tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33280602011-04-21T20:07:23.086-05:00Random links and comments on technology - and economics - and telecommunications. "Live" from Bull Shoals, Arkansas. Jim Walsh jmw8888@aol.comJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13935331089754200996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3328060.post-48223665261587113502008-12-21T16:35:00.002-06:002008-12-21T16:39:47.132-06:00

It's been over four years since my last post...(like a long retired Catholic going to confession after a long absence...)Now, mebbe I will again add bits as I can.

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Here's some"plain talk", albeit filled with medical terms, about how bad carbs are; "bad" is not a good term in science; maybe harmful is better; nature's way of killing us off without making us feel bad. Like the high from running. Something is chasing me; I may get caught, so here are some good chemicals to make you feel better about that when it happens. http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/3/

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What’s happening: War. Again Victor Davis Hanson writes of America’s attitudes on the War so clearly and so correctly, it is a joy to read. I could go cut and paste and copy all his recent stuff, but better to go look at it directly on National Review Online or other places. Excerpt below: The New Defeatism Partisanship about the war earlier on established the present sad paradox of

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Classics Scholar Victor Davis Hanson again asks and answers the basic simple questions about the War...

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Blogging NCO in the middle of the nasties. Amazing and scary stuff... http://www.livejournal.com/users/ginmar/ Ginmar on livejournal.com

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Victor Davis Hanson, again, says it all and says it well...from today's National Review Online "It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom — never." Finishing...

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Leadership is doing the right thing...and convincing people to support you doing that, not governing by polls. ">Hearings Won't Make Us Safe

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With all the political talk about blame pre-9/11, I recall seeing Larry Johnson trotted out on several news channels in the past to "explain it all". He was the State Department Guy In Charge of Counterterrorism. Here is a reference to his thoughts before 9/11 - from NR Online today, Cliff May's article. =============== Michael Ledeen, in his fine book, The War Against the Terror Masters,

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I met Peter Huber at a Gilder Telecosm several years ago. A great writer who now does an occasional column for Forbes. =================== 3/10/04   The cost of health care in the U.S. has been declining steadily for the last 50 years. It will decline faster still in the next 50. All of the doleful commentary about mushrooming costs and budget-busting programs ignores the principal economic

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Nice to hear a little bad news about what the Chinese are doing occasionally. The following is from the inestimable ("too great to be calculated...") Mogambo Guru ============ "...The Chinese are discovering that the sad result of rapidly expanding the money supply, a lot of which was used to soak up all those American dollars that are flooding the world, is that it causes price inflation. And

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"...than we need a text company" Clay Shirley offers his unique insights here:Networks, Economics and Culture Excerpt from Today's email - ========================== VoIP - Plan A vs Plan B 2003 was a remarkable year in the US for voice over the internet (VoIP). If you needed a label for the events of the year, "Collapse of Denial" would be a good one -- after a long period of relative

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From The Daily Reckoning.... Stomaching India Karim Rahemtulla About 125 years ago my family left India and made its way to the East Coast of Africa. They were traders and soon built up an array of businesses ranging from retail stores to commodities like oil. My father was one of the largest distributors for Mobil on the East Coast of Africa. We were based in Mombasa (the name probably rings

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"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." The quote is attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero, circa 55 B.C.

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Dr. of Psychiatry, brilliant, insightful Charles K gave a speech recently. As usual, he is right no target... JMW ======================= Democratic Realism

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http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110004680

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Christopher Hitchens - principled liberal and wonderful writer: "I'm a single-issue person at present, and the single issue in case you are wondering is the tenacious and unapologetic defense of civilized societies against the intensifying menace of clerical barbarism." More, including his take on all the major candidates is here: All Against Bush

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Interesting Mind Hack. Works with most people...not sure why... =========== An amazing testimony to the incredibly complex neurology in your nervous system. You have to try this out to believe it. While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse

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I am a Type 2 diabetic and so I watch sugar and carbo intake carefully. A "best selling" book, published some time ago, Sugar Blues, got into the historical "damage" done by refined sugar and its cultivation and sale. The author goes off for awhile on this Whole Big Theory Thing and gets off thread a bit; but the science part seems plausible. From a doctor's website - albeit one selling books/

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Celebrated Misanthrope Florence King's 1997 piece on greeters and toaster shopping and grandmothers, replayed on National Review Online's The Corner... Great Stuff... JMW ========== Amidst all the chatter over immigration, gay marriage, and caucuses, we will now provide The Corner readers with a selection from Florence King's beloved "The Misanthrope's Corner" column. This April 21, 1997 gem

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George Will writes that perhaps our fascination with little bad news-es is a survival behavoir. The big picture, not good for helping the out-guys throw the in-guys out in an election year - is seen by few and appreciated by fewer, it seems. JMW ========================================= DISCONTENTED George Will January 11, 2004 -- "What good is happiness? It can't buy money." - Henny

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George , the eternal optimist, takes on Gloom and Doom of TDR/Bill Bonner: ============= Excerpted from George Gilder's 12/27/03 post, "Buffetted in Bonnerville" on the Gilder Technology Report subscriber message board on www.gildertech.com To read more of Mr. Gilder's posts, and share insights with other Gilder subscribers, visit http://www.gildertech.com "...It's nonsense. The best answer

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A view of what "American" means, from the editor of TDR =============== THE IDEA OF AMERICA By Bill Bonner "Elizabeth," I asked this morning, as my wife climbed out of the pool. "How would you describe that sea turtle we saw on the beach?" Pausing for a moment, she replied: "Rotating its slow and majestic flippers, it ground its way slowly and inexorably towards China... " The sea turtle

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From The American Thinker January 5th, 2004 The Democrats have built a mythology around the 2000 Presidential election, as Richard Baehr convincingly demonstrates in today'sAmerican Thinker. The energy generated by the resulting anger has been a prize sought by party officials and candidates alike. But like the thrill brought on by amphetamines or other nervous system stimulants, the short term

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From Guru Peter Drucker - ================= The interviewer is FORTUNE editor-at-large Brent Schlender. The title of the piece is "GURUS: Peter Drucker Sets Us Straight" To a question: Does the U.S. still set the tone for the world economy? Peter Drucker answers as follows: The dominance of the U.S. is already over. What is emerging is a world economy of blocs represented by NAFTA, the

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From TDR 12/30: ================ *** "Will there be a dollar crisis?" asks our friend Martin Spring. "The most astonishing figure I've seen reported in recent weeks is the Japanese provision for currency intervention, essentially to support the dollar. It's Y100 trillion - about $930 billion at the current yen/dollar exchange rate. "That's the amount of yen the Japanese central bank has been

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Professor Victor Davis Hanson scores again, in a December NRO piece. ================= December 19, 2003 Stuck on Calypso’s Island Dialoguing with the Europeans. What follows is a fair summation of about 20 or so dialogues I had recently with a series of Europeans — a good cross-section really of Scandinavians, British, Germans, Greeks, and Dutch. Questions and answers are taken almost

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India has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, and most speak better English than most Americans. Their many and diverse religions and languages keep them from being an effective "unified" world power, as they continue to fight amongst themselves. With little concept of private property, it's improbable that they can become a "#1 contender". Here's a view from The Daily Reckoning -

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Most everyone who writes has to travel occasionally; and everyone who travels has a horror story. After 2 million plus miles on Northwest, this is mine. The DC-10 is an old old airplane, made by the now defunct McDonnell-Douglas company acquired some years ago by Boeing. But Northwest Airlines and their partner KLM are trying to keep a few going. Not successfully. When the “pneumatics” failed

