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- May 22, 2017
- Yelp ... ruining careers one at a time !
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I was reading how Yelp reviews have adversely affected the career of one June Chu, a residential dean at Yale. It seems that those powers that be in the halls of pc thought some of her comments to be 'insensitive' being characterized as 'reprehensible' and damaging to students and the community fabric.
Far be it from me to question the overstepping of yet another educator on the toes of someone exercising their right to free speech but the holier than thou Stephen Davis some faculty member in charge has spoken and apparently his will be done.
As for me, I don't circulate on such accounts like yelp, facebook, twitter and the like to keep me from throttling morons like Mr Davis and I really don't care what the substance of the criticism is but that stupidity which is Mr Davis and Yale in general astounds me ad nauseum.
I'm sure he supplies a lot of "safe spaces" in which his students may hide from the real world all cozy and protected from the persecution of reality.
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- May 21, 2017
- I Love Fresh Linens
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I have this "thing" for fresh linens. As a matter of routine, I typically change those linens on my bed each Saturday morning upon arising.
I spray the bed down with lysol "fresh linen" spray on those days that I don't sprinkle baking soda on the mattress then let it sit and vacuum it up.
There is something about laying on a newly made bed that just brings me back to my childhood and I love the experience.
This matter arises because I was chastised yet again by a long time friend who told me that the value I place on clean sleeping arrangements is vastly over rated. This from a 60 year old wearing a baseball cap turned to the side on his bald elderly head and wearing oversized tee shirt and baggy shorts falling below the knee.
He think he looks "hip hop cool" and I think he looks like someone trying to recapture lost youth and missing that boat then arriving at some level of misunderstanding ...
The bottom line is I will continue to pursue my clean bed linens and will refrain from sleeping on a bare mattress set upon the floor in my street clothes, socks, and shoes like he does.
It takes all kinds to populate the world and I'm afraid he and I are at opposite ends of that spectrum.
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- May 20, 2017
- Troubling Times
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These are troubling times. Things like the "deep state" which would overthrow the government and keep us prisoners of the democrats and progressives and their penchant for profiteering via those mechanisms of global politics at the expense of nationalism and keeping of profits by those who earn them.
Then there is the suppression of efficient technologies in our possession by the military industrial complex in order to keep the oil companies rich at the expense of the environment and the people at large.
The sequela of the evil Barack Obama who turned over the elections to Homeland Security over the loud protests of a multitude of those in the legislative branch including democrats and republicans alike. We need to strike everything this man has done from the record and undo everything he cast upon the people in his quest for ruination of The Republic.
Likewise, the transformation of our democracy into an oligarchy controlled by a group of wealthy elites at the expense of the voters of the United States of America needs to be terminated with extreme prejudice.
We need to stop that stagnant stupidity propagated by political correctness, preferred personal pronouns, and other ridiculous stifling of the freedom to speak guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Mr Trump comes to the fore trying to restore everything that we were before all of this destruction of the American way of life and he is attacked by those who want to keep the status quo of the Obama like democrat and so-called progressives out to pillage the nation as they are doing right now under the ignorant noses of their constituents ... both democrat and even some republicans.
In the words of Patrick Henry,
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
There is a grass roots movement out to thwart the usurping of the United States which began with Harry Truman and his implementation of the Majestic 12 and Dwight Eisenhower with his 1954 Greada Treaty.
We will not stand idly by and allow the democrats and progressives to attain that end of impeding a President who won an election fair and square regardless of the incessant whining of Lindsey Graham and John McCain.
There is a point beyond which the patriots will not go and those out to loot the country should be advised that their days are numbered. Evil is the democratic party and their offspring the so-called "progressives" out to rob the nation.
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- May 19, 2017
- Millennial Bashing as an Art Form
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Millennials. Those individuals born between 1982 through 2004 — which would make them between 13 and 35. Presently the largest consumer demographic in the world.
Fortunately I don't rely on them for my ability to eat and live indoors so I do love to take a poke at a few of them on occasion ... particularly when I see them engaged in blatant stupidity like using a word in incorrect context or engaging in "texting grammar" in a formal business communication.
Then there are those who claim to be a "highly skilled" programmers when in actuality all they do is drag and drop a scant few objects in an integrated development environment and call it that. IDEs not withstanding my issues with the progeny of the generation of burger flippers we raised earlier in my career has me a bit cautious because even the millennial physicians are overly populated with morons as evidenced by the osteopath at Richland Hospital who failed to evaluate my step dad adequately and then laughed it off like the stupid female human being she is.
