Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Friday, October 23, 2020

Agenda Giveaways

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     Sad to say, these days there aren’t many questions that don’t have a political component. Politics has crept into places where it never...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Concerning My Smartphone Agonies

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     Subsequent to posting yesterday’s rant, I received a lot of email that echoed the sentiments therein. One piece in particular was rath...
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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Hostile Technology: A Vent

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     I am a retired engineer: a technologist by trade. Thus, I expect to find the technology I confront comprehensible. Sadly, that isn’t a...
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Saturday, December 7, 2019

What Does Not Change: A Slightly Early Rumination

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     Before I get started on the meat of this piece: My sincerest thanks to those Gentle Readers who wrote me with helpful suggestions for d...
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Violations of the 1st Amendment

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A President that spies on reporters, claiming national security. CBS News has the same story. So, why is the Trump administration's...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Cities And The Evolution Of Nations

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     If you haven’t read Jane Jacobs’s visionary book Cities And The Wealth Of Nations, you should grab a copy before they’re all gone. Mis...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Just Imagine What the Leftists Could Do With This

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Read a frightening bit about technology and digital manipulation here. Scroll down further in the post to get to the terrifying bits. Court...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Smart Spending on Anti-Terrorism

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I've linked an article about some specific measures that could help reduce fatalities, by intelligent use of technology to allow respon...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Technological Toxicities

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     "I wish the old man had remembered something about the fall of the old Ring society. I had an idea …" And he told the puppete...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Threats Impel Decentralization

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     The terrorist attack on the Berlin Christmas market has revived, at least for the moment, Europeans’ consciousness of their insecurity ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Quickies: On Digital Memory Lane

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     The esteemed Charles Hill has a recollection from 1988:      Seven hundred American dollars for a 40-meg hard drive! Then again, this...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Quickies: Cautionary Words

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From Oregon Muse at AoSHQ:      Personally, I've always distrusted "the cloud". The point of having your own computer,person...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Exponential Curves

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     About twelve years ago – yes, I’ve been doing this for that long; since 1997 in fact – I wrote an essay titled “Curves” that appeared a...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Walls Closing In Dept.

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Before I launch into today’s tirade, allow me to make a strong recommendation for the website of a friend and colleague: The Declination. T...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

Space Cases

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Rand Simberg’s article of today brings a fresh perspective to those of us who’ve fretted over the seeming decline of America’s space techno...
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Better-Off-Without-It Dept.

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No. Please! No discussion of Super Bowl XLVIII! My constitution is too delicate for the subject, especially at this hour. Today's top...
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