Nerd is the word.

Jeremy McCoy. AKA MrDrMcCoy. Professional nerd. Follower of Christ. Would probably enjoy having a beer with you.

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BitChute is a BitTorrent-Powered YouTube Alternative - TorrentFreak

YouTube is without doubt one of the Internet's best platforms, but it does have its weaknesses, particularly when it comes to monetizing controversial content. Using BitTorrent under the hood to avoid expensive bandwidth bills, could the recently launched BitChute become a viable alternative?

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It's kind of alarming when you run a factory image restore for your laptop, and there's a poorly hidden process called "FBI debug mode" that runs the whole time. Thanks, HP.

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Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid

The "anything goes" media mentality when it comes to Russia strikes again.

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As the Federal Zoo adds an orangutan exhibit, the job of animal handler has become more important and dangerous than ever before. It will be a difficult transition for these dedicated men and women who are so used to handling weasels to move on to larger animals. Pray for them to keep us safe from these new risks, and to not get killed themselves in the process.

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I will name this hard drive Starscream, as it had failed me for the last time.

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Fudge Factor 3000 writes: Google has quietly changed its privacy policy to allow it to associate web tracking, which is supposed to remain anonymous, with personally identifiable user data. This completely reneges its promise to keep a wall between ad tracking and personally identifiable user data, ...

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An eye-opening new documentary exposes the warrior culture pervading U.S. law enforcement and the dangers of war-zone technologies applied domestically.

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Not OK, Google

At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers' personal data, as computing..

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As I have been–and will be–warning with intensifying urgency, moves are afoot to destroy medical conscience clauses under which doctors, nurses, and others can refuse to participate in abortions and assisted suicide. This force-MDs-to-kill meme was summarized in a recent Reuters story: Physicians shouldn’t have the legal right to act as conscientious objectors and refuse to provide services like abortion or assisted suicide even when these things conflict with their personal values, some doctors argue. But what about patients who want life-sustaining treatment, that is, they want to remain in the fight to stay alive? Some of the same activists who argue that doctors should be forced to be complicit in killing, say that doctors should have the right to refuse wanted treatment that keeps patients alive. Known as “futile care,” bioethicists see it as a way to save healthcare resources for patients with a better “quality of life.” Here’s a description in an earlier article I wrote about Texas’s futile care law: This is how the Texas law, seen as a model by many futilitiarians, works: Under the Texas Health and Safety Code, if the physician disagrees with a patient’s decision to receive treatment, he or she can take it to the hospital bioethics committee. A hearing is convened at which all interested parties explain why they want or don’t want treatment to continue. If the committee decides to refuse treatment, it is determinative. Even if the family finds another doctor willing to provide the treatment, it can’t be done in that hospital. At that point, the patient/family has a mere ten days to find another hospital willing to take the patient, after which, according to the statute, “the physician and health care facility are not obligated to provide life-sustaining treatment.” In practical terms, that’s a death sentence. The economics of medicine have changed from the old fee-for-service days. Today, extended care in ICUs is usually a money loser for hospitals, meaning that families find it almost impossible to find a facility willing to accept the transfer of expensive patients whose care has been declared to be “futile.” There are even reported cases of desperate families looking out of state for a facility willing to provide treatment for a loved one about to be pushed out of the lifeboat by a Texas hospital. So, here the bottom line. Autonomy rules if you want to die–even over medical conscience. But doctor/bioethicist’s values rule if you want to live.

As I have been–and will be–warning with intensifying urgency, moves are afoot to destroy medical conscience clauses under which doctors, nurses, and others can refuse to participate in abortions and assisted suicide. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/440797/mds-cant-refuse-kill-can-refuse-care

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Mangal Prabhat Lodha, who licensed Trump's name for the Trump Tower Mumbai, has a long history of wanting to criminalize religious conversion.

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The Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals

The humanitarian toll is so extensive that the Red Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units to Yemeni hospitals.

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