Remember when a president who really wanted to start a war in Iraq claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and he had his war and no such weapons were found? Seems to me we have another president making similar claims of a crisis to get his way. We ought to be skeptical.
Let’s start with a request for the project plan for building this wall. Where is the budget? Where are the bids for the construction? How do we know the price is $5 billion and not $10 billion or $2 billion?
Its all theater. Like taking off your shoes at the airport and it is time that people opened their eyes.
So ridiculous that it once again raises the frightening question of how a president who can’t successfully manage peace and prosperity would manage to deal with an actual national crisis. Vox
We could have treated the election like a job interview and elect the candidate qualified for the job, but instead a number of people in certain states preferred to vote for the reality TV star.
I played with Google Assistant and IFTTT today, one outcome of which is a way to tell the Assistant to add an entry to my Day One journal.
Why are our representatives trying to pass any legislation to prohibit boycotts of Israel or any other country or topic? With other pressing matters, how is this even a priority?
Twelve years ago today Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. It definitely was a revolutionary device.
Please read this thread that provides proper context to sharing of polling data to adversaries like the Russians.
What is also important to understand is that what has been going here is emotional manipulation, that is what advertising is all about. Generations of Americans, starting with the Baby Boomers, have been programmed with emotional manipulation, which is why now, seemingly all of a sudden, “fake news” is such a thing. The Internet is an echo chamber of emotional manipulation, which is why the social network hacking has been so effective.
One thing I remember President Reagan ask for is the ability to do line-item vetos. The thing is that the Constitution provides the power of the line-item veto to Congress through its ability to write and pass legislation. Trump is pulling an anti-Reagan move, demanding something added to legislation that Congress has passed.
Compromise, which does NOT mean that one side gives in to another, is the whole point upon which the Founders built our government.
What Trump really wants is for Congress to give him a blank check. No Congress should give a President a blank check. The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse for reason, it’s because one of the primary purposes of Congress is presidential oversight NOT to simply to give in to a President’s demands.
I asked Google Home, “What is Michigan State men basketball team’s record?” and it responded with the record and sent a notification to my phone with the Big Ten standings. Cool.
Insight: there is a difference between posting to a social network and simply reading from a social network. Corollary: there is a difference between posting first to your own site and sharing to a social network and just posting to a social network.
I’ve made several updates to my wiki page on CES 2019. I am finding this a very easy way to summarize the articles that I have found most interesting.
GitHub Free now provides unlimited private repositories for up to three collaborators. I think this makes Git/GitHub more useful for storing certain types of items. One thought I have is that this makes WorkingCopy even more useful.
While watching TWiT during lunch today I learned about Mike Elgan’s Nicebook and I think it is a good idea. It relies on Google, as an alternative, but in a different way. I imagine Flickr could also be used.
I did not know that the Wi-Fi alliance has announced a new naming convention. Time to start paying attention for Wi-Fi 6.
The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starts in earnest today, and my RSS feed is full of announcements. I am capturing those of most interest to me on my wiki.
Christmas tree is down and boxed with minimal number of cuts and cursing.
I spent time today configuring Caddy on my federated wiki and now have it proxying the site and serving HTTPS.
There are friends and there are friends who you haven’t seen in years and yet when you do see them the conversation picks up practically where it was left. I had a great lunch today with such a long time friend.