Dodged a Bible tonight. I was supposed to go with best friend and one of his kids to a local hockey game, but when I looked it up I found out they expect a sold-out crowd to see special guest Candace Cameron of Full House and hear her talk about her passions: spreading the gospel of the Lord and explaining how she's become the Wife She Was Intended to Be through Christ.
The RiverKings will be able to play on the ice in Hell once it's frozen over before I sign up for an evening like that. It could only be worse if there were a meet-the-players event at the Chuck E. Cheese afterwards.
What I really need is msbelle here being all bossy and telling me what needs to get done before I move.
I WISH I could come and do that.
from mac reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, last line: with liberty and a just frog.
ION, I am so tired for no reason I have been fighting my eyes closing for the last hour. so weak and no cause.
Reason = sick.
Opening a new tub of catlitter and finding packets of catfood. I mean, sealed and all, but it's...two different ends, you know?
Ha! Don't mix that up!!
Dodged a Bible tonight.
Heh.
I maybe should have done something today. Hmph.
don't forget to set the clocks people. we're to bed.
Fun for nerds: Name the 50 states in 10 minutes. I've done it twice (not in a row), and both times came up with 46 in about five minutes, and couldn't think of the last four. Different four both times. [link]
don't forget to set the clocks people. we're to bed.
Remember, set your clocks two hours and forty minutes ahead, and
be sure
to line them up North and South.
And if you forget to reset your clocks,
do not
touch them for at least 48 hours.
with liberty and a just frog.
Hah! Sleep well.
Apple encouraged me to download a DST patch. Which I did. But my clock is set to update off a server clock, so... I'm probably missing some nuance.
I'll probably wait until 11 or so and then reset the clocks. It's best that way. Even if I stay up too late, it doesn't get ridiculous.
Apple encouraged me to download a DST patch. Which I did. But my clock is set to update off a server clock, so... I'm probably missing some nuance.
Internally, your Mac keeps time by GMT, and when it syncs time over the network, it doesn't pay attention to the time zone, or whether or not it's DST. It's only when a human asks the computer what time it is does it bother with the time zone.
Ah. That makes sense (the funny thing is all work computers I use display GMT, so I'm used to automatically doing the translation in my head. So you'd think that would occur to me. But no.)
Multiple media outlets are focusing on the unsurprising story that the FBI seems to have been abusing its powers under the Patriot Act to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs), whereby the FBI is empowered to obtain a whole array of privacy-infringing records without any sort of judicial oversight or subpoena process. In particular, the FBI has failed to comply with the legal obligations imposed by Congress, when it re-authorized the Patriot Act in early 2006, which required the FBI to report to Congress on the use of these letters.
OK, that's not surprising. But by in incredibly bizarre coincidence, the requirement in the Patriot Act that the FBI failed to follow was a requirement that Bush proclaimed he didn't have to follow when he issued a signing statement on the legislation. Weird, huh?
...NSL reporting requirements imposed by Congress were precisely the provisions which President Bush expressly proclaimed he could ignore when he issued a "signing statement" as part of the enactment of the Patriot Act's renewal into law. Put another way, the law which the FBI has now been found to be violating is the very law which George Bush publicly declared he has the power to ignore.
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When a country is ruled by an individual who repeatedly and openly arrogates unto himself the power to violate the law, and specifically proclaims that he is under no obligation to account to Congress or anyone else concerning the exercise of radical new surveillance powers such as NSLs, it should come as absolutely no surprise that agencies under his control freely break the law. The culture of lawlessness which the President has deliberately and continuously embraced virtually ensures, by design, that any Congressional limits on the use of executive power will be violated.
Oh well.
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