Posted On: Saturday - November 7th 2026 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Commies The Russians Trump China
This post is especially aimed at our younger readers. Younger readers may not enjoy history (I know I didn't until my 30s), modern education sucks to the point where it's hard to get any good truthful history there, and even if you seek it out voraciously, it's not the same as having BEEN THERE.
No, I was NOT in 'Nam. I was not "there", next to the radio, that'd be, or reading a 1940's newspaper either, when President Truman had allegedly first used the term "Domino Theory" to justify sending US military aid to Greece and Turkey, both with internal struggles involving Communists. I WAS, however, around during a portion of the Cold War. I read from too many people who act as if the Cold War wasn't any big deal, when it was THE foreign policy issue for America for 40 years.
I'm glad I found the graphic that's at the top, so I don't have to explain that this post will not be about pizza*. Who plays dominos, or WITH dominos anymore, right? I have seen, though, some nice videos of amazing displays of the LITERAL Domino Effect. If you don't know it, see the graphic, from which comes the VIRTUAL Domino Effect terminology, and then we linked to this very short introduction from the site History Crunch in our post China's Covid~Zero testing, health apps, and the human domino theory from the Chinese Kung Flu re-panic.
Yes, fun with dominos often involves setting them up such that one knocks the next one down, which knocks the next one, etc., as planned out in great detail The virtual domino effect involved countries around the world going Communist, which caused them to support becoming, and affect nearby countries to become, Communist themselves, until the Free World (the 1st World as opposed to the Communist 2nd World and the "developing", i.e. shithole-level, 3rd World) was, if we were lucky, that only non-red spot on the map, called America.
This falling of dominos started during the latter stages of WWII. One can argue the justification for America's role in the war, with plenty of alt-history speculation of how the following wouldn't have happened. We won't do that here. Let's just recall that the Soviet Union, already Communist for 27 years at the time, took over 8 countries of eastern Europe, with outliers Yugoslavia and Albania being questionably theirs, along with 1/3 of Germany. This East Bloc was under control of the USSR, aka, was a part of the Soviet "Orbit", for 4 decades even.
How far would the Soviets have pushed into Europe, without American led and greatly American-manned response, including the formation of NATO? They wouldn't have just up and stopped due to, "Don't want to pierce that Iron Curtain, do we?" Though I assume there was much organic about the push for Communism in the always-somewhat-dysfunctional Greece and Turkey, leaders in the West knew that the USSR would provide encouragement and support for nations that could end up nicely in their orbit.
Hence, President Truman brought up the "Domino Theory", used for roughly 25 years thereafter. (I will use the end of American involvement in Vietnam the last time it'd have been invoked other than in discussions of its validity in hindsight.)
Within 4 years of the USSR having taken eastern Europe, the question was being asked by important Americans, "Who lost China?" We have some answers, such as Communists working for the US State Department
Note the skinny guy 3rd from the right, wearing the Mao jacket.
Just as the USSR was the lead domino in Europe, China was the lead domino in east Asia. China was the most populated country in the world**, and it was now lost to Communism. Which east Asian country would be knocked down first, with help from China? President Eisenhower talked about the Domino Theory and Vietnam, but it looked like the Korean peninsula would be the first domino to fall 3 years prior. Was it wise for America to lose 50,000 men defending, by the end of it, one half of the area, in that 3 year war?
Had the whole Korean peninsula fallen, with America having stayed away, would the Chinese Communists have looked toward Japan next? They did have a beef with the Japanese as it stood already.
It was regarding Vietnam that the Domino Theory was presented as a reason for America to get involved there. It's easy to say that was a scare tactic in hindsight. After all, Vietnam is now inviting tourists and making the former Cheap China-made crap in full Capitalist mode. With Saigon named after him, Ho Chi Minh is long dead, and things have changed.
Foresight is another story. During the years the Domino Theory was explained as the reason for the American war in Vietnam, could anyone have foreseen that soon after Mao's death, Chairman Deng would free up China economically, rendering the Domino Theory meaningless in that part of the world. (In the meantime, in Europe, the Cold War was all over a decade after that.) No, that Communism wouldn't take over most of the world was not something to be taken for granted.
What do we have now, CNN and FOX viewers convinced that if Russia takes a part of the Ukraine, next thing you know tanks will be rolling west through the Fulda Gap? (Wait, there's no more East Germany. Fulda is well inside Germany now.)
It was a legitimate worry in the past, but the Domino Theory has not been relevant since the alleged "end of history " at the end of the Cold War 37 years ago. Were it to come back in vogue, it'd probably be with America as the lead domino... Who'd be left in the world to contain Communist Amerika?
* We've gone over this in comments years ago - NY style is inarguably THE BEST.
** China had half a billion people at the time Mao Zedong took the place. America had 145 million then. What's more amazing is that China had more people in the 1850s than the US has NOW (even including 50 million illegals)! That was in the low 400 Millions, estimated vs. the US at 25 million then.
Comments:
The Alarmist
Sunday - November 8th 2026 2:33PM MST
PS
Bringing out the golden oldies, eh?
I had a front row seat to Cold War 1.0. It was real. I even had Soviet brush-back shots fired at me on a couple occasions.
Oddly enough, I grew to like Russians I met even during the Cold War and definitely after.
Itโs interesting now to contemplate in which side of the Iron Curtain we now live.
Karma, I guess.
โฏ๏ธ
Bringing out the golden oldies, eh?
I had a front row seat to Cold War 1.0. It was real. I even had Soviet brush-back shots fired at me on a couple occasions.
Oddly enough, I grew to like Russians I met even during the Cold War and definitely after.
Itโs interesting now to contemplate in which side of the Iron Curtain we now live.
Karma, I guess.
โฏ๏ธ
Adam Smith
Sunday - November 8th 2026 8:45AM MST
PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator!
๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ .
So... Mr. Hail and I? (There are probably some other, younger readers. I guess. Perhaps they'll leave a comment and mash that like button?)
๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐โ๐ก?
Mrs. Smith's grandfather played dominoes. But he departed this mortal coil quite some time ago. (As did the people he played dominoes with, I would imagine.) But I hear dominoes is still very popular in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, etc... I hear there is more to the game than I understand it. (I hear it can be quite intense, especially when gambling is involved. Naturally, I haven't played dominoes since I was a small child. I'm sure I never ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ knew how to play.)
With all that talk of communist dominoes, and communists under the bed, and South East Asian countries falling to the dominoes of communism, and how we have to defend our way of life from the communists and their communist dominoes, etc...
It is just too bad that they never bothered to defend the economic zones of Europe and the economic zone formerly known as America from the dominoes of communism. (It's almost as if we should have paid more attention to their policies and less attention to their ๏ผs๏ผwords๏ผ/s๏ผ beautiful lies...)
https://i.ibb.co/RpCSh7qS/is-this-capitalism.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/mFV9drmm/American-Communism.jpg
(McCarthy warned us.)
Anyway... Another beautiful fall day here on the mountain. Gotta run to the store for a few things. Also... The weather machine tells me we might have our first frost in about a week. Fortunately, I have some good left over & reclaimed lumber from that deck repair & railing replacement that we finished up the other day. It will come in very handy for building the best damn little aloe house ever for some of the cold intolerant outdoor plants that I will store in there this winter. (I'm even thinking of ordering some of that 16 mil greenhouse fabric to go over the top of it. You know, to keep the plants happy when it gets down to zero this winter.)
So cheers to another beautiful day!
I hope you have a great rest of the weekend!
โฎ๏ธ
๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ .
So... Mr. Hail and I? (There are probably some other, younger readers. I guess. Perhaps they'll leave a comment and mash that like button?)
๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐โ๐ก?
Mrs. Smith's grandfather played dominoes. But he departed this mortal coil quite some time ago. (As did the people he played dominoes with, I would imagine.) But I hear dominoes is still very popular in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, etc... I hear there is more to the game than I understand it. (I hear it can be quite intense, especially when gambling is involved. Naturally, I haven't played dominoes since I was a small child. I'm sure I never ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ knew how to play.)
With all that talk of communist dominoes, and communists under the bed, and South East Asian countries falling to the dominoes of communism, and how we have to defend our way of life from the communists and their communist dominoes, etc...
It is just too bad that they never bothered to defend the economic zones of Europe and the economic zone formerly known as America from the dominoes of communism. (It's almost as if we should have paid more attention to their policies and less attention to their ๏ผs๏ผwords๏ผ/s๏ผ beautiful lies...)
https://i.ibb.co/RpCSh7qS/is-this-capitalism.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/mFV9drmm/American-Communism.jpg
(McCarthy warned us.)
Anyway... Another beautiful fall day here on the mountain. Gotta run to the store for a few things. Also... The weather machine tells me we might have our first frost in about a week. Fortunately, I have some good left over & reclaimed lumber from that deck repair & railing replacement that we finished up the other day. It will come in very handy for building the best damn little aloe house ever for some of the cold intolerant outdoor plants that I will store in there this winter. (I'm even thinking of ordering some of that 16 mil greenhouse fabric to go over the top of it. You know, to keep the plants happy when it gets down to zero this winter.)
So cheers to another beautiful day!
I hope you have a great rest of the weekend!
โฎ๏ธ
Adam Smith
Saturday - November 7th 2026 9:09PM MST
PS: Lol... โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Saturday - November 7th 2026 8:37PM MST
PS: Hey, biggest comment count EVAH!
How did they get here? Did I still think Peak Stupidity would be around 6 years later? I can't remember.
How did they get here? Did I still think Peak Stupidity would be around 6 years later? I can't remember.
Adam Smith
Sunday - May 19th 2024 8:59AM MST
PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator!
Implement a search function? That sounds a bit like work.
