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A thought to help you not be able to sleep tonight - technology

We take it for granted that as technology advances, year after year, we all benefit. Better computers!

Imagine for a moment you were a country isolated, and denied access to technology.

What would you do? You couldn't begin to reinvent technology. That's taken decades of the world's economy funding it to happen. Anything you could do for years would be childlike.

The medias coverage on LV shooting is starting to bug me

There’s the report now of an unarmed security guard who was the first to encounter Paddock and survived a hail of 200 bullets, then led the police to the shooter’s site.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/security-guard-las-vegas-gunman-unarmed/story?i...

The guard who found the shooter and helped bring the massacre to an end said, “I was just doing my job.”

Thursday Open Thread 10-05-2017


Morning, complicated week the headlines are are steadily informing us of natural and human disasters that keep growing in scope and complexity. It is difficult not to get overwhelmed. So back to basics, to help re-balance and move forward.

Water is life. It provides life, sustains life and destroys life. Our relationship with water makes civilization possible. A healthy one we thrive and a poor one we can be destroyed.

Las Vegas massacre: starting from the conclusion and working forward--why?

Did you ever have a nightmare and struggled to wake up to end it? Have you ever had a nightmare that didn't go away after you woke up? Whether or not you want to hear this, and you probably don't, things about the LVM (Las Vegas massacre) are just not adding up. I will present evidence to bolster what this essay is about in a second essay. The procedure is the reverse of usual investigations.

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