Therein lay the problem with being forced to go to a hospital run by students by the Richland County EMS who TOTALLY misrepresented the facts to achieve this end ... but that's another story.
I have always been pursuant of information. This penchant has carried me through my childhood through my advancing aged "now" and though I always attempt to be tolerant and kind some of the stuff I encounter really leaves me wanting for a level of communication which escapes the vast bulk of those I encounter anymore. Incidentally they all seem to occupy the aforementioned "millennial" range.
So when you think you must address me as a child or when you think you can misuse some phrase or term and chastise me for calling you on it I am drawn back to Mr C Theodore Sands who taught me geography in the seventh grade.
He told me that "it is far better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". So just cart your stupid moronic millennial butt down the road and don't darken my path thinking that I fail to comprehend your wisdom. What little you have drooled down your cheek when you ate your avocado toast for breakfast thank you very much.
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- May 18, 2017
- Senior Netizens
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I was perusing an item on CNN tech ... about the only thing on CNN with any relevance to my life until that moment they just "fake" it like they do most of the other news.
The article spoke of a third of senior citizens not using the internet ... which certainly rings true for me.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center evaluating how digitally connected adults over 65 claim to be. Seniors comprise some 15% of the U.S. population which works out to about 46 million old farts making about 5% of us steering clear of the internet according to the study.
Pew says that the demographic has been increasing with added smart phones with about half of seniors not even having broadband. I'll bet the rest of them have some crappy half assed broadband like Roadrunner Lite or something equally lame.
You would think that Spectrum might be aware of the fact that their business class customers are watching how they treat their mothers and look out for our seniors better than they do. Alas, they are content to ignore them and I'm content to drop Spectrum like a hot potato as soon as my contract is up.
So anyway, in the presence of this study, based on a number of surveys from the recent past we can surmise that the bulk of the older crowd is pretty well connected (or at least think they are) and rest assured I'm sidestepping those lame limitations imposed by Roadrunner at Mom's house as we speak.
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- May 17, 2017
- Poop Transplants return to the Threads
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Yes, having mentioned them a scant couple of days ago the concept of encapsulated feces taken for intestinal flora thereapeutics is back in the news.
FMTs ... or fecal microbiota transplantations if you will are a mechanism by which corrective action may be taken for those of us with deficient microbes in our guts resulting in a variety of immune disorders and obesity among other things.
The research delves into the significance of BMI which I personally don't view as a relevant measure because it fails to take into account body composition so much as dimension.
You can have a high BMI and be quite lean, as I have been in the past. Not now, mind you — but back in "the day".
The recent U of Miami study leads us down that primrose path of improvements in the BMI post fecal consumption with the mechanism of course being the flora from people with normal BMIs which was encapsulated and given to the fatties in the study.
As for me, I personally believe in the science of cultivating a healthy intestinal flora with contributions from others. I simply don't think a BMI point or two one way or another is an accurate measurement of results. It's enough to turn one into a raging fecophiliac.
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- May 16, 2017
- Wanacry Ransomware Appears Contained
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I have been feeling badly about giving my Mom some rather pointed advice concerning her continued use of Windows XP. It is a 15 year old operating system which went EOL in 2014 whereby Microsoft stopped general support and the exploit list keeps growing in the absence of actual real time updates.
A story in businessinsider.com is saying that a part of the recent success of the WannaCry exploit cyberattack is due to the 7% of existing PCs still using Windows XP.
Citing those timeframes and percentages above they have said that Microsoft did release a patch for the WannaCry exploit for XP and this causes me to think that the thing is quite a bit worse than I originally estimated ...
The mean spirited nature and cold environment of the internet is all the more reason to maintain as up to date a distro as possible and it is crucial get off of obsolete master control programs (operating systems) like Windows XP unless you have an extended service contract like they say the Navy bought for the product.
Given the fact that this particular exploit operated through a security hole in Windows XP and there is more of this to come can we really afford to lag behind crucial updates in the presence of an ever widening landscape of threats to cyberspace at the hands of the multitude of cybercriminals out there ?
You might not do much more than play games but you may lose a lot of personal documents like pictures and videos if you maintain this posture of operating computers in the past.
The point that drives the moral of the story home is the very title of the businessinsider.com article:
A huge number of PCs still use ancient Windows software that puts them at risk
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- May 15, 2017
- Intel Admits to Product Line Hacker Problem
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I was having a look at Forbes — like I do every now and then until they piss me off with their nag screen quotes they're so fond of sticking up in people's faces.
They had a tidbit on Intel's CPU exploit which is due to a critical flaw which might allow an Intel machine to be hijacked by a remote hacker ...
even if the machine is powered off !
