Business, Mathematics, Technology and Society

A Question About Evolution

May 22, 2015 Rand Simberg 9 Comments

No, not the scientific theory, the email client.

It’s sending mail, but none of the sent mail for today is showing up in the “Sent” folder. Anyone know what’s going on, or how to trouble shoot?

[Saturday-afternoon update]

OK, mystery solved. The “Sent” folder I’ve been looking at is the one that mirrors the server, and I’m seeing older message there from this week that I was sending from the server, via Roundcube, because I was on my laptop on which I’ve not set up or synched Evolution. The new ones were sent from Evolution, and were stored in the generic “Sent” folder. So I haven’t lost them, but they’re in a different place.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

The Theologian-In-Chief

May 22, 2015 Rand Simberg 19 Comments

First, he lectures us on what is and isn’t Islamic. Then he tells Christians what their religion requires of them, and to “not get up on their high horse” because of something that happened a thousand years ago. And now, he tells Jews that it is their religious duty to give up their holy land.

Mathematics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, War Commentary

Human-Caused Climate Change

May 22, 2015 Rand Simberg 3 Comments

Did it cause the war in Syria?

This is so stupid to me, that the question isn’t even worth asking.

Business, Health, Philosophy, Science And Society, Technology and Society

A Pill Of Superheavy Protective Fat

May 21, 2015 Rand Simberg 2 Comments

Could it prolong youth?

I’d take it, but I want one that reverses the process. Within limits, of course.

Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Free Speech

May 21, 2015 Rand Simberg 3 Comments

How to recognize standard media tropes against the First Amendment.

General Science, Mathematics, Media Criticism, Philosophy, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Technology and Society

Jeb Bush On Climate

May 21, 2015 Rand Simberg

I’m don’t want him to be the nominee, but I agree with what he said. Judith Curry has unearthed an essay from over a century ago that explains the current problem with climate science.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

The Ramadi Defeat

May 20, 2015 Rand Simberg 21 Comments

…was snatched by Obama from Bush’s victory.

I can’t imagine how bad the morale must be for those who fought to take back Anbar from Al Qaeda.

[Update a while later, from Long Beach]

The ugly choices of Ramadi:

If Ramadi is not recaptured, Sunni Iraq will have slipped to ISIS, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men may never be able to put Iraq back together again. On the other hand, if the U.S. backs the militias’ advance, it may well be party to ethnic bloodshed that will put the killings after the fall of Tikrit to pale. Thus, even if the militas do retake Ramadi the methods they employ could so deeply antagonize the non-ISIS-supporting elements of the Sunni population as to have the same result: no more Iraq.

While publicly the Administration and the Pentagon have started to sound a bit like Baghdad Bob, Administration officials have anonymously begun voicing their unease with the situation, in one instance describing Ramadi as a “powder keg” noting that there is a potential for things to go “very, very badly.”

This is what happens when you put a “community organizer” in charge of…well…anything.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary