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You would have thought that Apple would be content with dominating the day's tech news with the iPhone 4 pre-orders. Not so it seems, as it has chosen today to also announce the launch of a brand spanking new Mac mini.
The updated mini is, according to Apple, "the world's most energy efficient desktop".. It features, deep breath...Mac OS X Snow Leopard, an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor, 2GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB, a 320GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, a slot-load 8X optical DVD drive, an Nvidia GeForce 320M integrated graphics card, AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking, Bluetooth 2.1, four USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot, a FireWire 800 port and a HDMI port...exhale.
There's also a server version running Snow Leopard Server which has a bit more oomph. This one's got a 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB of shared L2 cache, 4GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, expandable up to 8GB and two 500GB Serial ATA hard drives running at 7200 rpm.
The Mac Mini measures 7.7 inches square and is just 1.4 inches high. There's also an integrated power supply meaning you don't need an external power adaptor and you won't have an extra cable to worry about.
"The sleek, aluminium Mac mini packs great features, versatility and value into an elegant, amazingly compact design," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing. "With twice the graphics performance, HDMI support and industry-leading energy efficiency, customers are going to love the new Mac mini."
The Mac mini is available now on the Apple Store online (if you can get it to load) and will cost you £649. The Snow Leopard Server edition is £929.
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This 3-point boom sprayer has a 200 gallon capacity nitrogen resistant poly tank that is chemically resistant to herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, and more. The sprayer assembly includes Class 2 hitch pins, a mixer, an 8-roller pump, hoses, spray tips and more.Ships via motor freight service.
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On our way to California
... the salt at over 500 mph. It would have been an awesome thing to experience. I guess you have to be that way inclined. We stopped off at Wendover for lunch and headed off again on our way to San Francisco. I took over driving not far out of Wendover, Glen was feeling a bit tired. He's done 99% of the driving. After a couple of hours we arrived at Battle Mountain. A quiet little town. ...
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... in California was pleasant as we traveled through pine forests, and even at the higher elevations over "Donner Pass" the scenery was enjoyable. However, entering the Nevada mountains the scenery changed to a brown and barren landscape, and the ride east became very boring. We stopped for the night in the town "Battle Mountain" at "Clark Park". As we set up camp at 6:00 PM the temperature is 102 degrees.
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... Paiute and Shoshone peoples. The area was noted by fur trappers in the 1820s and 30s. It served as a way point for westward-bound travel on the Emigrant Trail along the Humboldt River by 1845. According to local legends the name stems from confrontations between ...
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-- Plug-and-Play Development Platform Enables Java Developers Worldwide to Prototype, Build and Launch M2M Applications --
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Deutsche Telekom today announced that an Internet of Everything (IoE) development platform, based on Qualcomm Technologies' Gobi™ QSC6270-Turbo chipset, will be made available by Deutsche Telekom to application developers in Europe and worldwide. With support for Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.2 available, this IoE development platform is intended to target developers looking to create the next generation of machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoE applications. Deutsche Telekom is already accepting pre-orders for the IoE development platform on its M2M Marketplace (https://marketplace.m2m.telekom.com), and plans to start shipping these development platforms from the second quarter of 2013.
The IoE development platform has been designed to support rapid prototyping, testing and deployment of cellular-enabled IoE applications. By exposing the application processing power of Qualcomm Technologies' QSC6270-Turbo chipset and allowing developers to write and execute applications directly on the modem chipset, the IoE development platform helps enable additional intelligence and functionality to be added in the end device, along with cellular connectivity.
Deutsche Telekom will utilize the IoE development platform to help accelerate innovation amongst its M2M Developer Community in its quest to enable end-to-end M2M solutions. Oracle Java ME Embedded provides a horizontal platform, and Java technology boasts a community of over 9 million experienced developers worldwide with experience across the broad range of IoE verticals. Deutsche Telekom will make the IoE development platform available with SIM cards from Deutsche Telekom and its portfolio of operators, providing developers with large-scale access to cellular connectivity for their applications.
"The M2M market needs horizontal solutions, from the cellular connectivity enabled by Qualcomm Technologies' chipsets to the Java programming environment, and they come together nicely in this IoE development platform being launched," said Thomas Kiessling, chief product and innovation officer at Deutsche Telekom. "From first glance, we knew that this piece of hardware would become an important part of our global efforts to grow the M2M ecosystem and market."
"Oracle realizes that creating the next wave of Internet-connected devices is just a starting point, but that the real opportunity is in enabling these devices to become a part of a larger and vastly more intelligent system of collecting, processing and acting on data," said Judson Althoff, senior vice president, Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Oracle. "We are pleased to work with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom to make this IoE development platform a tool that Java developers worldwide can use to create cellular connected device-to-data center applications that are the next big business opportunity."
"Qualcomm Technologies' vision of the Internet of Everything involves more than simply enabling devices with cellular connectivity; it is about bringing our industry-leading mobile device technologies to fuel innovation in new verticals," said Kanwalinder Singh, senior vice president of business development, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "We are pleased that Deutsche Telekom and Oracle share our vision that IoE development platforms, such as this platform based on the QSC6270-Turbo chipset, can help solve the needs of developers and customers across industries and geographies, and accelerate the IoE market."
