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Obama Finally Appoints IP Czar... Puts It In The Wrong Department | Techdirt
"Why Office of Management & Budget? No good reason. The position doesn't fit there at all... but putting it there keeps it away from those darn "copyleftists" in Office of Science and Technology Policy. So where did the position end up? Yup... it's a part of Office of Management & Budget, just like Hollywood wanted."
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Why OMB? No good reason. The position doesn't fit there at all... but putting it there keeps it away from those darn "copyleftists" in OSTP.
So where did the position end up? Yup... it's a part of OMB, just like Hollywood wanted.
Federal IT Dashboard | FAQ - For Public
"The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability to track the progress of investments over time. The IT Dashboard displays data received from agency reports to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), including general information on over 7,000 Federal IT investments and detailed data for nearly 800 of those investments that agencies classify as "major." The performance data used to track the 800 major IT investments is based on milestone information displayed in agency reports to OMB called "Exhibit 300s." Agency CIOs are responsible for evaluating and updating select data on a monthly basis, which is accomplished through interfaces provided on the website. "
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The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability to track the progress of investments over time. The IT Dashboard displays data received from agency reports to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), including general information on over 7,000 Federal IT investments and detailed data for nearly 800 of those investments that agencies classify as "major." The performance data used to track the 800 major IT investments is based on milestone information displayed in agency reports to OMB called "Exhibit 300s." Agency CIOs are responsible for evaluating and updating select data on a monthly basis, which is accomplished through interfaces provided on the website.
The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
"Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with
problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and
alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan
areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white
suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun
availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link
between country music and suicide."
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Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with
problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and
alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan
areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white
suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun
availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link
between country music and suicide.
a company of soldiers: innovating & improvising
"CAVNET attempts to rectify our approach to actionable knowledge by providing a trusted source for junior leaders to immediately tap into and share the emerging enemy and friendly tactics, techniques and procedures laterally so that like units can arm themselves with the most recent enemy and friendly trends. This implies trust from above and a method to validate without losing the relevance. Maj. Gen. Chiarelli is a big proponent and integral cultural driver in moving from "knowledge is power" to "knowledge shared is power." His implicit trust in subordinates, realization that this is a small-unit war, and chief advocating [of] cuts across the inherent cultural divide created by hierarchical "turf wars" [is] driving this change across the organization. "
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CAVNET attempts to rectify our approach to actionable knowledge by providing a trusted source for junior leaders to immediately tap into and share the emerging enemy and friendly tactics, techniques and procedures laterally so that like units can arm themselves with the most recent enemy and friendly trends. This implies trust from above and a method to validate without losing the relevance. Maj. Gen. Chiarelli is a big proponent and integral cultural driver in moving from "knowledge is power" to "knowledge shared is power." His implicit trust in subordinates, realization that this is a small-unit war, and chief advocating [of] cuts across the inherent cultural divide created by hierarchical "turf wars" [is] driving this change across the organization.
This Is the Truth on Drugs…Any Questions? -- In These Times
"Though President Obama childishly laughed at a question about legalization during his recent town hall meeting, his government implicitly admits that marijuana is safer than light beer. Indeed, as federal agencies acknowledge alcohol’s key role in deadly illnesses and domestic violence, their latest anti-pot fear mongering is an ad campaign insisting—I kid you not—that marijuana is dangerous because it makes people zone out on their couches and diminishes video gaming skills."
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Though President Obama childishly laughed at a question about legalization during his recent town hall meeting, his government implicitly admits that marijuana is safer than light beer. Indeed, as federal agencies acknowledge alcohol’s key role in deadly illnesses and domestic violence, their latest anti-pot fear mongering is an ad campaign insisting—I kid you not—that marijuana is dangerous because it makes people zone out on their couches and diminishes video gaming skills.
The Shaggs’s Biography – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm
"It is worth noting that the Shaggs show a marked improvement in technique, particularly in timing, in the later recordings but that in doing so, they also seem to lose something. This is something all musicians can learn from."
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It is worth noting that the Shaggs show a marked improvement in technique, particularly in timing, in the later recordings but that in doing so, they also seem to lose something. This is something all musicians can learn from.
