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Q: What methods can I use to analyse and guess 4-bit checksum algorithm? [Background Story]
I am working with a 5 year old user identification system, and I am trying to add IDs to the database. The problem I have is that the system that reads the ID numbers requires some sort of checksum, and no-one working here now has ever worked with it, so no-one knows how it works.
I have access to the list of existing IDs, which already have correct checksums. Also, as the checksum only has 16 possible values, I can create any ID I want and run it through the authentication system up to 16 times until I get the correct checksum (but this is quite time consuming)
[Question]
What methods can I use to help guess the checksum algorithm of used for some data?
I have tried a few simple methods such as XORing and summing, but these have not worked.
So my question is: if I have data (in hexadecimal) like this:
data        checksum
00029921    1
00013481    B
00026001    3
00004541    8

What methods can I use work out what sort of checksum is used?
i.e. should I try sequential numbers such as 00029921,00029922,00029923,... or 00029911,00029921,00029931,...  If I do this what patterns should I look for in the changing checksum?
Similarly, would comparing swapped digits tell me anything useful about the checksum?
i.e. 00013481 and 00031481
Is there anything else that could tell me something useful? What about inverting one bit, or maybe one hex digit?
I am assuming that this will be a common checksum algorithm, but I don't know where to start in testing it.
I have read the following links, but I am not sure if I can apply any of this to my case, as I don't think mine is a CRC.
stackoverflow.com/questions/149617/how-could-i-guess-a-checksum-algorithm
stackoverflow.com/questions/2896753/find-the-algorithm-that-generates-the-checksum
cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/essays/CRC-Reverse-Engineering.html
[ANSWER]
I have now downloaded a much larger list of data, and it turned out to be simpler than I was expecting, but for completeness, here is what I did.
data:

00024901  A
  00024911    B
  00024921    C
  00024931    D
  00042811    A
  00042871    0
  00042881    1
  00042891    2
  00042901    A
  00042921    C
  00042961    0
  00042971    1
  00042981    2
  00043021    4
  00043031    5
  00043041    6
  00043051    7
  00043061    8
  00043071    9
  00043081    A
  00043101    3
  00043111    4
  00043121    5
  00043141    7
  00043151    8
  00043161    9
  00043171    A
  00044291    E

From these, I could see that when just one value was increased by a value, the checksum was also increased by the same value as in:

00024901   A
  00024911    B

Also, two digits swapped did not change the checksum:

00024901   A
  00042901    A

This means that the polynomial value (for these two positions at least) must be the same
Finally, the checksum for 00000000 was A, so I calculated the sum of digits plus A mod 16:
( (Σxi) +0xA )mod16
And this matched for all the values I had. Just to check that there was nothing sneaky going on with the first 3 digits that never changed in my data, I made up and tested some numbers as Eric suggested, and those all worked with this too!

A: Many checksums I've seen use simple weighted values based on the position of the digits.  For example, if the weights are 3,5,7 the checksum might be 3*c[0] + 5*c[1] + 7*c[2], then mod 10 for the result.  (In your case, mod 16, since you have 4 bit checksum)
To check if this might be the case, I suggest that you feed some simple values into your system to get an answer:
1000000 = ?
0100000 = ?
0010000 = ?

... etc.  If there are simple weights based on position, this may reveal it.  Even if the algorithm is something different, feeding in nice, simple values and looking for patterns may be enlightening.  As Matti suggested, you/we will likely need to see more samples before decoding the pattern.

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Home | Articles | Winterthur Primer: A Metamorphosis: The Changing Nature of Fraktur Studies
by Joan Irving and Lisa Minardi
Fig. 1: Durs Rudy Sr. (1766–1843) or Durs Rudy Jr. (1789–1850), 1832. Booklet one depicts Adam in the Garden of Eden. By lifting the top flap, Adam is transformed into Eve picking the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. By lowering the bottom flap, Eve in turn is transformed into a mermaid.
In 2008, Winterthur Museum acquired a spectacular four-part fraktur metamorphosis series, prompting the collaboration of curators, conservators, and scientists to more fully understand the object.1 Made by schoolmaster Durs Rudy Sr. (1766–1843) or his son Durs Rudy Jr. (1789–1850), the drawings have survived in remarkable condition and are dated 1832 and signed by the artist "Durs Rudy"—the kind of Rosetta stone object scholars and collectors dream of finding. A rare form in Pennsylvania German fraktur, the metamorphosis booklets can each portray three different scenes. Each booklet is made of a long strip of paper folded vertically so that the two shorter ends meet in the middle to create two flaps. By raising the top flap or lowering the bottom one, a new scene is created (Fig. 1). Booklet one depicts Adam's temptation by Eve, booklet two the Crucifixion, booklet three the inevitability of death, and booklet four the joys of heaven. Made in both hand-drawn and printed versions, metamorphosis booklets were used to instruct children in religious and moral values. Three hand-drawn fraktur examples are known to be the work of either Rudy Sr. or Jr., but this is the only one that is signed (Fig. 2).2 The Rudy family emigrated from Germany in 1803, and by 1809 had settled in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where it is believed this fraktur was made.3
Fig. 2: Detail, booklet four. Contains the final scene in the series, in which a man is wearing the crown of eternal life, and also the artist's signature and date.
In addition to being signed and dated, this metamorphosis fraktur is also in uncommonly good condition. Initially, curators and conservators thought the four sections had been tipped into the protective covers of a book, possibly accounting for the irregular losses along some edges and good condition of the paper and media. Study of the damages, particularly the folds, stains, and grime, however, suggested that the sections were attached and folded in a particular sequence. Close examination of the interlocking losses of the worn edges (Figs. 3, 4) indicates that all the leaves were originally joined. Transfer staining from one paper surface to another tells us that the object was folded inward, the outer two sections in upon the middle two, and then folded inward once again. These folds eventually became detached over time with use, but for many years protected the media and paper from exposure to light, dirt, and atmospheric pollutants; thus the colors remain vibrant and the paper is still a creamy white where the booklets were folded inward.
Although each fraktur is unique, there are common materials, tools, and techniques of manufacture. The paper is perhaps the most important material choice made by the fraktur artist. This metamorphosis is on wove paper, first manufactured around 1750 but not common on fraktur dated before 1820 in Winterthur's collection. Wove paper has a more uniform surface than the earlier laid papers, making it well suited for use by fraktur artists whose applications of watercolor and ink ranged from thick, opaque coatings to delicate transparent washes and rich pools of color. Elemental analysis using X-ray spectroscopy (XRF) indicates that the pigments used to create the metamorphosis were Prussian blue, red ochre, lead white, red lead, and chrome yellow—all commercially available pigments rather than homemade vegetable inks and dyes often assumed to have been used in the making of fraktur.4 The use of chrome yellow, which was not commercially available until about 1818, indicates that the artist had access to newer colors, which expanded upon the traditional pigment palette. Chrome yellow also has good light stability, which helps explain the vibrancy of the metamorphosis designs (Fig. 5). The type of ink used to form the accompanying text—known as iron gall ink and made from a mixture of ground oak galls, tannins, and iron sulfate—can, depending on the recipe, become acidic and corrosive, causing losses in the paper. This type of ink, which is blackish purple when first applied but turns to brownish black, is also prone to fading and haloing. Once again, this metamorphosis proves to be in uncommonly good condition. The ink is without halos and has not yet penetrated the paper support. As with the colored pigments and paper, the folded format protected the ink from fading and from mechanical injuries such as abrasion.
Fig. 3: Detail, booklets two and three. The irregularly torn edges between the booklets fit together in a puzzle-like fashion indicating that the now separate booklets were once a single folded sheet. Grime along the joins on the verso (not shown), suggests that the single-sheet format was in use long enough to acquire embedded grime and other surface soiling.
LEFT: Fig. 4: Durs Rudy Sr. (1766–1843) or Durs Rudy Jr. (1789–1850), 1832. Overall of the four booklets aligned side by side. The proper sequence of the series is confirmed by the corresponding tears in adjacent booklets, as well as by the storyline, which instructs the reader when to lift or lower each flap. RIGHT: Fig. 5: Detail, booklet two. Chrome yellow, or lead chromate, as seen in the woman's dress, is derived from the mineral chromite, which was found in both Lancaster County and Baltimore, and became commercially available about 1818.
Fig. 6: Detail, booklet three. A straight edge and graphite pencil were used to create scribe lines that are still evident under some areas of the manuscript. Both the script and calligraphic flourish at the bottom show the swelling and tapering of the ink indicating the use of a fine quill pen.
To aid in his composition of the drawings and text, the artist used several tools. Close examination of the handwriting reveals a freely formed, organic script that swells in places and then tapers to a fine delicate point, suggesting the use of a lightweight quill pen (a consistent, mechanical thickness indicates the use of a metal point pen, available by about 1820). In raking light, blind scoring or embossed free-hand drawing can be seen. These marks, made by a hard blunt instrument similar to a stylus, were used to guide the placement of the basic shapes and figures. This technique was particularly important in making a metamorphosis, since designs could be scored through the front flaps to the interior to create the continuous designs that transform when flaps are lifted or closed. Once the paper was scored, pencil or ink was used to delineate the design. Pencil scribe lines may still be seen below some of the script (Fig. 6). Transparent watercolor washes lie on top of the iron gall ink lines, which were applied over the embossed scoring. Other brushwork can be seen in the opaque watercolor applications of warm browns, oranges, and deep blues. These colors have also aged well, with only minor cracking of the dark blue media, most evident in the man's coat and hat in booklets three and four. This blue is particularly shiny, suggesting a heavy admixture of a binding medium such as gum Arabic, which improves the flow of ink and pigments and allows them to attach to paper and to dry.5
Connoisseurship and scientific analysis have added substantially to our understanding of the techniques and materials used in the creation of this vibrant metamorphosis by Durs Rudy and enabled us to understand why it has remained in such a remarkable state of preservation. We now also know that the four booklets were originally joined as one unit, although they will remain separate, since the results of wear and use are now a part of the story. Once used for the instruction of children, the metamorphosis can now teach us about the remarkable world of fraktur art and the changing nature of its study.
Joan Irving is the paper conservator of Winterthur Museum and adjunct assistant professor of the Winterthur and University of Delaware Art Conservation Program (WUDPAC). Joan specializes in the treatment of early American works on paper and historic documents. Lisa Minardi is the assistant curator of furniture at Winterthur Museum, with a specialty in Pennsylvania German arts. She is co-curator of the forthcoming Winterthur exhibition and publication Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850.
1. Formerly owned by the Lehigh County Historical Society, the metamorphosis fraktur was acquired by Winterthur at Pook & Pook, Inc's. Period Furniture & Accessories auction, September 26, 2008, lot 199. All twelve scenes are illustrated in Beatrice B. Garvan and Charles F. Hummel, The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of their Arts, 1683–1850 (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982), pl. 120.
2. A second metamorphosis attributed to Rudy is in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum; see Stacy C. Hollander, American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2001), 246–249; a third metamorphosis is privately owned.
3. See Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners, 2 vols. (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2:656-658; and Gerard C. Wertkin, "The Watercolors of Durs Rudy: New Discoveries in Fraktur," Folk Art 18, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 33–39.
4. With thanks to Catherine Matsen, Winterthur associate scientist, for the XRF analysis of the Durs Rudy metamorphosis. Winterthur scientists, paper conservators, and curators have been working together for decades to study the media used by fraktur artists. Instrumental analysis techniques such as XRF and Raman spectroscopy have allowed Winterthur to create a library of known colorants found on works in the collection. Interpretation of data, along with textual sources, clearly indicates that fraktur artists were using commercially available pigments rather than homemade concoctions of vegetable sources. See Janice H. Carlson and John Krill, "Pigment Analysis of Early American Watercolors and Fraktur," Journal of the American Institute for Conservation. 18 (1978):19–32; and Jennifer L. Mass, Catherine R. Matsen, and Janice H. Carlson, "Materials of the Pennsylvania German Fraktur Artist," The Magazine Antiques 168, no. 3 (September 2005): 128–135.
5. Several fraktur analyzed at Winterthur using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) all had gum Arabic as a binding medium. The technical aspects of fraktur making were the subject of the 2005 Winterthur exhibition Making Fancy: Materials and Methods in Pennsylvania German Fraktur, organized by paper conservator John Krill.
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The great Olympic dream
The organizers of the 2015 European Shinkyokushin Karate Championships are members of the World Karate Organization (WKO). For many years, the WKO has been making strenuous efforts to include full contact karate as an olympic sport for the first time in history during the 2020 Games in Tokyo. The process of including new sports in the Olympic Games is extremely complex and multi-step. It requires strong involvement of not only the sports organizations and decision makers but also all people who practice them. At the end of 2014, the WKO organized a worldwide signature-collecting campaign supporting the inclusion of full contact karate in the official categories of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The campaign was a tremendous success as over 1 million signatures were collected in 38 countries which proves huge involvement of the full contact karate society to support the cause. Another important thing is that in December 2014, the International Olympic Committee passed a number of reforms intended to make the world's biggest sporting event cheaper to stage and more attractive for host countries at a special session of the 104 member IOC in Monaco. The IOC abolished the cap of 28 sports for the Summer Games to move to an 'events-based' system, allowing new competitions to come in. Instead, it set a limit of about 10,500 athletes and 310 medal events. It allows Tokyo, a host city of the 2020 Olympic Games, to include its own proposals of new competitions. Thanks to that, it seems that a great Olympic dream of many karate athletes all over the world can soon come true.
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Lynn Martina
Lynn's Quality Oysters
Born and raised in Eastpoint, Lynn Martina grew up in the seafood industry. Her parents, John and Sherrill Carroll, were in the business for almost thirty years. Lynn started shucking at her parents' oyster house at the age of nine. She would get out of school and head straight to the shucking stall. But after Lynn finished school, she got a job in banking. In 1997, though, Lynn's parents were ready to retire. They sold Braxton and Carroll Seafood to their daughter. Lynn changed the name to Lynn's Quality Oysters. In the years since, Lynn has made a name for herself in an industry dominated by men. Still, between the politics and Mother Nature, Lynn faces new challenges every day. Hurricane Dennis in 2005 practically destroyed her facility. Her employees are all locals, many of whom are of retirement age. But Lynn feels an obligation—an obligation to her family, to tradition, and to the people of Eastpotint.
Amy Evans
And after the storms, I didn't want to build [my business] back. I was just that fed up. I didn't want to build it back. But I had people—I had families, you know, counting on me because they can't do anything else. [They] don't want to do anything else, you know. Most of them don't have an education. The bay is their education. ~ Lynn Martina
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Eventually, he returned to the family business. But 13 Mile is not just his business. It's his heritage. Hurricane…
Terry Dean
Today only a handful of seafood houses line the water's edge through Eastpoint. Terry works at a retail market called…
Monica Lemieux
She and her husband, Leslie Lemieux, oystered together for a few years. In the 1980s Monica was an officer with the…
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Oystermen harvested their catch nearby on Cat Point and Porters Bar. Shuckers would work daylight to dark, without…
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#include <blaze/util/mpl/Or.h>
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#include <blaze/util/typetraits/IsReference.h>
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Q: Get rid of the [stocks] and [stock] tags I currently see 188 questions tagged stocks which all seem to be about the stock market. I haven't found any that use that tag in a way that is really programming related. Many of the questions seem to be in need of cleanup/closure too (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18285288/historical-data-with-pe-ratio-eps-dividend-yield-etc).
Is there any use to the tag, or can it safely be destroyed?
I just noticed there are also 172 questions tagged stock as well which seem split between inventory management and stock market data sources...
And another, stockquotes on 89 questions.


