NBC selling out to the Left Wing

All I can say is wow, has the unscientific looneys on the left finally made it to the big time like the religious looneys on the right? After watching West Wing's "Duck and Cover" episode tonight, I am apalled at the level of understanding of all those college educated moonbats have of how a power plant works, how a control system works, and that the Navy has maybe a couple of people who might have some knowledge of nuclear power. The anti-nuke message was very clear, but why not save a lot of money and just have a bunch of people shouting "no nukes" like the good old days, instead of meeting the payroll for this episode? Ugh, worst of the season, one of the worst of the series.

Then at 10PM ET, we are treated to defective body armor in Iraq, and a military-industrial complex plot to murder the sargeant who figures out the defect. I understand that Democrats are reeling from a week of plantation talk from Hillary, and the Chocolate King of New Orleans, but come on folks, at least have storylines that have some basis in reality, not your dreams.

Man Vs. Whatever

In the old days, there were three great stories, Man Vs. Nature, Man Vs. Man, and Man Vs. Himself. Since then, thanks to Hollywood, we must add Man Vs. THECORPORATION, and Man Vs. THE GOVERNMENT. I am so sick and tired of movies where the bad guys are a corporation, or the US government. Why is it that we must make demons of the entities that help our lives? Even the most hardened Bush detractor would not kill a Social Security employee. And is the Red Croos, a corporation, oh by the way, deserving of a typical Hollywood maltreatment? I guess I shouldn't be suprised that this is what we've come to, just was hoping for more intelligence on behalf of the American people.

Tooting My Own Horn....NOT!!!

I was just finishing up some software changes this afternoon to a product I'm working on. I did the schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, software design and coding. You know, 20 years ago I was on a team of 8 engineers working on a smaller project. It's not me, it's the software that makes this possible. For $2000 I get a software development system with simulator that replaces 3 software guys. For $10,000 I get a cad system that does the schematic capture, BOM development, and PCB layout. Yes, I have to tweek a bit here and there, but once the schematic is done, and the physical size is set, the CAD program does the rest. Now the sad fact is, other than the concept, everything else can be done almost anywhere so long as the people have the same tools. You want the worst part? I email the files, and I get PCB's. I have no idea where they came from, nor do I care. There is another vendor who will even populate the boards for me. Where from? Who knows, and should I care? I guess the real bane of existance in the 21st century is that WHERE no longer matters, only WHAT. I think this is a good thing, do you?