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2013-06-20 05:38:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Yeah, I realize sharing this on G+ is kind of ironic:

2013-06-20 05:08:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-20 05:07:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#music  

2013-06-20 03:33:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"After the excitement of the Diamond Jubilee and the Royal Wedding, Briton’s are preparing for more celebrations to mark the arrival of the future monarch that is estimated to cost a whopping £243 million.  It is thought that the population will spend this extraordinary amount on champagne, barbecues and most ‘importantly’ memorabilia to welcome the couple’s first born."

2013-06-20 03:24:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-20 03:19:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-20 03:13:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"And this is where we keep all the money, that would otherwise go to higher education, locked up..."

The Governor's revised budget funds the following departments the indicated amount:
K-12, $40 billion
Higher Ed., $11 billion
Health & Human, $46 billion
Corrections, $11 billion
Transportation, $13.5 billion

The fact that the cost of incarcerating people (mostly minorities and mostly for self-victimizing drug crimes) is equal to the amount we provide for higher education should be a wake-up call.  On one level, the drug laws need to be revised.  On another, we need to take a very serious look at the cost of tuition at our public universities; it isn't right that we saddled new graduates with a debt load that is as great (if not much greater) than the mortgages my generation took out to buy a home.

2013-06-20 03:11:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday said members of his anti-secrecy website have been in contact with lawyers of alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and are helping him seek asylum in Iceland.

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/1auXGWX
Photo: Anthony Devlin / Pool / Reuters

2013-06-20 03:10:40 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Serious headcold.  Been in and out of consciousness to swig syrup and work.  No cigs in over 24 hours, starting to get irate.  Ugh....

2013-06-20 01:57:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Clive James once wrote that 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' were just the bark of Orwell’s writing and that his journalism was the tree. Perhaps if sales of his 'Collected Essays' had soared as much as 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' people would realize how wrongheaded the comparison of the NSA to Big Brother really is — and how much more Orwell has to contribute to contemporary debate than just 'Big Brother' and 'Newspeak.' When NSA director James Clapper said he’d responded 'in the least untruthful way' to Congress in March by telling them that the NSA does not intentionally collect any data of American citizens, Orwell’s famous definition of political language — that it is 'designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind' — seemed particularly apt."

2013-06-20 01:31:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-06-19 21:44:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-19 21:43:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-19 21:27:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"The U.S. government has decided the best, most defensible way to fight whatever it deems threatening (now or in the future) is not to create a dossier on every human being on the planet — that would be totalitarian! Instead they’re merely building the infrastructure that enables them to do so both at will and retroactively. All they’re doing is merely collecting anonymous 'metadata'. That’s true insofar as it goes (though as a programmer I must protest the abuse of the term 'metadata', which typicaly refers to 'data about data', whereas phone numbers, emails, Facebook likes and the like are 'data about us') but, like most spin, the argument routes around the point with expert precision.

The danger is not so much that government officials are currently investigating you (not that they aren’t). It’s that if they ever decide they’d like to, theyalready have ... more »

2013-06-19 20:27:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-19 06:13:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-19 01:29:53 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-06-19 00:40:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-06-18 21:05:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

No comment.

2013-06-18 20:26:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-18 19:58:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I thought these guys were supposed to be BFFs?  Did the right-wing media lie to me?  Quel dommage!

2013-06-18 19:53:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-06-18 19:12:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#music   Great slice of French Pop circa 1967, with a bit of psychedelic influence.  RIYL France Gall.

2013-06-18 17:14:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Productivity is at historic highs, but Americans making minimum wage have less buying power as a whole now than they did 51 years ago. Like all top-heavy structures, it won't be too long before the unsustainable model of everlasting growth comes to a crashing halt. The co-op movement will become our new economic model if we start seriously building it now and introducing mainstream America to co-op living and working in the next five years. It's already happening in several parts of the country."

