One year ago today: January 31. 2020, but Bush promised!
Five years ago today: January 31. 2016, yep, 65 feet.
Nine years ago today: January 31. 2012, just redefine ‘compulsory’.
Random years ago today: January 31. 2018, aw, remember Valentine.
I think this Wednesday, I’m driving up to Jacksonville for the day, maybe camp over. I went on-line to check for museums, a favorite of mine. All I got back was cultural clutter. I don’t care about certain things, I want a museum to be full of old stuff, the least favorite being paintings. Instead what’s all this African-American this and that? Fine, but not interesting. Or family museums—unless they let me bring the dog. And no, I don’t want to sign up on-line in advance. Museums should be spontaneous events. But there must be something to see despite this absurd shutdown. Even the library has stopped putting out magazines and newspapers.
This picture is from Tennessee earlier this month. It’s a kid’s toy, which features on the package a view of an animal. But we’ve created a world where people think if they are on a computer or phone 10 hours a day, that makes them experts on everything. If they can look something up, why bother learning it? That’s why the hipster who stocked this shelf put the packages upside down. It’s a sloth, you imbecile.
What’s happening in the world today? I’ve time for just a peek. IDFA, that’s one biggie. Facebook is big but half its data is collected off iPhones. And Apple is blocking that with IDFA, or ID for Advertisers. Now, since the late 1990s, I don’t trust Apple either, so Facebook may be on to something saying IDFA is not designed to protect privacy, but to harm the Zuck. In which case, I support Apple. And cable companies have again skirted the laws requiring them to openly state their fees up front—both sides are on the take.
Good morning. I looked over the GameStop situation and now consider less of a “rebellion” than somebody simply noticing that the big funds made a dumb mistake. They contracted to buy more shares than were for sale. So anybody who grabbed those shares were guaranteed a buyer, which caused a shortage of shares, which caused a surge in prices. Nobody wants to say it, but the proles just ain’t smart enough to do a real coordinated rebellion. It just looks like it.
I’ve mentioned the vulnerability of GPS for years and finally the FAA admits it. The military owned the original setup and of course they can jam & spoof it. But I foresee a much worse problem in the making. Because of instrument flying, you are getting more pilots who don’t really know how to fly. That’s correct, you can get through flight school these days using simulators that are no smarter than the millennials who coded them. Scary. They even have a term for crashes caused by this insane situation, it’s called CFIT. And part of the problem is once again, that favorite hipster-millennial piece of crap called C+ programming.
CFIT means controlled flight into terrain. GPS with C+ coding can be made to appear as if it is functioning by some dipshit C+ coder who has zero knowledge of the real-life scenario. Airports in Texas and New Mexico regularly report loss of GPS during military tests, which should not be a problem—until you have pilots in the cockpit who don’t know how to land a plane manually. For that matter, there have been instances where pilots who lost GPS did not have the IQ to read a road map or follow the railroad to the nearest city airport for emergency landings. With millennials now turning 40 and the current indoctrination system (think people getting pilot jobs due to their gender, race, or political affiliations), it is only going to get worse.
Oh, and CFIT means “crash” in case Patsie missed that.
Trinity College Library, Dublin.
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Take a break and visit Dave’s Garage starting with this clip on bluescreens, which in DOS we called BSOD, the blue screen of death—I did not know it wasn’t official. Dave is okay, other than having his lower jaw wired shut. I recommend watching this link for reasons I warned about first in 1984. MicroSoft was building software that would always crash because there was no overall “Apple-style” control of the process. Listen to how Dave explains what causes the crashes. He’s talking after the fact, where my warnings foretold all this would happen if MicroSoft did not clean up their act. Now, computer crashes are an accepted part of using that operating system and anything compatible with it.
He does not seem to realize he is apologizing for MicroSoft, that these are far more than minor glitches in the system. They are the result of a far deep set of defects that could not have been accomplished without some form of purposeful agenda in place. True, some problems are the result of lack of communication between departments in a over-distended bureaucracy, but I’m not referring to those. Consider all the versions of Windows and their endless updates. Somebody somewhere must have decided that rather than fix known problems, to keep making the system ever more complex and inconceivable to the average user.
So instead of devoting the resources to correcting underlying defects—and one must wonder why they so adamantly refuse to do so—they design an entire module that locks down your computer and displays a blue screen. You’ve been conditioned to accept this regularly, but next time watch the process closely, reading the text. The thing is going on-line, “We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you”.
This happens even if you have turned off data collection modes. Think about what’s happening. I’ve always turned off the computer myself when this happens, and reboot off-line. Did you get that, off-line. Done this for years and never had any virus or malware, nomsayn. I don’t know how much you know about viruses, but nobody reboots my computer without permission.
ADDENDUM
What’s with ugly women complaining? So, they don’t get hit on and put up with snide remarks. So what? Move on. We all have to deal with what we don’t have. You don’t hear me whining about not being 6-foot-2 and I don’t want to hear about the woes of women who aren’t movie stars. Nor do I care about people who get whacked by RipOff Report, Cheaterbot, She’s a Homewrecker and Deadbeats Exposed. People who get attacked on-line appear to have 100% handed over their personal information willingly.
And there’s another practice that should be outlawed. People who sign up other people without consent. This is why I do not give out enough information for some other party to sign me up for a free subscription or to get himself a free gift. But I was on to that one long before the Internet came along. I am appalled by how dependent so many have become on the Internet, causing it to be classified as a necessity. For what? Most people do not know how to do anything serious with a computer.
Or that court that ruled you have to hand over your passwords it the police can prove they already know the information they need is on your device. Um, you cretins, if they already know it, what do they need access for? In America, nobody can be compelled to be a witness against themselves—at least until they bought a cell phone, it seems.
