I almost couldn’t write this post. My sides hurt from laughing so hard. This story about Google being outraged by the NSA hacking is absolutely hilarious! Seriously??? You run a business on a “free” OS on a joke-of-the-industry CPU and you are outraged you got hacked? I got news for you, the source is available to everyone. Much of the code which goes in gets written by people who are unemployed and may not even … If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be OutragedRead more
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Mesothelioma
I’ve put off writing a post about this for some time. I knew I should write a post but didn’t know exactly what to write. You see, not all that long ago I lost an uncle to this disease. Yes, like you I see the late night television ads for one mesothelioma law firm or other. They seem to range from one guy out of timbucktoo to a Chicago personal injury lawyer. Some times they … MesotheliomaRead more
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The Sad State of LifeScan and Bayer
I must give a nod to the post and title I’m ripping off: The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012. It has been almost a year and not much has changed. Well actually, the things which have changed should have made the required course of action completely obvious. Microsoft canned the head of Windows. (Okay, he “left” two weeks after Windows 8 came out with no prior warning or hint from the company, no … The Sad State of LifeScan and BayerRead more
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Round-Up Ready Cocaine Syndrome
Quite some time ago, back when I used to blog for “the Fool”, I wrote a post about how farmers were going to have to dust off their Weber Weeders and start walking soybeans again. I was lambasted by people who had just stumbled out of a coffee shop. (Coffee really is the beverage of life’s losers.) They were even more outraged when I told them 2-4d quit working years ago and 2-4d ready soybeans … Round-Up Ready Cocaine SyndromeRead more
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Ethics in Income Act
Many years ago, we had news stories about someone occupying a chair at a major brokerage firm for six months while “the board” searched for a full-time candidate. After attending only a handful of meetings, this individual pulled the ripcord on a $360 million dollar golden parachute. Needless to say, the blue- and white-collar workers who had retirement accounts holding mutual funds managed by said brokerage firm were immediately crying foul. The brokerage firm brushed … Ethics in Income ActRead more