A public or private organization’s best defense against whistle-blowers is to refrain from doing things it doesn’t want to read about on the front page of the newspaper.
Quotes
As a Jesus-fearing moose-hunting hockey-mom mother of five who hunts moose for Jesus, Sarah Palin is kin to the wild outdoors and appreciates its bountiful splendor as she is gunning it down from her airplane. Sarah Palin understands that America is dangerously addicted to oil, and that the only cure is more oil. She also understands that nature is our natural enemy, created by a malevolent Satan to come between us and our God-given oil deposits with its hateful, clean water and its foul, pristine air.
Fafblog will redeem us all.
None of us ever live in dystopia. That’s an imaginary extreme. They just live in shitty cultures. And these societies [in my books] seem dystopian to middle class white people in North America. They don’t seem dystopian if you live in Rio or anywhere in Africa. Most people in Africa would happily immigrate to the Sprawl.
William Gibson Interview: William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla
At the moment, IPv4 address blocks are not private property. All the Internet registries have policies for reclaiming unused allocations for reassignment. Because there are still addresses in the free pool, the application of these policies hasn’t inconvenienced anyone. To keep your allocation, you basically just have to be able to fog a mirror.
“CLINTON: That’s right, Fafnir. No one has more experience failing to fix health care than me. I worked in the White House for eight years failing to fix health care, and as president I’ll make failing to fix health care my number one priority.
FB: Well that sounds pretty good, Hillary Clinton, but what if I wanna vote for someone with even more experience, like John McCain or Zombie Strom Thurmond or Andrew Jackson’s collection of antique spittoons? Those spittoons have been in the White House for a long time an I hear they got a formidable command of foreign policy.â€
“—you don’t like my style of airline-ticket purchasing, then get the fuck out of my home office. Shit.â€
“Everyone looks like they love Vampire Weekend, but we hope they don’t really because that band is lame.â€
“…well it’s not really him, but other architects in Microsoft are not much hairy….However if we’ll normalize their hair we can get very good chances for Haskell….Want to be famous and make significant history? Grow a beard!â€
– Computer languages and facial hair – take two – Just code – Tamir Khason
“When “There She Goes†is over, I guarantee absolutely no one in the room goes: “Jesus, finally.â€â€
– Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven by Joshua Allen – The Morning News