Church Shooting
Miggy nailed it, again. This was a church shooting, not a school shooting.
If I recall correctly, many or most Catholic churches are anti-gun and mark their churches as “gun-free zones.”
This may or may not have the force of law.
But if you have a school attached to the church, then you are suddenly covered under the gun-free schools regulations.
Favorite Anti-Gunner Stupid of the Day
The mayor of the city where the shooting took place got on national TV to explain that guns are bad.
In one paragraph he told us, “Don’t paint all trans as evil because of this incident; the problem is all gun owners who refuse…”
It really was one single breath.
Network Stuff
I know you guys are tired of this. Yesterday I got my virtual network put back together. I finally found the magic document that told me what to do where.
The really cool thing is that once I had that magic, it was trivial to copy it to the different nodes to bring them into the “cloud.”
Ironic
This is a component of OpenStack. It is the tool I was expecting to use to get my network functional again. I haven’t figured it out yet.
The issue is that Ironic is too much. It requires a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). A BMC is an embedded computer and OS in a server. You connect the BMC to a network, generally referred to as the management network, to gain access to the server hardware.
From the BMC, you can change BIOS settings, initiate power down and reset functions, and access the hardware for configuration purposes. Some even include KVM capabilities.
This is such a useful feature that most “real” servers come with them. Ironic has a couple of dozen drivers designed to work with them.
What it doesn’t have is any way to work with a computer without a BMC. There is an SNMP driver, but it is just for UPSs. I might play with it to get new boxes provisioned.
Maybe somebody has a fake IPMI implementation that runs under the actual OS.
Ceph is up?
I have 3 nodes that are not back up, plus the one node that was taken out of service. I’ll work on those two nodes today, but I also have to do honey-do jobs.
Question of the Week
This latest church shooting feels different. I can find the shooter’s name, but his name isn’t being dropped every other breath by news people.
Normally we are so cowed that we just “offer thoughts and prayers.” but this time we are still praying for those that were killed and injured as well as for those emotionally hurt by the shooter. Parents and such. The difference is that when there is that push for gun bans, there has been pushback at higher levels.
It also feels like we are getting more support from the top of the political party.
Does this terroristic act feel the same as the last shootings?
“Does this terroristic act feel the same as the last shootings?”
Yes, in that this is yet another whack job deciding to take out his frustrations with the world (and, perhaps, with Mommy/Daddy/whatever) on innocents.
No, in that, as you mentioned above, the response feels different. Conservative politicians and other public figures seem to be increasingly less (decreasingly?) afraid to speak out, both against the stupid and vile progressive commentary on the events in particular, and in general. I hope the public pendulum continues to gain momentum towards sanity.
This time the evildoer put so much information in the public arena that the Politicritters and “advocacy groups” could not analyze it before spinning the narrative to their advantage.
Another issue is that this attack was extremely heinous in its execution. No sympathy could be raised for the evildoer by anyone of good character. Unless you are a Progressive Democrat Mayor.
all these crimes “feel” the same to me- evil sets up “special” child to do nasty. “news” and politicians jump up and barf the same tired narrative about honest hard working Americans who had zero to do with the shooting..
the “news” is what’s different in this one- not enough dead children to help push the liberals agenda of disarmament of We the People..
and it wasn’t a generic every day school.. it was in a… church..
and not enough dead to distract us from paying attention to evil liberals.. meanwhile chicago continues to have multiple dead in one of the most anti gun city’s in the country… yawn, nothing to see there folks..
I think this shooting is a bit different.
There is no way to spin it and support the leftist narrative. The shooter is trans, but no mention of that because it feels like he wanted to detransition, that changing gender did not make him happy. (Not specifically stated, but between the lines…) He abhorred Trump, so they do not want the narrative to become TDS pushed him to it, they would have to admit it is real if they did. Anti-Israel… ohh… no way to say this was because of Jew hatred without generating sympathy for Israel/Jews.
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The narrative cannot be twisted to support the left, so they want this to disappear.