He may be a completely awesome fellow, but this ‘announcement’ makes me worry. It looks too much like another “America throws itself at an oligarch, because rich people are super-knowledgeable and talented therefore we should let them lead us.”
Usually when I harden a blade, I let it get its tempering-cycles while I grind it. That can result in disasters, like a work-piece falling on the floor and shattering.
The loathsome John Bolton is too easy to point at as an example of everything that is wrong with US Middle Eastern foreign policy.
Anna and I were talking about my inordinate love of LED blinky things. She says that if something has LEDs all over it, I’ll buy it. That may be true.
This is an idea I stole from michaelcthulu on youtube. He’s the guy who makes gigantic swords from anime shows [youtube] and he’s quite a character.
It took me a while to figure out what seems to have been going on. [wp]
The establishment mouthpiece New York Times [nyt] reports that Donald Trump was unhappy to be asked flat-out, “are you an agent of Russia?”
One of the US’ self-appointed roles is the Guardian Of The Open Seas – which means keeping the shipping lanes open for global capitalism (i.e.: oil) and making sure that its nuclear powered and -armed aircraft carriers can practice gunboat diplomacy anywhere, any time.
If this person isn’t just an ordinary con-ster, then I hope they get medical attention or other assistance as necessary.
In case you didn’t know, or had mistakenly believed some vendors’ claims that things are getting better: computer security is still approximately as bad as it was when I got into the field in 1989.