So, it's been snowing here. That means curling up in front of the fireplace, drinking hot cocoa out of mismatched mugs, and coloring pictures of Elsa and Anna all day, right? Nope. It means white-hot raging Facebook debates about whether or not the kids should be going to school tomorrow. It would make an excellent drinking game, really. Just take a shot every time someone says 'snow' or 'school closing.' You'll be drunk before you know it. This fluffy stuff on the ground also triggers several bread buying debates on social media, and you can see my opinion on that here.
#1 – There is not that much darn snow on the ground. The roads are a little wet and there's a dusting of snow in the grass. Get over it. The kids should be in school, and we shouldn't waste snow days on this.
I have to agree with this. It's really not that bad out. And since I work from home, I need the kids to go to school so I can get my work done. Otherwise I'll be curled up in front of the fireplace, drinking hot cocoa out of mismatched mugs, and coloring pictures of Elsa and Anna all day.
#2 – The wet roads will freeze overnight. The curvy country roads aren't safe. We should be more concerned about the safety of our children than anything else. The people who want to send their children to school just want a free break from their children.
I have to agree with this stance as well. I do put the safety of my children above all else, and I would much rather they be home safe than stuck on a bus somewhere. It's funny, though, because I lived in Colorado for the first twelve years of my life. We had to go to school when it snowed or else we would never have any school at all. When we moved to Illinois, we laughed at the school cancellations that blared across the news the moment a flake hit the ground. In Colorado, we almost always went to school, and it was fine.
Except that time when it wasn't. The snow had been falling heavily and the high winds were drifting it across the road. None of this was unusual, but the bus was having trouble plowing through it all that day. As we approached the house of a kid whose name I can't remember, he said, "We're going to get stuck at my house." His place was nestled between two hills, and the wind had filled that little valley with enough snow to build an army of yetis. His prediction had been correct. The entire busload of kids piled off into his house. I remember the long line of kids waiting to use the phone to call their parents and let them know where we were. The weather was so bad that the majority of us had to spend the night, and extra food was brought in on horseback. The news team made it to the house shortly before my dad was able to pick us and the neighbor girl up in a borrowed truck, and we were on TV that night throwing snow balls at each other.
So what's the point? Well, we were okay, so it all ended up fine. But my mother was terrified. I was a bit miserable sleeping on a stranger's living room floor. I remember it well enough that I can even describe the shirt I was wearing that day (red, with a black horse's head, and its mane was made of Christmas lights. Hey, it was the 90's.) It's a nice conversation starter, but maybe it is better to be safe than sorry. For the moment, it looks like I'll be loading the kids up on the big yellow bus in the morning. But I just might have some cocoa for them.
"No! You can't be the rotten egg! I love you!" My littlest one can be sweet to a fault.
But, being Mom, I really am the rotten egg. I'm first one up in the morning, but I'm the last one to bed. I'm the last one to sit down at the breakfast/lunch/dinner table. I'm the last one to be ready to go when we're on our way out the door because I've been busy getting everyone else ready.
I'm okay with being the rotten egg though. Parenting is tiresome, frustrating, and sometimes even confusing, but I can't imagine not doing it. So when the kids are racing across the yard, I'll gladly stand back and be the rotten egg.
I saw you in the vet's office the other day. I was pretty distracted trying to keep my 35-pound 'lap dog' in check, but I knew immediately there was something different about you. I should have recognized what it was even before the receptionist told you how sorry she was. You didn't have an animal with you. Not anymore.
I wasn't trying to be nosey, but in a small office like that you can't help but overhear everything. I heard you say that you had no regrets, other than the fact that nobody came with you. I heard you say you would wait in your car for them to bring the body out. Once I'd paid, I saw you sitting there in your car, alone, with the hatchback open and a blanket spread out in the back.
I just want to tell you how very sorry I am. I'm sorry for the loss of your sweet pet, whose species or gender I don't even know but I am certain meant the world to you. I am so sorry that nobody came with you for this terrible moment. I'm sorry that I didn't just run right up to you and hug you, but I didn't want to bother you in your moment of grief. I feel now like I should have bothered you anyway.
I also want you to know that I'm hopeful for you. I know how much it hurts, because losing a pet is truly losing a part of your family. But I know that eventually that hole in your heart will heal just enough that you can open your arms to a new fur baby, one that needs you just as much as you need it.


