X-Cop Fly Company

Unrelated Videos: Why YouTube VEVO Channels Deliberately Flunk Marketing 101

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

If you listen to music on YouTube, no doubt you’ve heard of the “VEVO” channels used by the major record labels. However, if you listen to non-dance, non-soft-rock, or older music, you probably wonder why VEVO channels’ “Related Videos” are anything but related. You may put on some Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but be [...]

Why I Did Not Discuss My Participation in the SOPA/PIPA Blackout

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Many of you who came to the X-Cop Fly Company blog (or to Rogue Central @ coredumpcentral.org) yesterday were redirected to the SOPA Strike page. (The blackout on the X-Cop Fly Company blog started a few hours late for EST people such as myself, since the plugin I used here had a bug, and I [...]

“What the State Fears Most” – Great Mises Institute article on Wikileaks

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Quotes from “What the State Fears Most: Information” by Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan: Presently, our ability to attain knowledge is threatened because said knowledge represents a threat to the state — not to “national security,” as is claimed, but to the legitimacy of the state itself. Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society [...]

Funny dream the other night

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

I decided to auction a Taco Bell meal on eBay. People were bidding for this Taco Bell meal, and when they won, I shipped them just that – an actual taco. Soon the FDA came in, seized my stuff and fined me heavily. Then the talking heads got involved and turned it into a debate [...]

Ahmadinejad and others claim that “capitalism” is dying

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

This Reuters article features different terrorist and communist leaders commenting on capitalism to the UN. However, their comments are not about capitalism at all. Iran’s terrorist president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states the following about capitalism: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a U.N. General Assembly session on poverty this week that capitalism is on the verge of [...]

Is The Mosque Catholic?

Friday, August 20th, 2010

I had posted my blog post I made on Aug 18, which included a video and petition opposing construction of a mosque near the WTC, to several mailing lists and newsgroups I am on. It seems that more people agreed with construction than I thought. Most criticism comes from a Catholic Yahoo group, where many [...]

Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

From McClatchy.com: Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them. Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors’ offices, human resources departments and business groups. “They’re saying, ‘Where do we get the free [...]

7 Sites To Make Up For Wikipedia’s Shrinking Article Count

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Wikipedia’s mission of becoming an Internet-based user-edited encyclopedia is looking pretty grim, as its article count is shrinking by the bulk. They give you the deletion page to look at, where you can see that the decisions are made by a democratic process run by obvious teenagers. If you thought Wikipedia was inaccurate before, it’s [...]

Get Off The “#1 Most Deranged” Blog, Ya Big Dope!

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

LewRockwell.com, a popular anarcho-capitalist/paleolibertarian blog run by successors of Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard (and one of my favorite blogs) is the #1 Most Deranged Blog according to talk radio personality Mark Levin. LewRockwell.com is currently blocked out on military bases, likely due to years of criticism of the US military (and the US everything [...]

1961 Reagan AMA Promo Record against Socialist National Health Care (Quotes & Video)

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Some notable quotes from the record (transcribed by myself, couldn’t find the whole transcript): “If we can only break through and could get our foot inside the door, then we can expand the program after that.” (1961 Congressman in favor of socialist national health care) “Today [1961] the relationship between patient and doctor in this [...]