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- Mark
- Central, Massachusetts, United States
- I like using ellipsis... My monicker represents my keen awareness of my limitations... ... the suspense is killing...
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
SOPA SUCKS
What a great con...
...make up shit that needs enforcement and government oversight (i.e., $$$) then take the same $$$ as legal afterwards: brilliant.
Wished I'd of thought of it except I LOVE MY COUNTRY AND IT'S PEOPLE ENOUGH NOT TO CHEAT IT OUT OF $$$. PARASITES = Halataei and Pasternack . FIRE THEM NOW AND FOR GOOD. YOU DO NOT DESERVE A DIME OF MINE.JOE Q. CITIZEN
SEE HERE:
Congressional staffers behind SOPA get shiny new jobs as entertainment industry lobbyists
By Cory Doctorow at 5:55 am Sunday, Dec 11
Allison Halataei (former deputy chief of staff for House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)) and Lauren Pastarnack (former senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee) have cool new jobs. Having written the Internet-destroying Stop Online Piracy Act for their bosses while drawing a salary at public expense, they've now accepted massive raises to go work for the entertainment companies who stand to benefit from the law they wrote. Their new job? Helping to run the campaign to push their law through.
Halataei recently joined the National Music Publishers’ Association, and Pastarnack is jumping to the Motion Pictures Association of America, two lobbying groups pressing Congress to pass the proposals...
“This is one of those mega-fights where there is a lot of money at stake and whenever it gets to that, it’s kind of ‘Katy bar the door’ as far as what they’ll pay for talent,” said McCormick Group headhunter Ivan Adler. “This fits into the perfect scenario of why senior-level people from well-placed committees get hired, and it’s because they really know the three p’s: people, policy and process. And that makes them very valuable in the Washington marketplace.”
The former aides will face one-year lobbying bans, which means they cannot lobby the respective committees where they previously worked. But those bans don’t render the former aides useless to their new employers.
“They can provide invaluable insight to people on the outside — even in the consultation mode,” one tech industry lobbyist said, noting that Halataei had been Smith’s secondhand person and knows how the Texas Republican thinks and what would be an effective lobbying strategy.
Additionally, the Senate and House panels work closely together, and both Halataei and Pastarnack have ties to staffers in the chambers they didn’t serve in and aren’t banned from lobbying.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has died.
October 5th, 2011
Steve Jobs, former Apple CEO, passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Here is the statement from Apple's Board of Directors.
Now we can all have really cool shit in the after-life. Thanks Mr. Jobs.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Evolution AND an Expanding Universe. Nothing is Next!
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe.
I have a particular interest as I was part of a group that looked for other reasons to explain how the universe can appear to be expanding at an ever-faster rate. We were unable to undermine the findings of the two teams and it's now momentous to see the research which indicated the existence of dark energy being rewarded so prestigiously.
These astrophysicists' research revolutionised our common perception of the universe and unveiled an array of mysteries that we are still trying to fathom.
Some thoughts from Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge:
This award recognises an important and surprising discovery. Even empty space contains energy and exerts a kind of 'antigravity' which causes cosmic expansion to accelerate. It will be a long time before theorists understand this force -- it is part of the bedrock nature of space and time. This discovery has been subsequently strengthened and corroborated by other advances: the evidence from the cosmic microwave background (especially the Boomerang and WMAP experiments) that the geometry of the universe is 'flat', and an accumulation of evidence from observations with large telescopes that atoms and 'dark matter' amount to no more than 30 percent of density needed to make it so.
I think, however, that this is one of the increasingly frequent instances when the Nobel Committee is damagingly constrained by its tradition that a prize can't be shared between more than three individuals. The key papers recognised by this award were authored by two groups, each containing a dozen or so scientists. It would have been fairer, and would send a less distorted message about how this kind of science is actually done, if the award had been made collectively to all members of the two groups.
Very exciting: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe
- via Cynthia's News Posterous
Friday, June 10, 2011
Lies of Andrew Breitbart...
Monday, May 16, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
ReNamed: OUR - electronic waste problem [infographic]
... and this too shall pass. Desktop computers are already becoming a thing of the past: we just need to learn to reuse them for materials to make newer, smaller ones. OK? APPLE? DELL? HP? Anyone? Please take the old ones back for material reuse.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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