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- August 4, 2018
- Beware Monsanto Frankenfood
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One Robert T. Fraley involved in the invention of genetically modified seeds is whining about the public rejection of his human modified crops as the "frankenfood" that it is.
My personal problems with Monsanto go beyond the overstepping of their GMO whores and specifically I object to the tactics used by the company against soybean farmers using their agricultural products involving black ops style brownshirt nazi tactics to the point that I personally was going to become involved in snuffing them out like the criminal turds that they are.
Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw not withstanding, IMHO Monsanto should be stricken from the record and dismantled without a corresponding "project paperclip" which saved their fellow nazi science criminals the fate they so richly deserved.
Boo to Monsanto. Boo to Genetically Modified Organisms. Sometimes, the natural way is the right way. If I read that something contains genetically modified foodstuffs I not only decline to eat it, but I blacklist both the manufacturer and the retail outlet carrying this blight on the nutrition of humanity.
It's not enough to create but some choose to tread where such manipulations are only meddling with creation.
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- August 3, 2018
- Extreme Dining
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Once upon a time I was one of the few extreme eaters on the world.
Being obese long before obesity became a national tragedy provided me with opportunities for introspection above and beyond those most of my peers were forced to indulge and I am the product of who I am and where I've been.
Nowadays there is an uproar regarding the caloric content of mainstream dining opportunities ... particularly at but not limited to those at the Cheesecake Factory.
So when you have a 2,780 calorie meal on a regular basis and then blossom into multiple 2,780 calorie meals in the course of a day; just what basis provides for normal weight when "normal" becomes multiples of daily caloric intake under most circumstances.
I suppose in a lumberjack society this is not an unfeasible mentality. However, given my sedentary tech based life and propensity for eating way too much I think I need to get my slipshod slaphazard dietary habits under control ...
or at least resume that roadwork which worked so well in my younger days.
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- August 2, 2018
- US Declaration of Independence signed this day in 1776
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Even in the dismal democrat and so-called "progressive" undermining of the Republic presently in motion under the auspices of the main stream media and deep state factions out to continue looting and continuing the diversion of rule from congress to some unqualified lot of career bureaucrats in the halls of government not meant to hold such power over the tax payers I remain proud of those documents marking the evolution of the USA.
Our Declaration of Independence is a statement by the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the fourth of July 1776.
It declared that the thirteen colonies were sovereign states and therefore no longer under British rule. This was the beginning of the United States of America.
It was signed on this day in 1776 by citizens representing New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Those who would sully the nation with their underhanded political notions of placing billboards in foreign nations advertising
"come to the US where everything is free"
may wish to reconsider the folly of slugs such as Maxine Waters and that OTHER slug Jim Acosta with their leftist supporters who will not prevail in the notion that the rest of us will simply accept any of those lies and confrontational abuse they care to instigate in the public or the press.
There are consequences for such idiotic rantings and down right criminal profiteering as hers and other redirections and misrepresentations by the press or those engaged in public office.
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- August 1, 2018
- National Girlfriends Day 2018
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National Girlfriends Day has been set aside so girlfriends may get together around the United States and celebrate their special bond of friendship.
I keep wondering if the day applies to girlfriends of boyfriends.
It is said that girlfriends may be our sisters, mothers, classmates or co-workers.
However I remain somewhat up in the air over the germane context of it all.
Boundaries tend to become obscure when too many feel entitled to make up their identity regardless of the facts — or the biology involved.
Regardless, if you're a girlfriend I hope you have a happy day.
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- July 31, 2018
- I Routinely Firewall Data Centers
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My world grows smaller ...
I routinely firewall data centers. Why? Because too many of their customers are scumbags.
The bots. The scrapers. The exploits. The spammers. The inappropriate links. The data centers which harbor all the riff raff of the web. Get lost.
In an earlier time when I was naive they got by. Then one fateful day I saw my content published on somebody else's site and it was on.
Luckily my content has been published on my site long before it ended up on some illiterate no talent dirt bag's site later ...
So I switched to Apache and started installing and getting up close and personal with all manner of modules and associated scripting designed to control access and voila — I started excluding those problems which pervade the internet thinking they own me. AS IF ...
Should you suddenly encounter a 403 (forbidden error) when you cross my patio it's due to your (or your host network's) reputation preceding you, your user agent, your web site, your previous commentary, your query string, and/or any number of other kinds of disqualifying access which may have gone down in the past. To my dismay I've amassed quite the detailed catalog of methods, agents, and networks over the years. It speaks poorly of some of our fellow denizens of the internet.
