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Presidential candidates don’t talk about policies and plans any more. Instead, they bash each other personally for public opinion points. Surrogates from their campaign spew deniable, connotative rhetoric. Who is willing to discuss real $ and time policy choices? Sounds Continue reading
Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) search engine refuses to show Normal Rockwell paintings. The reason presented by the search engine is because such idealized images of American culture might expose someone to harmful stereotypes of sex, gender and race. The Continue reading
Joe Biden. Donald Trump. And so the melee continues.. Special counsel s report choosing to not prosecute Biden for mishandling classified had some politically damaging commentary on why they were not prosecuting. Even though he ..willfully retained and revealed classified military Continue reading
The IRS is coming for you. The $600 reporting rule was pushed through by our Federal government s administration. It used to be that you had to receive $20,000 and at least 200 transactions to incite bank reporting to the IRS. Continue reading
Scanning a QR code from an event poster can work. I understand that. I don t understand why providing a URL in clear text has gotten a bad reputation. Clear text, readable by humans, is more cyber secure (no need to Continue reading
Some people may remember pictures from the late 1980s and 1990s that include crews of terrorists in white Toyota trucks, with machine guns bolted down in the truck bed. The trucks were puny and fragile compared to militarized versions of Continue reading
It used to be investments and retirement plans were proportional: if you put in more, you get more out. Now, I find a new paradigm edging into traditional programs like Social Security. Nothing is changing about the program except the Continue reading
Many people talk about agile acquisitions of military defense systems, trying to put away bureaucracy that has grown for decades. Elon Musk seems to operate in a different place and think differently. Consider the chronological script below. In a week, Continue reading
If you want to buy or sell a used Crypto Miner, there are a few things that you should be aware of! As a starting point, read the official documentation of the Helium mining network about transferring a miner. Only Continue reading
Exodus and Atomic are both desktop wallets for a variety of crypto coins. They both do no fiat exchanges, but they do dozens of conversions between crypto types. Exodus appears a lot more expensive even through both claim no fees . Continue reading
September of 2021 President Biden announced that employees of government contractors would be required to be vaccinated. So many compliant, bureaucratically minded companies are falling into line, including airlines, chicken producers, drug manufacturers, etc from nearly every sector of business Continue reading
Jonathon Meer believes in individual risk and reward. Specifically, if you don t get injected with a biological agent Covid immunization, then you should pay your own hospital bills. At the same time he believes others should get community-provided benefits for, Continue reading
Biden s new plan is to, take on discrimination in home appraisals and address inequality in home appraisals . What? How can you mandate what an appraised value will be? Appraisers don t set prices, they simply report them. The present administration envisions Continue reading
I m the official Senses Taker, and I must have some information before I can take your senses. Now if you ll just tell me when you were born, where you were born, why you were born, how old you are now, Continue reading
Crypto currencies are mined by people with computer power to spare. That game is changing. Presently, miners add up all the pending transactions and look for the unknown number that will bind together all the new transactions with the last Continue reading
The concept of cryptocurrency assumes the blockchain assets (such as a Bitcoin) is fungible each coin is indistinguishable from others. There are some new concepts that challenge the underlying fungible assumption like the government impounding bitcoins (and tracking Continue reading
I ve been a loyal Marriott hotel client for years. But this time, a Fairfield by Marriott in North Carolina deserves this posting title. About no-show fees To avoid charge of a day on your credit card, you need to cancel Continue reading