The Secret Life Of Ian Flemming (1990)

# posted by gt @ 20:42

http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-01-14

For some reason I'd stopped my daily read of Sinfest and now I have a couple years to catch up on.

# posted by gt @ 15:14

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Walmart steals horse from questionable content creator.
Streisand effect to follow.
http://consumerist.com/2015/05/19/walmart-is-now-the-rightful-owner-of-walmart-horse/

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

http://www.horsesofwalmart.com

# posted by gt @ 02:51

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

ohio actually has a statute against yelling fire in a crowded theater. it's better written than most such, although section c strikes me as too vague.

The police had also initially suggested that Northrup was guilty of the Ohio crime of “causing panic,” but the court pointed out this wasn’t so (at least under Northrup’s version of the facts). Indeed, the Ohio “causing panic” statute provides,

No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:

(1) Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;

(2) Threatening to commit any offense of violence;

(3) Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/volokh/mainfeed

# posted by gt @ 08:36

word for the day: dissensus.

On Monday, a sharply divided Supreme Court held in Comptroller v. Wynne that Maryland’s personal income tax scheme – which failed to offer Maryland residents a full credit for income taxes paid to other states on income they earned in those states – was unconstitutional. By a vote of five to four, an ideologically diverse majority (consisting of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, and Sonia Sotomayor) concluded that Maryland’s scheme violated the dormant Commerce Clause because it discriminated against interstate commerce. Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg each authored dissenting opinions, on widely divergent grounds, revealing a fundamental dissensus on the Court regarding the dormant Commerce Clause.

# posted by gt @ 07:07

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

not the onion:
Natalie Portman confirmed for Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic": The Los Angeles Times has this report.

The "VF Hollywood" blog of Vanity Fair has a post titled "Natalie Portman Will Play Our Most Rock-Star-Like Supreme Court Justice; See a new side of the Notorious R.B.G."

# posted by gt @ 17:35

Friday, May 08, 2015

http://nomadcapitalist.com/blog/

# posted by gt @ 14:07

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-truck-hits-road/

# posted by gt @ 20:06

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/05/06/stanford-panel-big-issues-will-loom-when-everyone-has-their-genomic-sequence-on-a-thumb-drive/

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# posted by gt @ 19:58

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/05/were-sharing-our-companys-core-values.html

# posted by gt @ 19:22

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/1-percent-in-each-state-map_n_6548222.html

are you in the 1%? Right now, i'm not, even at the world income 1% level of 37K/yr. I've been having a slow year the past two months; it might or might not pick up later.

# posted by gt @ 19:17