INTERESTING: when your hardware lets you down

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=25171

Based on my readings of Edward De Bono, I really began to grok:

* paradigm (a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind )

* perception (how our hardware influences our software to fool us)

AND

* meme (a convenient way of discussing “a piece of thought copied from person to person”)

Here’s an excellent example of how our hardware fools our software into thinking that is “wrong”.

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INTERESTING: Terrorists are not greatest threat

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/09/colin-powell-te.html

Colin Powell: Terrorists are not greatest threat to nation

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Powellingq In an interview with GQ magazine that’s scheduled to be put online here at 11 a.m. ET, former secretary of State and one-time potential presidential candidate Colin Powell has this to say about terrorism and the threat it poses to the USA:

“What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. Can they knock down a building? Yes. Can they kill somebody? Yes. But can they change us? No. Only we can change ourselves. So what is the great threat we are facing?”

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OK, let’s get back to the America of our forefathers. (1) Honest money. (2) End gooferment welfare. (3) End the phony “War on Drugs”. (4) End gooferment education. In my lifetime, please.

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INTERESTING: Everett doing better

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=301474

ESPN is reporting that the fellow who was badly hurt this weekend, in a clean football play, is doing better. Silent prayers answered!

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INTERESTING: claims of Pats spying on Jets

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3012989

Sources: Camera confiscated after claims of Pats spying on Jets
By Chris Mortensen ESPN.com
Updated: September 10, 2007, 6:39 PM ET

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NFL security confiscated a video camera and its tape from a New England Patriots employee on the team’s sideline during Sunday’s game against the Jets in a suspected spying incident, sources said.

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I’m surprised at this. And, I thought I was un-surprise-able!

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INTERESTING: Alongside; not under!

Friday, September 7, 2007

http://www.greatdreams.com/earthquake-survival.htm

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9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all killed.

They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles, says the author. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall directly across them.

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Alongside; not under!

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INTERESTING: Sir! No Sir!

Friday, August 31, 2007

http://www.sirnosir.com/home_about_film.html

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This is why David Zeiger decided he had to make a documentary about the antiwar movement that we’ve been taught to forget: the antiwar movement that organised itself in barracks, on aircraft carriers, in country, at listening posts, in the line for mess hall. His film is called Sir! No Sir! and in this viewer’s opinion it’s one of the best documentaries of recent years.

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I guess I led a sheltered life. In my USAF time 70-73, I never saw any such resistance.

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INTERESTING: Which was this young lady?

Friday, August 31, 2007

http://execunet.blogspot.com/2007/08/miss-teen-usa-miss-south-carolina-power.html

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Miss Teen USA, Miss South Carolina, & The Power of the Web

Dave Opton over at Execunet opined on the young lady’s flub. And, he was nice enough to allow my comment to post.

Upon reflection, either this young lady was amazingly dumb or amazingly smart. She may have had her fifteen minutes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_minutes_of_fame Or, she may have out Paris Hiltoned the latest vamp of the idle rich kids.

I don’t know.

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INTERESTING: transplants are needed

Thursday, August 30, 2007

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=no_trade-offs&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=08/28/2007&page=2

No Trade-Offs?
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

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More organs to transplant are needed, and people tend to supply more of anything when they are paid more — and especially when they are paid something instead of being paid nothing.

But, here as elsewhere, we must first overcome squeamishness. And the first step is to stop confusing it with being humane.

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We allow the politicians, bureaucrats, and fuzzy thinking sheep to keep us from doing the right thing in some many areas of life.

As you know, I believe that free markets are miniature elections. A buyer and seller can (usually) make a bargain from whence they both benefit. (if they didn’t, then the deal would not close.) That says to the world that X = Y. A barrel of oil is worth 65$. Aside from all other arguments, that sets the stage for people to make decisions and plans. If your potential use would bring you 66$ in value, then you proceed. Otherwise, you decline. It’s an election. And, it’s interesting because it sums up all the wants, need, and desires across all the people. The next barrel is up for bid. The one who needs it “most” will get it. And, they will have the money to pay based on their contributions to their fellow man. Yup, that’s right. The only way to get money is to appeal to you fellow man to give you some by satisfying their needs. The market place is not only an election, rationing agent, and an auctioneer, it’s a mechanism to enforce cooperation.

So, let’s use it to solve the organ donation problem.

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INTERESTING: Get botox faster than cancer screening. No surprise!

Thursday, August 30, 2007

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070830043429.boo9bmfz&show_article=1

Patients get appointments for Botox faster than for moles: study
Aug 30 12:34 AM US/Eastern

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Patients who want a Botox treatment for wrinkles get appointments with US dermatologists much faster than those with potentially cancerous moles, according to a new study.

For a Botox injection, patients waited typically for eight days, while those asking doctors to look at worrisome moles that might indicate skin cancer waited 26 days, said the study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

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You pay for what you get. If the doc can make X with no insurance hassle, then is it a surprise that he will do what turns time into bucks fastest? That’s the free market allocating resources, better faster and cheaper than any administrative system.

When we get Hillarycare, I can’t wait to see the queues.

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INTERESTING: Taxes enslave everyone now

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I Have a Dream”
delivered 28 August 1963,
at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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Are we there yet? Not even close. I’d argue we are actually further away. Taxes enslave everyone now!

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