Very cool. You could actually run on water, but you’d need to be able to sustain a speed of 30-50mph depending on the size of your feet. And have a very unusual stride.

Having MBAs in charge of IT at every level is one of the stupidest business decisions that can be made, yet it’s consistently done.

It doesn’t rein in costs, which is the intent. It probably raises them.

Yet it’s the default.

IT obviously needs business oversight. But the way it’s done it hurts the business more than helps it.

How many times could I have spent $10,000 to save a million later in my IT career? A dozen? More?

But was shot down my some MBA.

And sometimes the savings would be in weeks or months, not the long term.

Actual ACA increases by large insurers.

Looks like so far it’s all double digits. This was predictable. Despite the penalties, those most likely to sign up for Obamacare are those already sick or unhealthy.

This means it’ll have a terrible risk pool.

Basically the ACA did nothing to fix the health care system, but instead applied a band-aid over a gaping wound while Democrats went around explaining how everything was all better and that blood coming out and pooling on the floor? All imaginary!

Obamacare was designed to funnel money to insurers. But it appears that for the most part it isn’t even doing that.

Shit, it can’t even do evil right.

By the way, still possible to get pictures of cute female corpses at Reddit.

Why? Cute female corpses don’t complain! Ain’t writing no letters. Aren’t throwing their weight around.

They can’t. They’re dead.

Fuck I hate Ellen Pao. And all capitalists, really. But particularly her at the moment.

Well now I can add some more letters after my name.

Got a new cert yesterday.

Here’s the ones I currently hold: RHCE, MCSE, VCP-DCV (4&5), CCNP, ITIL Foundation

ITIL Foundation is the new one.

I have many, many other certs that are intermediate, but those are my “terminal” highest-level ones.

So the sub /r/fatpeoplehate was banned from Reddit, at the time its 13th largest with over 150K subscribers.

I didn’t particularly spend that much time there as it was too cruel for me. But it did nothing it was accused of doing — I saw dozens of people banned from the sub by the sub’s mods who even mentioned harassment or brigading.

No, it was banned because of hurt feelings and because Reddit’s main market — the US — has a very, um, large percentage of enormously obese people. Offending them with a sub that frequently makes it to the front page is not good for the ol’ advertising dollars.

By the way, sub-reddits where you can watch people die, can look at “cute” naked female corpses and can watch animals being tortured are still up and running just fine.

You can find them yourself if you wanna look at them. I do not.

If Reddit actually cared about what it claimed to care about those would be long gone.

The whole fat acceptance movement now has enough power to cause corporate censorship. That is impressive. That so many people are so unwilling to accept that you just can’t be healthy at 300+ pounds should have disturbed us more than FPH ever did.

(Overeating to the point of morbid obesity is also an eating disorder just as much as anorexia or bulimia. And you can be crucified for saying that today, but here’s how much I care:             )

But they won. Doesn’t make them right, just whiny babies and typical Americans.

For me and many others who used to be fatasses, places /r/fatpeoplehate are motivational.

Like I said, I didn’t visit there often and I didn’t approve of its shaming of fat people, but I’m also disgusted with Reddit and Ellen Pao, and of course the couldn’t-be-bigger-morons SJW types who believe this is about anything other than money.

Like Digg and its decline, the site has another few years and it’ll be done.

Regardless of what I think of Ellen Pao’s gender discrimination case, she is probably going to destroy Reddit, not save it.

It’s being sanitized for advertisers, not as some form of moral good as the worst of the SJWers imagine.

Why do people believe capitalists like Pao do anything for moral gain?

Answer: they don’t.

Why do you need to rationalize eating meat?

I don’t have any qualms about eating anything that has no foreknowledge of death.

Despite what this article implies, humans did evolve eating meat and to digest meat. In fact our big brains likely would not have been able to evolve without consistent meat-eating over millions of years.

Past evolution should not shape current behavior by necessity but pretending that eating meat requires some sort of huge rationalization leap speaks more about the ideology of the authors of the paper than any real scientific or even pseudo-scientific conclusion.

Is meat-eating ethical? Our descendents with lab-grown meat will probably not believe it to be. And perhaps they will be right.

But these people have not proved their point, rather only reached for evidence that matched their pre-ordained conclusion.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc and all that.

After about four months of using a 5K monitor (in the form of a 27″ iMac), I can attest that it is simply stunningly amazing and everything I hoped it would be.

Whenever you can afford it if you use a monitor more than an hour a day, I recommend acquiring a 5K display. It makes a world of difference.

I don’t particularly care for Mac OS on the desktop but it doesn’t bother me too much. There is no Windows driver for 5K on the iMac, so that is not an option yet.

There is a Dell 5K monitor but it costs as much as the entire iMac which is itself a quite capable computer. In addition for the Dell variant you will have to buy a rather expensive video card to drive the thing.

When 5K gets cheaper overall I’ll probably switch back to Windows. But until then it’s the iMac for me.

Getting 5K is probably the best thing I’ve done in the computing space in a long time.

By the way, my iMac is indeed called “5KofGlory.”

All the carping lately that I’ve seen about Tesla and Elon Musk receiving tax subsidies is both deeply hypocritical and highly suspect. It’s probably his auto-selling competitors, the oil and gas industry, and their PR flaks planting those stories.

The truth is they all receive huge subsidies and government benefits. Absolutely enormous, far more than $5 billion.

Just like I wrote below, in an arena where all your competitors are receiving huge subsidies and interest-free loans and you forgo them, what happens to you?

Right, you fail and go out of business.

Personally I’d rather be subsidizing Musk and Tesla and all his attempts to create something new rather than the carbon-spewing warmongering earth-destroying industries likely planting these stories in friendly news outlets.

(Incidentally, the internet was subsidized/created by the US government to the tune of tens of billions of dollars over the past four decades. Just saying.)

Reading things like this, one marvels at just how less…predatory society used to be.

I can see now this was a staff ripe for a management consultant to come in with a rusty cleaver, that we operated at near-Soviet levels of overstaffing, but honestly? Who cares. All those people collected their paychecks, cashed them and used the money to pay taxes, buy cars, raise families and otherwise keep the economy chugging along. If you think a belching factory smokestack is ugly, try one with nothing coming out at all.

The evisceration of the American economy is another example or variant of the tragedy of the commons. One factory or newspaper owner finds it beneficial to himself to fire 90% of the staff and outsource copywriting to another country.

Then others are forced to do the same to compete.

It ends with no one left with enough money to buy the products advertised, and with not enough money to pay for an education to be literate enough in the case of a newspaper or online equivalent to even comprehend the product.

Race to the bottom, and like the paradox of thrift it all makes sense along the way.

Freja Beha Erichsen as Apollo from the 2011 Pirelli calendar.

I’m not usually one for pin-up calendars, but this photo is next level awesome for all sorts of reasons.

Art like talent is where it is.

Saying that you’re obese because of your genetics is like saying that you smoke because of your genetics, or that you’re an alcoholic because of your genetics. Or a criminal. Etc.

Yes, people have different metabolisms. Mine for instance is quite slow. And there are certain genetic tendencies. The evidence is pretty clear on this.

But look, I come from a family of fat violent criminal drug-addicted alcoholic rednecks. Seriously. My girlfriend once said, “The only way I see your family is in mugshots.” And she was 100 percent right.

But I’m not fat, I’m no longer violent, I’m not an alcoholic and most people would not identify me as a redneck any longer either. And I’ve never touched any drugs.

I somehow changed my genetics on several different axes!

Only, not.

“Genetics” is just an excuse. So what if something is a little harder for you than it is for me. Or vice versa. My partner can eat 500-800 more calories a day than I can and stay below my weight easily*.

Fair? No. Worth starting a movement on Tumblr for? No. I do what adults do: I fucking deal.

But we are not a nation of adults. We are a nation of delusional children who prefer to be coddled with the comforting contrivance than to deal with the disturbing truth.

*And yep, I do know exactly what I eat and count it accurately, because I eat very very very little, so it’s easy to keep track of. Usually one small item for breakfast 3-4 times a week, one small lunch, one moderate dinner, and a 1-2 ounce sweet of some kind at night. And that’s it. I never vary and never go beyond this.

Scott Walker: women only concerned with rape and incest in ‘initial months’ of pregnancy.

If the economy sours leading up to 2016, this guy has a significant chance of being our next president.

Not that it’ll matter much in the medium or long run either way; climate change is going to re-order the world in a way not seen since Roman times soon, starting in the next 30-70 years.

Contemporary politics or who happened to become president will seem utterly minor in comparison to that.

But still, he is a hateful moron and he is as likely as not to be president.

This is where I grew up.

Happens every year. I’ve seen a sturgeon, though at the time I thought it was a catfish. It was ~6 feet long, cruising up the Ichetucknee River.

Mullet also jump and sometimes strike boaters.