With the change in spin of the core we might very well see magnetic effects that change things radically. For all we know there might be cycles of ice ages directly related to changes in core spin and pole shift. If there is then the period of rapid change would include a huge extinction event because humans could not adequately cope with the rapid radical change. We have only been increasing rapidly in population as a species for 13,000 years which in terms the earth is a few seconds on the clock. Indeed another ice age just might put the breaks on the expansion of the human population.

My theory is that we are about to be replaced as the top species on the planet and our replacements will have life spans of thousands of years, be very hairy and large as well as be more bear like in stature. They will somehow quickly learn to read what we have done and learn all of our skills, perhaps they are all here already and slowly increasing in their numbers.

Either way it is certain that some survivalists with big bucks will live on for a while and perhaps even get to meet and interbreed with the super human replacements if they are deemed worthy by the hairy giants that will be the new intelligent inhabitants of the planet. But us poor lower income suckers who need fast food to survive will all perish simply by freezing and starving to death. As predicted the only safe place will be in the hills because the low areas will become toxic to most life for at least a few hundred years until all the rot and garbage is dealt with by nature.

Poor Greg now needs all the help he can get!

As many of you have heard, I was involved in an accident on my Sarasota property Wednesday afternoon and sustained several injuries. After spending three nights in Sarasota Memorial Hospital, I am grateful to be home and recovering. All praise and glory goes to God!

Seeing that I might become a snow bird if I win the lottery, his spam mail has for the last 7 years kept me abreast of how wonderful the state of Florida is especially for Canadians who are white and rich. Not so much if we are of colour though, especially if you want to buy into a seniors gated community without getting your kids shot. It would be terrible if the weekly emails from Florida to my gmail account were blocked, how dare you do that to my inbox GOOGLE!!!

It was kosher space lasers causing the lightning strikes in the forests of California afterall!

Using less memory is not a bonus contrary to popular belief otherwise why have it? The problem is assuming the user to be dumbed down and creating a GUI that does not use enough unless you tweak the registry settings and then the OS has brain farts when you shut it down because it is too busy saving user profile to pretend that it knows how you will use a particular interface the next time you open the program. Or worse saving your usage profile data in the cloud. Running off the net is even slowed down because the OS is still trying to log how you use the interface. Not the case with a well tuned Debian based Linux it shuts down 3 to 4 times faster and does not sit there doing so much poling of usage profiles to guess what you will do next. Run it lean it is fast run it with many interfaces at the same time it is almost as fast because usage profile is not being either constantly sent to the cloud or written to disk. That is why write to disk is constantly happening in the windows OS and Linux can be made to load more and run exclusively from ram and not even have a drive running except if you use a medium to save files and nothing else. The last thing that Microsoft wants is a portable OS that can run on any computer and that is why it sucks and is in reality just rental software.

Spot on, the bullshit of having an XBOX interface in Win Pro version embedded and non removable in the UI and using the same routines necessary for game play running an internet/ intranet business GUI is ridiculous the interface design decision at Microsoft are getting stupid again to say the least. Same nonsense that made Win 8 a non starter in businesses and lost many manufacturers that rely upon windows OS to sell hardware lose millions because no one in their right mind changed from 7 desktop to an interface that couldn't make up it's mind whether or not it was a cell phone an entertainment console or a touch screen tablet. Windows still spins wheels far too much shutting down because of all the nonsense it has to write to disk to save settings to log files which is crazy. The more creature feature updates the more nonsense data seems to be included in the flow of settings for some stupid reason or other. Perhaps this is the strategy to get people off Win 10 before 2025, most likely they do the same with XBOX in the OS.

Makes me want to go back to Vista 64 sp2 which was the fastest version of windows by a long shot and shut down faster than Win 10 does on much newer and faster system bus and drives. The only thing Microsoft is really good at is making hardware seem that it is going bad with updates that do far too much disk and system bus work and most likely they do the same thing with XBOX game consoles to sell more of them. They sure suck at tablets by making them obsolete in a hurry.

And the different angle is the XBOX application that is installed on the Windows OS that you cannot uninstall. Shovel crap applications down the consumers throat is what Microsoft is all about today. Edge is now even taking google add data directly from the Chrome browsing history user sandbox. Microsoft wants desperately to edge out Chrome in the browser wars. That was the only reason for using the Chrome browser engine in the first place. A bit of a twist on what happened to Netscape by making sure that updates hosed the browser engine.

Things have not changed just improved in the ability to shut our or make the internet their domain altogether. Edge for the Safari engine anyone or more fun than that Edge with a Siri interface. BARF Cortana is stupid enough as it is without having a demented talking version of Clippy suggesting how to switch to Edge on every device which in the future might be edge on Play Station as an app. Or even more fun than that Cortana on the new Linux Edge OS. Hey GOOGLE lookout Microsoft Bob is coming to get you! I have a blast with Windows putting every browser setting off default and letting them fight it out, so far Chrome is still ahead in the battle to be useful with information on all devices. Siri is a non starter along with Apple Air Play and all the other garbage that tries to take over the devices I own.

Sony well I just wish they still make decent high fi equipment and if not distribute high bit rate audio disks and movies then make digital chips of them and sell them because that is all they were really good at.

