Stupidity Watch 1

     Does your government lie to you? Of course it does. It is silly to think anything else. As an American I actually think more like a Russian in the sense that Russians don't think that they have any rights to know anything about what their government is doing. I feel the same. Our government has to deal with things all over the planet including many bad players, and I don't think that I have the right to know about it. Apparently most Americans think differently than me, and feel somehow that their government is telling them the truth, and should tell them the truth, and should tell them everything.      In most cases I don't even want to know what our government is doing, but when it comes to the Ukraine it's a little bit different. Our government has been lying to us for over a year, telling us that Putin is crazy, that Putin is losing the war in the Ukraine, and that the casualties are so high that it is leading to dissent among the Russian pe...

     Did you know that Google wrote the code for all Android phones? Did you know that this means that the default search engine on android phones is always Google search? Did you know that you can use Google Docs instead of a Microsoft Word file and it doesn't cost any money?      Did you know that Google paid Apple 15 billion dollars last year alone just to be able to have their search engine as the default search engine on Apple iPhones, iPads, and I assume computers as well? And finally, did you know that on the current iPhones this default search is so small that it appears to be only a tiny logo in the bottom center of an Apple iPhone desktop screen? Google is not getting their 15 billion dollars worth this year, because only the iPads have a Google search bar that is large enough to be easily visible. By writing the Android code in the first place, and by paying Apple to have their search bars on the Apple products, Google has over a 90% dominan...