There is a function on Yandex where, as administrator, you can open a yandex account and have yandex index the whole site and then it gives you some sort of control over how it uses and displays that info. It also gives yo usome sort of analytics and other details about your website. (Going from memory here, so don't quote me on this stuff.) To do this you have to load some metadata from yandex into the main index file of your website or something (there are probably multiple options for verification) so they know that they are indeed dealing with the webmaster and not some clown trying to manipulate search results on a website that they don't own or control.
https://woorkup.com/submit-website-to-yandex/
(There are probably better tutorials, this was just the first one I clicked on)
Similar to how one would prompt google or bing to crawl and index a website.
I'd imagine it's much easier to submit your website to an existing search engine for proper indexing and searching than to create your own search function for the site from scratch.
Once upon a time, in what almost seems like a different life, I built a simple, experimental web crawler. Or so I thought. I had an old 586, 300mhz pentium computer that I built into a LAMP server and I used it to tinker with web design stuff. (Yeah this was like 20 years ago.) Anyway, as soon as I hit the go button on my simple web crawler it crashed my lamp server. It was too much crawler for that old 586 to handle.
Probably just some wacky code that I never really got to trouble shoot. I really wasn't careful with it at all, and just took ideas from different places and glued all these different lines of code together to see what would happen hoping it would work assuming that if it went sour I would just have to reboot my machine. It's one of the few times I bricked a linux box. Probably the most thorough bricking of a debian that I've ever accomplished.
Look at that. The last time I commented on this page was also a Sunday. How fun.
So I guess, tag. You're it! โฎ๏ธ
Implement a search function? That sounds a bit like work.
There is a function on Yandex where, as administrator, you can open a yandex account and have yandex index the whole site and then it gives you some sort of control over how it uses and displays that info. It also gives yo usome sort of analytics and other details about your website. (Going from memory here, so don't quote me on this stuff.) To do this you have to load some metadata from yandex into the main index file of your website or something (there are probably multiple options for verification) so they know that they are indeed dealing with the webmaster and not some clown trying to manipulate search results on a website that they don't own or control.
https://woorkup.com/submit-website-to-yandex/
(There are probably better tutorials, this was just the first one I clicked on)
Similar to how one would prompt google or bing to crawl and index a website.
I'd imagine it's much easier to submit your website to an existing search engine for proper indexing and searching than to create your own search function for the site from scratch.
Once upon a time, in what almost seems like a different life, I built a simple, experimental web crawler. Or so I thought. I had an old 586, 300mhz pentium computer that I built into a LAMP server and I used it to tinker with web design stuff. (Yeah this was like 20 years ago.) Anyway, as soon as I hit the go button on my simple web crawler it crashed my lamp server. It was too much crawler for that old 586 to handle.
Probably just some wacky code that I never really got to trouble shoot. I really wasn't careful with it at all, and just took ideas from different places and glued all these different lines of code together to see what would happen hoping it would work assuming that if it went sour I would just have to reboot my machine. It's one of the few times I bricked a linux box. Probably the most thorough bricking of a debian that I've ever accomplished.
Look at that. The last time I commented on this page was also a Sunday. How fun.
So I guess, tag. You're it! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Thursday - May 9th 2024 8:15AM MST
PS: Well, I checked this post # for a few more times, but figured you gave up on looking for MY reply, Adam.
I need to learn more about how that web-crawler/bot stuff works. And, yeah, implement a search function on the site for those of us who do want to find stuff!
I need to learn more about how that web-crawler/bot stuff works. And, yeah, implement a search function on the site for those of us who do want to find stuff!
Adam Smith
Sunday - April 14th 2024 11:42AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Moderator!
Sorry 'bout the late reply. I'm a bit surprised that you noticed this post so soon. (Good job!)
I really thought I would surprise you with an instant reply when you hit the go button on post 3000.
Oh, well... Maybe next time...
Post 3650, eh? I forgot all about that one, where ever it was. I've been using post 30533 to test comments. I have a fresh local copy of each. If you'd like to delete them that's fine with me.
I've wondered if yandex, yahoo or any other search engine might accidentally cache those pages one day. I would investigate a bit but by doing so I might cause yandex et al. to browse those pages which would kind of defeat the purpose.
Alternatively, I have wondered about prompting yandex to crawl peakstupidity.com just to see if it would help when searching for a comment. Anyway...
I've got your movie. I'm uploading it right now, but it's going pretty slow. It's about 1/4 - 1/3 of the way done, but at 50kb/sec it will take a few more hours to upload as it is a 2.2gb movie.
Guess that's it for now. I hope you and the missus are having a wonderful weekend.
Happy Sunday! โฎ๏ธ
Sorry 'bout the late reply. I'm a bit surprised that you noticed this post so soon. (Good job!)
I really thought I would surprise you with an instant reply when you hit the go button on post 3000.
Oh, well... Maybe next time...
Post 3650, eh? I forgot all about that one, where ever it was. I've been using post 30533 to test comments. I have a fresh local copy of each. If you'd like to delete them that's fine with me.
I've wondered if yandex, yahoo or any other search engine might accidentally cache those pages one day. I would investigate a bit but by doing so I might cause yandex et al. to browse those pages which would kind of defeat the purpose.
Alternatively, I have wondered about prompting yandex to crawl peakstupidity.com just to see if it would help when searching for a comment. Anyway...
I've got your movie. I'm uploading it right now, but it's going pretty slow. It's about 1/4 - 1/3 of the way done, but at 50kb/sec it will take a few more hours to upload as it is a 2.2gb movie.
Guess that's it for now. I hope you and the missus are having a wonderful weekend.
Happy Sunday! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Wednesday - April 3rd 2024 5:42PM MST
PS: Almost there. I've got to move some posts around. Your testing comments are under 3650. I had to move them. I'm so sorry if you didn't find out where they went yet.
Admin
Wednesday - June 28th 2023 12:48PM MST
PS:
Sign seen at the covinence store this week:
I like the idea. Peak Stupidity covers the niche market in stupidity and curmudgeonry that is the attempt to phase out the use of cash. China has pretty much been there/done that, but I'll probably have a chance to report on that accurately pretty soon. (Please check out the Economics topic key for other posts on the topic.)
I'm sorry if this offends a reader or two*, but I don't get the idea of going around with a only a couple of bucks cash. It's not like a potential mugger can see you've got a hundred or two on you. People do though, and they buy that Hershey bar or 20 oz Coke with a credit or debit card. Hell yeah, ding 'em for the 25ยข.**
I don't think this store owner's problem is the non-use of cash, though. What he's on about is the processing fees of some sort - I'm not sure if there are any on debit cards vs credit cards, but he doesn't specify. He's not really a very good communicator in general, judging by the sign alone.
The owner is a nice guy though, a fairly friendly โขIndian. He has an extra large โข on his forehead in fact, which I take as the markings of his status as the covinence chain Assistant Regional Manager, or at least Assistant to the Regional Manager.
I don't get a chance to have any long conversation with the guy. There are often lottery ticket losers scratching off cards in front of me and then buying others right there to see if they can make it up in volume. Behind me are guys and girls waiting to buy snacks, cokes, or red bull, as I stand there in the middle to pay cash for gas.
Therefore, I did not have a chance to ask the gentlemen about his children, and more specifically, whether he will may be bringing up the new State Spelling Bee champion.
"I came to this country with 10 rupiees in my pocket and a bootleg copy of Goodnight, Constuction Sight! I had nothing. We are razing you to due bedder."
PS: I would call it 4 misspellings in that sign. You can have more than one per word. Let's not even get into the grammar. That's just the cost of Population Replacement doing business.
* Keep in mind that, per Section 109 para. (c)(1)(vi) of the FBC (Federal Blog Code), Peak Stupidity is an
Sign seen at the covinence store this week:
I like the idea. Peak Stupidity covers the niche market in stupidity and curmudgeonry that is the attempt to phase out the use of cash. China has pretty much been there/done that, but I'll probably have a chance to report on that accurately pretty soon. (Please check out the Economics topic key for other posts on the topic.)
I'm sorry if this offends a reader or two*, but I don't get the idea of going around with a only a couple of bucks cash. It's not like a potential mugger can see you've got a hundred or two on you. People do though, and they buy that Hershey bar or 20 oz Coke with a credit or debit card. Hell yeah, ding 'em for the 25ยข.**
I don't think this store owner's problem is the non-use of cash, though. What he's on about is the processing fees of some sort - I'm not sure if there are any on debit cards vs credit cards, but he doesn't specify. He's not really a very good communicator in general, judging by the sign alone.
The owner is a nice guy though, a fairly friendly โขIndian. He has an extra large โข on his forehead in fact, which I take as the markings of his status as the covinence chain Assistant Regional Manager, or at least Assistant to the Regional Manager.
I don't get a chance to have any long conversation with the guy. There are often lottery ticket losers scratching off cards in front of me and then buying others right there to see if they can make it up in volume. Behind me are guys and girls waiting to buy snacks, cokes, or red bull, as I stand there in the middle to pay cash for gas.
Therefore, I did not have a chance to ask the gentlemen about his children, and more specifically, whether he will may be bringing up the new State Spelling Bee champion.
"I came to this country with 10 rupiees in my pocket and a bootleg copy of Goodnight, Constuction Sight! I had nothing. We are razing you to due bedder."
PS: I would call it 4 misspellings in that sign. You can have more than one per word. Let's not even get into the grammar. That's just the cost of Population Replacement doing business.
