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Month: January 2008

  • The Union *Questions* Authority

    George Rebane Well, I guess this morning the local paper declared war on our county’s Board of Supervisors with a hit op-ed piece that garnered a lot of support from our progressive brethren.  Being a member of the accused ‘hacks of the Board’ and contributor to at least two of their campaigns, I immediately forgot…

  • Romney vs the senators, male and female

    George Rebane From one of our deep-thinking and worthy correspondents, posted as submitted – "During the debates, Mitt Romney catches heat for laying off employees.  If a candidate from the US Senate raises  this issues he/she falls into a trap:    1-  All the companies M Romney took over were in trouble.  Therefore he saved…

  • Nevada County Supes Hold a Workshop – Some Observations

    George Rebane The county’s Board of Supervisors and senior staff held a two day workshop at the local Holiday Inn away from the phones and walk-in business that usually interrupts sessions at the Rood Center.  This environment provided the right atmosphere for an informal give-and-take by the participants that was interspersed by formal presentations by…

  • Ruminations – 28jan2008

    George Rebane fooled by the current economic stimulation package hiring managers are starting to pay people for an interview – Even level-headed columnists are fooled by the current economic stimulation package making its rounds through Congress.  In a recent Sac Bee column Ruben Navarrette writes hopefully that “A stimulus may not work exactly as expected,…

  • Singularity Signposts – 25jan2008

    George Rebane • Artificial life created from scratch. • Moving by thought – brain/machine interfaces. • Hi-tech hiring, youth matters – ‘up or out’. • Swarm computing – how do ants know what to do? • ‘guaranteed’ gadget buyback service for frequent upgraders.

  • Climate Change – A Format for Reasoned Dialogue

    George Rebane I am a skeptic about anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and all that is currently shoved under this all-encompassing umbrella.  True believers or, more correctly, post-enquiry adherents (PEAs) of AGW do not recognize the nuanced category of skeptics and lump us all together under the label “Deniers” – it keeps things manageably simple for…

  • Bastiat Triangle Alliance

    George Rebane Ruminations joins a small group of local blogs that have launched the Bastiat Triangle Alliance.  This is a declaration of the shared social and economic philosophies propounded by Frederic Bastiat, the 19th century French thinker and political philosopher.  Bastiat is considered one of intellectual precursors of what came to be known as the…

  • Southern California Fires – Part III: Lessons Learned

    George Rebane This concludes the series on wildfires that started with Part I: Our House Burns and continued in Part II: Our House is Still There!. During the hours we spent with the fire crews who were sheltered in our house, we learned a lot about the nature of wild fires and how they could…

  • Singularity Signposts – 19jan2008

    George Rebane • Linden Labs’ Second Life reigned in by feds.• Contact Lens to give us Bionic Eyes Second Life grabs attention of the Feds Linden Labs is the developer and operator of today’s most popular online virtual world, Second Life, in which ‘residents’ can travel, shop, meet, and carry on many functions of the…

  • Property Takings – Plunder Implemented Softly

    George Rebane “Saving Historic Homes – Grass Valley adds layer of protection to stave off the wrecking ball”  This feel-good frontpage article in The Union today reports the latest affront to property rights in the name of the collective.  What glides by without notice is that the “saving” is done for the sake of the…

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