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Archive for February, 2008

Assassination attempts

29th February 2008

Steve Sailer is keeping track, just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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South America Goes Nuclear

29th February 2008

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Aiming For the Brain

29th February 2008

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You’d think that by now the Israelis would have refined the necessary techniques for dealing with terrorists.

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Unilateral Democrats

29th February 2008

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Democrats have principles except when then can profit by surrendering them.

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Conspiracy Theories Nobody Is Interested In

29th February 2008

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Isn’t It Better To Keep Smart Foreign Workers In The US Than Sending Them Home To Compete?

29th February 2008

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Depends on your priorities, I suspect.

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AIBO matches real dogs in chasing away loneliness, research claims

29th February 2008

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No word on whether they help prevent heart attacks, like cats.

On the other hand, if a mechanical dog is sufficient to cure your lonliness, perhaps a less expensive solution, like a Pet Rock, would do as well.

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Microsoft lowered Vista requirements to help Intel sell incompatible chipsets

29th February 2008

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All your nightmares about Microsoft validated.

Your challenge: Find a Microsoft employee who’s a Republican. (Hey, if it were easy, anybody could do it, right?)

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How Nurture Works

29th February 2008

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In short, parents are correct to think that they can change their children. Their mistake is to suppose that the change will endure. Instead of thinking of kids as lumps of clay that parents “mold,” we should think of kids as plastic that flexes in response to pressure – and springs back to its original shape once the pressure goes away.

So I guess the solution is to press harder.

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Stuff White People Like #78 Multilingual Children

29th February 2008

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Languages such as German, Spanish, Swedish, or Italian are also acceptable, but are considered to be poor substitutes (especially Spanish). At the time of writing, it is still considered expert-level white person behavior to have white children speaking Asian and African languages.

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Luke Skywalker v Darth Vader

29th February 2008

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If Obama shows up one day without a hand, well….

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Things White People Like #77 Musical Comedy

28th February 2008

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 It’s a pretty good idea because when you have jokes that aren’t that great and music that isn’t that great, you can mix them together and create something that will entertain white people.

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Stuff White People Like #76 Bottles of Water

28th February 2008

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You know who you are.

Up until this point, white people were consuming most of their water in the form of expensive bottles like Fiji, Aquafina and Dasanai. To this day, many white people continue to get their water in this fashion, and it is important to be aware about how your choice of water can say a lot about who you are.

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Cats Cut Heart Attack Risk?

28th February 2008

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Huh. They actually are good for something. Who knew?

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Military Robots General Threat?

28th February 2008

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Moral puzzles about collective action

28th February 2008

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Fake Photos a Thing of the Past?

28th February 2008

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We have the technology.

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The New Newswire: a Dutch Student Called Michael

28th February 2008

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On the internet, nobody knows you’re not a PhD. Many people don’t care. And sometimes it doesn’t matter.

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E-book concept combines leather and multi-touch

28th February 2008

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Progress is being made.

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“Silicone womb” enters human testing in the UK

28th February 2008

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Perhaps it will help solve the Demographic Winter problem.

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Not Just The Government Who Abuses Access To Confidential Records

28th February 2008

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The Economics Of Free Isn’t Good Or Bad — It’s Simply What Happens

28th February 2008

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So much for the politics of identity.

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Slate Discovers The Power Law

28th February 2008

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This is what happens when literature majors deal with computations requiring something beyond taking off their shoes.

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Abundance And Scarcity In The Insight Market

28th February 2008

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This may seem a bit technical but it’s a very interesting concept.

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29 Cent-per-Hour Jailhouse Lawyer Under Investigation

28th February 2008

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Doesn’t pay to cross the union, apparently.

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NBC Sued for Suicide of Alleged Pedophile Prosecutor

28th February 2008

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New US Subs Trade Nukes for SEALs

28th February 2008

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This is truly amazing, since the Ohio gave it’s name to an entire class of boomers.

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Proposed law would require carriers to sell contract-free phones

28th February 2008

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In general, any proposed legislation that contains “Consumer Protection” and “Community Empowerment” in the title is a scam. In this case, it’s an attempt to buy votes by kicking phone companies, whom nobody likes anyway.

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US Government Medical Spending To Double In 10 Years

28th February 2008

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Remind me why the government is paying for everybody’s health care. Food is just as important — why doesn’t it buy my food?

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Crippling Open Government

28th February 2008

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The Washington Post is shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that bureaucrats don’t like sharing information with the schlubs they govern.

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Are our brains wired for math?

28th February 2008

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Only non-Westerners, apparently. Of course, this is the New Yorker….

Steve Sailer has some thoughts on the subject.

You just have to have the Times Table pounded into your head over and over as a kid, but our education system is against “rote learning,” so school kids aren’t usually forced to chant them like in the good old days. But kids actually kind of like rote learning. (It’s adults who hate learning that way, and especially hate teaching that way.) Kids like singing the alphabet song, for instance. You’d think educators would find a times table rap that today’s children would like.

Indeed.

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Shacks for Rich People

28th February 2008

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Not to mention that your Friendly Neighborhood Fascists behind zoning regulations and housing codes won’t let you do this most places.

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Readybot cleans your kitchen, might be single best thing ever invented

28th February 2008

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Sign me up.

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Australian Moonbat Lawyer Raves

28th February 2008

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And why not? He’s being paid.

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ENGINEERING BIOLOGY

28th February 2008

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Now this is a scary guy.

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Spy search to spotlight on diversity

28th February 2008

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Note that the search for more competent spies has degenerated into just one more “Let’s enrich their lives” entitlement program.

No wonder our foreign policy sucks and our deficit is measured in trillions.

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Gun Buyback Misfires

26th February 2008

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It’s always amusing when people who don’t understand markets attempt to do things in what they think is a market-oriented way.

It’s like watching cargo-cult natives in operation.

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Were the basic characteristics of Newtonian physics determined by the way that Indo-European languages treat space and time?

26th February 2008

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Wouldn’t surprise me.

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Japanese plastic dirt is half as dense as real dirt, over 100 times more plastic

26th February 2008

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We have the technology.

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Danish wind turbine eats itself

26th February 2008

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It would be funnier if there were a bunch of endangered-species birds sitting around laughing themselves sick. But one can’t have everything.

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Doctor Silicon Sees Invisible Injuries

26th February 2008

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We have the technology.

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The economics of assassination might surprise you as much as they did Harvard’s Ben Olken.

26th February 2008

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And, then again, they might not. Economists do study some weird stuff.

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280-megawatt solar plant headed to Arizona desert

26th February 2008

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And about time, too.

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Yahoo Shareholders Sue Board for Golden Parachutes

26th February 2008

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I was wondering when someone would get around to doing that.

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Bratty Adolescents Have Bigger Amygdalas

26th February 2008

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Did you hear the one about the culturally isolated NYTs?

26th February 2008

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I suppose that, if you belong to the New York Times demographic and are accustomed to potty-mouths as comedians, this would be astonishing.

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Washington Today

26th February 2008

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway. 

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Oaksterdam U. Gives New Meaning to Higher Education

25th February 2008

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Some people just never leave the sixties behind.

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Obama Wore Muslim Garb During Kenya Trip

25th February 2008

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Just being polite, you understand.

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IDL Motors’ linear propulsion system gets demonstrated

25th February 2008

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