2013-06-18 16:57:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-17 16:50:39 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Found this interesting: The libertarian argument for regulation:

"The atomistic-libertarian response [to the question of whether pharmacists should be able to refuse to give out Plan B on moral grounds] is, “Of course. The right to sell, or not sell, is a fundamental free-market liberty.” The implicit assumption here, as Silber pointed out, is 'that this dispute arises in a society which is essentially free.' But pharmacists are in fact direct beneficiaries of compulsory occupational licensing, a statist racket whose central purpose is to restrict competition and enable them to charge a monopoly price for their services...

When the state confers a special privilege on an occupation, a business firm, or an industry, and then sets regulatory limits on the use of that privilege, the regulation is not a new intrusion of statism into a free market. It is, rather, thesta... more »

2013-06-17 16:35:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Ugh, been a busy few days, can't believe I missed this:

2013-06-17 16:21:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Interesting development:

"European firms believe revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has secretly gathered user data from nine big U.S. Internet companies, including Microsoft and Google, will hand them a competitive advantage as they play catch-up with the dominant American players in 'cloud computing'."

2013-06-17 16:15:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-17 15:45:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-06-17 15:03:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-17 15:00:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is happening right now:

2013-06-16 04:50:41 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Found this interesting: The libertarian argument for regulation:

"The atomistic-libertarian response [to the question of whether pharmacists should be able to refuse to give out Plan B on moral grounds] is, “Of course. The right to sell, or not sell, is a fundamental free-market liberty.” The implicit assumption here, as Silber pointed out, is 'that this dispute arises in a society which is essentially free.' But pharmacists are in fact direct beneficiaries of compulsory occupational licensing, a statist racket whose central purpose is to restrict competition and enable them to charge a monopoly price for their services...

When the state confers a special privilege on an occupation, a business firm, or an industry, and then sets regulatory limits on the use of that privilege, the regulation is not a new intrusion of statism into a free market. It is, rather, thesta... more »

2013-06-16 04:44:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-14 01:43:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A new Census report shows that there are more deaths than births among the non-Hispanic white population in the United States. http://ow.ly/m0w2R

2013-06-14 01:43:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The mothers of Turkish protesters form a protective chain around Gezi Park.

#Turkey   #direnTurkiye   #direngezi   #direngeziparki   #direnankara  

2013-06-13 21:22:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Turns out Jay Carney has great taste in music.  I always suspected, ever since I saw his hip frames.

2013-06-13 21:17:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

THE FUTURE IS HERE:

2013-06-13 20:39:06 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Revealed: Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to data and were in talks to set up 'spying rooms' despite denials by Zuckerberg and Page over PRISM project

2013-06-13 20:37:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-06-13 02:04:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Welcome to #teamhashtag  #Facebook. #Finally.

2013-06-12 20:08:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

how maps affect our decisions

2013-06-11 20:02:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Actual wireless network name I just saw: "Pretty Fly For A WiFi"

2013-06-07 21:12:07 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-06-07 18:34:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Planet Jupiter: Europa

The ice cracks in this Jovian moon are epic, and it is one of the chief places that #Extremophile  organisms could perhaps exist. 

Image sourced to the Galileo spacecraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)

2013-06-07 18:32:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Antarctica - after the ice melts

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It  contains 25 million cubic kilometers of ice: approximately 61% of all fresh water on the Earth.  It's melting.  In 2010 about 100 cubic kilometers melted, according to the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites and also a completely different estimate by Eric Rignot.  And it's melting faster and faster.  Each year, the amount that melts is about 14 cubic kilometers more than the year before. 

Since there's so much ice, it will take centuries to melt.  But when it's done - assuming we let ourselves warm the Earth back to the point before it was covered with ice - sea levels will rise about 60 meters. 

This new map shows what the land will look like.  It's called BEDMAP 2:
http:/... more »

2013-06-07 00:09:56 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-06-06 20:33:40 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Too funny: Apparently bike sharing is some sort of Muslim/Nazi revenge plot.

2013-06-06 20:30:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-06-06 20:22:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS: