Old spook and spy. DSc in Optical Sciences and Sensors. Worked in aerospace, medical device development, and ADAS. Mostly a good paying hobby. Retired for now. Playing with Computer Vision and DNNs. Whimsical outdoor railroad with gnomes, fairies, and dragons.
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Last Notes npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Aldrin was realistic about man made climate change the last time I had a chance to talk to him in 1999 (There had been an article in the local paper that morning). npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Like today in the Trump Abortion Ban states, it doesn't apply to rich folk. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ why do I find a Cialis/Viagra ad that tells the user to scan a QR code so funny? npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ That 11% of GOP voters going for her seems about right on all the polls. This may mean that all the "leans GOP" will flip to Harris. One can hope npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I lived in a small town with crank phones. Two of my classmates were telephone operators. they knew all. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Godwin said that it was ok to compare Trump to Hitler---even necessary. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ This wasn't made up out of whole cloth. This was based on the fact that it is still very difficult to get out of an abusive marriage in the south: npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I don't believe it is cowardice. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ It is extremely unlikely that Musk doesn't know he is the subject of an FBI CI or NSA investigation or a DoJ grandjury investigation. Musk has an agreement with Trump to stay out of jail. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I always thought it was because they disconnected their brain from their driving. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ In 1995, when people first started the internet, newspaper circulation was 68M. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ While the religions tend to exacerbate the problem, but the key is "extremist". npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ The best thing to do upon receiving a text "hi" is to block unless you know that person really well. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I assume you know, but in case others don't, paying somebody to register to vote OR receiving payment for such is covered by the same law and the same punishment. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I just saw an ad for a $75,000 signup bonus for seniors joining the Army. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I don't know whether the danger is that he would use the troops or the troops decide to follow the Constitution they have sworn to uphold. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Chicago is called the windy cities because of the long speeches the politicians gave during the opening of the 1893 World's Fair. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ You have a Dodgers fan friend or relative. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ No you can't. By definition, an intelligent dishwasher is one with artificial intelligence...no matter how primitive. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I really have trouble figuring out why otherwise intelligent businessmen buy into the myth that the GOP is better for them. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Militias were made illegal under the 1903 militia laws. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ When my daughters were in middle school, they came home and asked if Alicia could come over and play tomorrow night. Our answer was of course. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ That is a good point. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ The funny thing about this cloud seeding shit. It shows how dumb the right really is. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ TOA of the three nearest cell phone towers (they don't have to be your carrier) + their site ID gives an unambiguous location to the meter. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I just realized that this was probably the plan all along. By not giving interviews early on, everybody is ready to carry them. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Gates no longer has anything to do with the company. In fact, Microsoft stock is a small portion of his assets. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ He did a similar thing for The Chicks during their first Gulf War protesting. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ My favorite part of her tweet is the fact that the news cycle has moved on from the Taylor Swift endorsement and the Swifties to other things. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Yes. No small part of the problem is that it affects language research in that it is coloring the statistics of language. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ IMHO Generative AI is not ready for prime time. As such, setting it out there as a usable product will set back its future several decades. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Exactly. The polls have been blown up. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Polls this year are pretty much garbage. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Assuming it is remote shut down instead of the more common self bricking, I think even Musk is intelligent enough to recognize that if they are used as implements of war, they become regulated by ITAR and suddenly he loses most of his export market. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Are these the same Wankpanzers that Kadyrov has been complaining Musk remotely shut down? npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Probably the most unique campaign ad that I have ever seen: npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ McDonald Hamburgers were 15 cents. Fries a dime. Coke a dime. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ There's a biblical scholar out there that writes about this and what he calls the forgeries of the Bible (books whose authors are not the cited ones) npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ The King James version was a translation from the Latin Vulgate and some Greek texts that were translated for the vulgate. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Zionist's using anti-Semite to label anti-Zionist can only hurt the Jewish people by getting people to ignore the allegation. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I believe US, UK, and FR all used it during the occupation. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ So, some professional in personal security this morning on Ana Cabrera was asking how the perp knew Trump's schedule. What is the security slip that let that out? npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ So. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Message to TFG, Couch Vance, and the rest of the GOP. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ There needs to be laws governing them. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I have said that if the death rate due to firearms for members of Congress and the rich was the same as for poor youth, you couldn't even buy a gun illegally in this country. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ lol npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ I'm not sure Boomer is ageism any more than Karen is sexism. It refers to a behavioral pattern and not a chronological age in most instances. I know a lot of Baby Boomers and I would call very few a Boomer, but then, nobody would ever call me Silent...in spite of my generation npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ The only difference is that they play the theme from Titanic faster with him...the ship is sinking fast npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ For those who weren't in the Military. This is what makes Vance's faux outrage so grievous. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Let me see. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ There's going to be a connection between Walz and the Heartland. Dems need to keep him stumping there. Between the seven million new women voters and the electricity Walz can elect in rural America, IMHO 50 states are in play. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ To show how much things have changed, they are calling the almost 60 yo candidate...young. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Note this about Putin. He speaks several languages. English very well. He only uses a translator to give him time to think of an answer. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Hell, few of the psychiatrists get that there's a sweet spot. IMHO. They should ramp up the dose until you get anxiety and then back it off until ADHD returns and set the dose halfway in between. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ My favorite is the old saw how ADHD medicines turn kids into zombies. The dumb F doesn't get that most of them are freakin' stimulants. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ She did say hello to him and shook his hand. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ IF he is elected, I approve. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ Trump visited 24 countries and visited with 150 world leaders. npub13hz3fe2csw5s0gxj2dwxn9yna3ccfu7vdx0htf4mqf25rcx6vsaq5fqh73 Ralph058 (S/he/it) AF4EZ The thing is, they did not pass the increased costs on to the customers. Fast food wages are a very small portion of the gross, on the order of 5 to 10%. Increasing the minimum wage 25% would mean something north of 1 to 3% increase in costs. The fast food industry increased prices 20 to 25%.
