January 11th, 2020
Via:
The Drive:
The War Zone was among the first to report back in late December
2019 that eyewitnesses throughout northeastern Colorado had begun seeing
formations of large drones flying at night in complex grid-like
patterns over rural areas and farmland. Since then, the sightings have
multiplied and the drones have begun appearing in neighboring Nebraska,
as well.
January 10th, 2020
Via: NBC:
The surveillance video taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail
cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been
permanently deleted, federal prosecutors said Thursday
January 7th, 2020
Via: Fox:
January 7th, 2020
Update: Trump Says No U.S. Troops Hurt in Iran Strikes
I tried posting a link on Facebook to an article on Veterans Today by Gord Duff. It was refused - a minor surprise. He rips the mask off Trump's activities and threats - including references to black ops and threats of domestic action in Iran against civilians and government. I ended up Tweeting ( as opit ) about 2 articles, thinking blowback from restricting arms sales to allies ( Turkey ) was coming home to roost. oldephartte
January 6th, 2020
It’s absolutely bizarre that this didn’t happen years ago.
Nissan was doing it in Japan on a limited basis, but it never took off.
This Quasar unit is so much smaller than Nissan’s; maybe that will
increase interest/demand.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t yet work with Tesla vehicles.
January 6th, 2020
What the hell is going on?
Via: Daily Mail:
Reports Monday that the U.S. would soon withdraw all its forces
from Iraq were turned on their heads minutes later when U.S. Defense
Secretary Mark Esper told reporters there were no plans to pull up
stakes.
‘There’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq, period,’ Esper
said, adding that he and his staff were ‘trying to figure out’ the
meaning of a letter signed by a brigadier general that suggested the
opposite.
( Meanwhile some of us recall there was no prior announcement of a permanent presence in Iraq - nor a coherent reason given for doing so at all when one realizes Cheney's office blinded the CIA nuclear threat desk with the outing of Valerie Plame ( Wilson ) and Brewster-Jennings as a company front. )
January 6th, 2020
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Plastic cards may soon give way to biometric systems, microchip
implants, gait recognition and other technologies that aim to improve
security, generate health data and monitor workers.
( That 'Land of the Free' line becomes more vicious snark every year. )
January 6th, 2020
Via: Star Tribune:
Kris Folland grows corn, wheat and soybeans and raises cattle on
2,000 acres near Halma in the northwest corner of Minnesota, so his
operation is far from small. But when he last bought a new tractor, he
opted for an old one — a 1979 John Deere 4440.
He retrofitted it with automatic steering guided by satellite, and he
and his kids can use the tractor to feed cows, plant fields and run a
grain auger. The best thing? The tractor cost $18,000, compared to
upward of $150,000 for a new tractor. And Folland doesn’t need a
computer to repair it.
“This is still a really good tractor,” said Folland, who owns two other tractors built before 1982.
“They cost a fraction of the price, and then the operating costs are much less because they’re so much easier to fix,” he said.
Tractors manufactured in the late 1970s and 1980s are some of the
hottest items in farm auctions across the Midwest these days — and it’s
not because they’re antiques.
Cost-conscious farmers are looking for bargains, and
tractors from that era are well-built and totally functional, and aren’t
as complicated or expensive to repair as more recent models that run on
sophisticated software.
( A couple of months back my insurance company advised me rates were going up - to cover repairs on increasingly 'sophisticated' autos and associated electronic gimmickery . Ain't 'progress 'wunnerful. Fire up YouTube and listen to Scotty Kilmer mock things like plastic header pipes. Meanwhile, Down Under, John Cadogan has taken a break from vehicle reviews to do political commentary. Rough and Ready. I hadn't heard such fun since George Carlin. He is not impressed with fire readiness.)
January 6th, 2020
Via: Independent:
( Why not ? Kids can't find 'full time' jobs anyway. There's no public good in tying 'benefits' to a 40 hr week )
January 6th, 2020
Via: Monash University:
Imagine having access to a battery, which has the potential to
power your phone for five continuous days, or enable an electric vehicle
to drive more than 1000km without needing to “refuel”.
Monash University researchers are on the brink of
commercialising the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur (Li-S)
battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four
times, and power Australia and other global markets well into the
future.
January 5th, 2020
Via: AFP:
US President Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on a threat to
attack Iranian cultural sites despite accusations that any such strike
would amount to a war crime.
Tehran’s foreign minister had reacted to those initial comments by
drawing parallels with the Islamic State group’s destruction of the
Middle East’s cultural heritage.
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