Friday, April 20, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Webpage of Youtube shooter
For about a year there has been an issue over Youtube "demonetizing" content providers, which is taking away advertising revenue from anyone on youtube who may be in the slightest way controversial. This demonetization has mostly hit conservative presenters, because apparently Youtube has been attacking "alt-right" content, or anyone who remotely resembles the "alt-right." (BTW, the term "alt-right" only initially meant alternative media sources that are ultra conservative, like Breitbart which invented the term, but this term got co-opted by racist groups. As a result, now the term is only used pejoratively to imply racism, with people on the left using the term to attack conservatives.)
Webpage of Youtube shooter: http://www.nasimesabz.com/
Commentary on shooter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBdUVD7gN_Y
Sunday, April 1, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Fwd: Deplorables part 2
Steve Hilton: Hillary Clinton's 'Deplorables 2' moment and why it matters for America's future
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Beware of Phishing scams
In the last month I have been getting a large number of scam text messages telling me that there is a problem with my craigslist account, or my bank account, or that I have a text telling me that I have a message on Facebook, with a link that looks like Facebook, but isn't. The link looks like:
This scam is trying to get me me to give away my login name and password. The way you know it is a scam is to look at the domain name, which is the part before the ".com" or ".net" or ".info", which shows that the link is not from Facebook, or your bank, or whatever.
I can't think of a reason why anyone would need to click on a link in a text message. If your bank has a problem with your account, chances are they will send you an email. However, these kinds of phishing scams happen in emails too, and sometimes they are harder to spot in emails. What I do with an email is look at the who the sender is, which should be the same as the service, like "facebook.com". Even with these you have to be careful that it doesn't say something like "facebook.com.scammer.com".
I remember around 2004 I feel for a scam in an email, which was ransomware. I should have known better, but it is easy to slip up. It locked up my computer and then offered to sell me a "virus checker" to fix the problem. I took my computer to a repair shop instead.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
20% of people in federal prisons are illegal aliens
The Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has an operational process for maintaining data regarding foreign-born inmates in its custody. On a quarterly basis, BOP supplies this information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE, in turn, analyzes that information to determine the immigration status of each inmate and provides that information back to BOP.
Out of the 185,507 inmates in BOP custody, 39,455 (21 percent) were reported by BOP as foreign-born. Further details regarding these 39,455 foreign-born inmates are as follows:
20,240 (51 percent) were unauthorized aliens who are subject to a final order of removal;
14,979 (38 percent) remain under ICE investigation;
2,374 (6 percent) were unlawfully present and now in removal proceedings;
1,852 (less than 5 percent) were lawfully present aliens
Out of the 185,507 inmates in BOP custody, 39,455 (21 percent) were reported by BOP as foreign-born. Further details regarding these 39,455 foreign-born inmates are as follows:
20,240 (51 percent) were unauthorized aliens who are subject to a final order of removal;
14,979 (38 percent) remain under ICE investigation;
2,374 (6 percent) were unlawfully present and now in removal proceedings;
1,852 (less than 5 percent) were lawfully present aliens
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Monday, March 5, 2018
one-party autocracy
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There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:00 PM, John Coffey wrote:
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> I was trying to find a related article where Rush Limbaugh quoted the author as praising China for being a dictatorship.
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/opinion/trump-china-trade.html
Trump Lies. China Thrives.
I was trying to find a related article where Rush Limbaugh quoted the author as praising China for being a dictatorship. I couldn't find the article.
Re: Learned a new word
Larry,
Seems to me that there is a continuum, from a very oppressive society that tries to regiment all behavior, to an anarchist or nihilistic one where people lack any sense of purpose.
In my view, society should regulate and encourage behavior that is respectful to the rights of others. By this, I mean we should teach children about civil liberties and respecting freedom.
As a logical extension of this, I also believe in courtesy.
Since we do not share the same religious beliefs, I assume that we would disagree on what is moral and what is not. I draw the line at respecting the rights of others.
One of the many reasons I do not believe in anarchy is that there has to be some standard way of defining, for example, what is property ownership and what rights are.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:36 AM, utahtrout wrote:
Anomie
From this article describing social anomie...How Silicon Valley went from 'don't be evil' to doing evil
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Starving the Tax Beast by producing your own value
This seems pretty obvious ... I'm not going to make my make my own table, but I might make my own meals. Sometimes.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Dear Immigrant
This was just posted to Facebook by somebody who used to work with me on the same small team in Sandy Utah, who is obviously very liberal. (Emphasis mine.)
Dear Immigrant, legal and illegal:You are welcome in my country. You may use food stamps, welfare, and any other type of government entitlement to which I have personally contributed with my income and other types of taxes while you get to your proverbial feet. Feel free to bring your extended family with you. If you happen to be Muslim, I look forward to hearing about your religious views and learning about your native national and spiritual culture.
Thank you,
Mr. Older-white-male-middle-class-liberal-agnostic-scientifically-minded-white-collar-working-bass-playing-facebook-posting-college-educated-jeep-driving-beer-drinking-Trump-disapproving-somewhat-intelligent-though-not-good-looking-size-10-shoe-wearing-citizen-voter-in-every-election-in-order-to-make-known-my-political-views-because-I-was-naturally-born-by-luck-within-the-united-states-after-all-I-may-just-as-well-have-been-born-in-a-South-American-rain-forest-though-I-would-still-expect-dignity-as-a-human-being-from-every-other-human-being-on-this-planet-not-the-shit-my-political-leaders-and-their-dumb-racist-minions-are-trying-to-pass-off-to-you-as-not-a-natural-born-political-citizen-as-though-they-deserve-more-dignity-than-you-do-all-the-while-feigning-christianity-voting-voting-voting-citizen.
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