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Grammarly Advertises Too Damn Much
Dear Mister Support,
Please stop your incessant advertising.
If you are unable to do so, please find some way to avoid advertising to those of us who scored five out of five on the English Advanced Placement Exam. I was the only one in my high school class to have gotten such a five.
I am a very passionate and dedicated writer.
I used to be the principal coder for Working Software's Spellswell. I never used Spellswell for its intended purpose.
Helpfully,
Michael David Crawford
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/
PS: Noted Grammar NAZI Binky Melnik pointed out that I have a problem with, commas. Over time I am revising all of my essays and articles to reflect Ms. Melnik's sage advice.
I Never Wanted Daily Reports For Kickstarter.com. Here's Why
I used your inlink count service to help me decide whether to pursue my crowdfunding campaign with KickStarter or with Indiegogo. Each has significant strengths and weaknesses.
Now that I've made my choice, all your daily report eMails do is to irritate me. I'm sure you have a fine service but at this time I have no need for any SEO.
It's just not the right time for that yet, though I expect I'll need it starting late in the Fall.
Is it possible to simply delete my account?
Thanks! Mike
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I'll be using Indiegogo. I'll get back to you later as to why I chose Indiegogo over Kickstarter.
Lane Pittman makes America great! 🇺🇸
Beautiful story about Lane Pittman of Myrtle Beach, SC. Who isn't with the Resistance. Isn't with the Obstructionism. Isn't with the division & distrust. Big hand for Lane. Appoint to SC after Brett? foxnews.com/us/2018/09/14/shirtless-man-stares-down-hurricane-florence-with-american-flag-in-hand-just-being-free-and-american.html
Morning Musings
Ever wonder why progressives (Not liberals. Entirely different meanings.) seem to be getting wackier and farther out in crazyland as time goes by? Well, you're in luck. That's the topic of today's bedpan full of wisdom.
Progressives, unless they are an extremely small minority, are going to constantly make incremental progress towards whatever their goals are. A funny thing happens when over half of their goals have been accomplished though, they face a brutal decision. They now have an unavoidable choice to slowly watch their reasons for existing diminish as their goals do and allow themselves to become conservatives, or they must keep coming up with shiny, new things that piss them off. The problem there is that sooner or later you run out of things to be pissed off about that even make sense.
This is where the progressives historically split from the liberals, by the way. When everyone has liberty and equality under the law, as best as can be realistically managed, you have no choice but to move away from liberty and equality if you want to keep progressing rather than conserving what you already have.
See, liberals and conservatives are the same thing when the status quo is liberty and equality under the law. This doesn't work for people with a bad case of Pissed Off At Daddy Syndrome though. They have to disagree and think he's a bastard no matter what. When he's for liberty and equality, that leaves them no choice but to be the opposite if they want to remain pissed off children rather than growing the fuck up.
What I do since "retiring".
I have my own line of Arduino-compatible boards to drive these interfaces, but any off-the-shelf Arduino of any flavor could be used with the appropriate "shield".
The design is not specific to Arduino. I have Raspberry Pi in mind too. I am implementing Arduino first due to pure simplicity. The design goal is such that it could be unplugged from an Arduino, and plugged into a Raspberry Pi, as easily as you could unplug an old-school ascii parallel printer from a DEC PDP-11 and plug it into an IBM-PC.
The whole purpose is to give control of the technology back to the people. I know.. its like replacing Einstein with a ditch digger... but sometimes all you need is getting the ditch dug, and the big guys have big problems if you try to circumvent the technologies they have developed to force you into their business models of continuous revenue streams.
I have been working on this, part time, for ten years now. And went down a lot of paths to dead ends. Unintended limitations. Usually affecting system resilience.
The architectural foundation must be sound, or one will face relentless changes and undue complexity. I have spent a lot of time building proto PCB and exploring how to scale the architecture to accept not only my designs, but how to design the architecture for others to design hardware for it as well, as there is always going to be someone wanting something unique. I have to leave lots of access open for him to assign himself a port number and go for it.
Like the original PC, this is not designed for security. If you have access to the physical system, you *are* God. No questions asked.
