“…and me.”
This isn’t just Heinlein’s crazy years. As he notes, it is totalitarianism.
Category Archives: Business
A Bad Day For Facebook
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a good day for many of us.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Hackers threaten to reactivate Facebook if their demands aren’t met.
The “Renewable” Fallacy
“…and why I blame Jimmy Carter.“
The New Secession Movement
…continues to grow. Basically, we have states that want to be part of the Republic, and states that do not.
Left-To-Right Political Change
Thoughts from NEO on the social costs.
I was talking to a college roommate about this yesterday, though in his case it wasn’t so much a political change — he’s always been libertarianish — so much as the costs of coming out now.
Safety At Blue Origin
This can’t give Tory Bruno a warm feeling about the engines for Vulcan.
Weird Internet Issue
My desktop has quit communicating with Slack (slack.com). I can access it from a laptop, but not from my desktop. It acts like a DNS issue, but I can ping everything except it. It just started doing this a couple hours ago, and I didn’t change anything. Any ideas?
[Update a while later]
[root@localhost ~]
# ping slack.com
PING slack.com (54.87.197.95) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
— slack.com ping statistics —
14 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 13292ms
Same thing happens when I ping the address directly. So it’s not a DNS issue. Very strange that I can get to it from the Windows laptop, but not the Linux desktop.
[Update late afternoon]
It’s back up. I guess I was one of the one percent.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Aaaaaaand it’s down again. At least now I know there’s nothing I can do about it, and no point in wasting time trying to figure it out. I just have to hope that they’ll get it sorted.
The “Space Cowboys”
Criticism of them isn’t enough.
Uh, huh.
…is effectively a hostile foreign power, and it’s time to treat it like one.
Biden’s World
Thoughts on its collapse.
He is not a man for the times. But then, he was never a man for any times.