Cousin Dave, thoughts about Musk appear at end here.

Ann is upset.

Remember the 70's sex music from yesterday? Here's the bachelor pad I envisioned for full adulthood when listening to it.

A lot of it came true.

Note Strat in foreground.

Some of it had to wait for the turn of the century, but still

Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11566

White liberals 'patronize' minorities, study finds

Liberals present themselves as warmer, less competent to minority audiences

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/28/white-liberals-patronize-minorities-downplaying-co/

The immigration debate summarized -

https://i.imgtc.com/HDwn8c0.jpg

The march towards a civil war continues:

The Illinois House took the rare step Wednesday of erasing from its record a Democratic legislator’s remark suggesting she’d like to infect the water supply of a GOP colleague’s loved ones with “a broth of Legionella.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/28/illinois-house-expunges-stephanie-kifowit-legionna/

Stormy Daniels covers her ass. For the first time in years... nyuk nyuk.

Good.

In a sense, Timbs v. Indiana is a pretty easy case. The Eighth Amendment bars the imposition of “excessive fines,” and the Supreme Court has already recognized that the forfeiture of personal property qualifies as a “fine” for constitutional purposes. It has also ruled that fines may not be “grossly disproportionate” to an offense. When the government seized Timbs’ car—which, again, is worth vastly more than the monetary penalty for his crime—it would seem to have imposed a grossly disproportionate fine in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

But, weirdly enough, the court has never explicitly held that this rule restricts state governments.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/neil-gorsuch-sonia-sotomayor-tyson-timbs-civil-forfeiture.html

Crid, I went back and read it. I think my take is pretty close to yours: He has a habit of underestimating the difficulty of the challenges that he takes on. But the audacity of the attempts is refreshing. And he seems to come up with hits often enough to pay for the misses.

I have a little bit of insight into SpaceX. There are a lot of people in the industry who worry about their rather loosey-goosey approach to quality management (they're butting heads with NASA and the FAA right now over quality management for manned missions). But yes, they have been major innovators. Like all innovators and experimenters, they make mistakes sometimes, like the rocket that blew up on the pad a couple of years ago. But they were trying something new. There was some existing NASA data that they should have read first. But sometimes, when you're trying new things, stuff happens. It was an expensive lesson, but nobody got hurt (at least they had good pad safety protocols) and now they know better.

Which leads to my biggest criticism of Elon: he's not a detail person. Nothing wrong with that. But when you're doing bleeding-edge stuff, if you're not a detail person, you had better employ some people who are. A lot of Elon's enterprises seem to lack that.

U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-life-expectancy-falls-further-1543467660

Trouble in the 100 acre wood.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/971164407270125568.html

Crid, I went back and read it. ~ Cousin Dave at November 29, 2018 7:35 AM

He expresses genuine surprise (and delight) about learning that Apple was, even at that nadir, the largest education supplier in the world, a title it had claimed without fanfare as IBM had collapsed. ~ Crid at November 28, 2018 11:38 PM (here)

I always though Jobs was over-rated as a business visionary - more King Arthur being put on the throne than William taking it for himself.

Giving computers away to schools was the first indication to me that Jobs didn't really understand commerce. The idea was that the students would have their parents buy them the same Apple computers they were using in school. However, the parents were, at the same time, using Windows machines at work, a machine they could purchase for their kids at a lower cost than the Apples the kids wanted; and one they already knew how to operate. Back then, what children wanted didn't count when measured against the rigid yardstick of the family budget. Apple didn't capture the market share Jobs envisioned it capturing through that program.

Gates, on the other hand, focused on bulk sales to businesses and hoovered up market. He opened his operating system to outsiders and garnered thousands of useful programs for his users.

When I purchased my first computer, I asked the computer salesman which one I should buy, Apple or IBM. He said they were both good. Then, he pointed to myriad shelves lined with software and said that was the software for a Window/MS-DOS machine. Afterward, he pointed to a nearly abandoned corner of the store with near-barren shelves and said that was the software for Apple machines.

While Gates couldn't make his machines useful to a wide swath of the market, the enlisted software developers to do that for him. Jobs insisted on OCD-like control over every aspect of the user experience and froze out half the market.

Even today, Apple is still stuck in Jobs' vision of rigid control and user experience. Microsoft, once the red-headed stepchild of the digital world, is moving rapidly back into relevance by concentrating on productivity over lifestyle. Excel for Windows is a far more versatile, and more useful, program than Numbers - and still better than Excel for Mac, which omits many of Excel's most useful shortcuts and keystroke commands.

And I say this as a die-hard inhabitant of the iPhone-iPad-MacBook ecosystem. I will admit that having the ability to do text messages on my MacBook, instead of having only the tiny keyboard of my iPhone, is wonderfully practical.

As a consumer, I find that Microsoft machines do keyboards (especially Function keys) better while Apple machines do trackpads better. For work applications, a Microsoft machine is infinitely more practical. For texting, Web surfing, music, and photos, I'll take my MacBook; for work, my Windows machine.

For stock investments, my portfolio is evenly split between the two, but Microsoft returns are making my smile a lot more than Apple returns these days.

