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Wikileaks Mirrors

Yazan: dp | 07 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Computers, Internet, Politics, Software

I’ve been following the latest WikiLeaks release a bit, and had noticed that they’d set up a way to mirror the content automagically. I thought it was cool, and even considered doing it myself. Then I thought about the fact that my IP could be tied to me, and what kind of consequences there could [...]

Social security is a ponzi scheme

Yazan: dp | 16 September 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: Politics

A local politician has a commercial bashing his opponent for suggesting that social security is a ponzi scheme, and that social security and Medicare were “social welfare programs“. One of the core “features” of a ponzi scheme is that you have to continue putting in new money to pay out money to original “investors”. Seems [...]

Polling phone calls, You get what I give you.

Yazan: m | 20 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Politics

So I took the day off to spend it with my daughter to do some school shopping and at 9:30am the phone rings. I answer in my “telephone voice” and it is a representative for the local political party for the current governor on the other end (before I go on I just want to [...]