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Computer science is race and gender neutral, sure. Most fields of human endeavor are.

The culture of practitioners of computer science is not. The phrase "booth babes" should be adequate demonstration of that. Or see RMS's "emacs virgin" "joke".

The culture of practitioners of computer science exists within, and is influenced by, general American/western culture. At minimum, effective CS education has to be conscious of the biases this instills. It has to remind students, "The construction of software is a collaborative process. Don't be a dick to your collaborators. You probably don't intend to be, but we live in a society that encourages us in various ways to be dicks to people of various racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, and orientation groups. Leave any such dickishness at home."

Education in general also has to be careful to not make assumptions about student's cultural background. I remember seeing one standardized test question of the form, "Regatta is to boat as <blank> is to car." Pretty strong cultural bias as to who is going to know what the heck a regatta is. That's one's pretty obvious, but I also remember one where kids were asked about a poem that mentioned "buttercup". Inner city kids not familiar with the wildflower thought (quite rationally) that it was a cup full of butter.

Are there similar biases in CS education? I don't know that there are but I'm open to the possibly. It's hard to see such biases from the inside.

Posting this as AC because slashdot seems to be Bitcoin friendly. But essentially it looks like a weapon to weaken governments and social services:

To editorialize briefly, BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions.

So I hope this is not a turning point for the virtual currency.

[OP] "disappearing into old email addresses and obsolete storage devices, a Canadian study (abstract, article paywalled) indicated

Well so much for the study. Money changes everything. Eventually one hundred thousand copies of the abstract will exist on the Internet, but the authors' future descendants will find only only one actual link that leads to content, which terminates at a page saying "this domain is for sale".

You'd think that even science data of extremely low bit rate such as original weather station temperature data should be out there somewhere. A lot of other people did too... but all that is available now might be "value added" ajusted data. Not an evil conspiracy per se, it's human nature at it's best and worst.

A handy chronology of the history of data retention:

[2500BC] King Fuckemup boldly slew the enemy and I, Scribe Asskissus hath inscribed it in stone. He is an asshole who owes me back wages."
[1500] "With quivering quill I will write mine own data."
[1866] "Data published at great expense into leather-bound volumes. Dust sold separately."
[1970] "This is really important. we should print it and store it in a binder."
[1971] They didn't.
[1983] "I'll write it to floppy disk with a notsosticky label"
[1985] "After a long and desperate search, the label has been found!"
[1987] "Unlabeled floppy disk keeps coffeemaker level."
[1995] "Roxio CD storage is forever, and Real Scientists don't close their data sessions."
[2003] "Microsoft Word has experienced a problem updating from an older document format and will now close. Save your work as soon as possible."
[2005] "I'll just email it to myself and shut the computer off immediately, then pick it up at work."
[2009] "Yes, three copies! In the safe. There was a fire. Yes, inside the safe. It was a fireproof safe, so no one noticed."
[2010] "This is really important. I should print it and store it in a binder. But my ink cartridge is dry."
[2013] "Our data has been uploaded to the Cloud where it will live forever."
[2500] "King Grapeape slew the primitive humans and buried their statue on the beach. I, Scribe Anthopoapologus hath incribed it in stone."

Perhaps the most mystiying data retention escapade of Modern Times is the missing Apollo 11 SSTV moon tapes which contained a multiplexed stream of raw telemetry and the original slow-scan TV signal broadcast from the moon. Not 'missing' really, rather we know they were re-used and recorded over because everyone assumed it was someone else's job to ensure that at least one copy was in a safe place. While the earth station operators dutifully sent their tapes to NASA where the sharpest signal of the moon landing was sure to be perserved for posterity (not), fortunately there were some librarians on duty, and you can aquire DVDs of the moonwalk with better quality than the recordings you've seen in countless movies -- an 8mm film camera pointed at an original SSTV monitor at Honeysuckle Creek, and the best quality scan-converted version.

In the Foundation series, Asimov envisioned Gaia, a world in which a telepathic network of sentient (and sensuous) beings kept a 'working set' retrievable data in-memory -- but also via access to progressively less and non-sentient objects, such as plants and even rocks -- a vast archive. Ask the mountain, it will answer in time, a long time.

Our own Earth has a Gaia storage mechanism, a record of its magnetic field over geologic time stored as polarization in crystallized lava floes. But it i

He should have had Alta Vista, USENET NEWS and IRC.
These successors have only made scads of money off ideas from real pioneers.

IRC and USENET clients were left behind as users found easier ways to communicate.

Today...IRC... has around 400k users at peak hours.

IRC

Skype at peak hours, 55 to 60 million. Skype Numerology

I like to find leadership lessons from unusual places too. I occasionally write about them on my blog. This year, that included IT leadership lessons from Zombies, and leadership lessons from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! Coaching Buttons blog :-)

Prove that literally every single cop, everywhere, is like that.

You can't and won't, and you know it.

There ARE good cops. You know that. You just don't want there to be any, because you don't want to admit that the world is too complicated to sum up in catchphrases.

Don't presume to tell me what I'm thinking, you simple fuck. Prove that they're all on the level? The grandparent post made the assertion 'you are wrong'.. ball is in his/her court to prove it. Hell, I'm a CCW holder, and guess what, schnukums? Our rate of murders is lower than that of law enforcement. That's right, little piggies off duty behave more poorly than the EVUL concealed carry folks.

All it takes is one to do the deed, and all others to remain silent (hence the code of silence). Your catchphrase might even be "To Serve and Protect".. which is a fucking LIE you sheep. Multiple court decisions have shown that law enforcement have absolutely no duty to protect. Then why are they here? Hmm..

In addition, just troll liveleak a bit to get a taste of the pussies you call heros. Yes, there are good cops, Johnny.. there are probably two or three of them out there. All the rest are, as I originally said, potential sources of violence for which you'd better have a plan on dealing with. It's not as hard as it sounds, since so many of the former football jocks who became cops are so stupid. Shut your mouth, observe, if possible, make notes of the situation. Let them throw their tantrum. Then, either take it up with the court system, or go renegade and dox the fuckers then expose the information the the world.

(ahem)

I GREW UP in an agriculturally dominated county, sir. I have personally helped raise cattle. I have seen cattle raised in a wide assortment of settings. I can speak quite definitively from personal experiences.

I am very much aware of how factory farms work, and do not support such things. They exist only because of corporate and shareholder greed. They force down the prices of beef so that smaller cattle farmers can no longer compete with more ethical practices, and cause unbelievable amounts of ecological damage. (If you think cattle are bad when crammed together, try swine or chickens.)

However, my "Auntie" is not the ONLY local grower specializing in cattle that uses only grass feeding. For the most part, here's how cattle growing goes down in my local area:

Animals are rotated on pasture in the summer months, then fed silage on a drylot in the winter months (to protect the pasture), with rotations on wheat fields to stimulate the wheat grass (Between the months of january and march, it helps promote the wheat's formation of a centrally dense region that will then spawn the fruiting stalks. Putting the cattle on the wheat increases wheat crop yeilds tremendously, if managed properly. The wheat is highly protein rich at this point, and the fodder is healthier for the animals than the silage-- cheaper too.) For the most part, cattle are not penned up in my area except during extreme weather. However, when the animals are butchering age they are loaded up into cattle trailers and sent to a processing yard, such as at Dodge city. (Horrible place. Really.) The processing yard is where most pictures gracing animal cruelty literature concerning cattle turn up. This is where the cattle get funneled from all over the region to be butchered, processed, and shipped. As a result, very little care is given to accomodate the animals, and they are packed into places like this one.

Prior to that, they are raised in places like this far more often than not. The radical output of factory farms, and the fungible nature of many beef products (especially hamburger) means that the factory fed beef ends up in most beef products, which is unfortunate. The majority of beef growers dont use those methods-- It only takes a few bad apples to spoil the whole barrel.

I see far more cattle raised in those (pasture) conditions overall than I do raised in tight feedboxes, which is what Iowa and pals more frequently do. (that's how they get the texture and flavor of 'Corn fed iowa beef' you know.) this is because of the local economics of the region. Kansas is a grassland biome by nature, and fields left wild will naturally accommodate a setting conducing to raising cattle. It is in areas where this is not the case, or where dense human population expansion pressures prohibit the retention/operation of large pasturage that you see factory farming.