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Beef Prices Are Skyrocketing, say the “features” on the Network News shows. Mad Cow Disease in Canada (only one cow, it turns out) caused the Govmint (local pronunciation) to Ban Beef Imports From There. And since you can’t grow cows fast, up go the prices. High Class Restaurant owners in NYC are shown complaining about 2-3 dollars a pound more for The Good Stuff. So when I was introduced to T,

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Surprise, surprise. The French are Financing the Bad Guys... From The Wall Street Journal - ========================= Vive le Checkbook How France bankrolls America's enemies. BY MICHAEL GONZALEZ Saturday, November 29, 2003 12:01 a.m. "Follow the money" is an old adage, and it means that economic interest will eventually explain much human behavior. That France opposed the removal of Saddam

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From the OpenDTV forum : =============== Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:11:22 -0500 From: Craig Birkmaier Subject: RE: [OpenDTV] VHS is dying... At 4:29 PM +0000 11/18/03, Albert Manfredi wrote: >I have no doubt that this will continue to happen. That's how you get >the cheap TV sets that Mark Schubin lists, as a goal that DTV has to >reach. It won't be there *immediately*, but no product ever

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On Hating the Jews by Natan Sharansky "Hating" seems to be getting fashionably politic and chic. Hating Bush articles are openly discussed and analysed by otherwise respectable publications, while strong denunciations of "hate crime" can be found a few pages later. Hypocracy reigns, it seems. Here, a soviet dissident, now part of the Israeli government, looks at the historical record and asks

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From the Daily Reckoning =================== Thursday morning, Wal-Mart announced somewhat disappointing earnings for the third quarter. America's largest employer fell short of Wall Street's consensus earnings estimate for the first time in seven years. The company's earnings report wasn't really so bad, it just wasn't so great. "I don't think consumer spending is slowing," said President and

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The series of books were great, and this looks like it is a wonderful Movie. Promo site is here - Master and Commander - for clips and info and music and story outline... and the Venerable Wm. F. Buckley Jr, a Noted Seaman Himself, contributes these comments: Happily Seduced

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Chris Hutchins has dumped on Mother Theresa for years and is inspired by the recent papal beatification. http://politics.slate.msn.com/id/2090772/ http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200311070835.asp

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" Seek to save jobs and you get unemployment. Seek profits and you get jobs." Telecosm Lounge post: In 1999, for instance, 1.15 million workers lost jobs through mass layoffs, out of a total of 2.5 million lost. Liberalized, competitive economies with flexible labor markets can usually cope with such restructuring; the US economy, the world’s most dynamic, certainly should be able to do so.

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Pipe Smoking… The two-hour drive east brought Rich, Barber Jim and me to Hardy, home of a famous Tobacco and Pipe Store. Dick is the proprietor, a long time tobacconist, and respected name in Pipe Smoking. The Pipe Puffers of Northern Arkansas is a club that Barber Jim had invited me to join, albeit some distance away, and here we were for the October Meeting. Rich is an interesting fellow.

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Fall Events The Annual Turkey Trot Festival here last weekend featured live turkeys dropped from a helicopter while “the kids’ merrily chase and catch them. Turkeys are fast, and can be mean. No casualty reports or numbers were available. Color Photo Front Page Above The Fold of – an airplane! Yes, an American Airlines commuter plane flew into the little used local airport to allow folks to go

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From TDR 10/16: =============== - Yesterday, the giant automaker reported a profit of $425 million in the third quarter. But GM's global automotive operations contributed only $34 million to the bottom line - down dramatically from $368 million a year ago. GM's finance operations - especially its mortgage finance operations - carried the day, contributing essentially all of the company's

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This three-man group plays guitars and sing like true hillbillies. They are from Mountain View, about an hour away on the White River, where they run tourist stores and a bed and breakfast. “Don here he makes fiddles and banjos outta gourds he grows hisself…” But they are excellent musicians, and lapse into three part “gospel” and country harmony flawlessly. After an hour, they break to walk

