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- February 22, 2018
- Billy Graham RIP
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Rev Dr William Franklin Graham Jr
November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018Some of my youngest memories are of Billy Graham. I recall sitting before the black and white television set on Lavender Lane in Aragona Village in Virginia Beach and watching his crusade programming most every time it aired ...
You see, I think that my Mom was a member of his flock because if he was on the teevee she was likely watching for the entirety of my childhood.
I remember growing older and seeing his program on the tube when I would be home ... though in later life I was not as likely to watch. The crusade remained a staple of the household viewing habits for as long as I can remember.
Throughout his many accolades and the televised crusades he became a part of our history because we noted those moments which featured him and his various endeavors.
I recall when Mrs Ruth Graham passed in 2007 he said that he knew who he was and where he has been and most importantly where he is going.
I am sure it was a grand reunion when he and she met in spirit now that he has gone on to his great reward.
Rest in peace.
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- February 21, 2018
- Restating the Obvious
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One of the creators of a cryptocurrency called ethereum is stating that the instability of all cryptocurrencies with wild swings up and down are an indication that traditional financial instruments may be a better idea at this juncture in the evolution of the cybermonies ...
And that you might not want to maintain any more crytocurrency than you can afford to lose.
Well ... as I have repeatedly said, this is ZERO for me personally and I remain glad that I terminated my Bitcoin full node with extreme prejudice on day zero.
Something about the characterization as "a new and hyper-volatile asset class” and that they "could drop to near-zero at any time" does little to reinforce my confidence in cryptocurrency and there you have it.
The proponents are recommending caution at the same level as the skeptics. Volitility be damned, this coupled with what I view as a level of "ease of theft" pretty much says it all.
Needless to say I won't be venturing out into the world of cryptocurrency assets anytime soon and those big players now have the potential to lose really big from the way it's looking.
Spookage.
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- February 20, 2018
- Evoking Demons
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Some may recall my failure at magick years back. The attempt was aborted when things got entirely too wierd and I slept that night with all the lights on and the television blaring.
I've been working through the academics of evoking a couple of demons in the spirit of King Solomon who did the very same thing. I do know that I lack some of the large copper vessels he used for containment — and I haven't really absorbed the information contained in the Goetia (Lesser Keys of Solomon) and those terms and traditions likewise are not at sufficient understanding to do more than discuss my intentions.
While this may eventually be some foolhardy mistake I come to regret, the world has devolved to a point where it's really not an option to merely stand by and watch it all unfold without at least attempting to intervene at some level ...
In my waking hours I have been reading up on Aleister Crowley and getting ready. I recall having a discussion of this with my Jehovah's Witness friends who have not returned since that day. Oh well, to each their own.
The pursuit of becoming a magician is certainly much more reading than I ever gave it credit. I'm glad I aborted my first attempt which I engaged without any reading other than the preparation and execution.
I'm not looking to become a mage so much as just determining if any viable options do exist for me. I am at an age where it simply doesn't matter if that which I attain meets the disapproval of anyone. I'm tired of what is going on with the treachery of the political world and the idiots trying to implement a so-called New World Order and the criminals like the Obamas and Clintons as well as the traitor Bushes of the world getting over on everyone else.
I stand on the precipice of what I view as attempting to change things for the better. If it takes a demon to do this, so be it. I'm game. If it was good enough for Solomon, son of David and his concubine Bathsheba ... it's good enough for me. This is merely one of a bunch of irons I have in the fire.
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- February 19, 2018
- Some Asian Females are RUDE
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I've had a couple run ins with Asian females lately. I try to be tolerant and practice "live and let live" but I swear, the other day I wanted to pop a cap in a rude asian ass ... and though it's not something I'm particularly proud of; it's the truth.
Some of the rudest immigrants on the planet are Asian females. Most of them are fine and dandy and I do try to stay out of their paths in general ... but WAY too many are looking to pick a fight because they always want to be pissed off at SOMEONE who was born here.
This notion of spewing attitude like it's some female hormone they're spraying all over everything in the manner of a cat gets old very quickly. When you come to a new country you don't get to continue mess that you formerly got away with simply because those around you wouldn't take you to task.
Other than perhaps Huntington Beach, California; in the United States of America you are likely to encounter one or two individuals who will take you down in no uncertain terms. Hopefully you'll have bought dentures up front because after some confrontations you will end up needing them.
Stow the tude rude ass Asian female or go back from where you came and stop darkening the landscape with your rude trouble seeking petty trifling selves.
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- February 18, 2018
- Security Trumps Convenience
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I've been reading how the need for security in computer operations is finally sinking in somewhat.
Trust is a rapidly diminishing commodity for the online purveyors of services to be rendered, social media, and the rest of that internet devoted to the pursuits of cyberidiocracy and the less than skilled devotee at the keyboard.
