Archive for May, 2010
The AZ immigration law
by trixter on May.16, 2010, under Uncategorized
I have heard a lot of people talk about the immigration law that Arizona recently passed. Most people seem to want to just have their opinion that it is good or band and divide the country with the argument over it. To a point I am doing that here, however I am countering the largest argument against it. Not because I believe in the law, nor am I saying I disbelieve in it. I am making this argument merely because of how I view the argument itself.
I think that this leaves little room for people to attack the law, which means that it is likely to force the argument to be an attack against individuals (“you’re racist”) and not anything about the subject matter itself. I consider it a win when someone does that, ad hominem attacks are for idiots and those who cannot otherwise attack the logic of an argument. I also have not yet heard anyone make this argument in support of the AZ immigration law.
I also think that people who assume that all illegal immigrants are of a particular ethnicity, or do not belong to a particular ethnicity are themselves racist. This is not about lawful immigration, it is about unlawful – as in illegal – immigration/migration. Not all people who enter the country illegally are immigrating, some are just here temporarily. (continue reading…)
SSL is now available
by trixter on May.05, 2010, under site specific
In a form of protest I have enabled SSL for this site. While I do not expect anything particularly secret to happen here, and everything available encrypted is also available cleartext. I am just trying to encrypt everything that I do online. This is more of a political statement. The government appears to be increasing its reach and scope into the internet and I wanted to generate as many packets they cant monitor, even if they are not trying to monitor me specifically.
The way the math works, if everyone on the planet used 40 bit encryption the government could not monitor everyone all the time. Anyone they opted to monitor they could decrypt with near instant results, but they would not be able to do that to everyone all the time. I am trying to use much more than 40 bit.