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Victor Davis Hanson, The California Classics Professor again scores...from The National Review On Line Legends of the Fall Excerpt: "French newspapers may blare, "The slowly rotting situation in Iraq, the Mideast and Afghanistan has destroyed the myth American omnipotence," but they don't tell us how removing the Taliban and Saddam Hussein is worse than selling weapons to them — or why and how

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The Dangers of Drinking Beer

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Financial Day of Reckoning. I’m a great fan of The Daily Reckoning(TDR) a site with a daily column of commentary on financial and economic doings. Two of the principals (William Bonner and Addison Wiggin) have written a book that has become (cliche alert) an instant best seller. (Barnes and Noble, Amazon). "Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of The 21st Century" (John Wiley

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What's The Best Way To Buy Into This Expanding China Opportunity? A Colleague in Beijing says: "Chinese (middle class – 10% - 120 million!) are investing in cars and real estate....Invest in paint companies – cars get banged up, walls need covering..." This from The Daily Reckoning earlier this week. ========================== The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Pao Mo! Pao Mo! Now that we

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From The Daily Reckoning =================== Bill Bonner, back in Paris... *** Guess which country has the fastest-growing economy in the G7? Japan! GDP grew 4% in the 3rd quarter in the land of the raw fish eaters. And now Bloomberg tells us that the Japanese - who are the world's biggest holders of U.S. Treasury bonds - are losing interest in dollar assets. Oh là là... What if they decide

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I don't own a real gun. I have an unreliable BB gun that is used unsuccessfully to chase away squirrels. But I believe in most of what the NRA says about gun usage. "Citizens" owning guns helps keep things civilized. Here is an article by Pat Buchanan Excerpt: ==================== In 1995, Gary Kleck published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology of Northwestern Law School his

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(From his column today) Hanson http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson091903.asp ========================= Yet sophistication is not morality. Neither is nihilism. More people, remember, fried in France this August while its social utopians snoozed at the beach than all those lost in Kabul and Baghdad together. I think an American pilot who flew over the peaks of Afghanistan or a Marine

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The promise of nanotechnology has been debated for years. The "popularizer" of several years ago, Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation by K. Eric Drexler, Wiley 1992, became the technical reference to all the good things that could happen. Lotsa reasons why they haven't happened yet. But in semiconductors, they are doing many things just like nanotechnology; and Gilder

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George likes China... A recent email in a reply to a Telecosm Lounge query about nanotech companies. Note the ref to Carver Mead's book wherein he shows - with integral equations even - that Einstein was right; and many of the widely assumed basics of "quantum" physics are wrong. ========================== 9/18/03 11:03:07 PM I am still Shanghaied, breathless in some backwater of my

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I read that when people talk in person to other people, the listener is doing a lot of parallel processing and anticipating wht the end of the sentence might be long before it is completed. Japanese syntax and grammar are such that as two people talk, the talker can read the reactions of the listener and before he gets to the end can change the whole meaning with the last word of two; typically

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A Colleague sent me a PowerPoint presentation that he had sent to a Prospective Client. Without “giving” the presentation in person, throwing a PPT slide show over the transom leaves a lot to be desired in furthering the sales process. Selling is about listening, not telling. And PPT does not even “tell” stuff well. “PowerPoint allows speakers to pretend that they are giving a real talk, and

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Most music written in the last fifty years or so does nothing for me...but here in Bull Shoals we get to hear some locals occasionally. Saturday was the Arkansas State Chili Cook Off Championship at the Town Park. You could taste all the entries and then vote for the “People’s Choice” favorite; a separate batch was made for the judges. It made a great late-morning lunch, even with the necessary

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From NRO - the Corner ======================== ">Cars and Enemies ======================== WHY THE LEFT HATE CARS [Andrew Stuttaford] In response to an aside in an earlier post that mentioned this topic, a reader kindly sent in a ">link to this excellent article by James Q. Wilson. I wouldn’t agree with all of it (pedestrianization, for example, generally rips the heart out of cities), but it

