Judge Posner is a real conservative, not a political poseur. He is very consistent, and very well-respected. He won’t expand or limit rights without a really fabulous and logical case being presented, and the new voter laws are not justified. He is convinced that he was misinformed in the original case as to the justification, and blasted the people who essentially lied to him. The people who were fighting the change in the 2008 case obviously didn’t prepare as well as they should have.

Obviously things like process control and ignition spark in engines have to be real-time or they are worthless. Tyson is correct – people want to be entertained rather than actually doing something useful. A machine has to be real-time or the internal bits tend to go airborne at inconvenient times. 🙂

Oh, I looked into the Uber that was talked about and it is essentially share-cropping. The service uses and abuses people by making the drivers independent contractors who have to provide the car and cover all of the associated expenses and pay Uber a percentage of the fares collected to act as the dispatcher. Uber is another way of saying pimp.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson touches upon it in this address:

“Nobody’s talking about ‘tomorrowland’ anymore. We’re waiting for our next app,” Tyson exclaims. “Now I love me some apps, don’t get me wrong here.”

“But, society has bigger problems than what can be solved with your next app, in transportation, and energy and health. And these are huge sectors of society and they are solved by innovations in these fields,” Tyson continued. “Without it we might as well just proceed back into the cave, because that’s where we’re headed.”

“We’re a sleepy nation right now. I want us to be a nation of innovation,” Tyson stated later. The entire speech is a fascinating listen here:

Neil deGrasse Tyson rips startup culture: “Society has bigger problems than what can be solved with your next app”

Here’s some good news for a change… Sanity from a conservative Fed Judge! LOL

GOP voter ID law gets crushed: Why Judge Richard Posner’s new opinion is so amazing

The problem with expecting everything to be Real-Time is that you miss the anticipation before it happens and the ability to savor the moment afterwards. That’s why ADHD is classified as a problem and not an ideal.

Two-day shipping from Amazon isn’t free, you have to join their ‘club’ for a $100/year. By doing it annually, Amazon knows the ADHD crowd will forget about it.

The problem with corporations controlled by a lot of ADHD executives is that they want their profits now, and don’t care about what happens in a year. The product gets shipped on time even if it’s broken. 😉

Malala is driven! And with good reason. I wish more *good* people were like her. The World would be a far better place. It seems that the only ones driven these day’s are the crazy bastards!

I laughed when an Indian an Pakistani were both awarded a Nobel peace Prize! I do love irony! I wonder if the Committee had that in mind? 😉 😀

I just published my first short story on Medium! LOL I was reading this one:

You can’t stop Real-time

I felt the need to respond:

Real- Time has always been critical!

I was bored. 😉 LOL

The White House understands the power of the online world, it’s people they don’t understand.

This was curious… You know I like Medium and post a few things occasionally. Seems the Whitehouse have joined and began a group (Think of Medium like a group blog). 🙂

The White House Joins Medium

It’s a smart move actually (surprisingly). Be interesting to see where it goes.

A more important group on Medium is by Malala (for the Malala Fund). 😀 She has this about the Peace prize:

Courage and Hope – What the Nobel Peace Prize means to me.

This is why universal health care is a better choice than any employer based system for all of the people, including those who work in the health care field.

And you think this only happens in the USA? Hah! The USA may have started it, but it’s gone viral everywhere now!

My sister Julie Rattray was a loving, caring rural nurse with Catholic Health Care for 7 years – but after being badly injured at work, the Catholic Church Insurance has denied her any support and left her in crippling physical and financial pain.

I’m terrified at what’s happening to my sister. She slipped after attending to one of her clients, damaging her back so severely she desperately needs spinal surgery. But because Catholic Church Insurance are saying it’s not their problem, she’s left needing a cocktail of painkillers just to get through the day.

Julie is a dedicated nurse. An employee of theirs. She travelled around remote areas tending to sick and elderly patients; but with 3 kids, a mortgage and mounting medical expenses – some weeks she has to go without medications because she can’t afford it.

I can’t bear to watch this go on any longer. I fear it is not only her physical health that is deteriorating now because of the constant battle just to get help from Catholic Health Care. It’s been 15 months of Catholic Church Insurance using an incorrect, technical argument to try and not pay my sister’s claim.

It’s wrong that Catholic Health Care could turn their back on one of their nurses like this. The church’s insurance website says they provide the “best possible treatment and support for injured employees” – apart from rural nurses like my sister, apparently.

We need your help. This petition is our last hope – we’ve tried every avenue imaginable to try and get them to change their mind.

I think cost-cutting and low wages play a big role in hospitals. They push a lot of things on to RNs [Nurses] that should be done by lower-trained workers, then they cut out the people who once did those jobs. We have a huge turnover in the nursing staff at the local hospitals because of the working conditions. Working 12-hour shifts with minimum staffing and no overtime [36-hour weeks] leads to rapid burn-out. The wages suck too, so people stop caring and do enough to get by. No one gets fired because they quit and move on.

This is what for-profit health care is all about – profits, and the health care be damned. The staffing goes to accounting because the insurance companies are the real ‘customers’, not the patients. Patients are profit centers, not people who need help.

Yeah, the spacing of the coat hangers and the clean soap dishes used to drive me up the wall.