As such, most domestically (in my area) raised cattle are actually born into and raised in reasonably humane settings, it is only in the last few weeks of their lives that they experience the hell on earth most vegans associate with the cattle industry. That treatment actually stresses the animal, and adversely impacts the flavor due to stress hormones making the cattle have altered biochemistry, and reduces the value of the hides through animals fighting each other, and the bruising this causes. The less the animal suffers, the better for the animal, and the better the meat is for the consumer, and the hide is for the tanner. Cattle yards (like the one pictured from Dodge) are simply a consequence of large consumption and "Streamlined" processing. It however, is NOT the processing method my aunt uses.

In addition to large scale processing centers, there are also a very large number of smaller, regional ones serviced by light rail which handle much lower volumes of

The answer is yes and no.
What is considered a musical instrument? That's the real question.

As someone who has always had interest in music, but no formal training though interest test show my interest are strongly inline with musicians as well as having physical dexterity good enough http://abstractionphysics.blogspot.com/2010/03/old-test-scores.html ......there remains the fact that available time (working outside of music) does not allow me to train and maintain my brain/hand coordination with musical instruments more than I have. Owning two Violins (one I made, electric), two acoustic guitars (1 being a 12 string), three electronic midi able keyboards (and an upright piano), where would I even find time for all the other instruments?

There is what I hear in my mind and it is through midi instruments and software that make it possible for me to create far beyond my limited mind/body coordination ability not to forget the cost of all the instruments that I'd physically need to do it all manually.

So what is a musical instrument, when the goal is to create music?
What would had the great classical composers accomplished had they the tools of music production today?

Performance.... that's different, but even the there you have such electronic equipment that often extends the performing musicians production/performance. i.e. minimoog synthesizer, marshal amps, etc..

And to make things easier, there is now even cord progressions libraries. i.e. http://www.prosonic-studios.com/Midi-Progressions-Details.aspx?lngCollectionID=76

So there is a divide, a difference between the instruments of music production, creation and live performance. For there is no strictly digital music that creates the stage set, special effects, costumes, etc... that are also an extension of performance entertainment.

A recurring theme on The Hipcrime Vocab blog is the likely demographic effects of automation, AI and robots on future human employment.

The biggest differences between them are admin tools and init/rc stuff as well as the language the tools are written in. The packaging systems (RPM vs .DEB) are really not as great a difference since they accomplish essentially the same thing overall. The biggest packaging difference is how they name things and where they put them; this is also the most frustrating difference.

You'll notice that most general/new-release distro reviews are superficial, noting things like application/kernel version numbers and what DE is chosen and what default apps are installed -- all meaningless since any DE and most any app and most any kernel can be installed on any distro. These are reviews written by newbies for newbies. Apparently the people who know the significant underlying differences don't write reviews or don't know enough about other distros to draw a meaningful comparison.

Here's a review I wrote comparing Mageia with Fedora, which I hope is not the typical kind of review.
http://maximumhoyt.blogspot.com/2013/01/mageia3-beta-vs-fedora18.html

Why not compare these to Ubuntu? Behind the scenes where it matters, it's too different from Fedora/Mageia for me to get a handle on it without obtaining a more intimate knowledge of Ubuntu, something I have no real need or desire to do. My only gripe about Ubuntu is that too much software is developed for it that is reliant on Ubuntu-specific scripts and such things that it cannot easily be used on other Linux distros; HOWTOs written for Ubuntu are so Ubuntu-specific that they are rendered almost useless for any other distro (they seem to be written by the same folks that write the superficial reviews).

sfcrazy and others do Fedora and Ubuntu a disservice by making these uninformed and superficial comparisons.

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Voting Democrat correlates with gun violence.

I recommend you go read http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/ for his many articles on this very subject (39A). Summary: BO has no launch vehicle, zero mission manifest, and certainly no missions for what 39A is needed for, getting astronauts up to the ISS, for the five-year duration of this deal.

Sometimes, Google just baffles me. The lack of direction in their product lines makes me shake my head.

We have several distinct software platforms:

1) Android. Development in XML with Java used as glue to hold everything together. Unless you don't. You can use standard C libraries and call the Linux kernel directly, bypassing the Dalvik Java VM.

