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March 26, 2014
The woman that called unemployment government cheese and wrote a book wanting to put Muslims in concentration camps is now fully endorsing medical marijuana. Maybe she will want the working poor to have health insurance next?!
Meet Michelle Malkin The Liberal Cannabis supporter
http://michellemalkin.com/?p=154804The woman that called unemployment government cheese and wrote a book wanting to put Muslims in concentration camps is now fully endorsing medical marijuana. Maybe she will want the working poor to have health insurance next?!
March 10, 2014
Why do so many people in the USA get upset about a plane crash..
when every day in the USA 44 people are murdered and about 90 are killed in car crashes?
March 1, 2014
According to her ObamaCare is horrible.
Meet the GOP Candidate/Peditrician that wants to take away Health Care for Low Income Families
http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2014/02/monica_wehby_fuels_gop_hopes_o.htmlAccording to her ObamaCare is horrible.
February 27, 2014
Don't celebrate Arizona Veto of Gay law. More work needs to be done.
It is still legal for anyone to discriminate against homosexuals for any reason. The State of Arizona must add homosexuals to a protected class. In NM and Oregon where two merchants were fined for discrimination against homosexuals those States have laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination in commerce and housing.
February 21, 2014
Why Watch Corporate News or News Talk Shows?
The people on these shows, every last one of them are millionaires. They don't care about the 99%. If they say the wrong thing their corporate bosses and the 1% that pay the advertising on their TV networks will get rid of them. Cut the cord and stop paying outrageous TV satellite & cable bills supporting the barons of the world.
February 17, 2014
"Mathematician Edward Frenkel writes in the NYT that one fanciful possibility that explains why mathematics seems to permeate our universe is that we live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics — not in what we commonly take to be the real world. According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it. Thus when we discover a mathematical truth, we are simply discovering aspects of the code that the programmer used. This may strike you as very unlikely writes Frenkel but physicists have been creating their own computer simulations of the forces of nature for years — on a tiny scale, the size of an atomic nucleus. They use a three-dimensional grid to model a little chunk of the universe; then they run the program to see what happens. 'Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom has argued that we are more likely to be in such a simulation than not,' writes Frenkel. 'If such simulations are possible in theory, he reasons, then eventually humans will create them — presumably many of them. If this is so, in time there will be many more simulated worlds than nonsimulated ones. Statistically speaking, therefore, we are more likely to be living in a simulated world than the real one.' The question now becomes is there any way to empirically test this hypothesis and the answer surprisingly is yes. In a recent paper, 'Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation,' the physicists Silas R. Beane, Zohreh Davoudi and Martin J. Savage outline a possible method for detecting that our world is actually a computer simulation (PDF). Savage and his colleagues assume that any future simulators would use some of the same techniques current scientists use to run simulations, with the same constraints. The future simulators, Savage indicated, would map their universe on a mathematical lattice or grid, consisting of points and lines. But computer simulations generate slight but distinctive anomalies — certain kinds of asymmetries and they suggest that a closer look at cosmic rays may reveal similar asymmetries. If so, this would indicate that we might — just might — ourselves be in someone else's computer simulation."
Are we living in a computer simulation?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/02/16/197236/mathematician-is-our-universe-a-simulation"Mathematician Edward Frenkel writes in the NYT that one fanciful possibility that explains why mathematics seems to permeate our universe is that we live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics — not in what we commonly take to be the real world. According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it. Thus when we discover a mathematical truth, we are simply discovering aspects of the code that the programmer used. This may strike you as very unlikely writes Frenkel but physicists have been creating their own computer simulations of the forces of nature for years — on a tiny scale, the size of an atomic nucleus. They use a three-dimensional grid to model a little chunk of the universe; then they run the program to see what happens. 'Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom has argued that we are more likely to be in such a simulation than not,' writes Frenkel. 'If such simulations are possible in theory, he reasons, then eventually humans will create them — presumably many of them. If this is so, in time there will be many more simulated worlds than nonsimulated ones. Statistically speaking, therefore, we are more likely to be living in a simulated world than the real one.' The question now becomes is there any way to empirically test this hypothesis and the answer surprisingly is yes. In a recent paper, 'Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation,' the physicists Silas R. Beane, Zohreh Davoudi and Martin J. Savage outline a possible method for detecting that our world is actually a computer simulation (PDF). Savage and his colleagues assume that any future simulators would use some of the same techniques current scientists use to run simulations, with the same constraints. The future simulators, Savage indicated, would map their universe on a mathematical lattice or grid, consisting of points and lines. But computer simulations generate slight but distinctive anomalies — certain kinds of asymmetries and they suggest that a closer look at cosmic rays may reveal similar asymmetries. If so, this would indicate that we might — just might — ourselves be in someone else's computer simulation."
February 15, 2014
A big-game hunter from Montana is suing a Canadian outfitter and a world-renowned hunting guide in Tajikistan he accuses of turning his once-in-a-lifetime adventure of bagging a rare, wild argali sheep known as the "Marco Polo" into a nightmare.
Rick Vukasin said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Reno last week that he spent more than $50,000 pursuing the animal in the Pamir mountains of northeast Tajikistan near China's border in December 2012.
Maybe it's Karma , Dude?
http://www.kgw.com/news/national/245681111.htmlA big-game hunter from Montana is suing a Canadian outfitter and a world-renowned hunting guide in Tajikistan he accuses of turning his once-in-a-lifetime adventure of bagging a rare, wild argali sheep known as the "Marco Polo" into a nightmare.
Rick Vukasin said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Reno last week that he spent more than $50,000 pursuing the animal in the Pamir mountains of northeast Tajikistan near China's border in December 2012.
February 11, 2014
Careless Gun Owner Pleads Guilty to Felony. Faces up to 7 years in prison
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/feb/10/gun-owner-guilty-child-endangerment/A gun owner whose weapon was used in the accidental — and fatal — shooting of a 10-year-old boy in Miramar Ranch pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of felony child endangerment.
Todd Francis, 56, had been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the June 4 death of his neighbor, Eric Klyaz, who had been playing with Francis’ 9-year-old daughter in the garage of the family home.
February 8, 2014
A county here in Oregon tried this and only about 3% of the inmates could pay. They ended up spending more money trying to collect then they could have collected in the first place. The collection agencies all said you pay us to collect and we will, but the CA operators knew the poor inmates that had been released would never pay the CA. Finally the county dropped the whole idea.
Most people that have been in jail already have poor credit records, so such a collection on their record meant nothing to them.
Nevada County Plans to Charge Inmates. A waste of time & resources
http://www.katu.com/news/national/Nevada-county-charging-inmates-for-jail-meals-ACLU-upset-244475041.htmlA county here in Oregon tried this and only about 3% of the inmates could pay. They ended up spending more money trying to collect then they could have collected in the first place. The collection agencies all said you pay us to collect and we will, but the CA operators knew the poor inmates that had been released would never pay the CA. Finally the county dropped the whole idea.
Most people that have been in jail already have poor credit records, so such a collection on their record meant nothing to them.
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