Tin Foil Hat – Part I “Nothing to Hide”

I'm picking up where I left off here. In the introduction I discussed online privacy and technology.  What I didn't mention in that initial post was an insight from Bruce Schneier.  Large corporate institutions and the government (at least in the US) cooperate in order to evade the law.  Public institutions are restricted from collecting some …

King Louis’ Golf Course is Open

According Bloomberg Andrew's Air Force Base golf course (the President's favourite) is open but the commissary (grocery store) is closed. Time for this:

3rd World Behaviour

Except it's not. in the 3rd World. Is this the result of the economic stagnation and decay under this administration? Forward!

A Bitter Cup for “Male Feminists”

Drink hardy lads. Salon breaks the silence where the author writes about the reality of her basic nature versus her feminist instruction.  Anytime someone puts "I love I hate" in the title of their article there is real passion being felt (barring hyperbole). "Male feminists" should read the article and take notes.  A woman will …

Meshnets

This is a useful initiative.  What is to keep the FCC from simply writing a regulation that bans the activity once criminals start using it?  The many must be punished for the few. It would not surprise me:  Across the US, from Maryland to Seattle, work is underway to construct user-owned wireless networks that will …

Renunciation & Separation

As long as things continue in the US as they are, especially in light of the IRS, NSA scandals, the intrusive, massive surveillance programs, and increasing taxes more people will renounce their citizenship as noted here. People want to be free and remain free. Frankly, I don't want the government to protect me against low …

Income Inequality Global Look

There is a post at  Zero Hedge that shows the current levels of income inequality world wide.  It is not typically what one would expect to find in competitive markets.  It is what one would expect to find in a rigged game.  There is a downside to rigging a game and that is eventually people …

Predatory practices

That women are morally superior to men has always been false.  Over at Instapundit he points to a case of female prison guards exploiting boys in a juvenile detention facility.   Drawing on their sample, Justice Department researchers estimate that 1,390 juveniles in the facilities they examined have experienced sex abuse at the hands of …

Compensation and Business Size

Mathbabe has a post titled When is smaller better in which she examines two articles, one in the Wall Street Journal and one in the New York Times on the subjects of  women CEOs and CEO compensation respectively.  In the article from the Wall Street Journal the author is bemoaning the fact that women owned …

Public Declaration of a Simpleton

That education in the West is in decline is painfully obvious as shown by this insult aimed at Justice Scalia: @jpodhoretz @anamariecox There is no question that Scalia is the most brilliant mind of the 7th Century. — LeftWingCracker (@LeftWingCracker) June 26, 2013 Where else but Twitter can one so clearly demonstrate a retarded worldview …