A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. -Grace Hopper, computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral (1906-1992)
In 1816 Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife, Harriet Westbrook, drowned herself. She and Shelley had eloped in 1811 -- he upper-class and nineteen, she the sixteen-year-old daughter of a tavern owner -- but then Shelley eloped with another sixteen-year-old, and Harriet saw few options.
Masoud Barzani is stepping down as president of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, just a month after an independence referendum dashed their dreams of statehood. (wsj)
The Journal has an article claiming that 48% of employed women have been sexually harassed at work.
India landed a spacecraft on the moon in 2008, and plans to complete this second lunar landing by March.
The accident is believed to have been caused by Kim Joing-un’s sixth nuclear test on March 3 which weakened the mountain, according to the report.
American household net worth is at an all-time high of five times GDP, significantly higher than the bubble peaks of 4.1 times in 2000 and 4.7 in 2007, and far higher than the historical norm of three times GDP. On the other hand, US capital formation has stagnated for decades. The paper wealth is just the same asset at ever higher prices. That is not growth.
This is a picture of the various subsets that make up Spain. Some feel quite independent.
In 1816 Percy Bysshe Shelley's first wife, Harriet Westbrook, drowned herself. She and Shelley had eloped in 1811 -- he upper-class and nineteen, she the sixteen-year-old daughter of a tavern owner -- but then Shelley eloped with another sixteen-year-old, and Harriet saw few options.
Masoud Barzani is stepping down as president of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, just a month after an independence referendum dashed their dreams of statehood. (wsj)
The Journal has an article claiming that 48% of employed women have been sexually harassed at work.
India landed a spacecraft on the moon in 2008, and plans to complete this second lunar landing by March.
Richard Thaler, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of behavioral economics earlier this month, took to Twitter on Thursday to voice his support for lowering limits for pretax contributions to 401(k) plans. "No reason to subsidize saving by the rich," Thaler said.
This is a weird argument. There is no subsidy, the tax is simply delayed. (What really occurs is the 401(k) eliminates the incredibly abusive and stupid double-taxation of savings.) And what is encouraged in its place is savings, the bedrock of investment, the bedrock of growth. It is a peculiar argument for a guy in behavioral economics. It is even more peculiar a position for presumably growth oriented Rube-publicans.
A tunnel at an underground North Korea nuclear site has collapsed with up to 200 people killed, according to reports.
The collapse happened at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the north-east of the country on October 10, according to Japan’s TV Asahi.The accident is believed to have been caused by Kim Joing-un’s sixth nuclear test on March 3 which weakened the mountain, according to the report.
Roughly a third of American voters think that the Marxist slogan “From each according to his ability to each according to his need” appears in the Constitution. About as many are incapable of naming even one of the three branches of the United States government. Fewer than a quarter know who their senators are, and only half are aware that their state has two of them.
With Monday’s unsealing of a 12-count indictment and a guilty plea, Special Counsel Robert Mueller signaled his probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has taken him far beyond the campaign, former prosecutors and legal experts said. (wsj)
I can't wait. These people need a good purge. But I'm not sure Mueller is Torquemada; the culture just doesn't take itself seriously enough, even with the Russians in high relief.
What is....Sgr A*?
Netflix announced today that House of Cards will end after its next season. Frenzy. No trial, just a testimonial.
A country of testimonials: My Pillow, Relief Factor, My Politics, My Sexuality.
In 1820 some 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. By 1990 the figure was 35%, and in 2015 it was just 9.6%. Forty percent of those who remain impoverished live in just two countries, Nigeria and India, both of which are growing rapidly and will see their extreme poverty significantly decrease in the next 20 years. There is research to show that, on a global basis, the poor are getting richer faster than any other group. The Industrial Age and free-market capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty and extended more lives than has any other single development.
So the distress of automation in the U.S. and in Europe might be quite a parochial concern.
Tony thinks the bats in the World Series are not breaking as much as in the regular year. It seems to be true. I wonder if the players are using more ash and not as much maple. The maple is a bit lighter and quicker but the emphasis--and the refined pitching--might favor power.
The Heroes of Beslan have struck again, this time on a New York bike trail. I wish they would stop calling these mad acts "tragedies," they are "atrocities."
The center of the Milky Way galaxy, with the massive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) located in the middle, has been described using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. During 2012, Chandra collected about five weeks worth of observations to capture unprecedented X-ray images and energy signatures of multi-million degree gas swirling around Sgr A*, a black hole with about 4 million times the mass of the Sun. At just 26,000 light years from Earth, Sgr A* is one of very few black holes in the universe where we can actually witness the flow of matter nearby. Sgr A* is approximately one Astronomical Unit (1 AU is about 93 million miles) in size, which is much smaller than our solar system (Neptune is 2.8 billion miles from the Sun). 4 million time the mass of the sun in a space about as far from the earth to the sun.
Here is a segment from a Buchanan piece on this Washington mess. It is a disturbing summary:
ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates. Last night Chris and a friend in Italy were watching Stranger Things on their phones together. Are TV and cable going away?
So the distress of automation in the U.S. and in Europe might be quite a parochial concern.
The Wall Street Journal (10/30, Armour, Subscription Publication) says the Department of Health and Human Services on Monday released an analysis showing the number of insurers participating on the ACA’s federal exchange will fall from 167 this year to 132 in 2018, resulting in nearly 30 percent of consumers having one insurer to choose from, versus 20 percent of consumers this year. The report also found that consumers who do not receive assistance could see rates rise by more than 30 percent in 2018, with the average monthly premium for the exchange’s most popular, mid-range-priced plans increasing by 37 percent for a 27-year-old beneficiary, for example.
Tony thinks the bats in the World Series are not breaking as much as in the regular year. It seems to be true. I wonder if the players are using more ash and not as much maple. The maple is a bit lighter and quicker but the emphasis--and the refined pitching--might favor power.
The Heroes of Beslan have struck again, this time on a New York bike trail. I wish they would stop calling these mad acts "tragedies," they are "atrocities."
The center of the Milky Way galaxy, with the massive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) located in the middle, has been described using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. During 2012, Chandra collected about five weeks worth of observations to capture unprecedented X-ray images and energy signatures of multi-million degree gas swirling around Sgr A*, a black hole with about 4 million times the mass of the Sun. At just 26,000 light years from Earth, Sgr A* is one of very few black holes in the universe where we can actually witness the flow of matter nearby. Sgr A* is approximately one Astronomical Unit (1 AU is about 93 million miles) in size, which is much smaller than our solar system (Neptune is 2.8 billion miles from the Sun). 4 million time the mass of the sun in a space about as far from the earth to the sun.
Here is a segment from a Buchanan piece on this Washington mess. It is a disturbing summary:
Thus we have Free Beacon neocons, never-Trump Republicans, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, a British spy and comrades in Russian intelligence, and perhaps the FBI, all working with secret money and seedy individuals to destroy a candidate they could not defeat in a free election.
If future revelations demonstrate that this is what went down, it is not only the White House that has major problems.
If you wish to know why Americans detest politics and hate the “swamp” that has been made of their capital city, follow this story all the way to its inevitable end. It will be months of unfolding.
The real indictment here is of the American political system, and the true tragedy is the decline of the Old Republic.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/09/cab-thoughts-93015.html
From an article in Reason: Parents, teachers, and professors are talking about the growing fragility they see. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the overprotection of children and the hypersensitivity of college students could be two sides of the same coin. By trying so hard to protect our kids, we’re making them too safe to succeed.
So the one guy in the D.C. mess has pleaded guilty--to lying to the FBI. Why would anyone talk to the FBI; it is the discrepancies that get these people in trouble, not what they did.
An amazing chart:
If future revelations demonstrate that this is what went down, it is not only the White House that has major problems.
If you wish to know why Americans detest politics and hate the “swamp” that has been made of their capital city, follow this story all the way to its inevitable end. It will be months of unfolding.
The real indictment here is of the American political system, and the true tragedy is the decline of the Old Republic.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/09/cab-thoughts-93015.html
steeleydock.blogspot.com
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From an article in Reason: Parents, teachers, and professors are talking about the growing fragility they see. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the overprotection of children and the hypersensitivity of college students could be two sides of the same coin. By trying so hard to protect our kids, we’re making them too safe to succeed.
So the one guy in the D.C. mess has pleaded guilty--to lying to the FBI. Why would anyone talk to the FBI; it is the discrepancies that get these people in trouble, not what they did.
An amazing chart:
ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. In the month of October ESPN lost over 15,000 subscribers a day in October per the latest Nielson estimates. Last night Chris and a friend in Italy were watching Stranger Things on their phones together. Are TV and cable going away?
American household net worth is at an all-time high of five times GDP, significantly higher than the bubble peaks of 4.1 times in 2000 and 4.7 in 2007, and far higher than the historical norm of three times GDP. On the other hand, US capital formation has stagnated for decades. The paper wealth is just the same asset at ever higher prices. That is not growth.
This is a picture of the various subsets that make up Spain. Some feel quite independent.
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