A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for war.

I don’t particularly like her, but I’ve voted for tons of people I don’t like in the past. But the actual reason I won’t be voting for her is that she is more hawkish than most of the Republicans and will almost certainly drag us into a war or two.

War is not helping America. Just as much as Radical Islam and moronic immigration policies, the Paris attacks can be blamed on Western war-making in the Middle East.

Bernie Sanders is clueless on foreign policy. But he’d still be better as he almost certainly wouldn’t drag us into any unnecessary wars.

In the end, I probably won’t vote at all because there is even now about a 99% chance Hillary Clinton will win.

And that will be a very sad day for everyone because contrary to what I’ve written here before, waging war overseas is the one area that a leader could make a difference. And in the case of Clinton, it’ll be a very terrible deviation indeed.

I agree with this in principle, but for Europe especially it must be taken in context of mass uncontrolled immigration and the fact that as few as 0.1% of Islamists (though that number is probably far higher) shooting people and blowing things up can really destroy their host society posthaste.

Undoubtedly the vast majority of Muslims are good people. Who want nothing to do with terrorism. Who love their kids and want a peaceful life.

But what does that matter? Who cares about them? They are irrelevant to the discussion.

The issue is what happens when you allow hundreds of thousands or millions of people to stream into your country (already straining to the breaking point social services) and a few thousand of them are violent Islamist jihadis and a few hundred thousand more support these people financially and morally.

You got problems then. Because the reality is that it takes very few people going essentially violently jihad-crazy to essentially incapacitate a whole society (not to mention just how many more of even the non-fundamentalists truly hate women and want very much to oppress them).

Look, I wish everything could be peach ice cream and fucking unicorns, but life just isn’t that way. Wishing it were doesn’t make it so. Actually, that makes it even less likely.

Again, understand that if you allow unrestricted mass immigration into your country from Islamist-infested regions, this will result.

That some or even most Muslims kiss butterflies or help old ladies cross the street means precisely nothing and is completely irrelevant to the discussion and misses the point entirely.

I remember using Terraserver (over dial-up, no less) in 1998 It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen a computer do. It was the first computing application I’d seen that gave a human a completely new capability that was not present in any way prior to computing.*

Funny how Microsoft had all this great tech and novel ideas and really never did anything with any of it.

*Computers made many things faster prior to this in my life, but did not give me a completely new superpower. Terrasserver did.

The attacks in Paris show both the real effects of allowing a bunch of anti-Enlightenment radical Islamists into your country and the folly of bombing brown people into freedom.

I refuse to coddle moronic liberals or idiotic conservatives. Both sides are wrong.

The best move is to transition to renewable energy so that regions invested in Islam can live their 12th-century lifestyle in peace.

If you accept large numbers of Islamists into your country uncritically, this is going to happen. Simple as that.

I’m sure people who don’t read as widely as I do think I’m exaggerrating when I discuss how Fat Acceptance nutjobs believe it is oppression if people aren’t attracted to them. But it’s real.

“If you think you have the right to choose one body type over another.”

I have the right to date whomever I please, for whatever reason I please. And not only for attraction (I’m not attracted to fat women at all, just to be clear), but you know what? I can hike 10 miles with no training and feel like a million bucks at the end. Think some 300 pound woman can keep up with me on that, like my partner can? Of fucking course not. Then I won’t date you for yet another reason. Deal.

The rest of the post is too delusional to even quote. I don’t feel like typing that bullshit. Just read it. But does she realize though that if it is oppression to say “no” to a person’s sexual advances, that’s rape-promoting and no different than MRA “logic” about how women owe them sex.

Someone needs to deport this rape-culture-promoting, crack-smoking sorry excuse for humanity so hard she lands on the fucking Moon. I don’t care if she’s an American citizen. Get the deportation cannon ready. But it’s gonna need a lot of gunpowder.

If the amount of time that pseudo-feminists spent arguing over whether “girl” or “woman” was appropriate and in which situations could be somehow directed at useful pursuits, a lot more progress could be made on actual feminism.

Arguing over words is mostly a distraction, and a useful one to patriarchy and to the powerful.

This despite the fact that it’s also really, really common to use “boys” to refer to adult men. And many adult men use “woman” as an insult. Should we ban that word, too?

Such a non-issue about something completely irrelevant. Banning words does absolutely nothing. Changing culture does.

If Metro style crapplications that are 100x slower to use and have all useful features removed are the future, I’m going to do like Mulder and Scully and fight the future.

It might make the droolers 20% more productive, but makes me completely unproductive.

And I frankly don’t give a shit about the droolers.

A woman at work was surprised that I know who Tori Amos and Anaïs Nin are, and was shocked that I had listened to Tori extensively and read Nin (when I was 12).

I don’t like “girl stuff.” I like good stuff. That most men are too fucking poisoned by masculinity to not recognize quality when it’s right in front of them is why I don’t generally associate with men.

