tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170591342011-11-27T18:45:52.283-05:00A great way to waste your time, anytime.B the IIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10647903110433573711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17059134.post-68373992107917656892010-02-19T07:29:00.004-05:002010-02-19T07:32:55.060-05:00

I haven't written in a LOOONG time.I stopped writing because, frankly, nobody was listening. That sucks, but reality does that sometime. Now when i first got wind of a web page builder called "geocities" oh so long ago, I used to read thesis statements of grad students on biology, the kaballah and all kinds of things. I pined for a world (yes, i said 'pined') where people could write their

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a friend of mine sent me this link to consider: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106769/Do-the-Rich-Really-Deserve-Such-a-Bad-RapIt actually gave me an opportunity to do a little research on what i think the 'real deal' is. What I mean by that is uncovering just exactly what the super rich people make in relation to how much they pay taxes, so after a little "research" i wrote

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A good buddy of mine was recently critiquing my admonition that the Fed/Treasury or whatever should post its long-term interest rates. My position is that the volatility that the Fed creates to put the pedal and brakes on the economy (to fight inflation and deflation) actually create some of the volatility in the market (as in how the Real Estate boom was created due to the low interest rates the

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Amidst my moaning and complaining about everything, i just saw this video from a blog that i follow that puts things back into perspective.Glad to be alive.Now that that spasm of gratefulness has passed: back to the moaning.A few days ago i ordered the book Termites Turtles and Traffic Jams by Mitch Resnick. Resnick was a computer programmer who wrote a program that turned scientific thinking

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I miss that light-skinned black guy who used to come on BET news, what's his name? Courtney Malloy. He's so buried in history that it took me about eight searches to verify that this guy even existed. Apparently he was a columnist for the Washington Post. and pretty much all i got was this article on www.blackcommentator.com, which by the way is going out of business. But that was just a

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1. I was just saying that i was sick of the bailout. and this comes along.2. I'm beginning to like this guy (Nassim) more than the wizard of omaha.How Bank Bonuses Let Us All Downby Nassim Nicholas Taleb One of the arguments one hears in the compensation debate is that the bonus system used by Wall Street - as John Thain, former Merrill Lynch chief executive, put it - is there to "reward talent".

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Remember the last time you drank too much? You didn't know until the next morning. Right now, with all this talk about the bailout and tarp and the stimulus . . . it's too much. I'm already having a hangover. There is only so much that i can do or say about it:I don't agree with the bailout.I don't agree with the stimulus.I think we should have let the idiot bankers rot. I think the stimululs is

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So, the last post was about a wealth cap. The condition behind this argument is the gaping hole in the wealth between rich and poor people, especially in America. The intent i have in proposing a limit on the amount a person can "be worth" is to equalize the chances of people being able to feed and support their family.I think i've added an option, here they are so far:Cap incomeI would limit the

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A good friend was complaining that nobody wants to hear that we have to save money. Not Wall Street or the people on Main Street (Market if you're in Philadelphia). He aptly says " . . want to still have their toys". I agree. Having been unemployed for a while, and not a big spender i know this intimately.I only have two credit cards, both of which are half full, and I only got those so i could

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So, we've been talking about fiscal policy and wall street bailouts, now let's talk about the Democratic "stimulus" plan.I'm against it.TaxcutsLook, I like the taxcuts for lower income people. Especially when the Bush tax-cuts for the upper income people will expire soon, great i think, balances revenue a bit. The problem with tax cuts is two-fold. The last two tax cuts and rebates that Bush

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So, apparently people have been heeding my warning. I have been saying for a little while on this blog in this post that the disparity in incomes has got to stop. I say the thing to keep an eye on was the multiple. What i mean by the multiple is how much a top-level executive makes as a multiple of how the least compensated person in the company (janitor, etc) makes.Over all but the last couple

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So, there's a depression setting in, not just a recession going on. It seems that the news media, business people, economists and everyone reading what they have said are stuck in the same trap. They think money is the problem and money is the solution."No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it" -EinsteinI'm sure that someone else said it before, but he's the

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Money is too cheap.Let's talk supply and demand. When i sell eggs, let's say they're normally priced at $2. Let's say i go to the market and mark them at $2.50. nobody is going to buy them because they're too expensive. I mean with a dozen eggs, people are price sensitive. If i go to the store, and the grocer says that i have to sell them at $1.50, then i'm not going to sell them because i can't

