HP Photosmart D110 Failed After Installing Mac OS Maverick.

HP Photosmart D110 Failed After Installing Mac OS Maverick.

About a day or so after I upgraded to Maverick operating system into my MacBook Air, my HP Photosmart D110 printer went down.  It did this when I printed form Pages.  Every time I tried to print the sheet would print just a few lines and then the printer put a warning into the display window telling me to turn the printer off.  I did this over and over and it would just fail over and over.  I finally decided to delete the HP print drivers from my hard drive Applications folder.  In that folder, was an uninstall application.  Make sure you then use the Utilities > Activity Monitor program to quit any HP programs running.  Then empty the trash.  I then rebooted my computer to flush out any running print driver.  I then went into System Preferences > Printers & Scanners and viewed what print drivers I still had.  The HP Photosmart D110 scanner was still there but the print driver was gone.  I then mouse clicked on the plus sign and added the print driver.  After all that, the printer worked perfectly.

Dragon Dictate For Mac.

Dragon Dictate For Mac.

I have an idea of writing a book of fiction and possibly a play.  When I write any fiction, my typing can not keep up with my mind and I loose the flow of what I wish to convey due to the writing delay.  It occurred to me to get a voice to text computer software and try that out as a solution.  The only software that came up with good reviews was Dragon.

I purchased Dragon Dictate for Mac version 3, September 2013.  The box came with a USB microphone.  Software license process was a bit involved.  Following the start up directions I hit a snag right away.  I could not get the Dragon microphone to work into the program.  I went into Dragon’s Profiles and made sure I selected Dragon Remote Microphone as the Dragon Profile and also for the Audio Source.  I went into the Apple System Preferences and then Sound and chose one at a time Output and Input selecting “USB Ear-Microphone”.  When I chose Sound Input, and spoke into the microphone I could see the microphone worked perfectly on the volume meter desktop display.  But, when I then went into the Dragon Vocabulary Training a window was displayed with large letters notifying me that the microphone was not connected.   I went to the Dragon Internet support pages but could not find a solution.  I had to call technical support.  I was told to create a new profile.  I was then to mouse click on the + plus sign.  I was then instructed to NOT choose the Dragon Remote Microphone but instead choose USB Ear-Microphone that now shows up as an option.  That trick made the Dragon microphone work perfectly.  I then plowed through the vocabulary training.  I was quite impressed with the very large command features beyond inserting punctuation.

Right after getting the microphone connected I upgraded my Mac system software to 10.9.  When I opened Dragon again, I got a warning message that the Dragon software had problems and was unstable.  I found that Dragon worked for a short while but then lock up.

The Dragon web site claims that Dragon Dictate 3 will be supported in the future with the Mac operating system 10.9.

Before I got Dragon to work I was annoyed at the product verification process.  It seemed that I had to wade through way too many steps, verification and setup, to get this product running.   I was seriously thinking of returning it and getting my money back.   I think I have buyers remorse especially now that the software is not ready for Mac OS 10.9.

Tea Party Principles And Stupid

Tea Party Principles And Stupid

Here are the core principles of the Tea Party and I will show how stupid they are:

Fiscal Responsibility: not overspending which at face value is a good goal.  Problem is the Tea Party cherry picks what they think government money should go toward.   They wish to cut back on education, social services but fund the military.

Constitutionally Limited Government: which is stated by the party meaning that power resides with the people and not with government.  The 2008 recession came about in great measure because the financial industry lobbied Congress for less government regulation.  The Tea Party seems to be controlled by wealthy class to further their aims to game the system to their advantage.

Free Market Economics:  The Tea Party claims that the United States is a superpower due to our free market economy.  What a simpleton idea.  We are a great nation due to a whole host of other factors that lay as a foundation.  The location of our temperate nation between two oceans, our fantastic amount of farm land, rivers, lakes, mountains, oil, minerals, fish and wild life has attracted some of the best peoples from Europe and other nations.  This environmental engine still continues too this day attracting some of the best people from other countries.  Our founding fathers constructed a pretty intelligent government that allows for change and compromise orchestrated by the people.

