You need a UPS
Last night, some strong thunderstorms came through the Kansas City area. The power flickered a lot, and momentarily went out. My wife’s computer (“A...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Arizona’s advice to armed drivers
Arizona recently took the step to update their driver licensing manual to include traffic stops where the driver is armed. Section 7 of the manual is titled sim...
Running Folding@Home headless on Fedora Server
Recently I set up a virtual machine on my VM server to run Folding@Home as a CPU-only worker. I’ll walk through the exact steps I took to set up the VM, a...
How NOT to assert your rights
In a video made by the organization “Flex Your Rights” called “10 Rules for Dealing with Police“, rule #6 is “Don’t expose y...
Is there a victim?
Julie Browoski says that libertarians can still be pro-life because it comes down to a singular question: is there a victim? Let me posit a scenario. It’s...
Plex set-top with the Pi Desktop
A NAS to readily serve up media content combined with the Plex Media Server or other DLNA platform provides a powerful entertainment setup for the home when com...
Misinterpreting the Supreme Court
Nowhere in the Constitution can it be construed that the government is disallowed completely from giving any kind of money to religious organizations or institu...
MO SB5 does NOT mean women can be fired or evicted for taking birth control or procuring an abortion
One thing that really grinds my gears is when people completely misstate what a bill or law allows and doesn’t allow. I see it with gun laws, and now it&#...
Philando Castile screwed up
I’ll say it up front: Philando Castile screwed up. Big time. In most reports on the trial, this is the breakdown: Castile, a black man, volunteered to Off...
CNN Money gets it horribly wrong
Recently CNN Money published an an article by Aaron Smith called “The long history of the gun used in the GOP baseball attack“. Turns out the attemp...