some unrelated things
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:09:28 +0000Russian Intelligence Agency Can Tap Skype Users Without Court Order
... it essentially means that Microsoft has build [sic] back-doors in Skype so that the company can tap into users' conversations whenever it wants to.
Hard to carry the day with this response:You have no idea what you are talking about. I love the Kindle Fire...it's very user friendly and great for kids as well. Your and idiot.
-- bowiemdh, 9/11/2012 2:30 PM EDT
When you get 2 words wrong in a 3-word sentence, I don't give much credence to what's left.
I was also surprised by all the ads on the website. I don't see that (with my locked-down Firefox) at home. I'm going to have to root the Kindle, because I won't have the patience for Amazon's ads every time I pick the thing up. Their product is a shopping device, and I don't want to shop.
Some would say by filtering ads (websites, TV commercials) I'm not paying for the media I consume, not carrying my share of the load. But if the commercials don't influence my spending, who would benefit from my watching them? Most of the ads are for things I have no use for - drugs for diseases I don't have, home furnishings, clothes I would never wear. I do drive a car, but mine is 20+ years old (so 20 years of wasted commercials there), and TV is not going not be a major factor in my decision; a commercial is not a source of objective information. Commercials may even discourage my purchase if I feel they're a waste of money, and by buying what they advertise I'm supporting that waste. So you're better off if I don't know you spent a million dollars on a Super-Bowl ad. A car company that sponsors NASCAR - product development/testing. A clothing company - waste. (I don't consider auto racing a "sport", either, and horse racing is dubious. (Getting back to that "ride" a bike and "drive" a car thing.))
Aaron Jackson of Destin, Florida bought a house across the street from the notoriously-homophobic Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas and painted it in the rainbow hues of the Gay Pride flag.Westboro Baptist Church gets a rainbow-colored neighbor
Tue, Mar 19, 2013
The Westboro Baptist Church's neighborhood got a splash of color Tuesday morning. Aaron Jackson, the founder of non-profit Planting Peace and the owner of the two-bedroom, one-bath house at 1200 Southwest Orleans Street, directly across the street from the WBC, had his home painted in a gay pride rainbow theme Tuesday.
Jackson and a couple of Planting Peace partners have been living in the home for about two months. The organization has traditionally focused on causes like caring for orphans and de-worming children in impoverished countries. Jackson, from Destin, Florida, decided that GLBT equality would be the next area of focus for his group. The home, dubbed Equality House, will serve as a volunteer center and help the group promote GLBT rights in Kansas and throughout the country.
[2017/Jun/22] Interesting - I just took another look at Google Maps street view. Google has updated the front view of the house with the new paint, but if you move your viewpoint you can still get older images with the grey paint (and a realtor's sign(?) in the yard). In more-recent photos you can see that the garage has been converted into a room, and the driveway has been replaced with grass. (The house is on a corner, and there's a separate garage and driveway at the back of the lot.) And at some point the house next door became the Trans Pride house. (The two houses look like the same floor plan (not unusual) with different roof styles.)
It's not unusual to see seasonal shifts in Google's map images - aerial views that have leafy trees and bare branches in adjacent areas, or street views that suddenly have snow as you move down the block. I hadn't seen a surgical update like this before, but any business needs to respond to providing what people expect to find.
If you just want to see the house, you'll do better with an image search ('equality house topeka ks') than with Google's street view.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/587883.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
... it essentially means that Microsoft has build [sic] back-doors in Skype so that the company can tap into users' conversations whenever it wants to.
Hard to carry the day with this response:You have no idea what you are talking about. I love the Kindle Fire...it's very user friendly and great for kids as well. Your and idiot.
-- bowiemdh, 9/11/2012 2:30 PM EDT
When you get 2 words wrong in a 3-word sentence, I don't give much credence to what's left.
I was also surprised by all the ads on the website. I don't see that (with my locked-down Firefox) at home. I'm going to have to root the Kindle, because I won't have the patience for Amazon's ads every time I pick the thing up. Their product is a shopping device, and I don't want to shop.
Some would say by filtering ads (websites, TV commercials) I'm not paying for the media I consume, not carrying my share of the load. But if the commercials don't influence my spending, who would benefit from my watching them? Most of the ads are for things I have no use for - drugs for diseases I don't have, home furnishings, clothes I would never wear. I do drive a car, but mine is 20+ years old (so 20 years of wasted commercials there), and TV is not going not be a major factor in my decision; a commercial is not a source of objective information. Commercials may even discourage my purchase if I feel they're a waste of money, and by buying what they advertise I'm supporting that waste. So you're better off if I don't know you spent a million dollars on a Super-Bowl ad. A car company that sponsors NASCAR - product development/testing. A clothing company - waste. (I don't consider auto racing a "sport", either, and horse racing is dubious. (Getting back to that "ride" a bike and "drive" a car thing.))
Aaron Jackson of Destin, Florida bought a house across the street from the notoriously-homophobic Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas and painted it in the rainbow hues of the Gay Pride flag.Westboro Baptist Church gets a rainbow-colored neighbor
Tue, Mar 19, 2013
The Westboro Baptist Church's neighborhood got a splash of color Tuesday morning. Aaron Jackson, the founder of non-profit Planting Peace and the owner of the two-bedroom, one-bath house at 1200 Southwest Orleans Street, directly across the street from the WBC, had his home painted in a gay pride rainbow theme Tuesday.
Jackson and a couple of Planting Peace partners have been living in the home for about two months. The organization has traditionally focused on causes like caring for orphans and de-worming children in impoverished countries. Jackson, from Destin, Florida, decided that GLBT equality would be the next area of focus for his group. The home, dubbed Equality House, will serve as a volunteer center and help the group promote GLBT rights in Kansas and throughout the country.
[2017/Jun/22] Interesting - I just took another look at Google Maps street view. Google has updated the front view of the house with the new paint, but if you move your viewpoint you can still get older images with the grey paint (and a realtor's sign(?) in the yard). In more-recent photos you can see that the garage has been converted into a room, and the driveway has been replaced with grass. (The house is on a corner, and there's a separate garage and driveway at the back of the lot.) And at some point the house next door became the Trans Pride house. (The two houses look like the same floor plan (not unusual) with different roof styles.)
It's not unusual to see seasonal shifts in Google's map images - aerial views that have leafy trees and bare branches in adjacent areas, or street views that suddenly have snow as you move down the block. I hadn't seen a surgical update like this before, but any business needs to respond to providing what people expect to find.
If you just want to see the house, you'll do better with an image search ('equality house topeka ks') than with Google's street view.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/587883.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]