Reading Time: 2 minutes Tom Krause – CEO, Cloud Software Group – finance guy – Princeton U alumni – Now you know not all ivies have high moral standards, because Tom is obviously a #muskrat or a fat cat in the corporate world (ABS News). Quote the ABC news article a bit: One former Cloud Software Group employee said
Reading Time: 3 minutes BYD is offering a self-driving feature for all. That could be trouble for Tesla. Below is what I got from googling when using “Tesla self driving timeline” as search keywords. I think we all know Tesla is the de facto leader of EV and autonomous driving: I believe they like to use the term Full
Reading Time: 2 minutes About 13 years ago, I worked at coal mining company, followed by a hospital chain, both in their IT departments. It was President Obama’s 1st and 2nd term. I worked for Arch Coal (I just fount out they merged with Consol Energy and formed as Core Natural Resources) between 01/2012 and 04/2013, and worked for
Reading Time: 2 minutes I talked a quite a bit on this topic recently, and I think it’s also important to put things in perspective, especially across the different geographical regions on the global, also looking back to the history. Two most important things Stop doom scrolling, and try to get some physical active time. I talked about this
Reading Time: 3 minutes 油管：文革和红卫兵 : I personally don’t have much memory of Culture Revolution (文化大革命）。 But I do recall the time when chairman Mao died. It was like one of the supreme leader in North Korea died. I was 5 years old. I started school when I was 7 years old: we didn’t have kindergarten, and I started
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 02-13-2025) PBS Newshour via YouTube – What Trump voters think about his first weeks in office (Original 02-03-2025) I feel RFK Jr. benefited from free publicity by saying or writing crazy things over the years (NY Times confirmation hearing for HHS secretary). I recall in 2008, President Obama beat his democratic rival Hillary Clinton
Reading Time: 5 minutes (Update 02-21-2025) I did two trips today. The second one is from Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital to STL Downtown. First time I stopped by this facility. This reminds me of another facility KVC Missouri which I drove by more often when I took S8 to the Community Music School of Webster University for her percussion
Reading Time: 2 minutes My 1st impression on America In summer 1997 when I 1st came to the USA, I noticed the street at Rolla (middle of Missouri) was quite clean. It’s just I was in a honeymoon period with America and I didn’t notice. In recent years I saw more panhandlers at intersections (also seeing panhandlers playing fake
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am trying to order them in the severity, from the most serious to the least serious. Sept 11, 2001: terrorist flew airplanes to the twin towers in the NYC. Sept-11 had profound impact on the America society in my opinion. Before 9-11 I could go to STL Lambert International Airport and meet my friends
Reading Time: < 1 minute Horrible news from New Orleans – CNN 的文章。 我没有去过新奥尔良。十多年前我去过离她不远的阿拉巴马州的海边orange beach 和gulf shore。这次的事情发生在凌晨3:16，在新奥尔良最有名的闹市/旅游区。 2001年9月11日，纽约世贸中心双塔（最高的两幢楼）被基地组织劫的民航飞机撞上去，爆炸并倒塌。当时我在美国，我已在公司上班将近一年。不久以后，小布什在国会通过议案后，开始了美国的 war on terror 反恐战争: 先是带着一帮北约小兄弟轰炸并入侵阿富汗。因为当时阿富汗的塔利班政府不肯交出基地组织的头本拉登等人。2003年三月，又是在国会同意以后，”war on terror” 又进一步：小布什命令美军入侵伊拉克。世界第一军事强国美军拿下阿富汗和萨达姆的伊拉克军队，没有悬念。本拉登后来也被美军杀死。但是”war on terror” 没有成功，美军最后在死亡几千人以后，撤出伊拉克和阿富汗。昨天，2025元旦，被新的伊斯兰极端组织Isis同化的退役美国士兵（去过伊拉克），开着卡车载着在新奥尔良搞恐怖活动。小布什的伊拉克战争跟一千多年前的十字军东征有何差别? 在我看来不从历史中吸取经验是不少宗教极端主义的共同特点-这当然也包括美国基督教极端主义，和以色列类似的宗教极端主义。 十字军东征 以下来自维基 -（拉丁语：Cruciata；法语：Croisade；伊斯兰世界称为法兰克人入侵；1096年－1291年）是一系列在天主教教宗的准许下的战争，由西欧的封建领地主和骑士对被他们视为侵略者的伊斯兰政权（地中海东岸）发动持续近200年的战争。 以下来自百度 – 十字军东征（拉丁文：Cruciata，1096—1291年）是一系列在罗马天主教教皇乌尔班二世发动的、持续近200年的、有名的宗教性军事行动，由西欧的封建领主和骑士以收复被阿拉伯、突厥等穆斯林入侵占领的土地的名义对地中海东岸国家发动的战争，前后共计九次。十字架是基督教的象征，因此每个参加出征的人胸前和臂上都佩戴“十”字标记，故称“十字军”。 PS: Is George W Bush the worst US president in recent memory? 另：美国的反恐战争和运动/行动如此的虎头蛇尾，甚至于类似于另一项轰轰烈烈的时间更长的反毒抗毒运动，是不是也有因为有一些利益集团并不希望这些利国利民的运动真正地成功呢？因为对军火集团，监狱行业（美国有世界上最多的犯人，和最庞大的监狱系统，其中有相当数量的监狱不是政府的，而是公司拥有和运作的）等利益集团来说，只有现在这样他们才能赚大钱啊。 The cost of two wars: mostly economy how much did the
Recent Comments