I am a Geo-Technical Lab Manager in San Francisco California. I am working my way through list of all Star Wars books ever written. I like Birdwatching, Computer-Stuff, and Writing. I think that going to the Library should count as going to Church, although I am not an Atheist. I like to ride my bike too.

Trump will never be elected. I hear about it in my workplace, and on the radio and in the news, and perhaps deep down Democrats feel a cold twinge of fear at the notion that the Tea Party along with Republicans might actually be willing to wreck our government by electing Trump as punishment for our having elected Obama, but fear not, this is an empty threat, because:

1. Trump polls very well, he puts all other Republican candidates in the dust, but this is not something to worry about, because polling well and getting elected are not the same thing, especially when you consider that being able to manipulate the media to put the spotlight on himself is his superpower. He will poll well from now until the end of time.
2. America will not elect a 1-percenter, and definitely not a 1-percenter of the 1-percent. Obscene wealth, and the legal loopholes used to preserve that wealth are part of the main reason Mitt Romney couldn't get elected. Even when the economy is in serious trouble, American's won't elect someone who is that out of touch with the real world.
3. Industrialists do not, and cannot function well in a political environment. You cannot run a Country the same way you would run a Company or Corporation. For example, suppose X% of Arkansas students can't read above a 3rd grade level, in a business, you would fire those poor performers, but it turns out that doesn't really work in the real world, and that we have to find a way to get those kids to read better, even when it will cost more. This is one of the main reasons Ross Perot could not get elected. Likewise, smear campaigns and bankruptcy are perfectly legitimate business strategies, and Trump has made use of both on multiple occasions, but they don't work in government, for example, you can't bankrupt your Army.
4. Succeeding in business requires unilateral authority, and you just don't have that in American politics, our system is predicated against it.
5. Business men do not have allies, they only have one-night-stands with allies. This is a fairly well-known and universal fact, and Trump is very blatant about the fact that if you cross him (or he just thinks you have crossed him) he will turn on you like a Cobra. It is for this reason that most Republicans are actually afraid of aligning with Trump. For further proof see 'Megyn Kelly'.
6. Success in business does not translate into success in other areas, many times, success in business does not guarantee other successes in business. See 'Steve Jobs'. You can't elect business men to politics for much the same reason you can't elect academics, because the way they see the world isn't flexible enough. See 'President Taft'.

Ambrose Bierce brilliantly said, “Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.” Trump literally is a Corporation.

For the past year or so, I have been addicted to the online game Backgammon Live on Facebook, it’s fun, the boards are beautiful, and play and features are exciting. Then the people who run the game upgraded the flash requirement to play, and being a Linux user, I was exiled. I tried installing and configuring various other Linux distros like openSUSE (I even tried the official pay version SUSE), Ubuntu, and FreeBSD and PCBSD, but no luck, I could not get flash to work and always ran into this screen on both Firefox and Google Chrome (aka Chromium for Linux) But after many months, I am back to it, and this is how… One of my major problems was a software war. Adobe has dropped support for the main open source web browser Firefox, which caused Firefox to declare war on Adobe Flash, and some people think that all this started with an alliance between Adobe and Google, since Google’s browser still seems to maintain support. So, for the time being, if you are a Linux user, and you want to play Backgammon Live (and other intense flash games) you can only do it through the Chromium browser. As I said before, I tried Suse, OpenSUSE, UBUNTU versions of Chrome, and nothing worked, but finally under Debian 8.1 (Jessie) I finally got this screen… The main thing I had to do to get it to work was that I needed Chrome doesn’t use the ordinary flash player plugin you get from Adobe, but instead uses “pepperflashplugin-nonfree”, so issueing the command in a terminal as root:

apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree

will install what you need to get back on track.

I have recently accepted a really good job offer from one of the oldest and best materials labs in San Francisco, Smith Emery. This is a really good step for me, and have wanted to live and work in San Fran since I was a teenager. This really couldn’t come at a better moment, since my current company CTE was refusing to get me much needed help in the lab, and they were coming up soft on delivering on the pay they promised me to get me to move from Hawai’i. The lab they run is awesome. They have all the equipment, trained personnel, and their cylinder cure room is as large as my entire lab. I got to meet some of the people who work there on my interview visit, and they seem like a real team, which is going to be a wonderful change from my current situation of working in a cohort of rivals. I am going to have quite a commute for the first few months, 77 miles each way. That is until we move closer to the bay area. It seems like a lot of trouble to go through for a job, but this company has a great reputation, and they package they offered me was nearly double what I have now. they also have an office in Shanghai, and that would be an awesome work trip. I am going to have to be a bit more frugal, and more scheduled with my time, but I can’t get over the feeling that this is really going to be a great experience for me. This makes me feel like leaving Hawai’i was worth it.

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I remember learning about this in college, and it totally changed my perspective on everything. It is the ultimate reason why you cannot give a human being the same things you would give a cow or a dog, and expect them to flourish. It also does not surprise me that so many Conservatives have never heard of this basic truth. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Epson WF-2540 is a great little printer and not very difficult to setup under Ubuntu 14.04 and later. It doesn’t work straight out of the box, if you use Ubuntu’s Add Printer Dialogue it suggests Generic Drivers that seem to setup fine, but do not work when it comes to printing test pages (in fact, in one iteration of my efforts the test page came out with a message “if you can read this you are using the wrong driver” ?!?!). So, it turns out Epson actually has a Linux Driver that they supply to you, which can be freely downloaded from their website. But before that driver will work, you will need LPR installed on your system: <pre>sudo apt-get install lpr</pre> installing that will also install a buttload of dependencies, when that is all done, you will be able to install the epson driver via website and pkg manager: go to: <pre>http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX</pre> and type in WF-2540 (or another epson model) and it will take you to the download page, you must click “accept” and once you do, the web page will suddenly update and become ‘longer’ with a new table that has various versions and formats of the driver, I was using an i386, so I downloaded the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.4.4-1lsb3.2_i386.deb (remember Ubuntu prefers the .deb. format for its packages) and then when it starts to download, there should be a download dialogue option for “open with” and ubuntu package manager should automatically be selected. If not, then you can go into the directory where you downloaded it and double click the package, it should pop open with package manager and install. If you prefer to do it by command line instead, you can do: <pre>sudo apt-get install epson-inkjet-printer-escpr</pre> Once all that is installed, THEN redo the Add Printer dialogue in “settings” (if a previous install of this printer is still on your system from before, right click the printer and Delete it) it should now proceed much more quickly, and find what it needs on its own, and you will be taken to the “Print Test Page” button. Hit it, and see the printing of nice words and colors and shapes.

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