Cav's Place

A site from here recently asked people what are the top three changes they’d make in Bucharest. Exactly where the question was, I couldn’t say, since I just saw the article publishing a selection of answers last night, but that of course made me comment with my own answer as well and now I thought […]

You always have at least four choices. You may die, one way or another, even if not necessarily physically. You may adapt to the conditions and simply push through, leaving little trace of your presence, eventually not even within yourself. You may fail to adapt without doing so on purpose, therefore being crushed. Or you […]

I was saying in the previous post that we need to figure out what to do in order to maximize the positive and minimize the negative consequences of this, but that first requires identifying precisely what “this” actually involves, other than an obvious invasion of privacy. And the answer is, perhaps oddly enough for many, […]

Let’s start with the simple and easy part: It is a massive violation of privacy and those who actually hacked accounts to obtain all these pictures and movies should be caught and punished, along with anyone attempting to use this to spread malware, anyone who created any tools specifically for the hackers to use as […]

Sunday I finally got around to reading the article about food insecurity in the United States published in this month’s edition of National Geographic and found it infuriating. That obviously wasn’t necessarily because this issue exists, but for a number of reasons starting from the fact that the cases depicted were of families with children, […]