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Up top, an interesting thing - Radio Collective, a list of links to nonocommercial radio stations streaming over the Internet. Most of which are run out of colleges and universities. How interesting that is, isn't it, that the only place a radio market can thrive without commercials is when they're on a college campus.
There's also NewsCorpse, chroncling the decline of the mainstream media by pointing out all the places where it gets stuff wrong and refuses to apologize for it, allows conspiracy theorists as part of their primtime block, and many other things that mostly happen at Faux, but have been known to appear elsewhere.
A fairly smart response to an awful stupid question about why the disaster in Japan hasn't sparked looters and riots - because the government actaully believes in prividing for the people when things go disastrous, and the people aren't conditioned to look out for themselves a all occasions, including profiting off of the misfortune of others. Not to say Japan's perfect, and the article notes this as well, but they have decided on a much better sequence of preparations and responses to disasters than the United States does. Even as the situation potentially gets worse - cooling issues with several reactors in the Fukushima plants have atomic scientists very worried a total meltdown may happen if water can't be put on the fuel rods soon.
Out in the world today, Europol, the Europe branch of Interpol, indicates that they have made arrests in what they allege to be a global child pornography ring.
In Pakistan, lady health workers do their best to help the mothers, infants, and women of Pakistan ensure good health, but without being recognized for all the good work they do (much of it statistically quantifiable). In India, school lunches in poor areas are often the province of Akshaya Patra, a group that feeds a large quantity of children using automation and technology to produce mass quantities at its hub locales, which are then distributed to schools nearby. And near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, poor water management and lack of political cooperation is causing dryness and droughts to farmers along the rivers' paths.
Finally, if you're on benefits in the United Kingdom, you might be required to carry out up to 30 hours of unpaid work per week for the government to receive your benefits. While also being expected to apply for jobs to get you off of the benefits system. Insufficient work could suspend those benefits for up to three months. Faaaaantastic. Isn't that just the right way to go?
Domestically, General Petraeus has indicated that the first set of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will include combat forces as well as non-combat forces. Perhaps we can think about winding the war down...please?
In technology, AT&T is putting bandwidth caps on its DSL and cable Internet users at sizes that would make it difficult for them to be able to use streaming video or on-line gaming services for much of their day, and then saying it will charge them $10 for each additional block of overage in the month. Suffice to say, being capped does not make the subscribers happy. I've noticed usage caps are starting to become prevalent, despite the fact that it doesn't seem like there's any reason for such things to be put in place. We can grumble about "traffic shaping", but in those cases, it at least makes a quality-of-service sense. Capping bandwidth, unless there are costs associated with usage at their end that aren't being disclosed, makes no sense at all.
A fire department in San Ramon Valley, California has published a smartphone application that citizens can download to see when CPR emergencies occur - and can option to say they have training, so if something happens near them in a public place, they can go and provide assistance. The application also provides directions to the nearest public defibrilation device to assist with the electrical part of the CPR procedure.
In opinions, The WSJ wants you to believe that the Arab Leagues's request for a no-fly zone over Libya is really a shout to the United States to come over and impose one already, and the more the U.S. stops acting in its World Police role, the more other countries are going to resort to their own measures of keeping the peace, whether the United States likes those options or not, and every time they do this, the United States loses appeal, prestige, and influence in the region.
Mr. Dowd says the United States needs to take the threat of cyber-attack seriously and pour significant amounts of money and expertise into beefing up the security of our servers so that China and Russia can't walk in and take whatever they want. We need to start training our own hackers and counter-attackers to those being financed in other countries, says he.
The WSJ complains about Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's attempts to get mortgage lenders and servicers to agree to making the burden on homeowners less heavy, by claiming all the proposals put forth were already voted on and rejected, than the Bureau is attempting to require all lenders fall under their regulation, and the mass amounts of foreclosures the work is supposed to stall are all justified foreclosures, and the solutions don't work anyway. They call it extortion and delays to a housing market that depserately needs all these foreclosures to happen so that the housing market can recover, or at least find its floor.
