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Would it be fair to suggest that Donald Trump has succeeded in lowering whatever passes for "standards" in the Republican Party to his own personal level?
Santos will find himself right at home in the House with Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjory …
"I even have a few passwords that I don’t write down or file anywhere"
Exactly why using old telephone numbers that you already have stashed in your memory works well. Using the entire exchange name prefix with the first two letters capitalized plu…
"the tendency to seek out those whose opinions support whatever opinion we may already have."
AKA: "The need to feel better from knowing that other people have made the same stupid mistakes that you did" :)
A short History of Telephone Numbers-
The "2L-5N" numbering plan was originally designed for a time before the Bell System was upgraded to manual dialing by the telephone system customers themselves. Prior to that, all calls were connected by askin…
I don't use any sort of password manager- just one more piece of my life subject to someone else's control, as far as I'm concerned.
Being 83 does have some benefits: people of our age grew up with telephone numbers that had words as prefixes. For …
Based on the evening news program and especially the quality of the NewsHour coverage of the recent midterm election, I think that Amna Nawaz, Stephanie Sy, and Lisa Desjardins will do a very good job between them. I'm especially hopeful that Amna N…
@Derf- You know, advanced AI wouldn't need to resort to anything as crude as that. Why blow everything up when you can develop a few viruses that would get rid of 95% of humans and leave everything else standing and alive? It's for sure that the few…
It's going to take some doing to get used to Judy Woodruff not being there. She was kind of a rock of reality in my universe. I depended on her to help sort through the craziness.
There are surely some good people still there, but it won't be quite…
@LewisBraham- That VOX report is truly scary. It details how even the American developers of this technology are perhaps not being as careful as they should be in the constant development and improvement of this technology- "there’s a growing consen…
Derf, one of these days I'm gonna reach through this screen and wring your neck. :)
Have a great New Year, and please continue to keep us all guessing.
@hank- Of course there's a requirement to hold these type of assets for a particular time frame. That can be either a benefit or a potential problem, depending on the circumstances. If you know that you are not going to need that money for that time…
@Sven- We don't really need income in addition to our pensions and SS, so I'm not necessarily looking for the absolute highest rate. I'm primarily just trying to put in place some inflation protection for our savings, in safe medium-term instruments…
Speaking of interest rates, those of us who have been stocking up on bank CDs have certainly noticed a slow but sure deterioration in the rate being offered for 2 and 3 year CDs: 4.95% CD offerings are now down to 4.65%. This started a bit before th…
China has a significant population problem- a major imbalance between a large older population requiring increasing amounts of health and other support services, and a smaller younger population which is becoming increasingly unable to supply suffic…
@hank- Yes, but seriously, those "AirTags" have been misused to track the location of individuals without their knowledge. They have been placed in vehicles or even in purses or clothing and then been used to track people without their permission. U…
Well, all of that is true right now, but I'm thinking that ten years out the big guys will own the market, as usual. But, a big unknown is if there is a possible major breakthrough in removing carbon from the environment. If that should happen, all…
"This guy is seriously ill "
Yes, I've thought the same thing for a while now. It's not all that uncommon for very high IQ to also be borderline flaky, to use the correct medical terminology.
As far as Musk personally and Tesla, I could not really…
Southwest cancels another 4,800 flights as its reduced schedule continues
Following are edited excerpts from a current NPR report:
Hundreds of thousands of travelers hoping to fly on Southwest Airlines this week are likely to be left in limbo a few…
both OJ and Crash used the word "leaders"
Well, of course. I really don't understand how we got sidetracked into an assumption that entire peoples or citizens of a particular country were the prime concern. People are people, pretty much the same …
You two surely know that I very much respect your intellects, thoughts, and opinions. With respect to the protection of our country though, all I have to say is ask the Europeans what they now think of their energy source choices.
The decisions mad…
"exposure to TSLA has now been diminished whether you did anything or not"
Cute... I like that, and I'll remember it the next time that I look at ASML. :)
How about if we simply ask this question: If China attacked Taiwan next week, and simultaneously cut off all trade relations with the US, what critical resources (if any) would we not be able to replace in a reasonable amount of time?
As far as I'm…
