June 16, 2025

6 thoughts on “Asses&Villains: Engineering War Edition

  1. Coffee in hand, Asses & Villains on the computer screen in front of me!

    Ah, life is good!

    And of course Joe Biden, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan engineered that war that is now on-going in Ukraine, and it is interesting how little we hear of Blinken, who was the man of the hour back when, and Sullivan, these days.

    And Zelensky, their pet stooge in Ukraine, talks like an idiot:

    “Ukraine fights for values of freedom and democracy, therefore counts on support of civilized world – President”

    1 March 2022

    Today, Ukraine is fighting for the values of freedom and democracy, and other countries of the civilized world must support our state in this struggle.

    This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview for CNN and Reuters.

    “The war in Ukraine is a war in general for values: life, democracy, freedom.”

    “So this is a war all over the world,” the President said.

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed that such important things are difficult to understand for people who do not see war in their country.

    “That’s why the message must be presented in a way to reach across all these thousands of kilometers, so that from Ukraine this feeling reaches the people in the United States and they understand what it is like here, what we are fighting for, understand that they should not just support Ukraine for nothing,” said the President.

    end quotes

    Ukraine is NOT a democracy – it is an autocracy with a suspended constitution and no human rights, and Zelensky is a DICTATOR who thinks and believes ALL Americans are dumb as a box of rocks because we elected Joe Biden who isn’t even as intelligent as a box of rocks, and so, will take anything the DICTATOR Zelensky says as an article of faith and the gospel truth, when in fact it is horse**** he is peddling!

  2. CCM: Notes on Artificial intelligence (AI) – What we understand as “advanced technology” has always existed — has always shaped our reality as we know it— only now we are being introduced to our own awareness of its existence and the mind-bending capabilities & ramifications of its power.

    Today’s AI is not new, just new to us.

    ME: I remember well the acronym GIGO in reference to AI: “garbage in, garbage out!”

    I don’t think anything has changed in that regard since then.

    As to AI, of course it has been around forever, but people, who aren’t themselves around forever, aren’t generally aware of that reality, to wit:

    HISTORY

    June 14, 1951

    On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States.

    UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by a team of engineers led by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.

    These giant computers, which used thousands of vacuum tubes for computation, were the forerunners of today’s digital computers.

    The search for mechanical devices to aid computation began in ancient times.

    The abacus, developed in various forms by the Babylonians, Chinese, and Romans, was by definition the first digital computer because it calculated values by using digits.

    A mechanical digital calculating machine was built in France in 1642, but a 19th century Englishman, Charles Babbage, is credited with devising most of the principles on which modern computers are based.

    His “Analytical Engine,” begun in the 1830s and never completed for lack of funds, was based on a mechanical loom and would have been the first programmable computer.

    By the 1920s, companies such as the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) were supplying governments and businesses with complex punch-card tabulating systems, but these mechanical devices had only a fraction of the calculating power of the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).

    Completed by John Atanasoff of Iowa State in 1939, the ABC could by 1941 solve up to 29 simultaneous equations with 29 variables.

    Influenced by Atanasoff’s work, Presper Eckert and John Mauchly set about building the first general-purpose electronic digital computer in 1943.

    The sponsor was the U.S. Army Ordnance Department, which wanted a better way of calculating artillery firing tables, and the work was done at the University of Pennsylvania.

    ENIAC, which stood for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, was completed in 1946 at a cost of nearly $500,000.

    It took up 15,000 feet, employed 17,000 vacuum tubes, and was programmed by plugging and replugging some 6,000 switches.

    It was first used in a calculation for Los Alamos Laboratories in December 1945, and in February 1946 it was formally dedicated.

    Following the success of ENIAC, Eckert and Mauchly decided to go into private business and founded the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.

    They proved less able businessmen than they were engineers, and in 1950 their struggling company was acquired by Remington Rand, an office equipment company.

    On June 14, 1951, Remington Rand delivered its first computer, UNIVAC I, to the U.S. Census Bureau.

    It weighed 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second.

    On November 4, 1952, the UNIVAC achieved national fame when it correctly predicted Dwight D. Eisenhower’s unexpected landslide victory in the presidential election after only a tiny percentage of the votes were in.

