Today Condé Nast published a piece on the struggles of Silicon Valley start up SmartCar and its neighbors in their attempt to get serviceable business internet connectivity to their offices in Mountain View, California. In the town where Google keeps its headquarters, ventures in SmartCar's chosen building were made to suffer slow AT&T DSL connections as the only provider offering a contemporary standard of connectivity to their location didn't actually serve their building. The infrastructure simply isn't there. Despite all the pretense that Silicon Valley and California are places operating on some higher form of civilization, it really is just Africa all the way down.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
EU Marching Towards "Helicopter Money" As Other Manipulations Are Exhausted
The European Central Bank, aside from the usual negative interest rates business, is not to be underestimated in the competition to further enshitten fiat bezzle currencies. For several months already, central banks of eurozone countries have been tasked to acquire 60bn euro worth of assets monthly of the variety that includes bonds of state-owned enterprises and provincial authorities. Come April 1, this figure will go up to 80bn, and will include any bonds with investment ratings in an effort to stimulate Europe's economy.
ECB chairman Mario Draghi promised there are plenty of instruments left, even the increasingly likely "helicopter money" which she considers "a very interesting concept". As other options are exhausted it is becoming increasingly likely the European Central Bank will resort to helicopter money for stimulus, a move which will reveal just how little the central bankers actually value their fiat bezzle bucks.
EPA Land Grab: War Over Pond!
Using pretense being tested under new "Clean" Water act rules, the United States EPA is seeking the ruin of a Wyoming landowner for having the audacity to create a pond on his property (archived). Continue reading
America Rejected By All But Its Worst
John Kasich, the physical incarnation of America, was soundly thrashed in all of the "Battleground Tuesday" electoral contests except one. That one was Ohio. Ohio is for many sound reasons the objectively worst part of America. At least in every way except for the one where Ohio actually stood by America and it's avatar on Earth John Kasich in an electoral contest. So far John Kasich, America has lost every nominating contest this electoral season except Ohio.
Aspiring 'An Hero' Survives Police Station Assault
Michael Ford, despite recording his last will and testament in anticipation of dying to become 'an hero' to the people, managed to survive an armed assault on a police station in Landover, Maryland (archived). Instead a narcotics detective in street clothes who intervened to allow his fellow officers an opportunity to capture Ford alive was fatally shot by his fellow officers. Two of Ford's brothers who were present as non-combatant journalists are in police custody for recording the event in a clear assault by police on the American constitutional right for citizens to act as a free press. Video of the incident does not yet appear to be available on WORLDSTARHIPHOP at this time.
Qualcomm "Snapdragon" Chips Allegedly Riddled With Vulnerabilities
Trend Micro in a blog post is alleging that Qualcomm's "Snapdragon" family of system on a chip computers are riddled with numerous security vulnerabilities, particularly when paired with Google's Android operating system (archived). The continued plagues of leaky abstraction and faux compartmentalization which require ever larger collections of "teams" to design new chips in the popular style as well as the war on computing suggest that we are going to increasingly see security vulnerabilities baked into silicon. Instead of celebrating the death of Moore's law as occasion to move towards saner architectural decisions, the trend appears to be favoring further insanity and a proliferation of nooks and crannies for culturing security holes organically or placing them deliberately.
US War On Physicians Escalates
The general war against sanity in the United States is escalating in its front against physicians. The Center for Disease Control, under the the direction of Hussein Bahamas's gang in Washington is proposing radical new guidelines which constrain physician judgement in prescribing pain relieving drugs (archived). Continue reading
Growing Criminal Obeast And Transmayo Problem Pushes New Zealand To Plus Sized Handcuffs
As New Zealand Police struggle to control an increasing undisciplined population of obeasts and transmayo gendered individuals they have been pushed to adapt their equipment to the problem. The New Zealand Herald reports that the country's police are trading in their perfectly serviceable cuffs that work to restrain human sized individuals and getting new cuffs that are big enough to restrain Obeasts that ate themselves to the point they lost visible wrists (archived). A spokesman for national headquarters claims the new cuffs adjust sufficiently to continue being effective on more mobile human sized law enforcement prey, but this remains to be seen.
John Kasich Is America
With the American electoral season heating up and a Clinton threatening to steal the GOP nomination, it is time to lay out the real narrative this campaign season. John Kasich is the United States of America and voters are turning their backs on their country. Continue reading
Miner Problem Pushes BitBet Into Recievership
Following the incident where BitBet ended up paying out the winners of the Jeb Bush nomination bet twice due to probably miner cartel action, BitBet is now seeking a receiver. The full announcement is reproduced below: Continue reading