Day January 9, 2009

Army holds ‘Mad Scientist’ conference

Sounding very 4GW and 5GW, the Army held a “Mad Scientist” seminar last August, to “investigate proliferating technologies with the potential to empower individuals and groups in the next 10-25 years.” Quoting from the seminar summary The U.S. must accept…

Biggest unemployment jump since 1945

The U.S. lost more jobs in 2008 than any year since 1945 as employers fired another 524,000 people in December, indicating a free-fall in the economy. Masses of unemployed people leads inexorably to social unrest. FDR defused things by creating…