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The madness begins. People will be glued to their television sets and cheering/cursing as their attempts at prediction basically fall apart. Although cool beans to my school for making it past their first round. This is the best basketball year for them for this decade, I think.
It's Sunshine week, a movement dedicated to the prospect that governmental information should be open, accessible, and free to those who help to pay for and generate it. Linked is the study of state governments, where Texas is the state the provides all the categories of information that they were looking for for free on-line.
Internationally, Russia confirms that it has a contract to sell weapons to Iran, but that it has not yet delivered any missiles. International relations and that.
Elsewhere, Kuwait has dissolved its parliament for the second time this year. That's not a good sign for stability. An Osama bin Laden audiotape urges Somalis to not be peaceful and to continue religious violence.
Touted as a Quicknews "I hate the Press" link, a reminder that while things look better now than they did before, there are still no guarantees that Iraq will continue to function stably after United States troops have left, because there are always disruptive elements, and the political side of things isn't necessarily as stable and willing to power-share as the situation on the ground looks to be.
Apologies made for the poor health care at a hospital in the United Kingdom, with one of the people being treated there likening it to a "Third World" institution. Beys on whether something like this will be trumpeted as proof that "socialist" universal health care does result in rationing and poorer-quality care?
At the border between America and Canada, a supplier and middleman between American and Canadian companies was denied entry to the country and accused of stealing American jobs. When contacted, the supervisor of the person doing the accusing said an incident like that should not have happened - hopefully there will be sacking to follow. One would think that people making business for United States companies in other countries would be welcomed. And I'm really beginning to wonder what sort of training border agents receive - they keep showing up in the news for various reasons.
At the border between America and Mexico, new tarrifs for American products on the way as Mexico retaliates for the slight (perceived or real) given on not letting Mexican hauling trucks into the United States.
Crossing into America, Diebold/Premier election Systems admits that their software has always had flaws that permit vote manipulation and deletion. This should result in instant decertification to start with, and possibly prosecutions or matters related to elections or selling deliberately defective equipment.
As expected, the proposal regarding private insurance for veteran's care has been scrapped. Considering the outrage generated by just the possibility, I didn't think this one was coming to fruition. By the way, have you checked in with The Obameter lately?
A woman who accused a Marine of raping her has changed her story, with her new statement expressing doubts as to whether it was a rape or whether she was asking for it and he obliged. This happens after the Marine was sentenced to 40 years in jail. What I want to know is, what hapened to her that she's suddenly believing she asked for it? If consent was not explicitly given, or things continued after the point that she said no, it's a rape. Pretty simple. I wonder waht the Unabashed Feminism Departent will dig up on something like this.
A representative has proposed that a legislative finding of fact related to moving the Lincoln Bible to the Visitor's Center of Congress is that the Bible is God's Holy Word. Naturally, some people might have a problem with that whereas. The General, of course, is delighted.
In opinions, the Thoughtscream's Gonzo Mehum on why the Pope's anti-science proclamations should result in consequences, because he's basically trying to stop something that can't be stopped and advocating a lie in that condoms don't stop HIV transmission.
Christopher Smith talks about the media in terms of Consensus, Legitimate Debate, and Deviancy, and points out that the Daily Show is the only show on television that actually airs material in the sphere of Deviancy, which wrecks the narrative that the MSM is trying to control, namely that the only news that is news happens within the Sphere of Legitimate Debate, where there is always a two-party systenm, et cetera. That we have access to the Sphere of Deviancy, and seem to like melding it in with the Sphere of Legitimate Debate, is what is behind newspaper and media outlets failing, says Smith. Somewhere along the line, the boundaries will have to change if they want to stay successful.
Turd Blossom leads the anti-Obama charge, saying that his two-faced-ness between the candidate promising to reduce things and the President overseeing large expansions and spending has given Republicans an opening to exploit, and that Mr. Obama's capital and partisan support will fade out. Mr. Henninger suggests that we bring earmark competition and spending to the most transparent place it can go - television, so that everyone can be proud of spending money on various improvement projects and be entertained by seeing where the money goes, because G-d knows we don't have any control over it anymore. Ms. Chao believes the administration is taking steps backward on labor, thanks to EFCA and other pro-union bills and orders, although she sadly repeats the fib about the secret ballot being destroyed. Oh, and of course, the spending is a problem, too. Messers. Blittingmayer and Hazlett want you to know how conservative FDR, the great liberal, was when he was fixing the banks.
Ms. Shelton is concerned that the Obama budget and spending will devalue the dollar or make it less "honest", and calls for issuance of gold-backed Treasury bills as the assurance we need. Yet another "go back to comomodity money" call. If that's really what happens, then what happens to all the paper currently in circulation? Does it go under recall until the dollars in paper are equal to the value of the dollars in gold? Do we actually have enough gold reserves to issue such things? And why the interest in shiny bits of metal that have no particualrly intrinsic value other than their rarity?
The WSJ thinks the AIG outrage is hurting the President's ability to say that the economy is recovering.
And last, Mr. Horowitz thinks that Democrats and liberals owe the people who said Iraq was winnable an apology, and he wants it to also say "We were wrong about the justifications for the war, too - it was just and legitimate and American soldiers totally didn't commit too many atrocities beyond the ones we couldn't sweep under the rug."
In technology, new booklets on climate science from the government of the United States, Eyeborg has gone live, how anaesthesia may hold the key to determining consciousness, in the search for figuring out when it has taken hold and it becomes safe to operate, micronutrients in multivitamins possibly helping prevent DNA degeneration, the Mars rovers continuing to send back pictures and mvoe toward new study points, and DNA as a crytopgraphic entity, good for ciphering or deciphering.
Last for tonight, sixteen experiments for the ISS suggested by the Japanese people, which were submitted to JAXA and will be performed by Koichi Wakata. I like all of them - they're practical concerns about how microgravity affects the things we don't think about on Terra. Also, a useful article about introducing error into your AI - not by making it more stupid, but by making it handicap itself through intelligent mistakes. The sniper could pick you off at any point he wanted to. But that's no fun. Nor is it fun to have a sniper who can't hit you if you had a giant placard. So, instead, the sniper has to be smart enough to make a mistake (like firing at you when you're under cover so that you can see where he's shooting from and stay in cover until you can get him). With the additional computing power we have, I like the idea of building in smart mistakes for challenge.
It's Sunshine week, a movement dedicated to the prospect that governmental information should be open, accessible, and free to those who help to pay for and generate it. Linked is the study of state governments, where Texas is the state the provides all the categories of information that they were looking for for free on-line.
Internationally, Russia confirms that it has a contract to sell weapons to Iran, but that it has not yet delivered any missiles. International relations and that.
Elsewhere, Kuwait has dissolved its parliament for the second time this year. That's not a good sign for stability. An Osama bin Laden audiotape urges Somalis to not be peaceful and to continue religious violence.
Touted as a Quicknews "I hate the Press" link, a reminder that while things look better now than they did before, there are still no guarantees that Iraq will continue to function stably after United States troops have left, because there are always disruptive elements, and the political side of things isn't necessarily as stable and willing to power-share as the situation on the ground looks to be.
Apologies made for the poor health care at a hospital in the United Kingdom, with one of the people being treated there likening it to a "Third World" institution. Beys on whether something like this will be trumpeted as proof that "socialist" universal health care does result in rationing and poorer-quality care?
At the border between America and Canada, a supplier and middleman between American and Canadian companies was denied entry to the country and accused of stealing American jobs. When contacted, the supervisor of the person doing the accusing said an incident like that should not have happened - hopefully there will be sacking to follow. One would think that people making business for United States companies in other countries would be welcomed. And I'm really beginning to wonder what sort of training border agents receive - they keep showing up in the news for various reasons.
At the border between America and Mexico, new tarrifs for American products on the way as Mexico retaliates for the slight (perceived or real) given on not letting Mexican hauling trucks into the United States.
Crossing into America, Diebold/Premier election Systems admits that their software has always had flaws that permit vote manipulation and deletion. This should result in instant decertification to start with, and possibly prosecutions or matters related to elections or selling deliberately defective equipment.
As expected, the proposal regarding private insurance for veteran's care has been scrapped. Considering the outrage generated by just the possibility, I didn't think this one was coming to fruition. By the way, have you checked in with The Obameter lately?
A woman who accused a Marine of raping her has changed her story, with her new statement expressing doubts as to whether it was a rape or whether she was asking for it and he obliged. This happens after the Marine was sentenced to 40 years in jail. What I want to know is, what hapened to her that she's suddenly believing she asked for it? If consent was not explicitly given, or things continued after the point that she said no, it's a rape. Pretty simple. I wonder waht the Unabashed Feminism Departent will dig up on something like this.
A representative has proposed that a legislative finding of fact related to moving the Lincoln Bible to the Visitor's Center of Congress is that the Bible is God's Holy Word. Naturally, some people might have a problem with that whereas. The General, of course, is delighted.
In opinions, the Thoughtscream's Gonzo Mehum on why the Pope's anti-science proclamations should result in consequences, because he's basically trying to stop something that can't be stopped and advocating a lie in that condoms don't stop HIV transmission.
Christopher Smith talks about the media in terms of Consensus, Legitimate Debate, and Deviancy, and points out that the Daily Show is the only show on television that actually airs material in the sphere of Deviancy, which wrecks the narrative that the MSM is trying to control, namely that the only news that is news happens within the Sphere of Legitimate Debate, where there is always a two-party systenm, et cetera. That we have access to the Sphere of Deviancy, and seem to like melding it in with the Sphere of Legitimate Debate, is what is behind newspaper and media outlets failing, says Smith. Somewhere along the line, the boundaries will have to change if they want to stay successful.
Turd Blossom leads the anti-Obama charge, saying that his two-faced-ness between the candidate promising to reduce things and the President overseeing large expansions and spending has given Republicans an opening to exploit, and that Mr. Obama's capital and partisan support will fade out. Mr. Henninger suggests that we bring earmark competition and spending to the most transparent place it can go - television, so that everyone can be proud of spending money on various improvement projects and be entertained by seeing where the money goes, because G-d knows we don't have any control over it anymore. Ms. Chao believes the administration is taking steps backward on labor, thanks to EFCA and other pro-union bills and orders, although she sadly repeats the fib about the secret ballot being destroyed. Oh, and of course, the spending is a problem, too. Messers. Blittingmayer and Hazlett want you to know how conservative FDR, the great liberal, was when he was fixing the banks.
Ms. Shelton is concerned that the Obama budget and spending will devalue the dollar or make it less "honest", and calls for issuance of gold-backed Treasury bills as the assurance we need. Yet another "go back to comomodity money" call. If that's really what happens, then what happens to all the paper currently in circulation? Does it go under recall until the dollars in paper are equal to the value of the dollars in gold? Do we actually have enough gold reserves to issue such things? And why the interest in shiny bits of metal that have no particualrly intrinsic value other than their rarity?
The WSJ thinks the AIG outrage is hurting the President's ability to say that the economy is recovering.
And last, Mr. Horowitz thinks that Democrats and liberals owe the people who said Iraq was winnable an apology, and he wants it to also say "We were wrong about the justifications for the war, too - it was just and legitimate and American soldiers totally didn't commit too many atrocities beyond the ones we couldn't sweep under the rug."
In technology, new booklets on climate science from the government of the United States, Eyeborg has gone live, how anaesthesia may hold the key to determining consciousness, in the search for figuring out when it has taken hold and it becomes safe to operate, micronutrients in multivitamins possibly helping prevent DNA degeneration, the Mars rovers continuing to send back pictures and mvoe toward new study points, and DNA as a crytopgraphic entity, good for ciphering or deciphering.
Last for tonight, sixteen experiments for the ISS suggested by the Japanese people, which were submitted to JAXA and will be performed by Koichi Wakata. I like all of them - they're practical concerns about how microgravity affects the things we don't think about on Terra. Also, a useful article about introducing error into your AI - not by making it more stupid, but by making it handicap itself through intelligent mistakes. The sniper could pick you off at any point he wanted to. But that's no fun. Nor is it fun to have a sniper who can't hit you if you had a giant placard. So, instead, the sniper has to be smart enough to make a mistake (like firing at you when you're under cover so that you can see where he's shooting from and stay in cover until you can get him). With the additional computing power we have, I like the idea of building in smart mistakes for challenge.