For more information and to see a demonstration of this latest IoE development platform, please visit Qualcomm Technologies during MWC 2013 (Exhibit Hall 3 #3B64), February 25-28 in Barcelona, Spain or visit www.qualcomm.com/IoE. For more information on Deutsche Telekom's M2M solutions, please visit Deutsche Telekom during MWC 2013 (Exhibit Hall 3 #C114), February 25-28 in Barcelona, Spain or visit www.telekom.com/m2m
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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) is the world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies. Qualcomm Incorporated includes Qualcomm's licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of its patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of Qualcomm's engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of its products and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, QCT. For more than 25 years, Qualcomm ideas and inventions have driven the evolution of digital communications, linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other. For more information, visit Qualcomm's website, OnQ blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.
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Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with more than 131 million mobile customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2012). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in some 50 countries and has over 230,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenue of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year – over half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011).
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Machine-to-Machine communication – short M2M – is a strategic priority for Deutsche Telekom in the coming years. According to the OECD, the number of connected devices will rise tenfold from 5 billion today to 50 billion by 2020. Deutsche Telekom has positioned itself as a leading provider of cross-industry M2M solutions and offers its customers in cooperation with competent partners complete solutions from a single source.
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Energy mythbusting: The truth about those energy-saving tips
You've read the energy-saving tips. You've armed yourself with caulk. You're ready to do some serious damage to your gas and electric bills. Not so fast.
You've read the energy-saving tips. You've armed yourself with caulk. You're ready to do some serious damage to your gas and electric bills. Not so fast.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wisdom has it that employee-owned firms are small, undercapitalised and less efficient than conventional firms. The success of the John Lewis Partnership, the story goes, must be the exception.
(AP) -- Univision and Disney are in talks to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday.
(PhysOrg.com) -- By setting up a unique experiment, a small team of researchers has found that chimpanzees are able to understand need in other chimps, despite their general disinclination to offer aid when they see it. Shinya ...
Scientists at UQ's Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) have discovered that one of Australia's best known folk remedies might help to alleviate the sheep industry's biggest headache.
To make a silicon solar cell, you start with a slice of highly purified silicon crystal, and then process it through several stages involving gradual heating and cooling. But figuring out the tradeoffs involved in selecting ...
If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functions. No wonder it was considered ...
A new technique that paves the way for manufacturing affordable LED light bulbs is to be exploited in the UK, in a deal that researchers say could have a dramatic impact on carbon emissions.
Its a common risk-versus-reward question in business: How much inventory should you pre-sell at a conservative price, and how much should you retain and try to sell later at a higher price?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change models must be reworked in a bid to save some of the worlds smallest and slimiest creatures from extinction, a Flinders University PhD candidate warns.


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Ops is great in that you can learn a lot of transferable skill sets and abilities that you can take to almost any job (in 46 reviews)
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Very long hours but you know that going in (in 398 reviews)
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"Goldman Sachs - Work. make money, interesting deals, don't have kids "
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The work - incredibly interesting deals and chance to be at the tip of the spear in the financial industry when things happen. The pay is terrific, as are the benefits Notwithstanding the financial meltdown, GS has definite cache and presitge in the financial world. You are working with some of the best and the brightest outside of McKinsey and Bain
Did I mention the work? Lots and lots of work, and then more work. Two briefcases: One for your work; the other for a change of underwear after sleeping in the office whilst working on an M&A deal. Forget going to your kids' soccer games, little league games, Lamase classes. GS is all about and only about the work. Word to the wise: Keep your own counsel. Any stinkeye remotely caught by the view of a GS Partner does not bode well for your career.
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They take themselves much too seriously. Their concept of life is that it can be reduced to a zero sum game. They have not grasped the reality that when you are dead, you are dead (i.e. you will not take your money, GS stock/options and any other prized IB kudos wth you when you part this life). Strive for more work/life balance. Recognize that you will not win every deal. Look for the warning signs of burnout. And for God's sakes, stop trying to emulate the medical profession with "if I could pull all nighters as an Assoicate, so can everyone else." Those days are gone. The GS staffers have lives outside the bubble. Respect that, reward that, celebrate that. You will be absolutely astounded by the increased loyalty you get from the troops.
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Amazing company, amazing employees that work hard for common goals
Long, Long hours and hard to balance work with social life
Advice to Management
lose some of the hurdles of communication
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Benefits... Health care, 401k, all the best. If you like operations work, this is the place to be. Ranked as the top employer in Utah.
For working in Salt Lake City, it pays well. However, a same-level operations analyst in NYC/Jersey City makes much more. Further, much of your pay is based on performance bonus, which reviews are heavily biased and leaves room for wage discrimination. Immediate management is out-of-touch. Merit rewards no one... if you'd like to succeed, be sure to network well and create the perception of value. Emphasis on "perception". Overtime pay is half-time... but if you work any less than 50 hours/week, you'll yourself in a serious "conversation" with your manager--regardless as to whether you have work left to do. Again, the perception of being a valuable employee, and this includes just working late for the sake of working late, is what matters. But if you still want the job, make sure you play to Goldman's egos, as they like to hear how "big-deal" they are, because they work for a "big-deal" company. There are very few finance roles at GS Salt Lake City... it is a major operations hub for GS.
