Random news and links
March 17, 20102 comments
- A significant percentage of surveyed doctors take a very hostile view of the health care reform bill before Congress, but what do they know? They're just the people who will have to work under the system it regulates into existance. They're not enlightened like the "progressives" who demand it be pushed through, the cost be damned.
- The Federal Accounting Standards Board may soon say "frak it" (they're a federal agency, it has to be FCC-approved) and undue Barney Frank's accounting fraud legalization scheme.
- Not content to allow Windows Mobile to be abused in the mobile market like a poor kid from Appalachia transplanted into a Beverly Hills high school, they now start making some IP enforcement noise right as Windows Phone 7 looks like it might be cool enough to win some developer support.
- Speaking of Microsoft, it looks like they're going all out to get Internet Explorer 9 as sophisticated as possible. They're supposedly targeting all of the latest web standards which might mean that they'll actually make a browser that is about as good as the Webkit-based browsers and Firefox at rendering web pages...
- The sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are getting so numerous now that the Vatican is having to consider hiring new people to handle and investigate them. This could have easily been avoided had they just established a zero tolerance policy toward it from the very beginning like the bible tells them.
- Hell is freezing over now, as evidenced by the fact that a single mother has actually temporarily lost custody of her child due to the behavior of the man she was involved with. What's next? Holding such women consistently accountable for the men they voluntarily bring around their kids?
- Google is about to change the API for its AdWords program and that will apprently break the Perl module for AdWords client access. Google's response so far is: "stop using Perl or roll your own client code."
- The ExtJs team is already getting a good start on building in support for HTML5 features like <video>. Note: the samples will not run unless you are running a very recent version of Firefox like 3.6 (maybe 3.5) or a very recent build of Google Chrome.
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Re: Kentucky Fried Baby. These two were an unmarried couple, right? Even so, it shows what one has to do to have your kids stripped from you. Shave your crotch and get several DUIs, or get high and drunk and use the oven for a crib.
In the parents' defense, an oven is a cost-effective way to keep the baby alive for the rest of its life.