The cyberslugs like Yahoo and it's 3 billion user information dissemination, facebook and it's endless compromises for it's users, and even the negligent and incompetent Equifax which suffered no consequences and still gets to peddle credit information when it should have been shut down with extreme prejudice ...
But I digress.
The issues of security now lay at the feet of the user. You get to pick and choose those services you will or will not use. You get to go down that road fraught with integrated development environment coders who really don't know how to "write" more than "drag and drop" modules of existing code and "call" themselves programmers.
The bottom line here is that which you do tommorrow depends on what you are doing today. If you can't keep track of your own security needs then you are eventually going to lose things you'd really rather not ... like passwords, personal financials, documents and communications it's all there for the taking.
Those implementations will be offered by some. Where they are not you should take the opportunity to invoke that strong password or utilize that encrypted data stream with the vpn of your choice.
Personally, I am a preemptive strike kind of guy. I want to firewall you before you get too grabby around my stuff. That's why I have written log crunching scripts to tell me when problems are brewing and even automating the firewall of certain infractions without personal intervention.
No I don't trust you. Yes I will throw up my shields at a moment's notice. The internet is a mean and scary place and too many of you frequent those dens of inquity called social media where they're out to either influence you or steal your stuff or both.
I permit entry to my node as long as you appear to behave yourself. One false move and it's over. The rest of you need to increase that caution and step up your security measures too.
The 1980s are over.
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- February 17, 2018
- Random Acts of Kindness Day
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I like to think of myself as a relatively kind individual. I feel less so since I went to work in government and began to encounter all manner of panhandlers on Main Street. I tell you, keeping a stack of dollar bills becomes difficult when everyone is hitting you up because they're on hard times. It's not that I don't feel sympathy for them ... it's just the practicalities of eating and living indoors create a barrier to those provisions for others I don't know who could really use some help.
Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day. It celebrates being kind to others as well as that mentality called "pay it forward" where a kind act is passed on to another as payment to the person who provided it. Those recommended activities for the day involve service to others and charity for those around you. I shall make the attempt to try and help at least one person today in the spirit of the observance.
Many times lending a helping hand doesn't involve cost at all. We'll see how it all goes !
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- February 16, 2018
- Virtue Signaling
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We have another area of fake news propagation between people. This interaction involves publicly expressing opinions or sentiments in an attempt to demonstrate good character some semblance of morality on one or more issues.
The problem with virtue signaling is the sincerity of some of those who utilize it in social media and elsewhere to fein an evolved personality when in actuality those expressed ideations may not even be true representations of that which a person may wish to cultivate with their peers.
All of this pretty much ends up being some sanctimonius farce for the pretentious adoration of the fellow fakers of which there are innumerable examples throughout these outlets for irrelevant drivel called social media.
Couple this with the leftist penchant for boasting beyond truth and reality and outright lies to attain that end of democratic voters and we're pretty much in a downward spiral from which we may never recover.
This is what happens when a stupid generation of burger flippers gives rise to an even stupider generation of millenials.
The social justice warriors can go right on screaming about my rights ending where their feelings start but one truth remains evident: there is a reality that doesn't exist in the lives of some of the individuals claiming to be the epitome of goodness and light.
Have a little dignity for a change ... or at least something that is REAL.
Those practicalities of paying the bills and existing in a hostile world fall far short to the signaler of virtue who dispenses the story desired on any faddish whim fading through that patent leather subculture called fantasy.
Been there. Done that. Went nowhere.
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- February 15, 2018
- ENIAC Day
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I remember reading about the first computers early on in life. I was always a fan of Grace Hopper, who experienced the first computer "bug" — and her pursuit of code and the operating system as well as her naval career in which she was a high ranking senior officer ... while I was starting out.
The technology which she saw through it's infancy has seen me through my entire life and one of those machines used in her work was the UNIVAC.
Preceeding UNIVACs was the first model called the ENIAC.
Today is ENIAC Day or the World’s First Computer Day.
Each February 15 the City of Philadelphia officially declared on February 15, 2011 as ENIAC Day.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the world's first general purpose electronic computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
It was programmed by six ladies who were not given credit for their contributions to ENIAC nor recognition for their integral roles until well after the program.
• Jean Jennings
• Betty Snyder
• Marlyn Wescoff
• Frances Bilas
• Ruth Lichterman
• Kay McNulty
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- February 14, 2018
- Valentines Day 2018
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- February 13, 2018
- Resisting Amazon Hating on Walmart
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Some time back I decided that Amazon was an evil monopoly and I wasn't going to do business with them. I've pretty much stuck to my guns ... even through those times which something I wanted to buy was only to be had on their site.
I simply did without.
