Sipsey Street Irregulars: Note to "bhpete" and other folks sending me emails.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Note to "bhpete" and other folks sending me emails.

I often get emails that seem to be innocuous but that set off my virus warning. The reason could be innocent, or not. I have no way of knowing. In any case, please understand that I don't open such emails. So if you want to send me something, please eliminate imbedded images and fancy stuff beforehand.

If you have a straight up request, there is no need to adorn it. Likewise, although I often get e-cards and such, I NEVER open them. Caught a virus that way once. So, never again.

Insofar as request for reprint and forwarding, you have my permission as long as:

a. it is not posted on a racist or antisemitic site.

b. it is reprinted in its entirety, including the original date published.

c. it is fully credited with my name, email and blog address.

d. it is not used for fund-raising unless you have my separate, written permission.

Thanks,

Mike
III

6 comments:

TexasFred said...: I have the same personal policy, I won't open ANYTHING with attachments and if links make it appear viral, it's out of here...

That policy has pissed off a few folks, but it has saved my computer, and those folks aren't gonna buy me a NEW machine either I am betting!!; June 19, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you for giving us permission to reprint your works. I always find them inspiring, and would always cite your work when I am writing essays of my own.

You have completely changed and influenced the way I write too :D; June 19, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Kristopher said...: People should learn to stop sending emails with crap embedded in them.

Set your email program to plain text only.

If you need to send a file, upload the file to some webspace server, and just put a text link to the file in the email.

Email that tries to execute code on the recipient's PC is just plain rude.; June 19, 2009 at 1:19 PM
rexxhead said...: Well, if all y'all would abandon Outlook and it's devil-spawn siblings and switch to something like Eudora you wouldn't have to worry. Eudora steps in front of anything trying to execute from the Inbox and blocks it.

BTW, TexasFred, I like your avatar.; June 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM
SavageJay said...: Hey Mike, thanks for the prep...
I always wanted to email and ask a question but figured you got way too much email.

The question I've always wanted to ask you is WHERE IN THE HELL DO I GET A III FLAG LIKE THE ONE ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE INDEX????????????

Thanks!; June 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM
tom said...: Run UNIX or LINUX and it's a non-issue because any malware, can at best only run at the user level, not the system admin level, and so nobody much bothers to write malware trying to attack *NIX boxes anyway and the ones they write are failures unless you surf the web and read email using the sysadmin account, which is a bit braindead. Been playing with and paid for working with computers for decades, about as long as I've been interested in firearms, and the only malware/virus issues I've ever had to fix were on Windows and old Mac OS boxes.

The learning curve isn't as steep as it used to be either. My dad started running Linux on his work laptop at age 65 and loves it. Only weakness is video games but neither of us play them so that issue is irrelevant to us.; June 19, 2009 at 8:37 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Note to "bhpete" and other folks sending me emails.

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