Astounding though it sounds the flaw is said to be extant in all seven generations of it's CPU product lines for the past decade or so BUT the vulnerability is due to a chip not found in the consumer lines of their products.
They have an exploit test app available which will indicate the need for a system upgrade.
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- May 14, 2017
- Happy Mother's Day
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I celebrated Mother's Day with my mother yesterday as she has a previous engagement today. We went out looking at a few things here and there and had a nice lunch.
Then I took her home and placed my cellular router on my late stepfather's computer so she could play with some actual bandwidth instead of that Roadrunner Lite monstrosity with which she usually contends.
But today IS Mother's Day where again we celebrate our mothers, motherhood, the heartstring ties that bind us together, and the influence of mothers on society.
Seeing how I was given the best mother in the world I feel sorry for the rest of you who must contend with something less.
Regardless, I hope your Mother's Day is as good as good can be.
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- May 13, 2017
- A Remarkable Faith
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The atrocities of ISIL/ISIS are not new at this point of time. There is no depth to which they won't stoop to attain their goal of an international world wide caliphate featuring them as rulers and their deviant interpretation of sharia as the the law.
When you witness the rantings of false religion. When you see that evidence for the true nature of these radicalized adherent to Islam. It is a surprising notion that the immigrant demands to incorporate sharia as OUR laws are not dealt with more effectively than they are. The mutilation of girl children. The impersonation of police officers. The threats and acts of violence by persons ostensibly here to escape "religious persecution" and the whiny liberals who would dare encourage their admission to the Republic.
This is the TRUE legacy of Barack Obama. The attempt at ruination of the United States of America at the hands of a bunch of pseudo religious thugs whom he placed in our midst and nobody stopped him until it was too late. He should be held accountable.
Recently the murders of 21 Coptic Christians in Egypt was all over the media. Some of the backstories are profoundly tragic beyond the headlines ... for one of their members was not initially a Christian. He wasn't even an Egyptian, but he was murdered along with the 20 who were.
All 21 men had been working in Libya when they were kidnapped by ISIS. But as can be seen in pictures where they are lined up on the beach to be killed, one of them had darker skin and different facial features. This was the man from Chad.
The Coptic Christians were given a choice to deny Jesus or die. They refused to deny Him, knowing it would cost them their heads.
When the terrorists ordered the man from Chad to deny Jesus or die, he answered, “Their God is my God,” thereby sealing his fate.
The Man Who Was Beheaded the Day He Became a Believer
Michael Brown
townhall.com
Posted: May 12, 2017 10:38 AMWhat made a non believer Chadian citizen; die for Christ, along with his “20 Coptic Christian friends
The threads speak of the victims calling out to Jesus at the time of their horrible agonizing deaths at the hands of ISIS. That information brought tears to my eyes when I considered how many times I've done the same to no avail under comparatively petty circumstances. It made me ashamed.
bombayorthodoxdiocese.org
Fr Thomas Philipose in Learn Orthodoxy
February 22, 2015
I know that my personal theology has come under strain of late and my belief system has evolved with the new scientific information I have acquired in recent years. However, I will make it a point to remember these men who died for their faith without flinching at the hands of brutal murderous ISIS infidels who corrupt religion with their very existence and dare to think that we will adopt their sharia in light of all we now know about it and them.
Colonel Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, former Prime Minister of Lybia, used to tell his people how Islam will breed the rest of us out of existence with their six to eight child litters compared to our one or two. Those very people to whom he bragged murdered him on October 20, 2011. Are we going to let them do it to us as well ? Some of the stupid liberals in the United States seem to want this more than anything.
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:4 Holy Bible, King James Version - Comments (0)
- May 12, 2017
- Men going their own way
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I have been exposed to a thing called MGTOW ... Men going their own way. Somewhat of a "mens rights" movement if there can be such a thing.
The only interest I really have in it all are those similarities to how I live my own life and the comparative sociology of the so-called "womyn" movement quite a while back where the feminists looking all frumpy, fugly, and pissed off adopted this nonstandard spelling of the word “women” that they might avoid a word representing themselves incorporating the suffix of 'men'.
The whole MGTOW smacks of metrosexuality gone radical and makes me think of lesbians only it concerns straight males who simply seek independence from those cultures espousing coupling with the opposite sex.
About the only thing I've noticed about the entirety of it all is how some of the ladies go bat crap crazy when they cannot dominate or manipulate their partners all of a sudden when they decide that the need to 'go their own way' as it were ...
