third world county

Come to the USA, the country whose leaders have it in for citizens and welcome alien invaders with open arms… It’s no wonder more and more folks feel this way:

TF had an amusing post I responded to rather laconically with this: *heh*

Don’t ask, but reading this novel led me to view and download this video:

(Please don’t ask me where I stole this from, because I can’t recall where I found it. Modded it for use as a widescreen desktop wallpaper. )

Obama and his co-conspirators have one story, but the facts on the ground call them liars:

Or, no one can truly be forgiven if we eradicate “right” and “wrong”. Mike Adams has a short piece that underscores some of the same issues that brought Dr. Karl Menninger, of the well-known and highly-respected Menninger psychiatric institute to write, “Whatever Became of Sin?” in the 1970s. There are a number of problems associated [...]

Just as with simple things it’s taken Apple most of a couple of decades to catch up to the typical PC world on (can anyone come up with a sensible defense of the one-button Apple mouse?), the now iconic iPhone has feature-lag problems of its own, it seems, What do iPhone users want most? According [...]

Why do I prefer some products (various computer hardware, software, automotive, household products, etc.) over others? Usually, it seems to come down to little things. I prefer Mobil1 motor oils, because, among other “little things”, Mobil makes a wide array of reliable, high-quality synthetic lubricants besides just motor oil, and I like having a consistent [...]

Stolen from a discussion at Jerry Pournelle’s place: Couv’s Aphorism: No country has a right to exist except that which it enforces by persuasion, diplomacy, trickery, or force of arms. Of the four, force of arms trumps all. That is, as another commenter points out, simply existing is something a nation must actively defend. There [...]

OK, so Kindle for PC works. Reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest now, and the app just works. Barely. *sigh* I guess I’ve just been spoiled all these years reading all my eBooks in my browser where I can set the text size to whatever I want, but the Kindle for PC app’s [...]