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Gus S. Calabrese     ViKing

  North High School  1969

Skinner Junior High ( Middle School )

  Denver, Colorado
Peschel VanDoozer  

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Priates of Silicone Valley indeed Behind the curtain with Apple amd MS

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592FE887-5CA1-4F30-BD62-407362B533B9.html

The above is an awesome story of punch and counter-punch between Apple and MicroSoft.

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Scientists are too attached to their theories R Feynman knew the way

According to Professor Jordan Nash of Imperial College London, who is working on one of the LHC's experiments, researchers could have seen some evidence of supersymmetry by now.

"The fact that we haven't seen any evidence of it tells us that either our understanding of it is incomplete, or it's a little different to what we thought - or maybe it doesn't exist at all," he said.

Disappointed

The timing of the announcement could not be worse for advocates of supersymmetry, who begin their annual international meeting at Fermilab, near Chicago, this weekend.

Professor George Smoot Nobel Laureate

Dr Joseph Lykken of Fermilab, who is among the conference organisers, says he and others working in the field are "disappointed" by the results - or rather, the lack of them.

"There's a certain amount of worry that's creeping into our discussions," he told BBC News.

The worry is that the basic idea of supersymmetry might be wrong.

Prosecutor prosecutes woman that is known to be innocent....

Read the story below.... note that "the stripper" obviously was innocent.  The prosecutor was either a shill for the police ( very likely ) or incredibly incompetent.  Kudos to the jury.

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Tiawanda Moore, 20, listens to a reporter's question after a court hearing at the Cook County Courts Building, 2650 S. California Ave., Wednesday, August 24, 2011, in Chicago. Moore was found not guilty of eavesdropping when she audio-recorded Chicago Police internal affairs officers during an interview stemming from a charge she filed against police officers in 2010. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times

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A former stripper, who secretly recorded two Chicago Police Internal Affairs investigators while filing a sexual harassment complaint against another officer was acquitted on eavesdropping charges Wednesday.

“I’m feeling a lot better now,” a smiling Tiawanda Moore said after a Cook County jury returned the verdict in a little over an hour.

The 20-year-old Indiana woman admitted she taped the officers on her Blackberry in August of last year. But she said she only did it because the investigators were coaxing her to not go forward with her complaint.

“I wanted him to be fired,” Moore testified of the cop she alleges fondled her and gave her his phone number during a domestic battery call at the South Side residence she sometimes shares with her boyfriend.

Moore said she didn’t know about the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, which prohibits the recording of private or public conversations without the consent of all parties. Even so, Moore’s attorney, Robert Johnson, said his client was protected under an exemption to the statute that allows such recordings if someone believes a crime is being committed or is about to be committed.

The Internal Affairs officers were “stalling, intimidating and bullying her,” Johnson said. The recording, which was played in court during the one-day trial, proved it, Johnson said.

Assistant State’s Attorney Mary Jo Murtaugh told jurors, “The content of the tape is not the issue. The issue is that the words were taped.”

But Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said the verdict “reflects a repudiation of the eavesdropping law in Illinois. Clearly, the public believes that individuals should be able to record police engaged in their public duties, in a public space in an audible voice.”

The ACLU has challenged the eavesdropping law in federal court.

Johnson said the findings in Moore’s sexual harassment allegations were under protective order and have not been released.

A change ....... Now I hate the Telsa Electric sports car

Tesla Electric Cars Take Off with $465 Million in Government Funding

The car company has bold plans for the forthcoming Model S and beyond.

June 25, 2009 at 10:17AM by Jim Motavalli | 4 comments

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Tesla is getting more interesting by the day. Here's a company that was basically flat on its back just a couple of years ago, plagued by internal strife and trying to sell a then-$92,000 electric Roadster that cost $140,000 to build. That's not my estimation, it's right from the blog of CEO Elon Musk, who was responding to a suit by an embittered co-founder.

I recently drove a Tesla Roadster (pictured) owned by the Vulcan Motor Club on a jaunt through rainy rural New Jersey, and enjoyed it more than similar rides in even more expensive high-end supercars by Aston-Martin and Lamborghini.
 And now Tesla is in fast company. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced June 23 that Tesla was one of three recipients — with Ford and Nissan — of $8 billion in advanced technology loan funds. Tesla will get $465 million to build a manufacturing plant for the new ultra-fast Model S sedan in Southern California, and a second battery plant in the Bay Area.
The federal fund is designed to further a very worthy cause: ensuring that the U.S. will be competitive in battery technology. It's quite clear that without federal assistance, we will lose that business to Asia, mostly to China and Korea. And right now it really matters who will capture this market: it is, unquestionably, the future of the auto industry.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transportation/tesla-funding-460609#ixzz1VtvuRd2L

I can see who is winning the freedom battle ( short term )

"The Anarchists Are Coming! The Anarchists Are Coming!"

Posted by Butler Shaffer on August 22, 2011 08:26 PM

According to a report in The Weekly Guardian, the City of Westminster (England) published a warning to the general public, urging them to report persons with anarchist views.  "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.  Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police."

I never thought such things would exist outside of a scary SCI FI novel.

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Rick Perry can say "treason" but Rick Stanley cannot

Rick Stanley went to prison for over four years for saying that a Colorado judge was acting in a treasonable fashion.    Rick Perry says the same thing and is admired ( by some ). ..... So much for free speech in the land of the brave.

Zeus  ..... I hate the slinking hypocrites that populate AMerica..... they have tarnished the Constitution and beleaguered the people who live here and across the world.   A pox on politicians..........Ron Paul is not a politician of the ordinary stripe .... he is a beacon for freedom.

And I offer my admiration to Rick Stanley who has suffered so much on our behalf.

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The battle of the GIANTS commences ..... over the wrong things

The deeply flawed *patent paradigm* that is a friend to lawyers and big corporate America is entering a new stage where combat is inevitable and will probably result in harm to the little guys.  This paradigm is spreading all over the globe.   There is some resistance and I hope there is more.  Given a choice between the patent system as it exist and nothing ..... I would choose the box labelled "no intellectual property".  Individual freedom and innovation are being squashed......
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Google Buys Motorola for Patents and Manufacturing Capability

  by Glenn Fleishman <glenn@tidbits.com>
Google’s $12.5 billion cash purchase of Motorola Mobility pairs up the last major mobile operating system maker without a compelling hardware story with one of its most fervent handset partners, creating an integrated behemoth aimed at competing in both patent litigation and the marketplace with Apple, Microsoft/Nokia, and RIM.

(In January 2011, the firm previously known as Motorola split in two, with Motorola Mobility taking the mobile phone business and Motorola Solutions offering telecommunications products — like WiMax — and services to enterprise and government customers.)

Google says its Android smartphone operating system will continue be “open” and licensed to other firms, and Motorola will be run as a separate line of business. Why irritate other handset makers and blow so much dough? Two reasons: patents and soup-to-nuts smartphone integration.

The patent issue is the marquee item. When Google lost out on bidding for Nortel’s enormous patent portfolio — eventually purchased for $4.5 billion by a consortium including Apple, Microsoft, and Research in Motion — Google’s head legal beagle whined like a toddler about the unfairness.

It is true that competing firms have been gunning for Android, which requires no license to use without the Android name, and no royalties to be certified to use the Android name, software, and related services. By hitting handset makers with patent suits, and in some cases having already settled for per-unit licensing fees, competitors have hoped to raise the price of Android phones, making them less attractive to consumers and reducing profit margins for manufacturers.

Google CEO Larry Page emphasized the engineering and experience side in his post describing the Motorola acquisition, but he didn’t forget to pop in a few mentions of the “anti-competitive patent attacks,” which most firms would describe as the cost and nature of doing business.

