February 2010
96 posts
“Mark Benthien of the USC Earthquake Center said an 8.8 quake causes 512...”
– Real Estate, Design, Environment
It’s a terrible tragedy in Haiti that 300,000+ souls are lost in a disaster 512 times smaller (7.0) where in Chile a 8.8 shake seems to be about 1000 times fewer. My math tells me there is a 500,000 factor differential. Wow. But that’s what happens...
locus communis: Why Californians are marching on... →
Economics, History, Human Affairs, Real Estate
The real problem with repealing the tax benefits of Prop 13 is that since 1978, the value of CA’s real estate has increased due to this law and the incentive to own property. It would seem not a stretch that you don’t own any property.. so you just want to benefit from another’s misfortune of your own making … a win -lose...
“37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10...”
– Law, Human Affairs, History
One theory is that the Federal Government, or most government in general push Equal Rights, not as Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness, but as Equal Rights in terms of Condition, or Life’style’, Liberty’over another’, and...
A Tree House in Kiwiland →
Real Estate, Design, Environment
The tree house seems to surround the tree; not a very practical material or especially environmentally connected. There’s a lot of design … not too much space and a lot of equipment and money to construct.
But I remember my tree house with Jay, three story, scraps of wood and it was a lot of fun. I do think that as in Germany, the law passed after...
Can fractals make sense of the quantum world? →
Physics, Science
There may be a problem with the loosing of information idea; Hawking has repudiated it after Susskind at Stanford theorized that the 3d is layed out on the walls of the event horizon as whatever descends to the singularity … to add on to the singularity (and to think that you didn’t really matter).
But the fractal idea has traction as you diminish into the...
“Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has summoned all the terrorist groups...”
– History, Theology, Human Affairs
OK, does this satisfy anyone who hasn’t believed in Iran as working for the domination of the Middle East, especially since Israel blew up 2 nuclear sites in Syria and no one wants to mention where the fuel was supposed to come from… maybe Iraq …...
“Wal-Mart needs 11,000 clinic visits per year (in each store) to break even. Each...”
– History, Healthcare, Human Affairs
Walmart, and Publix offers discounted medicines (Publix offers free a few generic antibiotics (but you still need a perscription). So the cost at Walmart is about the same or cheaper. If the ‘greed’ factor of ‘doctoring’ is out of the...
“Only in January 1991 — shortly after Israel was hit by Iraqi Scud missiles...”
– History, Theology, Human Affairs
If you look rationally at the single fact: Israel gave Gaza, a prime piece of real estate on the Mediterranian Sea, miles of beaches and what have they done with it. Filled it up with missiles and fired them at children in Israel. The are brainwashed haters, and...
“When Israel was founded, hundreds of thousands of Jews were expelled from Arab...”
– History, Law, Theology
More light to expose the one sided Islamic ‘victimhood’ of the Palestinians, also rejected by their fellow Islamic or Muslim or ‘Religion of Peace’ fellows who seem to convince the weak minded infidels that they are so cruelly rejected from their lands...
“I would guesstimate they may be hundreds of billions of light years away,”...”
– BEC, Physics, Theology
I’m really curious what Kashlinsky’s image of a ‘warped space-time’ looks like. Imagine opposite of space, i.e. what is empty is full, and what’s full empty. You’d have to be pretty little to move around in there. Think of the ocean made...
http://www.acorn-8.net/PDFs/USAttComp.pdf →
Law, Human Affairs, History, ObamaNation
RICO, and other criminal complaints have been filed against ACORN …. but now the spots are changing… ACORN is changing it’s name to other ‘underdog’ causes … the oppressed so they can scam some more public money ….
And if you go to www.acron-8.net, the website’s been hacked …. and you get shifted into...
“President Obama’s new Muslim envoy Rashad Hussain admitted Friday to once...”
– History, Theology(Thugology), Human Affairs
Both Muslim Liars. But for Allah, who needs only your obedience, lying is ok… it’s you sacred duty to your Thugology, in the ‘US of KKK’, Wright Reverend?
The pieces of the Contradictory Life and leaders fitting together into...
“It won’t be easy, but it is possible to curb spending, Pawlenty said”
– History, Human Affairs, Uncommon Sense
Any spending which has as an intention, even unintentional to create a ‘equality of condition’ is to be set aside for a spending cut which will create a better ‘equality of law’.