Last for tonight, Bruce Lee writes himself a letter expressing what his goal is. He would achieve those goals and more.
There's also NewsCorpse, chroncling the decline of the mainstream media by pointing out all the places where it gets stuff wrong and refuses to apologize for it, allows conspiracy theorists as part of their primtime block, and many other things that mostly happen at Faux, but have been known to appear elsewhere.
A fairly smart response to an awful stupid question about why the disaster in Japan hasn't sparked looters and riots - because the government actaully believes in prividing for the people when things go disastrous, and the people aren't conditioned to look out for themselves a all occasions, including profiting off of the misfortune of others. Not to say Japan's perfect, and the article notes this as well, but they have decided on a much better sequence of preparations and responses to disasters than the United States does. Even as the situation potentially gets worse - cooling issues with several reactors in the Fukushima plants have atomic scientists very worried a total meltdown may happen if water can't be put on the fuel rods soon.
Out in the world today, Europol, the Europe branch of Interpol, indicates that they have made arrests in what they allege to be a global child pornography ring.
In Pakistan, lady health workers do their best to help the mothers, infants, and women of Pakistan ensure good health, but without being recognized for all the good work they do (much of it statistically quantifiable). In India, school lunches in poor areas are often the province of Akshaya Patra, a group that feeds a large quantity of children using automation and technology to produce mass quantities at its hub locales, which are then distributed to schools nearby. And near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, poor water management and lack of political cooperation is causing dryness and droughts to farmers along the rivers' paths.
Finally, if you're on benefits in the United Kingdom, you might be required to carry out up to 30 hours of unpaid work per week for the government to receive your benefits. While also being expected to apply for jobs to get you off of the benefits system. Insufficient work could suspend those benefits for up to three months. Faaaaantastic. Isn't that just the right way to go?
Domestically, General Petraeus has indicated that the first set of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan will include combat forces as well as non-combat forces. Perhaps we can think about winding the war down...please?
In technology, AT&T is putting bandwidth caps on its DSL and cable Internet users at sizes that would make it difficult for them to be able to use streaming video or on-line gaming services for much of their day, and then saying it will charge them $10 for each additional block of overage in the month. Suffice to say, being capped does not make the subscribers happy. I've noticed usage caps are starting to become prevalent, despite the fact that it doesn't seem like there's any reason for such things to be put in place. We can grumble about "traffic shaping", but in those cases, it at least makes a quality-of-service sense. Capping bandwidth, unless there are costs associated with usage at their end that aren't being disclosed, makes no sense at all.
A fire department in San Ramon Valley, California has published a smartphone application that citizens can download to see when CPR emergencies occur - and can option to say they have training, so if something happens near them in a public place, they can go and provide assistance. The application also provides directions to the nearest public defibrilation device to assist with the electrical part of the CPR procedure.
In opinions, The WSJ wants you to believe that the Arab Leagues's request for a no-fly zone over Libya is really a shout to the United States to come over and impose one already, and the more the U.S. stops acting in its World Police role, the more other countries are going to resort to their own measures of keeping the peace, whether the United States likes those options or not, and every time they do this, the United States loses appeal, prestige, and influence in the region.
Mr. Dowd says the United States needs to take the threat of cyber-attack seriously and pour significant amounts of money and expertise into beefing up the security of our servers so that China and Russia can't walk in and take whatever they want. We need to start training our own hackers and counter-attackers to those being financed in other countries, says he.
The WSJ complains about Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's attempts to get mortgage lenders and servicers to agree to making the burden on homeowners less heavy, by claiming all the proposals put forth were already voted on and rejected, than the Bureau is attempting to require all lenders fall under their regulation, and the mass amounts of foreclosures the work is supposed to stall are all justified foreclosures, and the solutions don't work anyway. They call it extortion and delays to a housing market that depserately needs all these foreclosures to happen so that the housing market can recover, or at least find its floor.
Last for tonight, Bruce Lee writes himself a letter expressing what his goal is. He would achieve those goals and more.