(This is separate from the issue that the current U.S. patent system is horribly broken. 20 years ago, the vast majority of patents at issue here would never have been approved. Elements of Apple’s touch-screen hardware would likely have been protected, but the way you buy apps in the App Store would not. However, this is a market reality that all software and hardware firms have to face. We can only hope that these multi-billion dollar patent portfolio acquisitions will shine light on just how the patent system stifles innovation.)

Motorola owns heaps of patents, and Google’s 60-percent-plus price premium over the current value of the mobile firm’s stock represents an aggressive offer to obtain that portfolio. This may level the playing field so that all the various parties involved wind up cross-licensing patents in such a way that the entire threat of preventing the sale of phones or having egregious add-on fees settles down. It has happened before in other competitive hardware industries, although there has never been such a huge array of patents at stake, nor as much money.

To my eye, the more significant part of the purchase is that Google now controls the entire vertical process of making an Android phone, from software through hardware design and production out into selling directly to carriers. For years, only Nokia, with its Symbian and other platforms, and RIM, with BlackBerry OS, had such control of its handsets from start to finish, though Palm was long an also-ran in that category. Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and other makers licensed Windows Mobile for smartphones, and created way too many of their own operating systems for featurephones — the plain phones that once represented most mobile hardware sales. Somewhat generic Linux-based handsets also had a hefty piece of the international smartphone market.

In 2007, Apple was ridiculed for trying to break into this club. It was hard for pundits to imagine how Apple could put together the necessary operating system, hardware manufacturing chain, and carrier relationships to compete with Nokia’s domination of the international smartphone and featurephone markets, and the popularity of BlackBerry and Windows Mobile in the business smartphone market. And today the iPhone is the single most popular smartphone in the world.

The story quickly changed to Apple being criticized for creating a closed operating system in comparison to other mobile operating systems of the time, which allowed the relatively easy addition of third-party applications, as well as customization by carriers to add features (and bloatware and crapware). But there was no question that even the initial version of iOS was far more capable than existing mobile operating systems.

Google’s late 2007 introduction of Android was championed as a way to get the best of what Apple had to offer in a modern operating system, while also being “open” in the sense that users would allegedly be able to install whatever software they wished and modify the operating system to their liking. Google wouldn’t make any phones per se, and signed up a number of hardware partners to make Android phones. Carriers were initially resistant, until Google saw them, instead of phone users, as Android’s customers, and allowed hardware makers to produce carrier-specific Android phones that had capabilities locked down, including restricting third-party software installation and disabling key features like tethering and mobile hotspot use.

The problem was that handset makers apparently retained too much leverage, despite Google’s quiet control-freak behavior, which involved setting standards for the use of the Android name, Google apps and data to drive them, and the Android Market. Companies that didn’t adhere to Google’s stringent and ever-changing requirements would be stuck with an “open” phone that they couldn’t call an Android, and which would have lacked most of what people associated with an Android smartphone. A lawsuit against Google by Skyhook Wireless, a firm that licenses positioning system software that can use GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular radios to determine coordinates, revealed many of the alleged anti-competitive practices.

Senior Google executive Andy Rubin, Android’s key mover, started making noises about requiring more compatibility around the time that Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb release was pushed out for the Motorola Xoom. He later disputed that he was changing his tune, but I prefer to think he was initially frank and then more reserved. Having a set of baseline features, including a requirement to be able to update a phone through all major (such as 2.x) releases would make sense. (Honeycomb was never released as open-source code. Google said it would hold release until both the mobile phone and tablet trees of Android merged into its 4.0 product, due out later in 2011.)

By purchasing Motorola, Google can make sure that Android is realized in precisely the form it wants, with all software and hardware features working together, and software developers having a real-world reference platform to build against. Google did release a couple of Nexus model phones made by other firms to its specs. But despite the love some owners had for them, these were proof-of-concept phones, showing what could be done, and they were neither fully under Google’s control, nor marketed, subsidized, and made widely available in the way that handset makers specialize in.