Does Google hate America? - By Chris Thompson - Slate Magazine
some of the country's most prominent conservative opinion journals and news sites have published stories and blog posts denouncing Google for subtly pushing a liberal worldview in its doodles while steadfastly refusing to commemorate patriotic or religious holidays.
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some of the country's most prominent conservative opinion journals and news sites have published stories and blog posts denouncing Google for subtly pushing a liberal worldview in its doodles while steadfastly refusing to commemorate patriotic or religious holidays.
Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve | World news | The Guardian
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction. All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality". Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.
"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.
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A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".
Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.
"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.
My eBay Job | Print Article | Newsweek.com
it concluded that "approximately 1.3 million sellers around the world use eBay as their primary or secondary source of income," with an estimated 630,239 in the United States. Take careful note of the phrasing, however: primary or secondary. That could mean 50,000 use eBay as a primary source and 1.25 million as a secondary source. Or it could mean the split is closer to 650,000-650,000.
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Certain numbers have an iconic status in America's business culture. One of them is the number of people who derive income selling goods on eBay: 1.3 million.
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it concluded that "approximately 1.3 million sellers around the world use eBay as their primary or secondary source of income," with an estimated 630,239 in the United States. Take careful note of the phrasing, however: primary or secondary. That could mean 50,000 use eBay as a primary source and 1.25 million as a secondary source. Or it could mean the split is closer to 650,000-650,000.
War of the Babies--When Modern Warfare and Demography Square Off, Demography Wins
To win the way the Albanians won in Kosovo, you need to make a lot of babies. It’s that simple. And to see how it works, you have to drop the namby-pamby liberal idea that people only have babies out of “love.” In lots of places on this planet, baby-making is a form of weapons production.
Clinton and Obama Talk Religion, Not Science | Wired Science from Wired.com
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are eager to talk about religion. But why are they so scared of science?
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Science and technology are responsible for half of America's post-World
War II economic growth, said Otto, but scientific primacy is
shifting rapidly to Asia. "To maintain American economic strength going
forward, we need to find a way to deal with that -- and the candidates
have been virtually silent," he said.
An even larger issue is climate change, which has been identified by
the global scientific community as an imminent and almost certainly catastrophic
threat.
"Nearly every scientist I've spoken to recently says that the next one
or two Presidential administrations have a chance to determine the
future viability of the planet. Those are dire words, coming from
people used to being conservative in their language," said Otto.
H-Alter - ANTINATOOVSKI AKTIVISTI POD POLICIJSKOM OBRADOM
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Uoči dolaska američkog predsjednika Georga Busha policija privodi mirovne aktiviste na informativne razgovore, raspituje se o strukturi antiglobalizacijskog pokreta, o njegovim vođama i o programima sumnjivih kulturnih klubova. Pripadnicima antinatoovskog pokreta stavlja na znanje da su pod prismotrom, te kako ne bi bilo pametno od njih da sudjeluju na prosvjedima protiv politike trenutačnog američkog predsjednika.
The Financial Tsunami: The Financial Foundations of the American Century
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The ongoing and deepening global financial crisis, nominally triggered in July 2007 by an event involving a small German bank holding securitized assets backed by USA sub-prime real estate mortgages, can best be understood as an essential part of an historical process dating back to the end of the Second World War—the rise and decline of the American Century.
The American Century, proudly proclaimed by Time-Life founder and establishment insider, Henry Luce in a famous 1941 Life magazine editorial, was built on the preeminent role of New York banks and Wall Street investment banks which had by then clearly replaced the City of London as the center of gravity of global finance. Luce’s American Century was to be built in a far more calculated manner than the British Empire it replaced.1
'Cyber Moths' Created To Spy on Enemies - Big News Day
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The Pentagon is creating an army of cyber-moths and beetles to spy on their enemies.
They aim to insert micro-systems as the live insects undergo metamorphosis and their organs grow around the chips and wires that make up the remote-control devices.
US military science bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) believes they can take advantage of the evolution of insects such as moths in the pupa stage during which the insect is re-built.
The programme is called HI-MEMS (Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and it sounds like something out of a sci-fi book - because it is.
Project director Dr Amit Lal got the idea after reading Thomas Easton's 1990 novel Sparrowhawk in which animals enlarged by genetic engineering were fitted with implanted control systems.
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