Monthly Archives: October 2014

Why I set up this blog

A quote turned up in a post to comp.misc…it’s something to think about:

Re: Whisper v. Guardian

According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook [sic] in his dorm room:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don’t know why.
Zuck: They “trust me”
Zuck: Dumb fucks.

What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About How Laws Work

Why anyone ever paid any attention to the mental midgets at Vox in the first place is anybody’s guess:

What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About How Laws Work.

You can go ahead and reset the “Days Since Vox Had A Lost Credibility Incident” calendar back to zero.

When has this calendar ever been non-zero?

(As a reminder of why Ezra Klein is a lightweight who shouldn’t be taken seriously, I give you this quote of his from an appearance on MSNBC after the 2010 election: “The issue of the Constitution is that the text is confusing because it was written more than 100 years ago.”)

Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage

Hypocrites:

Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage.

Seattle-based group The Freedom Socialist Party, which owns socialism.com and regularly campaigns for a $15/hour minimum wage, advertised a job on Wednesday that offers just $13 an hour.

[…]

The advertised job’s Indeed.com description says that the wage is negotiable depending on experience, but the group has said that living wage must start at at least $15–not $13 or $14 an hour.

Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage

Hypocrites:

Seattle Socialist Group Pushing $15/Hour Minimum Wage Posts Job With $13/Hour Wage.

Seattle-based group The Freedom Socialist Party, which owns socialism.com and regularly campaigns for a $15/hour minimum wage, advertised a job on Wednesday that offers just $13 an hour.

[…]

The advertised job’s Indeed.com description says that the wage is negotiable depending on experience, but the group has said that living wage must start at at least $15–not $13 or $14 an hour.