We’ll see if Google’s strategy works. By buying a handset maker, Google risks alienating all the other firms with which it has worked on Android devices, notably Samsung, HTC, LG, and Sony Ericsson. These firms released terse, white-lipped, nearly identical statements about the acquisition, focusing entirely on the patent issue. But it’s unclear where else these manufacturers might turn for a smartphone operating system. Forked versions of Android without the Android name? A new consortium? More robust adaptations of Linux that aren’t part of the Android tree? Microsoft Windows Phone 7? HP’s webOS?

Google resisted this strategy for so long because of what it must have believed would be strength in diversity. Heterogeneity would produce more kinds of phones people wanted to buy. But diversity also leads to fragmentation, a charge that Google and its supporters constantly resist, despite the availability of phones and tablets running different 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x versions of Android software, not to mention the many reports from app developers — like Netflix — about the difficulty of writing software that works on 700-plus distinct devices with different hardware profiles. A solid hardware lineup from a Google division means an easier time for app developers, and thus more apps for Android — plus other Android licensees toeing the line on hardware specs in order to compete with Motorola.

But the patent issue forced Google into this mess. Microsoft had already convinced Nokia, partly with a sizable wad of cash, to drop its many different and outdated smartphone operating systems in favor of a full-on commitment to Windows Phone 7. HP purchased Palm two years ago to align its fates behind webOS, and some terrifically interesting results are starting to emerge, however flawed they may be the first time around. RIM is foundering, with its phone sales stalling and an incomprehensibly bad tablet approach. Meanwhile, Apple’s complete ownership of iOS and the iPhone hardware has become a license to print money.

Google pitches its purchase of Motorola Mobility as providing more competition, and that may be the case. By providing a strong patent defense, it may be able to keep making Android just the way it wants. With an aligned hardware subsidiary, Google could produce even better phones along with a more predictable integrated platform for developers to target. With Android remaining a strong and defensible operating system, Apple, RIM, Microsoft/Nokia, and HP will have to work all the harder, and that’s not a bad thing.

The United States is not the land of the free

By Mark Nestmann

When the gold price hit $1,800/oz. today, the first thought I had wasn’t to congratulate myself for buying most of what I own for under $400/oz. It was wondering how soon my own gold holdings would make me a “covered expatriate.”

If this sounds like Greek to you, let me explain. Under the U.S. Tax Code a covered expatriate is someone who may have to pay an exit tax upon giving up U.S. citizenship or long-term residence, among other unpleasant consequences.

I’m not yet a covered expatriate, but if gold prices go much higher, I will be. If I subsequently expatriate, I may not only have to pay an exit tax but also pay tax on the full value of my IRAs. Plus, as a covered expatriate, I can’t make gifts to U.S. persons without the recipient being required to pay a transfer tax up to 35% if the value of the gifts exceeds $13,000/year. That rate is slated to rise to 55% in 2013.

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http://lewrockwell.com/nestmann/nestmann32.1.html <== click here

Many individuals have become inured to the situation in the USA.....   almost anything you wish to do requires permission.  It is a ghastly state to be in.  Mark gives you advice on how to escape .......

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Michelle Bachman wins straw poll in IOWA Clobbers Ron Paul

Ron Paul ( 4671 )    got 96.8 percent as many votes as Michelle Bachman.   ( 4823 )

Lucky for us MB is such a freedom fighter ........ ( "foreigners have no rights in the USA " )

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Russell Band talks about hopelessness in the UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/11/london-riots-davidcameron?CMP=NECNETTXT8187

The problem is that all across the world ..... there are fewer and fewer real jobs for people to do.   People are getting smarter and it is harder to hide the fact that their lives are empty and meaningless.  In the good old days you had to fight for physical survival ..... where to live ... where to get food ........

