You know those annoying FBI Warnings(1) that show up at the start of every movie on VHS or DVD? (Maybe even on streaming? I wouldn’t know — I don’t “stream”) Besides being insulting with the implied assumption that without this warning I would just steal all of their property(2) [as Read more…
So I was speaking with a friend a night or eight ago and we were talking about how often legislation backfires on the legislators and especially on Society, how such legislation often causes the very problem(s) it was meant to prevent, and I heard my self say: You can’t legislate Read more…
So I’m looking at medium business printers (aka, enterprise equipment) for some nefarious purpose of my own, and a friend of mine starts getting ads on her laptop for … guess what? … medium business printers. Just to be clear, she was never looking at those. We do have some Read more…
Here’s the solution to all identity discrimination — the only solution that will ever actually work — but you won’t like it. Identity discrimination: that is gender issues, shading of skin issues, slant of eye issues, length of hair, “class” elitism, political affiliation, spoken language and accent issues… all identity Read more…
The mainstream belief about petroleum(1) is that it is the leavings from the previous cycle of life on this planet(2), that a massive meteor impact (3) or some such thing approximately 65 million years ago exterminated all life larger than a mole, and some how all that biological material found Read more…
When I first encountered Robert Heinlein’s attitude toward manners, I thought he was just a little bit over the top. The older I get — and the ruder our culture gets — the more I realize just how right he was. And he saw it that clearly over 60 years Read more…