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Culture, Government, Technology

Your Watch Won’t Keep Time Next Year

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Here’s some news that I haven’t heard reported in the “media”.

If you own an “atomic” watch, clock, appliance, irrigation system, or any other device that keeps accurate time and is not hooked up to the Internet, it will no longer keep accurate time starting next year.

As part of the US government’s brilliant cost cutting measures they are planning to shutdown the TIME and frequency reference radio stations known as WWV, WWVH, and WWVB, which have been in operation since 1920. These stations transmit a time reference based on the National Institute of Standards’ (NIST) atomic clock which is used by many timekeeping devices. The government’s argument is that MOST timekeeping is now synchronized with GPS. Unfortunately that is PATENTLY FALSE! It’s estimated that there are at least 50 MILLION devices IN USE that depend on WWVB to maintain accurate time.

Here are some FACTS. The electronics to synchronize time to WWVB are smaller, lower power (greener), and less expensive than a GPS based solution. I have several “atomic” watches that look like regular wristwatches but they keep spectacularly accurate time, and because they are so ENERGY EFFICIENT they are powered by a built in solar cell. They require NO batteries (again greener) and NEVER need recharging (once again greener) versus something like an Apple watch which is GPS based. I have a couple of GPS based watches and they are much larger than my “atomic” watches and they require recharging every few days which is a big inconvenience.

Now how much is the government going to SAVE when they shut off service to MILLIONS of users?  Oh it’s a lot of money.  The savings will be…

$6.3 million.  That’s millions folks, NOT billions.

You can read the proposed NIST budget cuts HERE.

Once again, in all its BRILLIANCE, our CONGRESS is going to ORPHAN off a perfectly viable technology, WITHOUT TELLING US.

MILLIONS of CITIZENS CURRENTLY USE this technology but Congress WON’T fund $6.3 million because they have greater priorities such as making sure they have BILLIONS of dollars to fund some giveaway program for ILLEGALS.

“Cut services to citizens” should be their new motto.

Gotta love those politicians.

Business, Technology

Why Does This Sound Familiar?

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Recently, a well known “celebrity” in the automotive field who is making a high mileage, revolutionary product declared, “… a long list of organizations,” including OIL COMPANIES and Wall Street short-sellers, that “want [us] to die.”

In the 1930s a Canadian inventor named Pogue declared that he had created a high mileage revolutionary product.  Mr. Pogue’s revolutionary invention was a gas vaporizing carburetor that would allow a car to travel 200 miles on 1 gallon of gasoline. All that was required was a simple swap of the standard carburetor with the Pogue device and any car would achieve 200 Miles Per Gallon.

Why don’t we see 200 MPG cars today? It’s been almost 90 years since this miraculous discovery.

The answer over the years is that one of the big American automobile manufacturers and BIG OIL COMPANIES bought Mr. Pogues miracle design and have suppressed it’s use so they could sell more oil. Even today, people still believe this conspiracy theory.  Break out the tin foil hats, folks.

Science time. Fuel vaporization is only a small part of an engines efficiency. The bigger factors of efficiency according to thermodynamics is Th versus Tc or “T-hot versus T-cold”. There’s a fancy equation to figure out thermal efficiency but in simple terms you want the combustion process as hot as possible and the expanding burning gas to become as cold as possible. An engine manufacturer needs to balance these two opposite requirements and make a product that actually works and doesn’t melt down. Again in simple terms the biggest factors of INEFFICIENCY is the heat loss through a car’s engine block and cooling system which are necessary to prevent the engine from destroying itself.  Try running your engine with out water in the radiator and see how well that turns out.  But SCIENCE and FACTS ruin a good conspiracy theory.  Bah humbug to science.  We can have 68 genders according to the wacky social justice warrior crowd even though SCIENCE doesn’t back that up.  So let’s just keep blaming BIG OIL for all the ills in the world.

So who was the automotive celebrity that stated recently that BIG OIL COMPANIES want his company to fail?

Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla Inc.

Culture, Technology

Alexa, KILL !

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  • A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  • A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  • A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Isaac Asimov’s “Three rules of robotics”.

I wrote in my previous post that there is a much more sinister aspect to “Keyless Killers“.

Infiniti, the automobile manufacturer, is showing how their cars have the convenience of remote starting using Amazon’s voice device, the Echo aka “Alexa”.  You can see how this works in the following video:

Infiniti has a step by step guide to set up their cars to use the Echo’s Alexa command to start their cars just by saying, “Alexa start my Infiniti QX-50”.  You can read the guide HERE.

Why is this “sinister“?

How about this murder mystery scenario?  A jilted ex-lover of our beautiful actress in the video sneaks up to her house, as she slumbers peacefully, and talks through the window saying, “Alexa start my Infinity QX-50“.  The car parked in her garage dutifully starts, filling her house with carbon monoxide, and beautiful actress never sees the sun rise ever again.  When the constabulary arrives to investigate, they find the car running and assume she must have been the one in five billion who left her car running, accidentally.  No signs of foul play.  No fingerprints.  No incriminating DNA.  Cause of death, accidental.  Case closed.  Jilted ex-lover thinks to himself, “Excellent!”.

Interestingly, as I previewed this post and played the video, my Echo heard the command “Alexa…” by the actress and lit up showing that it was listening for what it should do.  Kind of spooky.

Ain’t technology grand?