The musings of a passionate albeit opinionated guest on Earth.
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged bailout, bailouts, bush, cheney, depression, economic, Economy, foreclosure, foreclosures, jobs, obama, policies, policy, recession on 27 July 2009
Our textbooks may call this economy a “Recession,” but this feels like a “Depression”. Foreclosures, 10-18% unemployment, and bailouts for the elites that created this situation. That is not a recession, it is a depression.
Posted in Health, Politics, tagged care, congress, cost, costs, coverage, government, Health, healthcare, illness, insurance, medicaid, medicare, plan, plans, schip, wellness on 23 July 2009
President Obama is wrong on healthcare. He is pushing for something that will not work and ultimately will cost the taxpayers billions if not trillions. We need healthcare reform, but the problems can’t be solved by simply insuring everyone and running legislation through Congress at the speed of light.
Posted in Science, tagged advances, adventure, exploration, kennedy, knowledge, leader, leaders, leadership, lunar, mars, moon, program, progress, pursuit, Science, scientific, shuttle, space, station, technological on 20 July 2009
Today is the fortieth anniversary of first setting foot on the moon. It has been nearly thirty-seven years since we were last there. Why haven’t we been back?
Posted in Sociology, tagged careless, carelessness, cruel, destroy, evil, good, kind, kindness, mean, meanness, people, remain, remaining, remains, self-centered, selfish on 17 July 2009
These days, people in the world seem to be getting more evil, more cruel, and more nasty than ever. Are there any good people left or have they gone into hiding?
Posted in Software, tagged code, coding, data, database, databases, elevation, engineering, hack, hacking, injection, pii, privacy, privilege, Software, sql, vulnerability, vulnerable on 13 July 2009
Given the importance of secure programming these days, why do we still write code vulnerable to SQL injection? Why do “managed” runtimes like Microsoft .NET or Sun JAVA still allow this kind of code to be executed?
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged 1776, abandon, america, apathy, bailout, bailouts, birthday, congress, dilapidated, dilapidation, disregard, elected, ignore, mislead, neglect, officials, outsourcing, president, representatives on 3 July 2009
The government of the people, by the people, and for the people is neglecting its people. We’ve become a government of the titans, by the titans, and for the titans. When will it end?