- Ah. Well yeah. That would explain why the DoJ weaseled out of prosecuting Hillary.
- Elon Musk: his detailed plans for getting to Mars. Guess the details on how to survive there will come over time. This is a blessed start, though.
- More on that latest hopeful-but-doomed libertarian micro-nation project.
- The Detroit News endorses Gary Johnson for president. Funny, when the equally conservative Arizona Republic endorsed Hillary, the MSM was all over it. This? Not so much.
- The Wells Fargo scandal may be the overdue harbinger of doom for the U.S. banking system. But guess who is still the country’s largest predatory lender?
- Geek news (and security news for us all): “Unsafe at any Clock Speed”. The Linux kernel needs a rethinking in the era of giant cyberattacks.
- Walk. Just walk. You’ll heal better, get injured less, and remain independent longer.
- And more potentially good news, both for the aging and for the young people who increasingly blast away their good hearing: within five years pills and other therapies may be available to restore lost ear-power.
- The Barefoot Bandit is out of prison as of yesterday. Good luck to him.
- Fore-edge printing. Have you ever seen this in an old book? New to me.
- Some sweet news for a change out of the chaotic Middle East.
- And for your canine amusement: 27 dogs who really, really hate baths.
I have seen fore-edge printing before and didn’t pay attention to it much, now I am going back to some old editions I have and look for it again, thanks.
The new hearing news is good news for shooters like me who as a youngum didn’t much think about ear protection while shooting outdoors, until I was in a motorcycle accident in my thirties I thought I was invincible but life changed after that on priorities for sure.
Claire I look forward every day to your articles about pets, with everything that is going bad in this world you can never find a better friend than a good pet.
I applaud the Mars project, though Europa may be a better long term objective…Question is, can Musk get there, and return, without tens of billions of subsidies?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-28/libertarian-gary-johnson-has-another-aleppo-moment Statist “libertarian” can’t even name world leaders…
Exciting news about advances in hearing technology and medicine. I doubt very much the drug route… too many variables, but it will be interesting to see what develops. For now, the new digital hearing aids have transformed my life and I’m very grateful for them.
I had never before heard about fore-edge printing. I’ll have to look through some of my old books tonight.
As to the Hillary email non-prosecution, I always thought it was strange (as in “unbelievable”) that Obama never once exchanged emails with his Secretary of State, but to learn the he did so using a pseudonym is more unexpected than even I gave him credit for. I haven’t seen any of this covered in the national press. Why?
I think Obama deserves a tremendous amount of credit. Bryce Towsley appropriately (I think) wrote “I have watched in horror as Obama has attacked America with the brilliance that has allowed him to succeed.” http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/preppers-say-obama-has-divided-us-on-a-course-for-civil-war/article/2591381
And the CIA isn’t too likely to be upset about the security chasms caused by Hillary’s server, either. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/09/21/cia-director-john-brennan-admitted-voting-for-the-communist-party-in-1980-during-polygraph/
Fore-edge printing: I have several books that are like this. I did not know what it was called until today. Now I have to check if any of them are actually worth $.
Gary Johnson: I do not vote (anywhere) but personally I’m OK with Stoner for President. Really. He can’t be any worse that what the voters of the US have been electing the last few decades.
Linux Kernel: I run Qubes but there are many options that are more secure than the standard. Also, why pick on Linux? Windows and Mac are far less secure and are far more widespread. The car analogy is neat but goes only so far. You need some basic skills to drive a car or use a computer. Perhaps in the future a “basic skill” will be _don’t buy a device you can’t patch, keep up to date with security patches_ One can hope.
Seems the hearing pills thing is for the newly damaged ears, with the key word being “restore”. I’d be more impressed with something that”d work on the born deafs.
See my previous comment with the two YouTube videos that would relate to this.
I’m not sure I could name a “favorite world leader” right now. The crop isn’t very inspiring. OTOH I think I could have done a better job of not answering a gotcha question like that one, where any answer you give will piss off leaders you didn’t pick and leave you open to rebuttals from everyone who disagrees.
I learned to dance around such when it was aunts asking, “Who is your favorite uncle?”
Hilary was Gregoryed.
I thought they already had the Mars answer: http://www.mars-one.com/ After all, they have a newsletter.
I first saw refugee camps in Germany in the mid 1950s, human “refuse” left from WWII. What a damn waste.
I held a lot of opinions in the 1980s that have since changed. Learn Something Every Day!
Some thousands of Wells Fargo employees created $Xmil of customer activity over years not expecting customers to squeal? I hadn’t caught this fiasco. Oops. Thanks, and time for some homework on my part. Lot of Monopoly money out there trying to make money buying and selling itself I guess.
“I’m not sure I could name a “favorite world leader” right now. The crop isn’t very inspiring. OTOH I think I could have done a better job of not answering a gotcha question like that one,”
LarryA — Agreed on both counts. It’s also quite irritating that the MSM is spinning this as “Johnson couldn’t think of the name of a single world leader” rather than “couldn’t think of a favorite world leader.” Still, anybody who’d ever gone to a few Toastmasters meetings would know how to dance around a question rather than going DUH in front of already-skeptical journalists. Hard to believe that an experienced politician like Johnson is so unable to think on his feet.
“Some thousands of Wells Fargo employees created $Xmil of customer activity over years not expecting customers to squeal?”
I’ve wondered about that myself as these Wells Fargo stories have come out. I don’t know the answer, but it’s possible that the employees closed the new accounts almost as quickly as they created them, so customers either didn’t see the accounts or saw them only as a momentary glitch.
” but it’s possible that the employees closed the new accounts almost as quickly as they created them”
While I’m finding a lot about “burn the boss”, not so much on details of what actually happened (I sooo love the MSM!). I’m getting the impression funds where actually moved from customer accounts rather than just ghost accounts created and billed. Ghost accounts could quickly generate charges and fees showing as receivables, but all would very soon go delinquent with ripple effects to the banks books, and customer credit scores. Someone knows more out there…