Category: Explainer
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Something SIGnificant
Monday, I had an opportunity to visit the SIG Academy/SIG Experience Center. In the late 70s, I had a chance to visit NYC for the first time. That feeling of awe, looking up at the skyscrapers. Trying hard not to have pidgin droppings fall into our open mouths. That is sort of how I felt…
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Are you Standing?
During the dark days before Heller, the rogue inferior courts, like the Ninth Circuit, came to the consensus that the phrase “a well regulated militia” was more indicative of who had the right to keep and bear arms than “the right of the people”. The result of this piece of stupidity was that we, The…
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Emotional Blackmail
Blackmail is a nasty thing. It is about exposing secrets. If you don’t give me what I want, I will expose your dirty little secret. When you look at American traitors, spying for our advisories, you find that most, if not all of them, were bought off for dirt cheap. What would happen is that…
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Two Factor Authentication
There are two parts to access control, the first is authentication, the second is authorization. Authentication is the process of proving you are who you claim to be. There are three ways to prove you are who you say you are, something you know, something you have, or something about you. When you hand your…
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Proposed Findings of Fact, Legal Stuff
The Heller opinion clearly stated that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right. That was the holding. To get to that decision, the Supreme Court did their standard analysis. First, is the plain text of the Constitution implicated by the proposed conduct? Second, what is this nation’s historical tradition of regulation…
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Is that a machine gun you have there?
(b) Machinegun The term “machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended…
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
“Management Agency” is the key here. In leadership courses we hear the phrase “Either lead, follow or get the fuck out of the way.” There is a strong reason for this, projects fail when leadership is weak. “A bad decision now is better than a good decision too late,” is another. What this means is…
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Honor Culture
Or Cultures of Honor. Most people in western civilizations understand the concept of Honor. Or, at least, they think they do. Most understand, “do the honorable thing.” It is a question of right and wrong. It is a moral decision. The honorable thing to do is to return the wallet you find on the sidewalk.…
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How To Securely Update A Device
There are two basic types of devices, an embedded system, and a general system. There are embedded systems everywhere. Your smart TV. The Chromecast you have attached to your “dumb” TV. Your coffee maker, your washing machine or drier. These are a few of the embedded systems you use every day. There are some that…
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Good Lawyers Aren’t Cheap. Cheap Lawyers Aren’t Good.
I grew up in an innocent age of TV and movies. The heroes were the guys in the blue uniforms and the white hats. The lawyers were evil men working for evil criminals, or they were good men doing good deeds. The press was there to expose the truth, to give us the facts. The…
