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Combating glare in the daylight

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Quick product review here. I have a dashcam in my SUV. And glare is one of the major issues trying to use it, since my dashboard reflects onto the windshield wh...

Constitution

Treason

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The United States is unique when it comes to governance in one spectacular way: treason is defined above the government in our Constitution. This means the defi...

Net neutrality

Net Neutrality was never going to work

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Your ISP oversells your data rate. I’ll just say that up front. I’m privileged to have Google Fiber, which is a 1 gigabit per second, full duplex, I...

Minimum wage

Chicken and egg economics

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

How many times have you heard this argument with regard to the minimum wage? If employers pay employees more, then they’ll have more money to spend, and t...

Journalism

Singularity Computers, JayzTwoCents, and a journalistic debacle

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Full disclosure: I provide financial support to Singularity Computers through their Patreon. Singularity Computers is pushing a new case to market called Spectr...

Nasira

Nasira with a little SAS

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So I’ve had Nasira for a little over two years now. Here are the current specifications: And it’s running FreeNAS. Which is currently booting off a ...

Espresso/Product and service reviews

AK-47 Espresso

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Messenger Coffee’s espresso blend has been my go-to for at least the last year to 18 months. Messenger Coffee is in Lenexa, KS, and sold by several local ...

Second Amendment

Redefining terms to infringe the Second Amendment

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Article: What does it mean to “bear arms”?, The Economist I’m not going to waste much space on this. “Bear arms”, or “to keep and bear a...

Free speech and press

Speech and consequences

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Yep, I’m jumping on this bandwagon. Talking about Roseanne. Or rather what others have been saying in the wake of her recent firing that boils down to thi...

Second Amendment

Selling out

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

A little over two months ago, I joined the NRA. Not long after joining, I mentioned it on Twitter, tagging the NRA and “March for Lives”. One person...

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