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No advice to senior management.
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The networking with senior management.
People are too busy to help. In order to speak to somebody for longer than 30 second, you have to request time in their calendar.
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My direct manager never had any interest in what I was doing.
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very smart people, dedicated to getting a good job done
Getting very large, particularly 200 west
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Don't reject those who are slightly differnt from the standard.
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- Great work - Great teamwork
- too much work and deadline
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they are great!
- No opinion of CEO
Opportunity to work with smart people
Little time for personal life
Advice to Management
Create a clearer path for promotion
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The work was very hands on and the colleagues extremely friendly; the company gets a bad rap for the financial crisis but they were in fact some of the more responsible ones; learned a lot.
It is not a tech company and therefore the work is important only as much as it furthers the main business
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You're doing a good job
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Always a challenge, constantly learning. Great Reputation on Wall Street (not main street) Fair compensation Great people to work with firmwide
Ocassionally Long hours There can be some political motivations at times If you are not detail oriented or paranoid this may not be the place for you.
Advice to Management
Careful with hiring upticks, sometimes the culture gets diluted. New review process still needs work. Keep up the good work.
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Great place to work, great name, and excellent exit opportunities
long hours Some managers are cliquish and it is difficult to break into the bubble if you are somehow 'different' from the typical employee
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Need more streamlining and there are some insensitivities to some cultures and races, especially at the junior level
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A legal term for when the goods or property of two or more parties become commingled to the point where each party's respective items can't be readily determined.
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French actress Emmanuelle Riva poses after receiving the best actress... News PhotoActress,Adult,Adults Only,Arts Culture and Entertainment,Austrian Culture,Award,Awards Ceremony,Emmanuelle Riva,Film Director,Film Industry,France,French Culture,La Gaite Lyrique,Love,Michael Haneke,Movie,One Person,One Woman Only,Paris - France,People,Portrait,Receiving,Success,Sundance Film Festival,VerticalPhotographer MIGUEL MEDINACollection: AFP 2013 AFPFrench actress Emmanuelle Riva poses after receiving the best actress award for the film 'Amour' directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke during the 18th Lumieres awards ceremony, on January 18, 2013 at the Gaite Lyrique in Paris. International media journalists based in Paris from around 50 countries vote each year to award their own prizes to members of the French and francophone film industry. The Academy of the Lumieres paid this year a tribute to foreign actresses in French cinema and organised for the first time, the day before, the 'Francophone meetings' with hosted Tunisia, during which Tunisian director, Ferid Boughedir gave a masterclass. AFP PHOTO MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)


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In March and early April, at its Wisma Kebudayaan center, Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) organized a lecture and two exhibitions to celebrate and further foster friendship between Malaysia and China through art and cultural exchange. In his speech at one of the events, SGM General Director Koh Sia Feai stated that relationships built through art and culture build friendships across borders that last forever.
The first event, a lecture titled "Views on the Substance of Confucian Learning in Late Imperial China" by Dr. Chu Hung-lam, professor of Chinese Culture at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, took place on March 9. Professor Chu, who is also the director of the Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, highlighted that although the definition of Confucian learning changes over time, its teaching of responsibility toward society is still relevant today. The lecture was chaired by Associate Professor Dr. Soo Khin Wah of the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Malaya, co-organizer of the event.
The Malaysia-China Friendship Arts Exchange Exhibition, which ran from March 16 to 31, brought together the work of 24 modern and contemporary artists, 12 from the city of Qingdao in China's Shandong Province and 12 from Malaysia. The exhibition showcased the natural beauty and culture of both countries. It was opened by Chen Dehai, counsellor of Political Affairs of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia. In his speech he described the exhibition as a cultural platform from which new ideas could be explored and new works created.
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, a talk giving an overview of fine arts in Shandong Province was given by Shan Hong, deputy secretary-general of the Shandong Watercolor Association. The talk was chaired by Dr. Foo Yong Kong, president of the Malaysian Contemporary Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association.
From March 30 to April 7, "A Joint Calligraphy Exhibition by Four Masters" was held, inspired by the idea of an exchange between Lok Keng Wah, Yee Sze Fook, Dr. Foo Yong Kong and Tan Gian Seng to highlight various styles of calligraphy. In his speech at the opening ceremony, Mr. Lok described calligraphy as an ancient element of Chinese culture and gave a brief history of its development. The four Malaysian calligraphers shared their journey in art, friendship and life in a dialogue held after the ceremony. related article The Ongakutai Soka Renaissance Vanguard in competition (Tokyo, January 2004) The Music Corps (Ongakutai) was founded in Japan as a part of the Soka Gakkai in May 1954. As the group celebrates its 50th anniversary, it looks back on a history of remarkable development. Originally composed of a handful of volunteers who played principally to brighten up Soka Gakkai meetings, the Music Corps now comprises
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See Ben Casselman's Its Getting Harder To Move Beyond A Minimum-Wage Job:
During the strong labor market of the mid-1990s, only 1 in 5 minimum-wage workers was still earning minimum wage a year later. Today, that number is nearly 1 in 3, according to my analysis of government survey data.
It is even worse than that short excerpt suggests. Read the whole thing.