A recent study examined how aerobic exercise can have antidepressant effects on people with depression based on a review of previous studies.
Exercise has previously been found to be a good way to achieve depression relief. However, aerobic exercise, in particular, has not been supported by research in the past.
A recent study examined how aerobic exercise can help people with depression. For the study, the researchers reviewed previously published studies. They chose 11 trials including a total of 455 patients recruited through mental health services. The studies included people diagnosed with depression between the ages of 18 to 65 years. They did not include data from anyone over 65 as depression expresses different symptoms in adults over this age. They published their results in Depression and Anxiety.
They found that aerobic exercises have significant antidepressant effects comparable to psychological therapy or antidepressant medication.
There were especially large antidepressant effects in short-term interventions lasting four weeks and in trials where people preferred exercise. In both inpatients and outpatients, aerobic exercises had comparable effects in various settings and across various delivery formats.
Limitations of the study include the small number of trials examined. The studies also did not consider the side effects of exercise, although only 37% reported muscle soreness, diarrhea, or fatigue. Future studies conducted with rigorous control variables are important in order to provide more concrete evidence for the benefits of aerobic exercise in people with depression.
The study indicates a promising outcome allowing researchers to design aerobic exercise programs to tackle depression. Irrespective of the severity of depression in the participants, supervised aerobic exercise does support the treatment of major depression and this could be used to design supplemental approaches in mental health services.
Reference: Morres, I., Hatzigeorgiadis, A., Stathi, A., Comoutos, N., Arpin-Cribbie, C., Krommidas, C. and Theodorakis, Y. (2018). Aerobic exercise for adult patients with major depressive disorder in mental health services: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Depression and Anxiety.


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## It's Time to #nongoogle Everything.
It's been nearly a year since the Snowden documents came out. In that time there's been a growing number of people, myself included, who have become aware of the environment of ubiquitous surveillance we're in--not just government eavesdropping, but corporate data collection as well--and from then to now, the progress in pushing back against this stifling environment has been underwhelming.
We know, generally, what needs to be done. That we need significant, and unceasing pressure on our respective governments to push for meaningful reform, firstly. Politicians need to know they will not have the people's support, if they can't even have a respect for our fundamental rights.
It's also clear that there are many commercial, and technological changes that need to be made, such as increased use of encryption (especially client-side encryption), and more widespread adoption of free software.
It is *clear* that continued support of the tech giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on, will always only go towards the continued elimination of our privacy, and thus, our freedom. Fundamentally, it can be viewed as a constant, that a big-enough corporation will always act in its own interest, and often to the detriment of the people. To that end, the details of our personal lives have become their next gold rush. Information is power. It is lucrative. It is in the tech giants (and many other companies) best interest to ever-increasingly base their business models on surveillance.
But they don't call it surveillance. They call it Big Data, and they praise Big Data like it's the new gospel. They can go on for hours about how Big Data will benefit everyone, to make everything more efficient, less wasteful, etc. But of course, as they can only be trusted to do, the first thing they use Big Data for is to manipulate us, so they can boost their bottom line.
And Big Data doesn't just mean manipulation. It means discrimination and predation.
To put it into Occupy language, Big Data is one more tool for the 1% to further consolidate their power, and more effectively keep the 99% down.
Without sufficient counter-forces against these developments, they will only continue. And it's clear, given how much governments have become intoxicated by the power of surveillance -- much of which is enabled by Big Data -- that they cannot be relied on, or trusted to fix this problem. We have to do it ourselves.
Big Data needs to be pushed back against, just as much as state-eavesdropping, because in the end, Big Data means Big Control, Big Power, for those who can gather the most information about everyone.
We *need* to get the masses to migrate to free software alternatives, to have better computer literacy, and to have a deeper understanding of the technical details related to all-things-data.
But that's a tall order. Getting a person to change even one small computing habit is like pulling teeth. There needs to be good, quantifiable reasons. They need to hit home, and the changes need to be made one at a time. For those of us with more experience and knowledge in computer technology, it's not fair to expect that anyone is going to change when we're effectively saying, "Hey, everything about the way you use computers is wrong. You need to stop, and do things this way instead."
Here's the thing: *People don't need to change all their computing habits at once to make a difference.* It may be completely unfeasible to get everyone to peel away all their bad practices at once, but we can target exactly one change at a time, and drive hard for it. Each individual change may seem small, even insignificant, toward the goal of fully safeguarding an individuals personal data, but it could send shockwaves through the system.
And what we should do is start with the low-hanging fruit.
### We should stop using the search engines from any of the tech giants, and we should do everything possible to get everyone to do the same.
To make it clear, that means no more Google searches, no more Bing searches, and no more Yahoo searches. As a rule of thumb, if the company was named in the NSA Prism slides, don't use their search systems.
Instead of them, use one of the alternatives that tend to be recommended. Whether it's Ixquick, DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Disconnect, MetaGer, or if you're more determined, Seeks, or YaCy.
Anyone can switch to a different search engine. If you can go to google dot com, you can go to duckduckgo dot com (or one of the other ones). This can be a great galvanizing effort, a way to tell someone, "Look, you can make a difference. You can make the world better. All you gotta do is use a different search engine. Easy."
11.944 billion *monthly* searches. When the news about Prism first broke out, searches on DuckDuckGo went from 1.7 million a day to 3 million a day within a fortnight, and that was simply from an uncoordinated, kneejerk reaction by the people. Imagine if there was a coordinated effort, dedicated solely to diminishing the number of searches done on the tech giant engines. We can bring Google's monthly searches down from ~12 billion, to 6b, 3b, and so on until their share looks more like AOL's.
While search isn't the only way these companies make money, it will still hit them hard. It's a major driver of ad revenue. There are entire markets around search engine optimizations. If the number of eyeballs and clicks on the big search providers plummets, so will much of their profits. This will get attention, a lot of it.
This is doable, though we need to spread the word as far and wide as possible. Copy and paste this post on all the sites you frequent. Link to it. Reshare it. Echo the sentiment in your own words. Make catchy infographics and other artistry about the effort and post it on sites like Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, and so on. Translate it.
Change your default search engine to one of the ones listed, on all the browsers and devices you use. Get your friends and family to make the switch too. That may be the hardest part, but don't get frustrated. Have a sense of humor about it. Give them a reason to *want* to make the switch. Make deals if you have to; tell them you'll make dinner for them.
If you run a website of any kind, consider adding something to it, to further spread the message.
If you still use any of the big social media like Twitter or Facebook, which is bad, rally around a hashtag, like, say, #nongoogle, #ungoogle, or something. Make it trend.
And on that note, we need to talk about language. The holy grail of advertising is when someone uses a company name to refer to a product. Like how we call hook-and-loop velcro. In the case of search, telling someone to "google" something is an endorsement of their product. It makes Google the norm, and stands in the way of breaking their dominance in search. So what we should do is either call it what it is, search, or even use the terms 'nongoogle' or 'ungoogle' to make an explicit declaration of our intent to push for this initiative.
If we can make this happen, it will be a huge, tangible victory in the fight for our privacy rights, and civil liberties. So please spread the word and take action. It's time to start doing nongoogle searches.


