
Desperate to save face Obama inks another bad deal. Well, bad for our only allies who actually have skin in the game.
The deal between the US and Turkey which will allow American bombers to use Incirlik airbase while Turkey takes action against Islamic State (Isis) looks stranger and stranger. When first announced over a week ago, US officials spoke triumphantly of the agreement being “a game-changer” in the war against Isis. In fact, the war waged by Turkey in the days since this great American diplomatic success has been almost entirely against the Kurds, at home and abroad.
True the Vote
Belief in the integrity of the system is essential to a functioning democracy or republic.
Moreover, polls have shown that like the overwhelming majority of Americans, blacks support voter ID rules.
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Memo to journalists
Fringe parties are fringe for a reason.
Liz has a lot to be furious about. The global warming scam is pretty much dead, temperatures aren’t rising, even the Arctic ice cap is growing. What’s a modern day rent-seeker to do?
Via Maz2
Workers of the World, Unite
Danny Glover was unavailable for comment.
I don’t think an ‘industrial park’ is a place I’d want to live, myself.
Related via peterj
Not all that glitters
is gold.
At one point there seemed to be a lot of Bitcoin backers. Oh well, chalk it up to another life lesson learned.
Bill’s Wife
The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday.
Water, water, every where
Bill’s Wife
It’s a good thing she’s a Clinton, and not a Petraeus.
I’ll believe it when it happens.
Public figures and Politics
They act like they know what they’re talking about, we act like we care.
Although his letter blames the “Harper government” for stripping him of the franchise, he is likely unable to vote because of a 22-year-old law enacted by the government of Brian Mulroney.
Seafood Chowder
When certain people are away, I eat all the things that certain people refuse to touch. This is one, and one of my favourites.
Bottom-Dwelling, Crap-Eater Chowder
1/2 cup butter
One onion, chopped
Once celery stalk, chopped
Two potatoes in small cubes.
4 Tbsp of flour
salt,
pepper,
paprika
thyme
basil
3 cups of milk
Whoops Forgot about the two cans of condensed Creme Mushroom soup.
3 cups or so of chopped frozen seafood.
Cook the seafood as per the package instructions. On medium heat, melt the butter and saute the onion, celery and potato until soft. Add the flour and spices to thicken. Add the milk and Condensed soup, add the cooked seafood. Judge the thickness of the chowder as you heat it, if it’s too thin, add a bit more flour. Bring almost to a boil, take it off the heat and let it cool.
Never let up the skeer.
As much as this sounds good. Don’t let an NDP partisan fool you.
Don’t stop.
29Jul15, Win 10 and you.
If you haven’t signed up, wait. If you have, then I recommend using Clonezilla this weekend to snapshot your hard drive. MSFT has assured us that all machines running Win7 or Win8/8.1 will support Win10. I guess we’ll see.
Clonezilla is a Linux based boot disk (CD/USB) that will ‘ghost’ your drive sector by sector. It writes a recoverable image to an external USB drive. If you speak the language, it’s basically dd > tar > gz, although it offers a variety of options.
I plan on running it tonight on my Win7 machine that will be upgraded to Win10 on the 29th.
It’s a very easy program to use, just _read_ all of the dialog screens. There’s only two things you really need to be absolutely sure of:
Which is the device you’re writing to, and
Which is the device you’re reading from.
You really don’t want to get those mixed up.
On average, over USB 2.0, it’ll take about 1 hour per 100G of data depending on the data. It compresses and packs the data in (default) 2GB files. It’s a sector copy so you can’t use it to retrieve specific files, it will recover all of the drive, all of a partition, or nothing.
I use it on every machine that comes into my shop, before I start working on it. If I screw up and make a machine unusable, I need to be able to return the machine back to the state in which I received it. I’ve recovered from the clonezilla images exactly twice, once on WinXP and once on Win7. Both recoveries performed as expected.
Instructions are on the site on how to burn the ISO’s to a CDROM or to extract the Zip file to a USB thumb device, so all you really need is a suitably sized external USB hard drive.
SJW’s lose another.
Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement.
Some Ellen Pao background.
The Reddit Revolt won.
Why does the new generation fight and win and the old generation continually lose? Because the new generation knows the rules. It isn’t about winning the argument, it’s about collecting scalps and counting the bodies.
#Gamergate.
Oh, Shiny Pony
“She still has to win the nomination.”
And surprising no one, it looks like the hand-picked nominee, will.