“Name something a doctor might pull out of a person” was a recent question on Family Feud. Some reasonable answers might be “a baby” (in a Cesarean section) or “car keys” (which some kids might swallow). My title kinda gives it away if you’re a South Park fan…otherwise, you might be as stunned as Steve Harvey at the first answer that came to one contestant’s mind:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZmDdo8K-7o]
A kilted hasher would never complain about a harriette verifying that he’s “regimental:”
William Wallace lookalike sick and tired of female tourists checking if he’s a ‘real Scotsman’
Jenny McCarthy is as much an epidemiologist as Andrew Sullivan is an obstetrician. When you operate outside your zone of competence, this is what results:
Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s
When actors play doctors on TV, that does not make them actual doctors. And that does not mean they should scour some Internet boards, confront their pediatricians, and demand fewer vaccinations for their children, as some Hollywood parents in Los Angeles have apparently been doing.
The Hollywood Reporter has a great investigation for which it sought the vaccination records of elementary schools all over Los Angeles County. They found that vaccination rates in elite neighborhoods like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have tanked, and the incidence of whooping cough there has skyrocketed.
On a related note, the Puppy Blender found this bit of snark from Nigeria:
All that said, it also doesn’t help that truckloads of illegal aliens got sent all over the country a while back, many of whom were no doubt carrying diseases that had pretty much been wiped out within our borders. Diseased illegals + unimmunized Hollyweirdos = Bad News.
Surely a sign of TEOTWAWKI:
Bill Gates Inadvertently Shows Off Ubuntu on His Facebook Page
Screencapped, in case it goes down the memory hole:
(Yes, the likely explanation is that he pulled a stock photo from somewhere, but you’d think he, of all people, would’ve spent a few minutes extra to find a stock photo with a Windows desktop. Hell, he could’ve called someone in Microsoft’s PR department to either find an image or have one made on short order.)
He’s spun up a PAC leading into the next election, and someone noticed something fishy about the name:
Acronym of Chris Christie’s PAC becomes a laughing matter
The PAC’s website is at leadershipmattersforamerica.org. What do the bolded letters spell out? Yup…wonder who spent the long hours to make that one fit?
With the fools running this sh*tshow, I doubt that anything is unintended. If you’ve signed up for 0bamaDoesn’tCare through the federal exchange, your information is getting passed around to who knows how many third-party sites. I guess it’s not a HIPAA violation when the feds do it:
HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care–is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites. The information being sent includes one’s zip code, income level, smoking status, pregnancy status and more.
EFF researchers have independently confirmed that healthcare.gov is sending personal health information to at least 14 third party domains, even if the user has enabled Do Not Track. The information is sent via the referrer header, which contains the URL of the page requesting a third party resource. The referrer header is an essential part of the HTTP protocol, and is sent for every request that is made on the web. The referrer header lets the requested resource know what URL the request came from. This would for example let a website know who else was linking to their pages. In this case however the referrer URL contains personal health information.
The screencap provided by EFF lists a number of advertising and analytics providers. These providers end up getting the referrer string, which your browser sends nearly every time it requests something: a webpage, an image, etc. The referrer will usually be whatever is in your address bar at the moment.
There are two ways you can provide information to a website. With an HTTP PUT request, form information is stuffed into a blob of data which is sent to the server along with the rest of the request. With an HTTP GET request, form information is appended to the URL that is submitted to the server. PUT requests are somewhat more secure than GET requests; they’re not as open to user tampering, and whatever form data they contain won’t get passed around to other services in the referrer, as it’ll be a much simpler-looking URL (such as https://alfter.us/wp/). GET requests end up looking more like this example EFF retrieved from its interactions with healthcare.gov:
https://4037109.fls.doubleclick.net/activityi;src=4037109;type=20142003;cat=201420;ord=7917385912018;~oref=https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/85601/results/?county=04019&age=40&smoker=1&parent=&pregnant=1&mec=&zip=85601&state=AZ&income=35000&&step=4?
Look at what kind of personal information (in bold) is getting sent along with that. In this case, the request to DoubleClick (an advertising outfit owned by Google) included the referring URL. In all, EFF counted 14 domains that receive personally-identifiable information from healthcare.gov, including Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and YouTube. Another excerpt:
Sending such personal information raises significant privacy concerns. A company like Doubleclick, for example, could match up the personal data provided by healthcare.gov with an already extensive trove of information about what you read online and what your buying preferences are to create an extremely detailed profile of exactly who you are and what your interests are. It could do all this based on a tracking cookie that it sets which would be the same across any site you visit. Based on this data, Doubleclick could start showing you smoking ads or infer your risk of cancer based on where you live, how old you are and your status as a smoker.1 Doubleclick might start to show you ads related to pregnancy, which could have embarrassing and potentially dangerous consequences such as when Target notified a woman’s family that she was pregnant before she even told them.
You could ask why healthcare.gov is using third-party analytics and advertising. You could ask why they’re passing sensitive information around in HTTP GET requests. (Considering the botched rollout of “404Care,” that they’d make rookie mistakes like these shouldn’t be too surprising.) The better question to ask, though, is this: why on God’s green earth did anybody ever think this would ever turn out any differently? 0bamaDoesn’tCare was a solution in search of a problem, and a pretty piss-poor solution at that.
They’re not taking the SJWs’ latest victory lying down, it would seem:
Page 3 models lead backlash against ‘comfy shoe-wearing, no bra-wearing, man-haters’
Page 3 girls have led the backlash against The Sun’s decision to end its topless tradition, claiming the move has been “dictated by comfy shoe-wearing, no bra-wearing, man-haters”.
Model Rhian Sugden, 28, criticised at the move, suggesting it was “only a matter of time” before everything they did was dictated by such people.
Former glamour model Jodie Marsh insisted that “telling girls they shouldn’t do Page 3 is not being a feminist”.
She said she “loved” posing for Page 3 and that it made her feel powerful and earned her good money.
“Women should empower and encourage other women,” she wrote on Twitter. “For that is the only way to truly be ‘equal’ and have rights…”
She said campaigners should focus on more important issues that affect women, such as female genital mutilation.
Former glamour model Nicola McLean said she did not think Page 3 was a “sexual equality” issue.
She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “It has been going for many years, which is one of the reasons I feel so sad that it has seemingly come to an end.
“I don’t think it is outdated. I think the girls still look fantastic on the page, they still clearly enjoy what they are doing, people still want to see it.
YGBSM:
Lib Rag Salon: Woman Explains Why She Decided To Lose Her Virginity To Her Dad…
First we had New York legalize marriages between uncles and nieces last year…now there’s this. I would’ve illustrated this story with an image from Deliverance, but given that incest is taking hold mostly in the northern states (Salon refers to this story, in which the father and daughter are from one of the Great Lakes states), I suspect that all of the usual incest jokes that pick on the South need to either be thrown out or retooled to more accurately reflect the reality of the situation.
Can You Tell The Difference Between Prison Food And The Lunches Served In Schools?
Here’s an example…is this a school lunch or prison food? Answer is rot13‘d below. More at the link.
Answer: fpubby…you can decode this at rot13.com, or try this:
echo fpubby | tr "nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
Hover over the pic for a clue.
