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Justice vs. idiots.

Idiot is a harsh word, but it's not difficult to not relate to someone and to feel superior to them. Here's an excerpt from http://observer.com/2013/07/fuming-protesters-shut-down-times-square-after-trayvon-martin-verdict/

Kerry McLean, 32, one of thousands who attended, said the protest was “empowering and cathartic.” Ms. McLean maintained that prosecutors had handled the trial badly. “I’m an attorney and it seemed like a circus to me,” she said. “It’s a travesty of justice. I’m really terrified of the message it has sent to the country and the world … The message that black people’s lives have no value in America.”

Here is my line-by-line breakdown of what is wrong with this complete quote.

Kerry McLean, 32, one of thousands who attended, said the protest was “empowering and cathartic.”

I will start with “empowering and cathartic”. A cathartic is a substance that accelerates defecation. catharsis would be to blow off steam, but considering the origin, I still think it would be misused in this case.

Ms. McLean maintained that prosecutors had handled the trial badly.

The handled the trial poorly, not badly. Also, one guesses in what way. Specifics would have helped the statement.

“I’m an attorney and it seemed like a circus to me,” she said.

I have found that most attorney's respect the system even if they disagree with it. I was also unable to find her bar number in the state of New York. I was curious which type of attorney she claimed to be.

“It’s a travesty of justice. I’m really terrified of the message it has sent to the country and the world … The message that black people’s lives have no value in America.”

I am not clear how a trial is a travesty of justice. The message that it sent to world was that a trial happened, which is unlike many other places. I tried to find a racial breakdown of acquittals based upon race of the jury, but I could not. I am not convinced that in modern America, race has much to do with acquittals. Considering that 1/2 of the jury was picked by the prosecution, I am sure the prosecution thought they had the best chance of conviction with their jury choices. If one thinks that the jury was imbalanced, where were the hispanic men?

I do not really care of the outcome of the trial of Zimmerman, but I am not one to second guess the jury. The quality of the observer article is really terrible, and it makes Ms. McClean look to be an idiot. If I were to get my information from the observer, I would probably not understand the facts, and I am sure that I would not agree with any position backed by Ms. McClean. Ms. McClean, the press made you look like an idiot, and I would keep that in mind when making decisions about others. Also, could someone please send Orla Ryan back to English class.

Ubuntuのpopularity-contestはなんじゃそれ！

私はunixが好きけど、linuxがあまり。rootのメールにpopularity-contestからじゃまのことがいっぱいあった。 これすると：

 sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest  

メールが止まる。

wget with a certificate error (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com)

I like to use wget when I get links in chat. I was getting a certificate error from dl.dropboxusercontent.com, which might just be from an old version of wget. The issue is solved with the --no-check-certificate flag.

wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/XXXXXX

dumping postgres database via backup script

I came across an issue when trying to backup a database via pg_dump. The issue was that I needed to type the password. mysql will let me dump the database with the password on the command line, but postgresql does not and requires a prompt or a variable. You can use PGPASSWORD or .pgpass and I used the environmental variable.

In my BASH script, backup.sh, I have:

TIMEATSTART=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%s) 
DIRECTORY_ARC=$USER_HOME/archive
FILENAME_DBBACKUP=db-$TIMEATSTART.gz

export PGPASSWORD=dbpassword
pg_dump -U dbuser database_name | gzip -c > $DIRECTORY_ARC/$FILENAME_DBBACKUP

The script makes a convenient backup of my database_name database to an archive/db-00000000000.gz file in my home directory.

Isn't public debt the debt of the public?

The art in Detroit cannot be sold because it is owned by the public. Considering that the debt is that of the public, it seems that something is logically wrong. Detroit is a city of "people", and those "people" voted for, or leveraged the use of money that caused the debt. Regardless of what the lawyers *think* the answer is, the correct answer is that the people owe on the debt.

When someone steals your keys, they might steal your car.

Summary: Someone breaks into your house and steals everything, including your keys, and then later steals the car. http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/22434247/several-cars-damaged-before-chase-ends

sui: hello.
r: yo
sui: I'm meeting B. Wednesday for Frisbee!
r: oh nice
sui: totally miss playing frisbee with you
r: we should have done that more
sui: how are things?
r: things are alright did a pretty crazy camping trip over last weekend
got my truck stolen monday night
good stuff
sui:stolen?
r: heh yah
sui: you need to get out of ATL. it's a sign.
r: well when we got robbed they stole spare keys to my truck and D's bmw
sui: from your apartment?
r: we'd been being careful
parking our cars elsewhere
until we got them rekeyed
but my truck ended up at the apartment for like 4 hours one night
and it got jacked
sui: :/
r: they caught the guy though
sui: oh? that's good.
r: tried to pull him over bc he didn't have his lights on at 230am, he fled ended up hitting a residential speedbump, tubling over and totalling 5 parked cars on the side of the street, landed on the roof of a house got out and started running
i've got insurance to cover it
sui: ha, well, I think at least the insurance company will believe you
r: talked to insurance lady, and she was like, oh yah, i saw you on the news
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/22434247/several-cars-damaged-before-chase-ends
that video isn't worth watchign really
but the text is accurate
oh, so get this, atlanta police are not allowed to pursue
so if they try to pull you over
and you floor it
they're supposed to disengage
so running from the police is a totally viable option in atlanta
sui: wow
r: so this officer tried to pull guy over, he fled, officer stopped pursuit (i actually talked to the guy) and the fleeing guy got into an accident like a mile down the road
sui: wow, that guy seems to be a professional loser
r: yah...
we looked up his jail record
was never in jail for more than a month
wonder if we have like a 15 strikes and you're out policy in atl
sui: still a month is enough to make sure you don't have a real job
r: well
true
but not enough penalty on this shit
probably robs 10 places before getting caught
make a few thousands dollars, spend a month in jail
worth it
sui: Is the car being removed in the video yours?
r: dunno, that video keeps changing
i was in it for a while
but i was boring, tired, and annoyed they were interviewing me
so they took me off
all vehicles were towed at night
mine is kinda triangle shaped
sui: You need to work on your inherent sense of showman ship I guess. Still, what a few weeks for you