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Admin As I expected, the Tea Party protests today at IRS offices nationwide were a dud. Calling demonstrations on short notice in numerous locations on a work day is a brain dead tactic. I helped organize multiple Iraq antiwar protests in LA and trust me, we spent months building them, doing …
The robotic hand 3D prints strands of plastic in the air which can be most any shape and which apparently solidify very quickly – 3D printing in thin air. Working in the same manner as the “3D printing pen” except instead of your shaky hand trying to make a recognizable …
Harvard Business Review says don’t believe the hype about how big data will usher in an era of Wonderfulness (or maybe Big Brother, depending on your viewpoint.) It probably can’t because of inherent biases in collecting and selecting data. If a data set is biased, then conclusions based on that …
A new 3D printed gun costs $25 to make on a $1725 3D printer. It fired eight shots from one barrel successfully. The arms race continues… This handgun was printed with a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer and fired for the first time above. One plastic barrel survived eight shots, and …
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The problem is California state pay for water workers is so much lower than industry standards that state employees with experience immediately get hired for substantially more pay at private utilities. The result is a growing California water worker shortage This costs the California tens of millions, not just in …
Charles Hugh Smith often has perceptive and unusual takes on issues. He says the bankster class has implicit support from those getting government entitlements, and that this hurts the rest of society. Entitlement spending is running huge deficits while the middle and working classes get poorer. A staggering 50 million …
It is not credible that Obama didn’t know about the IRS targeting before May 10 considering that his chief counsel knew. President Obama claims not to have been made aware of the IRS indiscretions until May 10th it seems the White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit …
Advances in solar photovoltaic technology has boosted output of the panels so that (finally) solar PV is a net producer of electricity. Until until now, PV panels took more electricity to manufacture than the panels generated. That has finally flipped. The amount of energy generated by all of the world’s …