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Published Saturday, November 26, 2022 @ 3:03 PM EST
Nov 26 2022

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Jan. 6, Covid "mass deterioration event", global heating, arctic melting, drought, fire rainbows, pricey eggs
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Published Thursday, June 16, 2022 @ 3:50 PM EDT
Jun 16 2022

Republicans

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We're off next week and will return on Monday, June 27.

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The latest on the January 6 hearings. I'm old enough to have watched the Watergate hearings live. While interesting, I'm waiting for the Alexander Butterfield moment.

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The leader of Trump's favorite 2020 election "audit" may be disbarred after courtroom meltdown.

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Long COVID could be a 'mass deterioration event.' A tidal wave of chronic illness could leave millions of people incrementally worse off.

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As if things aren't bad enough now, New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the Arctic. Temperatures in the Barents Sea region are 'off the scale' and may affect extreme weather in the US and Europe.

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Formula production at Abbott's Michigan plant delayed after flooding from severe storms. The shortage will continue...

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Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham. Who am I to disagree?

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New study finds catnip protects cats from mosquitoes. When cats chew and rub against the leaves, the plant releases a compound that repels insects like mosquitoes.

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'Moment of reckoning:' Federal official warns of Colorado River water supply cuts. "We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River, and the rate of decline is accelerating."

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Florida woman spots 'fire rainbow' in the sky.

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A 67-year-old who 'un-retired' shares the biggest retirement challenge 'that no one talks about'. Sing it, brother.

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Why Disney passed on Tim Allen in 'Lightyear': He's 'dumber' not 'castrated'. "Tim Allen is Buzz Lightyear the toy," "Lightyear" producer Galyn Susman stated, according to Yahoo. "We weren't making a 'Toy Story' movie. We're making Buzz Lightyear's movie."

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Mars Perseverance rover adopts pet rock. (Video)

Record-Breaking Voyager spacecraft begin to power down. The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments.

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City of Langley dedicates trash can to Conan O'Brien.

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Why eggs cost 30% more than last year.

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Miscellany:

Birthdays:

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On this date in:

Today is:

Bloomsday, Corpus Christi, Fresh Veggies Day, International Day of the African Child, Ladies' Initiated in Baseball Day, National Career Nursing Assistants' Day, National Dump the Pump Day, National Fudge Day, National Vinegar Day, No Orange Clothes Day, Recess at Work Day, Wish Fulfillment Day, and World Sea Turtle Day.

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Comments, tweets and observations:

The best thing Trump ever did was make it obvious which of your Facebook friends would've signed on as a prison guard at a concentration camp.
-Liam Nissan™

If you're the kind of person who takes their sick child to the doctor instead of the village idiot, listen to Dr. Fauci instead of Rand Paul.
-Middle Age Riot

The only thing scarier than Mike Pence saving democracy is Dan Quayle instructing Mike Pence on saving democracy.
-John Fugelsang

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Quotes of the day: Bill Gates
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Published Monday, October 27, 2014 @ 9:29 PM EDT
Oct 27 2014

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (b. October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. (Click here for full Wikipedia article)

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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. (1987)

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. (1980)

Just giving people devices has a really horrible track record.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more power. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The world is not flat and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. (1989)

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number- before our doom comes.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty­ blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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(October 28 is also the birthday of Evelyn Waugh.)

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What might have been...
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Published Thursday, July 11, 2013 @ 7:51 AM EDT
Jul 11 2013

Gary Kildall could have become a household name and, possibly, the richest man in the world.

In 1980, IBM approached Bill Gates at Microsoft to license a BASIC interpreter for their soon-to-be-released Personal Computer (PC). They mentioned they also needed an operating system, and Gates referred them to Digital Research, Gary Kildall's company.

For various reasons, things didn't work out, and IBM went back to Microsoft. You know the rest.

There are various accounts of what actually happened, and the Wikipedia article on Kildall offers what appears to be a neutral report.

I used DR-DOS. I used GEM. And I wish more people remembered Kildall's contributions.

(YouTube video: Remembering Gary Kildall)

Categories: Bill Gates, Computers, Gary Kildall, Video, YouTube

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Know your limitations
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Published Tuesday, March 26, 2013 @ 12:14 AM EDT
Mar 26 2013

(THE GIST) Multi-billionaire software pioneer, philanthropist, and current No. 2 on Forbes Magazine's "World's Richest People" List Bill Gates is putting some of his considerable largess to the task of making sex more enjoyable by funding the creation of a next generation condom.

Gates is offering $100,000 in grant money for ideas that will make condoms- already effective at preventing STDs- less effective at preventing male orgasm.

(He's not doing it himself because Windows showed he wasn't really very good at designing friendly or satisfying user interfaces.)

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