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From National Review Online, once again, Victor Davis Hanson nails it down... Few Die in San Joaquin Valley In August. Ten thousand deaths in France expose the socialist paradise as amoral and corrupt, no? Ah but the cheese and wine, they answer...Hmm...California Cheese and Wine compete very favorably, it seems to me. And don't get me started on Wisconsin stuff... Hoping We Fail

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The Ultimate Endorsement.... Quicktime file : Apple Jesus

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From Monday's The Daily Reckoning =========================== - Consider GM... again. During boom times, the company did not set aside sufficient reserves for the inevitable, upcoming bust. Therefore, as we have noted innumerable times in this column, the giant automaker labors under a crippling debt load and pension plan liability. - "Few Chevrolet drivers would guess that the single biggest

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Let free market solve energy woes Aug. 20, 2003 12:00 AM There are lessons to be learned from the Phoenix gas shortage and the Northeast electricity blackout. Unfortunately, in all likelihood, they will be the wrong lessons. Until Sunday afternoon, the Phoenix retail gas market was following a conventional economic path. After a supply disruption, prices went up as supplies contracted. On

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Peter Huber and his partner Mark Mills put out a monthly newsletter on Digital Power. The last issue was May 2003. This is their web site Digital Power.com This is a link to a 54-page PDF report dated August 2003 Critical Power

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From Marina, a poster on Italofiles - Spiedini Siciliani Involtini Siciliani 1 medium-small onion, minced 2 tb olive oil 1 cup stale white breadcrumbs 1/4 cup pine nuts 1/4 cup currants or raisens 1/4 cup or more of grated caciocavallo or pecorino cheese Salt and fresh ground black pepper 1 1/2 lb veal or beef fillets, cut into 3-by- 5-inch thin slices 1 large onion, cut in wide slices Bay

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The Bleat In the middle of a diatribe about dealing with DSL Customer Service Quality Assurance Representatives, James Lileks spins off on parenting...I was Strongly Discouraged From Sending this to friends with kids... ============== ".......Because they bought space on the copper and resold it to Earthlink. They would have to initiate a trouble ticket. " Yes, a "trouble ticket." Sounds

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Their Ancestors chose not to get on the boats to the New World; they chose "security", not freedom. Look what happened... EUROPE: WORLDS APART By RALPH PETERS, New York Post August 14, 2003 -- LIFE may not be predictable, but Europeans are. If we criticize them publicly, they splutter, outraged that we don't recognize their perfection. They can dish it out abundantly, but continental

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I brought some “real Italian” food back from Chicago and St. Louis. The sausage was wonderful tonight in a Penne with Sausage and cream sauce. Had red clam sauce with spaghetti and fresh mozzarella earlier this week. The garden’s herbs (thyme, parsley, oregano, basil, scallions, chives) are going into a lot of stuff – salad dressings, sauces, salads, pasta - and they add a lot. A large (60

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Telegraph-Opinion From a Serious European who has written extensively about the Environment (The Skeptical Environmentalist) and who has been attacked for his reasoned approach repeatedly. More Farming in Siberia! Yeah! Buy John Deere futures! =================== Let's take a long, cool look at the dangers of global warming By Bjorn Lomborg (Filed: 10/08/2003) This time last year,

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Speidini When I went to work for Mike D in Chicago, many years ago, he talked about Speidini. (or sometimes spelled spiedini or spedini). His Milwaukee Sicilian parents never allowed the family to speak Italian, preferring the “total immersion” in English that made their kids fluent and colloquial and American, which they knew they had to be to succeed here. But they sure did cook Italian…or

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From The Wall Street Journal - Best of the Web Today - August 1, 2003 ============== Left Coast Quagmire By JAMES TARANTO California is a desert land roughly the size of Iraq. It is also an object lesson in the dangers of trying to impose democracy in a culture that is not ready for it. California "is degenerating into a banana republic," writes former Enron adviser Paul Krugman in his

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Books include The Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson, a readable-by-civilians history of science. The Sainted Mamoo used to say "Someday They Will Look Back on These Times as Barbaric”. Seeing how little we really know about the basics of most everything (the Universe, the history of the Earth, animal species development, bacteria, human behavior, more) – and how only recently

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Bill Bonner, of the Daily Reckoning, now lives in France and recently, in a non-political, non-polemic way, has been… “…comparing America and France. Our point has been that the two nations are not nearly as far apart as they think: In France, a much larger percentage of the GDP is spent by the government than in the U.S. - 53% compared to 32%. But the difference is smaller than it appears,

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From The Daily Reckoning ----------------------------------- Next to exterminating male members of the Hussein line, the Bush administration has made economic recovery a top priority. To that end, it has given the nation a tax cut, expected to provide an economic stimulus equivalent to 1.6% of GDP. Too bad so much of the stimulating is done overseas, particularly in China. For if an American

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I’m back in Chicago for a short while, and reliving foodie memories of my youth. Even ethnic neighborhood food has become almost ubiquitous around the US. The six varieties of frozen Johnsonville (Wisconsin) brats in cases at WalMart in Arkansas compare pretty favorably to “real” homemade fresh brats from a small Wisconsin butcher. But authentic Italian, Kosher, Greek and Chinese food is just

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I've been fired and I've resigned but most times the result was somewhere in between. Taking a quote from a recent apologia and refilling the blanks is instructive. Could even happen to the nicest of ladies who might use this excuse for getting canned: "...it came at a time when I, coming in as the change agent to raise the creative metabolism of the company to make it more performance-oriented,

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I finally found a friend with a boat and some experience in fishing in the Lake. "How about 5am...I like to go fish for a few hours and then go take a nap...". J, the barber, has been here for eighteen years and is on wife number four. I like experience. I lack experience. In all these areas. "Well, sunrise isn't until 602 today" I offered. "Don't want to trip in the dark and drown getting

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We are less like the Euros....thank God. We work more. More of us work. We're more productive. Centralization does not work well here any more; in Euro, it is all the rage. Brussels fellas are setting specs and rules on all sorts of cultural and commercial processes and practises. This from TCS. ============================ Kissing Cousins No More by Christian D. de Fouloy [ 07/10/2003 ]

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Much of Billy Beane's work is based on legendary Bill James, who came up with many unique insights into baseball and "revolutionized' sabremetrics...the science of baseball statistics. Some extracts from Baseball1.com ============== Extracted from The Bill James Baseball Abstract 1988 Ballantine Books, New York Copyright 1988 by Bill James "What I wanted to write about... is a very basic

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Moneyball by Michael Lewis is a great book. Here is a review - ==================== Michael Lewis's book on baseball may be the best book ever written on business. by Mark Gerson 07/07/2003, Volume 008, Issue 42 Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis W.W. Norton, 288 pp., $24.95 AFTER BEGINNING his career on Wall Street, Michael Lewis turned to writing and

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The previous owners of this place put in concrete beds for gardens. Planting in one, I discovered it doesn't get a lot of sun, so all my stuff is long and skinny as it reaches up for more light thru the shadows of the Giant Oak Tree above it. 36" high Dill is just starting to seed...Lettuce and Chard didn't do too well either. Zucchini blossoms out nicely, then they fall off. Tomato plants real

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Interesting And Cogent Observations from Mogambo GuruÉ. Another view on How the Chinese Will Do It. The Confucian habits, evolved by surviving for many millenia, of familial devotion, a sense of history, frugality, education, hard work and so on are much like those of the Jews Ð whoÕve learned that being GodÕs Chosen is no Picnic in the DesertÉ(Mebbe this is just - as socio-biologists might say

