Sent to Vanguard after email notice of tax documents:
1) Finding feedback is a bit of a chore.
2) The instructions in your emails do not match what is on the screen when a user signs in to his or her account.
3) I have had more debugging experience than I care to remember. I really don't wish to spend my time debugging third party software.
Or better yet, I tried to send the above to Vanguard. The window for feedback wouldn’t scroll down all the times, including “Submit” if that was an option.
I did discover that I could move to non-visible sections with the tab key.
Hm! I noticed typos in the Notes copy. I wondered if I sent uncorrected text.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Gli italiani sono tornati (English speakers please read on)
For several weeks there has been a big spike in usage of this blog. It was almost like clockwork every two days. It was at the same time as a large number of visits "from" Italy. And then it stopped.
Hurray, maybe the Italian/Russian reverse spammers had gone away.
Then today there was another spike.
You, my legitimate readers, can help make them go away by telling your friends and relatives about this blog. If the ranking of visits to this blog goes way up, then the hopes of reverse spammers will go do away. The reverse spammers hope I'll click on their links and ...
But I don't hold much hope about word about this blog spreading. My comments to the New York Times and Washington Post don't get many "likes" either.
Hurray, maybe the Italian/Russian reverse spammers had gone away.
Then today there was another spike.
You, my legitimate readers, can help make them go away by telling your friends and relatives about this blog. If the ranking of visits to this blog goes way up, then the hopes of reverse spammers will go do away. The reverse spammers hope I'll click on their links and ...
But I don't hold much hope about word about this blog spreading. My comments to the New York Times and Washington Post don't get many "likes" either.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Why we should have universal health care!
We should have universal health care to increase public health.
Many readers have health insurance, have a certain number of sick days, and generally stay home if we are sick. About the only thing we will infect other people with are colds or flu. We will stay home if we have the flu but not in the early stages when we think it is a cold.
But there are lots of people who have no health insurance and no sick days. These are people who drag themselves to work to make sure their incomes stay steady. They are the ones who can infect the rest of us on the bus or as restaurant servers or store clerks.
At a gym, many people clean off every surface they touch before and after using a machine. But do they, or we, clean off every door handle, including on the lockers. If we take a bus, do we clean off the seat before we sit down. Do we wear masks in elevators, especially in a medical facility?
How many Typhoid Mary’s are out there serving us even when they know they are sick?
Universal health care will not eliminate all cases of passing an illness on, but it can certainly reduce our risk of catching a disease.
Many readers have health insurance, have a certain number of sick days, and generally stay home if we are sick. About the only thing we will infect other people with are colds or flu. We will stay home if we have the flu but not in the early stages when we think it is a cold.
But there are lots of people who have no health insurance and no sick days. These are people who drag themselves to work to make sure their incomes stay steady. They are the ones who can infect the rest of us on the bus or as restaurant servers or store clerks.
At a gym, many people clean off every surface they touch before and after using a machine. But do they, or we, clean off every door handle, including on the lockers. If we take a bus, do we clean off the seat before we sit down. Do we wear masks in elevators, especially in a medical facility?
How many Typhoid Mary’s are out there serving us even when they know they are sick?
Universal health care will not eliminate all cases of passing an illness on, but it can certainly reduce our risk of catching a disease.
Monday, January 08, 2018
Trump smart at playing dumb
Sarah Kendzior has an interesting view of Trump’s actions. Among other things, she writes that he has wanted to be President for 30 years.
See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/trump-is-no-genius-but-hes-smart-at-playing-dumb/article37518954/.
See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/trump-is-no-genius-but-hes-smart-at-playing-dumb/article37518954/.
Friday, January 05, 2018
Quote of the day: Trump and John Wilkes Booth
“Donald Trump is the John Wilkes Booth of the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln.” - Paul A. Fleming, “With so much stupidity, question everything”, Letters to the Editor, Duluth News Tribune, 2018-01-04
Monday, January 01, 2018
Edmund Burke and Sarah Palin thinking alike?
“The occupation of an hair-dresser, or of a working tallow chandler, cannot be a matter of honor to any person–to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such description of men ought no to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule.”
Quoted in The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Corey Robin
I can’t see how he can equate a thinker like Edmund Burke to a clueless person like Sarah Palin.
The above quote is taken very much out of context. Burke was commenting on the French Revolution where everything was torn down to start anew. Burke's comments were often directed at Thomas Paine who thought each generation should start governance from scratch. Burke was very much for change in the context of continuity. People should keep what works and fix what is no longer working. To do so, you can't just take people off the street and expect them to understand what changes should be made and how.
I gave up reading The Reactionary Mind after that quote.
I do recommend Edmund Burke: The First Conservative by Jesse Norman and The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right by Yuval Levin. Both have a more nuanced understanding of "conservatives" and "liberals". Although Levin describes himself as a conservative, he gives fair hearing to both Burke and Paine.
Ironically, both Paine and Burke favored the American Revolution. However, the United States was founded on a Burkean conservatism. The French revolutionaries imprisoned Paine for about a year and the French Revolution fell to a military government under Napoleon Bonaparte.
Unfortunately, I don't think there are any Burkean conservatives in the U.S. government, unless they are Democrats. The only thing conservative about Republicans is conserving their own power and that of large corporations.
Ironically, our first conservative wrote a well-thought treatise on how to govern and what dangers to watch out for. Current "conservatives" not only ignore the lessons in George Washington's Farewell Address, but they don't even attend its annual reading in the Senate!!
Quoted in The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Corey Robin
I can’t see how he can equate a thinker like Edmund Burke to a clueless person like Sarah Palin.
The above quote is taken very much out of context. Burke was commenting on the French Revolution where everything was torn down to start anew. Burke's comments were often directed at Thomas Paine who thought each generation should start governance from scratch. Burke was very much for change in the context of continuity. People should keep what works and fix what is no longer working. To do so, you can't just take people off the street and expect them to understand what changes should be made and how.
I gave up reading The Reactionary Mind after that quote.
I do recommend Edmund Burke: The First Conservative by Jesse Norman and The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Left and Right by Yuval Levin. Both have a more nuanced understanding of "conservatives" and "liberals". Although Levin describes himself as a conservative, he gives fair hearing to both Burke and Paine.
Ironically, both Paine and Burke favored the American Revolution. However, the United States was founded on a Burkean conservatism. The French revolutionaries imprisoned Paine for about a year and the French Revolution fell to a military government under Napoleon Bonaparte.
Unfortunately, I don't think there are any Burkean conservatives in the U.S. government, unless they are Democrats. The only thing conservative about Republicans is conserving their own power and that of large corporations.
Ironically, our first conservative wrote a well-thought treatise on how to govern and what dangers to watch out for. Current "conservatives" not only ignore the lessons in George Washington's Farewell Address, but they don't even attend its annual reading in the Senate!!
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