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I read two articles today so i could prove a friend wrong. we had a discussion, on the way to the inauguration, about housing prices. My position was that housing prices have been way above historical averages for the last 20 years and need to be reset to those levels. Her position was that housing bubble doesn't need to be deflated back 20 years, but to the start of this bubble. I felt a little

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For the last couple months i've been thinking about the spiraling downfall of the American economy as based on the loosening of credit standards. In a conversation with my father, he reminded me that historically, banks only made business and corporate loans. For the majority of the American experience, if you wanted to buy a house, you talked to the person that owned the land and made some kind

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Every once in a while a couple things swirl into a theme. I was listening to NPR earlier today and they were interviewing people who went overwhelmingly for McCain, and are still weary, not hopeful, of an Obama presidency. That was one. Two, i read about the Madoff scandal, I only got interested due to another story on NPR, but that is besides the point, so that's not actually point #2.The real

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i just happened upon a link to the typealyzer website. It analyzes blogs to figure out where they sit on the Myers-Briggs typology scale. I'm an ISTP, or rather my blog is an ISTP. Not bad, in college i was an INTJ. So this means that i'm more connected to the world than my intuition, and i'm less judgmental. Not bad. Not good either. Just is.

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So this weekend i helped out on production for a communication course run by Landmark Education. It was fantastic. I already took the course, and it was nice to be able to be a gadfly enough to be able to leave the room, but in there enough to sample the course again.What i want to talk about is the different perspectives of NLP and LE (Landmark Education). They both deal with humanity, NLP deals

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So, i'm engaged. And i was exchanging messages with an old friend on facebook, and she asked why i didn't respond to her "congrats". At first, i thought not much of it and said that i started to take the congrats for granted. Then i left it at that.Not two minutes later i realized why i take the congrats with a grain of salt. What happens is that i find that a lot of people my age are getting

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I worked on the Philadelphia Marathon last week(end). I also told my friend Johnathan that i would do the Philadelphia Triathlon with him in June. Right now I'm leaning toward doing the sprint triathlon, but in the back of my mind i'm thinking that the sprint triathlon is for suckers, i might just do the whole thing. The thing i've got going for me is that i'm a decent swimmer, and apparently

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Hey, i like the idea of spreading the wealth around. In the upcoming weeks, there will be tons of discussions about how to bail this economy out. It will center heavily on rebuilding the physical infrastructure of the company, and promoting green jobs. I have something to add to this to make sure that everything is cool:1. that no one person can recieve from a company more than 30 times the

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I've been working hard on my website Keystone Business Systems. I'm building it so that i can create a community of professionals, business-owners and non-profit organizations that will create a black business class in philadelphia.When looking around at the state of Philadelphia politics and economics, we're drastically behind the curve. What i want to do is create a centralized location that

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Apparently, people are saying the Pentagon's budget is bloated. You don't say! in a relatively detailed article that i read on reference from another article i realized that Obama can really cut the budget deficit down by shedding overly-expensive, and frivolous military spending. Though the article says that a lot of the budget is for personnel, there's still gonna be a lot of cost-cutting for

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I bumped into some people and they asked why i haven't blogged in a while. I stared at them with disbelief that they knew i had a blog, much less read it.Well, i'm almost stunned that Obama won. I thought that when he beat Hillary, he had it in the bag. So that's why i'm not stunned. But i get the shivers at thinking that he actually won. A facebook friend of mine, which means he knows people i

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i just recently read the book The New Influencers by Paul Gilliam (sorry the website looks cheezy, but the book is okay) and learned the wonderful benefits of linking.He says that linking to other websites and articles are good for growing your blog followers and thought community etc. I think linking to other websites is good to remember where exactly i came up with the crap thoughts i have.so,

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As you can see from my wide variety of topics in my posts, i think a lot about a lot of things. I have been looking for a way to organize, collect and categorize my thoughts on a wide array of subjects. I have found delicious to be a wonderful way to organize stuff on the web, however, it didn't fit my off-the-cuff thoughts because i couldn't tag books, thoughts and the like. So, what i'll be

