70
First Jewish-Roman War: Siege of Jerusalem – Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
1807
Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
1903
The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1944
World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1950
Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
1960
The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
1969
Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on another world almost 7 hours later.
1976
The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1977
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
1977
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
First Jewish-Roman War: Siege of Jerusalem – Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
1807
Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon Bonaparte for the Pyréolophore, the world’s first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
1903
The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1944
World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1950
Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
1960
The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
1969
Apollo Program: Apollo 11 successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on another world almost 7 hours later.
1976
The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1977
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is hit by a flash flood that kills eighty and causes $350 million in damage.
1977
The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
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There is no legitimate use case for crypto. They’ve had 18 years to come up with one. They keep throwing things up like “an inflation hedge” or “source of stability.” Every one of them has turned out to be baseless.
The only real use for crypto is tax evasion, money laundering, and crime. It’s the preferred mechanism of choice for global terrorists, sex traffickers, and rogue nations like North Korea and Iran.
You have to ask yourself why crypto has basically hijacked the political agenda of Washington. It’s because they followed the Sam Bankman-Fried model of buying bipartisan support by spending hundreds of millions of dollars in campaigns. --Krugman
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In May, Mamdani’s administration released a map meant to celebrate the city's ethnic diversity and immigrant roots. The chart included Little Palestine and Little Pakistan but omitted Little Italy, one of the best-known neighborhoods in Manhattan. The map included Little Mexico, Little Guyana, and Little Bhod-Tibet, but failed to recognize well known Irish enclaves like Woodlawn and Sunnyside. Not surprisingly, the map omitted Jewish neighborhoods.
Welcome to the 'some are more equal than others' phase.
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Just to be fair:
An 18-year-old has more at stake in an election than an 80-year-old. Should his vote be weighted more?
An 80-year-old has more money at stake than an 18-year-old. Should his vote be weighted more?
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A detector buried a kilometre underground in Japan may have caught the faintest signal ever recorded: the combined whisper of every supernova that has ever exploded across the entire universe, a background hum of stellar death that scientists have been straining to hear for decades.--Headline at Space Daily. I suppose they could have said "background hum of stellar creation", too
In May, Mamdani’s administration released a map meant to celebrate the city's ethnic diversity and immigrant roots. The chart included Little Palestine and Little Pakistan but omitted Little Italy, one of the best-known neighborhoods in Manhattan. The map included Little Mexico, Little Guyana, and Little Bhod-Tibet, but failed to recognize well known Irish enclaves like Woodlawn and Sunnyside. Not surprisingly, the map omitted Jewish neighborhoods.
Welcome to the 'some are more equal than others' phase.
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The use of subatomic particles to process data could represent a breakthrough that’s unmatched in modern human history, according to analysts at Bank of America, who compared it to the discovery of fire. “A technology that can perform endless complex calculations in zero-time, warp-speeding human knowledge and development.”
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Just to be fair:
An 18-year-old has more at stake in an election than an 80-year-old. Should his vote be weighted more?
An 80-year-old has more money at stake than an 18-year-old. Should his vote be weighted more?
A detector buried a kilometre underground in Japan may have caught the faintest signal ever recorded: the combined whisper of every supernova that has ever exploded across the entire universe, a background hum of stellar death that scientists have been straining to hear for decades.--Headline at Space Daily. I suppose they could have said "background hum of stellar creation", too
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Putting the Moron Back in Oxymoron
Socialism has been around in some form or other forever. Cain shared Abel's production. Pirates share the spoils. The prospect of sharing the product of another's efforts makes for a terrific recruiting poster. It has been the default system for failing individuals forever. But it is a ridiculous socio-economic system that has deteriorated everywhere it's been tried. From the schoolyard to Jamestown and Plymouth to the early religious conclaves to Mafia protection rackets, sharing others' production has changed only the mailing addresses of the rich.
The modern adaptation--sharing by voting mandate--cleverly sidesteps group sharing's basic flaw: enforcement. If 51% of the population wants to share production, a sizable portion does not. If a citizen has no essential right to the results of his work, and his neighbor has a statutory right to it, how is that conflict resolved? Force.
Socialism has been around in some form or other forever. Cain shared Abel's production. Pirates share the spoils. The prospect of sharing the product of another's efforts makes for a terrific recruiting poster. It has been the default system for failing individuals forever. But it is a ridiculous socio-economic system that has deteriorated everywhere it's been tried. From the schoolyard to Jamestown and Plymouth to the early religious conclaves to Mafia protection rackets, sharing others' production has changed only the mailing addresses of the rich.
The modern adaptation--sharing by voting mandate--cleverly sidesteps group sharing's basic flaw: enforcement. If 51% of the population wants to share production, a sizable portion does not. If a citizen has no essential right to the results of his work, and his neighbor has a statutory right to it, how is that conflict resolved? Force.
Democracies have their own flaws. Is a 90% vote more important in a society than a 52% vote? Can a 90% vote make farms communal? Wives? Slaves? Is lynching OK if the correct process is followed?
Ants are very productive and organized. But we are not ants.
The socialist starts with a superficial notion--property--and works down to organize his culture. The revolutionary geniuses in America started with the basic rights of the nation's citizens--life, liberty, the striving for happiness--and worked up. It is because socialism is so tenuously but fervently moored by property that it is so unstable and dangerous.
So, when one votes for socialism, the job is nowhere near finished. The disenters and countless inconsistencies have to be identified and, in some fashion, attacked. The vote is meaningless until it is forcibly imposed.
So, is democratic socialism an oxymoron?
So, when one votes for socialism, the job is nowhere near finished. The disenters and countless inconsistencies have to be identified and, in some fashion, attacked. The vote is meaningless until it is forcibly imposed.
So, is democratic socialism an oxymoron?
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