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I think we kind of have some aspects of socialism already: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and possibly our education system for elementary, junior high and high school, our police force, our firemen, our road system. Our taxes pay towards these greater goods for society. Now I have to admit that I do conflate communism and…

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and according to IBM’s CEO, 100% of jobs will change over the next 10 years. She doesn’t say jobs will be eliminated; she says they will change. So we gotta get cracking on reskilling. The source of the change will be analytics and artificial intelligence – not a surprise…

A few months ago, probably last year, I did a post on the fact our company did a rebranding exercise that refreshed their logo but at the time I didn’t think the company was ready to announce to the work its new look. The website wasn’t even set up yet. But in the last few…

[This is stream of consciousness writing – no attempt to be eloquent.] I’ve been working late most nights and most weekends on the ACA so this is the first weekend in a while where work is not part of the agenda. This past week I had gotten to the point where I was so tired…

There’s been a lot of news about freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her possibly overheated comments. I don’t know whether she is anti-Semite or not or whether she is moving the Democratic Party toward Corbynism. I’m actually kind of clueless about anti-Semitism, despite reading a lot of books about World War II and the Nazis….

A little update on what’s been going on, aside from the ACA reporting. At the moment I’m waiting for the TCC and software codes before I can do the software testing. I’ve prepped all of the files so that as soon as I get those codes, I can do the testing. It should be any…