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Bots (on-line "comments" from roBots) are pretty dumb - but they are getting smarter. Learn to smell 'em out. With practice, you can stay as smart as the bots. Here are a few tips for your smeller.  If you read "comments" on any web site, look for these "tells." 1. They are quick . Bot comments roll out immediately after actual reader comments that contain certain key words or phrases the A.I. in the bot recognizes as a "key." Actual human responders typically take a little longer. 2. They are generic . Bots have meme-heavy, specifics-light responses. "Another big government fan, I see," is common. "You must hate the Constitution," is another. "Go home to your safe place," "Once a commie, always a commie," "Put her in jail,"  etc., etc.  3. Sometimes they use stupid grammar . Bots don't get a lot of copy editing in the propaganda mills from whence they ooze. "You need a s

Public/Community Radio Rides Roaringly; Roger Dodger A "Pledge Week" Pitch * One of our Albuquerque Public Radio Stations (we have two!) is KUNM . I have been involved with the station in various ways for years. I helped conduct focus groups with their listeners and I served on their board for four years. It's a really good station, something of a hybrid that may be unique in the country in that is is a "Public" station and a "Community" station. (Don'tcha see?) This has been pledge week, and they manage to make it quite interesting - a creative challenge. As an exercise in keeping it interesting, I wrote this little ditty: We don’t say it enough, but what we are asking you to support is a  non-commercial station . One of the biggest differences between commercial and non-commercial stations are their business plans - how they pay all the costs of running a radio station. Both privately or corporately owned and public

Another Bid For World Leadership Blasting at Boeing and Airbus As any reader of this blog knows, I am warily watching China as it pursues its ambition to be the world leader in field after field. Already they are passing us in renewable energy - one of the greatest potential business sectors on Earth.  I am worried about their rapidly expanding efforts in military weaponry , space technology , artificial intelligence and robotics . Their huge population, immense wealth and focused government all aim at regional dominance, with world dominance not far behind. Commercial jetliners for Chinese domestic travel will be one of the largest manufacturing sectors over the next decades, and - surprise! - it's a sector China is determined to own. With airplanes that can capture that market, you can bet they will become competitive on the international markets. The New Chinese C919 The USA has held a clear lead in aerospace for decades with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, United Technolo

It's a Rare Chance To Do It Better This Time.... Bury Them! Not immediately, of course. Service must be restored. It's TERRIBLE being without electricity in September in the SouthEast. No air conditioning is torture. No refrigeration is sickening. No traffic lights is dangerous.  BUT... Don't spend all the money it takes to totally rebuild the same old system . At least get a start on a weather-proof distribution grid. Do the absolute minimum to restore service, and start...... MAGG! M AKE A MERICA'S G RID G REAT It's not going to happen. Those poles will be replace with MORE POLES! Instead of putting these guys to work everywhere, unleash the fast trenching machines , buy miles of new, high tech, super tough underground cables, and never have the grid knocked down again! Talk about improving the infrastructure! Whether it's hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes or drunk drivers taking down our vital electric grid, the cure-all is BURY

I Guess I Asked For This As you know, I have recorded a few of my encounters with other 'commenters' on Breitbart.com. The emphasis has been on the atypicality of those exchanges in that they were more or less civil, even though the Breitbartians and I disagreed on almost everything. This rather lengthy exchange is different. I set them off by accusing BB.com of being a "hate rag," so no surprise that the fans objected.   They were still replying when I bailed out, so I'm sure I missed some jewels. Hey! Y'know whadda mean? The fuse I lighted (After a story about a nasty Imam, calling for violence against "whites.") seniorjunior (scooter duff)   •   an hour ago Breitbart continues it's abominable policy of printing hate-inspiring/reinforcing takes on the news, finding every story of human cruelty and stupidity and pumping it up to full power incitement, ONLY when it's anti-Musli