Month: January 2012

Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I…

(Noun) – a debtor (possibly a consumer) that is only able to pay interest over debts.

Can someone email me at khannea.suntzu@gmail.com with the names and badge numbers of these three cops? Home adresses? Let’s ruin their lives really badly. I’ll re-print all verifiable details right here. * http://bangordailynews.com/2011/10/31/news/nation/google-refuses-to-remove-police-brutality-videos/ * http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/25/reporters_without_borders_press_freedom_index_slams_us_for_occupy_wall_street_arrests.html * http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561251/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/police-agencies-admit-saving-body-scan-images/ * http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/28/travel/tsa-vipr-passenger-train-searches/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 * http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/NEWS.html?article=9653697 * http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nxu96/obama_signs_ndaa_with_signing_statement/ * http://wonkette.com/456282/surprise-homeland-security-coordinates-ows-crackdowns-nationwide * http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-03/police-occupy-LA/51606342/1 * http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/12/police-are-using-sound-weapons-designed.html * http://i.imgur.com/VI488.jpg * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA&feature=share * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLgmtZjEJo&feature=uploademail…

My 15 seconds of reverberative fame. Wish I could have attended Future Fest, but hey, LA. It’s kinda far away. . . Original link.

I understand you have a country to run, and I understand the Netherlands are succumbing to a global crisis, largely caused by systemic reasons not directly attributable to policies or wrongs enacted by anyone locally. We have now inherited a systemic crisis, largely because of the thoughtlessness, the corruption, the short-term mindset or sheer incompetence…

A new study released by the National Science Board (NSB) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) raises concerns about the global leadership of the U.S. in Science and Technology investments. The report also highlights massive job losses in high-tech. According to the NSB, the U.S. lost about 687,000 jobs in high-tech since their peak of…

If you have any comments please email me Check out my Disparity SCOOP.IT, respectively my Oil Versus SSPS SCOOT.IT.

…I think it’s time to make Neuromancer. We have a Mollie. Noomi Rapace would do nicely too, incidentally. If you have any comments please email me Check out my Disparity SCOOP.IT, respectively my Oil Versus SSPS SCOOT.IT.

(thanks James) U.S. Companies Are Spending to Upgrade Factories but Hiring Lags; Robots Pump Out Sunny Delight (link) Each month when the labor department figures are released in the US I also check this table for the Labor Force Participation figure. This month there is great news for the re-election of Obama that the jobless…

8 and then 50 Fire rises hot and bright from the Wood beneath the sacrificial caldron: The Superior Person positions himself correctly within the flow of Cosmic forces. Supreme Accomplishment. “Tip over the caldron and get rid of its stagnant contents once and for all.” If you have any comments please email me Check out…

By Pete Kofod Much attention has been paid to the “disappearing middle class” and the “vanishing American Dream.” While the observations are largely accurate, they are also misleading. The traditional three-tier model of the upper, middle and lower class broadly categorizes people according to income and net worth. One significant problem with this model is…

(Reprinted from Gwyn) PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. While discussing SOPA with Moon Adamant, after reading this nice article from the WordPress gang, we came to the following conclusion: are legislators so stupid as not to foresee that all this will backfire? Imagine that I’m ruthless…

Religious nutcases are always issuing dire warnings about the end of the world, but when a group of highly respected scientists does so, we should probably sit up and listen. On 10 January the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is an imaginary device which…

Date: January 10 (overlapping till wednesday in some timezones) Time: 2300-0000 CET, 2200-2300 GMT, 1400-1500 SLT (please always doublecheck!) (I am timezone dyslexic d’urrr) SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/delinquent/30/185/87, Please don’t fall down after teleporting in, it’s a long fall. Format: This is an RvB event. Make sure you understand the premises. This will be a non-voice event….

In a few years humanity will have to enter space with industrial and permanent structures. There are several reasons to do so and I will touch on them briefly. First a presence in space will allow us to develop an industrial presence for harvesting asteroids and the moon (as well as doing general research), and…

Would it be possible to start an institute that starts an exhaustive listing of people that may have committed war crimes, not exempting American nationals, and working to identify US (or other) civilians, soldiers, officers, politicians, corporates, henchmen and mercenaries – and then (a) collect information on the crimes of the person, start a dossier…