When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist. -Helder Camara, archbishop (1909-1999)
There has been mixed views of the American weapons program in WWII by scientists. Oppenheimer was very ambivalent about military nuclear power and actually opposed the second atomic attack on Japan. But not everyone was opposed. Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging “watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action” on the part of the United States in atomic research. Remember, Einstein was a pacifist. But he feared that Nazi Germany had begun work on an atomic bomb.
In the summer of 1939, fellow expatriate physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Edward Teller, profoundly disturbed by the lack of American atomic action, enlisted the aid of Einstein, hoping that a letter from such a renowned scientist would help attract Roosevelt’s attention. Einstein agreed to the venture because of his fear of sole Nazi possession of the deadly weapon, a possibility that became especially troubling after Germany ceased the sale of uranium ore from occupied Czechoslovakia. After reading Einstein’s letter, Roosevelt created the Uranium Committee, and in 1942 the highly secret U.S. and British atomic program became known as the Manhattan Project. Einstein had no role in the Allied atomic bomb program.
There are many ways of dissecting the debates over economic control of everyone's life. Everyone can make his own decision, or defer that decision to someone else or the majority. A way of looking at that is, if you defer, you lose your vote for good.
According to CrunchBase: The average successful startup raises $41M, exits at $242.9M. Founders usually hold about 20% at successful exit; split among 2-3 founders, say 8%. That makes a successful exit worth about 20 million.
If the odds of success are 1 in 20 (and it's probably more like 1 in 100, if that) .....
According to the U.K. Telegraph, Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government. Yes, toddlers.
The directive is contained in a 39-page consultation document issued by the Home Office in a bid to bolster its Prevent anti-terrorism plan.
According to CrunchBase: The average successful startup raises $41M, exits at $242.9M. Founders usually hold about 20% at successful exit; split among 2-3 founders, say 8%. That makes a successful exit worth about 20 million.
If the odds of success are 1 in 20 (and it's probably more like 1 in 100, if that) .....
According to the U.K. Telegraph, Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government. Yes, toddlers.
The directive is contained in a 39-page consultation document issued by the Home Office in a bid to bolster its Prevent anti-terrorism plan.
The Capuchin Crypt in Rome contains artwork made from human bones.
250 million: the total number of people of working age in the United States; 149 million: the total number of people in that population that have a job; 8 million: the number of people who want a job but do not have one; leaving 93 million: the number of people who don’t work. To put some context around that last number, it is 30% of the entire U.S. population.
250 million: the total number of people of working age in the United States; 149 million: the total number of people in that population that have a job; 8 million: the number of people who want a job but do not have one; leaving 93 million: the number of people who don’t work. To put some context around that last number, it is 30% of the entire U.S. population.
"No records for the months of May and June of 2012, as the security situation in Libya began to deteriorate, were provided to a House committee investigating the attack." This isn't particularly interesting except that it appeared in the HuffPo. That is surprising.
Who is....Captain Charles McVay?
In recent years, people have been using the name Blue Moon for the second of two full moons in a single calendar month. An older definition of Blue Moon is that it’s the third of four full moons in a single season. The idea of a Blue Moon as the second full moon in a month stemmed from the March 1946 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, which contained an article called “Once in a Blue Moon” by James Hugh Pruett. Pruett was referring to the 1937 Maine Farmer’s Almanac, but he inadvertently simplified the definition. He wrote: Seven times in 19 years there were — and still are — 13 full moons in a year.
Nearly one in four Americans (65 millions people) are currently living with an incurable sexually transmitted disease
Daniel Defoe's pamphlet The Shortest Way with Dissenters was an attack on High Churchman, satirically written as if from the High Church point of view but extending their arguments to the point of foolishness. Both sides of the dispute, Dissenters and High Church alike, took the pamphlet seriously, and both sides were outraged to learn it was a hoax. Defoe was arrested for seditious libel in May 1703. He was put in the pillory. The townspeople, instead of throwing rocks, threw flowers.
The proton arc is a rare type of aurora. As the name indicates, proton arcs are caused not by electrons but by more massive protons that bombard the Earth's atmosphere following an energetic event on the Sun.
More than the love of power or the inevitability of corruption, it is the limitations of human knowledge that make socialist planning an impossible dream. This is a summation of Hayek's view of controlled economies in an article that suggests that similar limits exist in unfettered economies. But I doubt many would look, for example, at the problems leading up to the 2008 crash and say that a lot of thought was involved. A lot of greed, irresponsibility and criminality, yes, but hardly a philosophy.
