One year ago today: May 14, 2020, 188 pounds of water.
Five years ago today: May 14, 2016, it’s Saturday.
Nine years ago today: May 14, 2012, the concept of “straight answer”.
Random years ago today: May 14, 2006, a calendar redaction.
Ha! The clown Fauci has announced vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks. This comes expertly timed right after states began outlawing his nonsense, and the people not wearing masks were just reaching the boiling point. Or the pipeline fiasco, where they appear not to have learned to fire the millennials and hire people who know how a pipeline works. They paid a $5 million ransom in bitcoins and shortly thereafter discovered they could have restored the system for free from backup copies. Yet, I’ll bet you their entire office is staffed full of hipsters and millennials with degrees up the ying-yang, not one of whom had the guts to admit anything was his own fault. Good morning.
I’m still landing in this time zone, but listening to the webinar about publishing. It’s a not a scam, but it is again focused on easy money and the now-standard making money while you relax. It is based on getting others to do the work for you, something I know a lot about from years of not being tricked into it. The emphasis of the entire webinar is how to line people up to do each task for you, while according to the pictures, you have lost 30 pounds, moved to Marco Island, and drink Long Islands all afternoon.
The pitch is correct, that management involves getting others to do the work. The snag is that most people vastly overestimate their abilities on this score. The webcast does not make this clear, rather it steps through the entire process, at each stage leveraging “experts” from all over the Internet to do the work. Good luck with that, but I’m intrigued because I already know the process, I know what parts they gloss over, and importantly how to do the work myself the instant there is any disappointment. Because we all know the ethical operators on the Internet will always keep their promises.
The webinar is boring, a series of narrated stills, because it is aimed that the easy money crowd. There is no way to pause the broadcast, so you wind up bored and frustrated. Because he’ll state a couple sentences that there is hard work involved. Then instead of telling you to accomplish that work, you get a ten-minute lecture on how to get somebody else to do it for you. Now to me, each point at which you introduce another person, you are also relying on them. And each dollar you invest becomes ever more reliant on a stream of individuals you’ve never met. True, you are leveraging the pittance you pay them toward the big payoff the webinar is implying awaits ye who keep the faith.
I’ve learned what has changed. In my day (five years ago), I would have contacted the string of people needed to publish. What’s happened is over time, others have taken this process and streamlined it. Given the path that on-line marketing has warped, it makes sense over time others would make a business out of making a business in this fashion. I’ll talk with the Reb, I’ve never had anything ghost written and I wonder. Would it disappoint me, or would it give me framework to add in details that I know are lacking in so many audio and how-to books.
Vintage Italian radio.
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It’s apparent I don’t have an Internet business. You see, I have to get out there and do actual work, so I’m disqualified. Here is a photo that makes me appreciate the new chain saw. Have you ever had to cut this much wood by hand? I have, and it’s not like I was asked if I wanted to learn all about hard work. This is one of six piles this size or smaller that I cut and stacked this afternoon. Any wet marks on the wood you may see are not raindrops. It was in the mid-80s out there in the shade.
And that loser Cheney got her arse thrown out for opposing Trump. She’s showing her true colors by stating she wants the Republican party back on the take with the Democrats, both sides milking the taxpayer—which means she is not only against Trump, but out to stop him from even running. So transparent, these crooks. She’s a crybaby who just became a nobody. Imagine, with all that the opposition has screwed up lately, she is still on about a former president. Don’t slam the door on your way out, Liz.
TMOR, if there had been anything like a real “insurrection” at the Capitol on Jan. 6, by real Trump supporters, people like Cheney and her ilk would all be in the FEMA camps by now. Everybody knew by that time the Democrats and their media cronies had played up that there would be no “peaceful transfer of power” that everybody knew they had to stage something. In Arizona, those ballots I mentioned moments ago are back in the news. They have enough people to begin piecing together the bags of shredded paper from the dumpster, and they so far have been valid, marked ballots from the last election. The Democrats are screaming, “It’s too late.” Yeah, to stop what’s happening. It’s too bad they will probably arrest the wrong people.
ADDENDUM
We finally get a decent look at Iron Dome, the joint Israeli-American anti-missile system. America does not develop such weapons, so we pay Israel handsomely to do it for us. Thanks to Bidenista policy, conflicts are flaring up everywhere, but we needed something in the Middle East to really test Iron Dome. I chose this less-cluttered photo to show two missile paths. I see no new technology, just the refinement of old, but let’s take a look anyway. The Hamas rockets are old school Katyusha style. Launched from ramps angled toward the target, these unguided warheads are designed to smother the objective with high-explosives.
But doing so by hitting the incoming warheads with another missile is a major challenge. You can see from the curving paths, missles have to be powered all the way to the target. The long swoops after launch are probably the phase where target acquisition takes place. Notice how once that happens, each Iron Dome missile ignores other nearby targets, which in turn are independently picked off by others.
The Israelis claim a 90% success rate, which I find bit too optimistic. That “fireworks” effect shown as the missile explodes near the rocket, telling us it has a proximity fuse. A direct hit would likely cause the impact-fused rocket warhead to detonate, but we are not seeing any such explosions. This and other videos show the Israelis have something that works but the price tag must be staggering. On the other hand, the Katyshas are WWII technology and probably cost less each than a weekend at Disneyworld.
For the non-rocket people out there, one other interesting thing is how near the rockets are to hitting the city before they are knocked out. This is because the missiles can’t expend all their fuel getting up to speed. That means they cannot really use fins for guidance. What happens is a slow launch and slow time to target, powered all the way. That says the motor is gimbaled and gyroscopically controlled at all times. And anybody who has ever programmed an Arduino can tell you exactly how that works.
My guess is it won’t be long before the Katyusha designers wake up to the fact that by the trajectory of the rocket could make could be controlled by fins because it is flying fast enough. Since each Iron Dome missile must use some type of frequency discriminator to lock on each target, what would be a real challenge is to figure out which target they are seeking.
