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by Jerome a Paris Sun Apr 15th, 2012 at 11:41:00 AM EST
Coming to a country near you
Also, while I will not relinquish Italian engineering jokes (and will not stop giggling at the parent company of Ferrari naming its subcompact engine the "FIRE" engine), Japanese and American automakers please take note: Laying out things under the hood is a clean, logical, easy-to-access way? Good thing. Jamming the engine so far back it's practically sitting on the radio (lookin' at you, Toyota)? Not good thing.
Now would you guys please send diesel ones over before my wife decides she wants one? Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
You can't compare that to global warming. Most people find it difficult to understand. Then there is a campaign to say it's just one theory among many. We are talking about long term here. And "global warming" sounds much nicer than nuclear annihilation (I suggest we switch to "cooked planet" or something to get the message across). Hell, Hamburg needs some warming just now.
There was no mistaking the situation. And all the "crises" and "tensions" and even war games could trigger off nuclear war. We used to know that it would be a matter of minutes and could happen every minute and we chose denial. You can't compare that to global warming.
You can't compare that to global warming.
maybe i can't but somehow i do, :)!
if anything global warming is off-the-map terrifying, and i feel living through the cold war horror is a large reason for all the short-term thinking that has become so endemic at all levels of western societies, from alienated yobs to greed-drunk ceo's to pols who cant't see round the bend of the next election.
it's much harder to defer gratification in a world whose odds of longterm survival are between short and shortening. perhaps 'sane' pretty much equals 'functional', with debatable values of the latter at that...
functional with the help of xanax, prozak, viagra and ambien maybe.
it doesn't even have to be conscious... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Yeah, it's kinda hard to miss that you do.
Good point about the cold war being a factor in the proliferation of short term thinking. There is more to it, though: if a nuke is shot at your town, you know what you will die of and when and your society with you. If we don't stop global warming now, this can a) end in a catastrophe or b) it will be stopped later or c) it will not have the result we thought or d) we all will have died in a nuclear war before the planet is much warmer.
My conclusion: Homo sapien is a failed species. It's the top dog on an entire isolated planet and it doesn't take care of its biosphere. Probably just one data point in a huge screening design. I think the major independent variable will prove to be human mortality. The logic goes, "Why should I give a fuck about the planet 100 years from now if I know I'll be dead by then?"
Only immortals can be trusted with planets. Everything else is vegetation and cattle. They tried to assimilate me. They failed.
India has reacted angrily to the detention of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan by US authorities for 90 minutes at White Plains airport near New York. This "policy of detention and apology by the US cannot continue", External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said. The actor arrived on a private plane and was on the way to Yale University for a function when he was stopped. US customs and border protection authorities later expressed "profound" apologies for the incident. The spokesman for the US embassy in Delhi, Peter Vrooman, also apologised "if Mr Shah Rukh Khan experienced an inconvenience or delay". It is not clear why Khan was detained at the airport, which serves New York City. In 2009 the actor was detained for two hours at Newark airport and was released after India's embassy in the US intervened. The actor said then that he was stopped because he had a Muslim name. US customs officials denied that Khan had been detained, saying he was questioned. 'Uncalled for' "Apologies from America have become mechanical," Mr Krishna said on Friday.
India has reacted angrily to the detention of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan by US authorities for 90 minutes at White Plains airport near New York.
This "policy of detention and apology by the US cannot continue", External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said.
The actor arrived on a private plane and was on the way to Yale University for a function when he was stopped.
US customs and border protection authorities later expressed "profound" apologies for the incident.
The spokesman for the US embassy in Delhi, Peter Vrooman, also apologised "if Mr Shah Rukh Khan experienced an inconvenience or delay".
It is not clear why Khan was detained at the airport, which serves New York City.
In 2009 the actor was detained for two hours at Newark airport and was released after India's embassy in the US intervened.
The actor said then that he was stopped because he had a Muslim name. US customs officials denied that Khan had been detained, saying he was questioned. 'Uncalled for'
"Apologies from America have become mechanical," Mr Krishna said on Friday.
i just saw this guy in a great movie last night (my name is khan). 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
India has taken up with the U.S. the issue of Shah Rukh Khan's detention at a New York airport, conveying its "deep concern" over the incident. "We have taken it up with the State Department," Indian ambassador to the U.S. Nirupama Rao told journalists here. Ms. Rao, who was in the city for a Columbia University conference on India, said the detention of the Indian superstar is an "incident that need not have happened."
India has taken up with the U.S. the issue of Shah Rukh Khan's detention at a New York airport, conveying its "deep concern" over the incident. "We have taken it up with the State Department," Indian ambassador to the U.S. Nirupama Rao told journalists here.
Ms. Rao, who was in the city for a Columbia University conference on India, said the detention of the Indian superstar is an "incident that need not have happened."