Only now I'm much less likely to drop my shields as I have been in the past. The resilient young become the wise old. I'm not your commodity. I'm not your bitch.
I don't like exclusionary practices. There just came a time when I had enough of rogue networks supporting a deviant user base with too many exploits, bots, scrapers, spammers and the rest of the vermin infesting the internet.
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- July 29, 2018
- Texting has become the BANE of my existence
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Texting. One of those SMS modalities which so many love and I despise.
It has reached the point that some in my midst want to conduct business over text messaging and there's where I drew the line in the sand.
If I have to try and communicate with you via a tiny touch screen with even smaller keys then just go away and leave me alone.
Texting is for people who don't want to call. If you don't want to call I don't want to communicate with you.
I don't REALLY want to talk either but I'll do it long before I'll have some protracted text messaging conversation I find tedious, time consuming, and less in the way of taking care of business than picking up the phone and speaking your way through it's conclusion like an adult.
Go text chat with one of the small fingered simpletons in your life.
I have things to do and they don't include texting on some cell phone.
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- July 28, 2018
- Execution of the Mentally Ill Revisited
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Over the years I have pondered capital punishment. While decidedly "pro" in this regard, there have been instances where I have personally felt it was neither judicially applied nor particularly just punishment in the context of the perp viz a viz the crime. The conflicting attitudes regarding my wish for justice for the victim and some modicum of compassion for the criminal leaves me vexed with each successive execution which I mark as societally just until that time it is outlawed which likely will be never.
The deathwish of a mentally ill convict was granted at Holman Prison in Atmore Alabama one Thursday in 2013. Convicted murder, Andrew Reid Lackey who was 29 years of age was executed by lethal injection after many communications requesting execution -- including one to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2012.
While the decision regarding execution of the mentally ill condemned remains the purview of individual state jurisdictions, the US Supreme Court has prohibited execution of mentally ill inmates.
Known as the "Halloween Killer", Mr Lackey was convicted of killing Charlie Newman, an 80-year-old World War Two veteran by stabbing him 70 times in 2005. He was an acquaintance of the man's grandson.
Again, while I am decidedly "pro death penalty" the thought of executing a person possessing faculties which may be "outside of reality" definitely gives me pause. It is a difficult matter to weigh these decisions, particularly in cases of "volunteer" status -- and there are many on death row who "volunteer" for execution rather than spend years on death row ... whereas some opt for life in any circumstance.
The considerations encompass the resources required for incarceration, justice, the reality of guilt, the evolution of despair as an agent of intolerance of being locked up on death row, and the victims and the families. Although I cannot speak to the propriety of it all, but I am decidedly conflicted with the notion of executing the mentally ill. However, given the propensity for a number of inmates to volunteer for execution rather than endure prolonged incarceration ...
Could there be fates worse than as humane a death as criminal justice systems may provide?
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- July 27, 2018
- The Fallacy of "Highly Recommended" Web Ads ...
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All over the web page retail ADverse I'm seeing labels touting that some product is "highly recommended" in some ploy to gain your confidence and utilize it however their proffer may profit the ad originator.
Do you actually think that the search engines care how much bull is tossed your way in the course of advertising?
Now, if you're like me and have a deep seeded inquisitve nature about you the question arises:
• "Highly recommended by whom?" • "What are their credentials in the matter?" • "Do they have domain expertise regarding said product?"
So I hit the source code of several of these ads and did some back tracking only to find that the "high recommendation" is essentially the smoke blown by some lamer marketing anus in an effort to relieve me of my hard earned money and the ENTIRE product being advertised is a piece of fecal matter suitable only for flushing down the toilet with the rest of the crap. Caveat Emptor: let the buyer beware ! What's the catch? YOU.
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- July 26, 2018
- We're Still Killing the Bees
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It seems that the apparent cause for the honeybee holocaust is man made and takes the form of fungicides and pesticides which result in pollen containing residues of spray treatments.
Testing was done where healthy bees were fed pollen which was contaminated with these chemical residues and their health diminished — the hallmark of this so-called "colony collapse disorder" being a susceptibility infection by a fungal parasite called Nosema ceranae.
These revelations, though edifying ... are not the whole story.
It seems that the plants from which bees consume nourishment consist of local flowers, weeds, and such which are not the crops receiving the fungicide and insecticide treatments; but those plants likewise are contaminated.
