http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
---Steve
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Hedge Fund Managers Are the Biggest Gangsters of All
But in what sense are these billion dollar paydays "earned?" Here is what George Soros' fund did last year to earn him $4 billion: itunderperformed the S&P 500 index by 8%. In other words, Soros charged his investors fees that are well over 1000% higher than what they could have paid for a simple index fund that would have earned them more money. (Update: Soros' fund manages his own money. Typical hedge fund fees are around 2%, versus less than 0.2% for an index fund.) Likewise, Carl Icahn earned $1.7 billion just for matchingthe returns of the broader stock market last year, and Ray Dalio earned$900 million after his main fund severely underperformed "both the average hedge fund and the U.S. stock market for two straight year
---Steve
---Steve
Yelp's top 100 restaurant list: Da Poke Shack is America's top-rated restaurant.
But the top restaurant of all on Yelp's list is one that probably flies even further below the average food critic's radar. It's a tiny seafood haunt wedged into a condominium complex in Kona, on Hawaii's Big Island. It's called Da Poke Shack, and in Yelpers' eyes it's pretty much perfect: an average of five stars on 612 customer reviews.
---Steve
Ted Nugent
If I was as bigoted as #TedNugent, then it would explain much of his behavior when I learned that his unwed welfare mom gave him the birth name of "Mohammed Bojangles"
What's the difference between Ted Nugent's music and a steaming pile of horse dung?
The asshole it came out of.
How is Ted Nugent's guitar like a writing desk?
The notes that come off of both are not musical.
His is a 10 point buck different than Ted Nugent?
The buck fucks only live deer.
How is Woody Allen different than Ted Nugent?
Allen is not a serial rapist and he can play listenable music.
How is Ted Nugent different than John Wayne Gacy?
The both are killer clowns, but Gacy rapes young boys and Nugent rapes young girls.
---Steve
What's the difference between Ted Nugent's music and a steaming pile of horse dung?
The asshole it came out of.
How is Ted Nugent's guitar like a writing desk?
The notes that come off of both are not musical.
His is a 10 point buck different than Ted Nugent?
The buck fucks only live deer.
How is Woody Allen different than Ted Nugent?
Allen is not a serial rapist and he can play listenable music.
How is Ted Nugent different than John Wayne Gacy?
The both are killer clowns, but Gacy rapes young boys and Nugent rapes young girls.
---Steve
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
How ARM Holdings Dominates the Chip World - Businessweek
While many clever and wealthy companies, including IBM (IBM) and Samsung, have tried to keep up with Intel, no one these days comes close. Intel, according to numerous analysts, has a two- to four-year lead over rivals in terms of raw manufacturing smarts and chipmaking techniques. "The other guys are simply not as good at manufacturing as Intel is," says David Kanter, a chip analyst and industry consultant. Intel is now down to two or three competitors that are willing to make the investment in similarly advanced factories, and they're all contract chip manufactures that spread their business among many customers.
---Steve
Slate: Climate Change Deniers Lose Their Cool
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Climate Change Deniers Lose Their Cool
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/25/climate_change_torrent_of_vitriol_pollutes_the_media.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/25/climate_change_torrent_of_vitriol_pollutes_the_media.html
Mos Eisley tavern of global warming media,
---Steve
Monday, February 24, 2014
Article: Intel launches new Atom processors, touts mobile wins
Intel launches new Atom processors, touts mobile wins
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57619365-78/intel-launches-new-atom-processors-touts-mobile-wins/?subj=news&tag=title
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
Your Ancestors, Your Fate - NYTimes.com
We came to these conclusions after examining reams of data on surnames, a surprisingly strong indicator of social status, in eight countries — Chile, China, England, India, Japan, South Korea, Sweden and the United States — going back centuries. Across all of them, rare or distinctive surnames associated with elite families many generations ago are still disproportionately represented among today's elites.
Does this imply that individuals have no control over their life outcomes? No. In modern meritocratic societies, success still depends on individual effort. Our findings suggest, however, that the compulsion to strive, the talent to prosper and the ability to overcome failure are strongly inherited. We can't know for certain what the mechanism of that inheritance is, though we know that genetics plays a surprisingly strong role. Alternative explanations that are in vogue — cultural traits, family economic resources, social networks — don't hold up to scrutiny.
---Steve
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Henry James on Aging, Memory, and What Happiness Really Means | Brain Pickings
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/09/henry-james-aging-memory-happiness/
I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one's youth. At all events, I have travelled too far, I have worked too hard, I have lived in brutal climates and associated with tiresome people. When a man has reached his fifty-second year without being, materially, the worse for wear — when he has fair health, a fair fortune, a tidy conscience and a complete exemption from embarrassing relatives — I suppose he is bound, in delicacy, to write himself happy.
---Steve
I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one's youth. At all events, I have travelled too far, I have worked too hard, I have lived in brutal climates and associated with tiresome people. When a man has reached his fifty-second year without being, materially, the worse for wear — when he has fair health, a fair fortune, a tidy conscience and a complete exemption from embarrassing relatives — I suppose he is bound, in delicacy, to write himself happy.