Recall my recent post: When Each US County Hit Peak Median Income. If you aren't in upper ranks of skilled workers then you are facing a stagnant or declining living standard. At the lowest skill levels over half the population isn't working. As automation eliminates more blue collar work I expect more to slide down to minimum wage or no employment.
I have advice for anyone smart enough to develop a skill and motivated enough to sidestep the automation technologies that are gutting various occupations: Get yourself longer lasting skills in a cognitively demanding occupation. Need to start small? Check out Udacity nanodegrees for commercially useful skill sets.
Anyone complacent about this? The need to plan your career and develop skills to keep you competitive has never been greater. It will be greater still as robots wipe out more categories of jobs.
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Ross Douthat takes a look at Russia's widening intervention in Syria from a distinctly American elite perspective. Lots of nuance here as usual. But he does not get to the meat of the matter and I disagree in a big way with his conclusion:
... whats closer to his grasp is something more destructive a wreckers legacy, not Peter the Greats, in which his own people gain little from his efforts, but the world grows more unstable with every move he makes.
The far more powerful United States already has a wrecker's legacy in the Middle East. The US invasion of Iraq resulted in ISIS slavery, ethnic slaughter, and crucifixions in Iraq and Syria with at least half of Iraq's Christians fleeing and Syrian Christians major shafted. The support Obama and Hillary Clinton showed for Arab Spring has resulted in Libya fragmented into warring tribal regions. We have gained nothing for our efforts and racked up huge losses. Obama's policies (or MSM punditry) show little sign of having learned anything important from all these disasters and policy failures
Make no mistake: US military intervention in and around the Middle East is a failure. Ross' own employer has gems like "Caught off guard by the Taliban's capture of an entire city in northern Afghanistan" and "They are just not fighting well". Did the US government expect them (Afghan government soldiers) to fight well? Same question about soldiers in Iraq and Syria trained by the US.
Think about it. America's military interventions in the Middle East are a disaster. America's goals in Syria are lunacy. Against this background how are Vladimir Putin's interventions going to play a wrecking role? The wrecking is already in full swing.
To see why Putin isn't going to wreck a good outcome first understand how constrained the realistic list of potential outcomes are and why. Here are four realistic posts about Syria from Anatoly Karlin. As his posts make evident, the topics you most need to learn about to understand US foreign policy failures in the Middle East are outside the bounds of what our MSM and foreign policy elite find acceptable for consideration.
A secular united democratic state equally protective of the rights of all citizens is not one of the potential futures in Syria. The beliefs and loyalties of people in Syria's main ethnic groups (especially the Sunnis) preclude that. We should approach Syria by asking how bad does its future have to be and what lesser evil outcome might be achievable. One problem is that the various factions do not trust each other with good reason. The largest ethnic group (Sunni Muslims) would surely shaft the rest of them if it came into power. Democratic rule is Sunni rule in Syria just as it is Shia rule in Iraq.
A Sunni government in Damascus would be worse than the Shia government in Baghdad toward its own Sunni minority. It is telling that ISIS, a Sunni group, has the most territory among the Sunni factions and its rule is horrible from a human rights standpoint. Child sex slaves anyone?
US policy has failed. By contrast, suppose Putin moderately succeeds in bucking up Assad's government in Damascus. Who benefits? Almost anyone in Syria who isn't a Sunni Muslim. Assad's government before the uprising was better than what is likely to replace it. Christians were in far better shape under Assad and Saddam Hussein than they are today in most of Syria and Iraq. This is rarely mentioned in the MSM. It is too counter-narrative. Christians today might be better off in the Kurdish zone of Iraq (which is de facto a separate state from the Baghdad government) than they were under Saddam. I'm not sure on that point. Yezidis in Iraq: Well, a lot more were alive under Saddam and few if any were sex slaves. Saddam was better for the Yezidis. How about the Armenians in the middle of Syria? Definitely were better off under Assad before they became surrounded by ISIS.
The implicit assertion that since Putin is a problem for US policy in the Middle East he must be a problem for a good outcome in the Middle East is quite wrong. US policy in the Middle East is broken and intellectually and morally bankrupt. US policy makes no sense. Its continued failure in spite of a huge military technological advantage is a testament to its bankruptcy.
Iraq and Syria need partition into more viable ethnic states. If policy makers in Washington DC became more realistic I do not know if this is an achievable option. But a united Syria and united Iraq as secular liberal democracies isn't a realistic future possibility.
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First we had this: America's partner/ally/client Iraq (should I say Shia Iraq) is allying with other Shia states against Sunnis.
Iraq says it has reached a deal to share intelligence with Russia, Iran and Syria in the fight against ISIS militants.
Four countries learning to share and work together. International intra-ethnic cooperation is still possible.
But the Shia support comes from Lebanon and Afghanistan as well. Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, Iraqi Shiite militias, Afghan Shiite militias, and Iran government fighters are all coming together to fight on Assad's side with Russian air support.
I count Shia from 5 countries plus the help of Russian bombers and likely Russian soldiers on the ground fighting for the Alawites and Shiites. The Christians might benefit from the Russian presence. The Kurds might benefit too.
I bet many Sunnis and Sunni governments will be inspired to respond in kind.