2) Chrome browser. Development largely in javascript, again there are some obvious exceptions. Javascript is, of course, preferred because it's safer, so ChromeOS protects you by having everything done in Javascript. Except that it isn't.

3) ChromeOS. Kinda/Sorta like using the Chrome browser, except that it's not, because you are developing things that run as if they were actual clients. In Javascript. And of course, this too, is just as strictly enforced.

4) But Let's not forget the 4th platform in the trio: Google's Go language is clearly a contender, and it's designed to replace C, except for a few bone-headed decisions like linking everything statically resulting in enormous binaries. Because you really, really need to have the same library installed once for every app installed, because that way you get to recompile everything installed on your system any time a security update comes out for your favorite library. Except that, of course there are exceptions here, too.

And most importantly, you cannot target all these platforms with any single codebase written in any language. It's like they are trying to make their product suite as difficult as just using products from multiple vendors anyway.

It's really quite simple. A lot of Google projects started from a handful of people going "you know what would be a cool idea?" and doing it with very little approval or red tape (the fabled 20% time). That's certainly the only explanation I can think of for DART, at any rate.

Go is basically what you get when you hire a former Plan 9 developer, expose him to Google's internal hermetic build system (where a 100MiB binary is small), then let him build cool stuff to keep him from getting bored.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but do not speak for my employer. I don't work on any of the teams mentioned in your post. The information in this post is already available to the public in various places.

If the car owner does all charging at the office, the cost of electricity would offset at least some of the cost of replacing the batteries. But I don't know that it would be worth it. This blog post suggests that the average cost per month of electricity is less than $50 for fairly average use, but the battery replacement program for the Leaf is $100 per month.

Then again, the car owner would have to replace their battery after so much usage anyway regardless of where it is being charged, so assuming the employer's usage causes about twice as many recharge cycles, the employee might just break even.

Meanwhile the business gets a win by fully charging the cars when at non-peak usage, say around $0.05/KWH, and fully discharging during peak usage, say around $0.45/KWH, even if they have to supply twice as much energy to the cars as they use to power the office. (I pulled those $/KWH numbers from a post below; I have no clue if they are legitimate.)

I probably wouldn't participate in this program unless the employer provided a bonus incentive.

NewYorkCountryLawyer used to submit stories here quite often about cases where the RIAA was suing people. I admire his work, much of it he did for free. This is his blog:

http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/

The Taiwanese touch screen is on the loose. Android is the cheapest operating system. My dad, 77, has an iPad and it's fine and he uses it, but he'd have been just fine with a $45 Shenzhen special. These are becoming like light bulbs (which used to be considered "repairable" in the late 1800s) and there's no reason to pay hundreds for an Apple light bulb.

Atomic Power Review is written by a guy named Will Davis. It says so on the right sidebar. Who is Rod Adams?

Oops, clipboard snafu, it ate a whole paragraph and a link. There were supposed to be two links,

Rod Adams hosts Atomic Insights blog and The Atomic Show podcast. He has some very good coverage of Fukushima and its aftermath and lately he has been taking fear-mongers Robert Alvarez and Arnie Gundersen to task.

Will Davis' Atomic Power Review has scaled down its Fukushima coverage as of late, but in the archives you will find some detailed articles with week-by-week coverage.

Seen leaving the scene of the crime here: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bI0WbLHBXyY/Tix4ZFMCZ_I/AAAAAAABoSM/1YqK064jHsY/s640/back+to+the+future+whitewalls.jpg
and I think they need to get their engine checked.

You can copyright an implementation of a language, but you cannot copyright the language itself. This view is more completely settled in EU law, but there are US cases that have reached the same conclusion.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs6998/lectures/11-10-11_Zimmeck_ProtectPL.pdf
http://the1709blog.blogspot.com/2013/01/sas-v-wpl-programming-languages-not.html
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/computer-programming-languages-should-not-be-viewed-as-copyrightable-says-high-court-judge/

Wow, looking that up, on Applebees and Chili's: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-waiters-and-waitresses/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/12/02/applebees-tablets-table-top-devices-restaurant-technology/3698561/

I think people overestimate the "human touch" need in service (like mentioned as a reason everything won't be automated in other posts). While it is true humans need other humans to be human, and physical human touch is important, interactions with "strangers" can be stressful for many, and they also expose people to a risk of disease. And example if banking, where many people now prefer using an ATM machine to talking to a bank teller. Same with many automated phone systems for routine transactions. It may depend in part on a person's personality of course. At some point thought, "more sanitary" and "more personalized and interactive" may become arguments for more automation. For example, who likes to wait around for the wait staff to bring you a bill when you are ready to go at the end of a dinner out?

