Under MacOS X Mountain Lion (10.8) Kindle for Mac appears to store its eBook files in the following folder:
~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content
To access this folder easily, I created a symlink in ~/Documents as follows:
$ cd ~/Documents && ln -s ../Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application\ Support/Kindle/My\ Kindle\ Content .
The Third Circuit has now joined the D.C. Circuit in finding that the National Labor Relations Board lacks authority to act because one of its members was not properly appointed:
We hold that “the Recess of the Senate” in the Recess Appointments Clause refers to only intersession breaks. As a consequence, we conclude that the National Labor Relations Board panel below lacked the requisite number of members to exercise the Board’s authority because one panel member was invalidly appointed during an intrasession break. We will therefore vacate the Board’s orders.
Source: National Labor Relations Board v. New Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation, Nos. 11-3440, 12-1027, 12-1936, Slip Op. at 5 (3rd Cir. May 16, 2013) [PDF]; see also Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board, Nos. 12-1115, 12-1153, Slip. Op. (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 2013) [PDF]; U.S. Const., Art. 2, cl. 3 (”The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.”).
This is my kind of hot sauce:
Source: Brian Boychuk and Ron Boychuk, Super Diablo Hot Sauce, Chuckle Bros (May 3, 2013)
To make Firefox and RequestPolicy work properly with the 1Password Firefox extension, try the following:
127.0.0.1 in the input field and click the Allow button.onepassword-at-agilebits-dot-com and click the Allow button.Source: AgileBits Support, How To: Configure the RequestPolicy Firefox Extension (Apr. 30, 2012).
To enable retina display support in Firefox 19, try the following:
about:config in the address bar.gfx.hidpi.enabled and set it equal to 2.Source: smuggin, Is there retina display support for new Firefox 19?, Mozilla Support Forums (Feb. 20, 2013); see also mozzilaZine, About:config (Oct. 6, 2012).
A U.K. appeals court dismissed a libel lawsuit from Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), a maker of electric vehicles led by billionaire Elon Musk, against the British Broadcasting Corp. show “Top Gear.”
The court rejected Tesla’s appeal of last year’s decision to strike out its “libel and malicious falsehood” case against the BBC. The Palo Alto, California-based company said “Top Gear” faked a scene that appeared to show a Tesla Roadster running out of power, which led to lower sales.
The “Top Gear” review wouldn’t have misled “a reasonable viewer” into thinking the Tesla car’s range was less than the company’s estimate of “200 miles under normal driving conditions,” Martin Moore-Bick, an appeals court judge in London, said in his decision today.
Source: Ben Moshinsky, Tesla Libel Suit Over BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ Dismissed in U.K., Bloomberg (Mar. 5, 2013).
Mini-Lego versions of Abu Simbel and the Sphinx:
Source: Kristi “McWii,” Lego Abu Simbel, flickr (Feb. 7, 2013); Kristi “McWii,” Lego Sphinx, flickr (Feb. 7, 2013).
The Court finds that the ordinance fails to provide due process guarantees to any person
receiving a Notice of Liability, from The Village of Elmwood Place. … [W]hen a speed monitoring device records a violation, a motorist is mailed a Notice of Liability. If the owner of the vehicle wants to contest the liability. he or she must pay $25.00 to the Village of Elmwood and request a hearing before a hearing officer and there is no assurance that the fee will be returned if the appeal is successful. However, the hearing is nothing more than a sham! The so called witness for Elmwood Place testifies from a report produced by the company that owns the speed monitoring unit. This witness has no personal knowledge of the speeding violation and therefore, their testimony is based solely on hearsay. The accused motorist has no ability to cross-examine the witness because the witness was not present when the violation occurred. There is no opportunity to obtain any discovery about the device or to subpoena any witnesses that may have knowledge of the device. In fact, the device is calibrated once a year; even though it may have been subjected to 12 months of varying amounts of rain, snow, sun, storms, ice, wind and lightning. Moreover, the device was not calibrated by a certified Police Officer, but rather it was calibrated by Optotraffic, the corporation that owns the device. Remember, Optotraffic has a financial stake in this game. I used the term “game” because Elmwood Place is engaged in nothing more than a high-tech game of 3 CARD MONTY. It is a scam that the motorists can’t win.
Pruiett v. Village of Elmwood, Case No. A1209235, Decision, at 5-6 (Ohio C.P., Mar. 2013) [PDF].
It is 3.14 again! Happy Pi Day!
I have visited th[e Amien North] factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three. I told this to the French union workers to their faces. They told me that’s the French wayl … You can keep the so-called workers. Titan has no Interest in the Amien North factory.
Source: Letter from M. Taylor to A. Montebourg (Feb. 8, 2013) [PDF].