Interesting......September 13, 2018

September 13, 2018 John Obeto

On My Mind

This is how you let free agents know that you will treat them fairly. :-> Rob Pelinka Says Meeting With Jeanie Buss Played Big Role In Waiving Luol Deng
This is the reason why I meet, and try to really know all my kids’ coaches. I can’t imagine the depths of harm I would inflict on such a creep. :-> Florida High School Football Coach Accused Of Head-Butting And Blowing Snot-Rockets On Players, Telling One To Kill Himself
How quickly, how loudly, and how often will I say “Hell EFFIN’ NO” to this scheme? A trillion billion times and one seems just about right! :-> US carriers introduce Project Verify to replace individual app passwords

Apple has always shown itself to have quite capable photocopiers at #1, Infinite Loop, in Cupertino. Apple has a better product-naming stratagem too! :-> Here's every feature Apple might copy from the PC for the updated MacBook Air 13
I never pay attention to programming languages these days. However, the kids are gung ho on programming in Python. I will share this with them. :-> Exploring Microsoft’s Adoption of Python in Visual Studio

I like this. Would be a great solution for an AAU team transport :-> Mercedes Unveils New Sprinter-Based Minibuses
Nothing redeeming, it seems, about these guys! :-> Mega-rich family behind opioid crisis has second, secret opioid company
Some yum-yums are imploring Apple to shift production of iPhones to the USA. It shows that they know nothing about the global economy! :-> How much would the iPhone cost if it were made in America?
I think we are going to see more of these lawsuits: aggrieved private citizens and firms bringing lawsuits against disruptive so-called ‘gig economy’ firms in order to level the playing fields where regulators have abdicated their authority. :- Limo firm to Uber: You misclassify your drivers as contractors, which is unfair
It’s still Walmart. People aren’t fooled! -> Shopping site Jet tries reintroducing itself to customers

Whenever I attempt to mellow out about IBM, it shows me it should not! Because skin color is the most important factor in a search. Eff you, IBM! :-> IBM Made Cops a Tool to Search Surveillance Video by Skin Color
Les Moonves was a true bastard! -> Designing Women Creator Tells Les Moonves “Go F--k Yourself” for Torching Her Career
I blame Big Tech here. For they have shown themselves to be extremely willing to install filters and whatnot while kowtowing to extremist regimes in order to gain entry to their markets. Karma! :-> The EU is done warning tech companies about removing extremist content — now they want to act
Watching this remote control/autonomous BMW bike is like seeing the scary headless horseman in real life!
Every pushback against Google (and Facebook), is a shot for privacy. And democracy :-> Brave browser dumps Google search in France, Germany. Oh, and Brave filed a legal challenge against Google ad practices, too.

Even total nonentities like this harpie feel empowered to be racist! :-> Pittsburgh woman goes off on Dollar General cashier in a racist rant
Today’s history lesson -> Bass Reeves.
My exact same thoughts, on Rose Barr. :-> “F--k Roseanne”: Kenya Barris Opens Up About Leaving ABC and His Move to Netflix
They do things differently in the southern US. Thank God my kids aren’t there. I believe I would have paddled some teacher half to, well, you know! ☹ :-> A Georgia Charter School Wants to Beat Students and Bully Their Parents

Where does one start? :-> Saudi Arabia Has Arrested a Man After an 'Offensive Video' Showed Him Sharing Breakfast With a Woman
Unless we do something, the “water wars” will decimate life as we know it.
I guess this is what Emmanuel Macron meant when he said that France didn’t see racial colors? -> White students made to look black on US site for French college

Is there any Black person fooled by the NRA? Any Black at all? If the reverse had been true, and a strapped Botham Jean, in self-defense, had killed the White cop who unlawfully invaded his home, the NRA would be screaming for his blood! :-> The NRA’s Catch-22 for Black Men Shot by Police