Here’s What To Do If You Have An Apple Card And Lose Your iPhone

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

So, how do you pay your Apple Card bill if your iPhone is misplaced or stolen? You could always wait until you buy a new phone, or recover your old one, but a late payment would result in interest charges which, obviously, would not be ideal. Because Apple’s support website doesn’t say, BuzzFeed News posed the question to a customer service representative through Apple’s phone and text message support system (Apple Card is currently available to a limited number of people and members of the press).

Source: Here’s What To Do If You Have An Apple Card And Lose Your iPhone

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Have to think very carefully about some of these flaws.

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VOCABULARY: nomophobia (?)

Monday, August 12, 2019

What happens when you drop your cell phone and the screen cracks? Do you repair or replace the phone? Many of us just continue to limp along with a broken screen until it becomes unusable. Eventually, we get a new phone. Unfortunately, phones are getting more and more expensive.

Source: Repair or Replace Phone? Here’s Why You Need to Fix That Broken Phone

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There’s even a rise in a psychological issue known as ‘nomophobia’, which is the fear of being offline or not having your phone on you to be able to look something up or post on social media, for example.

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Is this a real word?

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Iraqi woman answered ‘uh’ over 200 times in Swiss citizenship test | Daily Mail Online

Monday, August 12, 2019

Iraqi woman fails Swiss citizenship test after answering ‘uh’ over 200 times despite living there for 20 years and claiming to speak German

Source: Iraqi woman answered ‘uh’ over 200 times in Swiss citizenship test | Daily Mail Online

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Maybe English fluency should be required for admission to the US or citizenship?

If Switzerland can do it, why not the USA?

And, we should borrow their foreign policy too!

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Tulsi Gabbard for President – Official Website – TULSI 2020

Monday, August 12, 2019

TULSI 2020

Source: Tulsi Gabbard for President – Official Website – TULSI 2020

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https://www.tulsi2020.com/

​As a little L libertarian, who is anti-war and pro-peace, I urge you to donate a dollar to keep her in the Democratic debates. Yes, I know, that on many policies, she is as terrible as the rest of the socialist aka communist candidates.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt),

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/12/18660068/democratic-debates-2019-candidates-rules-lineup​

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And though July’s second debate uses similar rules, the DNC announced late last month that starting with September’s third debate, it will be a good deal tougher to make the cut.

First, the polling threshold for inclusion will be raised to 2 percent, in at least four polls between June 28 and August 28.

Second, and even more worryingly for much of the field, candidates would also need 130,000 unique donors to qualify (with at least 400 donors each in 20 states). Meaning they can no longer get in through polling alone, as seven candidates seem likely to do for the first debate. And even those who already reached the 65,000-donor level would have to rake in a lot more support.

Candidates who rely on traditional big-dollar fundraising, self-funders, candidates focusing intensely on early states at this point, or those who are simply less nationally known may have a very tough time meeting that standard.

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So, even if you just donate a dollar, that will make you a “unique donor”!

So, if you want to keep the “anti-war” candidate on the debate stage, then you have to act.

I think of it as a way to send a message to all “We, The Sheeple” that “anti-war” questions should be asked of all the candidates.

Call it hacking the Democratic Debates.

Think of it as part of a “peace commercial” for a dollar!

Please.

 


The Citardauq Formula

Sunday, August 11, 2019

This is interesting — if ax 2 + bx + c = 0, then It’s called the citardauq formula — citardauq is quadratic spelled backward. It’s explained above by the inimitable James Tanton; here’s a Facebook discussion ; and see the second answer here regarding questions of numerical instability.

Source: The Citardauq Formula

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Never knew it had a “name”; did you?

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Did you hear the one about the negative-coupon mortgage-backed bond?

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Copenhagen | In the world’s biggest covered-bond market, a Danish bank says it’s now ready to sell 10-year mortgage-backed notes at a negative coupon for the first time.

Source: Did you hear the one about the negative-coupon mortgage-backed bond?

