How would they know? - Police Charge a Salem Psychic with Offering Fraudulent Curse Removal Services - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Fatima’s psychic studio, which has been offering a Romani form of fortune-telling to tourists for two decades, was caught violating a city ordinance which states that psychics may only forecast the future and read the past. Warding off evil spirits and protecting patrons from bad auras is strictly forbidden...
In response to the allegations, Christian Day, a local warlock who owns two fortune-telling shops and has appeared on Penn & Teller’s Bullshit, said: If they’re a fraud, then we’re all frauds, and all religion is a fraud. They’re not regulating the priest who absolves you of your sins and tells you to put some money in the collection basket, or the old lady who sends all her money to Pat Robertson."
Hey look! Stupid, completely unnecessary rule finally ended. Now let us all thank them for years of enforcing a policy which was arbitrary nonsense. The Use of Approved Electronic Devices Is Now Permitted - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Was there any real basis for this concern about interference to begin with? In a 2012 survey of people who had flown in the previous year, 40 percent admitted that they had left their electronic devices on throughout the flight, while 7 percent said they had not even bothered to put their phones in airplane mode... even though many passengers have routinely disobeyed the restrictions on electronic devices for many years, as far as I can tell no one has ever cited an actual mishap related to such infractions. The ban on using phones for voice communication remains in place, but there does not seem to be a safety rationale for that rule either."
The level of fuckup is pretty staggering - Almost Nothing About Obamacare's Federal Exchange System Works - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"It’s almost impressive how comprehensive the federal system’s technical failures are. Just about every part of the system that has been reported on seems to have problems, many of which are quite serious."
"I like a little whiskey. It’s got the nice burn going down, and then the warm belly. Then I’m invincible, too, that’s also a great thing about it, is that nothing can hurt me and I know everything." — Paul F. Tompkins
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