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I got this from Slate, one of my regular rags. i found a real insightful observation (in bold below) about the different attitudes that conservatives and liberals have on the role of the courts. I relate it to what i learned from the book Who Rules America by Domhoff. begin quote"In some states, like California, judges instructed the state to take steps to equalize school funding from district to

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In the past few days, i really get upset for periods of time thinking about how short a memory the media has. It seems that during the bailout blame-game, not many people stop to think about who is the originating culprit of this mess.I mean sure, wall street messed up. They bought the securities, the seemingly objective rating firms gave the rubber stamp to these securities and then AIG insured

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I've been tooling around with the website (keybussys) by getting a new template (face) and shoring some stuff up on the backend. My current website is like non-functional. I forgot passwords and all that. The reason it sucks is because i blew my computer away and re-installed everything. But before i got the passwords to the website, i deleted the VPC before i got my passwords and website out of

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i just made some rough calculations and it looks like the dow lost about 60% of its value in the past year or so. I think this has been the largest percentage decline in history in the course of a year. Moving that cool little chart on finance.google.com it looks like the only other time something like this happened was in 73-74 but that took two years! WOW.What's MORE IMPORTANT is the S&P 500

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Its funny how when writing a book you want to balance everything. I've written the first section (of five) and wanted to 'nail' that section before i get to the next one. So, what i did was wrote it, and edited it. I wanted to nail the first section, then polish it so that if/when i wrote the second section, that builds on but doesn't depend on the first, then i'd have something coherent to refer

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So, i'll merge it all. consequences be damned.NetWeaving is my likkle coinage for weaving a network. Weaving a newtork is qualitatively different from networking. Networking is the art of making connections so that you benefit from your network(s). Network weaving is the art of making connections so that other people benefit from the network(s). This is what Malcolm Gladwell was pointing to when

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How do i manage it all. Shoot, how does anyone. I'm typing away at my computer mostly on a book on building networks that i'm writing. In the interim i'm interrupted by thoughts about the other fires i have burning, some out of control, in other areas of my life. Half of me is resigned to the fate i've created for myself, and the other half is content with making small but plentiful contributions

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This just in . . . Lehman executives made off with about $10 billion in bonuses as they cried wolf to the feds about how they were going down the tubes. I repeat, as Lehman Brothers asked the Fed to step in and help, they at the same time gave their top executives about $10 billion in golden parachutes, bonuses and other kinds of compensation.Livid is such a bland word to describe what i feel.

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i want to cry.i am underwhelmed at the level of disgust and outrage that people don't exhibit about how completely incompetent Palin is to be a prospective vice president.

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I've been wondering that with the largest five investment banks going under, why isn't the economy in a full tailspin already? I mean we've seen this coming for two years, and though hopefully half of the crisis is in our rearview mirror, i've been wondering why we haven't gone into a recession by now, or even a depression.I mean, some of the major indicators are harrowing: the rate of new

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I was talking to a student in one of my courses and he proposed a novel idea. Instead of giving these corporations all this bailout money ($700 Billion), which would leave the average American still in debt, the government should give each taxpayer making less than $75,000 per year a check for $40,000. Now, the condition is that these taxpayers could only apply this to their debts (so no shopping

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Yo, i need a bailout. My company lost 3.6 billion and all i'm getting is a 11.6 million compensation package. . . of course i'm lying, and so are they!Really though? I've been reeling at this crisis, and there's a lot i don't get about it. We have two parallel crises on our hands. the first crisis is the home mortgage crisis, and the second is the Wall Street business credit crisis.The supposed

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Living in the city has me thinking of all these articles promising and projecting plug-in hybrid vehicles in the next 10 years. My me-centric line of thinking asks: where do i plug in my hybrid.I live in the city with no garage. So how will i insure that some young enterprising youth won't sell my outlet by the hour or use when i'm either sleeping at night or away at work. For that to work there

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http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/jon-stewart-ann.htmlJon Stewart kills it. He shows how republicans did a complete 180 about the gender card. When Hillary was talking that gender stuff, they said, as Bruce Said in die hard 143: "cowboy the fuck up". When the spotlight is on Palin, they say its unfair.Well, that's to be expected.But its not just overt comedy shows that don't

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i'm on a discussion list where it seems that i'm on the losing side of the debate team (if you count numbers) but winning in terms of analyzing issues. So, somebody posted a list of things they'd like the next prez (they're assuming its the big O) to solve. I remixed it and put it in a ranking. I modified #3 to be what i said, what's in parentheses is what he put.lists are cool, but rankings are