* Keep in mind that, per Section 109 para. (c)(1)(vi) of the FBC (Federal Blog Code), Peak Stupidity is an
this is a test
Sunday - May 1st 2022 1:04PM MST
PS: Test 3
74 Platinum - Pt - 0.0030 - 0.0037 - 0.005 (0.0000005%)
75 ...Gold.. - Au - 0.0011 - 0.0031 - 0.004 (0.0000004%)
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74 Platinum - Pt - 0.0030 - 0.0037 - 0.005 (0.0000005%)
75 ...Gold.. - Au - 0.0011 - 0.0031 - 0.004 (0.0000004%)
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this is a test
Sunday - May 1st 2022 1:03PM MST
PS: Test 2
74 Platinum - Pt - 0.0030 - 0.0037 - 0.005 (0.0000005%)
75 ..Gold.. - Au - 0.0011 - 0.0031 - 0.004 (0.0000004%)
โฎ
74 Platinum - Pt - 0.0030 - 0.0037 - 0.005 (0.0000005%)
75 ..Gold.. - Au - 0.0011 - 0.0031 - 0.004 (0.0000004%)
โฎ
this is a test
Sunday - May 1st 2022 1:02PM MST
PS: testing 1... 2...
74 Platinum Pt 0.0030 0.0037 0.005 (0.0000005%)
75 Gold Au 0.0011 0.0031 0.004 (0.0000004%)
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74 Platinum Pt 0.0030 0.0037 0.005 (0.0000005%)
75 Gold Au 0.0011 0.0031 0.004 (0.0000004%)
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Adam Smith
Sunday - December 12th 2021 10:04PM MST
PS: โฎ
https://i.ibb.co/92BzNZh/World-population-milestones.png
https://i.ibb.co/92BzNZh/World-population-milestones.png
Adam Smith
Wednesday - September 29th 2021 9:50AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Achmed,
Looks like I'm not the only commenter who enjoys semi-rural living...
https://i.ibb.co/R4GPZfh/Screenshot1.png
https://i.ibb.co/jhZw0Xk/Screenshot2.png
https://i.ibb.co/C8Dt4cW/Screenshot3.png
(Don't worry, I can keep a secret.)
Interestingly, justice map tells me that my neighborhood is only 81.5% white, which I know to be an error of sorts. Upon further investigation the data tells me that the population of my block is 27 and that 18.5% identify as American Indian. Some of the people around here have some Cherokee ancestry and probably told the census people this, even though they are almost as white as snow and live as white folks do.
I hope you have a great day.
โฎ
Looks like I'm not the only commenter who enjoys semi-rural living...
https://i.ibb.co/R4GPZfh/Screenshot1.png
https://i.ibb.co/jhZw0Xk/Screenshot2.png
https://i.ibb.co/C8Dt4cW/Screenshot3.png
(Don't worry, I can keep a secret.)
Interestingly, justice map tells me that my neighborhood is only 81.5% white, which I know to be an error of sorts. Upon further investigation the data tells me that the population of my block is 27 and that 18.5% identify as American Indian. Some of the people around here have some Cherokee ancestry and probably told the census people this, even though they are almost as white as snow and live as white folks do.
I hope you have a great day.
โฎ
๐ป
Thursday - April 15th 2021 10:20PM MST
PS: Cheers to your health kind sir!..
I hope this message finds you well...
Glad to hear you're having a good evening...
one day later, haha, ha ha, ha hahahaha... ๐ !?โญโฏๅโกโโ โฅ๐ค ๐ธ
There are so many settings on godaddy (or any other webhost) that just a setting or three out of place can make things, err, how shall we say, not quite right anymore...
It could be part of the fire wall settings...
Or some cache setting...
(there are a couple more settings between on and disabled...)
I think you're just a click (or three) away from being โrightโ.(?)
https://i.postimg.cc/G2DfpbjB/post-1545-A.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/pVD7bXT4/post-1545-B.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/2SX9F1cb/post-1545-C.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/zG5Ht7Q4/orwell.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/X7gYJb2D/orwell.jpg
I'm pretty sure these are the correct files from post 1545.
Seems media fire sent them down the memory hole...
I'll post them under 1881...
โฎ
I hope this message finds you well...
Glad to hear you're having a good evening...
one day later, haha, ha ha, ha hahahaha... ๐ !?โญโฏๅโกโโ โฅ๐ค ๐ธ
There are so many settings on godaddy (or any other webhost) that just a setting or three out of place can make things, err, how shall we say, not quite right anymore...
It could be part of the fire wall settings...
Or some cache setting...
(there are a couple more settings between on and disabled...)
I think you're just a click (or three) away from being โrightโ.(?)
https://i.postimg.cc/G2DfpbjB/post-1545-A.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/pVD7bXT4/post-1545-B.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/2SX9F1cb/post-1545-C.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/zG5Ht7Q4/orwell.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/X7gYJb2D/orwell.jpg
I'm pretty sure these are the correct files from post 1545.
Seems media fire sent them down the memory hole...
I'll post them under 1881...
โฎ
Moderator
Thursday - April 15th 2021 6:38PM MST
PS: Yeah, having a good evening (one day later, haha), and thanks, Adam.
No, I am not out of the woods with this youtube thing. I have to go to phpMyAdmin and edit the database field (body of text) to put in videos. That's one thing, but also if I find a typo or want to add something, I've got to go in there too.
I'll call GoDaddy about this. Hopefully, they don't have to roll back whatever security features they "sold" me, when I just wanted the 2 years of SSL, but if so, that's fine. Possible there's a setting that could let the embed tags go through. I'll let you know right here though.
Have a good night!
No, I am not out of the woods with this youtube thing. I have to go to phpMyAdmin and edit the database field (body of text) to put in videos. That's one thing, but also if I find a typo or want to add something, I've got to go in there too.
I'll call GoDaddy about this. Hopefully, they don't have to roll back whatever security features they "sold" me, when I just wanted the 2 years of SSL, but if so, that's fine. Possible there's a setting that could let the embed tags go through. I'll let you know right here though.
Have a good night!
Adam Smith
Wednesday - April 14th 2021 4:14PM MST
PS: Hey Achmed,
Looks like you got the youtube links working again. I've been wondering what could be the cause. Was it the certificate, or some other godaddy setting? I read that godaddy has a partnership with vimeo and that to enable youtube links certain setting have to be properly set.(?) I hope you didn't have to take the unsustainable approach.
Yeah, saint-dismas.com is Robert's site. I like his page on minimalism and his writing.
I agree with your assessment. If Ron Unz's Fort Detrick Kung Flu theory is proven to be true, it would be important, but not as important as the rest of the panicfest/riotfest insanity we've seen the last year+. I'm still of the belief that this whole coronavirus thing, whatever it is, likely had something to do with gain of function research. I don't know if it was purposely released to get the party started, or if this is better explained by stupidity or incompetence. Hell, I don't know if there is really any novel coronavirus out there. With the faulty testing and the nonstop propaganda and the fear porn pumped up to 11 all of this could have been achieved without any other such nefariousness.
It's been pretty crazy to watch.
I hope you have a good evening.
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Looks like you got the youtube links working again. I've been wondering what could be the cause. Was it the certificate, or some other godaddy setting? I read that godaddy has a partnership with vimeo and that to enable youtube links certain setting have to be properly set.(?) I hope you didn't have to take the unsustainable approach.
Yeah, saint-dismas.com is Robert's site. I like his page on minimalism and his writing.
I agree with your assessment. If Ron Unz's Fort Detrick Kung Flu theory is proven to be true, it would be important, but not as important as the rest of the panicfest/riotfest insanity we've seen the last year+. I'm still of the belief that this whole coronavirus thing, whatever it is, likely had something to do with gain of function research. I don't know if it was purposely released to get the party started, or if this is better explained by stupidity or incompetence. Hell, I don't know if there is really any novel coronavirus out there. With the faulty testing and the nonstop propaganda and the fear porn pumped up to 11 all of this could have been achieved without any other such nefariousness.
It's been pretty crazy to watch.
I hope you have a good evening.
โฎ
Moderator
Saturday - April 10th 2021 2:08PM MST
PS: I just now read your April 2nd comment, Adam. Thanks for all that info. I happen to have read that Ron Unz comment too. It's not that I have time for every article's comments (though I think Greenwald is a good guy), but I occasionally check Ron Unz for his comments, once I see one on a Sailer or Derbyshire thread.
I kinda want to see how nuts he is. Really, he's been pretty good lately. There's not much crazy stuff, though he is sure pushing that Ft. Detrick Kung Flu theory. Of course it'd be important if that were proven, but compared to the planned or unplanned PanicFest LOCKDOWN stuff, it's rally not the most important thing, where it started. (It just seems a bit unbelievable anyway.). Other than that, I have agreed with most of Ron Unz's comments.
Back to computer stuff, yeah, php is like asp that I used before on the MS side long ago. I also would like to stick with something that not only do I already know, but I have the software loaded, etc.
I still have the problem of not being able to save any pages with youtube embeds. If I have a typo in a post with video, or if it's a new post with video, I have to go to the database to change or enter it, respectively. That's not "sustainable", as they say. I've been pretty busy, but I'll call these GoDaddy people to see if somehow I can get these through their security system that is in place to help me, not slow me down and vex me...
Regarding what you said about mail.whatever, isn't that saint-dumas one the site of commenter Robert? I just remember that, as I went to it one time.
Thanks for the email address. I'll remember that one.
I kinda want to see how nuts he is. Really, he's been pretty good lately. There's not much crazy stuff, though he is sure pushing that Ft. Detrick Kung Flu theory. Of course it'd be important if that were proven, but compared to the planned or unplanned PanicFest LOCKDOWN stuff, it's rally not the most important thing, where it started. (It just seems a bit unbelievable anyway.). Other than that, I have agreed with most of Ron Unz's comments.
Back to computer stuff, yeah, php is like asp that I used before on the MS side long ago. I also would like to stick with something that not only do I already know, but I have the software loaded, etc.
I still have the problem of not being able to save any pages with youtube embeds. If I have a typo in a post with video, or if it's a new post with video, I have to go to the database to change or enter it, respectively. That's not "sustainable", as they say. I've been pretty busy, but I'll call these GoDaddy people to see if somehow I can get these through their security system that is in place to help me, not slow me down and vex me...
