Kosh's Shadow 2/8/2021 3:44:16 PM

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Can't post much during work time, so here is some interesting reading

on how big tech and other elites are selling us out to China.

Hunter Biden is just small change

Occasional Reader 2/9/2021 5:27:05 AM

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lucius septimius 2/9/2021 5:30:21 AM

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vxbush 2/9/2021 5:45:41 AM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: The Church of Woke.

I haven't watched this yet, but based on some news articles I've seen we haven't even begun to see the beginning of Woke thinking in education. It's just getting started in earnest now.

vxbush 2/9/2021 6:03:26 AM

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In #1 Kosh's Shadow said: on how big tech and other elites are selling us out to China. Hunter Biden is just small change

It's a good article, if depressing, as it shows that very few people saw this coming--except Trump. He saw it, but it now seems he was too late. China was already entrenched in too many industries, and people were loving that Chinese money. 

Kosh's Shadow 2/9/2021 6:06:43 AM

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In #5 vxbush said: people were loving that Chinese money. 

Not just the money - people who think they're better and smarter than the average person, and therefore should tell everyone else what to do. Facebook and Twitter CEO's probably also think their users are "deplorable", except for the money they can make selling ads.

But they do not believe in free speech. In China, the government controls the social score. Here it is Big Tech and the woke mob (which Tabletmag believes is being funded and supported by the same elite)

vxbush 2/9/2021 6:34:18 AM

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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: Not just the money - people who think they're better and smarter than the average person, and therefore should tell everyone else what to do. Facebook and Twitter CEO's probably also think their users are "deplorable", except for the money they can make selling ads. But they do not believe in free speech. In China, the government controls the social score. Here it is Big Tech and the woke mob (which Tabletmag believes is being funded and supported by the same elite)

I just hope the closing sentence of the article happens here (preferably without bloodshed). 

vxbush 2/9/2021 7:01:33 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 2/9/2021 7:27:25 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 8:

"Critical thinking" is to thinking what "the patient is critical" means to the patient.

lucius septimius 2/9/2021 7:27:48 AM

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In #8 vxbush said: It's now becoming clear that "critical thinking" doesn't mean careful analysis of a topic or learning to reason through issues; it is simply talking about training kids to think in woke terms: power, equity, anti-racism and anti-oppression. Just a heads up, because it won't mean what you think it means. 

That's been true for a while.

vxbush 2/9/2021 7:28:03 AM

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Hey, JCM--have you heard about this? I was joking about neutrinos causing a failure last week, and then I found this: 

A neutron produced by a cosmic ray and traveling at nearly the speed of light strikes a military C-141B Starlifter carrying over 100 troops at 37,000 feet over the Sea of Japan.Immediately the pilot notices something is wrong. Very wrong. The plane is suddenly banking to the right and is in danger of going out of control. What is happening?

Is a single subatomic particle capable of causing such a big problem? The answer is yes: a microchip in a plane's flight controller can malfunction and produce an erroneous command after being struck by a neutron. These neutrons, like ghosts, can pass through materials without being noticed. At aircraft cruising altitudes, about 2,000 of them per second penetrate each square yard of the aircraft's surface, passing through the passengers, seats, and onboard electronics and exiting on the other side. What happens when a high-energy neutron collides head-on with a silicon atom's nucleus in a transistor of the onboard electronics?

JCM 2/9/2021 7:53:32 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 11:

We have a large team of radiation engineers working on that, and other radiation issues.

JCM 2/9/2021 7:55:32 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 11:

It's called bit flipping.

Radiolab did an episode on the case of a cosmic bit flip changing the vote tally in a Belgian election in 2003. The error was caught because one candidate got more votes than was logically possible. A recount showed that the person in question got 4096 more votes in the first count than the second count. The difference of exactly 212 votes was a clue that there had been a bit flip. All the other counts remained unchanged when they reran the tally.

vxbush 2/9/2021 8:14:02 AM

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In #12 JCM said: We have a large team of radiation engineers working on that, and other radiation issues.

I just love that I can blame random weirdness with computers to neutrons. I'm all over that. 

vxbush 2/9/2021 8:15:03 AM

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In #13 JCM said: Radiolab did an episode on the case of a cosmic bit flip changing the vote tally in a Belgian election in 2003. The error was caught because one candidate got more votes than was logically possible. A recount showed that the person in question got 4096 more votes in the first count than the second count. The difference of exactly 212 votes was a clue that there had been a bit flip. All the other counts remained unchanged when they reran the tally.

Heh. Maybe Republicans should have blamed bit flipping for the reason why the votes were wrong. Wouldn't have worked, but still....

JCM 2/9/2021 8:19:09 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 15:

One of the reasons for good error correction and a check sum bit.

vxbush 2/9/2021 8:20:52 AM

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In #16 JCM said: One of the reasons for good error correction and a check sum bit.

Yes, indeed.

vxbush 2/9/2021 8:37:13 AM

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Occasional Reader 2/9/2021 10:34:48 AM

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JCM 2/9/2021 10:53:31 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 19:

Welcome to the gimp club!

Occasional Reader 2/9/2021 10:58:14 AM

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Reply to JCM in 20:

Hopefully I will be cheerfully renouncing my membership within a few months.

JCM 2/9/2021 11:07:57 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 21:

Memberships are lifetime!

My knee gives me trouble off and on, and is a good weather gauge.

Occasional Reader 2/9/2021 2:18:59 PM

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Reply to JCM in 22:

what was your original knee problem?

JCM 2/9/2021 2:24:08 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 23:

Blew the crap out of it training for a physical test to get into ParaRescue school.

Hyper extended, big time. Tore the ACL, MCL and PCL and meniscus, took a bone chip off the end of the femur.

Then because I was stupid and my test was in a week tried to "walk it off" for two days.

Occasional Reader 2/9/2021 2:34:21 PM

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Reply to JCM in 24:

yikes.

JCM 2/9/2021 3:12:44 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 25:

I did a thorough job of it!