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Month: October 2017

  • George Rebane In the figure below we present a grid representing the two-dimensional space over a defined range of governance, and a range of collectivistic social orders.  The governance (G) range encompasses a continuum starting with anarchy at G = 0, and progressing all the way to one world global government at G = 10. …

  • George Rebane President Trump will stop subsidizing insurance companies – i.e. stop the Treasury from making ‘cost sharing reductions’ (CSRs) that allow the health insurers to reduce premium and deductible costs required to slow down the capsizing of the ACA (aka Obamacare).  The CSRs were instituted by Obama’s executive order in 2011 as one of…

  • George Rebane MIT’s Max Tegmark just released Life 3.0 – Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, which I bought immediately and dove right in last night.  In his prelude Tegmark takes us through a scenario of a developing AI super-intelligence and its human ‘handlers’ that includes treatment of rampantly systemic unemployment addressed through…

  • George Rebane The private sector is running into a problem marketing products and services to the millennials, specifically those in the most populous 24-27 age bracket.  They know so little and have been sheltered and/or diverted from the normal course of ‘adulting’.  An example of this problem is the one Scotts Miracle-Gro is having selling…

  • [Cleaning up the FUE-related off-topic comments was a chore.  Please try not to rile the gentleman with ad hominems relating to his appearance, education, career, etc – there is enough topic matter to highlight re his editorial policy, political ideology, and morality lectures to fill volumes.  And I propose that even these would be better…

  • George Rebane Dropping fire suppressants from fixed and rotary wing aircraft is an extremely effective way to fight wildfires.  Living in the southern California mountains we annually witnessed how air attack kept little fires from becoming big, and big fires from going into populated areas.  In the 1993 Malibu fire, it was five or six…

  • George Rebane The news media, including Fox News, are confounding the latest buzz about the SecDef and the President being at odds about the Iran agreement.  Trump has called the Iran deal “the worst ever” for the US, while Mattis along with the JCoS chair testified that Iran appears to be living up to the…

  • George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 October 2017.] Amid an ongoing parade of mass demonstrations against racism, massive calamities by mother nature, and mass shootings at public venues, we have another ongoing, more insidious, and little-known crisis that directly impacts our community, and will continue to…

  • [I suppose there are still other issues beyond Puerto Rico and Las Vegas that need to be recognized and resolved in our own inimitable manner.  Apologies for not having an open sandbox for the last couple of days. gjr]

  • George Rebane With the Las Vegas massacre still fresh in the news, and memories of previous such shootings indelibly burned into our collective memories, the ongoing debate in these pages about preventing children from accidentally shooting themselves or others assumes a heightened focus and an inevitably extended scope.  We are all standing by for the…