Regarding what you said about mail.whatever, isn't that saint-dumas one the site of commenter Robert? I just remember that, as I went to it one time.
Thanks for the email address. I'll remember that one.
Adam Smith
Friday - April 2nd 2021 9:50AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Achmed...
I'm glad to hear you figured it out. I read some stuff last night about wordpress based websites running really slow on godaddy after installing the godaddy ssl certificate and that there were some cache settings that could help fix the problem. It's cool to know that in your situation disabling caching did the trick.
Yes, you have a godaddy certificate. It says...
Issued To
Common Name (CN) - peakstupidity.com
Organization (O) - [Not Part Of Certificate]
Organizational Unit (OU) - Domain Control Validated
Serial Number - 00:E2:84:B4:0B:DC:2C:FD:12
Issued By
Common Name (CN) - Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority โ G2
Organization (O) - GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Organizational Unit (OU) - http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/
Period Of Validity
Begins On - April 1, 2021
Expires On - April 1, 2022
Fingerprints
SHA-256 Fingerprint -
38:FE:68:7D:C1:6B:50:0D:FE:61:06:CB:25:90:30:7F:DB:6C:EE:62:4E:B4:13:A4:C5:C9:73:4A:28:2C:BD:5E
SHA1 Fingerprint -
3B:65:42:FD:7B:F1:44:E3:D4:5D:40:C0:2C:F1:46:DD:6F:BE:E0:CD
So it looks like your certificate is good for a year. Perhaps godaddy will reup it automatically for another year next April Fools Day?
The mail.ps.com thing has been a little puzzling to me too. I've never before noticed a website setup this way. You are in good company...
http://mail.hailtoyou.wordpress.com/
http://mail.saint-dismas.com/
My guess is that you've never setup your mail server on godaddy, so this is a default setting of sorts.(?)
I kinda like it, but I'm sure there are more interesting ways to set this up.
As far as I can tell mail.ps.com does not have any certificate attached to it. It has always been an insecure version of the site. There is no warning about it being insecure. It just works. Does it really matter? Probably not. I'd probably leave it, or figure out something better to do with it. Seems low priority to me.
โHowever, this guy Cody, did a nice job explaining the sequence of troubleshooting if this didn't take. I tried first deleting cache again, but just for blogworks.php. Come to think of it, why would that work if a complete clearing didn't?โ
Perhaps a โcomplete clearingโ only dealt with the server cache (Apache) and not with blogworks cache? (Does blogworks have it's own cache?)
If or when you migrate or alter the website in the future, it can be fun and you might hit some unknown snag(s) when migrating to another webhost or platform. Like you say, you're good for a few years or so. As far as .php, I like it and I would stick with it. Ron Unz commented yesterday that his website uses wordpress for the backend but most of it including the comment code is his own PHP. Here's a quote...
โThanks, Iโm really quite proud of it. Unfortunately, thereโs often a sharp trade-off between features, performance, and elegance of architectural design, and itโs become so heavily interwoven with the rest of my own code, the system might require a good deal of effort to replicate elsewhere. Iโd certainly like to encapsulate it as some sort of plugin, but thatโs probably not very practical.
Although the database backend of this website is WordPress, virtually everything you see on all the pages is my own custom PHP code, which would limit its wider use. Since WordPress itself is so cumbersome, convoluted, and inefficient, and I use almost none of it, back a couple of years ago I was giving some thought to getting rid of entirely, but decided it just wasnโt worth the effort.โ
https://www.unz.com/isteve/glenn-greenwald-is-making-a-million-year-off-substack-newsletters/#comment-4564236
I cannot think of a better way to implement such things than php. Maybe I'm just being lazy. Learning a new way of coding is a little like work. I'm used to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP so that is what I would use (even though I am quite rusty). I don't know why Ron Unz decided to use PHP for his website, perhaps it's what he's used to too.(?)
Lol... email? Does anyone use email anymore? Ok, well I guess we all do for some things. I can honestly say I go weeks, sometimes months without checking my email. But, if you ever want to email me you can hit me up at adamsmith420@protonmail.com. But you might want to give me a heads up here so I check my email.
Anyway,
Happy April Achmed.
Thanks for all you do.
Please have a great day.
โฎ
I'm glad to hear you figured it out. I read some stuff last night about wordpress based websites running really slow on godaddy after installing the godaddy ssl certificate and that there were some cache settings that could help fix the problem. It's cool to know that in your situation disabling caching did the trick.
Yes, you have a godaddy certificate. It says...
Issued To
Common Name (CN) - peakstupidity.com
Organization (O) - [Not Part Of Certificate]
Organizational Unit (OU) - Domain Control Validated
Serial Number - 00:E2:84:B4:0B:DC:2C:FD:12
Issued By
Common Name (CN) - Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority โ G2
Organization (O) - GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Organizational Unit (OU) - http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/
Period Of Validity
Begins On - April 1, 2021
Expires On - April 1, 2022
Fingerprints
SHA-256 Fingerprint -
38:FE:68:7D:C1:6B:50:0D:FE:61:06:CB:25:90:30:7F:DB:6C:EE:62:4E:B4:13:A4:C5:C9:73:4A:28:2C:BD:5E
SHA1 Fingerprint -
3B:65:42:FD:7B:F1:44:E3:D4:5D:40:C0:2C:F1:46:DD:6F:BE:E0:CD
So it looks like your certificate is good for a year. Perhaps godaddy will reup it automatically for another year next April Fools Day?
The mail.ps.com thing has been a little puzzling to me too. I've never before noticed a website setup this way. You are in good company...
http://mail.hailtoyou.wordpress.com/
http://mail.saint-dismas.com/
My guess is that you've never setup your mail server on godaddy, so this is a default setting of sorts.(?)
I kinda like it, but I'm sure there are more interesting ways to set this up.
As far as I can tell mail.ps.com does not have any certificate attached to it. It has always been an insecure version of the site. There is no warning about it being insecure. It just works. Does it really matter? Probably not. I'd probably leave it, or figure out something better to do with it. Seems low priority to me.
โHowever, this guy Cody, did a nice job explaining the sequence of troubleshooting if this didn't take. I tried first deleting cache again, but just for blogworks.php. Come to think of it, why would that work if a complete clearing didn't?โ
Perhaps a โcomplete clearingโ only dealt with the server cache (Apache) and not with blogworks cache? (Does blogworks have it's own cache?)
If or when you migrate or alter the website in the future, it can be fun and you might hit some unknown snag(s) when migrating to another webhost or platform. Like you say, you're good for a few years or so. As far as .php, I like it and I would stick with it. Ron Unz commented yesterday that his website uses wordpress for the backend but most of it including the comment code is his own PHP. Here's a quote...
โThanks, Iโm really quite proud of it. Unfortunately, thereโs often a sharp trade-off between features, performance, and elegance of architectural design, and itโs become so heavily interwoven with the rest of my own code, the system might require a good deal of effort to replicate elsewhere. Iโd certainly like to encapsulate it as some sort of plugin, but thatโs probably not very practical.
Although the database backend of this website is WordPress, virtually everything you see on all the pages is my own custom PHP code, which would limit its wider use. Since WordPress itself is so cumbersome, convoluted, and inefficient, and I use almost none of it, back a couple of years ago I was giving some thought to getting rid of entirely, but decided it just wasnโt worth the effort.โ
https://www.unz.com/isteve/glenn-greenwald-is-making-a-million-year-off-substack-newsletters/#comment-4564236
I cannot think of a better way to implement such things than php. Maybe I'm just being lazy. Learning a new way of coding is a little like work. I'm used to Linux Apache MySQL and PHP so that is what I would use (even though I am quite rusty). I don't know why Ron Unz decided to use PHP for his website, perhaps it's what he's used to too.(?)
Lol... email? Does anyone use email anymore? Ok, well I guess we all do for some things. I can honestly say I go weeks, sometimes months without checking my email. But, if you ever want to email me you can hit me up at adamsmith420@protonmail.com. But you might want to give me a heads up here so I check my email.
Anyway,
Happy April Achmed.
Thanks for all you do.
Please have a great day.
โฎ
Moderator
Friday - April 2nd 2021 7:22AM MST
PS: One more thing, Adam. I want to thank you very much for your help in trying to fix this and other problems in the past. I never was a real computer guy, even when I worked at jobs in the field, learning as I went. It's been a looong time. I wish I had a web guy on staff. OK, first I'd need a staff... but really just an expert friend.
I cannot give you much credit on the follow-up post I will write in a few minutes, because readers will wonder how we corresponded. No, it's not much of their business, but I don't want to cause confusion. ("Is there an email address? Never seen one ... etc.)
Within about the same time I mentioned, a couple of years, at this rate, I'll have to move these comments, haha! That's no problem, but I really need to start over, software wise. It'll actually be fairly fun for me, but it's getting the band, ooops, sandbox back together first. I just have a feeling lots of stuff will be deprecated or whatever. Maybe I should get off .php. What do you think about that last. Is it still viable?
I cannot give you much credit on the follow-up post I will write in a few minutes, because readers will wonder how we corresponded. No, it's not much of their business, but I don't want to cause confusion. ("Is there an email address? Never seen one ... etc.)
Within about the same time I mentioned, a couple of years, at this rate, I'll have to move these comments, haha! That's no problem, but I really need to start over, software wise. It'll actually be fairly fun for me, but it's getting the band, ooops, sandbox back together first. I just have a feeling lots of stuff will be deprecated or whatever. Maybe I should get off .php. What do you think about that last. Is it still viable?
Moderator
Friday - April 2nd 2021 7:13AM MST
PS: That was pretty long, so here's the gist of it:
SSLs are OK and installed.
The firewall caused a problem with global caching on the other side. Guy said "clear it out. You should be good". Well, of course, on the phone, that did it, but the problems existed.