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I went to a meeting last night with the heads of UPPN and about 30-50 specially hand-picked people. Basically, its a movement within UPPN to start giving back to the community, so they picked about 50 guys and invited them to become . . . Bigs!What's a Big? Its a nick-name for a Big Brother/Sister. So, i'm real excited about it. I put in an application, and if they can get past my armed robbery,

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Yo, in the news, Jesse and other supposed 'civil rights leaders' are complaining that Obama is talking down to blacks when he talks of personal responsibility. Apparently they've never heard of anyone besides themselves. Now i don't like this, but i understand it. You, well really me, has got to realize that they are 'civil rights leaders', which by definition points their attitudes and

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I just read a good article against the 'semantic web' which basically says that thinking and language are too fluid to categorize. It's a pretty layman termed article for such a heavy topic. Not a lot of jargon. you can find it here:http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

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Please tell Hillary. I mean for real. I know we tell everyone that if there's a slimmer of hope (pun intended), then keep up the good fight. But i have a hard time believing that she thinks she's a better candidate. i think that she's trying to undermine him as an electable president and say "i told you so" so she can run in four years and hopefully win.So i think someone should sit Hillary down

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I'm into recursivenesshttp://www.slate.com/id/2184810it's an article about an improved RSS feed that filters out what you do and don't like in your RSS inbox based on your reading preferences. Think RSS and netflix ratings mashed up, based on textual analysis. Hot. I might try it.

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The past couple days, i've been meandering around town with the thought/question in my head "am i living a life that's worth living?". This i think is a little different than the question "what do you want to be known for" because the latter question speaks about your long-term impact on the people around you, while the first question asks about the quality of your life in-the-moment.So, there's

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Clinton

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here's something that i left on a forum thread whose title was Obama vs Clintonhere's why i am and think you (and everyone) should vote for Obama:At least internally, he's resolved what many of us see as dualities. It sounds like to him there is no race, gender or class, despite the media attention and pigeonholing of democratic candidates into race (Obama), gender (Hillary) and class (Edwards) [

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I've always wanted to know how i can find a movie just like the one i watched. For instance, compare the two movies about magicians: the illusionist and the prestige. Both involved magicians, but it's hard to focus in on just magicians if you look in the more general category 'magic'. In that category, you'd find things like harry potter and the hobbit trilogy (whatever that name is). So i've

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I invited my dad over so he could wax poetic about how important the Kennedy endorsements were. Being a youngster, i hear about the literal adoration that a whole nation had for the Kennedy's (something that Bill C. didn't achieve). So i had to tap someone who actually lived through those times to weigh in on how important this was, and the ramifications in that generation.So in this analysis, my

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[posted in response to marty's comment on "ooh, an existentialist discussion arises" on the Darkush blog yesterday]I learned about "i" (the imaginary number, not myself) from a retired math professor who was tutoring a young kid in a school i was working in. He was teaching the kid about cycles and negative roots and many of the things you're talking about. This guy had three pieces of paper and

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. . . of this election cycle that is. And i think that Obama fricasseed (had to look that spelling up) them how do you spell that word? I think the only fault that i have with Obama is that his speech is choppy. He has a lot of 'uh's and what i think is a mild stutter. I think it's cuz he's actually thinking about what he says, which is actually becoming of him.I did find that he doesn't support

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I've been sorta watching the Obama-Clinton fiasco. What was really interesting was to hear Bill Clinton come out on radio (heard on the Tom Joyner show) not really attacking Obama, but really taking the man's campaign to task. It was funny, i started to think about the fight as a boxing match and thought of what was going on. What i thought was Bill was definitely a past champion, on the ropes

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i submitted this as a comment on the Darkush blogloved the explanation of the superdelegate system, i was wondering what that was. And Obama and hillary basically tied in NH, the term 'win' is malleable and over-hyped.Many people are also missing the fact that many independents played their cards in the republican primary. So, i'm thinking that McCain beat Obama much the way that they say Nader

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I'm an avid supporter. I think he's the great black hope, the great white hope and just the great hope. But i'm scared. I don't want to think it . .. but i was just looking at the video of him after the Iowa win . . . he's inspiring, he makes me want to believe, and i do believe. . . he makes me think that i can make a change. But i also know that there are people out there hating their fear of

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i don't have anything important to say, but i wanted to post something because i want to feel like a good blogger.

