PFunked

2nd Amendment

The Supreme Court is hearing a case about the DC handgun ban.

My thoughts on gun control: murder/assault is already illegal. Isn't that sufficient?

I've never been a fan of prevention laws. It makes more sense to punish people for actually infringing the rights of others.

Gun Ownership -> Murder/Assault
Drunk Driving -> Vehicular Manslaughter
Prostitution -> hm, no victim
Drug Possession/Use -> also, no victim
Butt Sex -> ... seriously, is this a Prevention law to prevent people from "going to hell"? At least this was ruled unconstitutional in 2003

Every time these kinds of discussions come up, we hear terrible logical fallacies, especially Slippery Slope.

Not trying to Straw Man here. Back to the subject at hand -- the 2nd Amendment. Some of the justices seem to agree that the 2nd Amendment does not exclusively apply to militias.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Kickin It Old School

NES added to the modeling section.

Shiren

Heard about Shiren the Wanderer on Retronauts today. I might pick it up.

I really dig Roguelike games. I never got very far in Nethack because I'd eventually grow tired of the interface. I think the DS could solve those issues. A bit of nice SNES-era sprites can't hurt either.

Reprovision Instructions

For future use, here's how I set my server back up from a clean wipe.

Add pfunked to /etc/sudoers

Start the mysql service
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start

upload the mysqldump.sql to the server

Reload the mysql database
sudo mysql < mysqldump.sql

Run mysqlupgrade to fix any user tables
sudo mysql_upgrade

Create the website folders
sudo mkdir /var/www/foobar

Upload the website content to these folders

Load the Virtual Host settings into httpd.conf
And set AllowOverride = All to enable .htaccess files
sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Restart the Apache server
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart

(Note: GoDaddy's virtual dedicated servers now have MySQL5 and PHP5 by default, with PDO-MySQL support built in.)

Lay's Kettle Cooked Reduced Fat Chips

I want to turn you on to a particular bag of chips:

Lay's Kettle Cooked (original), Reduced Fat Chips.

The bag has light blue trim and features a sunflower on the front, with "made with 100% pure sunflower oil".

On the back, the ingredients read:
"Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, ans Salt".
Impressive. Compare to other chips, which have all kinds of junk thrown in. It's kinda sad that a product with the plain obvious ingredients are marketed as the "reduced fat" version; but, kudos to Lay's for having a reasonable product.

First off, these chips are delicious. Second, it doesn't have Olestra (don't confuse it with the other blue bags of chips!). Finally, if you're going to have chips, they're about as healthy as chips can get.

I'm on a bag-a-week habit now.