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Month: February 2012

  • To Benefit Our Community

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary which will enjoy a delayed airing on Monday 13 February 2012 due to the station’s winter fund raising scheduled for this week.] Regular listeners to these commentaries will recognize a different thrust and tone in my subject matter.  Tonight I will urge you to…

  • Singularity Signposts – Telemedicine on the slow track

    George Rebane The European Space Agency is working on a medical AI called CAMDASS (Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System).  It has a unique augmented reality user interface (UI) that would allow future astronauts to diagnose and treat complex medical cases when they are in space, and especially when they are at distances that…

  • Singularity Signposts – Nano Quadrotors

    George Rebane The advances in robotics, miniaturization, and control are getting scary.  RR has been tracking such developments in these pre-Singularity years.  Take a look at this video of small quadrotor helicopters.  These craft can be controlled manually or by a computer that can fly them individually or in large formations.  And then consider their…

  • Afghanistan out of eyeshot

    George Rebane The farce that was Vietnam spawned many books and movies about the chasm between the in-country reality and the evening propaganda we consumed at home.  For me one of the signal tomes about that war was The Bright Shining Lie (1988) by Neil Sheehan.  The best rationale anyone could come up with, after…

  • We the Sheeple – The cancer of CARB

    George Rebane Only its numbers make a social issue important.  Not understanding its numbers is to not understand the social issue. [RR is opening a new category of topics – ‘We the Sheeple’ – in which posts that report on how quietly and without a murmur we accept the governments’ relentless ravages on our freedoms…

  • Occupy vs TeaParty – A comparative summary

    George Rebane The following table arrived from a correspondent and RR reader.  We note the similarities in the two movements.  Edifying.

  • The Employment Follies Continue (updated 6feb12)

    George Rebane Today the feds announced that almost a quarter million jobs were created in January, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%.  As an aside, it was reported that all the "economists and analysts" were again surprised because their predictions missed reality again by over a 100% – albeit 'reality' was a bit munged…

  • Obama’s Georgia Eligibility Hearing Update

    George Rebane RR has reported the ins and outs of the allegations and evidence that challenge President Obama’s eligibility to be President.  The latest chapter of this constitutional proto-saga was held in a Georgia courtroom on 26 January, a few days ago.  Craig Andersen on National Patriot has a blow-by-blow coverage of that hearing which…

  • New thoughts on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Education (2feb12 update)

    George Rebane A recent study by Vivek Wadhwa of the Singularity University published in the MIT Technology Review reports that older techies start more successful technology based companies than do those still a little damp behind their ears.  This contradicts a long-held myth. The Kaufman Foundation which gathered data for the study states that a…

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