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Month: May 2009

  • California Federalized (23may2009 update)

    George Rebane California will become the first federalized state in the Union.  The 10th Amendment will be quietly abrogated, as have already many other parts of our Constitution.  Merriam-Webster – federalize – to bring under the jurisdiction of a federal government As such, California will become a rump state with a rump legislature.  Schwarznegger has…

  • Singularity Signposts – 20may2009 Machine Augmented Man (Soon)

    George Rebane Let’s look ahead ten years or so.  You have finished lunch and are about to go back to work when you see something in a store window and go inside.  You examine the article and decide to pull up a couple of similar articles for comparison.  By thinking a command you make an…

  • Props 1A, B, C, D, E, Fooey (19may2009 update)

    George Rebane Praise the Lord, tomorrow’s California election will not draw many to the polls.  And those who will vote, will likely defeat the hokey smorgasbord that desperate Sacramento politicians have cooked up for us.  This morning’s WSJ op-ed summarizes it nicely – California politicians have operated for years as if the purpose of government…

  • ‘Live Free or Die’

    George Rebane Hillsdale College is a unique and remarkable learning institution in our country.  It takes no state monies and is free to teach truth as revealed through academic study, without having to spin it according to what government likes or does not.  Hillsdale publishes Imprimis, its monthly publication of ideas that goes to 1.7 million…

  • Other Voices: Give cash cows reason to stay

    [This is my first monthly column in a new series starting today in The Union – Nevada County's newspaper.  The “$1.4 million a year” in the article is a typo subsequent to my submittal to The Union.  Depending how you factor in real estate spending (building/buying), pensions, Social Security, insurance payments, and healthcare benefits, we can think…

  • Ruminations – 15may2009

    George Rebane WolframAlpha launches this afternoon with a live webcast (more here).  Wolfram Research’s knowledge computing engine, the new internet phenom, will launch after 5pm PDT.  RR readers were made aware of this leap forward for online re/search here. Some worthwhile remarks from down under on Australia’s new budget – recall that their current prime minister is…

  • Republicans Need a New Strategy (edited)

    George Rebane [This is an abbreviated summary of the invited talk -‘Requirements for a Winning Republican Strategy’ – I gave to the Nevada County Republican Central Committee last night (13may09) at the Rood Center.]  Fourth graders Sammy and Suzie were running for class president.  Each asked their parents for advice on their speech to the…

  • Ignorance Mongering on 2nd Amendment Rights

    George Rebane The Union reports on the efforts of Amanda and Nick Wilcox of Penn Valley.  This couple is working for the passage of AB962, the assembly bill seeking to add further constraints to the sale of handgun ammunition.  In a recent RR post I wrote – Our Founders understood that governments operate on the…

  • Again, “Do Nothing … Sooner!”

    George Rebane I have cited this advice from Ludwig von Mises since the federal bailouts and stimulus packages started gaining traction.  The last post on this was in January, and it generated a reasoned debate between two RR readers.  The real objectives of the TARP and ARRA money bags was to increase the size/role of…

  • Singularity Signposts – 11may2009 ‘Physical Intelligence’

    George Rebane Physical Intelligence (PI) is the latest AI paradigm added to the efforts to develop machines smarter than humans.  A few days ago DARPA (Defense Projects Research Agency), the people who brought you the Internet and other spooky things you shouldn’t know about, posted a notice announcing informational workshops as a preamble to issuing RFPs…

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