THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“To the degree a man does not get all he produces, or does not have the right to give it away, to that degree he is a slave.”

— R.C. Hoiles, April 27, 1944

BIRTHDAYS:

1632 Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who is one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England.

1656 Nicolas de Largillière, French painter.

1792 Anton Bernhard Furstenau, German composer and flutist, born in Münster, Prince-Bishopric of Münster Holy Roman Empire. Serenade op.10

1870 Charles Frederick Goldie, New Zealand painter, known for his portraits of Maori.

1891 James Chadwick, British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron.

1919 Tracy Hall, American inventor (grew synthetic diamond).

MISCELLANEOUS:

WELL, MICROSOFT. BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users’ backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO ACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration