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The inexorable rise of property prices in the UK, especially London, due to a lack of supply of new builds, buy-to-let investments, the selling off of social housing and large numbers of new builds being bought by foreign speculators is finally causing the torches and pitchforks to come out.

In places like London, it's becoming nearly impossible for a "normal" person on an average income to live since renting even the smallest of properties (e.g. a studio flat or a room in a house share) is out of reach, Forget being a teacher, nurse, police officer or fire fighter and living there. It's just not going to happen. Social housing has mostly gone, so the poor renting privately are finding their monthly rents doubling over night and having to leave.

The good Christian Irritable Duncan Syndrome brought in cuts to housing benefit just to remind the poor, sick and disabled that they're a filthy burden on the rest of us. And they can jolly well cut back on food and heating to pay their rent.

So some "motivated" protesters have got out the torches and pitchforks and completely got it wrong.

You couldn't make it up.

What a miserable society it is that can't look after its poor, sick and disabled. Let the bleeding hearts amongst the Little People look out for them, we'll just take our money away and laugh.

Mind you, the other side have got a new leader and they're thinking about changing things.

The BBC has an article about ex-Muslim Britons who are being persecuted for becoming atheists.

The persecution often comes from close family and friends.

Ayisha (not her real name) from Lancashire was just 14 when she began to question Islam after reading the Koran. She started rebelling over wearing the hijab, but eventually decided she wasn't a Muslim and the situation at home rapidly got worse.

"My dad threatened to kill me by getting a knife and holding it against my neck and saying: 'We might as well do it if you're going to bring this much shame to the family.'"

He used to beat her so badly that eventually she called the police and he was convicted of child cruelty. Ayisha hadn't anticipated the shock of being immediately cut off from her mother and siblings.

Many of the victims are young, vulnerable and powerless. The local authorities where the victims live are often wary of offending Muslim culture and belief which may have hindered efforts to help people in this situation.

• A London Cereal Café Was Attacked by an Anti-Gentrification Group Called 'Fuck Parade'
• The hipster Cereal Killer Cafe owners aren't the East End's real enemy
• Cereal Killer protest: police investigate threats against cafe owners
• Cereal cafe defended by Boris Johnson after gentrification demo

Could i ask for:

A notice to be sent to the 'owner of the post': if someone writes in their journal and someone else posts a response, could the owner of the journal get a notice of a post in the journal to their 'new messages' 'inbox' if this makes any sense at all.

If it doesn't make any sense at all, blame it on Captain Morgan, Black spiced rum... gluten free and YUMMMMMMMMYYYYY!!FORMYTUMMYYYYYYY!!!1

STRIKE THAT! SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING NOW! Thanks.

***Now can i have my [strike][/strike] usage back?????? :)

Supermoon, ooh, you are SO big! In action as we type: half way. Teh sky cleared just in time and the eclipse is in motion. The moon is sooooo bright right now!

Oh man... didn't know so much time had passed... more like 90% there.

No one else on my block seems to care (or know?). I should go around banging a pot... or a bong???

We're getting set up to have an Eclipse party with the kids tonight. We're going to arrange to be driving on the road with a very good view of the rising "supermoon" when it comes up. Then we're heading to the store to pick up a cheap tent as a surprise - three of our boys are going to have the option to camp out in the woods tonight if they like, but they don't know that, yet. After we get home the partial eclipse should be just beginning and we'll all hang out outside watching it for awhile. The boys can hang out and watch to the bitter end if they want, but I bet they'll be asleep before that.

Interestingly enough, our youngest daughter was actually born the night of the first lunar eclipse in this tetrad. We drove home late from the birth center that night watching the moon disappear, which was pretty cool. So I've made a point to notice each of these four eclipses as they've passed (couldn't see one due to clouds - hoping for better visibility tonight).

ETA: Crud. Clouds rolled in. At least the boys got their tent.

ETA: Wow. Right after the kids fell asleep, we went out, and the sky was almost cloudless, with zillions of stars showing. The moon was still behind what was left of the clouds, but we could see it glowing through and it was a great sight with binoculars. Went back out 25-30 minutes later and it was totally gone and clouds covered everything again. Finally went out for one last look about 30 minutes before the partial eclipse was over, and that spot of the sky was clear for some spectacular viewing. It's a shame the kids didn't get to see anything at all, but they were still thrilled by the tent.

So - you open a web page, and it takes a while to load. Sometimes, a long while. You get curious about just WHAT takes so long, and start looking at the page code, fire up wireshark, and watch things. Everyone with a little savvy blocks ads, blocks trackers, streamlines the browser, tweaks under the hood settings.

One thing that I've personally not keyed on until recently, are online fonts, or web fonts. WTF? I've installed a boatload of fonts on my system. I only use a few fonts, but I've installed all kinds of fonts, to ensure that I could read stuff that just might require some outlandish font.

But, everytime I load a page, I'm DOWNLOADING a new font? WTF? Time to investigate . . .

So the author demands that if I read his content, it must use some special font, that is hosted online? Really? Oh - it's a PROPRIETARY font. Ahhh, I see. Someone is making MONEY off of this waste of bandwidth. Makes sense now! "Download ze fonts, Old Man, or we'll break the REST OF YOUR FINGERS!"

Fuck them all.

Some of us hate downloadable web fonts so here's how you can stop websites (including techpowerup) from forcing their glorious fonts down your throat.

1) Mozilla Firefox

Open about:config
Set "gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled" to false.

2) Google Chrome
Right Click Chrome's launcher icon, click "Properties".

At the end of the launcher string add the following:

" --disable-remote-fonts" (without quotes).

You're done.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/disabling-web-fonts-in-mozilla-firefox-and-google-chrome.184198/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34358380

Los Angeles police said Majed Abdulaziz al-Saud, 28, was arrested on Wednesday and released the following day after posting a $300,000 (£197,000) bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on October 19 to face a charge of "forced oral copulation". Al-Saud does not have diplomatic immunity, police said.

So I joked last Sunday about how some of my kids gave a pass on watching Star Trek to go play role playing games. This Sunday will be different: there's a new episode of Star Trek Continues! It's neat to see my kids' preferences: most of them prefer TOS over everything else (we skip around and watch random episodes every Sunday) although one likes Voyager the most. Star Trek Continues is actually how we got started doing this, and they all love it.