Burt Janz

The Problem Isn’t H1B…

by Burt Janz

I have been a high-tech worker since I taught myself programming back in the 1970’s after building a computer kit in the Navy. At that time, I was an electronics technician, maintaining and repairing communications and radar systems aboard ship. After reading articles in magazines about “microcomputers”, I decided to purchase one and see what … Read more

We Need an American Oidashibeya

by Burt Janz

In Japan, lifetime employment is almost a given. Employees are protected by law and custom, so a wide scale RIF rarely happens. The company does not want to incur embarrassment or admit that they have excess personnel, which could mean unnecessary expenses that reduce profitability and thus affect the company’s stock price. Japan has a … Read more

Not Deportation: Call It “Eviction”

by Burt Janz

As several commenters here and in other blogs have noted, a problem situation only exists if you continue to feed it. It is time to stop feeding it. Nonviolent deportation… um, eviction… is possible. All it takes is a reversal of the federal policies that “invited” millions of people to illegally enter the US. The … Read more

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Are We Really Under Threat?

by Burt Janz

There have been innumerable editorials in various publications and opinion show broadcasts about a possible “civil war”. These comments have been made by both sides in reference to the other side, and are supposed to reflect a possible reaction to the election of either candidate. I find this rhetoric to be misleading and somewhat horrifying, … Read more

Ignore The Polls — Concentrate On Truth

by Burt Janz

Lots of articles about polls, who’s ahead, whose behind, which groups, which areas, which states are on whose side. The polls change almost daily, based on who is asking the questions and how they’re phrased. And the polls are “samples”, usually no more than a couple of thousand people in a country where over 200 … Read more

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Has America “Bottomed Out”?

by Burt Janz

I remember reading the columns and editorials of several conservative and Republican pundits who were hoping that Trump would lose in 2020.  They based their hopes on hatred of Trump’s personality and his disregard for “the norms of Presidential behavior.”  They called themselves “NeverTrumpers” and were proud of it.

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Context is… Nothing.

by Burt Janz

The current in-vogue spin-room phrase is “context is everything.”  That phrase is used to provide an excuse for every unethical action, from teachers who are caught reading pornography to grade-school children, to politicians who vote to support “gender-affirming” surgery without their parent’s permission or knowledge.

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Academic Fraud is Now APPROVED at Harvard

by Burt Janz

Here’s what we know so far: Harvard President Claudine Gay has been accused of plagiarism by copying the work of others, inserting it into her Ph.D. thesis, and not acknowledging it.

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It Ain’t AI if it Don’t Learn.

by Burt Janz

You read that right: you can’t call it Artificial Intelligence if it doesn’t fully imitate Human Intelligence. I used to teach this stuff at a local college in their 400-level computer science curriculum. The book was Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. It’s considered the book to teach first-level concepts … Read more

From the Halls of…

by Burt Janz

Ya gotta wonder why there are so many Americans siding with Muslim extremists and why the Biden administration is deeply bowing both to them and massive numbers of Palestinian “supporters” here in the US.

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Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS – there IS a common factor

by Burt Janz

Let’s think about the attacks in Israel for a moment.  If we look around, we see that it isn’t just Israel that’s being attacked.  Have we forgotten about “no-go zones” in France, Germany, England, and other European cities?  Or the surge in Muslim attacks in Algeria, Mali, Tunisia, et al?  Or the longstanding hatred and internecine wars in the Middle East that do not involve Israel?

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Israel Israeli Flag Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash

Stand Your Ground, Israel

by Burt Janz

Before beginning, this needs to be said: the reasons Hamas has control of Palestinian areas are that it has terrorized Palestinians into voting for it in “fair elections,” and it has been “educating” children into a deep hatred of Israel from the time they were born.

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How To Fix the “Student Loan” Problem

by Burt Janz

One only needs to check the news occasionally to know that there is at least a half-trillion dollars of noncollectable student loan debt out there.  Those loans, a huge percentage of them being owed to non-government entities, may never be fully repaid.

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Yes, We NEED to Teach Cursive Writing

by Burt Janz

There’s something at stake in education that most people are ignoring.  Schools are drifting away (sometimes running away) from teaching cursive writing.  All sorts of excuses have been given: “It’s old.” “It’s hard to teach.” “We don’t need it any more.”

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Status Quo by Charlie Wollborg at Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Welcome to (blue) New Hampshire

by Burt Janz

So, the 2022 elections are over, and NH decided that it had no intention of bringing about a change in political direction in Washington, DC.

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When Life Imitates Art

by Burt Janz

I’m not one to compare a movie to life, but I remember one movie that seemed to foreshadow what we’re seeing today. The story is about a man who is accused of a crime without knowing what crime he has been accused of committing.

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Is Canada’s Government Still Legitimate?

by Burt Janz

In all the Canadian government’s furor over the truck driver protest, one event is missing: any reports of clear-cut violence committed by the truck drivers or their supporters.  I have been scouring American, Canadian, and international news sites to find a verified report – any report – of a Canadian truck driver who has physically attacked anyone else.

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Truck Drivers vs. the “New World Order” – NWO Loses Big-Time

by Burt Janz

As we watch Canadian truck drivers shut down fully 25% of cross-border trade because they oppose vax mandates, and as we watch the rumblings of a possible similar action here in the United States, we see the long-expected result of the “elite” attempt to bring about a “New World Order.”

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Repeal the 17th Amendment

by Burt Janz

The Constitution describes 3 branches of the federal government: the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.  It also originally indicated that the rules to elect Senators and Representatives “… shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof” (emphasis mine) and that Senators were elected by each State’s Legislature.

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WV vs Bette Midler

by Burt Janz

Just a comment regarding Bette Midler’s comments about West Virginia: In 1997, Polaroid rolled out a Driver License/ID system that implemented the first facial image recognition system in any state-level program in the United States. I was the tech lead/manager on the program, so I know we did it.

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