A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." -Stephen Crane, writer (1 Nov 1871-1900)
Who is...the Haganah?
The U.S. economy grew robustly in the third quarter despite two hurricanes, propelled by steady spending from American businesses and households. Gross domestic product expanded at a 3% annual rate in July through September, topping the consensus estimate of 2.7%.
There is a guy on TED trying to give everyone an address. It is a legitimate problem in the world. He has divided the world up into 57 million square meters and given each square a three word name. It's a five minute talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_sheldrick_a_precise_three_word_address_for_every_place_on_earth
Our address is gazed.plug.thick.
This is from a funny article on "The New Atheism:"
Former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka said Hillary Clinton and others should get the electric chair for “treason” against the United States during an interview on Fox News Thursday night. Well, it could be worse; we could all be jumping to conclusions , talking crazy, and sentencing people before trials. Thankfully the atmosphere in the country is calm and reasoned.
Long ago and far away: In 1946 the King David Hotel was bombed by the Irgun acting under the umbrella of the overall Zionist force, the Haganah. The attack killed 92 people, most of them civilians, some 17 of whom were Jewish.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/sunday-sermon-71413.html
A special Massachusetts commission recommends the state stop observing Daylight Savings TIme "if a majority of other northeast states, also possibly including New York, also do so." Six other states are considering it.
There's a lot of tax discussion and one constant complaint is "tax breaks for the rich." The problem is, of course, that you can not cut taxes on people who do not pay them. Nonertheless the charge continues, and often the Reagan administration has been used as the example. But, as Sowell points out, the revenues collected from federal income taxes during every year of the Reagan administration were higher--higher--than the revenues collected from federal income taxes during any year of any previous administration. How can that be? Because tax RATES and tax REVENUES are two different things. "As for "the rich," higher-income taxpayers paid more — repeat, MORE tax revenues into the federal treasury under the lower tax rates than they had under the previous higher tax rates." More than that, "the rich" not only paid higher total tax revenues after the so-called "tax cuts for the rich," they also paid a higher percentage of all tax revenues afterwards.
On the night of November 5, 1605, the conspiracy by English Catholics to kill King James I and replace him with his Catholic daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was cut short by the arrest of Guy Fawkes, who had been charged with placing gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament. The plot involved digging a tunnel under the Palace of Westminster, filling it with gunpowder and then triggering a deadly explosion during the ceremonial opening of Parliament, which would have resulted in the death of not only James I, but also the leading Protestant nobility. From then on, November 5 was celebrated in Britain and its colonies with a bonfire burning either Guy Fawkes or the pope in effigy. (This became important to Washington during the Revolution because he did not want the Americans burning pope effigies while they were trying to attract Catholic support.)
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The AI revolution is having ripples everywhere. Machines can beat humans in chess, checkers, the complex Go, and recently a CMU computer won a Texas-hold-'em tournament. Presumably the humanization efforts might threaten the Miss Universe contest. But what does all this mean? What does success in games mean? What kind of benchmark is Bobby Fischer? Some people are approaching this as a problem and want to flip the emphasis and use AI to enhance the brain through implants and stimulants. But there is another element: According to the new book How to Think by Alan Jacobs, we have culturally decided to avoid thinking. That will be hard to fix with electrodes.
For an individual to prosper, he only needs to have a job. But society can only prosper if individuals do a job, if they create goods and services that someone wants.--Caplan
Ex Post Facto update: The church George Washington helped found and where he worshiped has decided to remove a plaque commemorating him.
'The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome. Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques,' the church leaders said. The poor dears.
I wonder what Newton's anti-Semitic writings invalidates.
For an individual to prosper, he only needs to have a job. But society can only prosper if individuals do a job, if they create goods and services that someone wants.--Caplan
Ex Post Facto update: The church George Washington helped found and where he worshiped has decided to remove a plaque commemorating him.
'The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome. Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques,' the church leaders said. The poor dears.
I wonder what Newton's anti-Semitic writings invalidates.
Who is...the Haganah?
The U.S. economy grew robustly in the third quarter despite two hurricanes, propelled by steady spending from American businesses and households. Gross domestic product expanded at a 3% annual rate in July through September, topping the consensus estimate of 2.7%.
There is a guy on TED trying to give everyone an address. It is a legitimate problem in the world. He has divided the world up into 57 million square meters and given each square a three word name. It's a five minute talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_sheldrick_a_precise_three_word_address_for_every_place_on_earth
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Our address is gazed.plug.thick.
This is from a funny article on "The New Atheism:"
"Soren Kierkegaard, the great enemy of all pedants, offers a story that might shed considerable light. In his Concluding Unscientific Postscript, he describes a psychiatric patient who escapes from the asylum, climbing out a window and running through the gardens to rejoin the world at large. But the madman worries: out in the world, if anyone discovers that he is insane, he will instantly be sent back. So he has to watch what he says, and make sure none of it betrays his inner imbalance—in short, as the not-altogether unmad Danish genius put it, to “convince everyone by the objective truth of what he says that all is in order as far as his sanity is concerned.” Finding a skittle-bowl on the ground and popping it in his pocket, he has an ingenious idea: who could possibly deny that the world is round? So he goes into town and starts endlessly repeating that fact, proffering it over and over again as he wanders about with his small furious paces, the skittle-bowl in his coat clanking, in strict conformity with Newton’s laws, against what Kierkegaard euphemistically refers to as his “a–.” Of course, the poor insistent soul is then sent right back to the asylum […] Kierkegaard’s villagers saw someone maniacally repeating that the world is round and correctly sent him back to the asylum. We watched [Neil de Grasse] Tyson doing exactly the same thing, and instead of hiding him away from society where nobody would have to hear such pointless nonsense, thousands cheer him on for fighting for truth and objectivity against the forces of backwardness. We do the same when Richard Dawkins valiantly fights for the theory of evolution against the last hopeless stragglers of the creationist movement, with their dinky fiberglass dinosaurs munching leaves in a museum-piece Garden of Eden. We do it when Sam Harris prises deep into the human brain and announces that there’s no little vacuole there containing a soul."
He concludes--sort of--"This is my intuitive feeling of what was wrong with New Atheism as well. It wasn’t that they were wrong. Just that they were right in a loud, boring, and pointless way.
SpaceX has managed to launch fifteen rockets this year as a result of its more efficient production flow over last year, a maturing Falcon 9 rocket, and an experienced workforce. On Monday, the company will go for its 16th launch of the year, doubling its previous record. It plans a total of 19 launches this year.
He concludes--sort of--"This is my intuitive feeling of what was wrong with New Atheism as well. It wasn’t that they were wrong. Just that they were right in a loud, boring, and pointless way.
A charitable reading: New Atheists weren’t reaching their intellectual opponents. They were coming into educated urban liberal spaces, saying things that educated urban liberals already believed, and demanding social credit for it. Even though 46% of America is creationist, zero percent of my hundred-or-so friends are. If New Atheists were preaching evolution in social circles like mine, they were wasting their time."
SpaceX has managed to launch fifteen rockets this year as a result of its more efficient production flow over last year, a maturing Falcon 9 rocket, and an experienced workforce. On Monday, the company will go for its 16th launch of the year, doubling its previous record. It plans a total of 19 launches this year.
Former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka said Hillary Clinton and others should get the electric chair for “treason” against the United States during an interview on Fox News Thursday night. Well, it could be worse; we could all be jumping to conclusions , talking crazy, and sentencing people before trials. Thankfully the atmosphere in the country is calm and reasoned.
Long ago and far away: In 1946 the King David Hotel was bombed by the Irgun acting under the umbrella of the overall Zionist force, the Haganah. The attack killed 92 people, most of them civilians, some 17 of whom were Jewish.
It was organized by Irgun leader, Menachem Begin, who went on to be twice prime minister of Israel. The bombing was directed at a strategic target: The King David Hotel housed the British administrative headquarters and symbolized the British Mandate in Palestine, which the Irgun was fighting as part of the Jewish Resistance Movement. The act of terror shocked the British, and helped accelerate their decision to withdraw from Palestine two years later.
What has changed in the world? After doing the bombing, The Haganah denied it.
The Hotel:What has changed in the world? After doing the bombing, The Haganah denied it.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/sunday-sermon-71413.html
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Today's gospel is the Good Samaritan. A priest and a Levite pass by the damaged man and an outcast stops and saves him. Christ is deliver...
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A special Massachusetts commission recommends the state stop observing Daylight Savings TIme "if a majority of other northeast states, also possibly including New York, also do so." Six other states are considering it.
There's a lot of tax discussion and one constant complaint is "tax breaks for the rich." The problem is, of course, that you can not cut taxes on people who do not pay them. Nonertheless the charge continues, and often the Reagan administration has been used as the example. But, as Sowell points out, the revenues collected from federal income taxes during every year of the Reagan administration were higher--higher--than the revenues collected from federal income taxes during any year of any previous administration. How can that be? Because tax RATES and tax REVENUES are two different things. "As for "the rich," higher-income taxpayers paid more — repeat, MORE tax revenues into the federal treasury under the lower tax rates than they had under the previous higher tax rates." More than that, "the rich" not only paid higher total tax revenues after the so-called "tax cuts for the rich," they also paid a higher percentage of all tax revenues afterwards.
The UK has announced a controversial policy "to support patients whose health is at risk from smoking or being very overweight." For an indefinite amount of time, it plans to ban access to routine, or non-urgent, surgery under the National Health Service until patients "improve their health," the policy states, claiming that "exceptional clinical circumstances (will) be taken into account on a case-by-case basis."
The conclusion of a recent survey of medical journal editors and payments they receive from industry: "Industry payments to journal editors are common and often large, particularly for certain subspecialties. Journals should consider the potential impact of such payments on public trust in published research."
The conclusion of a recent survey of medical journal editors and payments they receive from industry: "Industry payments to journal editors are common and often large, particularly for certain subspecialties. Journals should consider the potential impact of such payments on public trust in published research."
On the night of November 5, 1605, the conspiracy by English Catholics to kill King James I and replace him with his Catholic daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was cut short by the arrest of Guy Fawkes, who had been charged with placing gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament. The plot involved digging a tunnel under the Palace of Westminster, filling it with gunpowder and then triggering a deadly explosion during the ceremonial opening of Parliament, which would have resulted in the death of not only James I, but also the leading Protestant nobility. From then on, November 5 was celebrated in Britain and its colonies with a bonfire burning either Guy Fawkes or the pope in effigy. (This became important to Washington during the Revolution because he did not want the Americans burning pope effigies while they were trying to attract Catholic support.)
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.--John Kenneth Galbraith
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