X-Cop Fly Company

I recently discussed AdBlock Plus whoring itself out by trying to raise money through allowing “non-intrusive” ads, and instructions on how to fully cleanse the addon of its whitelist. Even though I make use of Amazon ads on my site, I have no ethical problem with usage of Adblock Plus, nor can I understand “ethics” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I most likely didn’t post this here before, as it doesn’t turn up in a search. But I discovered this goofy act of plagiarism a long time ago: Rick Springfield, 1981: Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” The Coca-Cola Company, 1993: Always Coca Cola

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 [...]