The 2013 US Government Shutdown Conspiracy
2013-10-19
A meme currently making the rounds is that the Republican party was been conspiring to completely shut down the government for months. It was never the backup plan, it was the only plan. The primary problem with this theory is that is is boring. BORING. You want a conspiracy theory, you go all in. It was obviously the Illuminati.
Are you familiar with this group? Let me fill you in. They control:
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Magic Isn’t a Great Game
2013-09-10
I started playing Magic the Gathering about four months ago. I have drafted Avacyn Restored, participated in a Dragon’s Maze pre-release event, and played a number of games with a variety of decks owned by friends. We have played games consisting of only Standard cards and many more games with whatever cards we owned. With help, I built out my pre-release Izzet deck into something which isn’t quite miserable anymore. I began theorycrafting new decks and making a shopping list.
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Everyone should use PGP, but it’s kinda terrible
2013-08-29
Around the time that Snowden started talking about the United States government’s surveillance activities, I decided it might be a good time to start learning about email encryption. As insecure as email is, encryption is something that everyone should have started doing a long time ago anyway.
Unfortunately, there are reasons that everyone isn’t using it.
It’s hard to set up I suspect the way most people on Windows will use PGP is by downloading GPG4Win and Enigmail.
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Setting up the Netis WF-2116 wifi adapter on Fedora 19
2013-07-05
Update 2014-1-11
What’s that? You wanted functional drivers? Hahaha! Good one. It’s utterly broken on recent kernels, doesn’t even compile anymore. It sorta works out of the box on Fedora 20, in that it will connect and transfer data for a minute or five before it breaks.
The best bet for Ubuntu users might be this fork. It doesn’t work for me, but other people have said nice things about it.
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