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Yeah we’re all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
Now we’re finally finding our voices
So take a chance, come help me sing this…
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Anyone got something cheerful to share?
This post is in: Music, Open Threads
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Yeah we’re all wonderful, wonderful people
So when did we all get so fearful?
Now we’re finally finding our voices
So take a chance, come help me sing this…
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Anyone got something cheerful to share?
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Raven
Rain.
NotMax
@Raven
Could be worse. Could be raining Mayans.
Raven
@NotMax: Rain is good here, very good. I commented to you about the weather during the golf tourney the weekend before last there on Maui. Big Blow!
jeffreyw
Keep on the sunny side up, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side up of life
It will help us ev’ry day, it will brighten all the way
If we’ll keep on the sunny side up of life
Raven
Joe is apologizing to Mika.
Raven
@jeffreyw: Listen at you!
magurakurin
to anyone who’s in the know: How bad is this Java threat?
I pulled the plug and uninstalled Java from my machine.
Anybody have the skinny on this?
Raven
No cause for concern anymore, however, as reports confirm that the Java vulnerability, which would potentially allow hackers to cause mayhem on infected machines, has been successfully patched by Oracle within three days.
Released by Oracle, Java 7 Update 11 is the instant critical security update required to fix the zero-day exploit present in Java 7 Update 10 and previous versions of the Java software. According to Oracle, this latest update modifies the way in which Web apps interact with Java on a local computer.
eta Other sites say wer’e fucked!
NotMax
@Raven
Rain is something we can always use more of here as well.
Yeah, it’s been a an unusually blustery winter here thus far, with gusts up to the 40, 50 and even 60 mph ranges for days and days on end. The past few days have been calm, but unsettled conditions supposed to return this week.
Some windiness is a good thing – otherwise volcanic haze (vog) from the Big Island settles in (as it did over the weekend), playing hob with the sinuses.
Raven
@NotMax: Not too great out on the boats!
NotMax
@magurakurin
Always update to the newest version.
Also recommend that, unless you deem it necessary for some site(s), to disable Java in your browser. For any such specific sites, it can be turned back on if you want.
To any others reading this, just in case, Java and Javascript are two different things entirely. Either (or both) can be disabled in your browser’s options. The exploit mentioned refers in this case to Java.
NotMax
@Raven
Yuppers.
Actually have been a slew of gale warnings posted for some of the channels recently.
Schlemizel
@magurakurin:
It is very bad. You should update JAVA on your machines as soon as possible. For your home computer you should consider shutting JAVA off on your browser. There is a chance you are not running it now (I’ve never installed it on this PC)
I’m in a hurry so I’ll just give you a link to how to disable JAVA on Firefox & note that at the bottom of the page are links for all the other popular browsers
DISABLE JAVA ON FIREFOX
Cassidy
What’s the difference between Java and Java runtime environment?
amk
Java is Insecure and Awful, It’s Time to Disable It, and Here’s How.
magurakurin
Thanks to all for the tips. I got rid of it all. I will see how much I miss it and decide if I need it or not.
PeakVT
Anyone got something cheerful to share?
I (and most of the commentariat) live in a country with decent air pollution laws which are more-or-less enforced. Residents of Beijing, OTOH, don’t. PM2.5 in Beijing is currently about 8x federal limits limits.
PeakVT
@magurakurin: I leave Java disabled in my primary browser (FF) but enabled in my backup browser (IE). That way I can run it for the few sites that genuinely need it (mostly mapping sites).
@Cassidy: Java is the language and JRE is the application that sits on your PC and compiles the code in real time when you start an applet.
Bruuuuce
Sadly, no. Preparing for what appears to be a likely school bus driver strike in NYC starting Wednesday. That won’t affect the son in HS, who already commutes via subway, but hits the daughter in middle school, who’s in her one and only year of school bus eligibility at this school. Naturally, there are both bus and subway alternatives; naturally, each is long and involves a difficult transfer. As a citizen and union advocate, I see the drivers’ side; as a parent, it’s going to be a real pain in the ass.
On the other hand, both kids are back in school today after each had the norovirus that’s been going around, last week.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
For….?
Raven
@SiubhanDuinne: For screaming at her last week. He needed to and she needs to walk.
PeakVT
I don’t know if it’s cheerful, but France and ECOWAS intervened in northern Mali against Islamic extremest rebels over the weekend.
NotMax
Cheerful?
7 days from today, we will not be seeing a certain well-coiffed multi-millionaire on the outdoor stage at the Capitol.
JoyceH
@NotMax:
That works. For the past two months, whenever I get discouraged, I remind myself that you can turn on the news and read the papers and never ever hear the phrase ‘President-Elect Romney’. Works like a champ.
Raven
My bride has been struggling with a herniated disc for 6 months. She’s tried every kind of conservative approach we can find, nothing.She meet with her Osteopath this morning and I said “is there ever a time you want me to go with you”? She says, “Yes, that would be nice”. I am such a bad mind reader!
Patricia Kayden
@Raven: But he always screams at her. What was so special about last week?
Raven
@Patricia Kayden: It was really over the top, really.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
It’s probably not cheerful, but has there been any news from gex?
Amir Khalid
The latest in Japanese tech:
If you’re happy and you know it
And you’ve really got to show it
If you’re happy and you know it, wag your tail.
Ash Can
@Raven: Those two remind me of DougJ’s crack about, IIRC, the collaboration of Gail Collins and Bobo, something along the lines of how the greatest good that could come out of it would be a murder-suicide.
Anya
@Raven: Just watched the clip on TPM. He seemed subdued. I wonder if he was ordered to make this apology.
