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Third-Party Content Removed
I have removed all advertising from my website. I’ve had a website online since 1996 or so, and since then I’ve made perhaps $3.00 from affiliate advertising. I have no idea how anyone makes money from this. Because this advertising … Continue reading
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One Day Spam Will Once Again Be Just a Luncheon Meat
Dear Spammer: You’re wasting your time, but not mine. All posts here that Akismet thinks are spam are automatically deleted. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. Best Regards,
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On Plagiarism and Linkage
I’m disturbed by what seems to be the very common practices on today’s Internet of copying another’s work without acknowledging the source, of quotations without attribution, and of quotations pretending to be one’s original work. I suppose this could be, … Continue reading
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A Short Networking Quiz
1) An essential characteristic of UDP is that it is a) unreliable b) undecipherable c) unconscionable d) unwieldy 2) This characteristic is a result of which quality of UDP? a) guaranteed b) ordered c) archaic d) stateless 3) Which essential … Continue reading
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A $50 Gift Card
Frankly, I don’t understand why people buy gift cards. I understand why they give them, but not why they buy them. Gift cards are given because giving the card, instead of cash, shows that you spent some time and effort … Continue reading
In Memoriam
Back before Twitter, there was jogger.jabber.org. September 11th 10:40:10 AM R.I.P. WTC 10:06:15 AM Looks like most of the news sites have been /.d. Guess no one has learned their bandwidth lessons. 10:05:26 AM a0551 —– wbx AP-PENTAGON EXPLOSION, 1ST … Continue reading
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In the long history of Man’s inhumanity to Man, it is ever so
While reading In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Phillipines, I came across mention of a disturbingly familiar topic. War is hell. From The New York Times, April 15, 1902, the following (also at wikisource). WASHINGTON, April 14.—The Senate Committee … Continue reading
Benefits
Health care as an employer-provided benefit arose in response to salary caps and payroll taxes [citation needed]. It was a way to compete for employees by increasing the employee’s effective salary without having to pay all of the cost. Employee … Continue reading
Grandmother’s Fruit Cobbler
1 c. sugar 1 c. flour 1 c. milk 1 stick butter 3 tsp. baking powder 1 qt. fruit, sweetened Heat sweetened fruit in saucepan. Melt butter in deep baking dish (at least a 2 qt. size). Mix sugar, flour, … Continue reading
Sometimes the Graphical Interface is Non-Optimal
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Footprint per Capita
The newspaper had a map of each country’s carbon footprint per person. Something like this one from Wikipedia. This is one of those graphics that misleads with statistics. The U.S. seems top of the charts here, but one has to … Continue reading
Faded Memories
All I remember of one of the few records I owned as a child is a line that ended one of the songs. Save your Confederate credit cards. The South’s gonna rise again. For some reason that stuck with me. … Continue reading
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Statistical Enquiry of the Devil’s Playground
Certain laws and regulations, and policies related to those, have a non-trivial impact on statistics which are not normally thought of in concert with those laws. For example, mandatory sentencing increases incarceration rates, which in turn will decrease the employable … Continue reading
New York City Department of Kafka
What the fuck? We hear from New York City school teachers about a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there, and when they arrive, they find out they’re under investigation … Continue reading
Air Conditioners
The Big Sister had an informed response to the President’s suggestion that we send our children to school all year. They’d have to buy air conditioners!
Incentives to Comment
Isn’t a shame that the only people with any incentive to comment are trolls or spammers?
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What Makes Them So Special?
Why is it that banks can create money out of thin air but I can’t?
Thank You
To the person who purchased something from Amazon by clicking on a link from this site, thank you. Now I have the difficult, but enjoyable, task of selecting something from the 262 items on my wish list.
New Theme
I’ve updated the theme here to Tarski. Pretty nice looking so far.
Live! (on TiVo)
We’ll be watching the pomp and circumstance with the kids this evening, perhaps with a tub of popcorn and some hot chocolate.
