Monthly Archives: April 2017

Hollande (not the country) loves RINOs (not the animals)

Posted on 30 April 2017 by E.M.Smith

How to degrade a medal and sully a country in one easy lesson: Award “honors” for PC Crap to folks who are lousy roll models. Continue reading →

Posted in Political Current Events | Tagged , , , | 23 Comments

Scribble, Watermarks, and the Vault Leaks

Posted on 28 April 2017 by E.M.Smith

Some comments on “Scribble” and watermarks in documents. Continue reading →

Posted in Political Current Events, Tech Bits | Tagged , , , | 20 Comments

Venezuela – how to collapse an economy in 5 easy lessons…

Posted on 28 April 2017 by E.M.Smith

Some comments on how to collapse an economy using Venezuela as the present poster child. Continue reading →

Posted in World Economics | Tagged , , , | 17 Comments

QM vs Waves vs “Photon Rectifiers”

Posted on 28 April 2017 by E.M.Smith

Can an IR PV panel be made that produces some electricity from the black body radiation of a room temperature object? Thermodynamics seems to say no, while Quantum Mechanics would imply yes, given my limited understanding of both. Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Science Bits | Tagged , , , | 78 Comments