![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Right. Bed - 4 March 2009
Mar. 5th, 2009 01:28 amLoading... loading... birds attacking ice cream, loading... impossible Craigslist ad, loading... taking the jkosher part of kosher salt a little to religiously... complete! Enjoy your Urban Sketchers, err, news.
As it turns out, musical training will help you in lots of ways, even more than the standard ones of better skills and smarts in class. Musically-trained individuals are better at picking out emotion in sound, apparently. Which means taht tehy can read your emotional state in how you say things, and respond better to wordless sounds. This makes sense, as some part of learning to play music is learning to play it as music instead of as dots and squiggles on a page.
Internationally, some pictures of the Manas airbase and the surrounding area, site that may involve potential talks on msisile defense in Easter Europe, but not, apparently, if the United States wants to tie Russia's relations to Iran into the deal.
Castro replaces Castro cabinet with his own men. That’s Raul replacing Fidel’s people, that is.
Afghanistan still suffers from security problems that makes voting an iffy prospect, rejecting the President’s request to move up the timetable of elections. The Sri Lankan cricket squad is not happy at the Pakistani police escort's response to militant attacks, suggesting that the police, even though they has fatalities, weren’t really trying. The President of Pakistan writes in to defend his actions, including the decision to cede Swat to Sharia.
Domestic news - the current administrator intends on changing the way federal contracts are awarded, with an eye toward cutting out expensive no-bid and cost-plus contracts. He also has reinstituted the rule that requires federal agencies to consult and do studies about environmental impact to endangered or threatened species.
In a bad economy, scams and get-rich-quick schemes snag more people and proliferate. Because, you know, even though you know its too good to be true, just on the case that it isn’t, you’d look foolish for not getting in on it, right?
Intrepid investigators on the Internet have discovered the secret form Republicans use to apologize to their Fearless Leader, comedian Rush Limbaugh.
And last, of interest to the Unabashed Feminism Department, Hey, Florida! Why do you continue to insist on abstinence-only programs that are ineffective?
Starting the opinions of with some strong thinking, ddjango notes that spending one's way out of a crisis where credit and money have ceased to have value is a losing proposition, as it provides rewards for those who are playing by their rules for profit and not the right ones that might fix the problems. Mr. Blackwell calls the President an anti-Reagan, which, depending on where you sit on the spectrum, is either a slur or a compliment of the highest order, based on his apparently declared war on prosperity, fearmongering in service of getting his agenda passed, and his going along with greater government spending on top of spending, to the complete destruction of the economy, of course. Mr. Sowell feels that the Republican Party needs someone with the oratorical skills of Reagan to get elected, lest we all be doomed to successions of Obamas and their high-spending ways.
Mr. Jenkins, Jr. fingers the bailout of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac as the beginning of the stock landslide. The WSJ thinks that now is the worst time for the FDIC to call in requirements that banks start paying into the insurance fund, considering it a way of taking needed money from banks that aren’t already dead.
And there’s no real reason to panic. It's only a 20 percent change this will turn into a depression. Optimism for all.
Elsewhere, Mr. Hanson thinks that the President is being dishonest about what situation we're in and we really need to do to fix entitlements and education, namely to delay entitlements because we’re living longer, to encourage more people to work and contribute longer than normal, to admit that our schools suck because they’re government enterprises that spend too much for too little real education or promotion of trades, and the society doesn’t encourage the right values, which are all conservative in nature, naturally.
The WSJ is trying to whip somebody into doing something about a nuclear Iran, and worried that they seem to be failing. Well, the talks might work out, but I think the expectation is that if things get too far along, Israel will glass the place, finally ending their official ambiguity about nuclear weapons.
Last out, Mr. Salvato considers MSNBC, Messrs. Olbermann and Mathhews, and and the MSM in general to all be propaganda arms, spread vile hate of Republicans anywhere they can go.
In science and technology, a new Saturnian moon, hidden in the rings, speculation on how to survive if the global temperature shifts 4 degrees Celsius to the warmer, using numbers to say anything you want, including what books and music makes you dumb/smart, nanoparticles that bend light, the possibility of an on/off switch in nanoscale materials, which potentially means nanoscale transistors, I think, finding ways of manipulating data to break things like MD5 checksums, the state of the Internet deteriorating as the zombies, viruses, and other nasties take over, and Amazon being intelligent and selling e-book material for Apple products.
And last, how Apple's simplicity ideas are actually creating complexity, because users move beyond the simple and want more, and find that Apple’s beginner tools aren’t keeping up. Part 2 continues this idea, including how Apple needs to produce tools that will scale up to the needs the user has, instead of abdicating that to third-party developers.
As it turns out, musical training will help you in lots of ways, even more than the standard ones of better skills and smarts in class. Musically-trained individuals are better at picking out emotion in sound, apparently. Which means taht tehy can read your emotional state in how you say things, and respond better to wordless sounds. This makes sense, as some part of learning to play music is learning to play it as music instead of as dots and squiggles on a page.
Internationally, some pictures of the Manas airbase and the surrounding area, site that may involve potential talks on msisile defense in Easter Europe, but not, apparently, if the United States wants to tie Russia's relations to Iran into the deal.
Castro replaces Castro cabinet with his own men. That’s Raul replacing Fidel’s people, that is.
Afghanistan still suffers from security problems that makes voting an iffy prospect, rejecting the President’s request to move up the timetable of elections. The Sri Lankan cricket squad is not happy at the Pakistani police escort's response to militant attacks, suggesting that the police, even though they has fatalities, weren’t really trying. The President of Pakistan writes in to defend his actions, including the decision to cede Swat to Sharia.
Domestic news - the current administrator intends on changing the way federal contracts are awarded, with an eye toward cutting out expensive no-bid and cost-plus contracts. He also has reinstituted the rule that requires federal agencies to consult and do studies about environmental impact to endangered or threatened species.
In a bad economy, scams and get-rich-quick schemes snag more people and proliferate. Because, you know, even though you know its too good to be true, just on the case that it isn’t, you’d look foolish for not getting in on it, right?
Intrepid investigators on the Internet have discovered the secret form Republicans use to apologize to their Fearless Leader, comedian Rush Limbaugh.
And last, of interest to the Unabashed Feminism Department, Hey, Florida! Why do you continue to insist on abstinence-only programs that are ineffective?
Starting the opinions of with some strong thinking, ddjango notes that spending one's way out of a crisis where credit and money have ceased to have value is a losing proposition, as it provides rewards for those who are playing by their rules for profit and not the right ones that might fix the problems. Mr. Blackwell calls the President an anti-Reagan, which, depending on where you sit on the spectrum, is either a slur or a compliment of the highest order, based on his apparently declared war on prosperity, fearmongering in service of getting his agenda passed, and his going along with greater government spending on top of spending, to the complete destruction of the economy, of course. Mr. Sowell feels that the Republican Party needs someone with the oratorical skills of Reagan to get elected, lest we all be doomed to successions of Obamas and their high-spending ways.
Mr. Jenkins, Jr. fingers the bailout of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac as the beginning of the stock landslide. The WSJ thinks that now is the worst time for the FDIC to call in requirements that banks start paying into the insurance fund, considering it a way of taking needed money from banks that aren’t already dead.
And there’s no real reason to panic. It's only a 20 percent change this will turn into a depression. Optimism for all.
Elsewhere, Mr. Hanson thinks that the President is being dishonest about what situation we're in and we really need to do to fix entitlements and education, namely to delay entitlements because we’re living longer, to encourage more people to work and contribute longer than normal, to admit that our schools suck because they’re government enterprises that spend too much for too little real education or promotion of trades, and the society doesn’t encourage the right values, which are all conservative in nature, naturally.
The WSJ is trying to whip somebody into doing something about a nuclear Iran, and worried that they seem to be failing. Well, the talks might work out, but I think the expectation is that if things get too far along, Israel will glass the place, finally ending their official ambiguity about nuclear weapons.
Last out, Mr. Salvato considers MSNBC, Messrs. Olbermann and Mathhews, and and the MSM in general to all be propaganda arms, spread vile hate of Republicans anywhere they can go.
In science and technology, a new Saturnian moon, hidden in the rings, speculation on how to survive if the global temperature shifts 4 degrees Celsius to the warmer, using numbers to say anything you want, including what books and music makes you dumb/smart, nanoparticles that bend light, the possibility of an on/off switch in nanoscale materials, which potentially means nanoscale transistors, I think, finding ways of manipulating data to break things like MD5 checksums, the state of the Internet deteriorating as the zombies, viruses, and other nasties take over, and Amazon being intelligent and selling e-book material for Apple products.
And last, how Apple's simplicity ideas are actually creating complexity, because users move beyond the simple and want more, and find that Apple’s beginner tools aren’t keeping up. Part 2 continues this idea, including how Apple needs to produce tools that will scale up to the needs the user has, instead of abdicating that to third-party developers.