It’s really disheartening to observe how the whole experience of computing has gone retrograde for anyone who has the vaguest clue what they’re doing.

Every day, computers become less powerful, less useful, more difficult and annoying to use and more locked down. All because the droolers demand it. Or at least don’t care.

It truly was an exciting time to be alive if you liked computers during the 1980s and 1990s as each upgrade brought much more power, a better interface, more useful software and increasingly user-focused design. Now, design is designer- and moron-focused so for people like me find computers increasingly annoying or even impossible to use.

Even though the hardware has gotten better, for anyone with half a brain computers are now so very much slower because doing something that used to take two clicks or a second at the command line requires an increasingly large list of arcane hacks, mods or breaking into your own computer to battle against it turning into an oversized mobile phone.

Because I’m selfish, I wish computer use had never democratized, that morons and smartphones had never invaded the computing landscape. I enjoyed it a lot more when I could actually make my machine do what I wanted it to do, rather than be trapped in some toy OS mobile phone nightmare where some suit-bedecked bumblefuck decided what my computer was allowed to do.

It really is going to be like the 1960s again soon — a small coterie of people knowing how to use a real computer, and able to afford one, who seem like demi-gods compared to those who just know how to click on something madly, and if that doesn’t work, that’s it.

That’s not a better world, but that’s an inevitable world.

The future — and it will be terrible — is big, dumb, and slow.

Mozilla is comically inept and clueless.

In five years, I doubt Firefox will be around. No reason for it. Sometime soon, I plan to switch to Chromium myself after I figure out what Google spying is going on, and then block that.

Firefox has no advantages over Chromium any longer, so why should I bother with its ever-changing bullshit?

The reason “social justice warrior” has become a pejorative is not because people are opposed to social justice — well, at least not most people.

It’s because a large part of the movement has become a thug-like goon squad, ignorant of history, or standards of evidence, of basically anything but their feelings. Which feelings can’t be wrong. But, well, they sure can be stupid.

As a former preschool teacher… it is hard for me to give credence to a claim that there is something objectionably “appropriative” about a blonde ­haired child’s wanting to be Mulan for a day. Pretend play is the foundation of most cognitive tasks, and it seems to me that we want to be in the business of encouraging the exercise of imagination, not constraining it.

A kid wanting to emulate Mulan actually increases the possibility of cultural understanding. At the worst, it’s merely harmless.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say that a large, shadowy right-wing organization was pretending to be these rabid SJWs to discredit the whole project of secular humanism. I wish I could believe that. But in reality, it’s just that these people are truly this obtuse and oafish.

This is not at all surprising.

It’s horrible, but merely an intermediary step towards automation. The moment some AI or semi-AI (or even just a shell script) becomes cheaper (not necessarily better) than the IT worker in question, that’ll also be the end.

And that is happening very quickly, by the way.

What is a little mystifying is that I’ve been on the other side of offshoring/outsourcing (though never laid off), and without exception the support is worse, slower and of extremely low quality.

In addition, the company will lose the flexibility and years of accrued knowledge and experience that long-time IT staff will possess.

Cengage talks about flexibility, but in reality all that just went away; major changes they want to make in the future will be difficult to nearly-impossible as they are now locked into that vendor, and it will be difficult to extricate themselves. And having just discarded all the institutional knowledge possesses by their IT staff, it won’t be long before no one there actually knows how all of their systems function.

But hey, they’ll make more profit for a few quarters! That’s what it’s all about, right?

Now that I’ve worked out in testing a reliable way to fully block all Windows 10 spying, I can feel comfortable using it in my environment again.

I’ll publish my full findings later, and firewall guidelines for what to block. And some PowerShell scripts for nuking things that normally could not be.

I’d still not advise most people to use the OS unless you have 10+ years IT experience, know how to use a packet sniffer really well, understand configuring firewalls and how to detect when traffic that should be blocked is not being blocked, and how to otherwise hack, maul, and womanhandle your system.

That’s what? 0.025% of the population?

In other words for nearly everyone, unless you want whoever happens to hack into Microsoft next and/or the NSA, the FBI, and other random law enforcement agencies to have all your data, don’t use Windows 10.

I’m now using a blocker to to block the ad blocker blockers.

What a world.

Do not use this app. It will not help you block spying on Windows 10.

Windows 10’s spy software bypasses the hosts file altogether. Evil, I know. So putting entries into the hosts file to redirect traffic to 127.0.0.1 does absolutely nothing.

You can block Windows 10 spying with a 3rd-party firewall or a firewall on the edge of your network.

I do not recommend a 3rd-party firewall installed on the same machine that you wish to block data exfiltration from as anything with admin access — including the Windows spy software — can then disable it or alter its rules. There is no technical way around this.

If you must use Windows 10, use it with a firewall that it has no direct access to. And if you do not care that your data is being stolen by Windows 10 — well, you are fucking stupid and probably should not use any OS.