One can hope though that as we see more abundance from more automation, people may have more time to cook at home and entertain at home. That may be the bigger long term change here. Why go to a restaurant at all, where you have little control over the ingredients, the people around you, and so on? Or, alternatively, when a robot can fetch your meal for you, as in this video of a PR2 robot going to Subway to fetch a sandwich:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIYRQC2iBp

Marshall Brain's "Manna" explores two possible answers to your last question.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Regarding "socialism", here is a great graph on US perceptions, preferences, and reality regarding wealth distribution:http://danariely.com/2010/09/30/wealth-inequality/
"As you can see from the figure, participants rather badly estimated the current state of wealth disparity! Furthermore, they offered an ideal wealth distribution (under a "veil of ignorance") that was even more different (and more equal) relative to the current state of affairs.
What this tells me is that Americans don't understand the extent of disparity in the US, and that they (we) desire a more equitable society. It is also interesting to note that the differences between people who make more money and less money, republicans and democrats, men and women -- were relatively small in magnitude, and that in general people who fall into these different categories seem to agree about the ideal wealth distribution under the veil of ignorance.
Maybe this suggests that when there are no labels, and we think about the core of our morality in abstract terms (and under the veil of ignorance), we are actually very similar?"

Graph picture there seems broken; see it here:
http://ecologicalsociology.blogspot.com/2012/06/us-income-inequality-real-perceived.html

Still, you are right about the "allergy", and that is why planning through the market in the USA along with a basic income may be the easiest way forward:
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/change/science_market.html
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/establish-basic-income-guarantee-all-americans-similar-what-being-proposed-switzerland/jF

I am held AGHAST by the biblical-level hysteria that is circulating about Fukushima these days. It is being served up and replicated with the relish of the street-corner preacher with an end-of-world sign. Every die-off of fish is related (ignore the Atlantic), the melting starfish (never mind it's happening worldwide), from mammals to narwhals there is some serious confirmation bias being stirred.

The computer model plume of currents has DEATH arriving at the United States West coast; mere detection of miniscule amounts of Cesium -- which science is capable of to an extraordinary level of precision -- is being fronted as a radioactive death sentence.

There seems to be no deference to expert or even medical opinion on true risk factors; and in the tired vein of disaster porn, any appeals to consider such generates a (predictable) backlash of conspiracy coverup allegations. At times it is literally a no-think zone.

Radioactivity is the new whipping boy of disaster porn.

NO-HYPE Fukushima information:

Fukushima Accident Updates. Leslie Corrice has done an excellent job chronicling the accident from 2011. Following the latest posting thread backwards in time (some 60 pages so far) is a detailed account you will find nowhere else.

Fukushima Accident Commentary Leslie Corrice again, exhibiting a level of journalistic integrity that is fast-fading on today's news and Internet sources, has maintained a separate thread of personal opinion and commentary. It is as fascinating a read as the last, here you will find topics of politics, culture and status and observation of the Fukushima victims' compensation fund and resettlement.

Nuclear Industry source: Nuclear Street tag: Fukushima

Rod Adams' Atomic Power Review has scaled down its Fukushima coverage as of late, but in the archives you will find some detailed articles with week-by-week coverage.

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Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

Blacks are inferior as a group.

Look at the way all of the blacks just go apeshit so to speak over a bunch of fucking sneakers of all things!

Then ask yourself why white people don't riot over the latest Apple gadget even though they gather in large crowds waiting for them. I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh does anyone remember when the blacks rioted like crazy after Hurricane Katrina? Isn't it JUST A LITTLE STRANGE the way white people in Colorado banded together and helped each other when they were hit with a natural disaster instead of rioting and looting like the blacks did? I mean an objective person might think whites are more civilized!

Oh and blacks are responsible for nearly all the murders in Marion County! That is what you would expect from a violent tribal uncivilized race.

