Published March 14, 2017 in Warp & Woof How to Keep Your Exercise Routine Focused in the Present, not the Future William Sundwick Everybody agrees that exercise is an important factor in health, especially as we age. But, who hasn’t had difficulty keeping to their ideal exercise routine? It’s just too much work, it’s boring,Continue reading “How to Keep Your Exercise Routine Focused in the Present, not the Future”
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Link from Mother Jones
Feds can’t actually invalidate CA laws, but they can try to politically neutralize them for auto industry … fortunately, CA has successfully sold its strict environmental laws to most blue states, so that now 30% of new car market is in Blue America!
Link from Forbes
Even Forbes publishes opinion piece where Republicans are called out on the basic reasoning behind their health care plan!
Link from AlterNet
If you haven’t heard, yet, the alt-right has a counter movement: “antifa” (anti-fascist), basically anarchists, maybe prone to violence, certainly anti-democratic, much like their enemies, the alt-right
Mysteries of the Internet: IP Addresses
Published March 9, 2017 in Warp & Woof Mysteries of the Internet: IP Addresses – Where Do They Come From, and Why Should You Care? William Sundwick TCP/IP When the Department of Defense first developed DARPANET, in the late 1960s, it immediately became apparent that all the participating research institutions whose big clunky IBM mainframes,Continue reading “Mysteries of the Internet: IP Addresses”
More Links from 2017
It’s Wall Street, stupid! Queer is real … and, not pejorative! There is physiological intersexuality, and there are many people who are neither XX nor XY binaries, and even among those who are, many different factors contribute to sexual identity.
Link from Politico
Trump’s new VOICE office will collect and publish data on crimes local law enforcement have deemed too trivial for detention, “declined detainers” as ICE calls them, when local authorities decline to detain suspects long enough for ICE to get their hands on them.
Link from Vox
Science journalism has its weaknesses … maybe not fake news, but often sensationalized. Beware!
How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?
Published March 1, 2017 in Warp & Woof How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization? Personal experience from mid-century America William Sundwick Origins It started in Germany. When Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, acquaintances from a start-up engineering firm, invented a light-weight internal combustion engine (ICE in today’s parlance), they apparently realized thatContinue reading “How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?”
Link from Autoblog
Silcon Valley getting cold feet about this car making business? Don’t worry, there’s still the Big Data side of auto informatics …