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The last time I used anything made by Apple (one of the early Macintosh models) back in April, 1994 — the “Eject” command (Cmd-E) didn’t work after four or five tries, so I pulled my 3.5-inch floppy disk out of the drive with a Leatherman multitool. Amazingly, the disk still worked fine when I tried it at home on a PC-style desktop.
Add that to the fact that Apple keeps a lock on what software MacOS will run that makes Windows look like a FOSS free-for-all. I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard that iOS is similarly locked up.
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Too funny to not share!
Seth Anderson Bailey
Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 4:45pm
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
On my left, we have Hormone Disaster. Special Attack: Morning Wood
On my right we have Nazi Walrus Special Attack: Hungry Hungry Hitler
Who wins??? React to Choose Your Fighter!
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Most horror (especially Stephen King’s stuff) bores me to tears.
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This has been part of the victim disarmers’ schtick for decades.
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I voted for Johnson in 2016, and I most certainly do regret it. First time in 20+ years that I felt and thought that my vote was wasted by voting Libertarian.
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Arvin Vohra
Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 2:58pm
Libertarianism, as a purely political philosophy, technically allows collectivism, drug use, laziness, racial isolationism, and many other kinds of underachieving. But the free market, which accompanies Libertarianism, is far less forgiving.
If you use a lot of drugs, Libertarianism won’t stop you. But the free market may punish you just as brutally as the state does. If your hobby makes you economically worthless, the free market holds you accountable. However, if your drug use inspires you to make great music or art, the free market rewards you.
Don’t want to work? Libertarianism won’t force you to. The free market, however, has a different view of laziness. It won’t lecture you on the value of hard work. It will just show you the consequences of the lack of it.
Don’t want to learn anything? Libertarianism gives you the freedom to be uneducated. The free market, however, usually feels differently. It punishes ignorance and lack of skill far more quickly and strictly than any truant officer.
If you believe in collectivism instead of individualism, Libertarianism won’t stop you. If you make a well functioning collective, the free market may reward you. If you discover, as so many do, that great individuals tend to be drawn to individualist rather than collectivist cultures, the free market will make you pay for your collectivism.
If you want to make a racially isolated group, Libertarianism won’t stop you. But the free market may have something to say. Racially isolated groups tend to achieve much less than their counterparts who face constant challenges and innovations. Japan during its two century isolation turned into a cultural backwater and technological laughingstock. Although its culture was entirely dedicated to war, the lack of cultural and technological competition made it no longer militarily competitive. Cultural challenges, innovation, and competition has, on the other hand, made America a technological and cultural powerhouse. Even in America, the most stagnant areas are those with only one ethnic group. The most vibrant and innovative cities have the most cultural diversity.
Libertarianism allows you to have any belief you want, no matter how silly. But unlike statism, it doesn’t subsidize them. The free market holds you accountable for the effectiveness of your beliefs and behaviors.
Respectfully,
Arvin Vohra
Vice Chair
Libertarian Party
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We (the pre-April 2017 LPNM) tried to coalition with the local Green Party at various times between 1995 and 1998. Other times they would just show up at our Albuquerque-area meet-and-greet events and try to recruit us into their organization. Mostly, any “coalitions” that we agreed to revolved around ballot access, then the Greens would attempt to hijack our presence by bringing in the rest of their nonsensical platform — jacked-up minimum wage, global minimum wage, public funding for candidates, their version of “single-payer” healthcare, etc., etc. At which point, said coalition fell apart, the Greens couldn’t figure out why, and we wondered why we ever bothered in the first place.