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Interesting And Cogent Observations from Mogambo Guru…. Another view on How the Chinese Will Do It. The Confucian habits, evolved by surviving fo rmany millenia, of familial devotion, sense of history, frugality, education, hard work and so on are much like the Jews – who’ve learned that being God’s Chosen is no Picnic in the Desert…(Mebbe this is just, as socio-biologists might say – “selected

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WANTED: GOOD WOMAN Must Be Able To Clean, Cook, Sew, Dig Worms And Clean Fish. Must Have Boat and Motor. Please send picture of boat and motor. =========================== (Not really from here; it was clipped from Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review OnLine)

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One bullish note from Gold Fans - China is now allowing and encouraging gold ownership by its citizens. And a new financial "product" out shortly on the NYSE (?) will facilitate gold ownership... and from the Daily Reckoning - =================== " *** China, believes Marshall Auerback, has the power to shut down the U.S. economy...the way the IMF pulled the plug on Argentina. We reported

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Consolidation - customers, suppliers, everything (?) ============================== THE SUPERNOVA REPORT Provided by Kevin Werbach and pulver.com. June 18, 2003 .. SOFTWARE Let's Get Together: The big story of 2003-2004 What do you get when you combine a soft economy with a deregulatory ideology and a technological discontinuity? One word: consolidation. In recent weeks, Palm bought

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Gilder Technology Excerpts from recent posts by George on his GTR Telecosm Lounge... ======================= RE: GG - Vonage gg 6/11/03 07:45 Thanks for the reminder. Joe has been trying to get me to look at that company for some time. I am mostly interested in the impact on broadband deployment of creating savings on your voice service that can pay for a cable modem. I was also impressed

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Times Online June 05, 2003 An insightful look at the "what's wrong with France" question. This fellow considers the possible rise of a Margaret Thatcher-like strong leader to rescue them, as She did in Britain. Not likely, because, it seems, the French Do Not Like To Work. Excerpts follow - ========================== Mon Dieu, Europe is ripe for a Maggie moment Anatole Kaletsky ...Now

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Bob Wilson changed his cell phone number, and he decided to let his mailing list know about it. This is the entire email that showed up in my box.... Note- Three lines of text carry the content. The rest is "distribution" and coding information. Scary. =========================== )" >, "Peter Tarca (ptarca@vibrint.com)" , Patrick McLean , Michael Harris , Paul Wilkins , Rob

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Visit to St. Louis last week. Stayed on the Hill, the Italian neighborhood, and went nuts at a Real Italian Deli. Got things only seen "on TV" - and made some stuff when I got back. Not a "decent" Italian Restaurant for 120 miles here. Even I am beginning to appreciate my own - novice level - cooking.... This is the URL for Lidia Bastianich's show with Julia Child. Lidia and Julia -

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Isen.com From a recent Smart Newsletter: ===================================== Another Content Scenario by David S. Isenberg The gurus of scenario planning caution that since we cannot predict the future, scenarios always come in multiples. In "Face the Music," I've assumed that the 'net's capacity and performance continue to grow. But the Internet has enemies. Suppose the rollout of the

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Storewidth - Part Four - Excerpts of a Report by by Graeme Thickins ======================= 'Dilemma,' For Sure -- Now, Where's the 'Solution'? The closing keynote by Clayton Christensen was a highlight, with almost all attendees staying on after-hours to hear the very engaging, well spoken Harvard Business School prof give us his take on the state of disruption and, purportedly, to offer a

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Graeme Thickins continues... ====================== Storage 'Intelligence': Another Buzzword (and a hot-button re: where it will reside) "The intelligence is moving to the fabric." - Mark Nagaitis, Director of Marketing - Storage Infrastructure, HP "The question is, what's the right intelligence and how should it be deployed?" - Peter Dougherty, VP-Business Development, McData "We see

