Computers Are Our Friends? Well Usually.  

How Could a computer Not Be Right
 

     Modern technology is a wonderful thing. One example is the GPS mapping units in many vehicles. These units, after receiving your destination, will give you directions on how to get there, along with turn-by-turn advice that in most cases will lead you right to the place of choice.

     As good as these units are they are no substitute for common sense. You remember what you mother used to say, “If your friends told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?” Well apparently, this guy is one of the kids who would.

     Now he’s a truck driver, and his rig is equipped with a GPS device. This device directed him onto a walkway in a Milwaukee park, and onto a footbridge. And what the device told him to do he did. Now a crew is trying to extricate the truck with it’s 53’ trailer out of the situation.

     Now if somebody had told this truck driver to get off the road, drive onto a city park walkway, and then onto a footbridge, he would have laughed himself silly. But when this mechanical voice coming out of his computer told him to do it---well, he did. Go figure.

Well, This Should Keep Putin Busy

     Harry Readhead, writing for Metro.co.uk brought us this news.

     Yelena Borisovna Mizoulina has come up with what she considers a terrific idea. She is Russia’s Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Commission on Women’s Affairs. Her plan is that Vladimir Putin should donate his sperm to the women of Russia and by doing this would, “Improve the greatness of Russia and improve patriotism.” And that it, “Would create a new military and political elite.”

    To encourage women to accept and use this sperm, “they should be given special allowances,” and that the children should be educated in Soviet-style boarding schools.

There was nothing said in the report about this Chairwoman being in a home for the delusional. I mean, give me a break, who needs more Putins. The one we have is about one-half a Putin too many.

   This idea is like something out of the worst part of Nazi Germany. And I mean really the worst part.

The CIA Strikes Again

    Thomas Grove via Reuters, reports that Russian Premier Vladimir Putin, who has claimed that the internet is a “CIA special project,” has hatched yet another one of his “brilliant?” ideas. He is going to start a Russian, (read---government controlled) Wikipedia. He’s afraid that Wikipedia is not accurate enough (read---thinks the way he does) about all things Russian.

I didn’t know Wikipedia claimed to be accurate about anything.

    The first thing that any dictator worth his salt feels he must do is control the information available to the people so that he can better control them. And why wouldn’t Putin want to do this? It worked so well for people like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and about a zillion other dictators or would-be dictators, NONE OF WHOM ARE AROUND ANY LONGER! I would think that fact alone would give Putin something to think about.

One Rabbit More Or Less 
  

    Idaho there is a teacher who brought a rabbit to her 10^th grade biology class. She was trying to teach the kids where their food came from. So she killed the rabbit, (snapped its neck) skinned it, and cut it up into servicing-sized pieces. All this was done in front of the class.

    Good lesson? Maybe not so much.

    The school is contemplating disciplinary action, and I’m guessing, if they can figure out what exactly to discipline her for.

    Students were allowed to leave before the demonstration if they didn’t want to stay. The report doesn’t say how many left.

In retrospect it’s easy to say that this teacher should have spent more time thinking through this idea. 

One thing the school authorities can be thankful for, she didn’t use a cow.

    One good thing probably did come from this demonstration. After watching the teacher snap the neck of the rabbit, I bet the kids think twice before misbehaving.