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Ricardo Izecsondos Santos Leite popularly known as Kaka enjoyed a very good career highlighted by his World Cup win with the Brazilian national team at the 2002 edition in South Korea and Japan plus his Ballon d'Or win in 2007 after he inspired AC Milan to their last Champions League title triumph. Kaka is regarded as one of the best players of his generation. Here are 10 facts you should know about him:
Kaka was born on the 22nd of April 1982 in the city of Brasilia in Brazil. He played tennis before his focus shifted to football.
The ex-Real Madrid and AC Milan attacking midfielder was born to a civil engineer father, Bosco Izecson Pereira Leite and anelementary school teacher mother Simone dos Santos. His healthy financial background allowed him to focus on school and football at the same time.
He got his nickname Kaka thanks to his younger brother Digao.
Kaka started his football career with Brazilian Serie A giants Sao Paulo at the tender age of eight. He went on to sign a professional contract with the club at the age of 15 before leading the youth team to Copa de Juvenil glory.
AC Milan signed him from Sao Paulo in an $8.5m deal in 2003. He would go on to win every competition with the Italians including the 2007 Champions League title as pointed out earlier. Kaka scored 95 goals in 270 matches during his six-year stay at the San Siro.
Kaka signed for Real Madrid for a then world-record fee of €68.5m. His reign as the most expensive player lasted for a few days before his club signed Cristiano Ronaldo in a world-record deal believed to be £80m. He scored nine goals in 30 appearances in his debut season for Real Madrid.
He won the 2002 FIFA World Cup tournament in South Korea and Japan with Brazil plus the Confederations Cup in 2005 and 2009.
In addition to his Ballon d'Or Award in 2007, he was Serie A Player of the Year in 2004 and 2007.
Kaka is married to childhood sweetheart Caroline Celino. They tied the knot on December 23, 2005.
The Brazilian football legend is a devout Christian.
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[T]he complexity of the modern world is not only an insufficient condition for the advisability of national economic planning but is, on the contrary, a reason for relying on the social intelligence generated by market forces.
Raise your hand if you believe that the likes of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Marco Rubio can possibly know enough to plan and to run an economy that effectively serves the needs of 328 million people.
But the deeper point is not that this task is beyond the abilities of venal politicians; it's that this task is beyond – far beyond – the abilities of anyone. No person and no committee of persons can possibly even begin to gather and to process the amount of knowledge minimally necessary to accomplish what the market accomplishes daily and with such regularity that we take these accomplishments for granted – accomplishments such as feeding New York City, ensuring that the shelves at Safeway and Walmart and Banana Republic are stuffed with quality goods that consumers desire and can afford, and 'simply' making available our daily bread.
Perhaps the most maddening aspect of the current dissatisfaction with capitalism is the obliviousness of those who are dissatisfied. Each of us can imagine a personal worldly paradise. And none of us will discover that the real world is that worldly paradise. Yet socialists on the left and populists on the right mistake reality's inability to fulfill their fantasies as a failure that can be corrected by caring leaders with the power to coerce. It's a delusion – a fatal conceit – and an ever-present danger to humanity.


