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looks like there is an even bigger clown coming in:
Many Egyptians fear that Fattah al-Sisi wants to return Egypt to a familiar style of secular authoritarianism. But his record suggests he may have very different — although equally undemocratic — political intentions: a hybrid regime that would combine Islamism with militarism.
Utah State Sen. Aaron Osmond (R-South Jordan) has introduced a proposal to abolish compulsory education for children in his home state.
this has got to be one of the more bizarre pieces i have seen in a while, calling an organization that is synonymous with junk mail “essential for democracy”, and it goes downhill from there.
Unions want more benefits and politicians would rather not incur the wrath of their constituents by raising taxes. To serve both masters, politicians incur more debt. But off the books, they also make completely unrealistic promises about retiree health benefits and pension plans. The promises are known as an unfunded liability – a promise to pay without a source of funds attached to it.
this article gets it exactly right: unless the us overcomes its safety fetish, the decline will be terminal. people are confused about risk and falsely believe 0 risk is either desirable or achievable. the result is a nation of terrified babies who can’t get anything done.
Welcome to the generation of what I have come to call “securitarians.” No more calculation of risk, they. Risk itself is conclusive. They are the products of a post-9/11 mentality in which the practice of prudential judgment did not merely atrophy. It collapsed. A new rhetorical form emerged, a sort of reductio ad absurdum in reverse—a reductio ad extremis—epitomized by the warning that deliberation over the war in Iraq was risky since the smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud. In this era, risk has been escalated in such a way as not merely to reconfigure but to obliterate judgment.
DARPA has ~200 employees. not bad for coming up with the internet, GPS, stealth aircraft, speech translation, and the failures are pretty telling too: project orion, hafnium bombs. now it looks like DARPA has been captured by security idiots like current director arati prabhakar where it is all talk about terrrrrrrrists: DARPA: Driving Critical Technological Surprise compare that to the previous darpa director regina durgan in : Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone
can we go back to actual innovation instead of this bs security theater?
taxi commissions are one of the greatest evils in transportation.
In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments. City agencies that regulate cabs, generally called taxi commissions, were deliberately protecting from competition the very companies they were supposed to police.
CFR is designed to prepare first responders to effectively and efficiently act to counter any type of cyber-based terror attack against our nation’s internet, communications, and network-based infrastructure. This is an intense, hands-on course for skilled technical personnel who meet specific technical prerequisites, and are responsible for responding to agency assistance calls for potential cyberterrorism activity.
wat. oh, of course, your tax $ at work.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, where more than 33K people have been killed in 19 months of conflict, issued a law on GM food Thursday to preserve human life
Unclear worth of human lives in Syria
Gregor J. Rothfuss 