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Long time associations with controversial figures and inflammatory…

nmb — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:50:31 +0000

Long-time associations with controversial figures and inflammatory statements from decades ago either matter or they don’t depending on whom it hurts, etc. etc.

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After decades as the world’s largest manufacturer the…

nmb — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:23:48 +0000

After decades as the world’s largest manufacturer, the United States now makes, according to some recent estimates, 19.4 percent of the world’s manufactured goods—second to China, which makes 19.8 percent. Even in high-tech products, the United States now imports more than it makes. Those statistics have implications for employment, national competitiveness, and even the politics and social structure of the country.

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After decades of outsourcing production in an effort…

nmb — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:11:53 +0000

After decades of outsourcing production in an effort to lower costs, many large companies have lost the expertise for the complex engineering and design tasks necessary to scale up and produce today’s most innovative new technologies, not to mention the appetite for the risks involved.

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In the Great Silence we see the future…

nmb — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:50:39 +0000

In the Great Silence, we see the future of technology, and it lies in achieving greater and greater efficiencies, until our machines approach the thermodynamic equilibria of their environment, and our economics is replaced by an ecology where nothing is wasted.

( http://bit.ly/urZKtH )

The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major…

nmb — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:58:52 +0000

The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major influence on global health; the approximately US$800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the annual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds gien to fight infectious disease by the United Nations Agency for International Development.

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Driven from Paradise man escaped to this Earthly…

nmb — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:47:12 +0000

Driven from Paradise, man escaped to this Earthly existence, on the edge of death. Created by the weakest of beings, created by the sapience born from that weakness, this paradise is our creation.

(Evangelion, Episode 17)

Many necessary features are missing or partially implemented…

nmb — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:30:11 +0000

Many necessary features are missing or partially implemented. In practice this means that the manual page, supposed to describe these features, is farther removed from being complete or useful.

(man gpt)

If we’re not motivated to do our jobs…

nmb — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:03:26 +0000

If we’re not motivated to do our jobs already, is the juvenilization of our toil through the addition of gold stars for good behavior going to improve things?

( http://bit.ly/unFgZh )

nmb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:50:29 +0000

Usually when I have a thought, there’s a lot of other thoughts in there; something says yes, something says no. But this time there’s only yes. How could the only thing I’ve ever been sure about in my life be wrong?

(The Simpsons; Season 2, Episode 12)

Unfortunately when large portions of income are spent…

nmb — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:56:49 +0000

Unfortunately when large portions of income are spent on survival items, savings are destroyed and debt obligations rise – you are left with nothing, hell, nothing would be preferable to the mountains of debt that people have accumulated.

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