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Keith E. Whittington | 7.23.2020 11:28 AM
Yesterday President Trump announced that since his "first duty as President is to protect the American people," the administration was directing a federal response to end "the bloodshed" in American cities. As had been anticipated, he wants to roll-out nationally the wildly successful model of law enforcement that federal officers had demonstrated in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. and in Portland, Oregon. Undoubtedly, the repurposed agents from Customs and Border Protection will be welcomed as liberators when they arrive in Chicago and Kansas City.
The administration's particular actions are dubious under federal statutes, and they are misguided from the perspective of deescalating violence. The continued effort to send federal agents to carry out crowd control tasks for which they have not been trained has proven to be disastrous and dangerous. The apparent willingness of those agents to ignore routine procedural protections of the rights of American citizens is appalling.
Unfortunately, Trump's actions are but a ham-handed extension of the growth of federal involvement in domestic criminal justice that has occurred across the twentieth century. For decades, presidents and presidential candidates have exploited voters' fears about street crime to win elections and to justify federal intrusion into the constitutional authority of the states. The ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 ushered in a new regime of federal law enforcement in order to suppress the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol. The infamous kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's infant son in 1932 spurred the passage of the Federal Kidnapping Act and bolstered J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Constitutional conservative Barry Goldwater latched on to "law and order" and rising crime as a potential wedge issue in 1964, and Richard Nixon perfected that strategy four years later. The war on drugs that rhetorically peaked in the 1980s was a boon to federal, as well as local, law enforcement. For decades, both Republicans and Democrats in national office claimed political credit while outbidding each other to show who could be toughest on crime. The result has been a federalization of the criminal law that feeds the growth of the federal government, intrudes into the governance of the states and localities, and often does little to improve public safety.
Trump's announced "surge" of federal forces into American cities is yet another dubious inversion of the American constitutional order. The federal government is one of enumerated powers. The provision of domestic criminal justice is not among those powers. The states were traditionally understood to have broad "police powers," which gives them the authority to take extraordinary actions to combat an epidemic but also gives them the authority to take routine actions to protect public safety from the violent and lawless. The Constitution vests the states, not the federal government, with the authority to do what the president announced and take measures "to restore public safety, protect our nation's children, and bring violent perpetrators to justice" and generally respond to "violent crime."
The federal government has a role to play in domestic law enforcement, but Trump's rhetoric and actions blow right past the constitutional boundaries on that role. The federal government has long been understood to have the means to take reasonable actions to protect its own property, personnel and policies. When the Constitution vests Congress with the power to coin money, Congress is naturally understood to have the power to punish counterfeiters of federal currency (though on that one the framers were explicit). When the Constitution vests Congress with the power to collect taxes, Congress is naturally understood to have the power to punish tax resisters. When the Constitution vests Congress with the power to establish post offices, Congress is naturally understood to have the power to punish those who would burn down the post offices or steal the mail.
There is no doubt the federal government can deploy force to protect federal courthouses from violent mobs when state officials are unwilling or unable to provide that protection. Since the federal government does not have regular law enforcement capacity, when the situation demands it the government uses what force it has at hand. When white mobs in Little Rock obstructed the enforcement of a federal court's desegregation orders and the Arkansas governor proved unwilling to take action against the mob, President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce federal law despite "unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages." One can reasonably debate whether it is good policy to send federal agents in riot gear out to disperse crowds in Portland, but the federal government has the narrow authority to take such steps and is not dependent on the good grace of a local mayor or governor to maintain its facilities. There is a reason why President Lincoln dared secessionists to fire on Fort Sumter; the federal authority to act in such a situation is clear.
But this administration is not content to stay within the narrow boundaries of its constitutional authority. Under the guise of "investigating" attacks on federal buildings, the Department of Homeland Security has sent roving agents out on city streets to round up suspicious persons with little cause. Leveraging state laws that authorize federal law enforcement officers to make arrests when they observe crimes under state law being committed, the Department of Homeland Security has attempted to position itself as a force multiplier for the local police. The announced surge for "Operation Legend" was characterized by Attorney General Barr as "classic crime fighting" to "solve murders and to take down the violent gangs," a supplement to the "tactical teams" acting against "riots and mob violence."
The recent spate of increased violence in cities like Chicago is a serious problem, but it is a state and local, not a federal, problem. Trump is not the first president to try to exploit local street crime to bolster his flagging political fortunes, and he will surely not be the last. But perhaps Trump's personal unpopularity will encourage us to reevaluate whether we really need to continue giving the federal government more and more authority over "classic crime fighting."
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Michael W. Towns
July.23.2020 at 11:42 am
If state and local governments refuse to protect law-abiding citizens' rights (protection of property and life), I think the federal government has a role, particularly when states and cities abdicate their responsibilities to uphold basic civil rights. It astounds me that the argument presented simply boils down to Orange Man Bad, ergo, people in Chicago or Portland will just have to deal with everyday violence and death.
Orbital Mechanic
July.23.2020 at 12:00 pm
I would like to make this a general memo to all concerned, not just the author of the post that I am responding to.
The use of the phrase "Orange Man Bad" to describe the opinion of anyone other than oneself does absolutely not project the air of political sophistication and probity that you apparently think it does.
Quite the opposite. You tag yourself as a right wing partisan dumbass that is too incapable or lazy to engage the facts and opinions of whomever you think you are arguing with. I admit you at least are doing the rest of us a service in that regard by labeling yourself in a category that can be dismissed.
Thank you very much. No need to pay me.
ObiJawanKenobe
>no refutation of core argument
>relies on tone policing
>see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing
Soros Law grad spotted. Very poor argument. Come back when you've graduated from an accredited law school.
Martinned
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You just said the one thing that makes it even less likely that anyone will take you seriously than "Orange Man Bad". "Soros" is the twofer of being uncritically Trumpist and antisemitic at the same time.
How is referencing Soros by definition antisemitic? You're continuing to tone police, and you sound like an idiot. Still no refutation of OP's core point. Pathetic.
A reference to Soros that describes something objectively factual is not anti-semitic.
A reference to Soros as an inherently inimical agent of subversion and evil that stands against everything moral and decent while being detached from any identifiable act in reality is anti-semitic. "Soros Law." He is a bogeyman to right wing nut jobs everywhere who believe he controls all elements of the government in secret. And they pretend that the fact that he is a prominent Jew has nothing to do with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFy_X6IVmkc
SKofNJ
July.23.2020 at 2:33 pm