---Steve
Friday, February 21, 2014
jonimitchell.com - Lyrics: Woodstock
http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=75
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
---Steve
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
---Steve
A matter of science vs. religion - Las Vegas Sun News
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/feb/16/matter-science-vs-religion/
Huckabee and many millions like him do not agree. They want "belief" at the top of the agenda; or rather, they want their form of belief. Their belief that America can do no wrong. Belief that their God loves this country more than others. Their belief that scientific findings can be cherry-picked and denied. Their belief that parents may decide what truths their children are taught and which are inconvenient.
---Steve
Huckabee and many millions like him do not agree. They want "belief" at the top of the agenda; or rather, they want their form of belief. Their belief that America can do no wrong. Belief that their God loves this country more than others. Their belief that scientific findings can be cherry-picked and denied. Their belief that parents may decide what truths their children are taught and which are inconvenient.
---Steve
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
East Valley Family Medical
East Valley Family Medical: "o better serve you, East Valley Family Medical is now open in Ahwatukee located at 11011 S. 48th street, suite 200, Phoenix, AZ 85044"
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Slate: Himalayan Bath Salts Will Not Save Your Life
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
Himalayan Bath Salts Will Not Save Your Life
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/02/natural_news_is_a_facebook_hit_never_click_on_itsr_stories_about_cancer.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/02/natural_news_is_a_facebook_hit_never_click_on_itsr_stories_about_cancer.html
---Steve
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
My Way News - Europe at origin of chronic US execution dilemma
My Way News - Europe at origin of chronic US execution dilemma: "The death penalty has been abolished or suspended in all developed economies, except for the U.S. and Japan. Execution rankings have routinely shown the U.S. in the unusual company of China, Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan."
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No, GMOs Won't Harm Your Health | Mother Jones
Indeed, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the research surrounding GM food is "quite clear: crop improvement by the modern molecular techniques of biotechnology is safe."
---Steve
---Steve
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Eathropology « Eat what you want. Get the facts.
Eathropology « Eat what you want. Get the facts.: "Vitamin C naturally found in lime juice that has been gently squeezed into a tumbler of tequila has been shown to help prevent the formation of permanent facepalms after accidently ingesting an idiot nutrition blog and can help protect you from the devastating IQ-lowering effects of blobbers who cant spll. "
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8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens | LII / Legal Information Institute
(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;
---Steve
Saturday, February 15, 2014
GMOs: Facts About Genetically Modified Food | LiveScience
By far the biggest use of GMO technology has been in large-scale agricultural crops: At least 90 percent of the soy, cotton, canola, corn and sugar beets sold in the United States have been genetically engineered.
The GMO crops that are widely used have, for the most part, been genetically engineered to control pests in one of two ways: They either produce a pesticide within their tissues, or they are resistant to a pesticide like Roundup (manufactured by Monsanto Corp.).
---SteveFriday, February 14, 2014
WHO | Research
http://www.who.int/peh-emf/research/en/
Extensive research has been conducted into possible health effects of exposure to many parts of the frequency spectrum. All reviews conducted so far have indicated that exposures below the limits recommended in the ICNIRP (1998) EMF guidelines, covering the full frequency range from 0-300 GHz, do not produce any known adverse health effect. However, there are gaps in knowledge still needing to be filled before better health risk assessments can be made.
---Steve
Extensive research has been conducted into possible health effects of exposure to many parts of the frequency spectrum. All reviews conducted so far have indicated that exposures below the limits recommended in the ICNIRP (1998) EMF guidelines, covering the full frequency range from 0-300 GHz, do not produce any known adverse health effect. However, there are gaps in knowledge still needing to be filled before better health risk assessments can be made.
---Steve
Thursday, February 13, 2014
15 jazz records for people who don’t like jazz – The Vinyl Factory
http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/15-jazz-records-for-people-who-dont-like-jazz/
Your head is like a yoyo, your neck is like a spring, your body is like a camembert, oozing from its skin…
---Steve
Your head is like a yoyo, your neck is like a spring, your body is like a camembert, oozing from its skin…
---Steve
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
In the Darkness of Dick Cheney by Mark Danner | The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/darkness-dick-cheney/?pagination=false
Four years after the Americans had declared victory in Iraq—even as the vice-president was "strongly recommending" that the United States attack Syria—more than a hundred thousand Iraqis and nearly five thousand Americans were dead, Iraq was near anarchy, and no end was yet in sight. Not only the war's ending but its beginning had disappeared into a dark cloud of confusion and controversy, as the weapons of mass destruction that were its justification turned out not to exist. The invasion had produced not the rapid and overwhelming victory Cheney had anticipated but a quagmire in which the American military had occupied and repressed a Muslim country and, four years later, been brought to the verge of defeat. As for "authority and influence," during that time North Korea had acquired nuclear weapons and Iran and Syria had started down the road to building them.
