Overreaction, Fear, & Technology could be a deadly mix.

And this is an interesting way to get rid of your enemies.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1663686679001/

According to this FoxNew piece; (I don’t watch Fox News but I wanted to know what “Swatting” is.) there are those people that are using the police to exact revenge on conservative bloggers. One wonders who these un-named people might be? 

It’s called SWATTING and that fits because of the over the top police response that has become so commonplace.

Your enemy calls 911 and claims that you’ve just killed someone. Usually this is done when you’re likely to be at home, possibly in bed.

The SWAT team kicks your door down and starts waving guns around. At the same time they’re using intensely bright flashlights to blind you.

So who’s going to be at fault when some conservative homeowner, someone who’s trained with a gun shoots a cop in the panic and confusion?

There are home invasion robberies all the time, just because someone is yelling that they’re the police doesn’t mean that they are. I guarantee that the first scream of pain or terror from your children in the next room and you’re going to assume that these people aren’t cops you’re going to assume they’re criminals out to do you and your family harm.

One the shooting starts it will be a blood bath. The cops will look like idiots and the homeowner will be carried out in a body bag.

Two choices here…

1) Find the people that are making these calls and toss them in Jail

2) Tone down the crazy hyperactive police responses.

Before the liberals point out that there’s a 3rd option

3) Make sure the homeowners can’t have guns

No… that’s not a viable option. It’s against the 2nd amendment so it’s not going to happen… shut the hell up!

 

 

Stumbled on embedded video problems

Seems that there are some issues around embedding certain video clips in this blog…

Live & Learn!

I’ll figure it out eventually, but for the time being I’ll just put the links to the videos in the blog, instead of the nicely convenient video clip actually being playable here.

I’ve tried several options over the past 3 hours and absolutely NONE of them worked.

Theoretically it’s supposed to be easy… except due to some kind of security reason (I know I don’t have the patience to read the diatribe about copyright infringement and internet security right now.) Only some kinds of videos are permitted.

The thing that I find amusing is that sites like CNN invite you to share their videos. They make it easy with a Share button.

WordPress strips out the nice <embed> tags effectively deleting the video without any warning.

As one poster said… WordPress is free so we really can’t complain. This does of course lead me to wonder about the unfree options and if I can load them in place of WordPress on my host providers servers.

That is an exploration for another time.

A Minor Oops

Just noticed that all comments had been wiped out. 

I’ve finished replacing the missing comments.

Sorry to any of you who thought I was being a prick.

Chores of the day…

Poo Patrol!

Thank you Saint Mike Rowe you are an inspiration to me each and every time I have to dig out that little shit shovel!

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Weedwacker

Weed whacking.

This activity always results in my bleeding. Today it was a busted knuckle… There’s a lot of small rocks and in some places little bits of melted metal and fused glass. I always start the weed whacking process with a walk over the ground to pick up anything loose or sharp. I always miss something and whatever I miss always ends up being flung at a high velocity toward whatever exposed skin is closest. Today it was my left knuckle… Last week it was the back of my right hand.

Technology issues.

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Last night I flip on the satellite box in the living room and my TV image was a lovely shade of pink. And that lovely shade was on all channels. I’m thinking it’s something with the satellite box, reset, power down, reset and for just an instant everything is good then PINK! After many hours and substituting cables, moving things around and generally messing around. I come to the conclusion that if I remove the surround sound system (Which all HDMI is routed through) the problem goes away. I call the manufacturer and they’re very nice they tell me I’m out of warranty but that for a flat (and inexpensive) rate they’ll make necessary repairs then return the unit to me with a 1 year warranty. Nice! Service with a smile. They even apologized for the repair possibly taking up to two weeks. Really? That’s nothing… I’ve rerouted all the HDMI cabling to use the TVs internal systems so it’s no big deal. I did however choose not to connect the XBox directly to the TV. Not that I couldn’t it would just require getting behind a credenza and working in a very narrow space which I would have to undo when the surround system gets back. As it stands, Satellite, Apple TV, and DVD are all online I can live without the XBox for a while. If I really need an XBox fix… I can always make the connections.


I’m Hooked!

I’m totally hooked on my new Domain host provider.

These folks rock!

There’s a steep learning curve to any new venture and so far I’m impressed with the way things are going. While I haven’t been living on their phones I can say that they’re there 24/7 and It’s really nice to know that.

For example, I’ve been bringing things online just by poking around in their menus. My new blog is an example of “Oh Yeah… I want that blog here…” Then installing the appropriate stuff.

I was thinking “OH Shit!… I really don’t want to have to transfer each item one by one” Then I noticed  simple little application that said it could grab my entire Blogger blog and move it.

I was dubious… But figured hat the hell? I have direct control over the files and If necessary I can blow em all away and recreate the new blog site.

Guess what? The little application worked just as advertised. These folks also handle moving your Apple web pages seamlessly and can take the data right from your existing iweb application.

So here’s my recommendation Click on the animated link below, It’ll take you to their site and they’ll get you started right away.

As I progress I’ll occasionally post updates about my experiences.

Thus far… I’m seriously impressed. If a moron like me can make heads or tails out of the way they set things up… ANYBODY CAN!