But if you only have access to a port, there is little you can do except screw the port up and cause the system to throw error codes through other ports.
I used to work for a major aerospace company...and I built these on the same concepts I would have used on the job. Engineering is what I do, but I am not very good at mass production, marketing, accounting, and the endless minutiae of admistrivia to dealing with people. And I am also too conservative to ask for investment as I knew it would be years before I even got out of the design phase. Now, I see the light at the end or the tunnel, and its either releasing an open-source computer to the world, or an oncoming train. This has been a labor of love for me, like solving crosswords or suduku is for some other people, and sports for others. I am old enough now I am not about to go chasing all over creation looking for an "employment opportunity"..
The guy I have been working with for over 10 years now is closing up his shop, I have been developing my stuff there, and we had a kind of informal agreement... I would share with him any guidance I had on his designs, and he let me use the shop ( kinda like a "maker" shop ) rent-free. Being retired, I really did not need to be paid... this was simply something I wanted to do. Well, he is going to be leaving Southern California for Denver ( result of an inheritance ) and next week I will no longer have access to his lab, or his high speed internet, so I will not be posting near as lengthy of stuff on these forums for a while. It may well take me years to reconstruct the physical architecture I need to do this stuff at my house. So, this ripple-down effect basically freezes my progress on this, and stoppage due to end of life for me is now the likely ending. The guy I was working with has his own projects and life, and has his own animals to feed, just as I am driven to feed mine, and I am just grateful for the time we got to spend together.
I just wish companies weren't so quarterly-profit driven that anything that does not have immediate ROI is not employable.
So, whatever I get mixed up in, its gotta be local to me because I am not going to go through all that trouble and expense of moving again. And quite frankly I hate commuting in rush hour traffic. Right now, I walk to work.
I know.... this post turned out to be a lot lengthier than I intended. Probably should have put it as a journal entry.
I will cut and paste and see.
Manfort pleads guilty to remaining charges, flips on Trump
Following his conviction on eight criminal counts in a federal court in Virginia last month, President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced a new trial on another full docket of charges. On Friday morning, we learned that the second trial would be short-circuited. Instead of facing a jury to evaluate whether he had laundered money or committed bank fraud or filed false reports on his lobbying, the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III announced that it had reached a plea agreement with Manafort. In addition to the original eight charges, Manafort admitted to another two, sparing him from another trial.
One of the two charges to which Manafort admitted guilt on Friday was a sweeping conspiracy charge, incorporating a slew of the numerous counts that he faced at one point. The other charge is a conspiracy charge related to obstruction of justice.
Paul Manafort becomes the fifth Trump campaign team member to plead guilty to criminal charges
In a bombshell development, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is cooperating with the special counsel as part of the plea deal in his federal criminal trial.
Praise Be To sed -i!
$ sed -i 00 s=assachussetts=assachusetts= index.html */index.html */*/index.html
I should not drink and mark up.
I Just Got Offered $265 To Participate In A Wine Tasting
Back in the day I registered with a Portland Focus Group service. From time to time they invite me to taste NEW! Sugar Frosted Chocolate Bombs but either I'm not into showing up that day or I don't fit their client's target market.
In my honest opinion there are only two kinds of wine:
- White
- Red
I was down with drinking white wine when I was with my ex but now as a divorcee I only drink red.
But when you get right down to it I could really use two hundred and sixty five clams right about now, so I'll fill out their pre-qualification questionairre.
svn ci --message "Thrashed around helplessly and hopelessly"
Despite having resigned my contract I had some hope of sending my client a driver that actually _worked_.
I at least have identified the immediate reason as to why I've been unable to accomplished that but I do not yet understand the root cause.
In other news, I just now had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana and a cup of black coffee. That's A Winning Combination!
Syria: 'get out' becomes 'stay indefinitely'
President Trump, who just five months ago said he wanted “to get out” of Syria and bring U.S. troops home soon, has agreed to a new strategy that indefinitely extends the military effort there and launches a major diplomatic push to achieve American objectives, according to senior State Department officials.
Trump agrees to an indefinite military effort and new diplomatic push in Syria, U.S. officials say
