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Month: February 2018

Feminism/Second Amendment

Self-sufficiency

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

From an article in the New York Times called “The Boys Are Not All Right“: Too many boys are trapped in the same suffocating, outdated model of masc...

Crime/Second Amendment

Analysis of gun laws and violent crime

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve done previous analyses on the Brady scoring for various gun laws and how they relate to suicide rates in various States. To briefly recap previous ar...

Second Amendment

Analysis of waiting period laws and suicide rates

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I think we’ve all heard the claim before that having a 24 or 48-hour waiting period on acquiring a pistol can curtail suicide. This is based on the idea t...

Second Amendment

Analysis of background check laws and suicide rates

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Do stronger background checks reduce the incidence of suicide? This hypothesis is based on the idea that suicide is largely a incident of passion, and someone w...

Mining

When Windows Defender says you’re mining viruses

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This was a rather frustrating development. I have two computers dedicated to mining Ethereum, and I also mine it on Mira. All three machines had Windows 10 and ...

Second Amendment

Analysis of gun laws and suicide rates

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Shane Killian showed in an online video an evaluation of a correlation of gun laws to gun homicide rates, using the Brady Campaign’s scoring of gun laws. ...

Amethyst

Amethyst

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The simplest solutions will often present themselves, provided you’re willing to open your mind to them. If anything would be the theme to the transition ...

Due process/Fourth Amendment/Law Enforcement/Police

Why police may not act on tips

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

After the recent tragedy in Florida, one question I’ve seen raised numerous times can be boiled down to this: why did the FBI and local police not act on ...

Silent DIY rack cabinet

Admitting defeat

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

As you can probably tell, this hasn’t been a huge priority for me, given how many months it’s been since the last update. I haven’t given up o...

Politics

A prediction regarding language

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

With social justice warriors in the United States and much of the rest of the English-speaking world continually labeling words and phrases as being racist and ...

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