Interesting when a black man admits blacks are to blame for the hellhole that is (86% black) Jackson Mississippi? Quote: "Look at recent history, like in South Africa, when apartheid was abolished,” Lambus said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Blacks went on a crime spree.""

It goes on and on. Probably no point in posting this since people who are objective already understand the destruction and violence and cost blacks bring anytime they are abundant. It is not just USA. All over the world black-governed nations are hellholes. But objective people knew this. It is the people indoctrinated to believe that acknowledging FACTS is somehow "racist" who just can't admit it. None are so blind as those who will not see.

I have too many factual objections to that essay than I really have space to list here. I'll start by pointing you here: http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2011/07/want-to-know-about-nazi-germanys-real.html

For a more direct, if slightly drier source, you could also consider reading Mein Kampf: http://www.amazon.com/Mein-Kampf-Adolf-Hitler/dp/0395925037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386185965&sr=8-1&keywords=mein+kampf

If that's not enough I could go on a rant about how confused you are about modern liberals.

One thing I've wondered for a while is, why don't we have robots making clothes?

What makes you think that we DON'T have robots making clothes?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vdL9UcNAvNA/UalcWLcLEBI/AAAAAAAAABs/i1j7CTeGGZ4/s1600/photo+1-2.JPG

The United States relies too much on ULA for its space-launch, ULA has easily raised its price and the tax-payers ended up having to cough up the dough.

FTFY. This is the first commercial satellite launched in the US since November 23, 2009 when Intelsat 14 launched on an Atlas V from LC-41.

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Perhaps some budding Michael Moore might want to contrast the technology available to the President's kids at the $35,288-a-year Sidwell Friends School ("The number one blessing for this [iMovie] project was the delivery of noise-cancelling headphones for each child") to the tech available at rural Appalachia schools (avg. family income $40,000). Sidwell Friends is also living-the-cyberlife as a charter member of the elite Global Online Academy, which boasts that "classmates in Washington, D.C. $35,288, and San Francisco $38,900 work on projects with peers in Madaba-Manja, Jordan $38,272, and Portland, Oregon $25,850. Students in Hawaii $19,950 (President Obama's alma mater) and Chicago $29,985 discuss global health issues with students in New York $40,220, Seattle $28,500 (Bill Gates' alma mater), Boston $46,700, and Jakarta, Indonesia $30,200."

And what would the message of this movie be? "America has expensive but fancy private schools"? I think we already knew that. Yeah, if you're willing to shell out some coin, you can indeed buy a great education for your kid. So what? With more money you can also buy better healthcare, go to better colleges, eat at better restaurants, drive safer cars and live in better houses located in better neighborhoods.

A couple of years ago, Google restored lost gmail from tape. I'd expect that even with deduplication they must use a phenomonal amount of tape.

The Atheists would just build arks - oh the irony!

Perhaps some budding Michael Moore might want to contrast the technology available to the President's kids at the $35,288-a-year Sidwell Friends School ("The number one blessing for this [iMovie] project was the delivery of noise-cancelling headphones for each child") to the tech available at rural Appalachia schools (avg. family income $40,000). Sidwell Friends is also living-the-cyberlife as a charter member of the elite Global Online Academy, which boasts that "classmates in Washington, D.C. $35,288, and San Francisco $38,900 work on projects with peers in Madaba-Manja, Jordan $38,272, and Portland, Oregon $25,850. Students in Hawaii $19,950 (President Obama's alma mater) and Chicago $29,985 discuss global health issues with students in New York $40,220, Seattle $28,500 (Bill Gates' alma mater), Boston $46,700, and Jakarta, Indonesia $30,200."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404869,00.asp

http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2115/150017010000001/filing-main.htm

Lee Gersten runs Kleargear, which is a branch of Chenal Corp. Will Bermender is on the SEC filing and someone got a photo of him

(I thought this reply got posted, but it hasn't appeared after 15 minutes.)

The Kleargear.com address at 2885 Sanford Ave. SW in Grandville MI is really a mail forwarding/disguised address popular with companies doing horrible things to people, and is run by a company called Mailbox Forwarding, Inc.: The mail-forwarding service is not unfamiliar to the BBB. “Over the years, we’ve had many issues with businesses that use that address”

Here's another address for them, thanks to this press release through United Business Media's PRNewswire. If they try to retract it, here's a copy at The Sacramento Bee:

Christophe Monette, CEO of Kleargear parent Descoteaux Boutiques, has been pleasantly surprised...

