http://www.chrisbrunner.com Random comments and thoughts of Chris Brunner Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:40:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School? Tom Paxton - George W. Told The Nation (You'll need to view this post on ChrisBrunner.com in order to see the video.) http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/08/25/two-great-songs/ Click here if you can't see the video. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/08/24/american-citizen-joe-mestas-in-south-ossetia/ "We gonna pop [the drug dealers] in the head," says Mayor Valley, who just instituted a 24-hour, non-stop curfew as part of an effort to reduce violence. This means that everyone in the area is essentially under house-arrest. The people who live there are not even allowed on their ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/08/10/mayor-institutes-24-hour-non-stop-curfew/ Click here if you can't see the video. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/07/30/doug-stanhope-on-nationalism/ Here are my top five reasons why libertarians should support Bob Barr: 1. He voted for the PATRIOT Act. 2. He spent much of his life putting people in jail for possessing products that the state arbitrarily decided to outlaw. 3. He thinks guns should be forced on business owners. 4. He keeps an ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/05/27/top-five-reasons-to-support-bob-barr-for-president/ If you haven't seen this video, you must give it a watch. Well worth it. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/05/27/spin-by-brian-springer/ Bob Dylan is surely one of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. This may be my new favorite song. (Thanks to Leslie Webb for the email and link.) http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/05/25/bob-dylan-with-god-on-our-side/ Need a good laugh? Watch Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, explain why taxation in the United States is voluntary. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/05/07/are-taxes-voluntary-harry-reid-says-yes/ So I'm on this uber-high-volume hardcore-libertarian mailing list and the subject to spam came up... Someone pointed out a story about a spammer being jailed, and a debate broke out about whether or not the state should be jailing people for sending unsolicited email. But there's something they seemed to ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/05/05/most-spam-would-not-exist-without-the-state/ (Click here if you can't see the video.) Thanks to LRC for the link. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/05/04/gta-iv-police-recruitment-ad/ 1) If you're on Windows, download this and skip to Step 3. Mac, Linux, and Unix users download the source code for connect.c 2) Compile it. On most systems, the command would be: gcc connect.c -o connect 3) Add this to your ssh command: -o ProxyCommand="connect -S localhost:9050 %h %p" For ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/04/18/ssh-over-tor-the-really-really-easy-way/ And you thought Facebook would attract stalkers. Imagine a service that shows people every move you make on Facebook, MySpace, Digg, YouTube, Amazon, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Friendster, Last.fm, and over a dozen other services at the same time but in one easy-to-stalk place. Spokeo, a recently launched Web 2.0 ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/04/08/spokeo-taking-stalking-to-a-new-dimension/ Shawn, an American hero and verbal critic of the Cult of Scientology, was found dead on February 16th, 2008. Rest in peace, Shawn Lonsdale. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/04/05/rip-shawn-lonsdale/ Welcome to the new America, brought to you by your ignorance and the leaders of the Republican and Democrat political parties alike. Click here if you can't see the video. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/04/04/mass-gun-confiscation-in-america/ I don't really feel like explaining right now, but you must watch this show. It is well worth your time. If you're a libertarian, or a freedom-minded individual, you will fall in love with it instantly. If you're not, it will challenge the way you think about ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/03/30/penn-teller-bullshit-the-single-best-libertarian-tv-show-ever/ Click here if you can't see the video. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/03/24/what-they-will-say-about-the-2008-election-in-the-future/ From Slashdot: The Department of Homeland Security's Real ID program has a real challenge on its hands from California. DHS had said it will only grant extensions from the Real ID rules taking effect on May 11 to states that apply by March 31 and promise to implement Real ID by ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/03/24/california-edges-toward-joining-real-id-revolt/ You hear it all the time: We must have the Federal Reserve in order to keep prices stable. This is a graph of the Consumer Price Index from 1800 to 2007: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out which part of this is more stable. http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/03/24/the-federal-reserve-fights-inflation-right/ Don't get suckered into paying $20, $30, or even $70 per month for nationwide wireless internet. If you're a T-Mobile customer, you can do it with their $6 T-zones plan just by making a minor change on your laptop. Here's how:Table of ContentsInstructions for Mac OS X, Linux, ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/03/23/howto-use-t-zones-to-get-unlimited-nationwide-wireless-internet-on-your-laptop-for-6mo/ From the article: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert. Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief ... http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2008/03/19/put-young-children-on-dna-list-urge-police/