"The benefits of putting more people in college are also oversold. Part of the college wage premium is an illusion. People who go to college are, on average, smarter than people who don't. In an economy that increasingly rewards intelligence, you'd expect college grads to pull ahead of the pack even if their diplomas signified nothing but their smarts."
Cyborg classical composer is as good as Mozart?-Miller-McCune
Samples of the music on this site too. It ain't half bad. But let's see write a folk song or some blues. Then we'll see.
More foreshadowing of the coming race war - Taki's Magazine
U.K. edition.
Losing the culture war.- NY Review of Books
"The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible."
I surely hope not. We are moving (some of us anyhow) to libraries that are merely stored, licensed, DRMed, copies of media, books, and data sets that technically are owned not by the possessor but by corporations in perpetuity. So we'll always be needing to upgrade our hardware, software, and re-buying licenses for stuff we already have. And any time some monopolist publisher or government bureaucrat wants to, they can make whatever we've obtained already, (I won't say purchased, since we don't actually own it in the real sense of the term) unreadable whenever and for whatever reason they want.
The results are in on Cuba's revolution - Telos
"A superficial overview of social behavior however, raises the question of whether the Cubans—after decades of forced-fed altruism—have not lost their appetite for solidarity as well as the initiative for entrepreneurship that East Asians managed to retain. Travelers from Brazil to Cuba these days report that, although the two populations live in the tropics, Brazilians exude and exalt life, but Cubans seem numb." Sad. It could have gone a lot better.
Orwellian headline of the year- NY Times
Originally it was:"Gates Calls Europe Anti-War Mood Danger to Peace." The Times later changed it to a more palatable "Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace".
GM kills off Hummer - BoingBoing
"This car was like the high-fructose corn syrup of automobiles, something that concentrated everything bad about motoring until it underwent a phase-change and somehow became an object of desire." Too bad. For a special use land vehicle it wasn't so bad. But as an everyday form of transport, not so much.
Lawmakers blow off workplace safety law they write - The Hill
70 percent of them too.
World's Coral Reefs Could Disintegrate by 2100 - American Scientist
Some really fast bolt-action rifle shooting. - YouTube
So maybe I don't have to have a semi-auto after all? But then again I wonder what his target looks like. Heh.
"The transition within the book publishing industry from physical inventory stored in a warehouse and trucked to retailers to digital files stored in cyberspace and delivered almost anywhere on earth as quickly and cheaply as e-mail is now underway and irreversible."
I surely hope not. We are moving (some of us anyhow) to libraries that are merely stored, licensed, DRMed, copies of media, books, and data sets that technically are owned not by the possessor but by corporations in perpetuity. So we'll always be needing to upgrade our hardware, software, and re-buying licenses for stuff we already have. And any time some monopolist publisher or government bureaucrat wants to, they can make whatever we've obtained already, (I won't say purchased, since we don't actually own it in the real sense of the term) unreadable whenever and for whatever reason they want.
The results are in on Cuba's revolution - Telos
"A superficial overview of social behavior however, raises the question of whether the Cubans—after decades of forced-fed altruism—have not lost their appetite for solidarity as well as the initiative for entrepreneurship that East Asians managed to retain. Travelers from Brazil to Cuba these days report that, although the two populations live in the tropics, Brazilians exude and exalt life, but Cubans seem numb." Sad. It could have gone a lot better.
Orwellian headline of the year- NY Times
Originally it was:"Gates Calls Europe Anti-War Mood Danger to Peace." The Times later changed it to a more palatable "Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace".
GM kills off Hummer - BoingBoing
"This car was like the high-fructose corn syrup of automobiles, something that concentrated everything bad about motoring until it underwent a phase-change and somehow became an object of desire." Too bad. For a special use land vehicle it wasn't so bad. But as an everyday form of transport, not so much.
Lawmakers blow off workplace safety law they write - The Hill
70 percent of them too.
World's Coral Reefs Could Disintegrate by 2100 - American Scientist
Some really fast bolt-action rifle shooting. - YouTube
So maybe I don't have to have a semi-auto after all? But then again I wonder what his target looks like. Heh.
