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Something to think about
In 1974, Palestinian terrorists launched an attack into Israel which culminated in them taking more than 115 hostages in the Netiv Meir elementary school, 105 of them children. They then proceeded to issue demands for the release of 23 terrorists being held by Israel, or they would kill the hostages. When elements of the Golani Brigade stormed ( Read more... ) -
Comment ... restriction? Yeah, RIGHT.
You know I just said yesterday that I set the comment permissions on this journal to "Friends ONLY"?
Well, it doesn't work. I got fresh comment spam twelve minutes ago from J Random Never Fucking Heard Of Before.
Sooooooooo close to deleting this account altogether and going just with my Dreamdwidth journal. (Which I seldom update any more ( Read more... ) -
Comment Restriction
Pro forma notification: I have just changed the comment permissions on this journal (which, it must be said, I very seldom update any more) from 'Registered accounts only' to 'Friends only' due to the recent flood of spam comments. I'd sooner just have a way to send back a bio-digital hybrid virus that eats spammers' brains from the inside so ( Read more... ) -
A short and mostly non-partisan political reminder:
We are a week from election day.
Remember, when you prepare to go to the polls, that each election cycle in which you convince yourself - or let others convince you - that you have to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils because third parties and independent candidates have no chance of being elected, is one more election cycle in ( Read more... ) -
Funny thing ....
...I've suddenly started getting spam comments on five-year-old LiveJournal posts.
Do they think that if they only try to comment-spam five-year-old posts I won't notice? Do they think that anyone but me will actually SEE spam comments on a five-year-old post?
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Scary CFLs
I just took these CFL lamps out of service in our kitchen counter tracklights. Technically they were still operable when removed, but ... well, I don't know about you, but to me these look like an electrical fire waiting to happen.
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No longer a paid account
I've just allowed my LiveJournal paid account to expire. There are basically two reasons for this:
- For some time now I've found myself reading, and posting on, LiveJournal less and less;
- It seems that for some time now every change LiveJournal has made has been in efforts to make LiveJournal more like Facebook, which is not only a trend I detest, ( Read more... )
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Hmmm...
...LogJam says I last logged in four months ago. Haven't been posting much.
Anyway, the "thing that makes you go Hmmmm" that I logged in to post about was this observation:
"Ya know, the craziest thing about Holder and 'Fast and Furious' isn't the part where the Justice Dept kept approving and pushing something insane and stupid. It is the part ( Read more... ) -
LOMS Incident
One of the more drastic things that can happen in a nuclear power plant is what's known as a LOCA, a loss-of-coolant accident. I like to refer analogously to some of the more drastic things that can happen to electronic equipment as a LOMS incident - Loss Of Magic Smoke.
This is particularly relevant today because that's what just happened to my ( Read more... ) -
Observing the polls
I've been noticing a trend in polls over the last few months. President Obama's approval rating hasn't been climbing, and in any poll of Obama vs. "generic Republican" for the uncoming Presidential election, Obama loses solidly. But plug in the names of any of the current Republican candidates in place of "generic Republican", and the result ( Read more... )
