04 November 2015
This study, which shows sharply increase morality rates for working class whites with a high school education or less, primarily due to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, is a wake-up call on so many levels it’s difficult to know where to start. 1) The study was rejected by two prestigious medical journals, even though it was […]
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03 November 2015
Hywind Scotland will begin building what will become the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm. The initial pilot project will consist of five turbines generating 30 MW, capable of powering nearly 20,000 homes.The wind farm will be 12 miles offshore, presumably far enough out that NIMBYs with delicate sensibilities will not be able to complain […]
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02 November 2015
James Kunstler has a a fine rant about the Thought Police infesting universities today. Anything ideas contrary to their belief set is deemed to be a “trigger warning”, somehow injurious, and must be Resolutely Opposed. Injurious Thought and Ideas must be banished! Debate and conversations about such ideas are not allowed. Kunstler ran into our […]
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01 November 2015
The Crescent Dunes Concentrated Solar Power plant 200 miles northwest of Las Vegas in Tonopah is now coming online. Unlike photovoltaic, CSP solar plants can store energy and thus generate power at night. 10,347 tracking mirrors, each about the size of a billboard, reflect the sun’s heat to the Crescent Dunes central tower to heat […]
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30 October 2015
There was a time Yahoo owned the Internet. Now it can’t even filter spam properly from its for-pay Yahoo Mail, something Google does for free, and well, with Gmail. Yahoo keeps trying to lurch back to the glory days when it was the portal everyone went to, not realizing that few use portals now. Search […]
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29 October 2015
Step right up, get your $1.8 million beater shack in Silicon Valley. Surely prices will rise forever and this time is different. Why that’s exactly what that nice real estate broker in the Million Dollar Shack documentary says too. No matter that he thinks lesser beings who worry about bubblicious prices need to be driven […]
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28 October 2015
Our befuddled government has boldly decided to update cybersecurity guidelines that were issued in 2000, apparently finally cognizant that online security no longer needs to be concerned with dial-up access and bulletin boards. Now we can all thrill to tedious documents detailing the existence of “insider threats” and how to deal with them. Ideas include […]
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27 October 2015
The inescapable conclusion is there are simply too many migrants fleeing into the EU. Member countries, especially the poorer ones, haven’t the resources, manpower, or money to house and feed them all. And they keep coming. Authorities warn migrants will freeze to death in the winter. Xenophobia is growing. This is not just a humanitarian […]
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26 October 2015
Americans rank fear of government corruption as their #1 fear. followed by corporate tracking of personal data, according to a Chapman University poll. While this should be a wake-up call for politicians and corporations showing the populace deeply distrusts them, it won’t be. Instead, we have completely predictable reaction from oligarch media like Washington Post […]
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25 October 2015
An apparently normal young woman drives her car into a crowd doing 45-50 mph, no brake lights, kills four, injuring dozens. Bystanders had to pin her to the ground to prevent her from running away. Police are investigating it as a homicide but won’t know for sure for several days. Her grief-stricken father says pray […]
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