and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
The United Nations “Green Climate Fund” is supposed to help developing countries cope with climate change with funds donated by the rich countries. Australia is a donor country. Funds raised equals $7.5 million, our contribution half a million. Willis Eschenbach takes a look at where it came from and where it went …
Anyhow, I started all of this out with a simple question. How much of the $7.5 million went to help the people it’s supposed to help?
… the answer is <HERE>.
Apple seem to have abandoned their prior operating systems. Having identified and made public some security issues in Mountain Lion they have not made any patches available. This means every hacker in the Mac universe will be trying to break in to any residual Mountain Lion dens. What to do. Upgrade to OS X Mavericks.
On the good side its free, on the down side it’s not yet tried and tested. But, for the moment at least, it’s vulnerabilities are not obvious.
I updated this morning. It’s a lengthy business and initially nothing at all seemed to happen, patience required. Other than the slowness it was quite painless and Firefox is still working for me.
One tip, there comes a moment when you are confronted with a request for your Apple ID and password. The only program available at that moment is the App Store, you can’t get at Keychain, your email or that file where you stupidly recorded all your passwords so that the hacker could find them. So … sort that out before you begin.
And here in Oz we have the Commonwealth Bank watching …
This might seem familiar to one or two people who know me …
Even more important than being drunk, however, is having the right car. You have to get a car that handles really well. This is extremely important, and there’s a lot of debate on this subject – about what kind of car handles best. Some say a front-engined car; some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind. You can also park without looking, and can use the trunk as an ice chest. Another thing about a rented car is that it’s an all-terrain vehicle. Mud, snow, water, woods – you can take a rented car anywhere. True, you can’t always get it back – but that’s not your problem, is it?
Update
My dearly beloved asked if the author (P. J. O’Rourke, 1978) had travelled with me.
Things here in Austria are pretty dire …
It is absolutely clear.
There were doctors in cahoots with big tobacco. They were paid to say that there was no link between smoking and lung cancer. Meanwhile big tobacco poured money into the coffers of corrupt politicians to dissuade them from legislating against big tobacco.
Proof positive that climate change causes bush fires. And that Tony Abbott is putting a match to our grandchildren’s future at the behest of big oil.
As a wise man once said …
Throughout most of my life, I’ve raised tobacco, I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I’ve hoed it. I’ve chopped it. I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.
Indeed, the very same man accepted $16,690 from tobacco industry political action committees from 1980 to 1990. Bear in mind that the link between smoking and lung cancer was recognised by Dr Fritz Lickint in 1929 and solid epidemiological evidence was published in the 1950’s. The Surgeon General of the United States recommended smokers should stop smoking in 1964.
Which must make Al Gore very angry, oh hang on that is Al Gore I’m talking about, so it must make him an expert on climate change, or hypocrisy or something.
A woman has been charged after she allegedly drove past police in Broome with a man wearing a dinosaur “onesie” and a snorkel on the bonnet of the car.
Police were on their way to Gantheaume Point Cable Beach at 7:20am on Sunday, when they spotted a white Ford Falcon wagon travelling about 60 kilometres an hour, with a man lying on the bonnet.
Police stopped the car, with the man still lying on the bonnet facing the driver, smoking a cigarette, dressed in a dinosaur onesie and wearing a snorkel.
A police spokesperson said the 23-year-old female driver was charged with driving with a blood alcohol level in excess of 0.05% and reckless driving.
The vehicle was seized under hoon legislation. The woman will be summonsed and appear in court at a later date.
Both the male and female are French nationals of no fixed address. It is believed they are backpackers who were living in the vehicle.
The picture shows a dinosaur onesie, de rigeur in France.
Smoking through a snorkel … ?
Recently the fire service had to demolish two walls of a house in south Wales so that a 63-stone teenager could be taken to hospital. This required more than 40 emergency service workers at an estimated cost of £100,000. Over the past five years, fire services have been called to more than 2,700 incidents to assist ‘severely obese’ people, including some who had got stuck in the bath. Rescuing fatties is now a routine operation, with its own entry in the Fire Brigade incident reporting system (filed under ‘bariatric persons’).
More people are now fat and fewer of them care. Read all about it <HERE>.
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