---Steve
Four years after the Americans had declared victory in Iraq—even as the vice-president was "strongly recommending" that the United States attack Syria—more than a hundred thousand Iraqis and nearly five thousand Americans were dead, Iraq was near anarchy, and no end was yet in sight. Not only the war's ending but its beginning had disappeared into a dark cloud of confusion and controversy, as the weapons of mass destruction that were its justification turned out not to exist. The invasion had produced not the rapid and overwhelming victory Cheney had anticipated but a quagmire in which the American military had occupied and repressed a Muslim country and, four years later, been brought to the verge of defeat. As for "authority and influence," during that time North Korea had acquired nuclear weapons and Iran and Syria had started down the road to building them.
---Steve
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
SGI’s Long, Strange Trip: from Dinosaurs to Big Data
http://blog.smartbear.com/development/sgis-long-strange-trip-from-dinosaurs-to-big-data/
That kind of high-end computing suits SGI just fine, since it specializes in building massive, scale-out machines and supercomputers. SAP recently announced it plans to build appliances to run SAP HANA, the company's in-memory analytics platform; those appliances will use SGI's scalable shared memory architecture to build massive, petabyte-sized in-memory databases.
---Steve
That kind of high-end computing suits SGI just fine, since it specializes in building massive, scale-out machines and supercomputers. SAP recently announced it plans to build appliances to run SAP HANA, the company's in-memory analytics platform; those appliances will use SGI's scalable shared memory architecture to build massive, petabyte-sized in-memory databases.
---Steve
Monday, February 10, 2014
Slate: Do Doctors Ever Treat Cancer With Natural Regimens?
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Do Doctors Ever Treat Cancer With Natural Regimens?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/09/cancer_treatments_a_doctor_s_take_on_alternative_and_natural_regimens.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/09/cancer_treatments_a_doctor_s_take_on_alternative_and_natural_regimens.html
---Steve
Slate: Long Way Home
I thought you would like this article from The Slate Magazine for iPad
---Steve
Sunday, February 09, 2014
Saturday, February 08, 2014
Job
@JPBarlow: Any man can get a job. It takes a real man to make it without one.
- Charles Bukowski
---Steve
- Charles Bukowski
---Steve
Friday, February 07, 2014
Should Pope Francis Rethink Abortion? - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/should-pope-francis-rethink-abortion/
we realize that an early-stage embryo may be biologically human but still lack the main features — consciousness, self-awareness, an interest in the future — that underlie most moral considerations. An organism may be human by purely biological criteria, but still merely potentially human in the full moral sense. As we saw, Marquis's argument shows that killing a potential human is in itself bad, but there's no reason to think that we are obliged to preserve the life of a potential human at the price of enormous suffering by actual humans.
---Steve
we realize that an early-stage embryo may be biologically human but still lack the main features — consciousness, self-awareness, an interest in the future — that underlie most moral considerations. An organism may be human by purely biological criteria, but still merely potentially human in the full moral sense. As we saw, Marquis's argument shows that killing a potential human is in itself bad, but there's no reason to think that we are obliged to preserve the life of a potential human at the price of enormous suffering by actual humans.
---Steve
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince: War on Terror Has Become Too Big - The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/19/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-war-on-terror-has-become-too-big.html
America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security
---Steve
America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security
---Steve
Fifty States of Fear - NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/fifty-states-of-fear/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell, writing as World War II was drawing to a close in Europe, observed that "neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Russell's point was that irrational fear can propel us into counterproductive activities, ranging from unjust wars and the inhumane treatment of others to more mundane cases like our failure to seize opportunities to improve our everyday lives.
---Steve
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell, writing as World War II was drawing to a close in Europe, observed that "neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." Russell's point was that irrational fear can propel us into counterproductive activities, ranging from unjust wars and the inhumane treatment of others to more mundane cases like our failure to seize opportunities to improve our everyday lives.
---Steve
Thursday, February 06, 2014
THE LAST DAYS OF TY COBB : A Man Possessed, He Played Baseball and Lived Life With a Deep Anger - Los Angeles Times
At 1 o'clock on the morning of the storm, full of pain and 90-proof, he took out the Luger, letting it casually rest between his knees. I had continued to object to a Reno excursion in such weather.
Slate: Answers for Creationists
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---Steve
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
With Little Notice, Globalization Reduced Poverty
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/little-notice-globalization-reduced-poverty
We are in the midst of the fastest period of poverty reduction the world has ever seen. The global poverty rate, which stood at 25 percent in 2005, is ticking downwards at one to two percentage points a year, lifting around 70 million people – the population of Turkey or Thailand – out of destitution annually.
---Steve
We are in the midst of the fastest period of poverty reduction the world has ever seen. The global poverty rate, which stood at 25 percent in 2005, is ticking downwards at one to two percentage points a year, lifting around 70 million people – the population of Turkey or Thailand – out of destitution annually.
---Steve
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
Article: Intel to top execs: Company doing better? OK, have a carrot
Intel to top execs: Company doing better? OK, have a carrot
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/04/intel_exec_pay_reorg/
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---Steve
Monday, February 03, 2014
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