The general war against sanity in the United States is escalating in its front against physicians. The Center for Disease Control, under the the direction of Hussein Bahamas's gang in Washington is proposing radical new guidelines which constrain physician judgement in prescribing pain relieving drugs (archived). Continue reading
Category Archives: The Law
Miner Problem Pushes BitBet Into Recievership
Following the incident where BitBet ended up paying out the winners of the Jeb Bush nomination bet twice due to probably miner cartel action, BitBet is now seeking a receiver. The full announcement is reproduced below: Continue reading
"Honest" Soap Scandal Deepens: A Chemist Speaks
Personal care products manufacturer Honest Co. has recently been exposed as dishonestly labelling their products, as reported in The Wall Street Journal (paywall) (archived). Qntra's chemistry correspondent is here to set the deception straight. Continue reading
Microsoft Bundles Adware With Security Update
Microsoft has by its own admission bundled adware with a security update for Windows. The update to the Internet Explorer component of Microsoft Windows pulls in another update containing the adware. The adware creates a banner in Internet Explorer badgering users to upgrade their version of Windows to Windows 10. In order to avoid angering their institutional customers who actually pay for software licenses, this new Microsoft adware checks to see if the machine it is installed on is part of a Microsoft domain before badgering the end user. This move suggests that Microsoft itself is surrendering its own overt actions in the Windows ecosystem to match the the rest of the spammers that dominate the space.
FBI Agents Investigated For Misconduct In Lavoy Finicum's Murder While Insisting Slaying Was Justified
The United States Department of "Justice" whose loyal FBI soldiers murdered Lavoy Finicum is continuing to insist the murder of this American hero was justified, even though it has been compelled to open a criminal investigation into several of the FBI Agents who unleashed the fatal hail of bullets on Finicum (archived). The alleged criminal behavior happened as the triggers were being pulled to fire bullets at Finicum, concerns the triggermen firing bullets at Finicum, and involves a conspiracy of the triggermen's FBI comrades in covering up facts about the events of Lavoy Finicum's martyrdom. Naturally the Preets at the Department of "Justice" continue insist the shooting was justified as their own enforcers go feral.
Hold on to your butts – Argentina is going on sale.
This year Argentina has a new president, one Mauricio Macri. The fellow stands very strongly on the side of capital and against labour, with daily pronouncements drawing the ire of the grobian-socialistoid Argentine (("Hay que reducir los gastos, y el salario es un gasto mas" (Macri) – "El salario es un derecho [umano]!11" (the G-S A). Continue reading
Chinese Businesses Scavenge US Industry For Brands
Today United States regulators from the "Justice" department gave China based Haier permission to buy General Electric's appliance unit. General Electric's efforts to escape the low margin appliance business have become public knowledge twice before. The first effort failed to find any credible buyers. Following that, last year "Justice" Department regulators refused permission for Swedish firm Electrolux's to unburden General Electric of this line of business by acquiring it for 3.3 billion United States dollars. They expressed concern about the poverty of suppliers for wall mounted ovens and cooktops for commerical use in the United States. Now Haier, which already markets appliances for sale in the United States, has received approval to acquire this business line from General Electric for 5.4 billion United States dollars. Continue reading
A Miner Problem
As announced in #bitcoin-assets, BitBet was attacked earlier today through a transaction withholding mechanism. The attack unfolded as follows : Continue reading
Google At Fault In Motor Vehicle Collision
A vehicle driven by Google software has been determined to be responsible for a motor vehicle collision in Mountain View, California (archived). Google's car was derping along at 2 miles per hour when it struck a bus travelling at 15 miles per hour. Google attempted to justify itself with the excuse that it thought the cumbersome bus would yield when Google's smaller vehicle was travelling the speed of a particularly slow pedestrian. Google's car sustained damage in the incident.
2015 IRS Breach Estimate Revised Upwards To 720,000 Records
The estimated number of taxpayer's records taken in a breach the IRS waited until May 2015 to confirm has been revised from nearly 100,000 to roughly 720,000 in a new figure (archived). In August 2015 the figure was quietly revised upwards to 330,000 records. The substantial increase coming with each new revised figure for a single breach suggests the IRS has no idea how many records have been accessed, and they are further incapable of knowing until they have been scammed. Sorry for your loss.