Trophy Wife in Charge
13 Sep 2012 08:16 Filed in: Comics
The Tired Donkey must admit that the original did not contain dialogue and captions and storyboard panels, but the whole story was in there, just waiting to get out. And now it’s been released from its cold, WASPy prison.
Click the picture of the front cover to the left and enjoy the whole story.
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Rethinking Our Tax System
03 Aug 2011 19:12 Filed in: Tax Stat Analysis | Linguistic Shenanigans
On the day after the announcement of the debt ceiling deal, the New York Times’ editorial page, under the headline “To Escape Chaos, a Terrible Deal,” opined that the Democrats “held out for a few basic principles.” Among these, the paper observed, was the principle that there “must be new tax revenues in the mix so that the wealthy bear a share of the burden . . .” Hmmm. A share of the burden? Let’s check that out.
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Why the Big ISPs Are Lying to You About Net Neutrality
22 Apr 2011 06:51 Filed in: Linguistic Shenanigans | Net Neutrality
First, the basics. Last year a federal court of appeals in Washington, D.C., declared that the FCC lacked the authority to prevent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from restricting the websites their customers could visit. That’s a big deal if you care about an open internet.
An analogy here should be useful. As hackneyed as it is, imagine the internet as a highway over which information flows. The only way you can access any of that information is via an an off-ramp, and the ISPs own all of them. Get your internet from Comcast? You’re at the end of a Comcast off-ramp. The traffic on the highway below you, like the traffic on the internet, flows unimpeded regardless of rules governing the on-ramps and off-ramps. But you can’t access any of it without your off-ramp controller (your ISP), and they are fighting as hard as they can to be allowed to make decisions about what you are and are not allowed to see.
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Speeding Up a Sluggish Mac
13 Dec 2010 07:47 Filed in: Mac Hardware | Mac Software
Slow Mac issues are generally caused by one of three things: RAM over-utilization, too little free space on your hard drive or various, esoteric issues with system permissions and the like. It is undeniable that two of these three could almost certainly be helped by hardware upgrades, but it is also undeniable that there are likely things you can do to optimize the performance of the Mac you have rather than the Mac you might have someday in the future. That’s what this post will help with. So read on because even if you are planning on adding RAM or a bigger hard drive, there is no sense in using what you already have inefficiently.
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Don't Let Your Password Slow You Down
27 Aug 2010 07:24 Filed in: Mac Hardware
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