It seems there is little point to the NFL having replay if it is not used for all calls. The point of replay is the correct egregious errors such as just occurred in the Saints/Rams game. 🏈
What Does Kirsten Gillibrand Stand For?
But her shift in views from a decade ago is already raising questions among Democrats and provoking attacks from Republicans eager to define her as a flip-flopper.
The above thinking is what is so dangerous about our current culture, which doesn’t appreciate that wisdom is gained over time and with it one should change their mind. Being open to new thinking is fundamental to what we need.
We have about three inches with more falling. I forgot how it is to walk in real snow, Google Fit should have a walk in snow category.
I’ve been doing some more wiki gardening. First, there is a page about what I have learned about federated wiki. I’ve also cleaned up the page of links to neighboring federated sites that I use to find changes in the federation.
Today I installed Docker on my Google Pixelbook by creating a new LXC container and installing Docker in it.
According to the weather people, we are to be getting real snow fall tomorrow.
When did it become the job of Congress to appease the President? McConnell’s impediment to Congress doing its job is actually the problem.
“After James Franklin’s tangles with the law in Boston, the next battle over the freedom of the press was staged in New York, the busiest port on the mainland, where African slaves owned by the Dutch had once built a wall at the edge of town, and African slaves owned by the English had taken it down, leaving Wall Street behind.” from “These Truths: A History of the United States” by Jill Lepore
Google’s purchase of smartwatch intellectual property from Fossil is interesting. I don’t know if it is a harbinger of a Google watch but I find the statement that Google did the deal so that the IP will be available to all brands, interesting. If nothing else it affirms Google’s commitment to Wear OS.
9to5Mac reports that there is a new iPad Mini coming. I recall seeing news about this at the end of last year, and I hope it is true. I like my iPad Mini 4 but it is getting slow.
John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, has died I read his book Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life that I wish more capitalists would read. Enough is what ought to be our true aspiration.
Hey, CNET published an article with my alma mater in the headlines! Autonomous boats? What about autonomous snowmobiles?
So, Mitch McConnell is the literally the person causing the shutdown because as the Republican Senate majority leader he refuses to take up the appropriations bills passed by the House of Representatives. Blame Mitch not Trump.
If you recall from How A Bill Becomes A Law, Congress has the ability to override the President’s veto. So, if the Senate passed the bills passed by the House, they go to the President, and if he vetos then is back in Congress' power to override the bills in which they become law.
So once again, Congress has within its power given to it by the Constitution to govern and like so many times in the past Mitch McConnell is not living up to his oath.
It’s time to start putting pressure on the Republicans and McConnell.
I was wrong last year when I wrote in Android On Tablets that Google would not sell another tablet. The Pixel Slate is a tablet even if Google prefers to market it like a 2-in-1.
In some ways we may have a reformation taking place today in the United States. Perhaps we ought to consider it a U.S. Democratic Reformation away from Representative democracy to a Direct democracy . If this is the case then like Gutenberg’s printing press, the Internet appears to be the technological advancement that is enabling this reformation. Fueled by the Internet. More on this thought on my wiki.
They want us to become really afraid; they want us to become divided; they want us to join their “us and them” thing. On a larger scale, I think we have to resist that. It’s an argument for celebrating and nurturing our diversity and nurturing our multicultural society, and our pluralism.
Source: This filmmaker sat down neo-Nazis and jihadists. Here’s what she learned. - Vox
All we have done since 9/11 is become more and more divided, so much so that we now have a POTUS who revels in the dividing.
“The United States rests on a dedication to equality, which is chiefly a moral idea, rooted in Christianity, but it rests, too, on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching.” from “These Truths: A History of the United States” by Jill Lepore