Hey look at that.  It's been a few years since my last update.

A lot has happened.  And yet also--so little.

I hereby decree that when I am making observance of the Discordian tradition of violating Discordian tradition by eating a hot dog bun on a Friday that I may use a piece of bread in lieu of a hot dog bun because it's easier for me to keep those in stock as they're multi-use.

P.S. If your mouse or touchpad buttons get swapped in Windows, this might be cure you've been looking for:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/how_to_fix_windows_mouse_buttons_reversed.html

I Am LEAVING Facebook

Ish.

I am not currently planning to delete my account, and I'm still on Facebook Messenger.

So really what I'm saying is: I'm going /dormant/ on the >timeline< side of Facebook indefinitely.

Do not expect more posts or comments from me. Do not expect me to respond to mentions.

The reasons for me to do this are easy to guess. But so that you don't have to guess, I will state them explicitly:

1. Facebook not only encourages conflict (as does most social media), it encourages it *specifically* between friends and relatives. This is a terrible thing.

2a. Facebook is run by M. Zuckerberg. Once, long ago I thought he was probably just a bit rude. Then I thought he was an opportunist. Now I think he might style himself as a Roman emperor.  ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/12/what-attracts-mark-zuckerberg-roman-hardman-augustus ) ( https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-haircut-explained-augustus-caesar-2019-10 )

2b. But even if that's not the case, Facebook's platform has repeatedly been cited for allowing and furthering the spread of misinformation. So much so that on the rare occasion that they /do/ move to block some piece of misinfo, they are decried for it by people who have lost the ability to tell the difference between a valid point of view and a conspiracy theory.
2c. Facebook, through Zuckerberg. Does. Not. Care about the harm they do.

The only time they act is when they perceive that the negative public backlash will be significant and long lasting. Then, and only then, do they act.

So in other words, the only check-and-balance on Facebook is the opinion of the zeitgeist of the American people-- and that's actually not a very good form of oversight for a company with global reach.

Americans Do Not Care about wars and bloodshed overseas, and so neither does Facebook.

I can't stop that, but I'd like to be at least slightly less responsible for contributing to it.

If I knew of any one chat app that is not so invasive, and that all my friends were already on, I would delete Facebook completely.


( https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employee-leaks-show-they-feel-betrayed )
Podcast -> ( https://podbay.fm/p/behind-the-bastards/e/1600768800 )
Podcast -> ( https://podbay.fm/p/behind-the-bastards/e/1600941600 )
( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html )

[ Note - I may or may not edit this later for looks or minor content changes.  But I want to put this up before midnight local time. ]

[The following is just a copy of a Microsoft page as accessed on 11-5-2019 -- it's useful to have a copy around, I think. ]

Common HRESULT Values

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The following HRESULT values are the most common. More values are contained in the header file Winerror.h.

Here are the values listed alphabetically by name.

Name	Description	Value
S_OK	Operation successful	0x00000000
E_ABORT	Operation aborted	0x80004004
E_ACCESSDENIED	General access denied error	0x80070005
E_FAIL	Unspecified failure	0x80004005
E_HANDLE	Handle that is not valid	0x80070006
E_INVALIDARG	One or more arguments are not valid	0x80070057
E_NOINTERFACE	No such interface supported	0x80004002
E_NOTIMPL	Not implemented	0x80004001
E_OUTOFMEMORY	Failed to allocate necessary memory	0x8007000E
E_POINTER	Pointer that is not valid	0x80004003
E_UNEXPECTED	Unexpected failure	0x8000FFFF

Here are the values listed in numeric order by value.

Value	Name	Description
0x00000000	S_OK	Operation successful
0x80004001	E_NOTIMPL	Not implemented
0x80004002	E_NOINTERFACE	No such interface supported
0x80004003	E_POINTER	Pointer that is not valid
0x80004004	E_ABORT	Operation aborted
0x80004005	E_FAIL	Unspecified failure
0x8000FFFF	E_UNEXPECTED	Unexpected failure
0x80070005	E_ACCESSDENIED	General access denied error
0x80070006	E_HANDLE	Handle that is not valid
0x8007000E	E_OUTOFMEMORY	Failed to allocate necessary memory
0x80070057	E_INVALIDARG	One or more arguments are not valid

11-5-2019 -- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccrypto/common-hresult-values

Meta-memes Must Transcend.
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Furry cows moo and decompress.

Under Whose Eye?

[I don't want to bother with formatting this much right now.  I might fix it later. Also the links worked at the time of writing, but they might break later as the statewide bill might not have become law yet. -- IC 6/22/2017]


There was an anti-discrimination ordinance in St. Louis-- passed Feb 2017-- that deemed it discriminatory:
` ` For an employer to fail or refuse to hire, to discharge or otherwise to discriminate against any individuals with respect to compensation or the terms, conditions or privileges of employment, because of their reproductive health decisions or pregnancy status (including childbirth or a related medical condition).  However, nothing in this ordinance shall require a religious institution, corporation, association, or society to provide reproductive health benefits of any kind ' ' -- bottom of page 3 and top of page 4

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/internal-apps/legislative/upload/Ordinances/BOAPdf/BB203CS-wd15.pdf

The new statewide MO bill, that I'm not entirely clear if it's law or not yet, seeks to overrule that ordinance as an extra added bonus.  The state wide MO bill's main focus is to make it extra difficult for women to get abortions.

It took me about an hour to find the section in the statewide bill.  The key phrase is "a political subdivision of this state":

` ` 5. A political subdivision of this state is preempted from enacting, adopting, maintaining, or enforcing any order, ordinance, rule, regulation, policy, or other similar measure requiring a real estate broker, real estate salesperson, real estate broker-salesperson, appraisal firm, appraiser, as such terms are defined in chapter 339, a property owner, or any other person to buy, sell, exchange, purchase, rent, lease, advertise for, or otherwise conduct real estate transactions for, to, or with an abortion facility or for, to or with a person for the purpose of performing or inducing an abortion not necessary to save the life of the mother, if such requirement is contrary to the religious beliefs or moral convictions of such real estate broker, real estate salesperson, real estate broker-salesperson, appraisal firm, appraiser, property owner, or other person. ' '
-- pg 8 and 9 http://www.senate.mo.gov/17info/pdf-bill/S2/perf/SB5.pdf

On Windows 10, get LibreOffice to show up in search box

(another pastebin type entry)

This is to get "LibreOffice" to appear in the search results for "Office" on Windows 10:
1. (After LibreOffice is installed (watch out for the spam)) Go to 

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

2. Find the LibreOffice... folder (maybe rename it so it doesn't have the version number on it)

3. In the folder, rename all the files from "LibreOffice*" to "OfficeLibre*"  You can actually use the console command "ren" for that if you use an admin console.

Rebuild search indexes
4. Open Control Panel, search for "indexing"
5. "Change how Windows searches..."
6. Click "Start Menu", Advanced... Rebuild.
7. Wait a minute, then test.

In future versions of windows, it's likely the tool for rebuilding search indexes will be moved.

Also, next time it would be nice to experiment with creating symlinks with all those alternate names--or maybe just copying them.