The best protection against one-sided, erroneous, even dishonest assertions is competition, the universal solvent. --Richman
I watched "Stranger Things" on Netflix, the first "The Americans" on Amazon. I watched no TV. This was easy and very enjoyable. I am unsure what the consequences of this will be. Will cable go the way of the landline? What about the appeal of light reading; will it go too? How much of the appeal is limited by screen size? I am old enough to remember a 12" TV was a big upgrade.
Can anyone explain why anyone would be enthusiastic about the election of anyone or any group in this country now? What is the difference between Obama and Trump? Packaging.
The girl who stole the Uber guy's tip money on camera (her friend returned it) said an interesting thing in an interview with Inside Edition:
From the new Brazile book:
“I knew that these three did not do this with malice."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan involving former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to forcibly remove a controversial cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars. (wsj)
Caplan has a new book out, this on education. It is described thusly: "Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity―in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee." This is a description of the Pre-med classes as well and I'm surprised it is seen as revelatory. The educational system is some sort of weird stew where children are poured in, parental intervention prohibited, outrageous costs incurred and maturity, at the end, is believed conferred. Boot camp would make a lot more sense. In the words of a prophet, "If I had wanted an education I would have got a library card."
Vachel Lindsay believed that he had been called to help redeem mankind through poetry. He began this mission by tramping the country, selling his poems on the street for a living and filling his notebooks with the Americana which would result in 9 books of poetry.
The release of the semiannual Top 500 Supercomputer List is a chance to gauge the who's who of countries that are pushing the boundaries of high-performance computing. The most recent list, released Monday, shows that China is now in a class by itself. China now claims 202 systems within the Top 500, while the United States -- once the dominant player -- tumbles to second place with 143 systems represented on the list. Only a few months ago, the U.S. had 169 systems within the Top 500 compared to China's 160. The growth of China and the decline of the United States within the Top 500 has prompted the U.S. Department of Energy to doll out $258 million in grants to several tech companies to develop exascale systems, the next great leap in HPC.
“Un
político pobre es un pobre político” is a well-known Mexican aphorism
attributed to Carlos Hank González. My translation: a politician who is
poor is a poor politician.” Bill and Hillary Clinton certainly took that
maxim to heart, as have nearly all
other politicians who ever got their filthy mitts into the Treasury and
their slimy vote into the dispensation of privileges, favors, and
subsides for their cronies and key supporters. Corruption should be
understood as intrinsic to “American democracy”—a
feature, not a bug.
Yet the
leftists constantly cry out for more government, ostensibly to eliminate
the corruption that invariably comes packaged with whatever the
government purports to do in the public interest. (Not that the
rightists don’t have their own ways of carrying
out the same kind of shenanigans, of course.) In truth, the only way to
curb political corruption is to drastically reduce the scope of
government. Only when the politicians have nothing with which to be
corrupt will they stop being corrupt.--Higgs
Who is...Vachel Lindsay?I watched "Stranger Things" on Netflix, the first "The Americans" on Amazon. I watched no TV. This was easy and very enjoyable. I am unsure what the consequences of this will be. Will cable go the way of the landline? What about the appeal of light reading; will it go too? How much of the appeal is limited by screen size? I am old enough to remember a 12" TV was a big upgrade.
Can anyone explain why anyone would be enthusiastic about the election of anyone or any group in this country now? What is the difference between Obama and Trump? Packaging.
The girl who stole the Uber guy's tip money on camera (her friend returned it) said an interesting thing in an interview with Inside Edition:
"She doesn't, however, appear to have any remorse for the attention she's gotten.
"It made me relevant," she told Inside Edition. "You are calling me" "
From the new Brazile book:
Obama
"used the party to provide for political expenses like gifts to donors,
and political travel," Brazile wrote, adding that the politician also
used DNC funds for "his pollster and focus groups" later into his second
term although he couldn't run for president again.
"This
was not working to strengthen the party. He left it in debt. Hillary
bailed it out so that she could control it, and Debbie went along with
all of this because she liked the power and perks of being a chair but
not the responsibilities," Brazile wrote.
She
added that although she believed Obama, Clinton and Schultz loved
the Democratic Party dearly, they "leeched it of its vitality and were
continuing to do so."“I knew that these three did not do this with malice."
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan involving former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn to forcibly remove a controversial cleric living in the U.S. and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars. (wsj)
The
Va. race was more interesting than the press is saying. The
Rube-publican Gillespie did very well with the central and western
voters in Virginia who had gone for Trump. But
the Democratic success here may be less the addition of Trump
than the subtraction of Clinton. Ralph Northam did better among almost
every demographic than Clinton had. He won 61% of women, compared with
56% for Clinton. He won 69% of 18- to 29-year-olds, compared with
Clinton's 54%. He won 60 percent of college graduates,
while Clinton won 55%. Only among African-Americans did Clinton edge a
slight, 1-point advantage over Northam's totals.
