Author: The Bruce

SHOW INTRO: Hey everyone and welcome to the Bruce show, the show where we talk about whatever’s on my mind and I provide quirky or informative takes on topics going on in today’s world.   Today on the show we’re talking about tesla’s new semi truck, net neutrality, and Al Franken. We’ll also discuss if it’s possible for the Trump brother’s to be any bigger jerks than they already are, and the pot calls the kettle black in today’s Trump Dump. All that and more on today’s trump dump:   <intro> Painstakingly watching the session Q&A from last episode… I have always been of the opinion that President Obama would be known in the history books for two things: #1 the affordable care act, and #2 Net Neutrality. And Trump hates both! Rumor has it new vote is about to take place to reverse Net Neutrality and replace it with more conservative values. This vote would take place this December. What is Net Neutrality? In the most simplest terms – the internet was created as a free and open platform to share information. What Net Neutrality does is prevents companies from favoring one type of information over another. Without net neutrality, your internet service provider can decide to throttle back videos on CNN because it hates CNN, while giving you lightning fast access to MSNBC content… AHEM cough cough...

The North Korean threat, American Airlines, and the Trump Landfill Today on the show we’re talking American Airline, what I did over thanksgiving, and the ongoing sexual harassment allegations. And we left president trump alone over the thanksgiving holiday, boy was that a mistake…     Cathay pacific – an airline based out of hong kong, Reported that last Wednesday they saw a North Korean ICBM re-enter the earths atmostphere during one of their flights. This did coincide with a state report out of north korea that a hwasong-15 missile was being tested. The Hwasong-15 is believed to give North Korea the ability to hit a target anywhere in the world (according to US defense minister james mattis) Cathay Pacific did not release video or imagery of the incident and stated that the missile was far enough away to continue normal flight operations. Nonetheless, CP reported it to Japan’s air traffic control Apparently the new icbm took western partners by surprise. Over the past 40 years, north korea has tested many icbms, before the hwasong 15, the US west coast was as far as we believed their technical weapons capability existed. Now it seems NK could hit anywhere it pleases. Src: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/asia/north-korea-cathay-crew-missile/index.html src: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17399847 Right after Thanksgiving, it was reported that American Airlines had a computer glitch The glitch made the booking system allow for more flights than they...

Bitcoin is soaring and if you don’t know what it is, maybe now is the time to check it out. Bitcoin is a type of virtual currency – which is a type of currency not regulated or under the direct control of any government entity. It was created by an anonymous group, or figure that goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin is the name for two things: the currency and the network and protocol that facilitates bitcoin transactions. A penny represents one-hundredth of a US dollar. In bitcoin, the penny equivaent is called a satoshi and represents one-hundred-millionth of a bitcoin. Bitcoin is powered by blockchain (a decentralized database storage technology created by the same figure satoshit nakamoto) Bitcoin is stored in a digital wallet and there will never be more than 21 million bitcoin in circulation Two weeks ago people were freaking out because the price of one bitcoin hit $6000 dollars. Bitcoin started the year around $800, and To start this week, it just eclipsed $8k While some investors believe this is just a bubble, it may be the time to start taking bitcoin seriously. Src: https://www.coindesk.com/8200-bitcoins-price-starts-week-new-time-high/ Keystone xl pipeline just had a leak, and Nebraska doesn’t care On Thursday a leak was detected in the keystone xl pipeline. That leak spilled over 200k gallons of crude oil into the environment. There was also another...