When a drive dies
I first built Nasira and put it into operation in early 2016. The initial build-out was a pair of 4TB WD Red drives. And based on an article I read at the time,...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Tenant’s rights and social media
A lot of people know quite a bit about tenancy law, better known as “renter’s rights” or “tenant’s rights”, even though ther...
It isn’t “white nationalism”
Article: “Caller blasts Iowa rep for requiring ‘White nationalist’ Pledge of Allegiance in schools“ I have to wonder if, to the left, &#...
Stop feeding the trolls
Given some reports I’ve seen recently, I’m really starting to wonder how intelligent the masses have become. Let’s take the recent reports of ...
Rent or Buy, revisited
I’ve owned my home for about two (2) years now. Prior to that, I rented for a little over 14 years straight. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of memes ...
Don’t pursue a fleeing perp
Article: “Father shoots intoxicated man that was allegedly spying on his daughter and touching himself outside her window“ I’m a little mixed ...
On Bill Cosby
As I write this, the hot ticket news headline is Bill Cosby’s indictment being vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. And a lot of people are naturall...
Sidestepping the Fourth Amendment
In the State of Washington back in 1989, a young woman named Amanda Stavik was abducted raped, and murdered. Her body was discovered several days later. A surpr...
Failures of logic
DarkViperAU (“DVAU” or “Matt” herein) is a GTA-V speedrunner. (Twitch, YouTube) For over the last year, he’s been attempting to fi...
Firearm liability “insurance”
It’s a general rule of common or statutory law that insurance does not cover intentional actions. Yet, time and again, we see proposals for “gun lia...