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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
11:26 pm	UHF Remotes Just. Don't. Well, not if you can avoid it anyway.  The stupid things have to be held if just the right finicky position to work, and 2 seconds later that same position can be the wrong position. (I've got a multi-room Dish DVR receiver about 30 feet away) Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep @ Libera (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
5:50 pm	Minarchism I was re-reading my GURPS Transhuman Space book, and I found a pretty much exact match to my socioeconomic philosophy!  It's a subset of Libertarianism. (THS89)Libertarianism and Anarchocapitalism "These are socioeconomic  philosophies based on the primacy of individual rights and responsibilities.  They hold that the only agreements that should bind an individual are those contracts into which he freely enters, and that unregulated economic activity in a society that cherishes both personal freedom and individual property rights will lead to an efficient economy and greater prosperity.  They differ from traditional conservatives and modern liberal democrats in advocating both fiscal and personal freedom.  If someone's actions don't harm others, then he should be free to do as he likes.  The disapprove of taxing people to pay for social welfare, but believe that a free, untaxed economy will create plenty of jobs, with wealth left over for charity and freedom to move to where work can be found." (THS90)Minarchism: "Minarchists believe that the largest justified government is one that is limited to protection of individuals and their private property aagainst physical invasion: government should provide police, a constitution, courts, and national defense only." Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
3:31 am	Internet Kill Switch Again? Tech How? Congress is trying to give Obama the same power that Chinese and other totalitarian regimes "enjoy".  The power to kill the Internet in their country.  Obama would supposedly be limited to 120 days in an emergency before having to have Congress rubber-stamp a renewal. If this passes, how long will it be before some Prez decides disagreeing with him constitutes an emergency, then issues an ultimatum: "STFU or I'll shut off your pr0n and blogs!" Does anyone know how this would work technically?  (Therefore how tech-savvy can bypass this cutoff?) Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
4:13 am	Weird World War II logs FINALLY found the GnoeMoe MOO logs for my Weird World War II online game! (I'm using Ubuntu because my WinXP isn't connecting correctly to the Internet) It was in a hidden directory: /home/troy/.gnome2/gnoemoe/worlds/PyraMOO/logs/ I've only been searching for them since I noticed that GnoeMoe was MAKING log files!  No hint on the net, nothing in the docs.  Just HAPPENED to have set my file browser to show hidden files, and went down the .gnome2 path out of curiosity. Current Mood: satisfied (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
9:20 am	Doctor Who Universe Why do they act like no one has ever heard of aliens on all three of Doctor Who (modern), Torchwood, and Sarah Jane Adventures? U.N.I.T has been around for DECADES with several highly visible alien encounters, and even invasions! Current Mood: confused (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 14th, 2010
6:55 am	My Congressional Agenda: Vote Accountability Law:  Since the advent of ID-card electronic voting means that ANY vote takes only a couple of minutes, all laws and amendments must be by "roll call" voting. (Comment on this)
2:33 am	My Congressional Agenda: Amendment Repeals Repeal the 16th (Income Tax):  Take away the majority of the Feds independent source of money. Repeal the 17th (Senator Election): Return the appointment of Federal Senators back to the State Assemblies.  The Senate was designed to "lobby" for the States.  For those who talk about the corruption as reason for change, how is STATE corruption any different from the direct corruption we have now?  A significant portion of the money used to elect Senators comes from OUTSIDE their State! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
11:39 pm	My Movies I own a copy of the following movies, in retail versions.  (In no particular order): ( 14x3-1 movies ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
10:01 pm	Unused Convieniences I happen to think the automatic ice-maker is one of THE best ideas after the refrigerator itself.  Our current refrigerator came with one. My parents never hooked it up.  And my mom complains about me never refilling the ice cube trays! WHY?!? I don't know.  He's on third.  And I don't give a darn! Oh.  That's the shortstop. Nevermind. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Mo Ghille Mear @ Celtic Woman (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
12:38 pm	My Congressional Agenda: Treaties As I understand it, if we get simultaneiously a bad Senate, President, and SCOTUS; they could sign such treaties like the one prohibiting small arms being sold, or even held by civilians. I propose an amendment to the Constitution that explicitly states that they cannot accept such treaties, and if they do anyway, that neither states nor individuals are bound by those treaties. Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
