Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Couldn't agree more sir. I might edit the middle part, "to buy things they think they want," instead though. Then again if this statement weren't true I probably wouldn't have a job right now.
[Via Consumerist]
Realmac Software has a teaser video up for their newest app Clear. It looks like a pretty cool todos manager. I just hope there are multiple ways to input data. Many times I like making lists on my Mac and have them pushed to my phone.
[Via 52 Tiger]
Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.
I have been wondering about this for a little while now. The tech industry is almost completely powered by VC investments. Someone has a good idea, some rich guy/girl or group agrees and throws their money in for a percentage of ownership. When Color received $41 million in VC funding the tech industry was in uproar. That would be enough to make "Good Will Hunting" 4 times over or a little more than the budget for 2010's "Kick Ass".
This industry is in the prime position to be disrupted. The funding is around. Customers are unhappy with the current industry. Not to mention the incumbents are trying to ruin the internet. The MPAA needs to go, and the ability to make that happen is within our grasp.
If the horse and buggy industry had the ability to lobby Congress and make internal combustion engines illegal they would have. We cannot let dying industries ruin the future we intend to build.
[Via SplatF]
Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.
Couldn't agree more with Marco here. Money might not buy elections, but it sure as hell can buy laws. Just look at the copywright law and how everytime Mickey Mouse is up to be public domained Disney pays millions, maybe even billions to extend the copywright.
Finance reform needs to happen and big business is going to use their large coffers to fight. The only advantage we have is the numbers. As the OWS protests have shown, people are fed up.
2. Take a break – Try to take a break every 15 – 20 minutes and get away from your computer screen. Try to do this as much as you can to avoid glare and eye strain.
So your genius fix for reducing glare on my computer screen is to stop looking at the screen then?
I'm going to save this article to show anyone that thinks they can't be a writer. What crap.
"Is it me you're looking for?"
Reminds me of this conversation.
[Via DF]
Update: Link to account featuring avatar mentioned previously
I'm not really sure why this stuff is so hard to find in the states and expensive if you can. I guess we'll just have to import it from Germany instead.
Mark Polishuk for MLBTR.com
The Yankees have agreed to a one-year contract with Hiroki Kuroda, pending a physical, tweets Jack Curry of the YES Network (Twitter link). The deal will pay Kuroda $10MM, tweets ESPN's Buster Olney.
Do not like.
[Via SOSG]
I only need 22% of the country to vote for me and I can win the next election. Just have to win these states and I can be the next president. Don't even have to bother with California, New York or Florida.
Win those states and you too can be president with 78% of the country voting against you!
[from Grey's Blog]
Mike Scioscia's tragic illness
If you had two billion dollars in singles and stretched them end-to-end from here to the moon... you'd still have an absolutely ludicrous amount of money despite having wasted so much of it an an unnecessary example of your wealth.
With estimates of almost $2 billion for the Dodgers I guess that takes Mark Cuban out of the running. With Mr. Freeze in the running what could be the downside for The Bums? Please just get this overwith so we can be rid of McCourt and actually focus on the team on the field.
Sara Sorcher for nationaljournal.com
“I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists,” Obama said in a statement accompanying his signature.
If I was paying attention in Government class in high school and Poli Sci 101 in college there was a way to show your dissatisfaction Mr. President. Your failure to veto this bill has lost at minimum one vote and I presume many more. All members of the military swear an oath that includes the line
"I,... do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."
The authors of this bill, all members of Congress that voted affirmatively for this bill and you Mr. President for not vetoing are all enemies of The Constitution of these United States. Simply saying you were not satisfied with parts of the bill is not acceptable. This law must be repealed. From this Associated Press article we get this gem of a quote:
"My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," Obama said in the signing statement. "Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation."
The "but we're not going to use it" argument will never fly. If the law says you can, you will. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you will. With all the police opposition to the various Occupy protests across the country how can we trust that laws such as this one will not be used to imprison people with ideas contrary to yours.
I know my blog alone does not reach many people but hopefully the few that read this will spread the word. We need to make our government understand we are not happy. Contact your Representatives, Senators or you can contact the White House directly at (202) 456-1111, email or even snail mail
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500
I'm not naive enough to think that my one call, email or postcard will make a difference but if we all show up maybe we can make a difference.
[Via Judd Legum for thinkprogress.org]