Shah Rukh Khan's plight at American airport: US grovels, India sulks - The Economic Times
Providing details of how the Indian diplomatic corps acted with alacrity to the plight of King Khan, an embassy statement said he had arrived at the White Plains airport in a private jet on the afternoon of April 12. Approximately half-an-hour after his arrival, the consulate general of India in New York received information that he had not been cleared by the US customs and border protection (USCBP) at the Airport . "The consulate general immediately intervened with the concerned authorities for his early clearance, which was done within 75 minutes of his arrival. Khan thereafter left the airport," the statement said, adding that "the same evening, USCBP authorities, through an email to the consulate general conveyed their profound apology for the incident." While most Indians would be delighted to leave an airport within 75 minutes after arrival , a recent issue of the Economist described the paucity of diplomats in India's foreign office to carry out the serious mission of advancing India's strategic goals, providing a counterpoint to what its officials were tasked with this week.
i hope this drives millions more to go see it. :0) 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
The Fox News Chairman and CEO spoke to about 350 people, including young journalists, Thursday as part of a special lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He started by telling them to change majors, which, Melody Butts reports, "elicited at least a few eye rolls." Here's what else he said: "If you're going into journalism if you care, then you're going into the wrong profession ... I usually ask (journalists) if they want to change the world in the way it wants to be changed." "Democracy depends on freedom of the press. But freedom depends on fairness in the press. There has to be more than one point of view." "Remember, the last time all of us got lined up together, we were lined up by two guys - Hitler and Stalin. If there's an alternative point of view, don't wet your pants. ... Suck it up and say, `Hey, there's room for everything.' " "We're the only news organization who has not had layoffs because of economic conditions. Why? Because we win." His strength: "I pick good people ... although some people point out that most of them are blond ... when women get into television, they dye their hair blond." On Jon Stewart: "I don't think he could make a living without Fox News. I think he likes Fox." On Newt: "Newt is trying to get a job at CNN because he knows he can't come back to Fox News." On the Fox News mole: "The mole shows a culture that believes in theft, a lack of loyalty, turning on his colleagues, lying to management, and there are some real, ethical, serious questions about it."
The Fox News Chairman and CEO spoke to about 350 people, including young journalists, Thursday as part of a special lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He started by telling them to change majors, which, Melody Butts reports, "elicited at least a few eye rolls." Here's what else he said:
lol
i massaged a woman once who was fired for not dying her hair blond at fox news. 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
I just read one of the most inspiring articles I've read in a very long time! It is inspiring not because of its great prose, or poetic beauty, but because it restores my "faith" in the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the progressive movement may have finally grown a spine to really take on the corporatist-led attack on what is left of our democracy. The article, "Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected," was written by Atlantic correspondent Nancy Scola. It talks about how the website ALEC Exposed came to life, and the impact it has had as a powerful "weapon" against the corrupt back-room deals between pay-to-play politicians, and their corporatist pay-masters. Having the bills all in one place painted a certain picture. "If it's voter ID, it's ALEC," observed Doug Clopp, deputy director of programs at Common Cause. "If it's anti-immigration bills written hand-in-glove with private prison corporations, it's ALEC. If it's working with the N.R.A. on 'Shoot to Kill' laws, it's ALEC. When you start peeling back state efforts to opt out of the regional greenhouse gas initiative, it's ALEC." Adopted first in the states, by the time these laws bubble up to the national level, they're the conventional wisdom on policy. It talks about the role The Nation magazine had in helping bring about ALEC Exposed, "with a series of companion articles." But most importantly, it talks about how organizations like ColorOfChange.org have used "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse" tactics to "convince" some of the biggest corporate players in the U.S. to stop supporting ALEC.
I just read one of the most inspiring articles I've read in a very long time! It is inspiring not because of its great prose, or poetic beauty, but because it restores my "faith" in the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the progressive movement may have finally grown a spine to really take on the corporatist-led attack on what is left of our democracy.
The article, "Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected," was written by Atlantic correspondent Nancy Scola.
It talks about how the website ALEC Exposed came to life, and the impact it has had as a powerful "weapon" against the corrupt back-room deals between pay-to-play politicians, and their corporatist pay-masters.
Having the bills all in one place painted a certain picture. "If it's voter ID, it's ALEC," observed Doug Clopp, deputy director of programs at Common Cause. "If it's anti-immigration bills written hand-in-glove with private prison corporations, it's ALEC. If it's working with the N.R.A. on 'Shoot to Kill' laws, it's ALEC. When you start peeling back state efforts to opt out of the regional greenhouse gas initiative, it's ALEC." Adopted first in the states, by the time these laws bubble up to the national level, they're the conventional wisdom on policy.
But most importantly, it talks about how organizations like ColorOfChange.org have used "I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse" tactics to "convince" some of the biggest corporate players in the U.S. to stop supporting ALEC.
But it runs Vista, which is sooooo slow compared to 7even it's ridiculous.
Still, I'm now a 2 laptop family. keep to the Fen Causeway
Katzenjammer : By appointment to Nobel Prize Winning Economist keep to the Fen Causeway
EVEN NOBEL PRIZE LEAUREATES LIKE KATZENJAMMER. Paul Krugman, bad-ass keynesian economics prof at Princeton, New York Times op-ed columnist, Nobel Prize leaureate and one of the most popular bloggers in the world, puts up a video of Demon Kitty Rag as his Friday Night Music relief moment away from the more or less wonkish (and these days pretty dreary) analyses of coming Greek defaults and the Medicare-busting Ryan budget. "A commenter recommended this group", he writes, "and they're just what I needed to cheer me up after a cold, very rainy day in southern California." Glad to be of service, professor Krugman!
"A commenter recommended this group", he writes, "and they're just what I needed to cheer me up after a cold, very rainy day in southern California." Glad to be of service, professor Krugman!
From Katzenjammer Site
As i understand it, the girls spend most of their time running the bus' supercomputer, developing the algorithms which prove that the much-invoked invisible hand is actually a muse which only appears to musicians, and which patently ignores economists. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
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