As Anatoly Karlin points out with an ethnic map of Syria, the Syrian civil war is a war between ethnic and religious groups. Karlin also gets into why Arab armies perform so poorly.
I think the Shiite coalition is reasonable. The non-Sunnis do not want to be ruled by the Sunnis. The Sunnis think they've got God on their side. So do the Shias. What would be reasonable: partition Syria into ethnic states. The Kurds and Christians would certainly be better off and so would the Alawites.
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Doing it on Facebook. How ISIS recruits teens in America and other Western countries.
Beheadings communicate a form of validation to recruits, a demonstration of the unrivaled power of the new caliphate. In addition, some analysts see the groups open trade in sexual slaves as a blatant and cynical recruitment tactic to increase the ranks of young male volunteers.
Seen in this light Mark Zuckerberg's efforts extend internet access to billions more people is great news for ISIS. Every new member of Facebook is another target for recruiting.
One might argue that we shouldn't let into America the sort of people who recruit for Jihad. But if one makes that sort of argument then one is clearly out of step with our elites. What our elites have gotten us into:
The FBI acknowledges that it has active investigations of Islamic extremists under way in all 50 states.
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To give you a sense of what you are in for and how badly government has messed up schools: Education Policy Proposal #2: Stop Kneecapping High Schools
Our national education policy has led to an absurd paradox: colleges charge students full freight tuition for a suite of remedial classes that high schools are effectively banned from offering for free.
The ban is most noticeable in math. Some examples: In 1997, Chicago Public Schools wanted all freshmen to take algebra, so all remedial and pre-algebra classes were dumped., giving students and their counsellors no other options. A decade ago, Madison, Wisconsin did the same thing. California effectively banned pre-algebra in high school by docking test scores of students who werent taking algebra in 8th grade (drop one score category) or, god forbid, 9th grade (drop two score categories).
It boggles the mind. So a 90 IQ kid who is never ever going to understand algebra shows up in freshman year of high school and gets put in a class they have no chance of passing. There is no easier to class for them. They won't be taught useful skills they can actually understand. Gotta take Algebra I. This is what left-liberalism has degenerated to. This is what passes for progressive educational thinking in America in 2015. How utterly intellectually bankrupt.
At some point in the next 10 years the whole intellectual edifice of liberal doctrine collapses as scientists develop a much better understanding of how genes control the brain's development and determine its capabilities and tendencies. I'm really looking forward to that collapse. But before that happens we have to watch The Camp Of The Saints in reality. Tragic.
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The "war on drugs" theory is a libertarian fantasy explanation. It neatly sidesteps the problem of violent men.
The fact of the matter is in todays state prisons, which hold about 90 percent of all of our prisoners, only 17 percent of the inmates are there primarily for drug charges. And about two-thirds are there for either property or violent crimes.
Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.
This does not fit #TheNarrative. Yet there it is in Slate. Go figure.
I think we should consider colonies rather than prisons as ways to separate the violent and the sexual predators from the rest of us. Take pedophiles for example. Imagine Pedophile Island. A population with no children. Women would only be allowed on the isand if they were sterile. So no babies. Lots of former Catholic priests would be on hand to give religious communion. So there'd be an active religious community.
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See the color-coded map of when various US counties hit peak median income.
Lots of interesting patterns. Western New York State peaked in 1969. Once factory jobs got automated smart folks set up businesses more more appealing climates. Also, most of the Western United States peaked before the East. The oil boom and crop demand boom lifted the plains states to make them later peakers. Also, the Washington DC elite growth made the DC beltway counties very late peakers.
What else? Miami obviously hasn't benefited from vibrant diversity. It is in a very early peaking region. Hover over each county. LA for example:
The inflation-adjusted median household income in Los Angeles County, Calif., peaked in 1989 at $65,688.
California as a whole peaked in the early 1990s. So did New York State.
Automation is going to devastate demand for labor from the left side of the IQ bell curve. So this picture is going to become more grim. The industrial revolution's next phase has little use for the sorts of low skilled laborers who found bountiful employment during the early and mid stages of the rise of the machines. Since immigration is flooding the US job market with more low skilled people to chase after dwindling physical labor jobs that makes the outlook even worse for the lower classes.
Maybe I should change my blog's subtitle to "Documenting the decline".
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Some state and local governments are trying to bill inmates for the costs of incarceration. Some jurisdictions go even further with billing for court costs and medical costs.
This brings up an interesting topic: What is the income level of the average person when they are convicted of a crime? People who make their living off of off-the-books criminal activity probably aren't making much money. How many criminals are high income? Surely some white collar Wall Street criminals have deep enough pockets to pay all their incarceration costs. But lots of these prisoner incarceration debts go unpaid.
But I think this idea of accumulating costs to society has a lot of potential. Do the same for welfare recipients and those who get subsidies for medical insurance and housing. Start summing up the total costs per person and per family. It does not even have to be sent for collection. It just has to be made public, aggregated, sliced and diced. What does the average 16 year old pregnant girl cost the rest of us? Track and accumulate their costs to us.
The same could be done with immigrants, legal and illegal. Collect data on their educational level, country of origin, educational level. While we already know that there is heavy welfare use by legal immigrants the devil is in the details. Which legal (or illegal) immigrants are the worst? Which are the best?
