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“Weapons of War,” by Robert Effler

Weapons of Warby Robert Effler

These days one hears news commentators and liberal politicians talking about “weapons of war.” Apparently a “weapon of war” is a type of gun that has no “sporting purpose” and that a civilian has no business owning. Hmmm? Let’s look into that.

Among the most popular […]

Spam about Spamming Software

This morning, someone tried to post this comment on this blog (I have comments set to require my approval before they show up as publicly visible) —

For what it’s worth, the link at the bootom of the picture redirects to botmasterlabs.net

FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

23 June 2023, 18:44 | Tags: , | Category: Administrivia, Technology | Leave a comment

30 Years of Innovation — Private Sector vs. Public Sector

H/T Johnny Powers — Monday, 1 May 2023 at 6:47 PM MST

Copyright © Free Libertarian Party of New Mexico, Free Libertarian Party of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and Mike Blessing. All rights reserved.Produced by KCUF Media, a division of Extropy Enterprises. Webmaster Mike Blessing.This blog entry […]

A Threat from a Black-Hat Wannabe

Here’s a threat of ransomware that I received as a comment about twenty days ago —

2023/04/10 at 10:22 pm

Deanna Laurencehacker@cloutzeventhire.com.au138.199.18.75

We have hacked your website nmil.blog and extracted your databases. This was due to the security holes you had in your your site / server which have […]

Ironic that Democrats hate the only thing produced by socialism that actually works

H/T Libertarian Party of Jefferson County [Colorado] at Friday, May 6, 2022 at 9:29 AM MST [via Libertarian Party USA (Unofficial) Facebook group]

NOTES

Reposted — Personal blogs and micro-blogs — Bastyon / Blogspot / Diaspora* / Ello / Facebook / Gab / Gettr / gorf.pub / gorf.space / […]

Solar and Wind Power vs Nuclear Power

H/T Larry Sharpe — Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 11:27 PM MST

See also Nuclear No-Contest[1], by James P. Hogan[2]

FOR FURTHER REFERENCE

At lewrockwell.com [LRC] — http://lewrockwell.com/orig9/hogan3.1.1.html James P. Hogan — Infogalactic, Wikipedia (jamesphogan.com seems to have gone away.)

Copyright © 2022 Mike Blessing. All rights […]

The ‘Eternal Engine’

H/T Gus A. Fahrendorf — Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:57 AM MST

Copyright © 2022 Mike Blessing. All rights reserved. Produced by KCUF Media, a division of Extropy Enterprises. This blog entry created with Notepadqq and Notepad++.

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Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter

Tom SoutherMonday, April 20, 2020 at 8:03 PM

https://facebook.com/hashtag/facebooksucks!

The Wrap — Facebook Will Remove Content Organizing Protests Against Stay-at-Home Orders, Zuckerberg Says by Sean Burch

Consider Diaspora*, Flote, Friendica, Gab, Liberty.Me, MeWe, Minds, Pocketnet, or Spreely as possible alternatives to Facebook and Twitter.

http://diasp.org/people/797c4c40d5020132c71100259069449e

Diaspora* doesn’t have pages […]

[TLE] Re: Armies of Chaos (2)

Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 7:21 AM:

His is something sci fi if it’s more powerful than a 44 mag.

Here’s the technical details as specified by L. Neil:

4 times as powerful as a .44 Magnum projectile Half the size of a Smith & Wesson Model 29 […]

[TLE] Re: Armies of Chaos (1)

Monday, 26 August 2019, 06:09:

Speaking of weapons, do you know what L Neil is referring to in Sunday’s article? [1]

I’d like to know the details myself. It sounds like some sort of 12-gauge pistol, or several .410 shotgun barrels arranged in a pepperbox configuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-box

MWB

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