Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
…These people aren’t getting any smarter….
Not anonymous on comments & posts? Say it isn’t so.
I need to start being prudent then, or perhaps just take the middle-of-the-road approach in my comments.
I had a few thoughts on Roman Pedophilanski myself, not one of them even kind of anonymous.
Ron: Pshaw! If Lex don’t like ‘em, he can always delete ‘em. Shoot, next thing you know he’ll be practicing the methods of our betters at the NYT. Get caught? Just practice revisionist history in your online article…. and hope you get it in before the wayback machine or some enterprising blogger does a screen capture.
And that “clubbing baby seals” title? The fogged brain cells had to read the article a second time before they absorbed the meaning. You’d think that all those really elite individuals on the left coast (oops, sorry there Lex) would think about proxy servers and disposable email addresses and such…… shoot, I think I just gave it away……
Well, I for one, do not appreciate Lex giving away the secret about no anonymity on the net. I just hope that many of my customers’ employees don’t read his blog as we have had several incidents of customer employee wrong-doing whilst on company time. yet they all thought they were invisible. We made good money on tracking them down. Miss kitty kat needs a lesson in webology.
Just kidding about Lex and the secret – jessoyano.
It really is funny how many people do not understand just how transparent the Web is.
Takes a GREAT deal of effort, by someone who knows what they are doing, to be anonymous on the Web.
Yup. Finding out who a troll is, is quite simple these days. Which speaks volumes to the intellect of people who think they are anonymous.
Kris
We find it better to leave them secure in their blanket of “anonymity”. but as Ron alludes, their blanket is made of saran wrap. My guys love chasing ‘em down, they’re good and they take their jobs very seriously. Sometimes too much. Techno-nerds with birth control glasses and protect protectors is not far from the truth. One ex-Navy, one ex- Coastie, one ex-Air Force. $135 an hr but discounted rates to any of Lex’s Legions.
The old “security by obscurity” is a hard mindset to beat. Our security people beat us vigorously about the head and shoulders with the facts and figures and (*ahem*) even I fall into the trap on occasion…. mainly because of laziness. I gave up on the web and use my real initials (although I use my 30+yo navy tag on YAHOO for an email just to deflect the spamming).
G-Man/
Will you give me a discount to use your guys to reverse engr to protect me from the local cops and the Feds both? It’s tough duckin’ and dodgin’ in the blogosphere. Names have to be changed to protect the guilty!
Well, it seems that Michelle Sullivan has apologized:
http://patterico.com/2009/10/05/sullivan-apologizes/