We require the bees for effective pollination of vegetables and fruits. Manual pollination is a tedious and daunting task when applied to commercial operations.
We presently require more than half of the entire bee population in the country just to pollinate some food crops we already have.
This is a critical problem caused by the indiscriminate use of insecticide and fungicide spraying operations.
Organic gardening is looking better and better at so many levels.
I just hope it's not too late.
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- July 25, 2018
- New Mail Server Platform
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I'm loosing my present mail server package for a groupware version. It has much more in the way of functionality and more intuitive configuration.
Actually, the issues I have surround the new TLS version in place and that ridiculous reconfig I'm requiring entirely too often.
I decided to let the last TLS update go on the present config and here I head into new territory yet again !
Oh well ... never let it be said that I am opposed to the implementation of anything new on my network.
Network. It used to be "node". Now it's a "5 node network". Nothing new but a lot more in the way of connectivity from the crib !
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- July 24, 2018
- The Retrospect of Saving Private Ryan
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I've never really been a war movie buff.
Suffice it to say that I should have been a better enlisted man during my hitch in the Navy.
When you're "in the moment" it's a difficult matter to extrapolate how those evolving attitudes and feelings which arise with age will end up making you feel.
It stems from a time in my childhood when "Combat" the television series appeared in my life too much and sent me in to this apocalyptic bent whereby I became afraid that the world was going to end in some great world war or something.
It wasn't until the Aliens franchise that I really warmed up to the notion of soldiers and military film noir but that allure was in reality something else altogether ...
On this day in 1998 Saving Private Ryan, the epic WW2 Spielberg flick was released to theaters.
It gave me my first realistic notion of what that conflict entailed and though the innumerable tragedies and sometimes infuriating plot elements would stick with me over the years ...
I was glad to have sat through what was really not my cup of tea as it were.
A work of fiction, based on historical elements I was touched by the entirety of this combat opus and the sacrifice of our military as portrayed so movingly by the cast.
The chain of command was never so inspiring in my lifetime.
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- July 23, 2018
- Die McDonald's Die
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So the threads are speaking of the salads at McDonalds making the masses ill.
I haven't had a positive experience there since the 1970s.
Lower than expected profits are the last thing this major contributor to the fat asses of America's children should be worried about.
I revisited this greasy spoon most recently at the 2425 Sunset Blvd, West Columbia, SC 29169-4762 (803) 796-2005 location.
And (as I suspected) got the same substandard fare, piss poor service, and moronic experience with the staff I've come to expect of a place that does nothing but market that which it can't produce, be it food or environment.
The little girl who took my order was the dullest human being I ever encountered and was totally without manners.
The order was a travesty with hamburgers being taken from a plastic drawer instead of "fresh made and cooked" like their advertising claims.
There was no attempt to get any aspect of it correct and I suppose that's how they make the only profits they get.
Sell you more than you actually get.
It's the attitude that minimum wage earners can toss your food around, drop it on the floor, from her five inch fingernails and then give it to you without anything you requested when you dropped your hard earned cash in their coffers that they should be worried about.
When you employ the lowest common denominator like the fat young Paris who was or probably still is a manager at the 434 Gervais Street Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 376-8898 location — who will toss your food on the floor you deserve the fiscal rewards of dullard provided service and inferior grease laden fast food products.
I'm sorry I ever thought that maybe they could rise to the occasion of a "second chance" after so much time has passed. Well, nothing has changed at all.
If ever there were a case for eliminating jobs with robotics this joint is one of those textbook examples of both feasibility and propriety.
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- July 21, 2018
- The DNS She Propagates
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Much of the upgrade is finished.
The remainder will be handled as required ...
I can think of the database manager and a few ftp tweaks as part of that little which remains.
The entirety of the process went like clockwork and my only troubleshooting issue was pretty sophomoric in the form of a slow switch squelching my bandwith.
I removed said switch and ka-boom ... 330 MB down and 25 MB up. Yowser !
Anyway I'll be done in due time and it's time to slow down and allow the DNS servers to pass around the new network information beyond the many I see already have it in logs.
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- July 19, 2018
- Network Upgrades
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I'm upgrading my network and bandwidth today.
This will entail configuration after the fact and I'll be down and out for a while tweaking away the issues one by one.
However, all of this will make me happier with the technology at hand and I am enthused to begin the process.
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