"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Charlotte Bronte
Chrysler, like practically all car makers, is doing its best to turn the modern automobile into a smartphone. A diagnostic unit, Uconnect, an Internet-connected computer feature in hundreds of thousands of Fiat Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks, controls the vehicle’s entertainment and navigation, enables phone calls, and even offers a Wi-Fi hot spot. And thanks to one vulnerable element, two guys named Miller and Valasek have a Black Hat talk coming up that shows Uconnect’s cellular connection also lets anyone who knows the car’s IP address gain access from anywhere in the country.
Chrysler, like practically all car makers, is doing its best to turn the modern automobile into a smartphone. A diagnostic unit, Uconnect, an Internet-connected computer feature in hundreds of thousands of Fiat Chrysler cars, SUVs, and trucks, controls the vehicle’s entertainment and navigation, enables phone calls, and even offers a Wi-Fi hot spot. And thanks to one vulnerable element, two guys named Miller and Valasek have a Black Hat talk coming up that shows Uconnect’s cellular connection also lets anyone who knows the car’s IP address gain access from anywhere in the country.
Humans see color differently in the summer with yellow seeming more green than in the winter months, scientists have shown for the first time. They found that in June volunteers adjusted more green out of yellow than in January, and added more in January to get back to yellow, suggesting that their eyes were viewing the colors differently.
Real household income--which includes both earned income and unearned income such as dividends and interest--has plummeted 8.5% since 2000. This is a striking contrast with real GDP growth of 31.6%: the economy has expanded 31.6% after adjusting for inflation, while real median household income has declined 8.5%. Where did the growth go?
Karen Anderson, an American 'animal communicator' (i.e. psychic), posted on Facebook that she had made contact with the late Cecil the lion and that he said he is 'finer than ever, grander than before'. I fell better about it all.
Who was...Emma Lazarus?
Australia's Isaac Plans coking coal mine, which was valued at $630 million in 2011, sold for $1.
Hotel California: U.S. House of Representatives passed via voice vote the Foreign Terrorist Organization Passport Revocation Act of 2015. It says, in part, the Secretary of State may refuse to issue a passport --or revoke a previously issued one--to any individual whom the Secretary has determined has aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise helped an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The criteria are not specified. So the U.S. border has the risk of become a one way street; anyone can walk in but people have restrictions on leaving.
The Welsh town of Conwy has appointed its first official jester in 700 years.
Obama had mandated a 30 percent nationwide cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. The final version will require a 32 percent cut instead, said officials. These enlightened ones, of course, make these debatable decisions completely insulated from their dire everyday consequences. I wonder if some areas and states, citing economic hardship, could just decline, like some cities do as 'sanctuary cities" for illegal immigrants.
Golden oldie:
The Statue of Liberty was publicly funded. Much of the rest of the money needed would be raised by Joseph Pulitzer through his campaign in The New York World for the penny-donations of the poor. Some came from the Pedestal Art Loan Exhibition. Many artist donated works to be sold, including poet Emma Lazarus who wrote "The New Colossus."
Lazarus died 1887, a year after the Statue was erected; her poem fetched $1500, but it gathered dust for years until discovered in an old portfolio of Exhibition contributions. Lobbying by the poem's admirers had the famous last five lines ("Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free....") inscribed on a second-story landing by the turn of the century, and in 1945 the entire poem was installed at the base.
The poem was an allusion to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a symbol of power and domination for the half-century it stood and an object of wonder for the centuries that it lay in gigantic pieces strewn about the harbor. Emma Lazurus was a champion of "the colossal experiment" that was America and a bit of a feminist:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles....
Since wine tasting is essentially wine smelling, women tend to be better wine testers because women, particularly of reproductive ages, have a better sense of smell than men.
Aside from the basic numbers of budgetary imbalances and continuing fiscal pressures, Medicare’s institutionalization as the dominant payer in US health care also has locked in the worst features of a costly and inefficient fee-for-service delivery system that still rewards providing more volume, instead of better value, in most health care decisions. The mismatch between Medicare’s claims on the economy and our political willingness to pay for them in turn has produced an ever-more complex web of reimbursement rules and health care regulations in response that are far more successful in hiding or transferring costs than in reducing them. Moreover, although elderly Americans achieved substantial gains in insurance coverage and financial security through Medicare, younger ones fared far less well.--Millar, "50 Years of Medicare"
In a human lifetime most will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking.
Paul A.M. Dirac was a pioneer of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. His work pervades all of modern physics. He was, by almost all accounts, one of the top 10 physicists of all time, and by many accounts one of the top 2 physicists of the 20th century. That expertise did not prevent--or perhaps encouraged--him to give a Nobel Prize acceptance speech on economics, a speech which most economists think is incomprehensible. This is an example of the hubris of the species but, more, the individual arrogance of members of the collected group of very accomplished people who are ever ready to apply their acknowledged competence to other fields where they are as average as the rest of us. So Gödel does not believe in the likelihood of evolution.
