Michael Bates: July 2018 Archives
Why is hybrid sleep off by default on laptops? (and how do I turn it on?) - The Old New Thing
Informative article on the new-ish hybrid sleep option in Windows 10 for suspending work on your computer, and why traditional sleep might be a better choice for your laptop. Good explanation of the powercfg command -- what it can tell you about your system and the fine control it can give you over your power options. For example "powercfg -a" tells you which sleep states are available, and which are not, and, most helpfully, which component is preventing that sleep state's availability. That command revealed to me that I needed a graphics driver update in order to regain traditional sleep -- stopping the hard drive and using just enough power to keep RAM alive, allowing a quick resumption on demand.
WatchJerusalem.co.il - Touring the Bible at the British Museum
"I recently visited the museum with a youth camp group. Before our expedition to London, we spent some time learning about the key artifacts of biblical significance displayed in the museum. While there are many, we short-listed some of the very best. Be it mentioning specific biblical names and/or events, these impressive artifacts are a testament to the veracity of the Bible. Below is a short description of each artifact with biblical relevance that is housed at the British Museum, ordered according to their parallel chronology in the Bible story. The campers took a similar printout of this list with them around the museum--hopefully this article is helpful, especially to any of our readers who may visit the British Museum in the future. And even for those who may not have the chance to visit, this article will at least help animate the life and times of the Bible, illustrating its pages and directly proving its veracity."
How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10
Microsoft briefly had a usable, reliable operating system called Windows 7. Then they decided to use their market dominance to turn our PCs into data collection devices for their benefit. For those of us who want Microsoft to simply sell us an OS then leave us alone, who have operating environments where apps that "phone home" are not an option, here's one step you may want to take.
windows - How to take ownership of files from the command line? - Server Fault
What to do when, for example, you have your old Windows profile on a hard drive you've taken out of an old computer, but the owner's SID is different from the SID on your new computer.
[FIX] An App Default Was Reset In Windows 10
When annoying Windows 10 annoyingly tries to reset defaults for video, photos, audio, and other files to Microsoft's annoying applications, here's how to stop it.
https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/07/how-the-left-captured-the-supreme-court/
Roger Kimball writes:
"The distance between saying that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and saying that an interpretation foisted by the Court onto the Constitution is the supreme law is the distance between a government of checks and balances in which the people are sovereign, and a government in which the judiciary is sovereign.
"Shortly before his untimely death, Antonin Scalia pointed out the scandalous reality that the United States was in fact, if not in theory, governed by nine unelected be-robed officials who served for life, all of whom, as the Court is presently populated) went to Harvard, Yale, or Columbia. This situation is exactly what Jefferson meant by 'the despotism of an oligarchy.'"
He quotes "Brutus," an anonymous anti-federalist during the debates over the Constitution:
"There is no power above them, to control any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controlled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself."
Chrome Has an Option to Export Passwords, Here's How to Enable It
For when you want to move passwords between computers without putting them in the cloud.
Two Nations, Revisited | National Affairs
Mary Eberstadt looks at poverty, #MeToo scandals, societal atomization, and identity politics as effects of the Sexual Revolution:
'The research was overwhelming, all of it proving the point that a stable family has come to trump material assets as the main currency of these two new nations. So much of this social-science evidence now exists, Wilson joked, that "even some sociologists believe it."
'The comment was made in jest, but it presaged our current puzzling situation. Twenty years ago, evidence from all over the social sciences already indicated that the sexual revolution was leaving a legacy of destruction. Two decades, and many more books and scholars and research studies later, a whole new wing has been added to that same library Wilson drew from, all demonstrating the same point he emphasized throughout his speech: The new wealth in America is familial wealth, and the new poverty, familial poverty....
'Only in a world where sex is allegedly free of consequences would any man dare to proposition women on the spot, over and over, as appears to have been the case among the repeat offenders accused in the harassment revelations of the past two years. Put differently: No Pill, no sexual-harassment scandals on the scale seen today.... The shrinkage of the family brought on by contraception has deprived many men of sisters and daughters. It has deprived many women of brothers and sons.... At a numerical minimum, it's a world in which the sexes know less about one another than they used to -- in which many women no longer know any men as protectors, but only as predators. It's a world in which many men who lack sisters, cousins, and the rest know women mainly through the lies absorbed in watching pornography.
'It also doesn't take a Ph.D. to grasp that the fractured family is a major engine of the increased welfare state. Why? Because overall, the state is the financial backer that makes single motherhood -- and absent fatherhood -- possible. In effect, the state has become the angel investor of family dysfunction. The fracturing of the family has rendered the modern state a flush but controlling super-daddy. The state moves in to pick up the pieces of the shattered family -- but, by bankrolling it, the custodial government ensures more of the same....
'Sexual identity, racial identity, ethnic identity, and the rest of the now-familiar pack have become the driving force of progressive politics -- so much so that imagining today's progressivism without these group identities is an exercise in futility. Identity politics is behind many of the most incendiary clashes of our time.... How did this way of doing "politics," which was only in its infancy 20 years ago, ever ascend to today's heights? To study the timeline is to see that identity politics in America has grown exactly in tandem with the spread of the sexual revolution -- and for good, if pitiful, reason. Western human beings today, like human beings everywhere, are desperate to know who they are, to whom they belong, where they have a place in the world. But today, the old ways of knowing all these desiderata -- that is, by reference to the family and extended family -- no longer exist for many people, and are growing weaker for many more....
'From the United States to Western Europe and beyond, many in the world's most advanced societies are feeling angry, ignored, and disenfranchised. And today, even more than in 1997, it seems an incontestable truth that politics alone won't heal their wounds. Most visibly in the United States, millions are looking to government and to their political-cultural tribes to replace what they have lost -- connections to family and transcendent communities....
'Though some of the riptides of 2018 are obviously political -- like arguments over immigration, tax reform, and the Supreme Court -- others, like those already discussed, spring from a more primordial place. Politics per se cannot account for the passion now attached to identitarianism, nor to the despair incarnate in today's rates of substance addiction, nor to the related fact that psychiatrists and psychologists have been reporting for many years that mental-health trouble is on the rise, especially among women and the young. Politics did not create these problems. The sexual revolution did. That's why politics alone will not solve them, either....'
1170 KFAQ Pat Campbell podcast RSS feed
The above link is for your feedreader or podcast player of choice, rather than your browser. It has all of Pat Campbell's podcasts of commentary and newsmaker interviews on 1170 KFAQ going back to April 2015. If you're looking for a podcast earlier than the last month or two, you'll find it easier by searching this feed than by paging back through the podcast page.
