Back in 2002, I wrote (regarding the US government’s cybersecurity efforts), “adding money to a disaster doesn’t necessarily help get it done, most of the time you just wind up with bigger, more expensive disasters.”
Bloomberg’s got a “young hipness” problem – namely that he is neither young nor hip.
You may want to skip this one if you loathe American politics.
The coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is scary and, having been in the path of a near-lethal coronavirus, one of the worst parts is wondering, “how much worse can this get?” and suspecting that the answer is “a whole lot.”
[Warning: Torture]
It’s all the rage: “Sure, I killed some folks, but we’ve got to move on.”
A few weeks ago I mused out loud about some weird symmetries regarding emails. [stderr]
The liberalized world-view tries to understand and forgive the ordinary German for the holocaust. When I was a kid, we were taught that it was mostly Hitler’s fault, but that a smallish coterie surrounding him supported the effort.
The last week’s “impeachment show” was a painful spectacle. Everyone betrayed everything; the only people who seemed to be truly self-aware were the horrible, sleazy, republicans and Donald Trump’s defenders. There was nothing to expect from them except the worst and, boy, did they deliver.
I’m not going to quote big swathes of this, because you should just give it a listen.
Have you seen gun nuts sporting a patch that reads “RWDS”? It stands for Right Wing Death Squad.