More than the love of power or the inevitability of corruption, it is the limitations of human knowledge that make socialist planning an impossible dream. This is a summation of Hayek's view of controlled economies in an article that suggests that similar limits exist in unfettered economies. But I doubt many would look, for example, at the problems leading up to the 2008 crash and say that a lot of thought was involved. A lot of greed, irresponsibility and criminality, yes, but hardly a philosophy.
More people are killed by bee stings and lightning than by shark attacks. Worldwide about 30 people die each year from shark attacks, which means a person has a one in 300 million chance of being killed by a shark.
Germany has opened a treason investigation into a news website a broadcaster said had reported on plans to increase state surveillance of online communications. German media said it was the first time in more than 50 years journalists had faced treason charges, and some denounced the move as an attack on the freedom of the press.“The federal prosecutor has started an investigation on suspicion of treason into the articles … published on the internet blog Netzpolitik.org,” a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said. The public broadcaster ARD reported Netzpolitik.org had published an article on how the BfV was seeking extra funding to increase its online surveillance, and another about plans to set up a special unit to monitor social media, both based on leaked confidential documents.
The Consumer Protective Agency was created by edict. It is the enforcer of Dodd Frank and as such may be challenged in the Supreme Court. Bank regulations have cut down drastically on the number of banks formed and existing. Usually there are about 100 banks incorporated a year; this year there are three. This in a law whose purpose was to lessen the impact of any single bank failure.
The Consumer Protective Agency was created by edict. It is the enforcer of Dodd Frank and as such may be challenged in the Supreme Court. Bank regulations have cut down drastically on the number of banks formed and existing. Usually there are about 100 banks incorporated a year; this year there are three. This in a law whose purpose was to lessen the impact of any single bank failure.
There is a federal effort to limit work to a 40 hour week. A law.
Happiness has been investigated for the last 40 years. A lot of evidence shows that 30% is genetic. External forces make up about 10%. Meditation, being outside in nature, learning new things, gifting and volunteering are all contributors to those externals.
66% of college freshmen will take 6 years to get a 4 year degree.
On June 30, 1945, The USS Indianapolis, returning from its secret delivery to Tinian Island, was struck by torpedoes and sank in 12 minutes. Only 317 of the 1,196 men on board survived. Captain Charles McVay, was court-martialed in November 1945 for failing to sail a zigzag course that would have helped the ship to evade enemy submarines in the area. McVay, the only Navy captain court-martialed for losing a ship during the war, committed suicide in 1968. Many of his surviving crewmen believed the military had made him a scapegoat. In 2000, 55 years after the Indianapolis went down, Congress cleared McVay’s name.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2014/03/superiority-is-its-own-reward.html
One strange aspect of the illegal immigration debate is the assessment of these people as potential citizens. Are they good drivers? Do they commit a lot of crimes? But this ducks the real question: What is our policy? What kind of nation do we have and do we want to build? Good drivers? Low criminality? Immigrants are part of that vision and that vision will come to fruition only with a policy.
In 1993, a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania involving the definition of the word “behemoth” escalated to the level of the White House. A student shouted “Shut up, you water buffalo” at a crowd of mostly black sorority sisters who were making a noise outside his dorm. The university accused him of racial harassment, but he defended his comment by maintaining that “water buffalo” came from “behemoth”, Hebrew slang for “a loud or rowdy person”. The incident became national news, and nearly derailed the career of the university’s president, who was being considered for the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The lawsuits and press coverage led to heated debates about free speech and hate speech, and permanent changes in university policies.
One strange aspect of the illegal immigration debate is the assessment of these people as potential citizens. Are they good drivers? Do they commit a lot of crimes? But this ducks the real question: What is our policy? What kind of nation do we have and do we want to build? Good drivers? Low criminality? Immigrants are part of that vision and that vision will come to fruition only with a policy.
In 1993, a controversy at the University of Pennsylvania involving the definition of the word “behemoth” escalated to the level of the White House. A student shouted “Shut up, you water buffalo” at a crowd of mostly black sorority sisters who were making a noise outside his dorm. The university accused him of racial harassment, but he defended his comment by maintaining that “water buffalo” came from “behemoth”, Hebrew slang for “a loud or rowdy person”. The incident became national news, and nearly derailed the career of the university’s president, who was being considered for the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The lawsuits and press coverage led to heated debates about free speech and hate speech, and permanent changes in university policies.
In the early 1800s, 41% of the people of England would die before age 6. The average life expectancy was 25.
AAAaaaaannnnnnddddd......a graph on welfare support and disincentives:
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