COMMENT: Martin – I wanted to let you know that I stopped at a Jimmy John’s today and they wouldn’t allow me to use cash. They had no drawer or physical money on the premises. It was either chip card or no sandwich. They claimed it was their first store in the nation to go […]
Thailand is looking to issue SIM cards to all tourists to protect national security. They say they will be able to respond to tourists in trouble, but they are really looking to track everyone because of the rising threat of Islamic extremism. Domestically, you are already being tracked. Google wants to “verify” who you are by using your […]
The fast food chain Domino’s has delivered the first deliveries of the world a pizza by drone. The test flight took place in New Zealand on Thursday. Later this year Domino’s will launch a field trial in New Zealand. Europe will be a problem for Domino’s Pizza to deliver from the air. The obstacles regulating the air […]
There has been a lot of chatter and speculation behind the curtain about another Snowden who is getting things out of the NSA. Now, hacking tools seem to be up for sale. The NSA has been blaming Russia, but Russia would not be selling them. This appears to be another inside job that the NSA is […]
There has been a major leak of a list of “suspected” people who maybe criminals with links to profiles individuals and businesses suspected of ties to organised crime and terrorism. This leak online has serious implications and was the result of a list which emerged from a Thomson-Reuters who has engaged in a due diligence claimed service […]
Data storage is rapidly shrinking. Now, a team of nanoscientists led by Sander Otte at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has just announced the densest method ever developed to store re-writable digital data. The method of moving around individual chlorine atoms on a flat sheet of copper can write a 1 kilobyte message at 500 terabits per square inch. […]
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; One cannot ignore the number of people who are pretending to have AI computer systems when they have no computer skills whatsoever and wouldn’t know the first thing about AI. I have investigated the industry and nobody has employed any machine learning capability to even match what your Global Market Watch does. […]
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (b. 1801-1850) was a French, classical liberal theorist, political economist, Freemason, and member of the French National Assembly whose fundamental ideas have provided a foundation for libertarianism. In economics, Bastiat is remembered for his concept of opportunity cost and for introducing the parable of the broken window or the “glazier’s fallacy.” Essentially, a […]
QUESTION: Marty, years ago you did a chart showing the projection for unemployment. I believe I understand what you were projection for the company I work for has been replacing people with technology on a large scale. So we can have rising corporate profits with rising unemployment as technology changes everything. Is there a point […]
The government is dancing between the raindrops. The 5th Amendment states that you cannot be compelled to testify against yourself. You have the right to remain silent. So how do they get around this? In my case, I personally was not held in contempt since that would have violated my constitutional right. Instead, the corporate […]
