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Month: February 2015

  • The Robots in Our Future

    George Rebane Has everyone been noticing that the news and commentaries have suddenly become inundated with stories of robots, new golden ages of man and machine, dystopias in which humans are redundant, and things bespeaking generally of the Singularity?  Also there is a new slate of AI cum robot movies about to be released that…

  • Scattershots – 25feb15 (updated 26feb15)

    George Rebane FCC to make the Internet into another plodding government regulated utility.  If tomorrow’s vote goes as expected by the progressive Left, the rapidly innovative years of the World Wide Web will be over for all Americans.  The liberals’ dream of so-called ‘net neutrality’ will be achieved, sold to the true believers with the…

  • ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ (updated 26feb15)

    George Rebane “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said during the dinner at the 21 Club, a former Prohibition-era speakeasy in midtown Manhattan. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up…

  • Predictions Derby – 22feb15

    George Rebane Evolution chases environment. The last go around was Predictions Derby – 12feb15. Chris Christie – Opens his PAC to raise funds for potential candidacy.  L =3, meaning that the probability he would do this now for a future announcement of candidacy is three times as high as the probability he would do it…

  • America’s Dunkirk Foreign Policy

    George Rebane The only thing effectively led from behind is a retreat, for in that direction you are already properly positioned to lead. In concert with President Obama’s just ended sideshow on “violent extremism” that once more diverts attention from our true enemy, John Kerry writes (here) that the solution to the global assault is…

  • Governments’ Wall-to-wall Insanity

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 18 February 2015.] It’s again hard to know where to start.  At the federal level the administration is tying itself in knots as report after report comes in of Islamic terrorists operating on multiple continents while becoming more united and coordinated.  …

  • Sandbox – 16feb15

    [Boy, do these sandboxes fill up fast!  Has anybody read the just published 'The Great Divide – Why Liberals and Conservatives will never, ever agree' by William D. Gairdner?  It seems that others are beginning to realize that we are beyond the tipping point and our polarization is irredeemable.  But then, longtime RR readers are aware…

  • The Minsk Summit (updated 20feb15)

    George Rebane “OK, OK, Poroshenko’s a bit pissed that it didn’t exactly work out.  But he did promise to behave, so c’mon guys, let’s stand a bit closer to the big guy for the picture.” [13feb15 update] “The Minsk accord ratifies a Russian satrapy in the Ukraine.” (here) [20feb15 update] Well, what’d I tell ya?

  • Predictions Derby – 12feb15

    George Rebane All evolution chases environment. Some more news has come in the interval that warrants updating the probabilities that members of our Repub and Dem shortlists will declare their 2016 candidacies.  The updated histograms reflect the rationale given below.  (Please review tutorial here, and then participate with your own numbers which I’ll incorporate into…

  • The Muddled Middle – A revealing look (updated 11feb15)

    George Rebane The nonsense that truth and goodness lies in some romantic purple region between the Right and Left ideologies is an idea long contended in RR.  Here we have always advanced the notion that presenting clear and complete arguments from both sides is the sum and stuff of a working democracy.  In my 2012…

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