The music rental and game industry need to evolve past killing formats somehow. I want high quality DDG recordings and Angle and others and I don't want to pay to subscribe on a game console or crapola interface over internet connections only to be hit with endless advertising and never ending upgrades. Sorry but internet connected equipment just is not good enough for the purpose of high end audio listening because it is another music and video rental scam not a decent way to get the best sound or have the ability to listen anytime you wish without going through endless equipment and software updates that are not really necessary.

Looks like the USB C cable market is doing the Monster cable thing. Here in Canada in the box stores that sell USB C the prices have more than doubled overnight. Call it the Apple worm lemming effect which is somewhat similar to the Covid toilet paper effect. Regardless if you want a decent usb cable now it gets expensive if you need a few of them and you don't want the crap ones from 7/11 or the local gas station. Almost as bad as the HP ink jet printer cartridge protection scam, but not quite. We live in a disposable world, Madonna had it all wrong, Ballmer on the other hand is being proven right about the amount of non serviceable or barely adequate design cheap crap we will consume in the name of having the latest technology regardless of the real costs. I wonder what the future residents of the planet after we blow ourselves up will think about the techno junk we are leaving everywhere on this little planet,
We have figured out what the most of what the Antikythera mechanism did but an archaeologist of the future, if there are any, might come to some very silly conclusions about the past figuring out what a iMac with firewire or HP printer cartridge was all about when everything else was fairly easy to understand and everywhere else buried in the mountains of ancient junk on the bottom of what was once the largest ocean on the planet. Or on the shores in the east with signs of being taken apart for some reason or other.

See your point. I guess the same issues might have been a fair part of the Itanium disasters at intel. Either that or the SCO wars with Intel bringing out a better 64 bit compiler for linux that smoked the one released for windows. Sorry I don't trust Redmond except to put a squeeze on my wallet every 5 years of so.

Perfectly good i5 desktops and even more laptops that only need a minor upgrade of the TPM to 2.0 were all ditched by our governments here in Canada just so Microsoft could sell more IS software and more importantly the industry could crank out a pile of new devices to keep the tech industry afloat. So the real truth about hardware is that it is as Steve Ballmer put it "worthless".

The chickens are coming home to roost and as the cycle of "upgrade" is just about over and I doubt that governments can afford to keep up the smoke and mirrors of shelling out a butt tonne of cash to the tech industry.

The overvaluing of "intellectual property" has been one of the main causes of inflation. As bad as someone borrowing money based upon a false valuation. This cycle of insane tech greed has also caused inflation in everything because service jobs where people actually create and deliver goods have no where near kept pace with the ones that are are paid to asses in chairs. Simple. Another tech bust is inevitable as witness the past few months at Faceplant and Tweeter and the like.

One thing you missed is the fact that Trump will not be in a political position to influence congress to stop supporting the Ukraine until tomorrow. If the election polls are correct. If there is a golden showers tape and other dirt in the hands of the FSB/KGB then you can bet that Trump will immediately become an economic isolationist and push his myrmidons to cut funding and military support to the Ukrainian peoples.

Being from Canada I can tell you that the exodus of disaffected Americans to Canada will become an issue for Trudeau the same way it did in 2016. By 2024 if Trump succeeds in regaining the presidency, Alberta might wind up calling for a referendum to separate with Canada and join the US to alleviate the problems with an influx of homeless from south of the 49th,

The rest of Canada will need to build a wall at the 49th to stop the influx of American political refugees. My suggestion is for Canada to start building the wall on the 49th immediately and get the crazy Republicans to pay for it. Enough with the left wing right wing bullshit it is a disease and Russia suffers from it the same as the rest of the world. It all comes down to the original rhetorical question in answer to "where is your brother?" Something which even the so called right wing in the US does not seem to get or understand the real meaning of the tale.

I feel the very same nausea during a windows update and reboot cycle.

Dolby has a lock on multichannel codecs which is utter bullshit. A 5 or 7 channel surround sound codec based upon flac is completely possible and adding it and syncing it to a video track is also possible. A competing codec for mp4 would be a good thing for the web. Even Microsoft is embracing open codecs with the inclusion of flac in the Edge browser engine to open up sound capabilities and take the idiotic restrictions off multi channel audio codecs. Now that physical DVDS and Blueray disks are dead meat it makes no sense to restrict audio and video codecs to the ones that were used on them. Mp3 is crap for surround sound even at higher bit rates restricted codecs should not become the only option for content creation. Relying on one entity to engineer sound which is distributed over the web in digital format is restrictive bullshit.

Simple or we need to ask the galactic council if the Vogons could move the earth instead of just pulverizing it.

As for the cave survivors only the most fertile and willing males and a higher percentage of females will help repopulate the new earth after the thorium g levels drop to a survivable level and the human race can emerge from the mines.

An adequate supply of Maga hats could help keep the aggressive males from killing each other by mistaking rivals for Dems, waring them would become mandatory and heavy fines for not wearing one would need to be enforced. Only GOP members may apply for a spot in the caves and anyone found to be a Dem would need to be booted out to die in the radiation zones.