Margaux Banet
2885 Sanford Ave SW #19886
Grandville, MI 49418
United States

Descoteaux Boutiques
ZAC Paris Rive Gauche
118-122 Avenue de France
75013 Paris
France

And this press release also says "Kleargear is donating 2% of net sales between November 17th and December 17th to The American Red Cross in support of our friends and neighbors affected by Sunday's devastating tornado outbreak across the Midwest." Who wants to bet any of their money gets to anyone who's ever seen a tornado? Best to check on the legitimacy of these charity solicitations of course. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has been making charity fraudsters one of this pet projects lately: See "A Michigan Crackdown On Charity Fraud". I'll bet Schuette's office would be more than happy to hear about any problems from companies that happen to officially give their state of residence as Michigan and claim to help Michigan tornado victims. The Michigan Attorney General has a specific phone number for Questions About Charities.

Of course, maybe the French address is fake too. They're a bit pickier about that in France though, I think. Anyone have the contact info for the corporation regulators or charity regulators in Paris?

Also: The BBB gave Kleargear.com an F rating, before Kleargear.com inserted this ruin-your-customers-lives clause in their terms and then faked the A+ rating on their website. For those of you who can't see popups on the BBB site: As of November 28, 2012, the BBB became aware that the company's website is displaying a BBB Accredited Business logo and BBB Rating A+; however, the company is not a BBB accredited business and the BBB rating is not A+. The BBB contacted the company regarding these issues and this matter is pending the company's response. As of November 28, 2012, the BBB discovered that some pages of the company's website display the BBB Accredited Business Logo and state "BBB Rating A+", when neither is true. The BBB contacted the company at the Michigan mail drop address instructing the company to immediately remove the incorrect BBB logo and reference from their site. This matter is currently pending.

The Kleargear.com address at 2885 Sanford Ave. SW in Grandville MI is really a mail forwarding/disguised address popular with companies doing horrible things to people, and is run by a company called Mailbox Forwarding, Inc.: The mail-forwarding service is not unfamiliar to the BBB. “Over the years, we’ve had many issues with businesses that use that address”

Here's another address for them, thanks to this press release through United Business Media's PRNewswire. If they try to retract it, here's a copy at The Sacramento Bee:

Christophe Monette, CEO of Kleargear parent Descoteaux Boutiques, has been pleasantly surprised...

Margaux Banet
2885 Sanford Ave SW #19886
Grandville, MI 49418
United States

Descoteaux Boutiques
ZAC Paris Rive Gauche
118-122 Avenue de France
75013 Paris
France

And this press release also says "Kleargear is donating 2% of net sales between November 17th and December 17th to The American Red Cross in support of our friends and neighbors affected by Sunday's devastating tornado outbreak across the Midwest." Who wants to bet any of their money gets to anyone who's ever seen a tornado? Best to check on the legitimacy of these charity solicitations of course. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has been making charity fraudsters one of this pet projects lately: See "A Michigan Crackdown On Charity Fraud". I'll bet Schuette's office would be more than happy to hear about any problems from companies that happen to officially give their state of residence as Michigan and claim to help Michigan tornado victims. The Michigan Attorney General has a specific phone number for Questions About Charities.

Of course, maybe the French address is fake too. They're a bit pickier about that in France though, I think. Anyone have the contact info for the corporation regulators or charity regulators in Paris?

Also: The BBB gave Kleargear.com an F rating, before Kleargear.com inserted this ruin-your-customers-lives clause in their terms and then faked the A+ rating on their website. For those of you who can't see popups on the BBB site: As of November 28, 2012, the BBB became aware that the company's website is displaying a BBB Accredited Business logo and BBB Rating A+; however, the company is not a BBB accredited business and the BBB rating is not A+. The BBB contacted the company regarding these issues and this matter is pending the company's response. As of November 28, 2012, the BBB discovered that some pages of the company's website display the BBB Accredited Business Logo and state "BBB Rating A+", when neither is true. The BBB contacted the company at the Michigan mail drop address instructing the company to immediately remove the incorrect BBB logo and reference from their site. This matter is currently pending.

