UUCP. UUCP equivalent by person to person network of flash drives. Barbara works at Intel. Her roommate Sarah works at McDonalds. Sarah's manager's wife works at Macy's. And so on. People have multiple pass-ons for the data stream. Neighbors. Workout partners. The owner of the 7 Eleven around the corner ( Read more... )

Why should my tax dollars and the social security system pay for people with so-called mental health problems to lay on a couch and whine and lay on their fat asses collecting a Social Security Disability check on my dime, drinking beer, and watching Oprah ( Read more... )

http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/09/23/the-american-dream-of-home-ownership-has-become-a-nightmare.html?PageNr=2Read more... )

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/08/23/4954400-apple-would-use-voice-facial-recognition-as-part-of-iphone-kill-switchRead more... )

The Administration has finally gotten serious about the Mexican border. Starting Nov. 1, mail service shall be reduced to 3 days a week to enable remaining personnel to cover expanded routes. Yes, it's time: he's deploying postal workers.

We've all noticed the profusion of participation awards where everybody on the team gets a medal, everyone gets a ribbon for running in the race---or because they wanted to run but couldn't complete the course but at least they started. I don't think we've decided that just giving ribbons to people who cross the starting line is hurtful to people ( Read more... )

How many people have you had get mad at you for not answering your phone, maybe have assumed you're willfully ignoring them. And then, finding out you didn't have your phone were still upset unless you had a "good [enough] reason" or genuinely forgot your phone? Why do we have a sense of entitlement to 24/7 access to people? Or for them to "at ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/31/pub-chicago-man-charged-disorderly-conduct-praying-outside-planned-parenthood/

Fox News is trying to get sympathy for this guy on the grounds, "Is it disorderly ( Read more... )

Our political system selects for charming people. More, for charming people who can tell voters the lies we all want to hear--that we can have something for nothing, that we can have it all both ways, that we can have things better, faster, and cheaper all at the same time. That if we don't have what we want, right now, it's all somebody else's ( Read more... )

Had a wonderful time. Got to listen to Terry Brooks on two panels. The one where he and Ben Bova just talked about whatever was fantastic, as was Kelly Lockhart's interview with Terry Brooks. Ben Bova was in the audience for that panel. What a con ( Read more... )