Which leads to my biggest criticism of Elon: he's not a detail person. Nothing wrong with that. But when you're doing bleeding-edge stuff, if you're not a detail person, you had better employ some people who are. A lot of Elon's enterprises seem to lack that. ~ Cousin Dave at November 29, 2018 7:35 AM

Musk is, in my humble opinion, more visionary than Jobs was, seeing things that don't exist rather than seeing better applications for what already exists. Perhaps Jobs' biggest advantage over Musk is that Jobs hired the detail people and had little tolerance for sloppy execution.

I'd give Apple some time and I bet they will make you smile more Crid. They did the typical tech thing where they over emphasized one thing and caused problems. The latest iPhones are just too big for most people to reasonably fit on their person. An issue they can easily fix once they realize it is there.

I guess that was to Conan and not Crid. Oh well.

And so, society continues to pass milestones of ever more downwardness:

Officials: Woman passes gas, pulls knife on offended man

Meanwwhil, as Crid might put it: SCIENCE!

The wages of "muh feminism!"

> Perhaps Jobs' biggest advantage
> over Musk is that Jobs hired the
> detail people and had little
> tolerance for sloppy execution.

More on this in a few hours, chores. But remember: Fish don't know they're wet.

But until then, do the reading, which you should have done / probably did six years ago anyway:

Fish don't know they're wet = Software Is Eating The World.

Ah, here's a complete copy—— https://archive.is/8bNI6

Coney or Cousin taught me how to do that with WSJ pieces a couple years ago

Also, read this one: https://archive.is/mL84W

Do your homework! Lecture at 17:00pst, bring sharp pencils.

Fish don't know they're wet = Software Is Eating The World. ~ Crid at November 29, 2018 1:24 PM

"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world." ~ Peter York

That is a really, REALLY apt citation. I was going precisely that direction.

If only more conservatives were like this...

Laura Loomer got booted on Twitter and then become the number one trend on Twitter. That’s moxie.

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1068272292390567936

There's hope for the future - Conservatives are finally taking scalps -

CNN fires commentator Marc Lamont Hill after he called for eliminating Israel, endorsed violent ‘resistance’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cnn-fires-commentator-marc-lamont-hill-after-he-called-for-eliminating-israel-endorsed-violent-resistance

There's hope for the future - Conservatives are finally taking scalps -

CNN fires commentator Marc Lamont Hill after he called for eliminating Israel, endorsed violent ‘resistance’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cnn-fires-commentator-marc-lamont-hill-after-he-called-for-eliminating-israel-endorsed-violent-resistance

Beltway libertarians talk a good game about liberty. Honest question: When was the last time you saw them advocating for some liberty in the streets a la Laura Loomer?

https://twitter.com/jeffgiesea/status/1068267039700279297

"moxie"

It's Word Choices, with Snoopeeeeeeee!

Yaaaaaay!




WTF is Laura Loomer?

I bet she's good buddies with Patrick's friend, Alex Liefson.

When was the last time, because Laura Loomer?????

WAKE UP, Sheeple!!! !
!!!!

We're talking about Laura Loomer here! Not some no-name goofball, but Laura FUCKING Loomer!!

And don't you forget it!

Use exclamation marks to express your depth of feeling!!!!!....

...with MOXIE!!!!! I went to High SchooL!!!

For awhile!! Honest question, a la!!!!

Next time you go to a science fiction movie, this will be the setting on a distant planet at which several of the spaceship's crew die in the first 30 minutes.

"I went to High SchooL!!!" ~Crid

You can still get your GED. It's not too late.

Loomer has an impressive talent stack. Creativity, knack for grabbing headlines, counter attacks, controlling the narrative, ignoring the noise. She will be relevant for a very long time

https://twitter.com/JackPilonBTRN/status/1068304253377224705

Twitter staff to Loomer handcuffed at NYC HQ entryway: "You can't block our door."

Loomer: "Why not? Twitter blocked me."

https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1068265109196234754

> You can still get your GED. It's not too late.

LOL.

> WTF is Laura Loomer?

You go to war with the army you have. She did good tonight.

> We're talking about Laura Loomer here! Not some
> no-name goofball, but Laura FUCKING Loomer!!

144,000 tweets about her today, so far.

> Use exclamation marks to express your depth of
> feeling!!!!!....

From the looks of it, your feelings are: envy, weakness, and whining.

> Loomer: "Why not? Twitter blocked me."

They blocked her on their property, so now she blocks... their property? Isn't this precisely the infantilism we expect from the ninny left? You are desperately in need of melodrama in your life. You should kiss a girl or get a job.

A silly woman locking herself to a corporate office is "moxie" in "war"?

Listening to language used this way is like watching an infant play with a Steuben vase.

—George Will

The wages of "muh feminism!"

A fifty year old with regrets... proves exactly what? I could find a tale of a woman that had lots of kids and never had a career and felt regrets at fifty... that would prove equally exactly nothing other than different strokes for different folks.

If she had lived the life you evidently prefer for her, maybe she tells the other tale, who knows? Although the whole bit smells like a script.