Now it is increasing all available to everyone in sufficient quantities to make sure they feel brain dead.

There is nothing that politicians can do to make this better   ..........   but of course they can make it worse ... and they will.

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Who has a mental health problem ?

DEAD HEAD: Lee E. Lewis, 28, of Hollywood, Fla., is described by his
 longtime friend Jessica Wilpon as "a goofy kid who is very smart but
 can seem stupid, too." The occasion: Lewis was evicted from his
 apartment and then broke down on a major expressway in Miami. Police
 say he parked his car -- a hearse -- under the overpass of a major
 expressway, checked under the hood, and then walked off. Not too weird,
 except that passers-by could apparently see the car was loaded with
 weapons, including what looked like automatic rifles, ammunition, and a
 military rocket launcher. Someone called the police, who shut down the
 expressway for nearly six hours as they checked the vehicle as a
 potential car bomb. All of the weapons turned out to be fake; there
 were no explosives, police said. But Lewis was arrested the next day
 and held on bond pending a mental health evaluation. "He really is a
 good kid, and he means well, but at times there is a lack of common
 sense," Wilpon said. "If you know him, though, this story is
 hilarious." (MS/South Florida Sun-Sentinel) ...And if you don't know
 him, this story is hilarious.

( From 'This is True'   August 7th )

The above story seems to favor the police.....

But I think they show poor judgement and a lack of understanding of cost versus benefits.  I don't like the police in general or government administrators or politicians  .......   All of the former seem to place their welfare and happiness far above the common slug who pays for their so-called services.  Shutting down for 6 hours is silly. 

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China starts "sea testing" aircraft Carrier

This is a total waste of money.  I pity the chinese taxpayers who are being milked for this monstrosity.  Aircraft carriers are easy to kill.

Cost of Cruise Missile                                                approximately      1.41 million USD

Cost of Aircraft Carrier                                              approximately      4500 million USD

Cost to buy a stolen nuclear weapon                          approximately     50 million USD

  Of course the US taxpayers have ponied up perhaps     6,600,000 million USD for nuclear weapons

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The MAGNIFICENT Ron Paul .... doomed to lose

Ron Paul is the by far the most outstanding major politician of the last 100 years.  And he is doomed to failure.

WHY ?

#1    Too old

#2    Not handsome enough

#3    Not a smooth, oily orator

#4    Too consistent

#5    Too considerate , too moral , too realistic
#6    His enemies will do ANYTHING to defeat him   ... including using designated losers to attack

In his favor, he is the only senator or congressman to hit a home run in the annual charity ball game.

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Tea Party causes cancer, global warming and sunspots

I note this week that the Tea Party is being blamed for all the evil in the world ........ This may be true.  I don't particularly like the TP ......... and who is to know what is and is not a Tea Party axiom ?????

I am pretty sure they did not cause the US  credit rating to be lowered.   That took the work of millions of people and over 200 years.

I am pretty sure they did not invent racism.   I think that took billions of people and about 1,000,000 years.

I am pretty sure they are causing sunspots and pulsars and black holes.  Anyway prove they are not.

I am pretty sure they are responsible for Medicare , Medicaid and Social Security fraud and failure.  I certainly was not the US Government.

But the main thing about some TP members ( just some ) ......... They talk about freedom   How boring ... who wants that ?

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OBAMA wins again pulls tar baby out of hat

Obama essentially faced the GOP down and got most of what he wanted.  Now if the economy prospers , he will easily take credit.  If the economy tanks , he will easily be able to blame the GOP and the Tea party.  Taxes are scheduled to increase automatically at the end of 2012...... Obama will not even have to take credit for tax increases unless he wants to.

I hate Obama more than any president that I have personally experienced.  But I have to say ..... Bush I , Bush II , Clinton are not far behind.

I think the USA is going to implode .... but perhaps I underestimate the creativity and productivity of the American people ( and by that , I do not mean citizens )