For example, aide to Hamas, Fatah, Egypt, etc. which...
“The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which...”
– History, Human Affairs, Uncommon Sense, Psychophysics
George Will hast den Nagel auf dem Kopf getroffen. But like any ‘foreign’ expression, it is not complete without a translation.
John McCain proved during the campaign that he suffers from ‘captivity appeasement...
“CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in...”
– History, Human Affairs, Theology(Thugs)
Almost 2 months of keeping this secret…. poisoning food at a military base. Well, that’s swell Commander-in-Chef, but what about collateral threats, say in Campbell’s soup, … why bother, that’s ‘Free enterprise’s...
Colectively the expansion of China's Emissions is... →
Environment, History, Science
Forget that CO2 is the ‘problem’, but it may be an indicator that energy consumption, accelerating is allowing heavy metals (mercury in diesel and coal) or production of pesticides, herbicides, and selecticides and distribution upon the land is occurring to support the increased density and allowed by the increasing buying power of the individual.
If...
“In other words, those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them.”
– History, Theology (thugology), Common Nonsense
So let them build mosques among you, in your communities. When you hear the call from their Minarets, be sure to fall down on your knees to Mecca (easterly). You may save yourself another tax …. and given the great taxes we can expect from the...
“Today, however, it pains me to write that I’m deeply ashamed of my radical...”
– History, Human Affairs
It is a huge divide between the idea of Equality of Condition and the Equality of Justice. Accepting both as some idea of goodness doesn’t match or come close to the ideal of Equality of Justice … we even show her as blind. Imagine if we were all of equal...
“The reason no one at the CIA saw 9/11 coming was that there wasn’t...”
– History, Humor, Common Nonsense
Ann’s nibbling satire reminds me of Swift’s proposing that the English feed the Irish better so as to fatten them up… better eating.
The politics of the left will devour your young to save the wayward beggar (who can’t afford the Bentley...
“The Energy folks did tell ABC they’ve so far spent 522-million Recovery...”
– Environment, Design, Common Nonsense
Run by a fellow (to Obama) Nobel winner, the labor dept. has to determine a ‘fair wage’… and that takes a mighty taskforce to account ‘fairly’ for all the 3000+ counties in the USA…. read on. Oh yeah, it reminds me of a good...
“7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. The team used Brookhaven’s giant atom...”
– Physics, BEC, Science
Weiman and Cornell, who were first to discover BECs in 1995, and winning Nobel in 2001 now go to the other side of absolute …
Now nobody knows the trouble 7.2 Trillion degrees F can get into… but at least we have survived that and a 14 Trillion $ fahrly high debt...
“If a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty...”
– Humor, Science, Uncommon Sense, BEC
In appreciation to all those who have reblogged this simple, uncluttered, logically ironic muttering of one of our most beloved genius’s. Al, I just wanted to thank you for looking at Bose’s theory, and reportedly expanding it a bit …. to give...
WatchHistory, Science, Design, Art, Sailing
At about 35 min. into this, they discuss the hesitancy of sailing in a 29 knot, 2 metre wave seas, and it was reassuring that the ‘spidery’ ship could have done it easily. It is understandable that after the win, the skipper and the owners have a lot to celebrate, and not time to ‘oncore’ the feat with a show of bravato.
But this...
Å 15 Year Struggle to Conquer the Wind, Again
History, Sailing, Art, Science, Design, Humor (oh yeah)
I’ve just begun to go down the list on the post-victory analyses of the race. I started with the next blog’s interview, as I’m nerdly starved for wing information. I always prefer the right wing on my chicken, which would be the starboard wing on any boat.
emilyqualey:
Sailing is a complicated kind of competition....
“CAIR does not defend itself in the lawsuit against the book’s claim that...”
– Law, History, Theology
CAIR, representing Islamic Law, like we would think Catholics would defend Canon Law, is really set out to deny, frustrate and deprive Free Speech (which includes criticism of CAIR), in much the same way Iran imprisons, beats, kills, gasses those who object to Islamic Law in...
“The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in...”
– Mathematics, Art
A lecture, as in the one I was fortunate enough to hear, was like a poetic reading. I distinctly reacted each time he would say Psi…. I wonder why?
Paul A.M. Dirac (via scienceisbeauty)