Caplan has a new book out, this on education. It is described thusly: "Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity―in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee." This is a description of the Pre-med classes as well and I'm surprised it is seen as revelatory. The educational system is some sort of weird stew where children are poured in, parental intervention prohibited, outrageous costs incurred and maturity, at the end, is believed conferred. Boot camp would make a lot more sense. In the words of a prophet, "If I had wanted an education I would have got a library card."
Vachel Lindsay believed that he had been called to help redeem mankind through poetry. He began this mission by tramping the country, selling his poems on the street for a living and filling his notebooks with the Americana which would result in 9 books of poetry.
By
1920, on tour in England, the British critics were calling him "easily
the most important living American poet" -- this with Robert Frost
having 3 collections published and T. S. Eliot with
Prufrock and Other Poems
out and "The Waste Land" on the way. Robert Graves has this description
of Lindsay performing in the land of tweed and Tennyson: "By two
minutes he had the respectable and intellectual and cynical audience
listening. By ten,
intensely excited; by twenty, elated and losing self-control; by half
an hour completely under his influence; by forty minutes roaring like a
bonfire. At the end of the hour they lifted off the roof and refused to
disperse. . . ."
Lindsay
grew to regret the showmanship, and the high cost of the mission: "I
persuaded the tired businessman to listen at last. But lo, my tiny
reputation as a writer seemed wiped out by my new reputation as an
entertainer." Some critics also expressed
regret at how poems so popular in performance failed on the printed
page. (from King)
"Easily the most important living American poet" (!) Fame in art can be fleeting too.
Golden oldie:
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The release of the semiannual Top 500 Supercomputer List is a chance to gauge the who's who of countries that are pushing the boundaries of high-performance computing. The most recent list, released Monday, shows that China is now in a class by itself. China now claims 202 systems within the Top 500, while the United States -- once the dominant player -- tumbles to second place with 143 systems represented on the list. Only a few months ago, the U.S. had 169 systems within the Top 500 compared to China's 160. The growth of China and the decline of the United States within the Top 500 has prompted the U.S. Department of Energy to doll out $258 million in grants to several tech companies to develop exascale systems, the next great leap in HPC.
A
market economy is relatively more efficient for three reasons: It makes
the incentives of participants compatible with the generation of
economic value; it exploits fully the localized knowledge available only
to participants in separated decentralized
circumstances; and it allows maximal scope for the creative and
imaginative talents of all participants who choose to act as potential
entrepreneurs.--Buchanan
In a recent debate over free trade, the anti-free trader, commenting on the BMW plant in Greer, South Carolina,
agreed that such investment is productive, and even that it’s beneficial for Americans but “it would be even
better if those assets were owned by Americans” as if the ownership of an asset is economically distinct from the creation of an asset. This is a profound and revealing error.
There is a movement in some computer circles to return to paper voting.
Just when you thought you had all the conspiracies nailed down, NASA has found a mantle plume that is melting the Antarctic ice from below.
The Saudi internal conflicts may be a very big deal. (One of the criteria is that if the Press ignores it, it is probably important.) It looks as if the Saudis are disenchanted with the U.S. in both their political stances and their seemingly insatiable drive for independent petroleum production through fracking. This may result in the Saudis rewriting some of their assumptions: They may stop recycling their profits through U.S. treasuries and, two, they may want to shift to a new primary customer, China.
With these conjectures, the two indicators would be interest rates and oil prices.
An interesting little sideline story is this:
A lot of colleges are moving their endowment funds off shore to avoid discovery and taxation.
You just have to love this stuff.
When Medicare rolled out in 1965, healthcare consumed just 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Today, that number is 18%.
One of Bill Gates' investment firms has spent $80 million to kickstart the development of a brand-new community in Arizona's far West Valley. The large plot of land is about 45 minutes west of downtown Phoenix off I-10 near Tonopah. The proposed community, made up of close to 25,000 acres of land, is called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the land into its own "smart city."
"Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs," Belmont Partners said in a news release.
AAAaaaaaaannnnnnndddddd.....a bar graph:
There is a movement in some computer circles to return to paper voting.
Just when you thought you had all the conspiracies nailed down, NASA has found a mantle plume that is melting the Antarctic ice from below.
The Saudi internal conflicts may be a very big deal. (One of the criteria is that if the Press ignores it, it is probably important.) It looks as if the Saudis are disenchanted with the U.S. in both their political stances and their seemingly insatiable drive for independent petroleum production through fracking. This may result in the Saudis rewriting some of their assumptions: They may stop recycling their profits through U.S. treasuries and, two, they may want to shift to a new primary customer, China.
With these conjectures, the two indicators would be interest rates and oil prices.
An interesting little sideline story is this:
A lot of colleges are moving their endowment funds off shore to avoid discovery and taxation.
You just have to love this stuff.
When Medicare rolled out in 1965, healthcare consumed just 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Today, that number is 18%.
One of Bill Gates' investment firms has spent $80 million to kickstart the development of a brand-new community in Arizona's far West Valley. The large plot of land is about 45 minutes west of downtown Phoenix off I-10 near Tonopah. The proposed community, made up of close to 25,000 acres of land, is called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the land into its own "smart city."
"Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs," Belmont Partners said in a news release.
AAAaaaaaaannnnnnndddddd.....a bar graph:
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