Listening / Reading / Watching
- Quill Driver Books — 400 Things Cops Know by Adam Plantinga
- Alien Characters: Series 3, Episode 3 — Alien Madison by Neil A. Hogan
- Simon & Schuster — Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 by Barrett Tillman
- PJ Media — New Segregation Signs Pop Up in Leftist Establishments by Megan Fox
- nmpolitics.net — Zinke doesn’t recommend shrinking two New Mexico monuments by Heath Haussamen
- Newsweek — Massive Sunspots and Solar Flares: The Sun Has Gone Wrong and Scientists Don’t Know Why by Alexa Halford, Brett Carter and Julie Currie
- ZeroHedge — Five Reasons Why America Is About To Become A Very Conservative Country by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com, posted by “Tyler Durden”
- The New York Times [NYT] — Our Constitution Wasn’t Built for This by Ganesh Sitaraman
- BizPac Review [BPR] — Hillary superfan Jessica Biel sued for stealing $430,000 in tips from restaurant employees by Samantha Chang
- Foundation for Economic Education [FEE] — 15 Supreme Court Decisions that Shredded the Constitution by Sean J. Rosenthal
- Avenged Sevenfold — City of Evil
- Chiller — The Twilight Zone (1985-1989)
- BBC America — Star Trek: Voyager
- Breitbart News — GOP Rep: Paul Ryan Will Not Let Congress Touch Concealed Carry Reciprocity by AWR Hawkins
- IcePop — These Are the Most Frightening Special Forces in the World by Isabelle Garreaud
- Science Channel — Mysteries of the Missing
- Western Journalism — Georgia’s Campus Carry Law Goes Into Effect With Little Notice by Randy DeSoto
- The Daily Signal from the Heritage Foundation — Judge Suspends City’s Ban of Farmers Over Their Marriage Views by Kelsey Harkness
- Ordinary Times — He Needed Killin’ by Tom Van Dyke
- Law Office of Brian Corrigan — Character Evidence in Murder Cases
- Cable News Network [CNN] from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. —
- The Point: Hillary Clinton just floated the possibility of contesting the 2016 election by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
- They live in Mexico and go to school in the US by Leyla Santiago, CNN
- New York Post — Cops’ massive salaries are robbing taxpayers blind by Kirstan Conley
Today in history
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From the article —
“Professor Timothy Krebs, a political scientist who specializes in the study of urban politics at the University of New Mexico, said it’s not unusual to see the development community spend such significant money on a mayoral race. That’s because city officials routinely make decisions about zoning and infrastructure that have a direct effect on the profitability of their companies, he said.”
If you truly want to limit the inflow of money into politics, especially “dark money,” then limit government’s power over and intrusiveness into the private sector.
http://nmpolitics.net/index/2017/09/realtors-and-developers-give-big-money-to-abq-mayoral-candidates/?fb_comment_id=1620428381322134_1621030684595237
Listening / Reading / Watching
- Quill Driver Books — 400 Things Cops Know by Adam Plantinga
- AC / DC — Back in Black
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Mark Hinkle and I were there at the New Mexico Roundhouse on 28 December 2011 when Gary Johnson jumped ship from the GOP to the LP.
If I had known what he would say and do in 2016, especially bringing in that piece of soggy dogshit Weld, I would have told him to take a hike.
http://tomwoods.com/ep-906-judd-weiss-john-mcafees-vp-pick-on-what-really-happened-behind-the-scenes-and-its-not-pretty/
Maybe it’s time for Boston Tea Party v. 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party_(political_party)
Or how about an American affiliate of Freedom Party International?
http://freedomparty.org
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I for one won’t be surprised if she invokes the Second Amendment as a defense.
“What’s mine is mine, what’s yours is negotiable (and ultimately mine),” and such.
- nmpolitics.net – Re: Realtors and developers give big money to ABQ mayoral candidates —
From the article —
“Professor Timothy Krebs, a political scientist who specializes in the study of urban politics at the University of New Mexico, said it’s not unusual to see the development community spend such significant money on a mayoral race. That’s because city officials routinely make decisions about zoning and infrastructure that have a direct effect on the profitability of their companies, he said.”
If you truly want to limit the inflow of money into politics, especially “dark money,” then limit government’s power over and intrusiveness into the private sector.
Copied to Facebook here and here
Listening / Reading / Watching
- Breitbart News — Study: Flagging Stories as ‘Fake News’ Ineffective; People No Longer Trust Media by Nate Church
- nmpolitics.net —
- Farewell to an extraordinary border journalist by Kent Paterson
- Realtors and developers give big money to ABQ mayoral candidates by “Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth”
- Las Cruces Sun-News — NM CAFé board resigns amid internal turmoil
- NBC News — Trump Signs Congressional Resolution Condemning White Supremacists by Phil Helsel
- ALERT FROM MY BRIGADIER GENERAL FRIEND GREG Z (RETIRED) LETTER TO MY READERS CONCERNING EMERGING CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA:PLEASE TAKE THIS VIRAL! by Steve Quayle
- Albuquerque Journal — Council candidate McKenney faced assault charge in Maryland by Olivier Uyttebrouck
- Helloween — Straight Out of Hell
- AC / DC — Back in Black
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Arvin Vohra
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 10:54am
Could the free market fight drug use? It already does.
The free market doesn’t fight idiotic behavior with violence. It just makes you pay the penalty for that behavior. If you use any drugs at all, there are plenty of private sector jobs that you cannot be hired for. Private insurers give private companies that work with heavy machinery major discounts for being drug free. No need for government involvement. Private healthcare, daycare, and educational companies often require drug free employees. Pretty much every employer prefers them.