I thought at the time that it was kinda ironic that he was disrespecting two women and being a dick to Mika while chastising the white house for lack of women representation in the adim. His and media’s lack of self reflection is breathtaking. His show is always a bunch of white men and Mika yapping about stuff and he has the gall to lecture anyone about diversity.
Valdivia
@Sarah, Proud and Tall:
was wondering the same thing. Hope things are ok with Gex.
Patricia Kayden
@Raven: Stephanie Miller calls “Morning Joe” the “Shut up Mika” show.
Good that he apologized to her, I guess. Hope he allows her to actually speak out more instead of having to out talk all the men on the show.
arguingwithsignposts
@Anya:
I guarantee you he was “encouraged” to make that apology, because there’s probably been a shitstorm of viewer response. Fuck him. He’s an asshole and always has been one. The greatest day in MSNBC history will be the day they get rid of his “reasonable” ass.
Linda Featheringill
@Amir Khalid:
That is cute! [wag, wag]
Capri
Here’s my little ray of sunshine. My district’s house rep., Todd Rokita, is getting serious, prolonged push back locally for being one of the Sandy 67. After the first few days of bad press and letters to the editor he published a long self-serving justification in the local paper. That has only fanned the fire, and there’s been negative response ever since. Including a Sunday editorial cartoon showing him refusing to put money in a collection plate. Hopefully the link below works:
http://www.jconline.com/section/singlepic?picsite=BY&piccat=NEWS&picdate=99999999&picart=702260801&picnum=302
The guy wasn’t particularly wingnutty before heading to Congress, but Lugar has them all running scared. Until now there’s been nothing on the other side to counter that. Hopefully that’s changing.
Yutsano
At this point I just need to survive the next two weeks and graduate the class I’m getting up ah oh dark thirty for. But there might be a few positives in the near future.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Raven: Stockholm Mila is going nowhere. Her faux liberalism is right up the Village’s alley.
Glidwrith
Got a 10% raise on Friday with a promise for 10% more if I succeed on a project I’m working on. Of corse, hubby just lost hours equivalent to the raise. Sigh.
rikyrah
It’s Monday….
just live through it….
Still sad for my Edith on DA
Yutsano
@rikyrah: Have faith in the fish…
jurassicpork
The cat’s out of the bag, both literally and figuratively.
handsmile
@Raven:
Turned on the “Morning Joe” frat party this morning (part of daily penance for my sins) to see some British-accented guy deliver a summary of weekend results from the English Premier League. From the banter, it seemed that this was an occasional/weekly (?) feature. I’d not seen it before, but as this blog’s correspondent for that show (joke), could you illuminate?
During that segment, Joe revealed himself to be a Liverpool fan; a fact that ought to give BGinCHI and Amir Khalid dyspepsia. (though to be fair, no worse than mine upon learning last year that Piers Morgan supported Arsenal.)
Also too, his on-air apology to Mika Brzezinski was pretty thin sauce for his obnoxious rant at her last week, imo. (His rant a Classic, letter-perfect display of GOP victimization.)
Steeplejack
Off to see the dermatologist in a bit. “Cheerful” news because I’m almost certainly cancer-free, which is a melodramatic phrase in dermatology once you get past the m-word–melanoma–which I have (gotten past) every time it has come up, Ceiling Cat be praised.
That said, my dermatologist is kind of a poster boy for why we need health-care reform in this country: he sits atop an expensive “fee for services” regime in which the “consumer” has little or no choice. And he’s not the most, uh, charismatic guy in the world, so you don’t often get that compensatory “Yeah, my guy is expensive but he’s the best!” feeling.
Finally, parking is insanely awful around his office, so I will be taking a long bus and Metro ride, followed by an urban hike, possibly punctuated with rain. Grumble, grumble.
But, hey, when I compare all that to the first time I was sweating out a melanoma diagnosis–waiting for test results to come back over an extended holiday weekend–this is nothing. I sympathize with people who have real medical problems and far fewer resources to deal with them. Hopefully Obamacare is the start to fixing our broken system.
ETA: Edited for tone.
Things are getting under my skin.Feeling crabby this morning.NotMax
@handsmileFrom Wikipedia:
Lots more on his extremist and execrable past there as well.
Amir Khalid
@handsmile:
Daniel Craig, 007 himself, is a Liverpool fan. That makes up for a great many less than worthy fellow fans.
Pococurante
TBogg gets all gleeful when public lists lead to home burglary:
Actually, the real lesson here is that aggregating public information so that any moron with a mouse and dangerous motive can target people is dangerous.
Note that these guns were locked away in a safe that apparently did its job. Assuming there were children in the house it appears they too were being responsibly protected.
We’ve seen similar past public aggregations both online and over the radio. They’ve gotten doctors and health workers hurt or killed.
Many people are remarkably tolerant of things that hurt other people when they are confident it will never affect them. Of course we call such people “sociopaths”.
John Weiss
Oh! It’s dawn here in far south Oregon. And it’s beautiful here in Paradise.
Mike E
@Amir Khalid: I do like Liverpool, but I wouldn’t mind getting a sweet purple # 9 jersey
MattR
@Pococurante:
Does public aggregation get people hurt or killed or is it the demonization of the people that are listed that leads to violence? There is a website that provides all the property tax info for every property in the state of New Jersey but I don’t recall anyone being hurt or killed as a result of that publication
EDIt: Let’s flip things a bit to ask a question: If someone is going to steal a gun, would you prefer they know which house to look in on the first attempt or would you prefer they break into numerous houses until they find what they are looking for?
Pococurante
In sense sure but that sounds very close to a variation on the “guns don’t kill people” slogan.
The property tax website presumably doesn’t detail specifically what valuables homeowners possess. Burglars already know wealthy neighborhoods are, well, wealthy.
TBogg’s misplaced schadenfreude is offensive.