Month: April 2018

Robert Mueller is investigating to see if Russia helped Trump hack pornstar Stormy Daniels.

“The F.B.I. raided the office and hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Monday, seizing business records, emails and documents related to several topics, including payments to a pornographic film actress.”

What was Mueller appointed to investigate again?

“The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, appointed former F.B.I. Director Robert S. Mueller III as the special counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election.”

Yes, “Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election”.

#FireMueller

F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It ‘Disgraceful’

Mr. Cohen is at the center of several aspects of the special counsel’s investigation. He also acknowledged paying $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

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I think wrestling might be fake.

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UK rolls out a sugar tax on sodas. Everyone is debating whether it will work to reduce obesity. Nobody is debating if they even have a right to tell you what you can’t drink.

I can’t wait until the government puts all you little shits on a sugar free vegan diet and forces you all to do your daily 20k Fitbit steps by threat of penalty.

At least my health insurance premiums will come down that way.

Soft drink sugar tax starts, but will it work?

Half of manufacturers cut sugar content with ministers calling it a good start in fight against obesity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-43659124

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I’m sure you all know that I’ve made some YouTube videos recently.

I spent a lot of time working with my hands. I work on everything myself, from my house and my cars to my computers and my various experiments. I own just about every tool you can think of.

I thought that since I do this work anyway, I can not only share it with others, who are interested in learning, but can also make a few bucks on the side to at least motivate me to not be so lazy to do the task. I thought if I could reach even $5 a month in earnings that I would consider that a success as it would be an additional $5 with which to buy Bitcoin.

So I got started not only taking the time to record my work as I do it, but also spending a lot of time and a fair amount of money researching various cameras and recording techniques.

I quickly realized that it wasn’t feasible to use my phone camera as, for my types of videos, I needed both hands free and couldn’t afford to the time keep moving a stationary camera around.

I bought a Panasonic A1 head side mounted camera with accessories and used that for a while but found the battery died far too quickly. I tried a head mounted GoPro type camera but found that it was too high for a proper view of what I was doing and too bulky to use comfortably. My most recent setup, which works really well, is a Polaroid Cube mounted on a Visor.

I spent a fair amount of time learning how to use video editing software to achieve the various effects that I wanted to achieve. I made a variety of videos throughout 2017, that you have probably seen, to teach myself the editing software. I also spent time comparing various different editing software before I settled on kdenlive, the software that I now use.

I also spent many hours making a variety of videos on a variety of topics that were informative and interesting; at least to me. Not only that, but when I recorded the videos, it many times took me 4 times as long to do the task as when I didn’t record it. For example, a starter replacement, which should have only taken me one hour, ended up taking me four hours.

YouTube’s guidelines stated that once I reach 10,000 total views that I would be eligible to monetize any of my videos. So I continued to make videos earning 50 to 100 views, and sometimes even 200-300, each time. I figured once I’m monetized, even 10 additional views per video is more than 0 views.

Then one day I made the Honda starter replacement video which, to my surprise, ended up earning 100 views a day. I did the math and realized at that rate, within a few months I would hit 10,000 views, and it eventually did.

I started counting my chickens; success, I thought.

After I reached 10,000 views, I submitted my channel to YouTube for a monetization review. I expected the review to go through immediately, since I thought it was automated, but it remained in a review state for a couple of months.

A couple of months later, when the review finally went through, YouTube changed the guidelines and said channels need 1,000 subscribers in order to monetize their videos. I had less than 20 subscribers and wasn’t going to gain any additional ones anytime soon; and by the time I did I knew they would change the terms again.

YouTube is private property owned by the Google corporation. They have a right to do as they please with their property, and I have a right to avoid their services if I’m not satisfied with them.

I’m a nobody with less than 20,000 views and less than 40 subscribers and yet I felt frustrated and annoyed after all the time and money I invested into making these videos. I also felt it was ridiculous on YouTube’s part as I do feel that I’m providing a valuable service, where everyone wins, to viewers as evidenced by a recent comment left by a viewer where he says, “Thanks for taking the time to do this video.”

I don’t know the full complicated motive of the person that went to YouTube to shoot people after she was demonetized, nor do I care frankly as nobody has the right to violate the rights of others.

But it did remind me of my experience with YouTube, and I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to have YouTube change their terms and demonetize content creators that have significantly more time and money, and perhaps even their livelihood, invested into their YouTube videos than I did.

YouTube business is serious business.

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Law is judgement between rights and wrongs. Societal law is judgement between rights and wrongs as determined by society. Natural law is judgement between rights and wrongs as determined by nature.

Our minds, which emerge out of nature, have within them faculties of judgement for the sole purpose of making determinations between rights and wrongs; all humans, including irrational ones, regularly use judgement to subjectively determine what is in their best self interest.

This demonstrates that rights and wrongs, as demonstrated by judgement, albeit it subjective ones as determined individually by each human, exist in nature.

Our minds, which, as I said, emerge out of nature, also have within them faculties of reason for the sole purpose of engaging in rational thought; through the use of this rational thought can we determine that it is irrational to form a subjective judgement of rights and wrongs for ourselves, while not extending it to other human beings.

If we judge that it is wrong for us to be killed, it is also wrong to kill others.

This demonstrates that rights and wrongs, as demonstrated by reason, are not just subjective, but objective and universal in nature; that were we to deny the universality of rights and wrongs, we would be animals with judgement, but without reason; savages and beasts.

It is for that reason that any subjective rights that we conceive for ourselves with our natural faculty of judgement, that we can further reason, with our natural faculty of reason, apply objectively to all human beings without infringing upon any other such rights, are in fact universal rights in natural law.

In addition to all of us subjectively judging freedom to be right or a natural right, and by extension of reason, objectively concluding that freedom as a natural right to be universal, nature also grants us the faculty of free thought, by granting us the ability to judge, reason, and form thoughts and opinions in direct contradiction to others who would impose theirs on us.

Society can command you all it wants, through the imposition of societal laws, to think a certain way and to judge rights and wrongs a certain way, but nature has given you a natural right to disregard these unnatural laws; the only way you will consent or comply with these infringements is if, with your own free voluntary judgement and reason, you come to the conclusion that you should.

By the emergence out of nature of your own free thought, not only does it follow that you have a natural right to think freely, but that for you to think freely, there must be a free person with a natural right to be free from the infringement of others to be doing the free thinking.

I naturally think freely, therefore I am naturally free.

It is natural law, not societal law, that grants us natural rights; society merely attempts to codify natural law, while failing to do so when it ends up infringing upon natural rights that emerge out of natural law. It is because natural rights emerge out of natural law that natural rights are inalienable rights; inseparable from nature.

Societal laws which infringe upon natural rights, and are thus in violation of natural law, are an unnatural abomination of humanity.

If you deny or reject this, you are exercising free thought of a free person, an inalienable right granted to you by nature, proving the theorem.

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Eren and Ocelot watching TV together.

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Tariffs are taxes.

You cannot claim to be lowering taxes while raising tariffs. Tariffs are taxes on consumer goods.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, signed by allegedly laissez faire president, Hebert Hoover, who allegedly “did nothing”, was a leading cause of the Great Depression as it reduced trade with Europe by two thirds.

China hammers U.S. goods with tariffs as ‘sparks’ of trade war fly

China has increased tariffs by up to 25 percent on 128 U.S. products, from frozen pork and wine to certain fruits and nuts, escalating a dispute between the world’s biggest economies in response to U.S. duties on imports of aluminum and steel.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/china-hammers-u-s-goods-with-tariffs-as-sparks-of-trade-war-fly-idUSKCN1H81J3

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