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I've found a new forum to chat on: Afrochat.netIt's a decidedly afrocentric/africentric chat. It has some 'old heads' on it. You know, people all wrapped up in their ideology an ready to spew it on everyone. . . wait, that's me!I just posted something outlining criteria for adulthood, hoping to generate some good responses about the topic, when all-of-a-sudden out of nowhere one guy tries to

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I've found a new forum to chat on. Afrochat.netIt's a decidedly afrocentric/africentric chat. It has some 'old heads' on it. You know, people all wrapped up in their ideology an ready to spew it on everyone. . . wait, that's me!I just posted something outlining criteria for adulthood, hoping to generate some good responses about the topic, when all-of-a-sudden out of nowhere one guy tries to

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So, i'm a teacher. i teach software programs to corporate and individual clients. And i think i'm hot shit.I was at work today and another trainer came in and was turning in his evaluations. Because i teach the MS office, and they want high-quality training, the people that i train fill out either paper-form or web-based evaluations. So, this other trainer has been 'duping' me. He's been talking

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I was reading the book that i mentioned the other day, and there is a section in it on understanding time and space. And he was noting how people think about different categories . . . and was remarking (yeah, i'll get to it) a about cognitive psychologist roger shepard who obsreved that "people often wish that they had an office with additional space, so they would have more places to put their

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I was about to say that i'm the only person who would read a chapter of a book discussing the ins-and-outs of the difference between the words cut, hit and break . . . but there's the guy that wrote the book! The Stuff of Though by Steve Pinker. It's a great read so far.The premise of his book is that we can see into the functioning of the human mind through language. As a linguist, he is looking

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I was thinking about dating the other day. I'm head-over heels into a relationship and coming down the final stretch of my singlehood and i was thinking about the whole 'dating world' and 'courting world' (which are vastly different arenas). A few years ago i read a tome of a book called "The Kaballah of the Soul" by leonora leet and was struck by one of her analyses (analysis plural, the blog

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I hate the democratic party-line of 'universal healthcare' as if healthcare is a 'right'. the phrase 'healthcare rights' or 'a right to healthcare' is about as compatible as the phrase 'purple ideas'. The adjective purple can't be applied to idea because ideas have no form or substance. The word right can't be applied to healthcare because it isn't a basic human freedom.A right, properly

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I'm talking about business, literally. We know that there is a disparity between black and white unemployment rates. And part of this can be attributed to the fact that many of the owners and people in charge of hiring at companies are more comfortable with whites in their midst. That is not to say that they are racist, i'm just saying that there's a bias.Breaking down that bias has been the task

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I was in federal court in norther new jersey and met some guy in the defendant's line. I am a prodigal nerd, and was reading a book called "the social life of information" by Durgid and some other guy i want to call 'steely dan'. It's a book that i hadn't been able to get my hands on since it came out (i don't think the FLOP has it -free library of philadelphia that is).So this guy asked me "is

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A Periodic Table of Visualization MethodsThis is a hella-cool site that i happened upon that attempts to categorize divergent kinds of visualization structures.

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The other day i was watching part of the Youtube CNN debate for the democrats, where some guy asked whether the candidates believed in reparations. Of course, due to time constraints not all teh candidates could answer the question. And of course the self-selected 'token' Obama (who i love as a candidate) answered in a sly way saying that reparations can be applied to better schooling. I think

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After a long arduous battle with the phone company, i finally got DSL!So get ready for me posting a bit

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I was reading up on the internet about rewilding and found out that there are two kinds of rewilding proposals.the lesser of the two is to simply re-input animals and species that were native to a habitat, for instance wolves who were hutned to near extinction and now live in wildlife preserves, but not the wild.The other kind of rewilding is more radical (hooray) and that is to put megafauna (

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I was at a training yesterday and there was a SciAm subscription. During my breaks i happened to read it. i picked that one up because it had an article about the nucleotide that might have created life. the article was basically saying that RNA and DNA are higher up on the evolutioanry chart than many think. They argued that there were mor simpler molecules with carbon in them that were probably

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So i picked up the book Human Achievement by Charles Murray. . . So far, it's a pretty good book. Basically he's statistically analyzing references to people in the arts and sciences to seek their eminence and excellence. It's a really intriguing read for two reasons, first it tells you just why eminent people are eminent (well, kinda) and second it has you evaluate your own notions of judging

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Yo! google maps just did the greatest thing ever! It allows you to drag and drop what route you want to take! Since i take back-roads to places when i'm working, i'd always want to get google to give me directions taking bootleg routes.Hooray for google!

