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Month: August 2011

  • AtPac Lawsuit – the Greg Diaz Deposition (updated 5sep2011)

    George Rebane Regular RR readers are familiar with the lawsuit filed by local software company AtPac naming as defendants Nevada County, NC Clerk-Recorder Greg Diaz, and Aptitude Solutions, a Florida software company.  For months the community has been asking the county’s Board of Supervisors to reveal the whys and wherefores of what led to the…

  • California Insanities #41,657 – Baby sitting bill (addended)

    George Rebane If it weren’t really happening, no one would believe it.  Well, actually a progressive would readily believe and promote it since they’re doing it now.  According to our Senator Doug LaMalfa, the idiots in Sacramento are pushing through a law (AB889) that would essentially do away with another job category in California, and…

  • Islamophobia – a rational response? (updated 1sep2011)

                            Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.  R. Clay Reynolds George Rebane As these pages long attest, for me the answer to the title question is a resounding YES.  And our western governments aid and abet that as being the reasonable response.  The progressive tsunami of proscribing anyone who evinces fear of Islam ranges from Mayor…

  • Ruminations – 28aug2011 (updated)

    George Rebane Irene, our second politicized hurricane, has failed to deliver on its pre-show publicity.  With the President rushing back to the White House situation room (shades of 'Dr Strangelove') to direct the national response to the advertised Armageddon Minus One, meanwhile the damn thing up and turns into a big rainstorm.  So there he…

  • Epiphany at Trinity

    George Rebane It was our first solo trip with our ‘new’ trailer.  Jo Ann and I got back from Trinity Lake yesterday afternoon after spending a few days under the trees at Pinewood Cove RV Park.  We are lifelong dirt campers, so talking us into upgrading to a starter trailer wasn’t all that difficult.  It…

  • What’s Really ‘Eating the World’?

    George Rebane Web browser pioneer Marc Andreesen writes ‘Why Software is Eating the World’ in the 20aug11 WSJ.  It is a well written compendium of the commercial sectors that have grown in recent years, and promise to really grow more because of cheap and ubiquitous computing power.  Andreesen, whom I much admire, outlines how such…

  • ‘The Next Grand Minimum’ Launches

    George Rebane Russ Steele, Nevada County blogger extraordinaire, closed down his long running NC Media Watch blog.  He has moved his blogging enterprise to a new blog – 'The Next Grand Minimum' – that was launched today.  In this research and publishing effort he will focus on real climate change backed by science that is…

  • Singularity Signposts – Cognitive Computing Milestone

    George Rebane Yesterday IBM announced the first fruits of its cognitive computing initiative.  It’s a processor chip with an architecture that mimics some of the neural net topology (how neurons hook up to other neurons) of a human brain.  The cognitive computing chip (CCC) from IBM Research shown here is not to be programmed in…

  • Do Our Schools Really Suck? (Working Title)

    George Rebane I don’t know whether that overstates the case, but in any event it’s not that far off.  Reading this morning’s lead piece ‘STAR tests’  in the 18aug11 Union, I was a little put off by the reporter’s opening attempt at logic. Despite efforts across western Nevada County to improve student test scores, money still matters in…

  • An Evening with the Tea Party Patriots

    George Rebane Mr Paul Emery – KVMR news director, musical personage extraordinaire, bringer of arts, and erudite RR discussant – and I have been invited by the Nevada County TPP to engage in a moderated ‘civil discourse’ on issues of current interest as their featured special program for September.  The event will be held on the…

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