Saturday Night Sports Point Scoring Failure #1

Saturday Night Sports Point Scoring Failure #2

It wasn't until about 2 in the afternoon that I figured out why Saturday meant so much to Star Wars people.

Raise your hand if you get this. Brother didn't, which was a surprise.

Measles in Los Angeles, bubonic plague in Mongolia, and an inevitable evolutionary resistance to antibiotics.

Statistically I'm somewhere between two-thirds and four-fifths of the way home, and thinking that it'll be a fine time for leaving this planet.

Measles in Los Angeles, bubonic plague in Mongolia, and an inevitable evolutionary resistance to antibiotics.

Statistically I'm somewhere between two-thirds and four-fifths of the way home, and thinking that it'll be a fine time for leaving this planet.

(Sorry for the double)

Take a moment to read that short Mirror piece about the plague. We can be seriously grateful that the Chinese have shown the competence to move on this quarantine quickly, effectively, humanely and with proper respect for the notification and concern of the rest of the world. It wasn't that long ago we wouldn't have thought they were up to it.

It's said that after the SARS infection from Hong Kong reached Toronto in 2003, Chinese international airports have been taking your temperature with hidden scanners as you moved through the terminal. If they detect illness, you're detained without recourse until they have a satisfactory outcome. China can't afford to be isolated, whether in travel or the transportation of goods, by the rest of the world because of diseases.

The financial interconnectedness of China with the rest of the world is tremendous... Especially with the United States. No two superpowers have ever been so interdependent. Neither of us can afford to let the other experience an enormously disruptive event, financially or otherwise... And we certainly aren't going to go to war.

See this 2013 piece from Cosh regarding "the eight [Chinese] men of achievement in the basic sciences" holding trophies:

All eight won their Nobels for work outside China, which almost goes without saying. Yet it does go without saying whenever someone writes a panicky piece about the supposedly rising Chinese role in scientific research. The hundred million or so Han outside China have, when it comes to first-class scientific discovery, mopped the floor with the 1.2 billion left behind.

[…]

What I always wonder when I encounter a China bull or a Chinaphobe—for they are two sides of the same coin—is this: Even if they think “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is economically superior to ordinary capitalism, where in China are the parallel cultural institutions to support prolonged capitalist-style growth? Maybe China doesn’t need reciprocal free trade to blow our doors off in the race to utopia. Maybe it doesn’t need untidy democratic quarrelling. One presumes it won’t need a high level of achievement in basic science, either, judging by the Nobels: It is well-documented that the Chinese civilian research establishment is awash in fraud and plagiarism, to say nothing of the destructive favouritism inherent to a one-party state.

And if you want stoke your self-righteousness by electing tawdry, oblivious game show hosts to the United States presidency, you'll certainly have that opportunity again and again.

But terrible things are going to happen. And when they do, no one's going to call Bujumbura, Sao Paulo, Mumbai, or even Paris for help. The phone's going to ring in the United States of America. No one else has even started the groundwork for service & leadership to civilization in the American style.

We won't have the option of waiting for things to blow over.

“It's said that after the SARS infection from Hong Kong reached Toronto in 2003, Chinese international airports have been taking your temperature with hidden scanners as you moved through the terminal. If they detect illness, you're detained without recourse until they have a satisfactory outcome. China can't afford to be isolated, whether in travel or the transportation of goods, by the rest of the world because of diseases.”

The scanners aren’t hidden. They are labeled as such, and they are in Japan as well.

The U.S should be doing the same. Might have prevented that Ebola case in Texas that caused so many problems.

Is anyone else annoyed by this weekend's Firefox outage?

Is anyone else annoyed by this weekend's Firefox outage?

I believe this was done intentionally to force people to update their Firefox browsers. Version 56 was the last one that used the old plugins and was pure Firefox.

From ver. 57 and onwards it's just Google Chrome but with a furry theme.

Goddamit, I want my motherfucking extensions. That's the whole point of USING ff. FFS.

I mean, Six is right, and I'm not happy about this. This is undoubtedly a move my Google, one of FF's few sponsoring enterprises, to end the use of tools which allow downloading content and hiding identity from their data collection.

Fuck*.

See also.

*Note unabashed vulgarity on this topic.

Milo's in trouble:

Meditation on a Blood Libel -- A Yiannopoulos Blood Libel

This one's for the long, LONG sitters. (Yeah, that's me.)

New Data Shows We’re Still Sitting Way Too Much. Does Exercising Cancel It Out?

"No two superpowers have ever been so interdependent."

I am reminded of Germany and Russia, prior to WW2. How'd that work out?

"I believe this was done intentionally to force people to update their Firefox browsers. Version 56 was the last one that used the old plugins and was pure Firefox."

Sorry, no.

The current rev is 66.0.3, and
1) the extension outage occurred independently of any update
2) NO extensions are available for FF. Attempts to update or modernize OR seek ANY extension produce a download error asking if you're connected to the Internet.

3) It's just been fixed. (Firefox)

From Walker's lips to God's ear:

America will never be a socialist country

No good deed goes unpunished:

New Shocking Reasons Hormonal Contraceptives Tank Women’s Sex Drive

Sorry, no.

The current rev is 66.0.3

I was on rev 57 and per their instructions enabled their Firefox Studies telemetry; six hours later? no patch at all.

Bit the bullet and updated it to the current version with their telemetry enabled and in less than a minute the patch to enable the plugins was ready.

Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month by running!

Still nothing here

Finally cleared at 7:15 AM PST today.
Grrrr