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Labor: The Monster That Won't Go Away "What's driving CIOs in 2003?....One thing is that decreasing budgets require more productive staff. It's the driving force on the cost side of the equation." - Mark Bregman, EVP-Product Operations, Veritas "Storage is still manual labor." - Steve Duplessie, Founder & Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group "The amount of storage one administrator can

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An in-depth report with interesting quotes from Biggies in the Storage Market, on Gilder's 2003 Storewidth Conference, by Technology Reporter Graeme Thickins. ================================ Graeme Thickins What follows is a collection of sound-bites from Storewidth 2003, mixed in with some commentary, organized into what I hope are logical sections. But, remember, it was an eclectic bunch

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Wired 11.05: START The Shape of Things to Come The bell curve, that beautiful form of regularity, is getting turned upside down. By Daniel H. Pink In the mid-19th century, a few of Europe's finest scientists and mathematicians noticed something peculiar about the way the world organized itself. When they measured large samples of various things - the length of people's middle fingers, say, or

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From his March 4th column in PC magazine... ===================================== Whither Foveon? Dept.: So where is the heralded Foveon CMOS chip that is supposed to blow CCD technology out of the water? Here's what insiders tell me has happened. First, there were some technical gotchas that have been resolved. In the interim, both Fuji and Sony spent billions on new CCD manufacturing plants

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Traditionally, new products are developed by in-house R&D; because of increasingly more complex "solutions", most all the work must be done in house to properly integrate the parts. A Harvard Business School Professor is interviewed: here is part one and a link to the source at the bottom. Finding smart people who don't work for you and getting them to participate; and making it all work by

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Brief overview of Storage in the Age Of Cheap...Welcome to Storewidth.com Disruption in the Age of Cheap - The Convergence of Storage and Bandwidth Marches On by Graeme Thickins, graeme@thickins.com Another year, another eclectic gathering of technologists, investors, and gurus from the storage and networking industries, to assess the state of disruption and innovation in the converging

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Several things I've seen recently suggest that the Latest Thing is Cheap. Technology is squeezing profit margins from most products. Forbes' Rich Karlgaard suggests how to survive - and win - in such an environment. Forbes.com: The Big Cheap Chance ============================= You can escape the Cheap Revolution's unrelenting margin pressure in only three ways: * Improve your product

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Dead Parrot This is the script of the classic Monty Python skit about a pet store owner selling a dead parrot to an incredulous customer. Better seen than read, of course, but it ranks with "Who's On First" as a comedy treasure...

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The Next Big Thing in Semiconductors... Gilder talked about this recently. Microprocessors are kludged into doing too many things, wasting "time" and power. With new portable devices acquiring computing and connectivity features, power is now real important. FPGA's can be reconfigured , in this instance, every forty milliseconds.... Here is a fellow who has taken the first steps towards

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Cable Companies Need To Understand Changes...or they'll go the way of Over The Air Broadcasters... Stolen from David Isenberg's SMART Newsletter #86, out today - ========================= Quote of Note: Greg Blonder One SMART Person pointed out to me that he'd need a subscription to WSJ-interactive to read Greg Blonder's Barron's article, in which he says that technology investments are in

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NEC- Shirkey.com NEC @ Shirky.com is a mailing list about Networks, Economics, and Culture. Clay Shirley regularly presents some interesting insights into networking. Go look and subscribe (free) if you like it. Excerpts: - Essay: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data Telecom this time, an essay on two patterns of network deployment -- perma-net and nearly-net. Permanet is the visionary

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A comparison between the unregulated "dot.com" businesses and the airlines. Capitalism at work. Government regulations do not, despite the "best intentions". From TDR - and theFleet Street Letter ========================== Although the war seems indelibly linked to today's economy, it isn't the reason the airline industry, for one, is failing. Nor is terrorism the cause, though both are

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Not true Mamoo-isms, but wise advice indeed... GCFL http://www.gcfl.net/archive/latest.php ================================= 1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings." 3. There is

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