However, this guy Cody, did a nice job explaining the sequence of troubleshooting if this didn't take. I tried first deleting cache again, but just for blogworks.php. Come to think of it, why would that work if a complete clearing didn't?
OK, no go, so the next step was to disable caching. I had asked him on the phone what was the problem with that. Besides causing more loading time, he really didn't see it as a bad thing to do. I did that, and things seem to be working normally finally.
I suppose I should look into more about any problem with not having caching on the server-side enabled.
On the redirects - yeah, I thought that had to be the problem once you mentioned it. I did read a lot about that .htaccess file.
Someday, I should just host the whole thing. That's nothing against Godaddy, though, OTOH, things keep going up when you remain a customer. I think I'm good for everything - hosting, domain name registration, and this SSL stuff for 2-4 more years, so 2 years would be a good time to switch, if any.
SSLs are OK and installed.
The firewall caused a problem with global caching on the other side. Guy said "clear it out. You should be good". Well, of course, on the phone, that did it, but the problems existed.
However, this guy Cody, did a nice job explaining the sequence of troubleshooting if this didn't take. I tried first deleting cache again, but just for blogworks.php. Come to think of it, why would that work if a complete clearing didn't?
OK, no go, so the next step was to disable caching. I had asked him on the phone what was the problem with that. Besides causing more loading time, he really didn't see it as a bad thing to do. I did that, and things seem to be working normally finally.
I suppose I should look into more about any problem with not having caching on the server-side enabled.
On the redirects - yeah, I thought that had to be the problem once you mentioned it. I did read a lot about that .htaccess file.
Someday, I should just host the whole thing. That's nothing against Godaddy, though, OTOH, things keep going up when you remain a customer. I think I'm good for everything - hosting, domain name registration, and this SSL stuff for 2-4 more years, so 2 years would be a good time to switch, if any.
Moderator
Friday - April 2nd 2021 7:06AM MST
PS: Adam, here's the low-down for you:
I was on the horn with Godaddy for a good while this morning. These new SSLs are on the other side of a security firewall that Godaddy has. I cannot see them in any way, which was part of the confusion. (I'd thought I may have been charged for just some other security stuff and not the 2-year cert. Luckily, I was wrong on that, and I'm good for 2 years.) So, I cannot tell what's going on with them, and since I don't have access to a "real computer" right now, I cannot use the browsers to see the SSL via the padlock.
If you look at the padlock in Mozilla or Chrome, per the guy, you should see that it refers to a Godaddy cert. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know on that, but the guy swore on it.
Next, the mail.peakstupidity.com thing was a mystery to the hosting expert. He thought it was weird as can be that it went to the regular site at all, rather than to a mail page of some sort. I agree, but then I don't know much. I do need to take it in particular OFF now, because it has one of those zerossl certs. that will expire in 2 or 3 days, and then it will be an insecure part of the site. (Does that really matter, as some of you have asked? I dunno, but if I've gone this far, I may as well do it all up secure.)
I had put that workaround in yesterday's post to help people at least comment right (and it worked for me for writing too), but I took it back out. I'd said "duh! Put a link", but I took it all out now.
Let me continue in another comment here, Adam.
I was on the horn with Godaddy for a good while this morning. These new SSLs are on the other side of a security firewall that Godaddy has. I cannot see them in any way, which was part of the confusion. (I'd thought I may have been charged for just some other security stuff and not the 2-year cert. Luckily, I was wrong on that, and I'm good for 2 years.) So, I cannot tell what's going on with them, and since I don't have access to a "real computer" right now, I cannot use the browsers to see the SSL via the padlock.
If you look at the padlock in Mozilla or Chrome, per the guy, you should see that it refers to a Godaddy cert. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know on that, but the guy swore on it.
Next, the mail.peakstupidity.com thing was a mystery to the hosting expert. He thought it was weird as can be that it went to the regular site at all, rather than to a mail page of some sort. I agree, but then I don't know much. I do need to take it in particular OFF now, because it has one of those zerossl certs. that will expire in 2 or 3 days, and then it will be an insecure part of the site. (Does that really matter, as some of you have asked? I dunno, but if I've gone this far, I may as well do it all up secure.)
I had put that workaround in yesterday's post to help people at least comment right (and it worked for me for writing too), but I took it back out. I'd said "duh! Put a link", but I took it all out now.
Let me continue in another comment here, Adam.
โฎ
Thursday - April 1st 2021 10:23PM MST
PS โฎ
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Thursday - April 1st 2021 10:08PM MST
PS โฎ
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 10:06PM MST
PS: Good evening Achmed...
They goofed something up in your settings when they hooked up your certificate. Have you looked at your .htaccess file?
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They goofed something up in your settings when they hooked up your certificate. Have you looked at your .htaccess file?
โฎ
Moderator
Thursday - April 1st 2021 8:55PM MST
PS: This has GOT to be something with the certificates. I think the guy didn't set it up right. I noticed that with zerossl, the Godaddy pages told me that the cert was good for peakstupidity, but not for www.peakstupidity or vice versa.
I'll have to call the guys in the morning. I have some other weird problem that happens when I log it, also. Thank you for your help in this matter.
I am writing this when on the mail.peakstupidity.com URL. Let me see if this shows up right away.
I'll have to call the guys in the morning. I have some other weird problem that happens when I log it, also. Thank you for your help in this matter.
I am writing this when on the mail.peakstupidity.com URL. Let me see if this shows up right away.
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 8:42PM MST
PS: Remove the www...
Check this out...
https://peakstupidity.com
works differently than
https://www.peakstupidity.com
But it's still not right. There's still some lag time, but the comment count happens faster. As of this comment...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com shows 5 comments on tonights post.
https://peakstupidity.com shows 4 comments on tonights post.
https://www.peakstupidity.com shows 3 comments on tonights post.
I have no idea what this means.
http://mail.peakstupidity.com works in real time.
23:42 EST
21:42 MST
โฎ
Check this out...
https://peakstupidity.com
works differently than
https://www.peakstupidity.com
But it's still not right. There's still some lag time, but the comment count happens faster. As of this comment...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com shows 5 comments on tonights post.
https://peakstupidity.com shows 4 comments on tonights post.
https://www.peakstupidity.com shows 3 comments on tonights post.
I have no idea what this means.
http://mail.peakstupidity.com works in real time.
23:42 EST
21:42 MST
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Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 7:57PM MST
PS: Still Testing...
https://www.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=0
Works like normal too...
22:57 EST
20:57 MST
โฎ
https://www.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=0
Works like normal too...
22:57 EST
20:57 MST
โฎ
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 7:52PM MST
PS: Still Testing...
I left you a Happy April Fools Day on...
https://www.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=420
Worked like normal...
22:52 EST
20:52 MST
โฎ
I left you a Happy April Fools Day on...
https://www.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=420
Worked like normal...
22:52 EST
20:52 MST
โฎ
Moderator
Thursday - April 1st 2021 7:44PM MST
PS: Maybe it's about comment length. Testing here.
Moderator
Thursday - April 1st 2021 7:43PM MST
PS: OK, I'm getting somewhere with this testing now, Adam. It seems I can put this comment all over and have it work normally - I put it in about 10 older posts, and I'll delete these comments later - but I can't put it in the most recent post. What the heck?
I'm going to play with it a little more tonight. I haven't called Godaddy yet, because I was hopeful that this thing was a fluke. Yeah, April Fools, indeed.
I'm going to play with it a little more tonight. I haven't called Godaddy yet, because I was hopeful that this thing was a fluke. Yeah, April Fools, indeed.
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 6:28PM MST
PS: This link shows proper comment counts...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php
The one minute time difference on the last post is on me...
9:28 PM EST
7:28 PM MST
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http://mail.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php
The one minute time difference on the last post is on me...
9:28 PM EST
7:28 PM MST
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Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 6:25PM MST
PS: Interesting...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=2650
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=1869
Shows the comments in real time.
This must have something to do with the ssl certificate.
9:24 PM EST
7:24 PM MST
โฎ
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=2650
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=1869
Shows the comments in real time.
This must have something to do with the ssl certificate.
9:24 PM EST
7:24 PM MST
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Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 6:20PM MST
PS: About that comment count...
Post 1864, โWhere's my stuffโ, showed 24 comments before my last 3 comments showed up.
Now it doesn't seem to be working that way...
Hmmmm...
9:20 PM EST
9:20 PM MST
โฎ
Post 1864, โWhere's my stuffโ, showed 24 comments before my last 3 comments showed up.
Now it doesn't seem to be working that way...
Hmmmm...
9:20 PM EST
9:20 PM MST
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Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 6:08PM MST
PS: Good evening Mr. Moderator...
And Happy April Fools day...
โI noticed that your 2nd one out of 2 (about the Glocks) was not exactly the same.โ
My double and triple posts were not because of blogworks. That was me. The one about the glocks I double posted because I thought I forgot the PS when the first didn't go through. It was close but not the same. The other one, my triple post about the ping pong balls under post 1864 was because I tried it from a couple different browsers to see if it was my browser or something.
I noticed one of Mr. Blanc's comments double posted, which happens sometimes. Looks like you're comment here double posted too...
Interesting about the zerossl vs godaddy ssl certificate stuff. I agree, no need to mess with this every few months, especially if it's a hassle. I wonder if things that went smoothly last time didn't work this time because of something godaddy changed. At least you learned some things about how certificates work. Glad to hear Jason and Aaron hooked you up.
Thanks Jason and Aaron!
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And Happy April Fools day...
โI noticed that your 2nd one out of 2 (about the Glocks) was not exactly the same.โ
My double and triple posts were not because of blogworks. That was me. The one about the glocks I double posted because I thought I forgot the PS when the first didn't go through. It was close but not the same. The other one, my triple post about the ping pong balls under post 1864 was because I tried it from a couple different browsers to see if it was my browser or something.
