Podcast for 7 November 2016

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://media.blubrry.com/bogosity/p/podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2016-11-07.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Hosts: Jakob Morris and Daniel Wilcox

1:09 - Election Special:

• Election Betting Odds by Maxim Lott and John Stossel https://electionbettingodds.com/
• PredictIt | Election 2016 https://www.predictit.org/Home/Election2016
• BlameThe1st: http://blamethe1st.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-voted-for-gary-johnson.html
• Jonathan Loesche: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2016-sep-the-case-for-gary-johnson
• Doug Casey's Top Five Reasons Not to Vote http://www.internationalman.com/articles/doug-caseys-top-five-reasons-not-to-vote
• Triangulation 271: Election Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_to6XbkdJI

34:53 - News of the Bogus:

• You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now https://www.wired.com/2016/10/hacking-car-pacemaker-toaster-just-became-legal/
  • Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/30/green_asks_protection_from_dmca_lawsuits/

39:58 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: The MPAA and RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-and-riaas-anti-piracy-plans-harm-the-internet-161027/

• uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

44:55 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Egyptian President Abd el-Fattah al-Sisi (nominated by Ibrahim Zallum) http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/10/29/sisi-criticized-saying-fridge-nothing-water-ten-years/

• After Saudi Minister, Bahraini Official Mocks #Al-Sisi's Fridge http://bhmirror.myftp.biz/en/news/34464.html
• #Al-Sisi_Fridge Rating No. 1 on Twitter Trend Chart https://www.middleeastobserver.org/archives/25759

This Week's Quote: "We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate." —Kin Hubbard

[Travis Retriever]

As I've said in about half a dozen other places:

I have nothing against those who vote libertarian, but fuck it, I need a game plan, as I've had too much ego depletion (as explained by Menno in this article: https://www.paleofx.com/why-diets-fail-and-eat-less-move-more-bad-advice/ skip to the section called "decision fatigue") from brooding about elections and politics. So to conserve my cognitive resources, I need a game plan. Especially given how all over the bloody place Libertarian candidates tend to be:
Wayne Allyn Root, Austin Petersen, and Bob Barr
vs
Ron Paul, Mary J Ruwart and Harry Browne, anybody?

From here on in, here is how I'll be voting in ALL elections:

Presidential elections: Blank ballot.
Non-presidential elections: Don't (George Carlin...how I miss thee)

I've done this since 2012, and it looks like I will continue it indefinitely.

[Mister Neil]

When you make a silly pun on the podcast and have a graphic artist listening, stuff like this happens.

[Dallas Wildman]

When you make a silly pun on the podcast and have a graphic artist listening, stuff like this happens.

Haha that's funny


Anyway I see you're new here dude:
Please introduce yourself in this thread that I have linked!

[Travis Retriever]

When you make a silly pun on the podcast and have a graphic artist listening, stuff like this happens.

Cheers for making my night.   And welcome to the forum.

[MrBogosity]

When you make a silly pun on the podcast and have a graphic artist listening, stuff like this happens.

Shared! Plus, welcome to the forum!

[evensgrey]

Here in Canada, we do elections with paper ballots, but as I've reminded everyone in previous years, here we normally elect, at most, no more than three offices at once.  Federal and Provincial or Territorial elections have only the single election for the local riding you happen to live in, and local elections have your local councilor/reeve/whatever-you-call-it-in-your-area, mayor, and school board member.

Ah, anarchy.  (From the Ancient Greek anarchia, literally Without Leaders, from a year when Athens failed to elect anyone to govern, and things were famously peaceful since there was nobody who could start a war.)  A word often misused, such as the period of English history known as "The Anarchy (1135-1154)," which was the exact opposite:  It was a civil war caused by conflicting claims on the English crown, so it actually had to MANY leaders, not an absence of leaders.  (The term was selected by Victorian historians due to the widespread breakdown of government power caused by the prolonged period of civil war, and it is notoriously hard to change an accepted name for a historical period.)

Addendum:  What sort of "Interesting" do you think a Donald Trump presidency would be, Shane?  There's the sort of "interesting" Kennedy meant in his made up Chinese curse, and then there's good kinds.  (At least any war he starts is less likely to be with the country on the opposite side of the one I live in from the US, so that's preferable for me.)

[Ibrahim90]

Here in Canada, we do elections with paper ballots, but as I've reminded everyone in previous years, here we normally elect, at most, no more than three offices at once.  Federal and Provincial or Territorial elections have only the single election for the local riding you happen to live in, and local elections have your local councilor/reeve/whatever-you-call-it-in-your-area, mayor, and school board member.

Ah, anarchy.  (From the Ancient Greek anarchia, literally Without Leaders, from a year when Athens failed to elect anyone to govern, and things were famously peaceful since there was nobody who could start a war.)  A word often misused, such as the period of English history known as "The Anarchy (1135-1154)," which was the exact opposite:  It was a civil war caused by conflicting claims on the English crown, so it actually had to MANY leaders, not an absence of leaders.  (The term was selected by Victorian historians due to the widespread breakdown of government power caused by the prolonged period of civil war, and it is notoriously hard to change an accepted name for a historical period.)

Addendum:  What sort of "Interesting" do you think a Donald Trump presidency would be, Shane?  There's the sort of "interesting" Kennedy meant in his made up Chinese curse, and then there's good kinds.  (At least any war he starts is less likely to be with the country on the opposite side of the one I live in from the US, so that's preferable for me.)

I'm thinking interesting the way this guy is



EDIT: Dang it! I could have voted Fu Manchu as Governor!