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Wells Fargo torches their wagon
In connection with the “widespread illegal practices,†Wells Fargo has also fired 5,300 employees and managers, with one notable exception: the executive in charge.We will never fix the recurrent crises in American (and perhaps worldwide—looking at you, HBSC) banking until white collar executives go to jail and pay enormous, well-deserved, personal...
Wells Fargo torches their wagon
In connection with the “widespread illegal practices,†Wells Fargo has also fired 5,300 employees and managers, with one notable exception: the executive in charge.We will never fix the recurrent crises in American (and perhaps worldwide—looking at you, HBSC) banking until white collar executives go to jail and pay enormous, well-deserved, personal...
Volt and Bolt
The only two Chevy vehicles I've ever considered owning. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/technology/how-did-gm-create-teslas-dream-car-first.html?smid=tw-share&referer=
Not even close
Remember that iOS vulnerability that Apple patched with iOS 9.3.5? Yeah, it infected almost no phones. By contrast:It was a bad week for millions of Android phone users. Two critical vulnerabilities were disclosed but remain unpatched in a large percentage of devices, while, separately, malicious apps were downloaded as many as 2.5 million times from...
Theranos, a sad medical scam
...it is impossible to get a precise result from the tip of a finger for most of the tests that Theranos would claim to conduct accurately. When a finger is pricked, the probe breaks up cells, allowing debris, among other things, to escape into the interstitial fluid. While it is feasible to test for pathogens this way, a pinprick is too unreliable for...
Obama defends Kaepernick rights; ignores protest
This would seem to indicate that Kaepernick's protest is falling on deaf ears:The president said he hasn't paid close attention to Kaepernick's protest, but he added that he has no doubt that Kaepernick is sincere and "cares about some real, legitimate issues that have to be talked about."As I've said before, there is no federal issue here of which I'm...
Washing away our sins
How much water is coming our way via climate change is up for debate, but that it's coming or that it's a lot is not. “I’m a Republican, but I also realize, by any objective analysis, the sea level is rising,†said Jason Buelterman, the mayor of tiny Tybee Island, one of the first Georgia communities to adopt a detailed climate plan.That any GOP...
Can Tesla survive the Model 3?
Given their nowhere near state of the art manufacturing, Tesla's gear up to produce significant volumes seems problematic. Tesla's autos have been a triumph thus far, but I'm having difficulty seeing how they're going to mass produce the Model 3. They'll get some out the door, for sure, but probably not on time, and they're very unlikely to get significant...
Adjectives
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/adjectives/order-adjectivesinterestingly, if you get the order wrong you sound kind of mental: "the big red metal spoon" is fine but you'll get weird looks with "the metal red big spoon."
Emails and personal data should be private
This sort of thing is why we have a Fourth Amendment. “Whether the government has a warrant to rifle through our mail, safety deposit boxes, or emails stored in the cloud, it must notify people about the searches,†said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. “When electronic searches are done in secret, we lose our right to challenge the legality of law...
Essays
US World Cup ’98: 3-6-1 Hike
A cautionary tale of a nation, a team, and a coach who thinks he knows more than the next guy. Sheep to the slaughter courtesy of a bizarre soccer formation and goofy player personnel selection. It's time-honored, it's easy to do, and in this case, it's absolutely on the mark: I blame the coach. When it comes right down to it, the United States deserved a whole lot better in World Cup '98 than to finish dead last, team number 32 of 32. But coach Steve Sampson clearly didn't...
Finley
Venturing into the cut-throat world of short story fiction, I subtly dis multi-level marketing and insult Leprechauns. All that glitters is not gold, but some people seem to think that maybe if we close our eyes and wish really hard, it will be. Nope. Truth is, Finley reminded me of a Leprechaun. It's probably because he had a beard without a mustache, and he always wore an impish little grin. Or maybe it was his bouncing manner, which seemed far too youthful for his years....
Investing Resources
Oh Lordy yes how I tried to help my fellow man through offering this free investing advice. Oh Lordy no how they did not want it. Questions! Yes, questions I invited them to ask. But did they? No sir, they did not. Languish, yes, languish my investing section did. Fed, yes fed I tell you, up to here I was. So moved it, I did. Put something else up instead. Happier now? Oh Lordy yes. [Legalese: I am not a financial planner, and I've never played one on TV. Nothing in...
One Tin Soldier
An interview with the interesting and elusive Ty Davison. Conducted by Ty Davison. Edited by Ty Davison. A blunt blow with a heavy object. A spiritual review of capitalism. Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike. Too much monkey business. An interview with Ty Davison This interview was conducted on April 21-22, 1998 under bizarre circumstances. For whatever reason, Davison felt compelled to veil our meetings in a cloud of secrecy, insisting that I double back on my...