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Re: The Best 4K Monitors

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 21 May 2020 13:47:49 -0000

I've seen a couple of reviews--notably one by PC Mag--claiming that the U3219Q can only reproduce roughly 2/3 to 3/4 of the DCI-P3 color space--a rate much below what Dell advertises--which would suggest a shortcoming with respect to content with wide-gamut color. Not sure how impactful people perceive this to be.

Re: S3 FTP: build a reliable and inexpensive FTP server using Amazon’s S3

John-Paul Pagano — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:28:16 -0000

Great write-up. Thank you for doing it. One small problem: you seem to recommend adding userlist_enable=YES twice in your vsftpd.conf file. I'm guessing that's an error, but let me know if I'm missing something.

Also

EC2Role=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credent

should probably be

EC2Role=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials)

Again. let me know if I'm missing something.

Re: Why Medium Failed to Disrupt the Media

John-Paul Pagano — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 21:31:53 -0000

Edward Snowden, and Russia, gave the world the quasi-journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Re: Tony Judt and the Velvet Genocide

John-Paul Pagano — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:48:12 -0000

It's certainly possible. Judt's death was protracted and terrible and he handled it with considerable courage and grace.

Re: Iran New Horizon Conference Draws U.S. Anti-Semites, Holocaust Deniers

John-Paul Pagano — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:31:33 -0000

His name is Gareth Porter and he's so much more than an "anti-Israel journalist". He's a lifelong defender of the most illiberal actors while working to smear the US and Israel as grossly as possible. Porter is an early genocide-denier -- of the Cambodian genocide during the 70s.

Re: Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: UNRWA dean of education posts Hitler quote on FB

John-Paul Pagano — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:58:11 -0000

He's got this up too:

https://www.facebook.com/ph...

Anyone know what that says?

Re: Illegal Wiretapping, Indeed

John-Paul Pagano — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:22:47 -0000

Not true. Only me and someone on Democratic Underground who sourced my material have cited Greenwald's decision to secretly record a trial witness.

Greenwald's Frequently Told Lies attacks a straw man. It focuses on the fact that he wasn't disbarred or "sanctioned or disciplined by any court." I never made the former claim and the latter relies (in a rather lawyerly manner) on an overfine distinction. Greenwald's conduct was found "unethical" and he was told to stop.

Greenwald also points to a later document that acknowledges the possibility that he might have reasonably believed his conduct was legal and which refused to comment on his character. Greenwald hopes you'll mistake that as exoneration. It's not. It's merely the court being agnostic as to his intentions and saying it won't judge his character.

My point is (and has only ever been) that someone who preens and struts as a libertarian defender of privacy shouldn't secretly record people to use their words against them. Greenwald is unscrupulous and hypocritical.

Re: Fermented Ketchup

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:05:41 -0000

Why not use San Marzano tomato paste? Would that not work?

Re: The Optics, or How It Works

John-Paul Pagano — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:43:52 -0000

Thanks a lot for your comment, rq. Answering your cogent question -- "Why commemorate 9/11 with a display of antizionist politics?" -- is, again, to describe liberalism today.

Re: Commemorating Alexander Cockburn

John-Paul Pagano — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:22:36 -0000

Benjamin,

Fixed. Thanks for your reply!

Re: Responding to Readers

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:54:24 -0000

I don't want to elevate Breslaw, as her piece is just a litter of emotional detritus, but inevitably I will by noting that if her thesis -- that survivors of genocide must be human filth in order to have survived -- is raised to the level of theory, it constitutes, after Holocaust Denial, the latest algorithmic desecration of the memory of Holocaust survivors. That result is beyond the range of the intellect she brought to her piece, but however accidentally she has managed to murder the Jews again, starting with her own grandparents.

Re: Responding to Readers

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:25:14 -0000

Say what you want about Finkelstein, but I can't imagine even him publishing something like the Breslaw piece. I think even Gilad Atzmon might blush, though he'd probably rise to endorse it if it came to his attention.

Re: Netanyahu Goes to Washington

John-Paul Pagano — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:15:04 -0000

Thanks very much for your reply.

Re: New Jersey NIMBYs Mad That Photovoltaic Panels Are Marring Their Previously Pristine Utility Polls

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:10:46 -0000

In view of the sweeping perspective that frames this post, I wonder if your outrage stems from a ponderous capital-L Liberalism you've adopted about environmental pieties in which seemingly any aesthetic challenge to them is an outrage [sic sic sic]?

Re: The Audacity of Shlock

John-Paul Pagano — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:17:18 -0000

Thank you! Alas these take so much out of the stub of life the job leaves me that they are too few and far between.

Re: Liberal Masochism

John-Paul Pagano — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:44:39 -0000

Hi, Lou. According to the logs it took you 28 minutes of reading to reach that conclusion.

Re: The 10 Books that Will Influence Me

John-Paul Pagano — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:09:39 -0000

Thanks for your reply, and the tip. I'll try to check out the anthology. Your web site is also really interesting.

Re: The 10 Books that Will Influence Me

John-Paul Pagano — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:18:56 -0000

It's Hirschman. Brilliant timing: I had added it today to my Amazon Wish List, on the suggestion of Dan Drezner. It does seem like a great read.

Re: Netanyahu to Obama: Sorry We Offended You, But We’re Not Going to Stop

John-Paul Pagano — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:36:26 -0000

What I read is Lula pointedly refused to visit Herzl's grave, which at least is as clumsy and ugly a gesture as Danny Ayalon's snub of the Turkish ambassador. Is that inaccurate? How do you think the Turks would react if Lieberman snubbed Ataturk's grave? Would you chide the Turks and not the Israelis in that situation?

Re: Did Kucinich Set Back Anti-Afghanistan War Cause?

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:47:15 -0000

I think even a basic point like this is going to be lost on the minds that haunt the Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich foreign policy ghetto.

Re: Calling Bullshit -- The Pilot Episode

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:20:07 -0000

Bob,

Thanks. Ditch Israel is more about swells of isolationist Israel-phobia in mainstream discourse. It's funny though: that post by Johnson is precisely the same post he used to make ad nauseum about unwitting (or witting) collaborations between putatively left-wing anti-Zionists and white-supremacist anti-Semites.

Re: A Moldovan Bouncer

John-Paul Pagano — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:54:55 -0000

Are you autistic? Did I somehow miss that all these years?

Re: Ditch Israel Watch - III

John-Paul Pagano — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:28:20 -0000

Hey! In spite of being busier than ever with work, I am doing my best to be back. Call it a 2010 resolution. :)

Glad to see you reading. Looking forward to your feedback.

Re: Who Am I?

John-Paul Pagano — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:25:18 -0000

Hi,

Thank you for your comment. I did keep an earlier version of my other blog, The Socialism of Fools, which went by an inside-joke name that was unrecognizable to everyone but me and my old college roommate.

I'd be happy to return the link favor, on SOF, as its subject matter is adjacent to yours.

Re: Tony Judt and the Velvet Genocide

John-Paul Pagano — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:34:29 -0000

Arieh,

Thank you for sharing the piece with your friends and for your comment. Daniel Millstone is wrong -- there is a link to Judt's essay, which is also significantly quoted, in the first sentence of my essay. I would also urge him to specify how my analysis misunderstands Judt if he is going to make the "straw man" criticism.