"A reference to Soros as an inherently inimical agent of subversion and evil that stands against everything moral and decent while being detached from any identifiable act in reality is anti-Semitic." I disagree completely. I think Soros is indeed an inimical agent of subversion and evil and that he stands against most things that are moral and decent. That has nothing to do with the fact that he had a Jewish mother, thus making him a Jew, even though, it is my understanding, does not practice Judaism and does not believe in God. Second, even if I said something about Soros that was factually inaccurate, that would not make my remark anti-Semitic.
Sarcastr0
When you don't realize the tropes are antisemetic.
Pettifogger
A. It is not Soros's Jewishness that is the basis of criticism of him. It is his noxious political activity. We on the right would like that activity no better if it came from Billy Graham.
B. It unbecomes the Left to bring up anti-Semitism.
Krayt
Koch bros. are a very similar thing but the other way.
The shadowy international banker with an evil agenda who controls his minions like puppets...and just happens to be Jewish.
Yeah, nothing about that's antisemetic.
Brett Bellmore
Well, he IS a shadowy international banker. He does have evil plans and minions. And I guess he's sort of Jewish, on one side of his family, and only as an ethnicity.
What can I say? Sometimes redheads are actually going to have tempers, stereotypes are sometimes going to be true, if only by accident.
Bob from Ohio
The use of the phrase "right wing partisan dumbass" to describe the opinion of anyone other than oneself does absolutely not project the air of political sophistication and probity that you apparently think it does.
Quite the opposite. Etc, Etc.
Patrick Henry, the 2nd
My counter memo is Orange Man Bad it is just condensing their argument to its core and shows great logic. It shows the person saying is smart and logical because they know what the OMB person is saying. People should continue to use it.
David Nieporent
I assume, then, you'll concede that all conservative anti-Obama arguments are just Black Man Bad.¹
(¹Not to be confused with Prof. Blackman Bad.)
Of course not. Because they don't boil down to Black Man Bad. They boil down to actual logical arguments. Unlike Orange Man Bad arguments.
The number of rock-ribbed rule of law small government folks suddenly finding contempt for the 10th Amendment is unsurprising, but still telling.
Looks to me like it's the Feds doing most of the basic civil rights violating.
bernard11
Looks to me like it's the Feds doing most of the basic civil rights violating.
And now we have "pro-active" arrests.
No outcries from the usual suspects.
Here's a concept: If you don't want your civil rights "violated", don't destroy federal property. Why is this difficult for Mr. Whittington?
Don't conflate rioters with protesters. Protesters didn't destroy anything, and yet the crackdown targeted them.
"Updated: July 22, 2020 - 10:13 AM
MINNEAPOLIS — A man's burned body was discovered Monday in the wreckage of a south Minneapolis pawn shop set ablaze during protests three days after the killing of George Floyd while in police custody."
Did I stutter? Don't conflate rioters with protesters. Protesters didn't destroy anything, and yet the crackdown targeted them.
But, Sarcastro, you're the one doing that here. People are violently rioting, committing vandalism, arson, assault, and you mindlessly insist on calling them 'protesters'.
This crackdown seems to be targeting protesters generally. Which you justify by saying all protesters are basically working with the rioters now.
Well, of course it's going to look that way to you: You think vandalism is peaceful protest. You're not going to wait on the outcome of a trial to conclude somebody arrested at a riot is innocent.
A small group of vandals does not turn a protest into a riot.
They let those they arrested free. That's a clue they were innocent.
You think vandalism is peaceful protest.
Not remotely what he said.
"Don't conflate rioters with protesters."
The news article said "protests". That is SOP for the media, ignore the riots by calling everything protests. Surprised they didn't use the standard "peaceful" or "largely peaceful" in front of "protest". I guess the dead guy stopped them.
It's during protests; do you disagree?
"Here's a concept: If you don't want your civil rights "violated", don't destroy federal property. Why is this difficult for Mr. Whittington?"
Do you also agree that if Trump didn't want to be investigated, he shouldn't have colluded with Russia?
The number of pro big government numbskulls who have suddenly declared a love of federalism and also the Confederacy is unsurprising but telling.
Looks to me like its the states and cities failing to protect basic civil rights and the feds are stepping in to do it.
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to invade your city with secret police despite the express wishes of your citizens and their government, and tear gas your mayor and your mothers."
Small government conservatives: That sounds reasonable.
Jmaie
""I'm from the government, and I'm here to invade your city with secret police despite the express wishes of your citizens and their government, and tear gas your mayor and your mothers."
Not to nitpick but it is far from clear that Portland's citizens are all unhappy about the federal agent's presence. I'm well aware of the danger of relying on anecdotal evidence but I know several Portlander folks who are 1) not right wing and 2) wish the idiocy would stop. Plus one who was delighted when the mayor got gassed.
And to inure against incorrect assumptions, I am completely opposed to stops by said agents absent particularized knowledge of individual guilt and/or a warrant.
Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland
"The number of pro big government numbskulls"
Are you referring to those who favor authoritarian immigration practices; statist womb management and government micromanagement of ladyparts clinics; tariffs and other forms of protectionism; the war on doobies; abusive policing and militarized police; torturers; massive military budgets; and government gay-bashing?
There's ample precedent of using the Insurrection Act when local governments failed/refused to act. The movie _Mississippi Burning_ details one such instance.
TheAmazingEmu
I think this is the logic for Federal hate crime laws, which I assume you support?
Longtobefree
Everyone knows the federal agency best able to protect US citizens, and law and order, based on past experience, is the US Army.
Nothing quite says peace and law and order like an airborne unit in combat gear.
(search Little Rock Nine, Little Rock High School)
Alas, the DoD pushed back the last time Trump tried to use them like this.
DHS is more loyal like that, it seems.
"DoD pushed back"
Who elected the DoD?
If a president has the authority and so the order is lawful, then DoD has no right to "push back".
After that first night, DoD said they weren't sure the order to bring armed forces into DC to quell the protests was lawful under US law and policy.
The White House did not push the issue.
Fun fact, according to the Crime a Day guy there are more than 70 armed federal agencies authorized to make arrests.
https://twitter.com/CrimeADay/status/1285380521573396485
Have federal agents taken any enforcement action in Portland outside the nexus of protecting federal property?
1. This new operation DHS is rolling out doesn't even bother with a federal nexus.
2. The arrests-and-releases in Portland don't appear to have had individualized suspicion regarding federal property crimes. Or any crime at all, really.
According to social media, they are rounding up hundreds of people and sending them to death camps. Since social media appears to be sufficient evidence for TDS sufferers like Whittington, I don't know why we need to bother checking anywhere else.
Yes. Have they taken any enforcement action inside the nexus of protecting federal property?
The time for the Left to cry about this was when Clinton & Obama did it -- now it's too late.
Like when?
Also, why would it be too late to fix?
I will not defend the Trump administration on this. Federal law enforcement should be generally abolished along with federal law.
If a State requests federal help and reaches an agreement for it, that is different.
Miss Greenparker
This post is on the mark and over the target. Encouraging federal intervention in local situations, when it is not expressly requested or occasioned by violation of federal court orders and property, is tantamount to giving up any and all local control. Eventually, we would all be assimilated by the Borg.
So much for the so-called ballot box when local policy and its ramifications get fixed, and often badly, by Daddy government. So much for local political means and law enforcement when conflicts get "righted" and exacerbated by unwelcome intruding federal forces. So much for local political and social culture, when destructive extremism gets a ride due to the antipathy federal imperialism and heavy-handedness engender. So much for any measure of liberty or autonomy for any of us anywhere when the federal government can declare exigency or emergency whenever and wherever it decrees.