The poem was an allusion to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a symbol of power and domination for the half-century it stood and an object of wonder for the centuries that it lay in gigantic pieces strewn about the harbor. Emma Lazurus was a champion of "the colossal experiment" that was America and a bit of a feminist:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles....
Since wine tasting is essentially wine smelling, women tend to be better wine testers because women, particularly of reproductive ages, have a better sense of smell than men.
Aside from the basic numbers of budgetary imbalances and continuing fiscal pressures, Medicare’s institutionalization as the dominant payer in US health care also has locked in the worst features of a costly and inefficient fee-for-service delivery system that still rewards providing more volume, instead of better value, in most health care decisions. The mismatch between Medicare’s claims on the economy and our political willingness to pay for them in turn has produced an ever-more complex web of reimbursement rules and health care regulations in response that are far more successful in hiding or transferring costs than in reducing them. Moreover, although elderly Americans achieved substantial gains in insurance coverage and financial security through Medicare, younger ones fared far less well.--Millar, "50 Years of Medicare"
In a human lifetime most will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking.
Paul A.M. Dirac was a pioneer of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. His work pervades all of modern physics. He was, by almost all accounts, one of the top 10 physicists of all time, and by many accounts one of the top 2 physicists of the 20th century. That expertise did not prevent--or perhaps encouraged--him to give a Nobel Prize acceptance speech on economics, a speech which most economists think is incomprehensible. This is an example of the hubris of the species but, more, the individual arrogance of members of the collected group of very accomplished people who are ever ready to apply their acknowledged competence to other fields where they are as average as the rest of us. So Gödel does not believe in the likelihood of evolution.
The NYT has ripped Piketty's new book. It is "a slightly revised version of a volume first published in 1997, when Mr. Piketty was in his mid-20s."
An Associated Press analysis of fundraising reports filed with federal regulators through Friday found that nearly 60 donations of a million dollars or more accounted for about a third of the more than $380 million brought in so far for the 2016 presidential election. Donors who gave at least $100,000 account for about half of all donations so far to candidates' presidential committees and the super PACs that support them.
Saurian: adj. 1. resembling a lizard. 2. belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards. ety: Saurian comes from the New Latin word Sauria, meaning "an order of reptiles," and the suffix -an occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin. Dinosaur comes from the Anglicized stem of this word.
If you are thinking Lord of the Rings, you are probably right.
Hillary Clinton gave a speech warning that the new “sharing economy” of businesses such as Uber is “raising hard questions about workplace protections.” This could be a real problem as unions have been on the wrong side of history for a while and the establishment politicians do not want to be on the wrong side of unions.
Dershowitz on Obama and the deal with Iran: “He took the military option off the table, and that was an extraordinarily naïve and wrong thing to do because that allowed the Iranians to negotiate with us as equals. And I’m not the only one who has said this. Many liberal Democrats I’ve spoken to believe we made a tragic negotiating mistake, that what we should have done was said to the Iranians: Look—You’re never, ever going to be able to develop nuclear weapons. That’s American policy, and we’ll stop you, whatever it takes.” At this point, Dershowitz posits the question, “Now why are you [Iran] accepting the sanctions if you’re never, ever going to be able to develop a nuclear weapon? Let’s figure out a way of ending the sanctions by you dismantling the nuclear program and allowing 24/7 inspections. We have military powers that you don’t. You’ll never get a nuclear weapon. That’s not negotiable. What’s negotiable is how to get rid of the sanctions.”
He is a fierce supporter of Israel but is also a fierce liberal. Confusing times for many.
From Henry Wilson's A Catechism of Individualism:
Do not some writers, like Ruskin, say that value is inherent in a thing?
They do. Ruskin says that a picture by Botticelli has inherent value, while a cask of whiskey has not only no value, but has, so to speak, a minus value.
What is your comment on this?
On analyzing this statement I find that value is still a matter of opinion, only it is Ruskin’s opinion of what satisfies his desires, instead of the opinion of those concerned of what satisfies their desires.
They do. Ruskin says that a picture by Botticelli has inherent value, while a cask of whiskey has not only no value, but has, so to speak, a minus value.
What is your comment on this?
On analyzing this statement I find that value is still a matter of opinion, only it is Ruskin’s opinion of what satisfies his desires, instead of the opinion of those concerned of what satisfies their desires.
AAAAAaaaaaannnnnnnddddddd.....a picture of the Lagoon Nebula also known as M8, dominated by the telltale red emission of ionized hydrogen atoms recombining with stripped electrons and ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds. Lagoon's central reaches is about 40 light-years across. Near the center of the frame, the bright hourglass shape is gas ionized and sculpted by energetic radiation and extreme stellar winds from a massive young star:
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