I noticed one of Mr. Blanc's comments double posted, which happens sometimes. Looks like you're comment here double posted too...
Interesting about the zerossl vs godaddy ssl certificate stuff. I agree, no need to mess with this every few months, especially if it's a hassle. I wonder if things that went smoothly last time didn't work this time because of something godaddy changed. At least you learned some things about how certificates work. Glad to hear Jason and Aaron hooked you up.
Thanks Jason and Aaron!
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Moderator
Thursday - April 1st 2021 4:32PM MST
PS: TESTING too.
Moderator
Thursday - April 1st 2021 4:31PM MST
PS: Adam, I noticed that your 2nd one out of 2 (about the Glocks) was not exactly the same. That double-posting happens when the site hangs up, of course, and one is not sure whether he really clicked submit. I haven't had much slow loading in a while.
Sorry, I haven't checked this page in quite a while. Was in the dBase and saw these. Thanks for your help. If you have more details of this or other problems, please write here.
BTW, I had to end up paying for 2 years SSL just recently. Not too bad in $$ and the Godaddy guys (2 White guys, not the pics you see on their site.) were really great. It was last minute, and apparently the zerossl certificates don't do the security that Godaddy wants. OK, well that's what they told me, anyway. However, it didn't start with that. My procedure from my notes from last time, which went very smoothly) did not work. It's a matter of what my time is worth.
Because things still weren't clear - I think my old browser couldn't support all of Godaddy's tools - the 2nd guy I got after being in a time crunch just went ahead and did the steps for me that would have been about 2 or hundred bucks more for the 2 years, had I opted for their help when making my purchase. I think that guy realized I knew a little bit, and we both knew that that extra $$ was a real rip-off. Thanks Jason and Aaron!
Sorry, I haven't checked this page in quite a while. Was in the dBase and saw these. Thanks for your help. If you have more details of this or other problems, please write here.
BTW, I had to end up paying for 2 years SSL just recently. Not too bad in $$ and the Godaddy guys (2 White guys, not the pics you see on their site.) were really great. It was last minute, and apparently the zerossl certificates don't do the security that Godaddy wants. OK, well that's what they told me, anyway. However, it didn't start with that. My procedure from my notes from last time, which went very smoothly) did not work. It's a matter of what my time is worth.
Because things still weren't clear - I think my old browser couldn't support all of Godaddy's tools - the 2nd guy I got after being in a time crunch just went ahead and did the steps for me that would have been about 2 or hundred bucks more for the 2 years, had I opted for their help when making my purchase. I think that guy realized I knew a little bit, and we both knew that that extra $$ was a real rip-off. Thanks Jason and Aaron!
Moderator
Thursday - April 1st 2021 4:28PM MST
PS: Adam, I noticed that your 2nd one out of 2 (about the Glocks) was not exactly the same. That double-posting happens when the site hangs up, of course, and one is not sure whether he really clicked submit. I haven't had much slow loading in a while.
Sorry, I haven't checked this page in quite a while. Was in the dBase and saw these. Thanks for your help. If you have more details of this or other problems, please write here.
BTW, I had to end up paying for 2 years SSL just recently. Not too bad in $$ and the Godaddy guys (2 White guys, not the pics you see on their site.) were really great. It was last minute, and apparently the zerossl certificates don't do the security that Godaddy wants. OK, well that's what they told me, anyway. However, it didn't start with that. My procedure from my notes from last time, which went very smoothly) did not work. It's a matter of what my time is worth.
Because things still weren't clear - I think my old browser couldn't support all of Godaddy's tools - the 2nd guy I got after being in a time crunch just went ahead and did the steps for me that would have been about 2 or hundred bucks more for the 2 years, had I opted for their help when making my purchase. I think that guy realized I knew a little bit, and we both knew that that extra $$ was a real rip-off. Thanks Jason and Aaron!
Sorry, I haven't checked this page in quite a while. Was in the dBase and saw these. Thanks for your help. If you have more details of this or other problems, please write here.
BTW, I had to end up paying for 2 years SSL just recently. Not too bad in $$ and the Godaddy guys (2 White guys, not the pics you see on their site.) were really great. It was last minute, and apparently the zerossl certificates don't do the security that Godaddy wants. OK, well that's what they told me, anyway. However, it didn't start with that. My procedure from my notes from last time, which went very smoothly) did not work. It's a matter of what my time is worth.
Because things still weren't clear - I think my old browser couldn't support all of Godaddy's tools - the 2nd guy I got after being in a time crunch just went ahead and did the steps for me that would have been about 2 or hundred bucks more for the 2 years, had I opted for their help when making my purchase. I think that guy realized I knew a little bit, and we both knew that that extra $$ was a real rip-off. Thanks Jason and Aaron!
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 2:43PM MST
PS: Maybe Blogworks is playing an April Fools Joke on me.(?)
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Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 2:37PM MST
PS: yup, here too
Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 2:36PM MST
PS: No problem here...
Problems on post 1864 and 1867
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Problems on post 1864 and 1867
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Adam Smith
Thursday - April 1st 2021 2:34PM MST
PS: Testing, testing, 1, 2, testing...
Seems like I'm having some mild difficulty posting comments.
Don't know why.
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Seems like I'm having some mild difficulty posting comments.
Don't know why.
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Adam Smith
Tuesday - March 30th 2021 11:09AM MST
PS: Just checking...
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Tuesday - March 2nd 2021 10:02AM MST
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https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
https://medium.com/feedium/huge-list-of-unicode-and-emoji-symbols-to-copy-and-paste-df1f408767a6
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https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
https://medium.com/feedium/huge-list-of-unicode-and-emoji-symbols-to-copy-and-paste-df1f408767a6
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Adam Smith
Sunday - February 7th 2021 7:22PM MST
PS: Lol... I forgot blogworks strips out HTML code...
Here are those blank spots, minus the forbidden characters... Let's see if it works...
img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SYkbqzWVHZI/mqdefault.jpg" type="youtube" vid="SYkbqzWVHZI" title="Play Video"
and from the sailer page...
iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4k4pMTsa1Kw?controls=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen
Have a nice evening Achmed.
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Here are those blank spots, minus the forbidden characters... Let's see if it works...
img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SYkbqzWVHZI/mqdefault.jpg" type="youtube" vid="SYkbqzWVHZI" title="Play Video"
and from the sailer page...
iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4k4pMTsa1Kw?controls=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen
Have a nice evening Achmed.
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Adam Smith
Sunday - February 7th 2021 7:17PM MST
PS: Been a while indeed. Welcome back.
Interestingly the code on the commenter filter page...
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Adam+Smith
is completely different.
It strips out the start, end and feature code.
I'd imagine it strips out other player parameters too.(?)
Here's the full iframe tag from the sailer page...
There are other options to toy with...
color=white changes the progress bar from red to white.
autoplay=1 starts the video automatically
controls=0 no controls
fs=0 removes full screen option from control bar
disablekb=1 disables keyboard control
playlist=VIDEO_ID&loop=1 loops the video overrides start and end
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49&color=white&autoplay=1&rel=0
This one will make the video loop and disable the keyboard...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?color=white&autoplay=1&playlist=SYkbqzWVHZI&loop=1&disablekb=1
This one has no control bar and no related videos...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4k4pMTsa1Kw?start=185&end=202&rel=0&autoplay=1&controls=0
Next time I post a video to unz I'll tinker around a bit.
Have a nice evening.
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Interestingly the code on the commenter filter page...
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Adam+Smith
is completely different.
It strips out the start, end and feature code.
I'd imagine it strips out other player parameters too.(?)
Here's the full iframe tag from the sailer page...
There are other options to toy with...
color=white changes the progress bar from red to white.
autoplay=1 starts the video automatically
controls=0 no controls
fs=0 removes full screen option from control bar
disablekb=1 disables keyboard control
playlist=VIDEO_ID&loop=1 loops the video overrides start and end
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49&color=white&autoplay=1&rel=0
This one will make the video loop and disable the keyboard...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?color=white&autoplay=1&playlist=SYkbqzWVHZI&loop=1&disablekb=1
This one has no control bar and no related videos...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4k4pMTsa1Kw?start=185&end=202&rel=0&autoplay=1&controls=0
Next time I post a video to unz I'll tinker around a bit.
Have a nice evening.
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Moderator
Sunday - February 7th 2021 2:07PM MST
PS: I had to figure out the samizdat post number, Adam. Been a while! OK, next video on unz (well, I put songs in just a while back, but I wanted the whole clips of course), I'll try it. I know that I'd done it before and tested 5 times or something with no luck. Mr. Unz may have changed something since. However, I can now try it with the "feature" tag. Thanks.
Adam Smith
Sunday - February 7th 2021 11:18AM MST
PS: This works in my browser...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49&end=51&feature=oembed
Something like it might work in a comment on unz.(?)
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49&end=51&feature=oembed
Something like it might work in a comment on unz.(?)
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Adam Smith
Sunday - February 7th 2021 10:41AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
So, on this page:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/no-comment-7/#comment-4453138
my input was this:
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?t=49
And Ron's software translated it to this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49&feature=oembed
Interesting...
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So, on this page:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/no-comment-7/#comment-4453138
my input was this:
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?t=49
And Ron's software translated it to this:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49&feature=oembed
Interesting...
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Adam Smith
Saturday - February 6th 2021 3:33PM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI&t=49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI&start=49
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?t=49
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI&t=49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI&start=49
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?t=49
https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI?start=49
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - November 25th 2020 2:28AM MST
PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...
