“white noise”. For young people without understanding, white noise is what you would get when a television station signed off for the night. (a blank white screen emitting noise from beyond the earth – communication with the fake UFO’s we used to fly)
Venezuela – Trump’s Oil
Trumps deal took a turn for the worse when no US big oil firms were willing to steal Venezuela’s oil.
He did have a pivot, however. Enter Vitol and Trafigura two of the largest independent oil traders in the world. They are already selling Venezuela’s oil to the Indians and the Chinese, on behalf of the United States – in your name, not mine. Both China and India face threats from Trump for buying sanctioned oil. (so we see what sanctions are good for)
Just so we are clear, the United States is a threat to almost every nuclear power in the world. Fortunately, he is afraid of North Korea.
I should probably mention that a convicted criminal is holding a license to sell US oil, on appeal of course.
As surprised as I am, Big Oil was not corruptible. So Trump is taking the OG route instead. Stealing Russia business, taking over Venezuela’s oil, and subletting immediately after US oil denials, is quite timely. Actually, hurriedly – as a matter of fact.
He is going to steal everything he can before his impeachment.
We literally have OG occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
[by the way, Trump is returning Venezuela’s oil tanker so it can pass through proper accounting :-0]
[Trump lost the Nobel prize, twice. He tried taking Machado’s; Nobel said no]
Ukraine’s Booty Problem
HDD -vs- SSD
I got wind of the fact that a leapfrog in SSD technology is planned as another stopgap for the memory wall problem. Problem.
I am redesignating my home office as my POE; Personal Operations Environment; all computer equipment is on a rolling cart. I believe in seamless operations, and operations center. I am upscaling to discover more retirement opportunities. I buy everything second hand because that is who I am. I 100% have recycled my entire life. I am not a gamer.
I recently purchased a Lenovo M93 Tower, which fortunately was manufactured in Mexico. I bought it off Office Depot. Everything arrived about the same time, I started assembling. I also purchased a Nividia GPU 1600, because I am looking into VR and multimedia. I assembled before my first boot. After verifying the system did power on.
My plan all along was to clone my Fedora Linux laptop, cause I had a lot of good work in it. I received my second-hand 1 TiB Toshiba HDD at about the same time. So, I prepared the clone – got everything lined up just so. Then I decided to boot into Windows first (came with M93), you know setting up benchmarks to troubleshoot any failure. Attempted to boot Windows, GPU installed. Erratic is the exact word to describe my screen failure, flickering and such. Noted. I am not trouble shooting this because Windows is not my destination. When I went to switch the HDD’s, I realized it was an SSD. (Would probably agree with advertisement. After I saw 256 GB, it had to be replaced either way). I swapped the SSD for the cloned HDD, booted – problem solved. Once again God saved me from myself.
A hard drive has “Spinning magnetic platters + moving read/write head.”
A solid-state drive has “Flash memory (no moving parts)“.
The Artificial Intelligence memory wall problem is caused by the inability to move data from the execute layer (memory) to the data location, and back again fast enough to keep up with the advances in processing and memory speed.
Creating intelligent devices with advanced technology, which all resides in memory – is a fool’s errand. You should expect unpredictable hardware problems. The motherboard expects a hard drive.
I purchased a Toshiba HDD because the brand is very reliable. However, I purchased a hdd over the advanced ssd because of cost. Once again God saved me from myself – I do not have the skills to troubleshoot that problem. My entire install to include VIVE 2 Pro that I will learn once I get all the parts. It would have all failed because of the SSD.
The direct statement I am making is that Solid state drives should not be used as system drives. A system without a hard drive might work, but that would not be by effective design. The memory wall problem goes from bad, to triple bad.
[once I got into my long-term memory, I realized that the memory wall is a cousin to the bottleneck problem we had back in the day. a bottleneck is what happens if all users push transmit at the same time. And you had to be careful; some programmers could code around it. Some could not. That was back when Internet Banking was by modem. However, the concept crossed over. You could still get bottlenecks where no modem was involved. That was over 20 years ago. I was looking for improved bus rates back then, but nobody was having the conversation]
Renee Nichole Good
There are enough opinions going around you do not need one more. How Americans feel about the shooting is insignificant. I am sorry, but it is true.
We are straddled by party apartheid, and now we will slurry Ms. Good’s murder for political gain. She may or may not be opposed to this, had she survived.
The one thing I am certain of is the President Trump will pardon the border patrol agent. Everything betwixt now and then is all for the party.
RIP.
US Puppet for Iran
Fact: All Iran has to do is nothing. Let the people destroy everything and live in it for 1 year before repairs.
CES – Anti-technology Awards
Artwork for White House
Cancelled
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Palestinian-Australian novelist and academic whose career bridges youth literature, critical race scholarship, and public political commentary. Educated to the PhD level and now a senior university lecturer, she rose to prominence through bestselling novels about Muslim identity and later became known for forceful essays and activism addressing Islamophobia, Palestine, and institutional power in Western cultural life.
updated 1/12/26
https://au.news.yahoo.com/major-arts-festival-doubt-jacinda-102913411.html
[no respect]
Plastic Currency
In India children are paying tuition with plastic. Clean plastic waste is all that is required for their education. Apparently, India is not into separating waste, yet. The children will encourage society to do the same.
The article explains how they use plastic for “eco bricks”, as well. “Akshar’s students train local schools to make Eco Bricks, and Kalita was recently part of a team that travelled to Ladakh, 1,000 miles away, to teach students in a Himalayan school how to repurpose their plastic waste”.
The presentation is spectacular. Please read the article.
Anything worth having is worth taking care of.