“Reduce everything you want to do, to an action you can do right now.” —Jason Randal #99conf
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RANT: Bike Lanes = ~1m$ jobs
Friday, August 12, 2011http://brownlovesgreen.com/2011/08/10/hopeful-green-job-facts-to-lift-your-spirits/
Hopeful Green Job Facts to Lift Your Spirits
AUGUST 10, 2011
by Lindsay E. Brown
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Bike Lanes Create Jobs. You did indeed, read that correctly. A recent study from the University of Massachusetts found that bike infrastructure projects create more jobs than road infrastructure. Their latest study showed that bike and pedestrian projects generate 46 percent more employment than roads. Researchers looked at 58 projects in 11 states, and found that cycle-oriented infrastructure created 11.6 jobs for every $1 million spent, versus 7.8 for road-only projects. There you have it! Building the U.S.’ bike infrastructure to solve the job crisis. Voila!
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Argh! Typical muddy thinking. Divide 11 into a million = 900K PER JOB!!!! For an infrastructure that no one in their right mind would build at those costs.
That’s what’s wrong with thinking that the Gooferment can do anything. The oft said maxim is that the Gooferment can’t do ANYTHING right. This just demonstrates it.
The Tea Party is right. Cut the Gooferment’s spending. Go Ron Paul!
Did anyone study economics in a business class?
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TECHNOLOGY: Toy Truck; not so toy
Friday, August 12, 2011Afghanistan War: Hobbyists’ Toy Truck Saves 6 Soldiers’ Lives
By NED POTTER (@NedPotterABC)
Aug. 4, 2011
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Staff Sgt. Christopher Fessenden is on duty in Afghanistan now after tours with the Army in Iraq. He has traveled with standard-issue equipment — weapons, helmet, uniform, boots and so forth — plus a radio-controlled model truck his brother Ernie sent.
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Like the body armor!
(When a young man I know went to the sandbox, I volunteered to buy him a dragon. The Army was woefully unprepared; I wasn’t. I studied ballistic armor. Six months later, towns were having fund raising to properly equip their children. Argh!)
Like the Civil War, the Generals fought using tactics developed in the English and French wars a century before. With bloody consequences.
We need to be like Switzerland. Defend our borders and MYOB!
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HARDWARE: Human Factors and training have to compensate for hardware failure
Thursday, August 11, 2011Final words of Air France crash pilot ‘I can’t control the plane’
Black box reveals secrets of crash the killed 228 passengers including three Irish doctors
By KATE HICKEY, IrishCentral.com Editor
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Posted by colkelley on Aug 10, 2011, 10:08 AM EDT
This is a great example of why you do not want to fly with commercial pilots who do not have military aviation experience. Here we have an entire flight crew that could not recognize that they had stalled the aircraft and just kept cutting power and pulling the nose higher and higher – never realizing that their airspeed indicator was wrong because of icing. When I was a Navy Airborne Electronic Warfare Officer we practiced aircraft emergencies and responses at least once on every flight. In my last three years flying jets in the Navy I had three fires in flight, seven emergency field-arrested (cable) landings, and 13 other declared airborne emergencies – and one of them was EXACTLY the same problem with icing and incorrect airspeed. I survived them all because we PRACTICED emergencies incessantly. Air France has a fatal flaw with both hiring pilots and training them…and 228 people died as a result of their failure.
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How do we know that hardware has failed?
And, what do we do to recognize it.
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TECHNOLOGY: Outsourcing maybe coming “home”?
Thursday, August 11, 2011http://www.economist.com/node/21524822
Schumpeter
The trouble with outsourcing
Outsourcing is sometimes more hassle than it is worth
Jul 30th 2011
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Companies are rethinking outsourcing, rather than jettisoning it. They are dumping huge long-term deals in favour of smaller, less rigid ones. The annualised value of “mega-relationships” worth $100m or more a year fell by 62% this year compared with last. Companies are forming relationships with several outsourcers, rather than putting all their eggs in few baskets. They are signing shorter contracts, too. But still, they need to think harder about what is their core business, and what is peripheral. And above all, newspaper editors need to say no to the temptation to outsource business columns to cheaper, hungrier writers.
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Having seen some of the disasters from bad outsourcing deals, it’s not always a winner for everyone.
Clearly, to be competitive, USA industry and “We, The Sheeple” have to be razor sharp.
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GUNS: Riots and Flash Mobs are “cured” by the RKBA
Wednesday, August 10, 2011http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92801.html
“Concealed Carry” Will End The British Riots Overnight
Posted by Christopher Manion on August 9, 2011 08:06 PM
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Lew, a few years after Virginia adopted its “shall issue” concealed carry law, I remember a long story in the Washington Post wondering why crime rates had risen in recent years much more in Maryland, which had no such law, than in Virginia. Well, duh!
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We need more “sheepdogs” sprinkled in the flock of “We, The Sheeple”.
Remember the Rodney King riots in LA? And, the Korean Grocery Store Owners with their rifles.
It was like an oasis in chaos.
We need Constitutional Carry in the USA.
Then the Yobs can riot all they like. And, the “wildings” of the past can be dealt with by a few sheepdogs.
Wanna bet the disadvantaged urban yutes find other less lethal pastimes. Think of it as cleaning the gene pool and reducign the welfare rolls.
Now, about that minimum wage law!
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INTERESTING: Titanic’s rivets
Wednesday, August 10, 2011From NATGEOTV
Titanic: How it really sank (2009)
Iron rivets failed.
“The side opens like a zipper.”
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POLITICAL: Thinking about our girls and boys in harm’s way; for what?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011Did Our Counterinsurgency Strategy Lead To The Death Of Those Navy SEALs?
Posted by John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.)
Aug 9th 2011 at 9:03 am
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Why aren’t American deaths on the battlefield today, as repugnant to our current leadership as they were back then? Why don’t the leaders of this country, today, expect the Afghan’s to share the devastation of broken families, untimely death of children and other ravages of warfare to secure their own futures?
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You can’t Monday morning qback the loss.
We can Monday morning qback the strategy that puts the girls in boys downrange on a live fire range!
If we were more like the Swiss, we’d MYOB!
Then those folks wouldn’t be in harm’s way without a good reason.
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MONEY: The FED screws us up
Tuesday, August 9, 2011http://www.nationalreview.com/kudlows-money-politics/274153/bernanke-rescue
Bernanke to the Rescue
August 9, 2011 5:28 P.M.
By Larry Kudlow
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Damn the torpedoes! Up periscope! Full speed ahead! Ben Bernanke and the Fed to the rescue!
In a startling move Tuesday, the FOMC announced that its zero-interest-rate target would be extended for two more years through the middle of 2013, marking the first time the target rate has ever been pegged to a date certain.
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Absurd!
The FED is the problem.
Let the market operate and reset the prices to value. Will folks take a hair cut? Yup. But remember Japan’s lost decade. How’s that working out for them? Want that here? Just let the Gooferment muck about with no plan!
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Lost manual control
Tuesday, August 9, 2011http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_bfd1cc1c-089b-5682-9465-955bcab1fbea.html
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Officials say mummified Jennings woman thought dead for years was receiving benefits
BY MARLON A. WALKER • mwalker@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8104 | Posted: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 12:07 am |
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JENNINGS • A woman whose mummified remains were found earlier this year in the Jennings home she had shared with her daughter had been receiving Social Security benefits, the agency confirmed Monday.
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Remember when some genius eliminated mailing Social Security checks saving a lot of administrative expense?
Well, here’s the collateral damage.
Making old folks show up at the bank with their check at least ensured that they were alive and hence being properly paid.
It may be a good trade off but there should be a compensating control.
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