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Does this make ANY economic sense at all?  I’m baffled.  As soon as they off me  a “negative” interest rate, I think I’ll take it.  They are going to pay you to take a mortgage?  Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I do NOT understand the logic of this.

Maybe it’s a version of Three Card Monte I’ve never seen, but I’ve been around a long time?

If you understand it, please explain it to me, but use small words, I’m real old.

Remember the sources of my education! I’m just a fat old white guy retired injineer who’d now a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income with:
* Law “degree” from watching Judge Judy;
* Medical “degree” from watching Doctor Phil;
* Building “degree” from watching “Holmes on Homes”;
* Investing “degree” from reading about Bernie Made-off;
* Finance “degree”from listening to Ric Edelman;
* sensitively managing Human Resources from watching Chef Ramsey; and
* creating loving / caring human relationships from studying the movie roles of Gunny Ronald Lee Ermey

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‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Small Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the ‘Town Bully’

Friday, August 9, 2019

Premiering on Thursday, Aug. 1, on SundanceTV, No One Saw a Thing (executive produced by Jason Blum) is a six-part documentary about the tiny rural enclave of Skidmore, Missouri, home to an incident that became so notorious they even made a TV movie about it (1991’s In Broad Daylight, starring Brian Dennehy, Cloris Leachman, Marcia Gay Harden and Chris Cooper): the July 10, 1981 slaying of Ken Rex McElroy, a “town bully” with 37 felonies to his name, and a hulking mutton-chopped 47-year-old who terrorized locals to no end, including shooting multiple people for no good reason. He was, by all accounts, the sort of monstrous bad guy one might find in an old Western.

Source: ‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Small Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the ‘Town Bully’

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Street justice?

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El Paso Survivor Says He Wished His Mother Had Brought Her Gun

Thursday, August 8, 2019

AP Photo/Andres Leighton Speaking with a retired police officer–a man raised by a preacher–about carrying in church, the retired officer commented that he just couldn’t do it. He just didn’t feel right with a firearm on in church.

Source: El Paso Survivor Says He Wished His Mother Had Brought Her Gun

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Folks, at the end of the day, carry your guns. Even if it’s to Walmart. There is no safe place in this world. Safe spaces are an illusion, a lie we tell ourselves to believe that we can shut the evil in the world out and create a Utopia, even if only on the tiny patch of ground beneath our feet.

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If you can, you should.

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Napolitano: The 2nd Amendment Isn’t A Gift From The Government

Thursday, August 8, 2019

AP Photo/Richard Drew Judge Andrew Napolitano is bringing the heat in a stinging column for the Washington Times , rebutting and refuting the arguments by gun control activists that they can simply ignore the text of the 2nd Amendment and Supreme Court decisions and enact whatever anti-gun laws they want.

Source: Napolitano: The 2nd Amendment Isn’t A Gift From The Government

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We have civil commitment laws on the books in states across the nation. If we believe that someone is truly a danger to themselves or others, isn’t that a more appropriate place to seek help rather than a court hearing where a judge only hears one side of the case before making a determination about whether or not someone poses a threat to themselves or others?

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Why not use the tools that already exist?  Because it doesn’t fit the narrative and disarm the people so the Gooferment can do whatever it wants to “We, The Sheeple”!

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Do We Need Laws to Help Curb our Social Media Addiction?

Thursday, August 8, 2019

If his Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act (SMART Act) becomes law, your social media experience will be littered with authoritarian pop-ups imploring you to maintain 30-minute time limits and instead of easy-to-use scrolls, your feeds will turn into click-controlled social media rations. In short, your social media experience will become so annoying and static that you may, in fact, start using it less. So, Hawley will win, but you, and, especially, social media, will lose.

Source: Do We Need Laws to Help Curb our Social Media Addiction?

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Where in the Constitution does it make Gooferment the arbiter of how social media should work? Are “We, The Sheeple” just little children to be “protected” from their own choices. What’s next an “Eat Your Vegetables” Act? Argh!

https://buff.ly/33pbV0q #unconstitutional #Nannystatism #NOTSMART

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