Invalid Arguments
In order for any debate to bring anything to anyone, the answers listed below are from now on no longer authorized*:
- $subject is just doing his job.
- $subject’s religion demands it.
- But what about $irrelevant_compared_item?
- Isn’t there anything more important?
- You are saying this because you are $stereotype.
- If you don’t like it, don’t watch/read/listen to it.
Thank you for your attention.
* Many have good resolutions that won’t be kept, so i can have wishes that won’t come true, MKAY?
OMG
Can’t believe how this site has been neglected. This will have to change in 2012, and this probably will as i have some plans…
Picture courtesy of Norway, which remains a funny country when it is not being shot at by christian fundamentalist pro-zionist antisemitic right-wing psychos.
Pope versus Berlin
When the head of the oldest global criminal organization comes to your town, you know you’ve got one thing to do:
Nice marmot
Hi city kids! It’s green economical patriotic blog posting time! Since none of you has ever seen any example of that animal the Dude is confounding a nihilistic ferret with and many of you think Swiss people are rich because they stay out of the Euro zone, Uncle Klav is going to educate you with some fresh (in)sights. Now that the world is burning around us, these are essential concerns.
First, and most important: marmots.
Marmot plays sentinel. Can you see it?
Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Now that is a term worth googling. I’ve never be too good at mathematics but fortunately some people do it for me:
Examining a perpetual calendar (in the World Almanac) I see that we have a Friday the 13th whenever the month begins on a Sunday. I also see that every year has at least one and at most three Friday the 13ths (usually there are two). 1998 had three, 1999 had one, 2000 will have one. There can also be Friday the 13th in two consecutive months (February and March) as there were in 1998. The probability that any randomly selected month will have a Friday the 13th would seem to be 1/7 (.1428571428…), as there are only seven types of month (ones that begin on Sunday, Monday, …). And each would seem to be equally likely. It turns out that this is not quite true. It was shown by Brown (I don’t know his first name) in 1933 that the Gregorian Calendar (which we use) repeats itself exactly, every 400 years. In that time, there are 4800 months and 4800 13ths. Of those 4800 13ths, 688 occur on Friday. So the probability of a Friday the 13th is 688/4800 which is .143333…, which is slightly greater than 1/7. In fact, Friday is the most likely 13th, slightly. Of the 4800 13ths, Sunday is the 13th 687 times, Mondya 685, Tuesday 685, Wednesday 687, Thursday 684, Friday 688, and Saturday 684.
© Copyright 1999, Jim Loy
If any maths nerd wants to contest this, you can count on me to witness the discussion and not understand a thing.
I wish this would come from of a bad movie
But actually, it was today, some streets away:
Source: Tagesspiegel via Fefe
Background: 2500+ cops for 15- persons
Meanwhile, in Tunisia and Egypt, people show a courage and a determination that have not been seen in the Western World for a long time. If you think this has nothing to do with the situation there, you may want to read this article by Umair Haque, who is not exactly a paranoid leftist. Indirectly, the current situation in the Arab World / North Africa opens some interesting questions about our hypocritical “democracies” as well. Their long support for Mubarak and others playing in the same league is just the start.
So when will our time come when the ratio turns to 15- for 2500+? Probably when we will have learnt to (better) link facts together.
edit (June 2011): first confirmation: Spain. More to come, i assume.
Installing TYPO3 on a GoDaddy Linux hosting account with Cyberduck
Allright, new year and stuff: let’s try to be useful, for once.
So I am looking into this TYPO3 thing. It is a huge ass content management framework that can do anything up to achieving World Peace, if I am to believe the papers around me. The people around me, however, warn me that its Typoscript is a complicated pain that is looking nothing similar to other such languages. We’ll see. First it needs to be installed and that is what I just did. There is an OK official Getting Started Tutorial for it, but it misses some points that I want to address here, in the specific case of a GoDaddy Linux hosting account.
Caveat: this is no expert opinion here, I am basically a n00b. However, my installation worked. So this is for anyone like me: a beginner with a Cyberduck client, a GoDaddy Linux account and a (very old) mac. The words below are to help you avoid time consuming mistakes that I have made. Do not ask me questions about other hosters than GoDaddy. Do not ask me questions about other FTP clients than Cyberduck. Also, anti-GoDaddy trolls will be ignored.
Things That Calm Down Your Hatred Of easyJet
For a while anyway:
Param-pam-pam-pam
Let’s celebrate Christianity’s most famous hijacking with an improbable rendition of Little Drummer Boy by Cold Meat Industry‘s hippie on duty Coph Nia:
This made my meat all warm.
The Truth Punishes You From Above, Mostly
In many ways, today was a Russian day in the Queendom of Subtruth – or rather a Soviet one. Most impressive among all this (pseudo-)commie stuff was this poster:
According to your favorite picture book, this is the Common Evil Counterrevolutionary Saboteur trying to grab your tovaritch girlfriend’s generous tits do counterrevolutionary things — but lo! Here falls the Государственное Политическое Управление‘s lightning, frying his brainz into political neutering with an orthodox vengeance and just in time. Which would have been fine, if the GPU really did that instead of sending scores of intelligent, devoted-to-the-idea people into work camps.
From the Holy Ghost to Soviet allegories, propaganda has a habit of striking from the sky, abusing some deep rooted Newtonian trauma about things falling on our heads (think of Astérix’s only fear!). Still, what would be today’s equivalent? Julian Assange struck by a particle cannon? That other VHS Santa who’s been dead for years hellfired? Sorry, but – once again – the Past is sexier.
Take me back to what I don’t know!
By the way: Beria killed Stalin, for fun. And yes, I’m using HTTPS for most of my linking because I am a post-net-neutrality paranoid. But it is good for you, my ducklings!
edit: more punishment thank to airborne taser.