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to the Weekly Notes 2008 Archives Hydrocarbon: We are still hung up in
the hydrocarbon mindset. To solve the energy problem for the long-term, we
must give up that mentality. We must find another way to produce abundant
cheap energy and stop financing terrorism. The Arabs have no creativity and
no productivity. Without the income from that oil, they would degenerate to
mindless squabbling mobs of the various factions of Islam. We have creativity
and productivity. It’s damn well time we started to apply those assets
to the problem of energy. If we don’t wake up soon it will be too late.
The Muslims will achieve their final revenge for the Holy Wars of the dark
ages. Western civilization will be destroyed by its own weapons purchase with
its own money. In the short-term, it
would be useful to produce a high performance auto that produced no harmful
emissions. That probably means no emissions at all. It would be useful to
have an automobile that would run on any kind of liquid hydrocarbon you
dumped into it and produce no oxides of carbon or nitrogen. I still believe
that is possible. From my perspective, I
do not think we will ever achieve that long-term or even the short-term
solution. The people with the power to seek those solutions are not doing it.
They are still offering glitz, glamour, and promises for the future. What are
the promises they are offering? More of the same, with more glitz, but they
will not talk about performance. What they offer in the emission free
category, does not have high performance and probably never will. They want
us to hunker down and accept that. Rangel: He is the congressman
who leads the effort on writing the tax refund bill that will come out of Revelation: One of the nutcases on
“This Week” made the observation that there is a disconnect
between the media and reality. How profound can you get? That disconnect
existed before Walter Cronkite. It is as old as TV news, and it is not news
to any thinking person. That person also said Bill Clinton is acting like a
little league dad. I agree. He is every bit as dishonest as a little league
dad. He is telling blatant lies about Obama. Of course, he has the experience
for that. He may be hurting Hillary. I don’t care. He is definitely
hurting his own legacy. Dumb, that’s all! He may appear to be great to
a few Dumbocrats. To me, he is kaka poopoo. Media: There was no race issue
in this election until the media inserted it by pretending to worry about
blacks voting for Obama for the wrong reason, because he is black. Of course,
that did not happen. Black voters are just as selfish as white voters. With
very poor understanding, they vote for what they believe is their own
short-term good just as do white voters. Meanwhile the media people have
found a large number of women who are voting for Hillary because she is a
woman. Strangely enough, that seems to be approved by the media fools. Duh! Computers: Computer science is bass
ackwards, especially the software part. A person should not have to be a
computer scientist to use computers. I should not need to understand how a
computer or a piece of software works to use a word processor. A doctor
should not have to know either, nor should a banker have to be a computer
scientist. A CPA should not have to be a computer specialist to do tax work.
It’s all crap. The software companies have taken an arrogant position.
Instead of saying, I will learn enough about your business to give you the
tools you need, they say in effect, you must learn the computer science trade
so you can use the garbage I’m willing to give you. User friendly is the
bullcrap catch phase. It makes me want to shove a wire brush up the buns of
the person who says it. If one company ever started to make real ‘User
Friendly’ software, they would put all the others out of business. I
mean software that makes the user forgets the computer in the same way he
forgets the telephone is a complex tool, which is connected to a network
which is even more complex. Don’t try to
bullcrap me into the notion that a computer is more complex than a telephone
network which has properly integrated computers built into it. It’s a
silly notion which just doesn’t wash. And, don’t try to bullcrap
me that the computer industry is not mature. That’s true enough, but it
should be. The industry is more than fifty years old. The first Turing
machine was defined in 1937 and the first model was built in WWII. That was a
time when many people did not have telephones because they were so new. Now
these con artists would have us believe that the industry is only as old as
the PC, first announce by IBM in 1981. That’s a lie. Runaway: Near Here is a research
project for you: Who was the field
commander of the Battling Bastards of Bastogne? Where is Back
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