    UNIVAC and other first-generation computers were replaced by transistor computers of the late 1950s, which were smaller, used less power, and could perform nearly a thousand times more operations per second.

    These were, in turn, supplanted by the integrated-circuit machines of the mid-1960s and 1970s.

    In the 1980s, the development of the microprocessor made possible small, powerful computers such as the personal computer, and more recently the laptop and hand-held computers.

  3. CCM: If the Covid lab leak theory being a ‘conspiracy theory’ was a lie and ’15 days to stop the spread’ was a lie and ‘masks work’ to stop the spread was a lie and ‘vaccine mandates will stop the spread’ was a lie and ‘natural immunity is a myth’ was a lie and ‘there are no side effects’ was a lie and ‘safe and 100% effective’ was a lie then you can pretty much bet that whatever the U.S. government is telling us about anything right now is a lie.

    ME: No arguments from me on any of that, but the lying by the so-called “U.S. government,” which is nothing more than a collection of hacks and bottom feeders put in there by people who really either don’t know better, or have no other choices to choose from that wouldn’t be even worse, is hardly anything new, to wit:

    Although U.S. advisors were fighting with South Vietnamese units and U.S. pilots were flying combat missions in South Vietnam, Kennedy denied that Americans were involved in combat, and Vietnam attracted little public or congressional attention.

    Vietnam was far from front-page news and Americans still believed that their government told them the truth.

    – p.37, Dereliction of Duty – Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Viet Nam by H.R. McMaster

    And as The Who said after that:

    I’ll tip my hat to the new Constitution
    Take a bow for the new revolution
    Smile and grin at the change all around
    Pick up my guitar and play
    Just like yesterday
    Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
    We don’t get fooled again
    Don’t get fooled again, no, no
    Yeah
    Meet the new boss
    Same as the old boss

    end quotes

    Except we do get fooled again, and again, and again …

  4. And this story comes to us from “SOFT ON CRIME” DEMOCRAT Kathy Hochul’s “CRIMINAL SANCTUARY” capital city of Albany. NY, which is under the control of “SOFT ON CRIME” DEMOCRAT Kathy Sheehan.

    A few nights ago, a young married couple I know decided to take a night off and to go out and have dinner in a restaurant in the “CRIMINAL SANCTUARY” city of Albany.

    When they came out, it was to find that some PROTECTED CRIMINAL and smashed their car windows and had stolen what was in the car.

    So they call the police, who take a report, and then apologize, telling the VICTIMS it will go nowhere.

    Undaunted and undeterred, they took the car home, and went back out to continue the night in an Uber.

    When they came back out of the venue later that evening, it was to get jumped by a gang of PROTECTED CRIMINALS who roughed them up and stole the wife’s cell phone.

    So another police report, and another apology from the police.

    Isn’t the DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED CRIMINAL SANCTUARY CITY of Albany, NY, so fun?

    I mean where else can you go out to eat and have some relaxation and get to file not one police report but two in the same night, other than, uh, well, the DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED CRIMINAL SANCTUARY CITIES of San Francisco, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois …..

  5. “Democracy nowadays is communism.”

    – Engels, The Festival of Nations in London written at the end of 1845

  6. And KA-BOOM, people, as the blow-back from Joe Biden’s INSANE GREEN DREAM blows up our banking system with Joe adding to his presidential resume or list of MAJOR ACOMPLISHMENTS while in office the largest bank failure since the financial crisis!

    So how about that, people!

    Isn’t Joe Biden so great?

    I wonder if Putin in Russia, Xi in China, and the dude with the wild haircut in N. Korea are going to send him “WELL DONE, JOE, HOW TO GO” messages of congratulations for proving to them and the world just how ******* stupid Joe Biden and his INSANE GREEN DREAM really are.

    And while all of that was going on, what was Joe Biden talking about – how about doctors, probably Martians after an alien abduction of Joe, sawed off the top of his head to see if he had a brain:

    Joe Biden jokes doctors had to ‘check he had a brain’ after his aneurysm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JaxcDt1R1I

    HE DIDN’T!

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