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The labor shortage is such an acute issue that companies have no choice but to boost efficiency, says Hajime Shoji, the head of the Asia-Pacific technology practice at Boston Consulting Group Inc. Growth potential is huge. By 2025, robots could shave 25 percent off of factory labor costs in Japan, according to the consulting firm.
With a much smaller population of low skilled workers the United States could have been an even bigger innovator in robotics. But hopefully the big push to raise minimum wage to $15 per hour (why not $20!) will give American businesses the incentives they need to develop robots.
In our robotic future I expect an even bigger acceleration of the global decline in support for democracy. Support is even declining in the United States. The people with stagnating incomes think the system no longer works for them. The cognitive and financial elites feel more separated and feel less shared common interest with voters in poorer towns. If you are making your living selling high end stuff to cognitive elites around the globe then the more the income and trade takes place within the global upper class the less they feel loyalty to any one elected national government.
Click thru and read the article. Over 40% of the top quintile would like a leader who is unaccountable to Congress or elections. Wow. The neoreactionaries who favor a return to monarchy aren't as fringe as I thought. The challenge is going to be how to select a competent and correctly motivated dictator.
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Yet more reason why I keep getting more optimistic about the future of robots in the American workforce: Even a majority of Republicans favor a policy that will boost the spread of robots.
Nine-in-ten Democrats surveyed backed a minimum wage increase, but support among Republicans was more divided, with 53% supporting an increase and 43% opposed.
The theory is that a higher minimum wage will stop the decline in wages of the cognitively less able. But that trend (see below) will only be strengthened by higher minimum wage.
That graph really drastically understates the size of the earning power gap between levels of cognitive ability. College grads cover a wide IQ range and also a wide range in innate motivation, social skills, and degree of development of commercially useful skills. Engineers making over $100k and even over $200k are the norm in some areas, notably Silicon Valley. We need another graph line for degrees in engineering, computer science, and mathematical disciplines.
There are great benefits for the cognitively more able from a $15 per hour minimum wage. The most obvious benefit: Fewer illegal immigrants when demand for their low-skilled labor collapses. This will slow the growth of America's (quite socially pathological) lower classes.
But there is another benefit that might end up mattering even more in the long run: higher quality goods and services. Services will be delivered faster and better by the robots of 2030 and 2040. Imagine a robotic hair cutter than cuts your hair in about 2 minutes. Or a robotic chef that enables a cheap fast food restaurant to serve high quality cuisine. Or cheap, prompt, and very safe robotic taxis. And of course there is the long awaited robotic home cleaning maid. My hope is that the Dyson Eye 360 will provide a much better solution for the vacuuming part of that problem.
The Moore's Law doublings of computer power are doing more to usher in the robotics age than any government policy. But a $15 per hour minimum wage (and why not $20?) could make each step in robotic advancement happen a few years sooner.
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Remember the recent #Grexit crisis. It isn't over. Greece is not the only sick man of Europe. The most skilled people in Europe aren't making many babies and the populations of skilled people are aging and shrinking. Their governments are in deep financial trouble as this OECD sovereign debt table shows.
This problem will only be made worse by a large influx of people who lack significant intellectual capital. In America those kinds of immigrants make heavy use of the welfare system. Same thing is happening in a Europe which is headed for more sovereign debt crises. The European welfare state can't fund their aging population already. Throw in a lot more welfare recipients, many of whom aren't really compatible with Western liberalism, and you get conditions that are both financial and cultural disasters.
Here is one measure of the financial disaster: The European welfare states spend more per refugee:
International support for countries bearing the greatest refugee burden also makes economic sense: it costs Jordan about 3,000 ($3,350) to support one refugee for a year; in Germany, the cost is at least 12,000.
But of course the heart wants what it wants. The heart thinks it can get what it wants. So increasingly crazier ideas get turned into public policy. We are still in the mass elite delusion period of Western industrialism. So Europe's rulers will continue in their folly.
I believe the delusion period will end. The cracks are starting to show. The intensity of doctrine enforcement is a sign of weakness, not strength. They need to ratchet up enforcement. Scientific advances will eventually cause at least a weakening in the reigning ideology. Heresies will arise. Will a new ideology form? Or will we enter a more rational period?
Update: Obviously a new lower class living off of already overburdened welfare states isn't the only problem the refugees pose for Europe. I see a few other problems. Lets take a look at the future of Germany.
An obvious problem which Angela Merkel seems to willfully ignore: The Mohamed Atta phenomenon. Take a guy who can't make the grade sufficiently well to feel really successful. Atta lost one job by getting replaced by CAD software. How many will get laid off by automation in Europe in the coming years? How about draftsmen, taxis, truck drivers, cooks, and other jobs some Syrians will get in Germany. Then the layoff comes (assuming they get jobs in the first place). Frustration. Feelings of inadequacy. Surrounded by successful members of a different group. Different ethnically, religiously. Resentment. Jealousy. Then stir up a feeling of grievance (SJWs and radical Islamic preachers will help). Islam will channel the grievance. What do you get? Dead terrorist victims. You also get Social Justice Warriors arguing that the victims are to blame for creating a society where the terrorist came to feel so aggrieved and angry and bound for glory.
Then there is the Rotherham grooming problem. You can't expect Leftist governments to protect the natives from the predators. The fail is huge.
