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FRISH
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
one liner tech story
"Meg Whitman, who took over as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s chief executive officer two months ago, used her first earnings conference call to tell investors they need to lower their expectations." (Business Week, 11/22/11)
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Nano Particles additives and your liver...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111117141157.htm
I mean the story is so rife with material...but the best line:
"...they show dose-dependent toxic effects on the liver. Our next step is to determine the mechanism of the toxicity."
How about determining that the chemical additive not be used at all, instead of trying to accommodate it?
And peoplel think we're smart enough to avoid the looming disaster...
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FRISHSunday, November 13, 2011
letter to editors of Time regarding their "report" on overpopulation.
Okay, I get it, you bring us to the edge of our seats, with the certaintude that a huge extinction of other species is going on, our population growth is unsustainable, we're polluting and destroying our "habitat" (It's OUR PLANET...) Yet, somehow, we'll be able to feed everyone too...if politics *(pesky stuff politics) gets out of the way...and some future genius' show us the way out of our predicament.
Life is an interconnected set of chemistry and physics.
Extinctions of species is a problem, since ecologies are made up of groups of species.
Extinction creates chaos in those systems.
Take a peek at Humboldt Squids and Sharks...no more sharks, and loads of squid...eating things we'd like to eat, like salmon, the population of which is plummeting.
Do you really think we can have all these people on the planet, and still live in total harmony with the environment, so we don't continue to destroy our own nest?
I'm not suggesting, BY ANY MEANS, that anyone who is already alive should have anything but a long and enjoyable life.
I can make the case, however, that IT IS IMMORAL FOR ANYONE ON THE PLANET TO HAVE CHILDREN, ANYWHERE, ANYWHEN.
We've ALREADY caused enough destruction to preclude our continued existence, past 100 years from now, or less. Few of us have reached this conclusion, that flies in the face of every societal norm, since the total purpose of a society is it's continued existence, and we're suggesting extinction, in a totally non-coercive way, by voluntarily not having offspring.
Check this out, if you've read this far.
We're vehement (and serious too!)
FRISH
Statement of the UN Sec General
If this has already been posted, sorry about that,
Time Magazine is a pretty mainstream organ for overpopulation coverage...
and such and intriguing report...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said:
"Yesterday I spoke to students, pupils of a public high school [in Manhattan]. I was very much moved. Everybody brought small and big placards reading: "7 Billion, I'm a Part of 7 Billion."
It was quite moving; I saw very strong signs of hope."
To which one might say: "Huh?"
To which one might say: "Huh?"
Oh, sorry, if the Sec Genr'l isn't the ULTIMATE DIPLOMAT he's in the wrong job...
This is one part of the Time magazine online special section on overpopulation...
find the selection bar and visit other fascinating insights into the population of humanity on Planet Earth.
Here's the main article, all about how populations of humans and other animals may not be a comfortable fit.
Seems the animals are losing!
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FRISH
FRISH
Republican Candidates tortuous torture theory
Republican presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both say they would reinstate waterboarding during interrogations of suspected terrorists, while rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman both say they see the procedure as torture.
Considering that all legal precedent in the US says waterboarding is torture (see definition of torture), it's fascination how the rule of law is interpreted...
Best yet, torture doesn't work during interrogations.
This isn't guesswork by some bleeding heart liberal, it is documented by those who actually endured torture...
any answer you want to hear will eventually be discovered,
The victim finds ways to appease the abuse by making stuff up.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Torture...and his response to it.
They waterboarded KSM 183 times in a month, and he either never got asked about couriers guarding OBL, or he avoided answering the question honestly. Had KSM revealed that detail, Bush might have gotten OBL 8 years ago.
And just as importantly, the whole time KSM was shielding Abu Ahmed's true identity while being waterboarded, KSM was also lying to the CIA about where OBL was. When asked what things he lied about under torture at his 2007 CSRT hearing, KSM specifically said he first said he didn't know of OBL's whereabouts, and then confirmed false locations for him, in response to the torture.