That resulting vendor requirement was channeled to Walmart who likewise hasn't proven to be worthy of my business. They have this propensity for telling you that you qualify for "free shipping" when they have raised the price on the products to cover that shipping cost in what amounts to a bait and switch on pricing when you hit their site.
I'm feeling as though integrity is to be totally lacking in the world of retail in general. Not only do they screw their low paid workers and feeble partners; but they go out of their way to sodomize the customer as well.
I keep wishing for some type of karma to befall them from the ecommerce gods resulting in their being struck from the heavens with some ray of death. Likely, I'll simply be forced to suffer the slings and arrows of those vendors without scruples I've come to loathe so much.
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- February 12, 2018
- Lincoln's Birthday
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Today is Lincoln's Birthday.
Some states observe it as a public holiday.
Other states celebrate the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington on one of the two anniversaries ...
Or a separate observance called "President's Day" on the third Monday this month.
Abraham Lincoln was our 16th President and is remembered for that public office, his personal integrity when interacting with others, and the heinous murder which ended his life.
Regardless, I try to honor his memory as a person who typified that to which people should aspire as well as all he attained during his lifetime — and I have remembered him for that set of characteristics noted in the literature toward that end.
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- February 11, 2018
- The New Deal
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So ... I am now doing the multiplier thingie on the lottery plays.
Since 2002 I have been playing the lottery without doing the powerplay on powerball and the megaplier on megamillions.
Now I am running the multiplier on all numbers.
I came to this decision from watching my mother play and on the advisement of the lady at the vendor where I buy my tickets.
She had noticed that I would win but those winning were limited by the lack of a multiplier in the game.
I must admit that one of those big deterents to the new deal was the powerball organization which doesn't do the powerplay option correctly.
If you win non jackpot winnings your winnings are supposed to be multiplied by whatever the powerplay value drawn happens to be.
They fabricated a rule right about the time they increased the price of the tickets as well as the odds of winning whereby a match 5 is ineligible for powerplay and simply is a two million dollar winner.
I suppose when you make up the rules as you go along you can cheat however you wish.
This is what's happening with the powerball people anyway.
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- February 10, 2018
- celebrating trangender youth in the mainstream media
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I've been reading about mainstream media and their celebration of a growing youth transgender population.
This is merely that manifestation of "I am only who I think I am" and nothing else matters. WRONG.
Too many of us are always so quick to celebrate abnormality. The human genome recognizes three gender states:
A configuration of sex chromosomes which is XX means you're female.
A configuration of sex chromosomes which is XY means you're male.
There is another natural state called 'mosaic' whereby you are known as 'intersex' with nonstandard genetic configurations and this is a foundation for self determination in gender identity.
The GENOTYPE refers to your genetic makeup and determines your gender ... not "how you feel".
The PHENOTYPE refers to your outward appearance and is a function of cosmetics, dress, and even surgery. Gender reassignment surgery simply alters the genotypical equipment to appear and function otherwise.
The logical problem with all this "trans" mess is that it lacks genotypical validity, i.e., if you are XY traipsing around as a female you remain male regardless.
If you're XX in jeans, a tee shirt, and short haircut you are female despite these outward apperances which are merely cosmetic at best.
An XY and Trans XY pair constitutes a homosexual relatioship.
An XX and Trans XX pair constitutes a homosexual relationship as well.
No amount of makeup or surgical intervention which in actuality is mutiliation is going to change what you are at the chromosomal level and THAT in essence is who you are case closed.
Gender begins in the chromosomes. They are that fundamental control structure and element of which the rest of human beings are comprised.
A lot of this mess originates in the public education system where we have entirely too many liberal weirdos seeking to indoctrinate school children in their own twisted image by telling little girls that it's okay to be a boy and feel and behave thusly ... or touting "it's okay to assume female roles" to little boys and it's okay to feel and act like you're a little girl.
No wonder there is this preponderance of confusion when those sissies providing the guidance are so totally unqualified and without the proper character to nurture children.
These individuals are precisely the reason home schooling remains on the rise.
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- February 9, 2018
- Samples exploiting Meltdown and Spectre Found
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So, it begins. Low functionality snips and samples which utilize Meltdown and Spectre have been found.
It seems that google's publication of findings for both CPU vulnerabilities ended up being roadmaps for this malware creation.
Stressing that the 139 samples can't do much ... yet; the potential for improvement and subsequent impact on the existing servers and workstations of the world is quite likely.
Proof of concept code such as the bulk of these new findings aren't designed to deliver a payload or really "do" anything other than reveal what may be done.
Linus Torvalds has excoriated Intel as a producer of "garbage" fixes in this infant stage of the malware. His tirade was both specific and very entertaining had it not been a spooky view into the future as well.
Torvalds has been criticized for his handling of the issues he has with Meltdown in particular. However, I for one don't pull any punches, either and feel that severity he communicated was not only appropriate, but well deserved.
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