Month June 2007

Inkjet printers lie about being empty

Sometimes inkjet printwers will say the print cartridges is empty when it’s still 60% full. And it won’t let you keep printing either. This can hardly be accidental but rather just another example of greedy capitalists gouging the public fraudulently.…

Transcontinental bungee trips

Sproing… 3000 miles westward for a three day conference in S.F. Then the reverse. 3000 miles back arriving at 5:30 am Tuesday. Yikes. I call them bungee trips, you don’t even have time to get over the jet lag before…

Amistad captain a hardcore slaver

Recent research, using previously unknown documents from Cuba show that Ramon Ferrer, captain of the of the slaver ship Amistad who was killed by the slaves in the famous uprising, was no minor wheel in the slave trade. Instead, he…