Friday, December 2, 2016

Divide history by information technology

I always done it that way.


  • Gutenberg press
  • steam powered rotary press
  • telegraph
  • telephone
  • digital
  • singularity 1.0

Historians miss the steam powered rotary press.  That is what standardized industrial process and made supply chains jump in efficiency.  The telegraph was a complement to the rails and allowed advanced warning for inventory flows, another jump in efficiency.

The whole sequence, it was all about reducing volatility in inventory flow, a move to just in time production.

Oh Timmy?

Business Insider quoting the Apple analyst:
A particularly harsh section says: "We believe Apple lacks the courage to lead the next generation of innovation (AI, cloud-based services, messaging); instead will become more reliant than ever on the iPhone ... We believe Apple is about to embark on a decade-long malaise. The risks to the company have never been greater."

What are they telling you Timmy? 
Singularity 1.0, Amazon is doing it, Amazon will be promoting the encryption processors for our smart cards, they got the mojo.  You missed a boat, too much delusion, too little theory of operation. 

The number to watch for a while

Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 95.1 Million: Jump By 446,000 In One Month


From ZeroHedge.  We are looking for any massive and sudden retirement in a huge chunk.  For example, the older plastic liberal teachers in California, they will likely freak about Trump and suddenly take the early, double dip and clobber our pension system.

We have two ongoing oension ru s fro early lump sum contracts.  We can also get earlier retirement, more than expected, the path forward is not smooth, it is decided on the run. And behind all this is the steady retirement of boomers.

The sudden labor movements bodes ill for productivity, volatility becomes the rule. And, remember, a lot of the volatility has to be handled via legislation in Congress, a very risky undertaking. Keep an eye out for three months until Congress gets settled.

Swamp education

The issue is Trump's education plan and the writers at AEI take it up. 
Andy Smerick on Uncle Sam and education: The second concern is even bigger. An explicit, comprehensive philosophy of governing is extraordinarily important any time we invite Uncle Sam into our schools. That is, absent a clearly articulated view about the federal government’s strengths and weakness, what it should and shouldn’t do, and how it ought to interact with families, schools, districts, and states, an administration is asking for trouble

There, I stopped here at this paragraph, this is the problem in California, we stupidly invited the Swamp into this huge complex education system and got 15 years, and likely more, of volatility. California teachers did this stupid thing, while staring right at the beast and giggling.  It is the contradiction, how can California elementary school teachers be so collectively dumb?

Then to make matters worse, they repeat the same cycle with  medical care! We are just starting our 15 years of volatility and huge unnecessary costs in California.  We have a name your idiot legislature, Jerry, that name is volatility and it means you are one stupid globally warming friggen nut.

Amazon winning

Business Insider: The competency is open for any Amazon partner company to apply for, with the applicant put through multiple rigorous criteria before the certification is awarded. Foundation members include big names such as Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant and Infosys, AWS announced at its re:Invent conference at Las Vegas.
Amazon Web Services is a popular way for startups with fluid customer demands to outsource computing infrastructure, as it can be scaled up or down at the press of a button and you only pay for what you use.
“More than 10,000 new partners have joined the Amazon Partner Network in the past 12 months, offering customers an ever-expanding selection of software solutions hosted on, or integrated with, AWS,” the company stated.
At the event, Amazon also launched the Internet of Things Competency, which honours partners that provide technology that goes towards “intelligent factories, smart cities, energy, automotive, transportation and healthcare”. Accenture, Intel and Splunk are some of the foundation members of the IoT certification.
AWS runs its own marketplace for startups to directly sell their apps to business customers. The internet giant revealed today that the AWS Marketplace now has 3,500 pieces of software available from over 1,100 companies, and that “more than 100,000” customers are active in the market.
We will see trading pit at Amazon soon. 

Trump vs secessionists

InfoWars: He said that attempts to “separate us by race, by age, by income, by place of birth, and by geography” were over.
He said: “Now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us. You know what that is? America.”

Translation: You will invest in the NorthEast, whether you like it or not. 

These are next year homeless in Los Angeles

Chicago hits grim milestone of 700 murders for 2016 and the year's not over


Chicago cannot support an additional 100 cops while sending a billion dollars a year to Florida retirees.  The side affect here is a mass migration to Los Angeles, and the homeless camps.  No one plans to invest in Illinois with that retirement liability.

Muslimhood is not suited to modern society

Just before the attack, Farook posed with four fellow county employees in front of a Christmas tree in a conference room.
A short time later, 14 people were killed and 22 others injured when Farook and Malik opened fire at the meeting with assault rifles.
“She had essentially made the statement in an online account that she didn’t think that a Muslim should have to participate in a non-Muslim holiday or event,” said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan in an exclusive interview with ABC News that aired on ABC News’ “Nightline.”
It is not that I mind they shoot us, it is that we invite them in when they have already told us they plan to shoot us. Keep the muslim shooting in the Middle East, and leave us out of it.  Muslims stay there and have all the bizarreness they want. 

We voters are preparing a multi-trillion dollar war

Earlier this month, just after the elections, the House of Representatives quietly met to pass a resolution that seeks to assess the effectiveness and establishment of a no-fly zone in Syria, setting up what would be considered a possible act of aggression and possibly provoking a war with Russia. And the media is silent.
So, when you find yourself suffering $140/gal gas while Texans are riding high, then you know why.  You just voted to spend an enormous amount of energy getting all those troops back to the middle east.    You will completely collapse Illinois with high rates.  Trumps adventures in Swampland brought to an end.

Obamacare wouldn't have survived anyway, but the Tea party welfare rats will all be unemployed, unknowingly spending most of their life savings on an issue they know nothing about.

Muslim seems unfit for democracy

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- At least 200,000 conservative Muslims rallied in the Indonesian capital on Friday in the second major protest in a month against its minority Christian governor who is being prosecuted for alleged blasphemy.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who is a political ally of the Jakarta governor, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, and angered hard-liners by being out of the city during the first protest, unexpectedly went to the national monument to join Friday prayers with the sprawling crowd. He called for protesters to disperse peacefully. They cheered and then broke into chants calling for Ahok's arrest, but later people were streaming peacefully out of the area into a main thoroughfare of the city.
Organizers had agreed to concentrate the protest around the vaulting monument to reduce disruptions but the area quickly overflowed. National Police spokesman Rikwanto, who goes by one name, said police estimated 200,000 people were on the streets. Police say 22,000 officers and 5,000 soldiers can be called on to ensure the demonstration stays orderly.

I am not saying Indonesia is democratic, just inferring from evidence that muslim and modern democracy don't mix