"I have not the pleasure of knowing my reader but I would stake ten to one that for six months he has been making Utopias, and if so, that he is looking to Government for the realization of them."--Bastiat
There is a fascinating, if implausible, belief embedded in the thinking of the Left: They believe their opponents--across the social and economic board-- want to aid the rich, that my opposition to taxation is rooted in my desire to help rich people.
Dog days: noun: 1. The hottest period of the summer. 2. A period of stagnation, lethargy, inactivity, or decline.
As late as 1960, state records show that only 230 acres of Chardonnay were planted in the state of California, 70 of which belonged to Wente. It wasn't until the early 1980s, after California Chardonnay took top honors at the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting, that Chardonnay plantings began to take off in the state, primarily using UC Davis Wente clones 4 and 5.
The Heroes of Beslan strike again!
Sorcerer's Apprentice Update: Two groups using CRISPR gene editing technology have edited the DNA of the queens of two separate ant colonies. CRISPR editing has emphasized expressive proteins that change the cellular metabolism and expression of a single individual; this editing changed the basic DNA of two queens so that change will be inherited through subsequent generations. This is a new field with extraordinary implications. Essentially these labs are creating new species of animals and bugs. There is a lot at stake here, gene patents, wealth, fame and awards. We may have given the baby a gun.
Obamacare is insuring more poor people and uninsuring millions of middle-income people. That suits the Democratic party and many congressional Republicans just fine. They measure social progress in the number of people receiving government assistance. Those struggling to pay their own way evoke little sympathy. Lawmakers of both parties, whose consciences were lacerated by CBO’s theory that millions would “lose” coverage under the GOP’s “repeal and replace” legislation (most of those “losses” the result of people voluntarily dropping insurance once the individual mandate was repealed) are unmoved that millions actually have lost coverage under the law they fought to preserve.--Badger
Good news. Thomas Kokoraleis, the infamous Chicago killer who was a member of the Ripper Crew believed to be responsible for killing as many as 20 women in the 1980s, is expected to be paroled in September.
There is no need to read about these incredibly horrible people, except to ponder how madmen bond. Anyway, Kokoraleis must be all better now.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/08/quick-reviews-dr-sleep-camp-of-saints.html
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There is a fascinating, if implausible, belief embedded in the thinking of the Left: They believe their opponents--across the social and economic board-- want to aid the rich, that my opposition to taxation is rooted in my desire to help rich people.
Geez. From Ars Technica: A Russian government-sponsored group accused of hacking the DNC last year has likely been infecting other targets using an exploit developed by, and later stolen from, the National Security Agency, researchers said Friday. Eternal Blue, as the exploit is code-named, is one of scores of advanced NSA attacks that have been released over the past year by a mysterious group calling itself the Shadow Brokers. It was published in April in the group's most damaging release to date. Its ability to spread from computer to computer without any user action was the engine that allowed the WCry ransomware worm, which appropriated the leaked exploit, to shut down computers worldwide in May. Eternal Blue also played a role in the spread of NotPetya, a follow-on worm that caused major disruptions in June. Now, researchers at security firm FireEye say they're moderately confident the Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, APT 28, and other names has also used Eternal Blue, this time in a campaign that targeted people of interest as they connected to hotel Wi-Fi networks. In July, the campaign started using Eternal Blue to spread from computer to computer inside various staff and guest networks, company researchers Lindsay Smith and Ben Read wrote in a blog post. While the researchers didn't directly observe those attacks being used to infect guest computers connected to the network, they said a related campaign from last year used the control of hotel Wi-Fi services to obtain login credentials from guest devices.
Dog days: noun: 1. The hottest period of the summer. 2. A period of stagnation, lethargy, inactivity, or decline.
ETY: A translation of Latin dies caniculares (puppy days), from Greek kunades hemarai (dog days), so called because Sirius, the Dog Star, rises and sets with the sun around this time of the year. The ancient Romans and Greeks considered this period unhealthy and unlucky. The star got its name from Greek seirios (scorching). Earliest documented use: 1538.
Due to precession (gradual shift in the Earth’s axis of rotation), the dog days have shifted since the time of ancient Romans and Greeks. In about 10,000 years, dog days will fall in winter. So constellations are not where they used to be. Which is to say you were not born under the sign you think you were. Whatever implications this has for astrology, one can only surmise.
Soon the North Star will change from Polaris to...?
Soon the North Star will change from Polaris to...?
A 2016 paper exploring the biology of prostate cancer has been retracted due to figure manipulation. According to the retraction notice, a reader contacted the journal Clinical Cancer Research in late 2016 with concerns that similar bands appeared multiple times in two images.
As late as 1960, state records show that only 230 acres of Chardonnay were planted in the state of California, 70 of which belonged to Wente. It wasn't until the early 1980s, after California Chardonnay took top honors at the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting, that Chardonnay plantings began to take off in the state, primarily using UC Davis Wente clones 4 and 5.
The Heroes of Beslan strike again!
Gunmen stormed an office of a Syrian paramedic group--paramedics!-- that is active in opposition-controlled areas, killing seven of its members and stealing two vehicles and other equipment.
Who is...Thomas Kokoraleis?
Classical liberalism is based upon concepts of natural human rights and the creation of a limited and controlled government to safeguard those rights. It allows a lot of leeway in personal behavior. A recent review included this line: "Liberal democracy was meant to depoliticize society, to turn issues of public morality into private concerns. By that measure, it's been a failure."
So, "to turn issues of public morality into private concerns." What do you think?
Near the end of June in 1944, one of the 100 daily flying or "doodle bug" bombs directed at London destroyed Orwell's flat; he dug his battered manuscript out of the rubble and, apologizing for its "blitzed" condition, sent it to T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber for consideration. Eliot's rejection letter was similar to those received earlier: though the satire reached Swiftian proportions, the anti-Russian theme was not "the right point of view from which to criticise the political situation at the present time." The Tehran meeting between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt had been at the end of 1943, and the Normandy invasion had been just over two months ago: this was a time to rout Hitler, not embarrass Russia. Though Orwell had lifelong contempt for such timidity, his book became an instant hit by not being published until the summer of '45, when the Cold War and Russia-bashing were more popular. (king)
Sorcerer's Apprentice Update: Two groups using CRISPR gene editing technology have edited the DNA of the queens of two separate ant colonies. CRISPR editing has emphasized expressive proteins that change the cellular metabolism and expression of a single individual; this editing changed the basic DNA of two queens so that change will be inherited through subsequent generations. This is a new field with extraordinary implications. Essentially these labs are creating new species of animals and bugs. There is a lot at stake here, gene patents, wealth, fame and awards. We may have given the baby a gun.
Obamacare is insuring more poor people and uninsuring millions of middle-income people. That suits the Democratic party and many congressional Republicans just fine. They measure social progress in the number of people receiving government assistance. Those struggling to pay their own way evoke little sympathy. Lawmakers of both parties, whose consciences were lacerated by CBO’s theory that millions would “lose” coverage under the GOP’s “repeal and replace” legislation (most of those “losses” the result of people voluntarily dropping insurance once the individual mandate was repealed) are unmoved that millions actually have lost coverage under the law they fought to preserve.--Badger
Good news. Thomas Kokoraleis, the infamous Chicago killer who was a member of the Ripper Crew believed to be responsible for killing as many as 20 women in the 1980s, is expected to be paroled in September.
There is no need to read about these incredibly horrible people, except to ponder how madmen bond. Anyway, Kokoraleis must be all better now.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/08/quick-reviews-dr-sleep-camp-of-saints.html
steeleydock.blogspot.com
"Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail is a notorious book ostensibly about the West and its conflict with the undeveloped world. (It is usually dismissed as ...
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This is quite amazing. A study published online in Current Biology “may help explain the reported link between the use of artificial sweeteners and diabetes, scientists say.” Investigators “say that in nature the intensity of sweetness reflects the amount of energy present,” but nowadays, “the body’s metabolism is fooled when a beverage is either too sweet or not sweet enough for the amount of calories it contains.” In other words, “a sweet-tasting, lower-calorie drink can trigger a greater metabolic response than a drink with higher calories, they said.”
A Russian government-sponsored group accused of hacking the DNC last year has likely been infecting other targets using an exploit developed by, and later stolen from, the National Security Agency.
Tucker on the idiocy of Charlottesville: But one thing you learn from history is that no idea is too insane to be off limits to a group infected with a longing to rule.
A hypothetical: “Why is it worse for a worker to lose a job when his neighbor buys a foreign-made car than when his neighbor buys a used car?”
Tucker on the idiocy of Charlottesville: But one thing you learn from history is that no idea is too insane to be off limits to a group infected with a longing to rule.
A hypothetical: “Why is it worse for a worker to lose a job when his neighbor buys a foreign-made car than when his neighbor buys a used car?”
Law professor Ryan Calo -- sometimes called a robot-law scholar -- hosted the first White House workshop on AI policy, and has organized AI workshops for the National Science Foundation (as well as the Department of Homeland Security and the National Academy of Sciences). Now an anonymous reader shares a new 30-page essay where Calo "explains what policymakers should be worried about with respect to artificial intelligence. Includes a takedown of doomsayers like Musk and Gates." Professor Calo summarizes his sense of the current consensus on many issues, including the dangers of an existential threat from superintelligent AI:
Claims of a pending AI apocalypse come almost exclusively from the ranks of individuals such as Musk, Hawking, and Bostrom who possess no formal training in the field... A number of prominent voices in artificial intelligence have convincingly challenged Superintelligence's thesis along several lines. First, they argue that there is simply no path toward machine intelligence that rivals our own across all contexts or domains... even if we were able eventually to create a superintelligence, there is no reason to believe it would be bent on world domination, unless this were for some reason programmed into the system. As Yann LeCun, deep learning pioneer and head of AI at Facebook colorfully puts it, computers don't have testosterone.... At best, investment in the study of AI's existential threat diverts millions of dollars (and billions of neurons) away from research on serious questions... "The problem is not that artificial intelligence will get too smart and take over the world," computer scientist Pedro Domingos writes, "the problem is that it's too stupid and already has."
Claims of a pending AI apocalypse come almost exclusively from the ranks of individuals such as Musk, Hawking, and Bostrom who possess no formal training in the field... A number of prominent voices in artificial intelligence have convincingly challenged Superintelligence's thesis along several lines. First, they argue that there is simply no path toward machine intelligence that rivals our own across all contexts or domains... even if we were able eventually to create a superintelligence, there is no reason to believe it would be bent on world domination, unless this were for some reason programmed into the system. As Yann LeCun, deep learning pioneer and head of AI at Facebook colorfully puts it, computers don't have testosterone.... At best, investment in the study of AI's existential threat diverts millions of dollars (and billions of neurons) away from research on serious questions... "The problem is not that artificial intelligence will get too smart and take over the world," computer scientist Pedro Domingos writes, "the problem is that it's too stupid and already has."
AAAAaaaaaaannnnnndddddd.......a graph:
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