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hey. i'm in the process of getting dsl at home, but it's not going well because the phone company's repair line was down for repairs!!! (is that satire?).But. . . when i'm up and running, i'll be posting to these various blogs much more frequently.###I saw "the last king of scotland" last night. it took me two nights to watch it. It was a good movie, but i don't know why the man was like that. I

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so inevitably everyone near the conversation had to weigh-in on whether they were of the 'caliber' of J&J. I said that my family is of the 'caliber' of J&J but wasn't in it. The guy automatically assumed because of lack of money. I laughed at him. It wasn't on account of money. My family (specifically paternal family) is of the caliber of J&J, but it seems that my family is way too

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I was in NYC visiting my wonderful girlfriend and we went to a great Caribbean spot called “Negrill” somewhere around 4th and bleeker or something. I never know where I am when I’m down there . . . I think it’s the West Village. So we were sitting next to a table of college-educated folk, two guys and a girl. And it might have been one of their first times out together because they were

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i don't know. I must be a hermit. I keep reading books that i like over-and-over again. It might be OCD or something.But it doesn't happen with every book. Just good novels.In a related note, i keep doing the same thing over and over again. I go through files that i've written and created and go over them with a fine-toothed comb to see if there's anything to add or adjust. And i know i won't do

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hey, if their search capabilities are so advanced, why do they keep displaying movies that i already rated?For instance, if i put Mission Impossible in my Queue, why do they then put the other two mission impossibles and related movies that i've already seen? I would think that they would have a query that would eliminate already rated movies.Seems simple enough.

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Hey, i've been thinking of the 'illegal' immigrants streaming into this country, and its impact on black people. I hate amnesty, but i can't be mad at them. Think about it, they came into the country illegally, and we were imported immorally. I think it's a tie. Or as Borat says "NOT".I'm actually against amnesty, unless there's some sort of reparations. I do like the republicans saying that

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i swear, the downfall of mankind lay in ineffective management.

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when i drive, and i see cars hit bumps. for some reason, i think that my car won't hit the bump too.deep thoughts: by jack handy's nephew

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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/07/070507fa_fact_macfarquharGreat article on Obama. Fantastic article on an even more fascinating man.I'm just upset that Obama weighed in on the Philly Election behind Chakka Fattah. He's good and all, but i like nutter a helluva lot better. Chakka has it right on attacking the causes of violence, and not just punishing the instances/patterns of it. Why

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I'm so glad i have sprint. I just read on Slashdot (one of the finest news sources around) that Verizon is trying to argue that turning over customer call data to the NSA is protected by the first amendment. Alarm bells, you hear them too?On the commentary in slashdot, someone observed that the first amendment was to protect people FROM government censorship, not to defend collusion . . . I'm

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http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/04/25/abortion-and-anti-poverty-in-mexico/Yo. this is a great idea. Welfare mothers aren't recieving a blank check, they're actually being given money based on how well they're managing their lives:It's happening in mexican rural areas, with a slow matriculation into the cities, but i think it's a great idea.To implement something like this in the States

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I've a friend who's going to work for Comcast. He's going to be creating algorhythms to figure out how to recommend movies a lot better. The way he has it, he's doing some advanced geekery, which is right, but i like to think he's going head-to-head with netflix's rating system (which i think is par).I told him that he needs to build in some kind of device to create explicit associations between

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My new guilty pleasure is vampire novels by L.A. Banks. She writes a damn good series. So far it’s been about battles between Vampires and Neteru (variants of Egyptian dieties). I like it for a couple reasons. First I get to indulge in some ebonics and spirituality at the same time. Also, we’ve heard a lot a bout demons and evils spirits, but this is the first time I’ve read anything about

