Business
Ad Blockers and Intelligence Tests
I am fed up with websites, especially the larger sites, who insist that I disable my ad blocker, even if they offer an option to continue without doing so. Don’t you get what an ad Read more…
Technology
Car Remotes
To start with I find (and always have) the idea of a remote for one’s car to be not only a silly concept for a very, very unsafe one. Means the car can be hacked, Read more…
Science
Star Trek & Lithium
Isn’t it interesting that in the old Star Trek series (the original, back in the late 60s, for you youngsters out there) that the main power of the Enterprise came from the use of “dilithium Read more…
Business
Ouch — AI under attack
Ouch. New York Times suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement. This is a no-win scenario. Whatever happens it’s bad. I am not a fan of AI as it currently is engineered. Too many unknowns, Read more…
Business
Microsoft — That’s It Man!!
I have had it with Microsoft. Allow me to explain… (he said, with a theatrical flourish). If you read these post (rants) you know already that Micrisoft isn’t exactly at the top of my Ethical Read more…
Future History
A Once in a Thousand Year Storm
Once in a Thousand Years… yeah, right.(1) The Rumor Mill (that is, the News) has it that Southern California yesterday had a “once in a thousand year storm”. My memory tells me that that’s for Read more…
Science
The Opposite of Science
The opposite of science is not religion as too many science-ists and too many relgion-ists would try to tell you. (Do try to tell you.) The opposite of science is superstition. Superstition can have an overlap Read more…
media
You need to get out more
Reading the daily news (even from “guaranteed neutral” sources) is getting to be more and more an exercise in how the news reporter(s) simply need to get out more. Yesterday, new study “suggests” inositol may Read more…
Humans
Idealistic, But Naive
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been told “you’re very Idealistic, and I admire that, but you’re naive.” Or “sorry, the Real World doesn’t work like that.” Actually… it’s not that I’m “naive” Read more…
Health
Diet and Long Life
A new study suggests that cutting calories by 12% might help people live longer and healthier lives. Excuse me! This is a fact that’s been KNOWN for 1000s of years(1), clearly demonstrated in studies over Read more…
Health
Obesity Profits Sky Rocket
Disgusting! And all such words… Ozempic and Wegovy are new drugs for “stabilizing blood sugar” and “treating obesity.” With Obesity being the single biggest health problem in America, because of the incredibly poor (and getting Read more…
Business
“Norton Secured” on Checkout
There’s a funny little symbol used on some checkout pages on the Internet. (Not showing it here, but you’ve seen it, though maybe you didn’t notice it.) It’s a Norton (“Norton Secured”) thing and it’s Read more…
media
Triple Talk
Back in the 20th there was a phrase called “newspeak” (from the novel 1984) which meant things like what we see in the news all the time now. Looking at Israel’s Netanyahu’s statement concerning their Read more…
Politics
Don’t Use Civilians That Way
I can’t claim to fully understand the politics in the Middle East. I’m not sure any one can, including the Middle East(1). However… I have to say that — if the reports of civilian hospitals Read more…
Business
“Don’t Hang Up”
What is it with you people and your d**n robocalls? Do you really believe anyone who picks up the phone and hears “please do not hang up…” is going to do anything but hang up right Read more…
Humans
The Sun
Did you ever stop to notice that the Sun is the source of all shadows? Wihtout light there are no shadows. Ah, but we turn on a flashlight? Yes? No: that flashlight is using energy Read more…
Business
Microsoft Eats the World
The holding company mistakenly taken for a technology company known as Microsoft now wants to buy Activision / Blizzard, for the staggering sum of $68B. Besides telling me that have way too much money and Read more…
Science
Sea Level Rise — Strange Article
Today I found a very strange article addressing in great and accurate detail new facts about how rapidly the major ice flows (Greenland and Antarctica) are melting. You can find it at the link below. It’s Read more…
Society
Date Line — 19 April 2023
Wow. The “news” today is startling in several ways.(1) Fox News has agreed to pay $767 million for “false news reporting” charges (47% of the damages requested), against a maker of voting machines for implying Read more…
Society
Dateline April 2023
Strange News in the World today. Most of it, even as honestly reported as can be found, is moderately alarming, moderately disappointing, as Humanity continues with all it’s unconscious behaviors. That said, here are my Read more…
Humans
Earth, passed over again…
Report to the Galactic Outreach Council, as of (local time) Date line: 27 March 2023 A super-cell in Mississippi? Following tornadoes in LA? Wow. And *still* some Humans claim “global warming” is just a liberal Read more…
Business
Rising Cost for Less Value
Back in 1965 first class postage was $0.03 (3 cents!) for one ounce. We also had two deliveries — to the house or business — each week day, plus one on Saturday. You could send Read more…
Society
Yet Another School Shooting
Yet another school shooting. Really doesn’t matter which one I’m referring to — or have in my mind as I write this — when ever you are reading this, there unfortunately will be a current Read more…
Business
The Warning Signs of Dementia
I keep getting these emails lately … newest fad in BS / leveraging-your-ignorance, steal-your-money advertising: “the nn warning signs of dementia — number nn is really scary.” Besides being a totally Evil way of marketing Read more…
Society
Imponderables as 2022 Ends
Just some thoughts as 2022 winds down. All artificial sweeteners have now been implicated in various forms of dementia / senility, not just aspertaime. Why are they still legal? Why is aspertaime legal, when it Read more…
Law
Software Mfgs — Please Tell Your Lawyers…
As a long time software engineer and occasional software user I have to admit that I have just about “had it up to here” with [so-called] “security” on the Internet. The occasional real security is Read more…
Health
Tripledemic? Really?
(This one is a little less formal… just some thoughts concerning the latest “news item”) Tripledemic? Nice word. New word. Never existed before. And INSTANTLY every one is in fear of it. Yet, even Yahoo Read more…