September 2009
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“In his new movie, Michael Moore calls capitalism evil and argues that it should...”
– The Whole Point Of Capitalism (via azspot)
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“Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (via retropolitics)
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“I’ll get this one, put it on my card
I get frequent flyer mileage
And a...”
– NOFX, The Marxist Brothers
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Friday Afternoon...
…and it’s the end of another short week. I had to hit the ground running when I got back Wednesday night — but after taking my signals test (Thank you Texas Instruments!) and taking care of my lab on Thursday life was a breeze. I felt fairly passive in my classes — taking notes and noting to read the material in the book later. For now I’m off to a friend’s...
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Glue Sniffers = death threats to elementary school →
azspot:
The tension at B. Bernice Young Elementary School escalated to such a degree Thursday that the school was placed temporarily on lockdown after its principal received death threats over a YouTube video that showed nearly 20 children being taught songs lauding the president, though back-to-school night events continuing as planned Thursday night at the school.
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GOC 2009 →
I got back from Greening of the Campus earlier tonight and I’m already loaded down with the consequences of having to catch up in every single class as well as with Sol of Auburn. This was the first time I’ve made a presentation to a room that wasn’t a captive audience and it was exilerating. I spoke on the quasi-longterm (4 month) impact of a energy, water, and waste reduction...
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“According to the CBO, the provisions of the bill that cost money — the Medicaid...”
– Ezra Klein (via squashed)
Cerebralmeltdown →
CNC and Solar
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DigitalGlobe →
Now consider a new dataset for search, the dataset owned by DigitalGlobe. The “crawlers” are DigitalGlobe’s satellites. The “real estate” being pinged is every square foot of the earth. As with the web, some parts of the world are worth pinging more often than other parts. (“We don’t hit Greenland very often,” Dr. Scott told me. But during the...
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Watch“This video shows a peacefull protester being beaten by policeman at the ‘Freedom not Fear’ demonstration that was totally peaceful. The demonstration was attended by 25.000 people and called for by more then 160 groups that are concerned about privacy, censorship and freedom. I personally have been close to the beating and the police acted provocative in the time before hand -...
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"Who's Bringing the Microwave?" by Jeff Rosenberg... →
(via scrap-metal)
The story is this: a girl was out with friends...
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50 things that are being killed by the internet →
via azspot
37) Personal reinvention How can you forge a new identity at university when your Facebook is plastered with photos of the “old” you?
50) Your lunchbreak Did you leave your desk today? Or snaffle a sandwich while sending a few personal emails and checking the price of a week in Istanbul?
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Social Market Economy
The social market economy seeks a market economic system rejecting both socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, combining private enterprise with measures of government regulation attempt to establish fair competition, low inflation, low levels of unemployment, a standard of working conditions, and social welfare. Nominally respecting the free market, the social market economy is opposed to both a...
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Is the Singularity already happening at Goldman... →
ledgergermane:
“Nearly everyone on Wall Street is wondering how hedge funds and large banks like Goldman Sachs are making so much money so soon after the financial system nearly collapsed,” writes the New York Times’ Charles Duhigg in a front page piece that’s been the talk of the town in New York and Washington. “High-frequency trading is one answer.” Duhigg writes, “High-frequency trading...
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WatchFollowing The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste