YOU KNEW THIS VIDEO WAS COMING: Hitler Learns About the Obamacare Exchanges.
Archive for 2013
October 17, 2013
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Video: Eric Drexler On Transforming The Material Basis Of Civilization.
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Plus, deals on new Designer Jewelry.
Also, Fall essentials in Patio, Lawn & Garden.
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JIM TREACHER: Do not read this post, by order of King Barry the First. “The only guy angrier than a leftist who just lost is a leftist who just won. It’s not enough that he got what he wanted. He’s seething that anybody has the gall to oppose his decrees.”
NORTH DAKOTA OIL PRODUCTION SETS RECORD with 911,496 barrels per day in August.
I’M AT THE NEXT GENERATION TV STARTUPS CONFERENCE, with Michelle Fields, John Phillips, and many more. Follow on Twitter via #NGStartups. Livestreaming here.
WASHINGTON POST: Voters should have the right to block university policies by referendum. “Narrowly tailored affirmative action programs are constitutional, and we support the careful use of race as a factor in university admissions. But voters may disagree, objecting to a policy that treats people of different races differently, albeit in pursuit of worthy goals like achieving a diversity of views and experiences on campus. If voters can approve laws and state constitutional amendments by referendum, can’t they similarly decide this policy question? No, they can’t, according to a slew of civil rights and higher education groups that on Tuesday attempted to convince the Supreme Court that voters don’t have that right.”
Well, it threatens their whole feedlot.
TRAIN WRECK UPDATE: USA Today: Tech experts: Health exchange site needs total overhaul. “The federal health care exchange was built using 10-year-old technology that may require constant fixes and updates for the next six months and the eventual overhaul of the entire system, technology experts told USA TODAY.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Experimental brain implants pave way for touch-simulating prosthetics. “Many experimental efforts to simulate a sense of touch in amputees fitted with prosthetics require the subject to learn new associations between touching an object and some abstract sensation. But new research at the University of Chicago suggests that it is possible to map the individual finger pads of a prosthetic hand to the corresponding parts of the brain. In other words, prosthetic hands which offer a realistic sense of touch may theoretically be possible.” Faster, please.
LIFE IN THE BUBBLE: Yale Prof. Surprised To Find That Tea Partiers Are Scientifically Literate, Since He Doesn’t Know Any. “All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t watch Fox News very often — and reading the ‘paper’ (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused Internet sites like Huffington Post and POLITICO). I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly, I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.”
And here’s academia’s insularity, and the GOP’s media problem, both in a nutshell. . . .
THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE: Pressure for Results Mounts as Fusion Research Crawls Forward.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE more people have applied to live on Mars than have signed up for ObamaCare so far.
MORE “FAST AND FURIOUS” NEWS FROM SHARYL ATTKISSON AT CBS: Deadly drug cartel shootout with Mexico police linked to “grenade-walking” scandal. “The gun battle took place last week in Guadalajara. Authorities say five members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel used at least nine firearms and ten hand grenades against Mexican police. If one of the grenades was supplied with the help of Kingery, as believed, it adds to the toll of lives taken with weapons trafficked by suspects U.S. officials watched but did not stop.”
LIKE OBAMA, China doesn’t want people listening to bloggers. “Police in China have arrested an influential blogger and are holding a cartoonist in a widening crackdown on online ‘rumour-mongering,’ friends and a lawyer for one of them said on Thursday. Hundreds of people have been detained since August, say Chinese media and rights groups, as the government has stepped up its campaign to banish rumours. Most have been released, but some are still being held on criminal charges. The latest moves targeting the bloggers appear to suggest the new government, led by President Xi Jinping, is expanding its crackdown on dissent, although some critics have warned the move could backfire on Communist Party leaders.”
THIS ISN’T A SURPRISE, REALLY: Apple cuts orders of iPhone 5C as consumers prefer 5S. The 5C isn’t enough cheaper than the 5S to be a really good deal.
LIKE SEPARATING THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS, ONLY MUCH SMALLER: Separating the good from the bad in bacteria.
SAVING THE OCEANS WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS? Apparently, the situation isn’t desperate enough for everyone to consider such a measure.
READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Steven Mitchell, Pretender: Rebirth.
I WAS HOPING THIS INVOLVED CONDOMS, SOMEHOW. BUT NO. A Trojan Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease.
NEW YOU CAN USE: How Not to Die: 20 Survival Tips You Must Know.
ED MORRISSEY: Four Lessons From The GOP Shutdown Wars. Including this: “The only way to dismantle Obamacare is to win elections. That should be the big takeaway from this episode, if nothing else.”
HOPEY-CHANGEY: Chinese agency downgrades US credit rating. Wait, I thought raising the debt limit was good for our credit!