I saw the Mosley/Mora PPV card on Saturday night, and thought I’d offer up a quick recap. I felt I got my money’s worth, as a strong undercard made up for an awkward main event.
All three undercard fights look to have been put together so as to present a Golden Boy Promotions fighter in the best light possible, but they were still entertaining. I’d even say that one of the three made the case that GBP wanted to make. Some notes on each televised bout follow.
I’ve been playing around with Core Graphics/Quartz 2D image masks. They’re pretty neat, but a little obscure. Today I want to share a few things I wish I’d know when I started working with them.
girl·friend (noun)
1: A woman who hasn’t yet realized that she doesn’t like you.
Editorial note to friends and family: Just kidding, everyone.
Our Fearless Leader was speechifying a few months ago, and he offered up this gem:
It was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who said the role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves.
Now, in the first place, I couldn’t actually find this quote attributed to Lincoln. (Probably due to not trying very hard.) I did find this, however:
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
Which seems like it would serve as a pretty thorough rejection of the legislative agenda of the past 20 months, but whatever. What I want to talk about is thresholds. The standard in the first quote is “what they cannot do better for themselves”. This is the wrong standard. Even if it were true that gov’t could do some thing “better” than the people, that isn’t sufficient reason for the gov’t to do it.
Today’s project is another of those oddballs: I’m not really sure it will be interesting to anyone else, and I’m far from confident that I implemented it optimally, but it did solve a real-world problem that cropped up in one of my products. It’s lightweight roll-your-own replacement for NSUserDefaults. Normally this sort of thing would be superfluous, so let’s begin with the “why” before diving into the “how”.
Consider this:
A conservative estimate is that about sixty-five or seventy per cent of the entire wealth of the United States is owned by two per cent of the people. Sixty-eight per cent of the whole people living in the United States own but two per cent of its wealth.
Where do you think this comes from? A Barney Frank pitch for FinReg? A Nancy Pelosi fundraiser? Tim Noah’s latest income-inequality whine? No, it comes from a 1918 Letter to the Editor written by the Kingfish himself, Huey P. Long.
More from 1918:
From the year 1890 to 1910, the wealth of this nation trebled, yet the masses owned less in 1910 than they did in 1890 and a greater per cent of the people lived in mortgaged and rented homes in 1900 than in 1890, and more lived in rented and mortgaged homes in 1910 than did in 1900.
This is the condition, north, east, south and west; with wealth concentrating, classes becoming defined, there is not the opportunity for Christian uplift and education and cannot be until there is more economic reform. This is the problem that the good people of this country must consider.
It was a scam then; it’s a scam now. The only class that ever wins at class warfare is the political class.
