This is why I love John Stewart

ELECTION, geo-political — duran @ 12:23 pm

Why does a comedian have to do this?
Why doesn’t our news media do this?
Why don’t they question the lies, and make an example of the people who mislead us.

Thank you John.

“I don’t even know if there are any black people in alaska.”

geo-political, obama — duran @ 7:35 am

Thanks Diddy. Well said.

MUST-SEE TV: Top GOP pundits on accidental open-mic say Palin pick is ‘bullshit,’ race ‘is over’

geo-political, obama, youtube picks — Tags: , , , , — duran @ 5:09 pm

Straight up copy from Americablog, to spread the word…

Here’s the transcript, courtesy of TPM:

CHUCK TODD: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she’s the right woman for the job Up next, one man who’s already convinced and he’ll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
(cut away)

PEGGY NOONAN: Yeah.

MIKE MURPHY: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And –

PEGGY NOONAN: It’s over.

MIKE MURPHY: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

CHUCK TODD: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PEGGY NOONAN: Saw Kay this morning.

CHUCK TODD: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this –

MIKE MURPHY: They’re all bummed out.

CHUCK TODD: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PEGGY NOONAN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshit about narratives –

CHUCK TODD: Yeah they went to a narrative.

MIKE MURPHY: I totally agree.

PEGGY NOONAN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.

MIKE MURPHY: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.

CHUCK TODD: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

MIKE MURPHY: Yeah.

Update to the Chrome EULA story…

tech politics — Tags: , , , , , , — duran @ 3:13 pm

Well, Google got it through their thick heads that maybe the boiler plate EULA/TOS wasn’t such a good idea to use on the browser.

Arstechnica reports

Google’s Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company tries to reuse these licenses as much as possible, “in order to keep things simple for our users.” Ward admits that sometimes “this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product” and says that Google is “working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome.”

So, one more battle for the little guy wins.
I’m glad google realized that this was a mistake, and that (of course pending what the next version of the EULA reads) we’ll all be able to use Chrome with out thinking that our sundry details will be shared with the rest of the world if google wants to…

More on Chrome.

tech politics — Tags: , , — duran @ 2:07 pm

Apparently, it installs “GoogleUpdater.exe” and “GoogleDesktopServices.exe” as processes that always run as well.

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=952157&cid=24858835

“Do no evil” means… what? blindly force people to install your quasi-spy ware with out warning them?

*sigh*

CNN does their job, for once…

geo-political — Tags: , , , — duran @ 10:41 pm

umm, maybe Chrome is a little too grabby grabby in its TOS/EULA

being, tech politics — Tags: , , — duran @ 10:15 pm

Check this out
cnet.com on the Chrome TOS

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.”

Bold for emphasis.

So, if *I* read that right.
Anything I post to a website, via Chrome, might be copied by google to their databases, and used for what ever purpose they want, when ever they want.

Right?

yeah… Sorry, thats a little absurd.

It will just be a toy until thats straightened out.

I love zombies

sci-fi — Tags: — duran @ 7:30 pm

Living in philly…

Uncategorized, philly — Tags: — duran @ 2:38 pm

I think I live in a nice part of town, it gets loud, and theres lots of people around, but I’d hardly call it a crack den…

Though, I did just find this on my neighbors stoop…

Good times?

Uh… yeah… How about that.

Paris Hilton for President.

geo-political, humor, obama — duran @ 6:51 pm

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

For the purpose of humor, I’ll ignore how flawed her energy plan is, and just celebrate the great joke

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