President [of the Tribunal]: What I'm trying to get at is any statement that you made was it because of this treatment, to use your word, you claim torture. Do you make any statements because of that?
[snip]
KSM: I make up stories just location UBL. Where is he? I don't know. Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaida which I don't him. I say no. They torture me.
So at the time when KSM was guarding crucial information about Abu Ahmed and with it OBL's location, he was making shit up to get the torture to stop.
They characterize this forced drowning as acceptable.
They risk the lives and safety of US soldiers taken prisoner, without any benefit.
The litmus test of beliefs about torture
(not to mention the no Tax Pledge - anyone who refuses to consider fiscal options ought not be able to be in political office at any level!),
differentiates legitimate candidates from the rest.
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FRISHSunday, November 6, 2011
Question to volunteers
Life up until now played no favorites. Operating across POPULATIONS over time, evolution allows life to establish and utilize energy niches.
CURRENT bio-technology allows for any string of dna components (AGTC) to be created via a dna generator essentially.
We're only beginning to see what all genes can do.
So, we're in a bit of a race against time, perhaps.
Can Bio engineering, a nascent science, (didn't want to say "embryonic" aren't you glad?!)
be enough for us to establish a human-centric ecology?
Are we smart enough to continuously generate biological tools to ameliorate our deprecation...
(Can we create artificial biology to suit our needs, since we can then create any life we desire...that which cleans up after us, grow our houses with food on the shelves, etc...)
Are we smart enough to do ANYTHING in a sustainable fashion? Maybe we won't have to...
I only know we've not been trying...
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FRISHOh the fragility of our global supply chain...so many weak links
How the effects of "global warming" (aka, Human Caused Climate Chaos) affect you.
From Fry's website...
Notice to Customers: Due to the flooding in Thailand and the foreseen shortages on hard drives,
Fry's Electronics is limiting hard drive sales to a quantity of one per customer at this time.
"Three months of intense rainfall have fueled Thailand's worst flooding in half a century,
swamping much of the country since July and leaving 506 people dead, according to the government."
I'm think I'll go "Occupy Fry's" until they'll sell me a second disk drive...
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FRISHSaturday, November 5, 2011
Pets and environmental impacts
"Companion Animals" aka pets are a welcome addition to millions of households world wide.
Googled "environmental impacts of pets" and found this article
which is pretty thorough, in terms of identifying the areas impacted by pet ownership.
(Food, shampoo, toys for pets, pet poop, etc. etc. etc.)
Which, if one can wade through it, is a serious attempt to quantify impacts of pets.
I get along great with pets and kids and have ABSOLUTELY NO DESIRE for any...
Pets are the outcome of domestication of animals altogether,
our brilliant neolithic predecessors finding animal "husbandry" a useful addition to the tribe.
*(evidence for dog domestication is certain at 7000bc, and may be as much as 30,000 years ago!)
These days it seems natural to enjoy the company of other species, even while suspending our disbelief,
since the pleasing behaviors we find in pets are behaviors we've bred into them.
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FRISHThe best pics ever...
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/earth-from-space-1320348799-slideshow/nasa-handout-photo-shows-earths-airglow-seen-oblique-photo-181358986.html
FRISH
These are all cool...my interest probably stems from many early mornings watching Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo liftoffs with my father...
Shot number 7 is like, beyond the outer limits...
Gotta love the internet...
("There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.")
-- FRISH
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2011
One 1%er
Dozens in a group of 99%ers who were chanting and holding banners
One guy dressed as a QR Code - hilarious..
One Billy Mays (also Hilarious - TV Pitchman who died last year..)
One Billy Mays (also Hilarious - TV Pitchman who died last year..)
Lots of Mad Hatters
Lots of Pirates
Lots of Super Heroes - Thor, Green Lantern, Captain America and thousands of Batmen and Robins!
On street for 6.5 hours, that was enough!
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FRISH
FRISH
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