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Hacking with Polymer under Cygwin
Decided to explore Polymer and prefer to work under Cygwin. One of the requirements for it is Bower, which itself requires Node.js. Node.js doesn’t exist as a Cygwin package so the easiest way to install it is to just download the Windows installer. There is also a requirement for Git and in their docs they…
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System logging under Cygwin
Today I installed syslog-ng in Cygwin which provides system logging. It was simply a matter of installing the package and then running the command syslog-ng-config from a Cygwin terminal run as Administrator. As you can imagine, there’s not a who lot going on in Cygwin to be logging, but there are occasionally a few things…
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Slave owners
Today is not much different. Wage slavery. Many are Mexican instead of black. But its not an equal society. The Gini Coefficient is getting worse, and the oligarchs don’t give a fuck. In God we trust liberty my ass SLAVE TRADER Reference: home.nas.com, “Ranking the Presidents” As wages increase, that drives ingenuity as people…
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US Justice Department’s Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Some excerpts: Focus on Generating Revenue The City budgets for sizeable increases in municipal fines and fees each year, exhorts police and court staff to deliver those revenue increases, and closely monitors whether those increases are achieved. City officials routinely urge Chief Jackson to generate more revenue through enforcement. In March 2010, for instance, the…
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If I met the president at a salon
If I was at a salon enjoying a pedicure, sitting there in a relaxing chair with the delightful din in the air that one often feels in a salon, and sitting in the chair next to me was the President of the United States, what would I say? First of all, I want to be…
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The Great Flood
I’ve been thinking off-and-on for a while now about Milankovitch Cycles and the fact that Earth is now overdue for a return to an ice age. It helps that my Mother lives in an area that has been very cold recently and which, thousands of years ago, would have been covered by the southward expansion…
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