It seems that the paradigm of heterosexuality has shifted to a one to many from a one to one model. My personal thoughts remain "old school" and I am more inclined toward traditional roles and a model more attuned to the interpersonal relationship where meaning has substance as I interpret it.
All too often I see those who grow weary of interaction at those levels leading to this phenomenon of men going their own way. I certainly can't knock it given the fact that I have unconsciously been practicing since my early thirties.
I just feel that romance suffers when everything is about one thing be it a person or relationship. I like to consider others special too.
The relationship thing was bound to change with all those other manifestations of altered reality like trans-this and trans-that and "preferred personal pronouns" as though they actually mean something.
Perhaps when (and if) we return to that reality governed by who we really are instead of these manufactured fantasies where little boys sue because they can't make themselves up like little girls for their drivers license photos all with the blessings their "proud" misguided idiot mothers than perhaps we will eventually return to that thing we've lost sight of called meaningfulness.
Sooner or later it needs to stop being "all about me".
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- May 11, 2017
- Writer's Block
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Sometimes I have a topic all ready to go and forget the specifics prior to the writing phase.
This has happened only today.
I sat at lunch thinking "this would be a good thing to blog about" only to reach the evening hours and come up with nothing.
That mist which is the mass of synapse between my ears fails me again ... for keyword searches have failed me as well.
Those are my "last ditch effort" to which I resort in times like these.
Forget about it.
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- May 10, 2017
- Misappropriation of the Stars and Bars and Laws
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In the modern world the Confederate flag, to include the Confederate Battle Flag have been misappropriated by a section of white supremcists bringing dishonor upon it and subsequently to the memories of those honored dead who fought under them.
Then we had a foreign national american governor with no real appreciation of the meaning of that flag who both insstigated and allowed it to come down from the SC State House because she was doing the bidding of the vocal few in the presence of a silent many who protested quietly.
It is sad that symbology is only important for a subset of the taxpayers in the United States. Sadder still the fact that entitlements are paid to illegal intruders into our borders who come here to breed a bunch of "automatic citizens" and drag us down even more.
These are the low hanging fruits of the so-called "progressive" movement where the word "progressive" is a misnomer meant to cloud the facts as morons such as the the various comediens acting like the fake news who act as though they're taking the "high road" when in fact those like her seek only to take from the worker and give to the shirker.
The Dearborn Michigan has suspended the Bill of Rights three times in favor of Sharia Law. When Muslims come here they live under our Laws. At NO time do we live under theirs. The Sharia is not relevant in the United States and the stupid liberals need to get that straight before it's too late.
They are proponents of a candidate for president who lost because she would monetize the office for personal gain. In those closed eyes of the liberals — blind to what is happening lay the true tragedy in the United States. We have a number of local foreign imports who like Ms Bee are undermining the strength of the United States under the symbol of a donkey by meddling in politics when they should just pack up and go home.
Today is Confederate Memorial Day, is a public holiday observed by the U.S. states of South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas since the end of the American Civil War to remember the over quarter million members of the Confederate States Army, Navy, Marines, and militia who died in combat while fighting for their home land. This day is also marked by observances in many other states. It is observed in late April in some southern states recalling the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Bennett Place in 1865.
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- May 9, 2017
- A strong case for encryption
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I was reading a tidbit on the Sophos site regarding the pitfalls associated with sending unencrypted documents as email attachments.
It seems that about 2 years back a person with one Plymouth University sent a spreadsheet containing salaries and other compensation for about 250 senior staffers to an incorrect email address.
The error was reported to the appropriate authorities in Great Britain and it was reported that the document had been deleted by the recipient.
Then last week said document was sent by an anonymous source to a local newspaper with all information intact.
The university's solicitor engaged the newspaper regarding the subject telling them that it is clear from the content that said information should have been sent to the newspaper and requested immediate deletion with written confirmation of that deletion ... and so forth and so on.
The apparent automagic recurrence of this document which was deleted at the "original" disclosure point leads us down that sticky trail indigeneous to cloud users everywhere:
1. Nosy staffers going through your stuff
2. The persistence of backups
This security hole could have been plugged with the presence of encrypted content and a key shared separately from the document.
In our haste towards efficiency hitting the "send" button can sometimes be our downfall. When you entrust an outsource with your business you assume your business will be handled with a certain level of trustworthiness and confidentiality.
HOWEVER, this does not carry over to the destination and their staff. Backups sometimes linger for decades. People come and go. Just how trusting are you? I am so glad that I was raised to handle my own affairs unlike so many businesses elsewhere who rely on the staffing of others to compensate for their own inability to manage their own data systems.
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