Signs of the Times?

 Seems today that both my computers are having problems. I'm using Quantum Fiber and it seems like every game or traffic intensive program (videos etc.) is slugging around in the mud speeds. I'll probably connect to the Comcast connection. We still have Comcast until we decide that Quantum Fiber is going to work. We are using the slowest speed Comcast has available to keep our costs down. Adding Quantum Fiber to the cost of our Comcast is less than it costs one of our friends for just one High-speed connection on Comcast. And Quantum Fiber is supposed to be the highest speed one can get for the price of $35/month.

Finally, Fiber to the home that was promised in the early 1990's. Yet, here we are with serious problems...

It's not our software, it's your hardware

 I have been a tech since 1982 when I started working at Turf Paradise, a horse race track, as a video tech setting up and repairing everything from timing systems for the races, to camera equipment, sound systems, phone systems, etc. Computers were relatively new to the scene at that time. But one thing remains the same, no one wants to hear that "their" realm is at fault for failures. 

So many times in my life I have heard the statement, "It's not our problem, it's yours!" Way more times than I can count have I found that 'my' equipment is working perfectly, it's the software accessing it that has not been configured correctly.

Once again I am facing that beast, doing all my troubleshooting, finding my equipment works perfectly and #QuantumFiber has protocols in their system that won't let my equipment connect to the Internet. Not all my equipment, just one, and then another that I use to bypass their lack of connectivity.

No need to call, they will again tell me that it is my equipment, even though I can connect with Comcast.net with ALL my equipment, even the one rejected by Quantum Fiber.

#quantumfiber, #internetaccess, #comcast, #monopolies

Daily Magic

Yesterday I saw a leaf, unusual in that it looked like someone painted it, partially, like a drip of paint from a painter's brush.

Then, the scientist touched it. It disappeared.

Vote? WTF

 Those of us waking up to the capitalist empire and the sham any government embracing capitalism has become cannot in good conscience vote for either of the empire managers the banking systems have put in place. 

Our choices:

Biden = WWIII
Trump = Civil War

WWIII spells the doom of all humans on this planet.

Civil War destroys the US of Ameriakkka but leaves intact most of the rest of the world. 

I choose saving the rest of the world instead of a Scorched Earth scenario. I actually will be voting my conscience with Jill Stein. I cannot vote for a Capitalist Puppet. Good luck with your Lesser of two evils, because you really don't know how evil that "lesser" really is. You have been blinded by propaganda starting with your first foray into a public school classroom and probably by blinded parents who knew no different because they have been subjected to lies and deceptions of the public education systems, aka Propaganda Indoctrination Centers, as well. 

The one subject they have effectively erased from the curriculum to make sure you never have the tools to oppose their pap is "Critical Thinking". You cannot get that until you get to college, and by then most of your opinions have already been formed, often by illogical "belief" systems. Get a clue, the Empire "Owners" don't want an educated in thought populace. That would be too hard to control. No, they have religion to put blinders on people. Whether it be Zionism or Nationalism, they have you by the gonads.

Last.fm Leaderboard

 Most obscure artists... 

Last.fm calls me "Underground" for Martin Best Medieval Ensemble... LOL

 

 

And then on the Leaderboard, I'm first in the number of Scrobbles compared to my friends on Last.fm.

So, here I am ripping CD's this week that we bought from groups we've seen and I hit all the top scores. I am a bit surprised that my friend in Brazil is ahead of me in the most obscure since many of the groups I've been adding to my library are only "Portland, Oregon USA" groups. But then I also see that many of my plays are not scrobbled to Last.fm and I'm not sure why. Mainstream albums are, but the local productions are not always, even when they have a barcode uniquely identifying them. Last.fm probably has a database that screens scrobbles to only those they know about. Also, some of the music store promo discs are not scrobbled. 

So, Last.fm is not really a true measure of the music you've been playing, but better than no measurements.