2:22 am	Ficlet: Truly Unforgivable A response to those authors who write "Wizards WON'T use guns" fics. -=HP!DH=- Harry saw Nagini coming in to bite him from the corner of his eye. Since he couldn't lower his Shield Charm he was holding with his right hand, he pulled the Webley revolver out from the waistband of his trousers.  The third shot connected and blew Nagini's brains all over the ground.  There was a wail as Voldemort's Horcrux dissipated. Harry swung the gun around and pointed it at Voldemort.  "That was your last Horcrux, Tommy-boy." said Harry.  "Time to die." "You wouldn't DARE." hissed Voldemort.  "If you strike me down you might as well use the next bullet on yourself.  You will be a pariah, outcast, outlaw." Harry shrugged.  "Works for me." He pulled the trigger, blowing Voldemort's brains out. He rounded on the rest of the mentally stunned combatants, holding gun and wand.  "I just killed Voldemort with a gun.  Any of you want to object?  Do you feel lucky, punks?" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
11:08 pm	Ficlet: A Hole in Your Mind, Take 2 "There is a hole in your mind." "Sorry?" thought back Harry to the Sorting Hat. "Hmmmm, let's take a closer look......Oh, Dear Merlin. Welcome back, Tom Riddle...." Current Mood: amused Current Music: Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come (1 Comment |Comment on this)
12:30 am	Bad Day? (Fake News) Think you're having a bad day?  Consider the case of Stick Thinney, a fashion model. She first got into a slap-fight with another model over a photographer, which caused one of her fake eyelashes to detach and slide nearly out of sight in her eye socket, but they managed to extract it, and she went on with the show. A set of pyrotechnic flash pots under the stage misfired and dislodged a section of flooring from the catwalk.  Stick tripped over it, kicking the flooring out of the way, and fell under the stage and onto the scaffolding impaling herself on two upright tubes in the lower abdomen.  During extrication, a nearby bottle of brandy was spilled over her legs and was ignited giving her and two firemen 2nd and 3rd degree burns. As she was being taken to the ambulance through the kitchen area, a busboy attempted to clear out of the way, and dropped a tray of dirty silverware including steak knives.  6 of the knives embedded themselves in her arms and upper legs.  To make matters worse, Ms. Thinney was allergic to shellfish, and was inadvertently exposed by forks smearing the wounds.  This fact was not known at the time. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance was involved in a traffic accident which completely overturned the ambulance.  This dumped an entire bottle of Betadine disinfectant in her hair.  (Ms. Thinny is a natural white blonde.) Once at the hospital, while she was being treated for her various traumas, her heart went into ventricular fibrillation because of the shellfish reaction. While shocking her back to a normal rythm, both breast implants were found to be defective when they exploded. Ms. Thinney is presently undergoing extensive plastic surgery.  She released a statement saying "Nothing else could POSSIBLY go wrong." (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
6:23 pm	Discarded Storyline from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" crack!ficlet ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
7:45 pm	Ubuntu Countdown Don't know if it'll work after 10.x comes out, but worth a try. It's a REALLY GOOD idea to have a secondary operating system handy for when your primary stuffs up. (My WinXP is not downloading more than 20kB for at least http) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, April 9th, 2010
9:09 pm	Medium 4/9/2010 ( Spoilers ) Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Monday, March 29th, 2010
11:46 pm	Scene from a "Harry Plothole Gets Tough" fanfic ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Music: "First Approach" @ Vangelis (Comment on this)
Friday, March 26th, 2010
3:38 pm	Complete LACK of Data Security in SF Check out this panel of Schlockmercenary  This turns off the entire camera system for the mall.  Why did this happen? There seems to be a fallacy in SF TV that you can sneak in a virus/Trojan in sensor data.  WHY WOULD YOU EXECUTE "RANDOM" SENSOR DATA?!?!? Maybe they're inspired by "buffer overrun" attacks in modern computers?  That sort of thing doesn't make any sense to me either. Treat data as data, NOT CODE. If you find code in the sensor data, run it on a stand-alone computer to see what it does, but DON'T run it on the main computer. Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
6:30 am	Survival Seed Bank There's a commercial on TV selling the "Survival Seed Bank" which "May become more valuable than gold" because it would let you grow an acres worth of varied food crops.  (A good idea.) But:  One of the selling points is "these are NON-HYBRID SEEDS"!!!!  What's so great about that? "Best of all, not genetically modified in any way!"  Again, what's so great about that? Heck, I WANT disease and pest resistant crops that fix their own nitrogen!  That have a long shelf-life!  GM bio-tech all the way! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 12th, 2010
4:42 am	Why No Drilling? I was watching Glenn Beck and he pointed out the Feds owned HUGE areas of natural resources, mainly oil shale and natural gas.  But they WON'T lease these areas out to companies to extract them, supposedly for "protecting the wilderness" reasons. Why? Compared to strip mining, or even shaft mining; drilling has no impact on said wilderness areas.  It's a 2-foot wide hole in the ground!  The pipelines to carry the products can usually be underground, too!  There might be a 100 by 100 foot square fenced off up top, but that's ALL! BTW, did you know that the Feds own 90% of Nevada? Current Mood: annoyed (2 Comments |Comment on this)