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so i've decided to actually do it. I'm going to publish my stuff way before it's time. i think it'll be good for me. The good thing is that nobody reads my blogs anyway (yo tom!). The bad thing is that nobody reads my blogs anyway.That's good because nobody will steal my idea, bad because i don't know if the idea is worth stealing. Good because i'll actually be putting my ideas 'out there', bad

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redundant, i knowI secured a venue for the first chess event. It'll be at the Rumbar in center city philadelphia.Holla at me, throw a dolla at me.So i've been telling everyone that i can talk to about SecondMove. Everyone thinks its a great idea, and most people are jealous that it isn't for more than Black Men. So most of the non-black men (which includes indians, scicilians, puertoricans and

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I'd love to tell you what i'm working on, but i don't want you to steal my idea.basically i'm working on something that'll help people get a handle on their finances, not in terms of 'absolute' wealth, but in terms of how well they're managing their money according to how much they make.

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I love chess. i'm finally going to get off my ass and play. I'm going to be organizing a bi-monthly chess event at various places around philadelphia owned by black people. I was going to say 'african american' but i'm down with ethiopian spots and other ethnicities, so it'll probably generalize to 'brown spots'.the name of the groups is called 'second move'. If you're not a chess afficianado,

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in the last two months i've been having pretty deep conversations about what i want to do with my life, and two separate people in separate worlds asked basically, what the f@$k i'm waiting for. i'm smart, i communicate well and all other sorts of goodies.I reply something stupid, that i planned my life that way. Seriously, when i was about 22 i figured i'd be a f#$kup for a couple years and

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no, not japan's version of hot mustard . . .Wesabe is one of the coolest programs that i've seen on the web. Basically you upload your bank and credit account information and tag it, and it sorts it into categories so you can track your spending in various categories.For instance, you can tag your trip to wawa as both food and junkfood, and you'll find out how much you spend on junkfood in a

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So, people think that this movie has political overtones . .. so what.i didn't like it as much as i thought i would.I think of 300 as an over-hyped Troy. I didn't like Troy. The only scene worth watching was Brad Pitt (bad choice) yelling at the whole city of Troy for the other guy to come out. White guys flying with spears. Didn't anyone tell white guys that woody harrelson dunking was camera

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apparently congress is just getting around to looking at the credit card industry and all of its fees [link at bottom]. That's good, but everything they're doing is hacking away at the branches of this evil tree, and not the root. The root of this is un-information. The credit card companies make goo gobs of money by using un-informed people to fatten their paychecks. What we need is more

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I've been playing around with the ofice 2007 program.I'm smitten.hardI've been a microsoft fan since mice came out. I used to play around on windows 3.1 and jump off and do some dos stuff in Norton Commander (yeah, i'm old). I actually like microsoft a lot more when i read bill gates biography back in the early-mid nineties (before he was popular as a person, not just a company). As of late, i

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My cousin is engaged to Keeth Smart. I'm a black, he's a black, she's a black, wouldn't you like . . . [name that song]Anyhoo. He's one of the top ranked fencers in the world. That's saying something because he's the first "American" fencer to be ranked at the top of fencing for a considerable period of time. Humility aside, he's the fencing equivalent to Tiger.To boot, his sister is a

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I'm waiting for the mashup between wikipedia, maps.google, flash, amazon and slashdot. But i don't want the government to see it!Imagine that all information can be integrated, customized and at your fingertips. You're walking down the street and you see a coffee shop. You dip in and on your PDA phone you get a short bio/hist of the store, the owner, its workers (with their consent and input of

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Here's a flash movie that explains how to understand dimensions above five. I thought it would be hard, but the explanation is good.http://tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

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The promised metaphor that’ll explain my viewpoint (beware, Bush’s spin people will love this, you might hear it later, but you heard it here first). So America fashions itself as a global cop. We send in troops into hotspots, we give aid to those in need etc. Whether we’re a “good cop” or “bad cop” is besides the point [further is whether we’re policing the right things- what about

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In line with me being a devil’s advocate by nature, let me say that “this isn’t your moms’ blogged opinion about the ‘war’.” I’m not actually debating whether American forces ‘should’ or ‘shouldn’t’ be in Iraq. Rather I’m talking about how ‘sane’ it is or isn’t for people in America to have an opinion about the war. Then at the end, or in the next of my blog entries I’ll explain part of my

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