Our freedoms and education systems has allowed individuals to expand their individual capabilities resulting in a highly competent working class, technology advancements, important industry startups and a government separated from religion which made for a superpower.

The Tea Party claims that government “intervention is at the heart of America’s current economic decline”.  The current economic decline is being exacerbated by the Tea Party ideology.  They have voted down job creation time after time.  The free market system that the Tea Party thinks is so great resulted in sending middle class jobs overseas leaving the United States with an extremely small but powerful wealthy class and a huge lower class. How convenient for the Tea Party to cherry pick, obfuscate and twist the facts.  The Tea Party is the party of stupid.  The people who vote for them need to get a better education.

The truth is the current United States market economy needs correction from government to help build a stronger middle class and not continue on the course of supporting only the interests of big business and the oligarchy.  Our current nation has a crumbling infrastructure and the Republican Party has used the national debt to foil any economic recovery by starting up projects to rebuild roads, bridges, rail lines and ports.

The Tea Party core principles are twisted to reward the rich. Their goals are so stupid in implementation that it may dragging us all down in the process and turn this nation into  a second power.

Not Congress It Is The People

Not Congress It Is The People

The approval rating of the United States Congress is almost at floor level.  Everyone seems to believe that the US Congress is dysfunctional.  I see the problem differently. The problem lies in the stupid electorate that supports the Tea Party and any other ultra right wing politician.  If you voted for and got a Tea Party candidate elected to congress, then the problem is with you.  You brought on this problem.  This is our country.  We choose our representatives (except for oligarch control wielded by huge campaign funding).  The congressional representatives we send to congress are a direct reflection of who we are.  Our representatives in Congress typically do what we tell them to do or they will not get reelected.  The congressional disfunction, the legislative failure is a mirror of the people who put those people in office.

The ultra conservative individuals in this country are so lacking in intellect that they have orchestrated the possibility that their beloved Republican party may be ruined for years.     If this country can not pass a spending bill the more intelligent segment of the United States population will blame the Republican Party.  If this more intelligent electorate remembers how the Republican Party took the United States down to its knees in late September 2013, the next election might look one sided and guess who wins, the Democrats.  Not having a good second political party may be as dangerous as the policies of the Tea Party.

If you are a politician and you can not negotiate a compromise then you are not serving the best interests of this nation.  If you are doing the bidding of your electorate, the electorate does not want compromise, then you represent a stupid electorate.  You should not get the blame for following what the constituency  wants.  But a lot of people outside your district would like you to fall on your sword and vote for what is best for this nation.  What is more important, getting reelected or doing what is best for this nation?

The exact percent is not known with any exactness but about thirty percent of the US population support the Tea Party and voted for those political candidates.  Tea Party support may have fallen down to twenty percent due to the stupid policies they try to push forward.  Problem now is we are stuck with a collection of individuals in the House of Representatives that want to win the next election and know they must perform according to the people they represent.  Some people are concerned that the United States is on a trajectory toward being less powerful.  Stupid needs to get smarter so we can better row this boat together.

Its The People, Not Congress That Promote Disfunction.

Its The People, Not Congress That Promote Disfunction.

The US Congress approval rating is extremely low.  As of August 28th 2013 the approval ranking was measured to be 15%.  The real, unmentioned, story is that the people at home who voted these congress people into office are really to blame.  It is the people in the heart land of the United States, the red states that seem to be rather dim for a whole host of reasons.  The oligarchs use of political action groups like the Tea Party as promoted political dysfunction to new heights.  The oligarchs have successfully manipulated the Republican Party to avoid compromise and cooperation.  This might partly be due to the country having a black president and not wanting him to succeed.  Another factor is that the “Supreme Court” has aligned itself with the plutocracy and now have allowed the rich to pour money into manipulating the political process. The one percent are winning because a large percent of Americans are too stupid to realize they are being manipulated for the benefit of others.