The free market won’t kidnap you and lock you in a rape camp for using drugs. It just might not hire you. You may face the choice between clean living and destitution, homelessness, and starvation.
If you’re squandering hours a day intoxicated, you also may have a competitive disadvantage compared to those who don’t. If your competitors are using that time to better themselves or improve their skills, you’ll be left behind.
On the reverse side, if drug use makes you more creative, or just more relaxed, or somehow helps you, then the free market might even reward you.
The free market rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior — without government violence or theft.
If elected, I will sponsor legislation to end the drug war, abolish the DEA, release nonviolent drug users, sellers, and transporters from prison, and cut taxes accordingly. I will also sponsor legislation to end all federal welfare, including educational and medical welfare. Drug use punishes itself, and it does so even better without welfare softening the blow.
Respectfully,
Arvin Vohra (L)
Libertarian Party Candidate for U.S. Senate (MD)
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I thought you were a Linux user, Frank.
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Ah OK
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What happened to the Post Office?
Listening / Reading / Watching
- Alien: Covenant
- Hiring a Social Justice Warrior
- The Tom Woods Show by Tom Woods — Ep. 906 Judd Weiss, John McAfee’s VP Pick, on What Really Happened Behind the Scenes – and It’s Not Pretty
- Quill Driver Books — 400 Things Cops Know by Adam Plantinga
- Sportsman Channel —
- Handguns and Defensive Weapons
- Davidson’s Gallery of Guns
- New Mexico In Depth — Realtors and developers give big money to ABQ mayoral candidates by Marjorie Childress
- Tales From SYL Ranch by William Stone III — Bitcoin Will Die
- Helloween —
- Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006
- Straight Out of Hell
- KUPI 29 TV [Heores & Icons (H&I) affiliate for Albuquerque, New Mexico] — Star Trek: Enterprise
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk&w=560&h=315]
From our lives’ beginning on
We are pushed in little forms
No one asks us how we like to be
In school they teach you what to think
But everyone says different things
But they’re all convinced that
They’re the ones to see
[Bridge:]
So they keep talking and they never stop
And at a certain point you give it up
So the only thing that’s left to think is this
[Chorus:]
I want out — to live my life alone
I want out — leave me be
I want out — to do things on my own
I want out — to live my life and to be free
People tell me A and B
They tell me how I have to see
Things that I have seen already clear
So they push me then from side to side
They’re pushing me from black to white
They’re pushing ’til there’s nothing more to hear
[Bridge:]
But don’t push me to the maximum
Shut your mouth and take it home
‘Cause I decide the way things gonna be
[Chorus:]
I want out — to live my life alone
I want out — leave me be
I want out — to do things on my own
I want out — to live my life and to be free
There’s a million ways to see the things in life
A million ways to be the fool
In the end of it, none of us is right
Sometimes we need to be alone
[Solo: Kai/Both]
No no no, leave me alone
[Chorus:]
I want out — to live my life alone
I want out — leave me be
I want out — to do things on my own
I want out — to live my life and to be free
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/helloween/iwantout.html#1
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Besides, rebooting a franchise is mostly done by lazy writers, in my opinion, and the only case where the reboot has been demonstrably better than the original was Battlestar Galactica.
Back in 1985-1986, Gene Roddenberry was working on bringing Star Trek back to television. Salaries for the original cast members were too much for the budget he had available, so he cast a group of then-unknown actors. Thus Star Trek: The Next Generation was born.
Star Trek: The Next Generation ran seven seasons to The Original Series’ three, and yielded four feature films, to boot.
Star Trek: The Next Generation was followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, each of which ran for seven seasons, then by Star Trek: Enterprise, which ran for four seasons.
Listening / Reading / Watching
- Adult Swim from Cartoon Network —
- Robot Chicken
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
- Quill Driver Books — 400 Things Cops Know by Adam Plantinga
- Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte —
- #491 “Honor, Courage, and Lots of Commitment”
- “Females in the Infantry II”
- “Females in the Infantry“
- Science Channel — Outlaw Tech
- Helloween — Keeper of the Seven Keys – The Legacy World Tour 2005 / 2006
- nmpolitics.net — Democrats say ‘Citizens United’ should die. Here’s why that won’t happen. by Sarah Kleiner, the Center for Public Integrity
- The Orville
- Alien: Covenant
- DR CAROL SWAIN FULL ONE-ON-ONE EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON (9/12/2017)
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
— Marcus Aurelius
H/T Chesley Elkins
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