_ Tweet Monday’s NY Times leads with a story on arrests of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in Denver and Nashville. I don’t understand how can we give corporations free speech, yet deny people the right to assembly. On the Op-Ed page, Friedman gets it right in Did You Hear The One About The Bankers, Douthat [...]
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This is part of a series dedicated to what we regard as “First Principles.” No set of principles, in our view, is more important than the notion that distributed networks are more robust than centralized networks, and that this applies to a military command-and-control network no more or less than it applies to a suburban [...]
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TAX THE WEALTHY & EVERYONE ELSE – We’re All In This Together IMPUESTO SOBRE LOS RICOS Y TODOS LOS DEMÁS – Estamos Todos Juntos en Es to / Tweet / Zuccotti / MP3
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“Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes. Progressive tax structures are not about punishing the rich. They are a recognition that wealthy people derive benefits from being in society. Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, Oprah, for example, got rich because people buy their products or watched them [...]
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Richard Black, Environment correspondent for the BBC News, reports that – no shocker here - global warming does, in fact, seem to be occurring. The Earth’s surface really is getting warmer, a new analysis by a US scientific group set up in the wake of the “Climategate” affair has concluded.The Berkeley Earth Project has used [...]
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_ Tweet Sometimes the “Invisible Hand” shoots itself in its “Invisible Foot.” I’m here and most of us are here because we see dramatic inequities in the system. We play by the rules. The banksters are playing Three Card Monte and we are captive players – marks – in the game. They’ve marked the cards [...]
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Dennis Ritchie, co-inventor, with Brian W. Kernighan, of the C programming language, and co-author of the book of that name, and co-inventor, with Ken Thompson, of the Unix operating system, died at his home in Berkeley Heights, NJ. He was 70. He spent his professional career at Bell Labs, an iconic institution which boasted a [...]
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_ Tweet The Supreme Court, in “Citizens United (against the citizens)” said, as Gov. Romney put it “Corporations are people, my friend.” The people at “Occupy Wall Street” say, “I’ll agree that ‘Corporations are people’ when the government executes one.” and “If a Corporation is a person then why isn’t it murder to declare bankruptcy? [...]
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Many of us want to change the world. And we all to to varying extents. Some for the better, some for the worse, some significantly and dramatically, others less so. Steve Jobs changed the world significantly, dramatically and in many ways for the better. Because of their focus on “Computers for the rest of [...]
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Tweet The observable fact that dolphins surf is something we humans need to think about. Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute, coined the term “Negawatt” when he said “The cheapest unit of energy is the one you don’t have to buy.” The next cheapest, the “Nega-Fuel-Watt” is the unit of energy that doesn’t require [...]
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From Mob takes emergency water supplies during Banbury shortages. This isn’t inevitable – even in the absence of disaster planning and preparation. But the converse proposition – that good planning and stockpiling would make this much less likely – seems reasonable. A water delivery driver in Oxfordshire was forced to abandon his supply of emergency [...]
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The Associated Press reports that Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor jailed in Pakistan after a shooting in which he shot and killed two assailants, has been charged following an altercation in a parking lot: CIA operative charged in Colo parking spot fight. HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — A CIA contractor freed by Pakistani authorities after [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.