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Month: February 2019

  • Ruminations – 14feb19 (updated 19feb19)

    The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity; the main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery – W. Churchill George Rebane ‘Amazon Cancels HQ2 Plans in NYC’ – Now here’s a good dose of social justice for the residents of NYC delivered by local socialist politicians who couldn’t stomach…

  • The American AI Initiative & herding cats

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 13 February 2019.] The entire field of artificial or machine intelligence (AI) seems to be more misunderstood by the day, and not only on Main Street, but also in the highest levels of government.  President Trump recently signed an executive order…

  • Sandbox – 13feb19

    [Would El Chapo’s billions paying for border infrastructure satisfy Trump’s “… and Mexico will pay for it.”?? … and by their fruits shall they be known.  gjr]

  • The Illuminated Great Divide (updated 13feb19)

    George Rebane Every now and then one of our progressive commenters takes the time to offer some thought-out remarks that shine a bright light on the hopeless nature of our country’s Great Divide.  The most recent came from a leftist reader who call himself Robert Cross.  Mr Cross often takes me to task in opposing…

  • Progressive Pilgrims’ Progress

    George Rebane My pal, fellow blogger, and comrade-in-arms for community connectivity and STEM education, Russ Steele wrote the following in the 11feb19 Union (here). As a proponent of rural broadband, I often read recently published books and articles on broadband technologies.  I am currently reading Susan Crawford's book, "Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution — and…

  • Redemption and the Virginia Three

    And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?  Mathew 7:3-5 George Rebane “Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) said Wednesday that he dressed in blackface during college, adding yet another scandal to the tumult that now engulfs the entire…

  • Scattershots – 9feb19 (updated)

    George Rebane ‘How a tiny country bordering Russia became one of the most tech-savvy societies in the world’ reports CNBC on Estonia’s eternal love affair with technology.  As the world’s leading country in its integration of the internet into literally every facet of Estonian life, the implementation of such cooperation between public and private sectors…

  • Deciding with Minimally Known Processes

    George Rebane [Trigger warning – this post is primarily for our technically oriented readers.] We encounter ongoing minimally known processes (MKPs) continually in our daily round, and we often need to make decisions based on the likelihood of their terminating during a specific future time interval, or surviving it.  Yet few are aware of this…

  • The Green New Deal (updated 8feb19)

    A rose by any other name would smell … .  Wm Shakespeare George Rebane Well, the last bits of doubt about our Democratic Party have been swept away by the new House resolution describing a fundamental transformation of America (Barack Obama, call your office).  The Green New Deal, sponsored by AOC and Senator Ed Markey…

  • Globalization, Globalism, Globalists, and Governance

    George Rebane RR commentaries have defined and used globalism and globalization interchangeably to mean the political and commercial progress toward a one-world government as long proposed by the United Nations and its proponents, and especially by those espousing the UN’s Agenda21 program (q.v.) promulgated by its worldwide network of ICLEIs (more here and here, and…

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