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Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Mass Transit and Walking
Cities in Europe want to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.Functioning cities are not "car friendly". A lifetime of experience has taught me that. Suburbs are not functioning cities. I have almost never gotten any work done on a train. I think better driving but cannot make notes. A voice activated recorder might help. Auto-transcription? -
Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score
Companies are scouring social networks, looking for the new “influencers.” If you can sell to the leaders the followers will buy.GM may have made an error with Joe Nocero. I hope he was well paid. -
Companies Erect In-House Social Networks
As social networks increasingly channel personal communications, companies are creating their own — and keeping them strictly business.Whatever floats their boat. -
New Laws in Several States Restrict Later-Term Abortions
On the theory that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks (an idea disputed by mainstream medicine), several states have banned abortions later than this.We know there are powerful interests that would ban abortion again.Most of them are not thinkers. Late term abortions of them would probably be pain free.I am in favour of abortion at any time the mother asks for it. It may be murder but it is not a crime. Post partum is much more dodgy. -
Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic?
The tendency to see shyness as an illness does society a disservice, because being shy has benefits.We know all about it. There is money to be made from the worried well.There is less to be made from the sick. They have less and what they have is ear marked. If you were sick you could not do your job. You can and do.Sooner is better. - - - - - As soon as you can is best. I LOVE YOU. -
Google's War on Nonsense
Good for them.
I wonder what Wikipedia did to her. I have found it a useful quick reference. Her subject may have something to do with her perception. Flame wars do not make much sense. There is just not much to know about pop culture. Rather there statistics about sales announcements of new strings and reviews of events that are important only to fans and other followers. The workers in the content farms need to organize, strike for living wages, and join the ranks of the unemployed along with their masters. -
Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural Gas
Energy companies have worked hard to promote natural gas as the fossil fuel of tomorrow, and they have found reliable allies in Washington. But not everyone agrees.Good. Gas is fossil carbon. leave it in the ground. It is sequestered there. The price will get high enough to make it worth recovering eventually. It will be far too valuable to waste. -
Atop TV Sets, Cable Boxes and DVRs Drain Power
Television cable boxes and DVRs have become the single-largest electricity drain in many American homes.8766 hours in a year. 446 kwh. per year. 50.88 watts. Much more than it needs to be but really not too bad. About $90 a year with $.20 electricity. Call it $7.44 a month. The equivalent of two hundred watt equivalent compact fluorescents.Not an air conditioner. Not a refrigerator. A slipped decimal point.The load is much bigger than it should be.Good design can do much better. Just putting them on a clock like a thermostat would help. Using a radio to get the morning report would help. Using Hulu is a practical measure. Putting a computer on a simple clock is easy. The clock can be bought at the hardware or supermarket or RadioShack. The setting to auto reboot after power interrupt is in the help file or can be found on line. -
My Syria, Awake Again After 40 Years
Syria’s people did not spend the decades of the Assads’ rule asleep; they aspire, like all people, to live with freedom and dignity.How does he know it is his? If it is, how will it be different? -
U.S. Using ‘Mystery Shoppers’ to Check on Access to Doctors
The Obama administration is deploying a team to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and see how difficult it is to get care.The federal government needs to know. Compensation may need adjustment.
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160 Million and Counting
Abortion and the tragedy of the world’s missing women.Ross Douthat voices a very Roman Christian position.I refuse to be guilty about the effects of the population control actions he is exorcised about.Yes, these girls were never born.The boys who were born have unbalanced the population ratio.I am fascinated by the experiment in social engineering.The value of sex workers is up.They are removed from the breeding population.They are removed from the population entirely quite quickly.(Early death)Disease thins their customers numbers.The value of breeding girls continues to rise.Soon, twenty years, the value of a fertile woman will be such as to destroy the patriarchal societies that brought on the sexual imbalance.I find that I am in favour of that.We are about two generations from the first openly female Pope.I am very glad that I believe that the dead do not suffer.I would be glad to discover early relief for the girls trapped by this process but I would not halt the process if I could.Misogyny is foreign to me. -
Our Untransparent President
On matters of press freedom and government transparency, the current administration is no better than its predecessor.Perhaps President Obama can get the necessary legislation through this congress. -
Gay Marriage: A Milestone
New York shows it is possible to expand fundamental rights even with divided government.This is too mild a criticism. -
Thousands Cheer Same-Sex Marriage Law in Euphoric Pride Parade
Much of the cheering was aimed at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who led the fight for legalization of gay marriage.I wonder what he sold for the votes. -
For Gay Marriage Movement, Momentum but Challenges
Gay-rights groups say they have learned lessons that will help as they seek approval of marriage bills in other states.Look at the demographics. This is going to have to be an action by the supreme court. That will not happen while this group is all there. Physical assassination will do no good at all. -
Gay Marriage: Where Is Mr. Obama?
The rest of the nation waits for the president to “evolve.”Stop yelling at him, He is jammed. The Defense of Marriage Act gags him. He is refusing to enforce it. This court might not strike it down as it should. -
Are School Librarians Expendable? - Room for Debate
With states and cities under severe budget constraints, they are looking for savings in the library.No. -
Book Review - Mightier Than the Sword - By David S. Reynolds
An account of the writing, reception and modern reputation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which taught whites to see slaves as human.I have not wanted to go here.I may have to read the work. I have seen the echoes. -
At TMZ, a Newsroom That Thrives Without News
Online and on TV, TMZ has earned a huge following by airing Hollywood’s dirty laundry. I just don't care. If I seem to care, check me for dementia.I can imagine caring but the producers will have to be more skilled than the Cone Brothers. The faces on the screen will still not be important. -
Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush
As investment floods into shale wells, concerns about their productivity are spurring talk of a bubble.The wells should go in several years to several decades from now.The price of fossil carbon must be much higher.
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