When an important federal court order was being violated in the segregationalist, violent South, federal marshals were sent in first and then local/ state law enforcement federalized to intervene in a lawless situation. That's a good thing. Most reports have the Mayor and Governor requesting Eisenhower's federal assistance, so even better, but had they not, a seminal federal court order was not being honored as the law, and lives were on the line.
Who here would cheer on a Bush and Trump or Clinton and Obama intervention into their city for internal conflict not related to serious violation of federal law? Who here would, on principle, accept the "helpful" interference according to whosever Administration's political agenda and priorities and would accept their take on justice, the law, and enforcement in service to those agendas?
The federal agents in Portland should have made their mission and methods to only protect federal property and officials clear, but this did not happen, because their intervention was about doing more and about national political optics, both of which have turned out badly.
AmosArch
Once the feds start going out and trying to police the city rather than protect federal property like they're doing right now this article might have a point.
Yes, but there was no clear announcement as to intention, scope of operations, and methods and no official agreement with local government as to federal intervention and parameters. Now there is a chaotic situation and ongoing backlash. At best, the murky federal efforts are hampered and, at worst, self-defeating.
mad_kalak
At the press conference, which I watched, Barr (whether you believe him or not) made it clear that it was going to be akin to the normal kind of surge anti-gang and anti-drug trafficking type of enforcement that was routine during the war on drugs that Obama scaled back.
Now, you may be against the War on Drugs, or think Obama is did the right thing, but it's not COINTELPRO part II that Trump/Barr are going for here.
Um, Barr's description of "akin to anti-gang and drug" type of enforcement is pretty unclear with regard to Portland's particular situation, but certainly invokes nearly unconstitutional but now legal extra-judicial actions on the part of LE and the courts.
I'm not for or agin the War on Drugs or War on Terror or for any of the other lucrative and bloody war enterprises promulgated by Obama, Clinton, Bush, or Trump. I'm for our individual liberties and against tyranny made manifest by propaganda and deception and the profiteering thereby. We should not let ourselves be beguiled.
Those were not Barr's exact words. That's my paraphrase. I looked up the transcript (below). You may think it's bad policy, but the feds have been at it for awhile now, and it's not unconstitutional.
Barr: In 1992, violent crime was nationwide, was double what it is today, and it was at that time that federal law enforcement first turned its attention to this kind of violent crime. Before that, the federal government really didn't play that much of a role in it, but we started to attack violent crime in conjunction with state and local government. It was at that time for example that the FBI set up its anti-gang task forces throughout the United States and we started using our strong federal laws that permit us to target those who use guns to kill others and those that are involved in gang activity. Our approach was to set up anti violent crime task forces in the cities to enforce federal law and take the shooters and the chronic violent criminals off the streets. We helped pay for state and local officers to join these task forces so we could leverage our strength and this approach was extremely successful in the intervening decades in driving crime down.
Per Barr's words:
Consider how "violent crime" is being defined by both parties. Violence and crime are now political phenomena.
Also, consider how his statement rationalizing federal intervention included:
"...we [the Feds] started to attack violent crime in conjunction with state and local government"-- (not currently conjointly in the case of Portland protests and riots, apparently.)
"... this approach was extremely successful in the intervening decades in driving crime down." Really, stats may say otherwise and so why the current "emergency" interventions into Portland, Chicago and elsewhere?
"...target those who use guns to kill others"- how is this not an obvious gun control argument that doesn't even reference personal defence? How is this not an endorsement of the federal monopoly of force?
"...the FBI set up its anti-gang task forces throughout the United States and we started using our strong federal laws that permit us to target those who use guns to kill others"- gangs and shootings are in every city. Is this how they're characterizing the Portland situation and why they rationalize their now "strong" authority to come after whomever, Portland and Chicago, after allowing, over the years, major cities to be so gang and violence infested?
"We helped pay for state and local officers to join these task forces so we could leverage our strength..."- Locals are owned.
Okay, I declare a compromise. How about the feds stay out of local law enforcement, but the feds also have to stay out of housing policy and local control over zoning, etc.
Mad_kulak, since you're trying to frame a workable policy, could you help with this quick list?
Localities can and often should refuse federal monies and the strings attached, else they're pwned.
Federal court orders re principles and particulars of housing and zoning, etc. do matter, no matter how principled, misguided or political, but localities should have leeway in their interpretation, until the next court decision.
Federal property, business, and officials do matter in terms of warranting intervention. So does local autonomy, absent accepting those federally attached strings of condition and violation of federal law and property.
All transactions between local, state, and federal government should be transparent to constituents.
Or, in our dreams?
Greenparker...All those sound fine to me. This is not my area of expertise though.
I am only trying to point out that the left likes it when the Feds engage in pressuring locals to include future slums, ahem, I mean affordable housing, in their zoning regs in order to get federal sugar.
So, on one hand the heavy hand of the feds is okay in some instances, but not in others, depending on what's at issue I suppose and what party you support.
Those federally encouraged and funded high-rise inner city slums were a blight on us all, since so many of us fell for the urban renewal hell policy. No doubt the progressive urban renewal movement was lucrative for certain developers, local officials, architect and city planner creeps, and racist, hater eugenicists. Along the way they broke up intact working and middle class neighborhoods of all races and ethnicities for LBJ's War on Poverty.
Impoverishing the soul is what it's all about. Gee, why don't you bring up something I have an opinion about 🙂
"Affordable housing", today, is the iron wedge tool to break us all apart. The term sounds lofty to many, while politically and financially lucrative to others, but it nearly always entails breaking up more naturally intact neighborhoods wrt to property and social values.
As in the case of the 60s and 70s urban renewal movement mentioned above, it was about reclaiming poor inner city neighborhoods by razing them for progressive concrete and steel mid/high rise multi-family units, ostensibly to alleviate poverty. But they really were about a multi-generational land grab. Cities and developers made big money on the displacement and relocation of citizens to the "housing renewal" projects when their home property could be bought for cheap, and later when most of the modern en masse housing projects were torn down and developed by commercial interests.
Today's invocation of affordable housing is about breaking up intact neighborhoods. There is no easy answer, only suspicion.
I read Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of Cities years ago, and came off disliking urban renewal projects, but I do also realize that zoning does have downsides in that those who already have a piece of land make housing unaffordable for others in that they limit the housing stock. Better to have "natural" slums I think, though, than the Robert Taylor homes (or equivalent), as you say.
Jett's Pop
"a ham-handed extension of the growth of federal involvement in domestic criminal justice that has occurred across the twentieth century."
"Has occurred"? Is the 20th century not over yet?
Ghost on the Highway
Have the feds stand down and let the protesters/rioters, whoever, torch the federal courthouse. Then everyone can go home. Problem solved
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