Then we come to support for Sharia Law among Muslims living in Europe. Do the Germans want to live under Islamic law? More here. I'm opposed.
So what's playing out in Europe is folly.
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Does Andrew Cuomo think he can boost investment in NY state robotics companies? New York governor pushes for $15 statewide minimum wage.
$15 per hour minimum wage will so slash demand for illegal immigrant labor that the US government will seek to grant them all instant eligibility to an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and more welfare benefits. Otherwise illegal aliens won't have sufficient incentive to move to America.
On the bright side, I'm looking forward to restaurants staffed by robotic cooks which can cheaper cook up much higher quality food for the same price as current fast food fare.
A $15 minimum wage passed in one state will be very educational for anyone who doesn't mind real evidence of causes and effects.
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We live in amazing times. America is being flooded by immigrants, mostly illegals. Their use of welfare benefits (paid for by the rest of us) is higher than natives at all educational levels. Is it any wonder that with the mainstream media promoting open borders that people are turning to Donald Trump no matter how many times the MSM dissing him?
Then there is the drive to raise minimum wage. It is a policy which is being promoted by the Left but whose biggest effects will actually work out to benefit people on the political Right. High minimum wage will speed up technological changes that will enable the cognitive elite to more thoroughly isolate themselves from the left half of the IQ Bell Curve. It will also slash demand for the low skilled illegal immigrants that much of the Left is so eager to flood the country with.
With so many governmental institutions coming out in favor of policies to speed autonomous vehicle development and policies to speed robotics development it is any surprise that the NY Times editorial board has come out in favor of a $15 per hour minimum wage? Think about how many fast food restaurant owners this sends a signal to.
This policy will produce new winners and losers. Consider fast food franchises. I am figuring that between sandwiches, burgers, burritos, tacos, and pizza one of them is much more amenable to robotic preparation than the others. My guess: pizza followed by burritos. But we might see new fast foods come to the fore just because they are easy to automate. The new automat Eatsa could be a winner. However, while the automat format seems set to grow it is far from clear that the Eatsa quinoa dishes are the best for full automation.
The winning fast food companies will be the ones who can automate years sooner. The losers will be driven from the field at $15 per hour minimum wage (along with a substantial portion of the high school drop-outs who are still working). Though the more adaptable will change their menus to switch to food that can be prepared by robots.
A big rise in minimum wage will slam into a labor market spoiled by a flood of compliant and cheap illegal aliens. In an article in The Atlantic (which predictably makes no mention of immigration's impact on labor supply and wages) this sentence leaps out: from 2009 to 2014 the pay of these low skilled occupations dropped 8.9%. Already most of the least skilled and least intelligent do not have jobs. The ones that have jobs are getting paid less and less.
Those who work as janitors, cooks, housekeepers, and home health aides had their real wages drop the most, as much as 8.9 percent
I'm thinking at $15 per hour minimum wage the next gen of autonomous floor cleaning machines will look a lot more attractive. Good for the robot makers.
America's elite has set us up to be major shafted by their immigration policies of the last few decades. Our future labor force doesn't have the right stuff: SAT scores at lowest level in 10 years, fueling worries about high schools.
Americans live in a country with an incredibly irresponsible ruling elite. But their crazy ideas on minimum wage could work wonders in spite of their motivations for pushing it.
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A pair of news articles tell the tale of how a US District Judge in SF is spurring Uber to speed up autonomous vehicle development: Uber drivers granted class action status in lawsuit over employment and Uber Loses Bid to Block Drivers From Suing as Group for Tips.
That's great news for those of us who want to hand the driving over to computers so we can spend our travel time on other activities. Plus it will make travel safer. While I'm usually opposed to federal meddling in business decision making in this case I'm pretty excited about the potential benefit.
Since truck driver is the top occupation in most states the impact of faster autonomous vehicle development will be even bigger in trucking. Uber could make some extra money licensing their self-driving tech the truck makers. Or Google or Apple or another company involved in development self-driving tech could license to truck makers. One way or another autonomous vehicle tech will come to jobs and the truck jobs will start getting phased out in the 2020s. What will the truck drivers do them? Libertarians think more people will get jobs as personal servants. But I expect home robotic chefs and robotic house cleaners will serve us, not humans.
I think Ford and other taxi makers ought to get a clue from this decision and decide to speed up their autonomous vehicle development as well. Think of it this way: people will travel more by taxi if the labor cost of the taxi driver is removed. That will mean more miles driven and so vehicles replaced more often with new vehicles. So higher car sales. That's great for Ford and GM. They ought to get those autonomous vehicles to market as soon as they can.
Also, if people don't have to drive their own cars they'll spend more time traveling in their own cars. So miles traveled per passenger will go up. Autonomous vehicles are a great deal for any vehicle makers who can manage to make the transition ahead of most of their competitors.
What is interesting about this development: political forces are lining up for autonomous vehicles just like for automated fast food restaurants and other low paid and low skilled occupations.
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While a Washington state court rules in favor of faster robot deployment at SeaTac a much more impactful way to speed up robot development is taking shape in California. This is great because Californians have a ballot initiative system that gives them a very effective way to act on their preference:
Sixty-eight percent of California voters said they support the idea of a $15 minimum wage, according to a Field Poll released Thursday.
