In the next version of Firefox, can you please put in a little utility that tells me which tab in which browser instance is causing it to eat up the CPU? Just this blog post took several minutes to create…
[Update Tuesday morning]
Folks, note that this is not a memory problem (I’ve got eight gigs of RAM) — it is a CPU problem. I have a quad-core Phenom II, and it still gets brought to its knees, at least in Firefox, but sometimes it slows down everything.
I haven’t been a member in many years (I don’t know when I dropped, but it was probably in the late eighties) because for a long time I’ve viewed them as either part of the problem, or irrelevant (for instance, Aerospace America just seemed to be a font of conventional industry wisdom). But they continue to bug me to reup, and I’m thinking that it might actually be useful for me to do so, but if so, at this point in my career, I would only do so as a fairly senior type, for which one has to have sponsorship (according to my understanding). Is there anyone out there that would like to take this on?
With tax cheat Tim Geithner.
If you are for individual liberty, and the American Dream it should be chilling. Shivers went up my spine. Geithner is a character straight out of central casting.
With regard to the debt ceiling, Geithner doesn’t offer up a compromise at all. It’s the administration’s way, or the highway. This means that there is only one way — vote out the Democrats by a significant margin in the House, Senate and get rid of Obama and his very left wing administration in 2012.
He also outright lies about what will get paid and what won’t.
Listen to his words on Dodd-Frank: “Don’t listen to the bankers because their interests aren’t aligned with the American people.” It could be a phrase right out of Atlas Shrugged.
Bankers need a healthy economy to make money. Geithner and Obama want a government directed economy where government de facto owns the banks.
Listen to him talk about the new activist “Consumer Financial Protection Agency” and avowed big government/public sector ownership advocate Elizabeth Warren. Geithner has no faith in the private sector, or the individual. He wants to trample individual rights.
Also, a bonus reference to advocates of limited government and liberty as “anarchists.”
[Update a few minutes later]
Federal expansion — the real issue in the debt-limit debate.
Will there be a war between Israel and Iran in September?
[Update a while later]
Unfortunately, this may be related — are we approaching a “Munich moment” in southeast Asia?
…with the Khan Academy.
Hard to believe it’s been that long (doesn’t seem that long ago that I attended a celebration in Hollywood thrown by Ron Howard for the quarter-century anniversary), but today is the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. Wednesday is Evoloterra, so it’s a good time to plan a get together with family and friends to celebrate. Bill Simon and I, the principal authors of the ceremony, will be discussing it on The Space Show on Monday afternoon.
What does the law say about video recording police activity? I think that these cops should not only be sued, but suspended. And it would be nice to see it become a big national story, to discourage such behavior in other departments.
…is interviewed by Instapundit.
A couple points. The SRBs are more than two pieces — they consist of seven segments. And I think that American entrepreneurs/adventurers will be back on the moon before the Chinese are.
[Update early afternoon]
Here’s the Youtube version for those who don’t subscribe to Pajamas TV.
…know that Barack Obama is a liar.
I’d tweet that, but I don’t want to establish a precedent for actually using my Twitter account.
That was apparently the theme of Gilligan’s Island.