The "blue check mark" part of post 1702 reminded me of this comment from the esteemed Mr. Newman...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-to-redistribute-trillions-from-whites-to-blacks-democrats-sneaky-proposals-just-arent-massive-enough/#comment-3208284
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The "blue check mark" part of post 1702 reminded me of this comment from the esteemed Mr. Newman...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyt-to-redistribute-trillions-from-whites-to-blacks-democrats-sneaky-proposals-just-arent-massive-enough/#comment-3208284
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Adam Smith
Sunday - November 1st 2020 10:28AM MST
PS: Thank you Mr. Moderator...
Test: ๐คก ๐
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Test: ๐คก ๐
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Moderator
Saturday - October 31st 2020 4:01PM MST
PS: Hello Mr. Smith, hopefully I can figure it out, but I just dropped the ball on this. I'll play with your new files tomorrow. Thank you.
I also saw your long, very good comment to Mr. G. on the Kung Flu. It is a weird scary world with this cultish stuff going on.
I also saw your long, very good comment to Mr. G. on the Kung Flu. It is a weird scary world with this cultish stuff going on.
Adam Smith
Saturday - October 31st 2020 10:57AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
Here are two more of those samizdat files...
Work the same as Emmett.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/15PzcJyz/insane.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yWqYpBqt/Plaguemask.jpg
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Here are two more of those samizdat files...
Work the same as Emmett.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/15PzcJyz/insane.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yWqYpBqt/Plaguemask.jpg
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Adam Smith
Saturday - October 31st 2020 8:45AM MST
PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...
Did you ever figure out how to open those samizdat files from a few months back?
Under "Pictures from the end of America?"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=1545
(Looks like mediafire removed those files.)
(I can repost them.)
This new one here...
(Under "Hail to You up and at 'em")
https://i.postimg.cc/tTZjKfzj/Emmett.jpg
is also one of those sorts of files.
It's a 3 in one file. It's a .jpg (.jpgs or it didn't happen), it's an encrypted .pdf and it's an encrypted .zip file. Just change the file extension to access the different parts of the file.
โpeakstupidityโ is the password.
Hope you have a great day.
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Did you ever figure out how to open those samizdat files from a few months back?
Under "Pictures from the end of America?"
https://www.peakstupidity.com/blogworks.php?action=viewbpost&id=1545
(Looks like mediafire removed those files.)
(I can repost them.)
This new one here...
(Under "Hail to You up and at 'em")
https://i.postimg.cc/tTZjKfzj/Emmett.jpg
is also one of those sorts of files.
It's a 3 in one file. It's a .jpg (.jpgs or it didn't happen), it's an encrypted .pdf and it's an encrypted .zip file. Just change the file extension to access the different parts of the file.
โpeakstupidityโ is the password.
Hope you have a great day.
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Adam Smith
Sunday - October 18th 2020 7:09AM MST
PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/10/alasdair-macleod/hyperinflation-is-here/
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/10/alasdair-macleod/hyperinflation-is-here/
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Adam Smith
Friday - October 16th 2020 7:45PM MST
PS: Welcome to post 2650 Mr. Moderator...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tqtgQFcHc
"Whaaaah?"...
Lol...
https://positiveperspectives.net/content/images/size/w2000/2019/08/Goolag.jpeg
I hope you have a great evening...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-tqtgQFcHc
"Whaaaah?"...
Lol...
https://positiveperspectives.net/content/images/size/w2000/2019/08/Goolag.jpeg
I hope you have a great evening...
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Moderator
Friday - October 16th 2020 5:33PM MST
PS: OK, we have escaped the Goolag again, Adam. Hey, I didn't even see your last 2 comments till now, so thank you. I'll look at your links soon enough.
However, I wanted to tell you that I'd forgotten the deal about switching these over to post 2650 when I hit Submit on post 1650 a few minutes ago! I saw "12 comments". Whaaaah? It took about 3 seconds to sink in. "Oh, crap." I did a quick SQL statement - proud of myself on this one - and presto, here we are. Wheewww, that was close. I think only about 3 minutes went by, and I likely didn't have a read of the "post page" (after you click on the title or comments link) yet, and I'm sure I didn't have any additional ones but these 12, now 13.
However, I wanted to tell you that I'd forgotten the deal about switching these over to post 2650 when I hit Submit on post 1650 a few minutes ago! I saw "12 comments". Whaaaah? It took about 3 seconds to sink in. "Oh, crap." I did a quick SQL statement - proud of myself on this one - and presto, here we are. Wheewww, that was close. I think only about 3 minutes went by, and I likely didn't have a read of the "post page" (after you click on the title or comments link) yet, and I'm sure I didn't have any additional ones but these 12, now 13.
Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 7:17AM MST
PS: Check this out Mr. Moderator...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/
"Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in China in 2002 and spread to other countries before brought under control. Because of a concern for reemergence or a deliberate release of the SARS coronavirus, vaccine development was initiated. Evaluations of an inactivated whole virus vaccine in ferrets and nonhuman primates and a virus-like-particle vaccine in mice induced protection against infection but challenged animals exhibited an immunopathologic-type lung disease."
Published online 2012 Apr 20
This sentence...
"Because of a concern for reemergence or a deliberate release of the SARS coronavirus, vaccine development was initiated."
Also appears on page 4 of this...
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e7/f9/bb/eb3ec1e7790856/WO2017070626A2.pdf
I looked this up because this comment...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/deadspin/#comment-4221645
Included this link...
https://twitter.com/jonkirbysthlm/status/1304353016074702849
I have not yet found the patent application dated March 28, 2019 mentioned in the video above.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335060/
"Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in China in 2002 and spread to other countries before brought under control. Because of a concern for reemergence or a deliberate release of the SARS coronavirus, vaccine development was initiated. Evaluations of an inactivated whole virus vaccine in ferrets and nonhuman primates and a virus-like-particle vaccine in mice induced protection against infection but challenged animals exhibited an immunopathologic-type lung disease."
Published online 2012 Apr 20
This sentence...
"Because of a concern for reemergence or a deliberate release of the SARS coronavirus, vaccine development was initiated."
Also appears on page 4 of this...
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/e7/f9/bb/eb3ec1e7790856/WO2017070626A2.pdf
I looked this up because this comment...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/deadspin/#comment-4221645
Included this link...
https://twitter.com/jonkirbysthlm/status/1304353016074702849
I have not yet found the patent application dated March 28, 2019 mentioned in the video above.
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:57AM MST
PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...
Well that was easy... Time stamps are different though...
I figured our future comments on page 1650 would be short lived and that you would probably delete them in time for post 1650. They shouldn't be too hard to move if that's what you'd prefer to do, but it's probably just easier to delete them or something...
It would probably take a good long while to find page 2650 if you didn't tell me first, though it would be a sensible guess...
With so many channels to choose from there is plenty of room for hiding in plain sight...
google reports:
No results found for "Posted On: Thursday - January 1st 1970 12:00AM MST".
Results for Posted On: Thursday - January 1st 1970 12:00AM MST (without quotes): About 33,200,000 results
January 1, 1970 - 12:00am UTC. The Unix Epoch is the starting point created as a universal reference.
Watch out: setting the time and date on an Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod to January 1, 1970, may brick the thing.
Cheers to a good day!
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Well that was easy... Time stamps are different though...
I figured our future comments on page 1650 would be short lived and that you would probably delete them in time for post 1650. They shouldn't be too hard to move if that's what you'd prefer to do, but it's probably just easier to delete them or something...
It would probably take a good long while to find page 2650 if you didn't tell me first, though it would be a sensible guess...
With so many channels to choose from there is plenty of room for hiding in plain sight...
google reports:
No results found for "Posted On: Thursday - January 1st 1970 12:00AM MST".
Results for Posted On: Thursday - January 1st 1970 12:00AM MST (without quotes): About 33,200,000 results
January 1, 1970 - 12:00am UTC. The Unix Epoch is the starting point created as a universal reference.
Watch out: setting the time and date on an Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod to January 1, 1970, may brick the thing.
Cheers to a good day!
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Moderator
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:53AM MST
PS: By end o' Bidness week, if I post about the normal rate, I'd better move these comments. It should be easy to do, but if the site goes down, well, you know what happened ...
How about I put them under post 2650? If I don't tell you, you'd have a hell of a time, right?
How about I put them under post 2650? If I don't tell you, you'd have a hell of a time, right?
Moderator
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:53AM MST
PS: Put me down for some of that art. [/George Castanza] That was interesting. I'm glad you made a few bucks off of it. I may have added one more caption "Funny, you guys don't LOOK Chinese."
Moderator
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:52AM MST
PS: I guess those solutions are for Bill, as I usually have not problem. I mean, I knew it was a link and grabbed it OK. Unless you write in German, we probably won't get to any words that long. ;-}
Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:52AM MST
PS: Good evening once again Mr. Moderator...
So... I found that Columbus painting....
Robert Roberg is the name of the artist...
And evidently I bought this thing on March 28th, 2009...
In Buford Georgia...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6255908_863-robert-roberg-christopher-columbus
The photo does not do it justice...
Not that it was a great piece of fine art...
Or anything remotely of the sort...
Did I mention it was a little odd?
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/robert-roberg-7408
Perhaps I was mistaken about his passing...(?)
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So... I found that Columbus painting....
Robert Roberg is the name of the artist...
And evidently I bought this thing on March 28th, 2009...
In Buford Georgia...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6255908_863-robert-roberg-christopher-columbus
The photo does not do it justice...
Not that it was a great piece of fine art...
Or anything remotely of the sort...
Did I mention it was a little odd?
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/robert-roberg-7408
Perhaps I was mistaken about his passing...(?)
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:52AM MST
PS: Good evening Mr. Moderator...
"BTW, there is that display problem that Bill H had/has, at least in my browser, as the link is long. However if I do the apple copy function I still get it all, even the part I can't read."
Have you tried to resize your page...
Control + = Bigger
Control - = Smaller
What if you clear your history?
Not saying this is the problem...
But let's try the easy stuff first...
I hope you have a wonderful evening Mr. Moderator...