That's great news for robot start-ups. Venture capitalists hear the call! You can fund companies that can supply the big coming increase in demand for robots as food prep workers, janitors, security guards, and as workers in many other occupations.
The resulting mass unemployment (especially among the least skilled and least bright) will drive migration that will fall heavily on Republican states governed by cuckservatives who refuse to raise the minimum wage. Those states won't stay Republican of course.
On the bright side, quality of food at fast food places will improve because the robots will be able to do more complex and precise food prep. Also, the influx of low skilled immigrants will stop, at least in the states with $15 per hour minimum wage. The big drop in demand for low skilled workers will see to that.
The 21st century is going to be a very different place than the 20th century. Celebrate the upsides of what's in store.
Update: The national Democratic Party has come out for the biggest incentive for robotics development so far: $15 national minimum wage as a plank in their platform. Wow, that'd be great news for robot developers and software developers in general. Way more money would flow into autonomous vehicles, warehouse automation, fast food restaurant complete automation, security robots, retail store automation, automated delivery UAVs, automated hair cutters, automated nail polishers. What am I leaving out? Much better automated vacuums and floor cleaners. Automated home cooking machines. Autonomous lawn mowers and hedge clippers. What else?
We live in exciting times. The Democrats are bold in their efforts to speed up technological development and cut low skilled immigration. The Republicans (with the exception of Donald Trump) are total wimps in comparison.
Update: The National Labor Relations Board is also adding incentives for robot development by making franchise operators treat their employees like employees of the companies which grant the franchises. There is an obliviousness to their decision-making, much like the obliviousness of the movement to raise minimum wage to a high level in a country which has let tens of millions of low skilled illegal aliens to enter the country. All the happy talk about the potential of high minimum wage is built on false assumptions about the economy and technology. The advocates for higher labor prices are assuming there will be jobs for all the low skilled no matter what costs are placed on employers. But that's not in the cards in an era when computer technology is becoming advanced enough to take over many of the most menial physical tasks.
We are approaching a rude awakening about assorted ignored truths about human nature and about the potential for technology to replace the least mentally able workers. My guess is the awakening will be in full bloom by 2025 and perhaps then the Overton Window will start to move in a rational direction.
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Most colleges are running at a loss.
Moodys found that expenses are outpacing revenue at 60 percent of the schools it tracks even as many try to slash their way to balanced budgets, according to Fitzgerald.
The shift to online education will cut into smaller colleges especially.
What I'd do if I was operating a small college: Use online courses for lectures and allow students to take a large number of courses and give them tests and credit in the small college. Offer more classes and even more degrees by leaning on online resources to support an expansion of offerings.
A small college that sees itself as more of a tutoring, testing, and credentialing center could enable students to move thru courses at an accelerated pace and to fill in gaps between traditional semesters and trimesters with useful learning toward credits and degrees.
Some small colleges could group together to enable specialized faculty to teach courses to students at all of their campuses. Make a virtual university as a way to offer more of the advantages of the big U while retaining the advantages of a small college.
Update: Mind you, most small colleges are toast. Road kill. The walking dead at this point. But some could avoid that fate by embracing online and video recorded lectures, automated testing systems, and arranged tutoring sessions. A good college would have administrators skilled at organizing small fast paced courses, impromptu tutoring sessions, and fast paths thru for people who want to focus and get some skills in a hurry.
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Anyone irresponsible enough to procrastinate today can't be trusted to get it together in the future.
When you are procrastinating, you are essentially trusting your future self to do the work that your present self does not want to. But if you make a habit of procrastination, of being unreliable, would it then be rational of your present self to depend on your (presumably equally fallible and unreliable) future self to do that what your present self is too lazy and slothful to do today? Its grossly irrational and irresponsible!
What do you think of this argument? To put it another way: what's your rationalization for why you can procrastinate and dismiss Karlin's argument?
One of the ways I make myself more effective is to deny myself things I want until I make some milestone. This can be a small milestone and a small reward. It helps.
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The highest slave prices in Islamic State territory are for kids aged 1 to 9. I was expecting a later price peak. What's with that? I would expect the Jihadists would most want teen girls to rape. Am I missing something?
The potential to rape infidel women is a powerful recruiting tool for ISIS. See: ISIS Enshrines A Theology Of Rape. This one is disgusting too: Hellish ordeal of the 11-year-old ISIS sex slave used as a human shield: Terrified girl is strapped to bonnet of Humvee and driven into battle to protect her captor from gunfire. ISIS has collected together a bunch of soldiers who deserve to die.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kept American aid worker Kayla Mueller as a sex slave and raped her repeatedly. Was he thrilled to be raping an American in particular?
If the US government hadn't worked to destabilize the Middle East (supposedly in the name of democracy and freedom) the Middle East would have far fewer slaves and far more living Kurds, Yezidis, Christians and others. US intervention in the Middle East has been a disaster. To reduce the damage our foreign policy has caused I would heavily arm the Yezidis, Kurds, Christians and some other minority factions. They are going to continue to get shafted as long as they do not have enough military power.
We need much more realism about human nature when setting foreign policy just like we need much more realism about human nature when setting domestic policy.
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