“Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying to destroy it” --François Revel
China forces foreign businesses to share private business information—like software source code—with Chinese joint venture partners. That confidential information often finds its way into the wrong hands, subsequently appearing in counterfeit products.
Daymare is formed on the analogy of the much earlier noun nightmare (which dates from the 14th century). The element -mare in both words has nothing to do with mares, stallions, or horses: it comes from the Germanic noun marō “elf, goblin, incubus, succubus, nightmare,” appearing as mare, mære in Old English and Mahr and Nachtmahr “nightmare” in German. Daymare entered English in the 18th century.
Who is....Edwin Hubble?
President Trump, in the wake of the weekend violence at a white-supremacy rally in Virginia, is facing pressure to break decisively with such nationalist groups that largely backed his campaign and presidency. This is from the WSJ. Does the country really need the president to take a public position of leadership against loonies?
What part of the neo-Nazi guys do people hate? Is it the racist part, the centralized one-leader part, or the national socialism part?
The Taliban-like erasing the past of a country can get really messy. Should we tear down the Jefferson Monument? What about the statue of the militarist and religious fanatic Jeanne d'Arc?
The rapper Macklemore had a fan tweet: “Macklemore hair seems to be the chosen haircut of the racists now. I call on @macklemore to get online and denounce his own haircut.” So he did. He denounced his haircut.
And in North Carolina someone pulled a statue of a confederate soldier down and beat it. He beat a statue.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/08/cab-thoughts-83113.html
The Left measures social progress in the number of people receiving government assistance. Those struggling to pay their own way evoke little sympathy.
Achilles was the ultimate Greek hero. Yet the Greeks did not teach by showing qualities but rather flaws. Achilles' failure is the result of anger, pride induced in the beginning and fury at Hector in the end. He drags Hector around the gate of Troy, abusing the dead body and keeping it from a proper burial. In the eyes of the Greeks, certain qualities united men. An enemy could be a hero. Great human qualities superseded circumstance. Hector, the enemy's greatest champion, deserved respect.
Theirs was not the simple, Manichean, puritanical world of black and white. The world was, and is, more complex than that. Fortunately we now have the wherewithal to dumb life down for us and make it all understandable.
AAAAAaaaannnnnddddd.....a few graphs:
The
Zeigarnik effect is the tendency for us to hold on to information that
we are processing and to discard that information from our memory when
we have completed the task. So some people may have better success
interrupting their projects and keeping them on the back burner while
their mind works on the project. Apparently authors do this to prevent
writer's block; they stop writing when they have a good idea what they
want to write next.
China forces foreign businesses to share private business information—like software source code—with Chinese joint venture partners. That confidential information often finds its way into the wrong hands, subsequently appearing in counterfeit products.
Daymare is formed on the analogy of the much earlier noun nightmare (which dates from the 14th century). The element -mare in both words has nothing to do with mares, stallions, or horses: it comes from the Germanic noun marō “elf, goblin, incubus, succubus, nightmare,” appearing as mare, mære in Old English and Mahr and Nachtmahr “nightmare” in German. Daymare entered English in the 18th century.
Who is....Edwin Hubble?
President Trump, in the wake of the weekend violence at a white-supremacy rally in Virginia, is facing pressure to break decisively with such nationalist groups that largely backed his campaign and presidency. This is from the WSJ. Does the country really need the president to take a public position of leadership against loonies?
What part of the neo-Nazi guys do people hate? Is it the racist part, the centralized one-leader part, or the national socialism part?
The Taliban-like erasing the past of a country can get really messy. Should we tear down the Jefferson Monument? What about the statue of the militarist and religious fanatic Jeanne d'Arc?
(Jeanne d'Arc in the Rue de Rivoli)
What about the countless Napoleon statues and memorials?
How about Forbes Avenue, named for a British General?
Purity is its own reward.
What about the countless Napoleon statues and memorials?
How about Forbes Avenue, named for a British General?
Purity is its own reward.
The rapper Macklemore had a fan tweet: “Macklemore hair seems to be the chosen haircut of the racists now. I call on @macklemore to get online and denounce his own haircut.” So he did. He denounced his haircut.
And in North Carolina someone pulled a statue of a confederate soldier down and beat it. He beat a statue.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/08/cab-thoughts-83113.html
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A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.--de Tocqueville
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The Left measures social progress in the number of people receiving government assistance. Those struggling to pay their own way evoke little sympathy.
Achilles was the ultimate Greek hero. Yet the Greeks did not teach by showing qualities but rather flaws. Achilles' failure is the result of anger, pride induced in the beginning and fury at Hector in the end. He drags Hector around the gate of Troy, abusing the dead body and keeping it from a proper burial. In the eyes of the Greeks, certain qualities united men. An enemy could be a hero. Great human qualities superseded circumstance. Hector, the enemy's greatest champion, deserved respect.
Theirs was not the simple, Manichean, puritanical world of black and white. The world was, and is, more complex than that. Fortunately we now have the wherewithal to dumb life down for us and make it all understandable.
Nicolaus
Copernicus taught us in the 16th century that we human beings are
nothing special, in the sense that the Earth on which we live is not at
the center of the solar system. This realization has become known as the
Copernican principle.
Harlow
Shapley showed that the solar system is not at the center of the Milky
Way galaxy. A few years later, the astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that
galaxies other than the Milky Way exist—some two trillion of them, by
current estimates.
Every
step along the way in extending the Copernican principle represents a
major human discovery. That is, each decrease in the sense of our own
physical significance was accompanied by a huge increase in our
knowledge.
Which is to say, we are how the universe examines itself.
New research suggests DNA testing for disease risks, offered by companies such as 23andMe and Helix, may not influence those who use them to alter their health habits, despite receiving data that predict future illnesses or diseases. According to recent studies, “Getting the DNA information produced no significant effect on diet, physical activity, drinking alcohol, quitting smoking, sun protection or attendance at disease-screening programs” among participants who took DNA tests. Researchers wrote the presence of the data “has little if any impact on changing routine or habitual behaviors.”
Funny line: "First they came for the statues...."
The Husbands of Washington, D.C. continues. It seems that people think the current administration is different in quality from previous administrations when it is more likely they are just more gauche.
I had the good fortune of being able to watch the midday news yesterday. All were filled with righteous indignation against Trump and his too even-handed criticism of the rioters in Charlottesville. Then Bannon left and the news people went wild. The general belief was Trump was losing the neo-Nazi and the KKK people that the news felt was Trump's voter base. His base? How many are there? Do they vote? This all seems so crazy.
Data from the Southern Poverty Law Center suggests the number of hate groups is currently near the country’s all-time recorded high, in 2011. The SPLC reports that as of 2016, there are 917 active groups. (That’s 100 fewer than the 1,108 groups reported in 2011.) Prominent neo-Nazi groups include the National Socialist Movement and Vanguard America.
There is an interesting notion that arose with the CEOs abandoning Trump's business council. After Frazier quit, Trump tweeted this: "Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!" The stock response? Merck went up. Up. The take is that this could happen only if Trump was beginning to be seen as a guy who could not do anything. And the obvious next question is, what happens when the bad guys figure that out?
I never heard this: On Nov. 13, 1994, football star Rosey Grier — acting in the capacity of spiritual adviser — visited Simpson at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail. Separated by a plexiglass partition, the two men had a phone conversation in which Simpson became very emotional and possibly admitted his guilt to Grier, who classified the dialogue as religious council when called to testify.
And...In the final installment of the ESPN documentary OJ: Made In America, Mike Gilbert claimed that Simpson told him he had not planned to kill his wife when he went to her home on June 12, 1994, and that she might still be alive if she had not answered the door with a knife in her hand.
New research suggests DNA testing for disease risks, offered by companies such as 23andMe and Helix, may not influence those who use them to alter their health habits, despite receiving data that predict future illnesses or diseases. According to recent studies, “Getting the DNA information produced no significant effect on diet, physical activity, drinking alcohol, quitting smoking, sun protection or attendance at disease-screening programs” among participants who took DNA tests. Researchers wrote the presence of the data “has little if any impact on changing routine or habitual behaviors.”
Funny line: "First they came for the statues...."
The Husbands of Washington, D.C. continues. It seems that people think the current administration is different in quality from previous administrations when it is more likely they are just more gauche.
I had the good fortune of being able to watch the midday news yesterday. All were filled with righteous indignation against Trump and his too even-handed criticism of the rioters in Charlottesville. Then Bannon left and the news people went wild. The general belief was Trump was losing the neo-Nazi and the KKK people that the news felt was Trump's voter base. His base? How many are there? Do they vote? This all seems so crazy.
Data from the Southern Poverty Law Center suggests the number of hate groups is currently near the country’s all-time recorded high, in 2011. The SPLC reports that as of 2016, there are 917 active groups. (That’s 100 fewer than the 1,108 groups reported in 2011.) Prominent neo-Nazi groups include the National Socialist Movement and Vanguard America.
In
a speech given in Kentucky, Vanguard America leader Dillon Irizarry
said he counted at least 200 members in 20 different states. The KKK
itself claims it has “between 5,000 and 8,000 members nationwide.”
Not much of a base. But the press seems to believe it. The solution would be to expand your definition, I suppose.
Not much of a base. But the press seems to believe it. The solution would be to expand your definition, I suppose.
There is an interesting notion that arose with the CEOs abandoning Trump's business council. After Frazier quit, Trump tweeted this: "Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!" The stock response? Merck went up. Up. The take is that this could happen only if Trump was beginning to be seen as a guy who could not do anything. And the obvious next question is, what happens when the bad guys figure that out?
I never heard this: On Nov. 13, 1994, football star Rosey Grier — acting in the capacity of spiritual adviser — visited Simpson at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail. Separated by a plexiglass partition, the two men had a phone conversation in which Simpson became very emotional and possibly admitted his guilt to Grier, who classified the dialogue as religious council when called to testify.
And...In the final installment of the ESPN documentary OJ: Made In America, Mike Gilbert claimed that Simpson told him he had not planned to kill his wife when he went to her home on June 12, 1994, and that she might still be alive if she had not answered the door with a knife in her hand.
Gilbert
later said he did not even believe this, and is convinced Simpson went
to Nicole's home with the intention of murdering her over the fact that
she had left him and was seeing his friend and protege Marcus Allen.
The legislative neither must nor can transfer the power of making laws
to any body else, or place it any where, but where the people have...-Locke on legislative power
University
of California, Irvine, economist David Neumark examined more than 100
credible minimum wage studies of the past two decades and found that 85%
of them “found consistent evidence of job loss effects on low-skilled
workers” — including lost jobs, reduced hours and closed businesses.
A small font for a pretty big story:
Golden
Seeds, one of ACA’s most active angel groups, with chapters across the
country, among the founding members of ACA, has reached the impressive
milestone of more than $100 million invested in women-led businesses ―
143 businesses to be exact. Notes Managing Partner Loretta McCarthy,
“Women angel investors are now an integral part of our industry, using
their capital, skills and networks to contribute to the success of start-up companies.”AAAAAaaaannnnnddddd.....a few graphs:
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