In order to make real-world use of this model, the health care industry would have us load catapults with doctors and medicines and fling them into Africa.

They're on the right track but with their health care model they're backing the wrong horse. How and when exactly did that endemic sickness that must be countered, arise?

Let's take a look at the world according to cholera [cases reported to WHO 2007-2009]. Cholera flourishes where masses of people have converged on areas without sufficient infrastructure to support them. They often do this in an attempt to escape rural poverty. It also flourishes along major rivers, such as the Ganges and historically the Thames, again where infrastructure for water filtration and sewage treatment is lacking.

Now look at the world according to (lack of) access to electricity [Numbers in Millions and % of People without access to Electricity, 2008. Source: WHO & UNDP]

Electricity means clean water and waste processing.
Cholera hates electricity.

That is because with electricity comes deeper wells, better filtration, distribution, active media filtration of surface sources and sewage treatment with water effluent ready for discharge into rivers -- along with the basics such as refrigeration for food and medicine. It was infrastructure and not better health care that eliminated the threat of cholera in North America, and other diseases besides.

And by electricity I mean real base load electricity, the power to run distribution and filtration plants and whole villages and cities. A full square meal of energy, not the 'energy happy meal toys' that are too often envisioned by North Americans as gifts to Africans -- a solar panel here or a wind turbine there, to run some tiny apartment fridge in some clinic somewhere, or a single LED light, sometimes. Solutions we could not and would not tolerate for ourselves.

The human race (at our favored levels of population density) has evolved past the point where a natural state of good health can be maintained without access to bulk electricity, which equates to drinkable tap water. This is a greater factor than access to doctors or medicine.

Obama is making the right noises about Africa with his $7 billion pledge to help Africa lift itself out of darkness with new sub-Saharan infrastructure. Remember -- this $7 billion is is NOT your hard-earned taxpayer dollars, which are all going toward repayment of interest on our national debt. This is magical unicorn money that will come from World Investment Funds and Bank perpetual money machine that is backed by International Corporate Banks that bought shitloads of worthless paper that were bailed out by Bushobama with the Fed minting virtual money that saved the banks' balance sheets from ruin, and Treasury Bonds purchased by the Chinese who have said fuck-it and have decided to give Africa their time and especially their money directly, some of which would ultimately come from us as repayment on debt to China with China becoming Africa's direct partner in infrastructure instead. This does not make sense on so many levels.

I think the United States is presently screwed on Energy but not in the conspiracy sense. It is this awful mental condition where we have lost sight of 'big electric' and 'big water' infrastructure as something we are truly vested in, regardless of whether we personally own stock in it.

I think it is why discussants in these forums never seem to discuss topics of coal, nuclear and natural gas production of electricity at any length -- and spend so much more time on the minutia

I also don't accept that this is the only way to deal with unethical activities.

And what do you think was the better way? You've yet to actually propose a better way -- just to cynically say that the public doesn't care, and that should be expected.

Snowden was the closest with the article in the Guardian. Then he proceeded to contact the Chinese government followed by the Russian government.

It's unlikely Snowden gave info to China or Russia. Do you have any evidence that says otherwise, or are you going off of pure speculation?

What happens if China shoots down a Japanese plane in this new Defense Zone? Or maybe they send fighters to redirect our B52s to one of their bases.

Then what happens next will not likely be affected at all by Snowden's leaks. Snowden's leaks had nothing to do with military operational capabilities, and China would be a fool to think we weren't spying on them. As you yourself said, this was the kind of thing that everyone in power already knew about.

Both Wikileaks and Snowden used 'unreleased' information to attempt to coerce a specific behavior. Not exactly 'releasing to the public'.

Of course they wanted to force a change of behavior. What do you think the point of whistleblowing is? Just to tell people, "Ooh look, that's interesting, isnt it -- let's just file that under 'neat' and get back to our lives?" The point of shining a light on bad behavior is to get that behavior to stop.

And releasing data to the press (including Wikileaks) IS releasing it to the public. That's what the press does (or is supposed to anyway).

I saw that too in my history book. And saw plenty of those pictures, I've found these, but I believe that none of them are what was in my long lost book.
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