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"BTW, there is that display problem that Bill H had/has, at least in my browser, as the link is long. However if I do the apple copy function I still get it all, even the part I can't read."
Have you tried to resize your page...
Control + = Bigger
Control - = Smaller
What if you clear your history?
Not saying this is the problem...
But let's try the easy stuff first...
I hope you have a wonderful evening Mr. Moderator...
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:51AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
Sorry to hear about your friend.
I love "spirit in the sky", great song.
As far as I can tell, the search engines read your posts but not the comments. There may be ways to control this with a robots.txt file or some other such thing.
Larger numbers like 8675309 are probably great channels for samizdat, especially if the spiders are not reading the comments. No one is going to randomly find a large number like that, especially if they don't know to look. Hidden in plain sight.
The mail link is an "unsecure" version of your website. Clicks right through, no warnings. Most websites don't do that, peakstupidity and saint-dismas do. I'm not saying it is a bad thing, just interesting. Often mail.website.com is reserved for the email server.
I too hope you have a great day.
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Sorry to hear about your friend.
I love "spirit in the sky", great song.
As far as I can tell, the search engines read your posts but not the comments. There may be ways to control this with a robots.txt file or some other such thing.
Larger numbers like 8675309 are probably great channels for samizdat, especially if the spiders are not reading the comments. No one is going to randomly find a large number like that, especially if they don't know to look. Hidden in plain sight.
The mail link is an "unsecure" version of your website. Clicks right through, no warnings. Most websites don't do that, peakstupidity and saint-dismas do. I'm not saying it is a bad thing, just interesting. Often mail.website.com is reserved for the email server.
I too hope you have a great day.
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Moderator
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:51AM MST
PS: Adam, the mail link goes right to the main page. I know I sound like a dumbass, but is that what I should expect? I know there are things (well, programs) called email servers, but they need a special mailto action, right?
Moderator
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:51AM MST
PS: I embedded "Spirit in the Sky" on this site right when my good friend died, about almost 1 year ago. It was one of his favorites, and one of mine too.
I haven't caught up with all of yours yet, buy you are right about the samizdat. Who the hell would look here? That brings me to questions about search engines that I'll ask you later.
Have a good day, Adam!
I haven't caught up with all of yours yet, buy you are right about the samizdat. Who the hell would look here? That brings me to questions about search engines that I'll ask you later.
Have a good day, Adam!
Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:50AM MST
PS: In the year 2525...
I have not heard that song in years...
I didn't remember it until I youtubed it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
It's not so bad... Thanks...
Did you find 5150?
Here's a post that could have been from the past... 1234
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4GRmgUpR8
Spirit in the sky is cool...
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I have not heard that song in years...
I didn't remember it until I youtubed it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
It's not so bad... Thanks...
Did you find 5150?
Here's a post that could have been from the past... 1234
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4GRmgUpR8
Spirit in the sky is cool...
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Moderator
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:50AM MST
PS: I got on other stuff right when I noted your Rush link in post number 2112! Actually, I knew it'd be a link to that as soon as I saw the post number.
My trick was going to be to link you (as in, paste it in) to post 2525 with a link to youtube. Honestly, that song is pretty lame - not the best of the 60s hippie music by any means.
My trick was going to be to link you (as in, paste it in) to post 2525 with a link to youtube. Honestly, that song is pretty lame - not the best of the 60s hippie music by any means.
Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:50AM MST
PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...
Check this out...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/
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Check this out...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - October 14th 2020 4:49AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
Just tinkering...
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Just tinkering...
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Moderator
Tuesday - October 13th 2020 4:48PM MST
PS: By end o' Bidness week, if I post about the normal rate, I'd better move these comments. It should be easy to do, but if the site goes down, well, you know what happened ...
How about I put them under post 2650? If I don't tell you, you'd have a hell of a time, right?
How about I put them under post 2650? If I don't tell you, you'd have a hell of a time, right?
Moderator
Tuesday - October 13th 2020 4:46PM MST
PS: Put me down for some of that art. [/George Castanza] That was interesting. I'm glad you made a few bucks off of it. I may have added one more caption "Funny, you guys don't LOOK Chinese."
Moderator
Tuesday - October 13th 2020 4:44PM MST
PS: I guess those solutions are for Bill, as I usually have not problem. I mean, I knew it was a link and grabbed it OK. Unless you write in German, we probably won't get to any words that long. ;-}
Adam Smith
Monday - October 12th 2020 11:26PM MST
PS: Good evening once again Mr. Moderator...
So... I found that Columbus painting....
Robert Roberg is the name of the artist...
And evidently I bought this thing on March 28th, 2009...
In Buford Georgia...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6255908_863-robert-roberg-christopher-columbus
The photo does not do it justice...
Not that it was a great piece of fine art...
Or anything remotely of the sort...
Did I mention it was a little odd?
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/robert-roberg-7408
Perhaps I was mistaken about his passing...(?)
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So... I found that Columbus painting....
Robert Roberg is the name of the artist...
And evidently I bought this thing on March 28th, 2009...
In Buford Georgia...
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6255908_863-robert-roberg-christopher-columbus
The photo does not do it justice...
Not that it was a great piece of fine art...
Or anything remotely of the sort...
Did I mention it was a little odd?
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/robert-roberg-7408
Perhaps I was mistaken about his passing...(?)
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Adam Smith
Monday - October 12th 2020 10:37PM MST
PS: Good evening Mr. Moderator...
"BTW, there is that display problem that Bill H had/has, at least in my browser, as the link is long. However if I do the apple copy function I still get it all, even the part I can't read."
Have you tried to resize your page...
Control + = Bigger
Control - = Smaller
What if you clear your history?
Not saying this is the problem...
But let's try the easy stuff first...
I hope you have a wonderful evening Mr. Moderator...
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"BTW, there is that display problem that Bill H had/has, at least in my browser, as the link is long. However if I do the apple copy function I still get it all, even the part I can't read."
Have you tried to resize your page...
Control + = Bigger
Control - = Smaller
What if you clear your history?
Not saying this is the problem...
But let's try the easy stuff first...
I hope you have a wonderful evening Mr. Moderator...
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Adam Smith
Saturday - October 10th 2020 11:48AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
Sorry to hear about your friend.
I love "spirit in the sky", great song.
As far as I can tell, the search engines read your posts but not the comments. There may be ways to control this with a robots.txt file or some other such thing.
Larger numbers like 8675309 are probably great channels for samizdat, especially if the spiders are not reading the comments. No one is going to randomly find a large number like that, especially if they don't know to look. Hidden in plain sight.
The mail link is an "unsecure" version of your website. Clicks right through, no warnings. Most websites don't do that, peakstupidity and saint-dismas do. I'm not saying it is a bad thing, just interesting. Often mail.website.com is reserved for the email server.
I too hope you have a great day.
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Sorry to hear about your friend.
I love "spirit in the sky", great song.
As far as I can tell, the search engines read your posts but not the comments. There may be ways to control this with a robots.txt file or some other such thing.
Larger numbers like 8675309 are probably great channels for samizdat, especially if the spiders are not reading the comments. No one is going to randomly find a large number like that, especially if they don't know to look. Hidden in plain sight.
The mail link is an "unsecure" version of your website. Clicks right through, no warnings. Most websites don't do that, peakstupidity and saint-dismas do. I'm not saying it is a bad thing, just interesting. Often mail.website.com is reserved for the email server.
I too hope you have a great day.
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Moderator
Saturday - October 10th 2020 11:01AM MST
PS: Adam, the mail link goes right to the main page. I know I sound like a dumbass, but is that what I should expect?
I know there are things (well, programs) called email servers, but they need a special mailto action, right?
Moderator
Saturday - October 10th 2020 11:00AM MST
PS: I embedded "Spirit in the Sky" on this site right when my good friend died, about almost 1 year ago. It was one of his favorites, and one of mine too.
I haven't caught up with all of yours yet, buy you are right about the samizdat. Who the hell would look here? That brings me to questions about search engines that I'll ask you later.
Have a good day, Adam!
I haven't caught up with all of yours yet, buy you are right about the samizdat. Who the hell would look here? That brings me to questions about search engines that I'll ask you later.
Have a good day, Adam!
Adam Smith
Saturday - October 10th 2020 9:09AM MST
PS: In the year 2525...
I have not heard that song in years...
I didn't remember it until I youtubed it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
It's not so bad... Thanks...
Did you find 5150?
Here's a post that could have been from the past... 1234
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4GRmgUpR8
Spirit in the sky is cool...
โฎ
I have not heard that song in years...
I didn't remember it until I youtubed it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
It's not so bad... Thanks...
Did you find 5150?
Here's a post that could have been from the past... 1234
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB4GRmgUpR8
Spirit in the sky is cool...
โฎ
Moderator
Saturday - October 10th 2020 8:45AM MST
PS: I got on other stuff right when I noted your Rush link in post number 2112! Actually, I knew it'd be a link to that as soon as I saw the post number.
My trick was going to be to link you (as in, paste it in) to post 2525 with a link to youtube. Honestly, that song is pretty lame - not the best of the 60s hippie music by any means.
My trick was going to be to link you (as in, paste it in) to post 2525 with a link to youtube. Honestly, that song is pretty lame - not the best of the 60s hippie music by any means.
Adam Smith
Saturday - October 10th 2020 8:43AM MST
PS: Good morning Mr. Moderator...
Check this out...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/
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Check this out...
http://mail.peakstupidity.com/
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Adam Smith
Thursday - October 8th 2020 9:52AM MST
PS: Good afternoon Mr. Moderator...
Just tinkering...
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Just tinkering...
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Where was I?
...
About the latest Chinese honeypot, ZeroHedge commenter Quadriad make sa good point:
"They're an ancient culture and civilization and wise enough never to use chubby blue haired unshaved mingers as honeypots"