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A long while back, this blog lost its database. That’s why it went dark for some months.

The host claimed that the database was dropped using it’s hosting control panel. This post is an examination of that claim using The Chain of Trust.

It tries to break down that claim and other possibilities to understand their likelihood and difficulty. This is a method to untangle claims to line them up and go down that list. If at any point a link in that chain is seen to be impossible, then the entire claim falls apart.

This is the reasoning that should be done with any discussion, especially something as important as the law. Make a bulleted list, go down it from start to finish. For each link, show another chain coming off of it. Any link from that parent-chain that branches must itself have one single unbroken chain.

This could be demonstrated physically, even graphically, but is straightforward to do in a top-down list (a post), a bulleted list for the main chain, bulleted lists for each link, and hyperlinks for any shared problems.

I don’t know that I demonstrated this very well, but I’ll give it a shot with a real-world claim.



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Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher (2014) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/

A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.

An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it’s definitely a proper advancement of the “hacker kid” movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that “know their stuff”, as it doesn’t lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.



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8chan logo

(on Wikipedia)
https://8kun.top/index.html [ 1 ] was 8ch.net

They went to The Dark Side a while ago.

8chan wanted to be the spiritual successor to 4chan, but that doesn’t work when they’re both owned by the same people.

Footnotes

^ 1 was 8ch.net

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051713/
https://youtu.be/sdUUx5FdySs

(Summarizing it would spoil it.)

Adorable and heartbreaking, this was one of the first if not the first short film which got me interested in this sub-genre.

  • 2006-06-27



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River (2015-) dvd image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4258440/

A detective is haunted with hallucinations that include his dead partner, who was killed under mysterious circumstances.

I think some would find this movie slow and boring, and I did at first, but it very quickly revealed a depth and character that I haven’t seen in any television show before and I doubt I will again.

This isn’t a classic cop-and-mystery show. All I can say is give this a good chance, at least until the end of the second episode.



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Bastardy (2008) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1310363/

A documentary that follows Jack Charles for seven years.

A thoughtful movie that focuses more on his fallen-lifestyle than his rise, success, fall and recovery. Though it was not its intention to, I find this movie reveals a lot about how fallen men are treated. No respect, no concern, no support. Acting out and desperation are treated as crimes, not cries.

  • Jack Charles, aka Jackie Charles.
  • “Bastardy” is illegitimacy.
  • Jack Charles on IMDB
  • While Jack is notable, and Bastardy won the 2009 AFI Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, this film has no Wikipedia entry. I feel that says a lot.



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