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  • Ruminations – 5jul12 (updated 6jul12)

    George Rebane There’s plenty of reason for celebrating the pretty good likelihood that the Higgs boson has finally been observed by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.  That massive boson fills in a long-empty part of our understanding how the universe is composed and works.  To be sure, there is a lot more work to be done…

  • Conservatives miss impact of SCOTUS ruling (updated 2jul12)

    George Rebane Taxes for value not received or those that force behaviors are penalties. The last 24 hours has seen a tsunami of tortured analyses by conservatives doing their best to eek out something that resembles a silver lining in the SCOTUS Obamacare ruling.  Unfortunately, considering the scope of what came down, there is none.…

  • SCOTUS backs Obamacare (Addended)

    George Rebane The notion that we have a conservative lean to SCOTUS vanished this morning as the high court announced its decision on Obamacare.  The only scrap thrown to conservatives was the ruling that the act’s individual mandate to buy health insurance was really a federal tax, and not the exercise of a federal power…

  • States enforcing federal laws

    George Rebane Today SCOTUS handed down a decision to strike down major provisions of Arizona’s attempt to enforce fallow federal laws against illegal aliens – both illegal immigrants and illegal entrants.  The 25jun12 WSJ reports –  The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status…

  • Wireless Communication Breakthrough

    George Rebane A major breakthrough in wireless communication was announced by the University of Waterloo, Canada.  ACM reports that Dr A.K. Khandani and his team have demonstrated (and patented) a full-duplex, single channel methodology for wireless communication that promises to revolutionize all wireless communications.  Full-duplex means the ability to concurrently transmit and receive at the…

  • NBC – Lamestream’s poster child

    George Rebane NBC (National Bamboozle Company), one of the premier leftwing media outlets, has been a main motivator for the widely used ‘lamestream’ label.  Now it turns out they have achieved a new level of sleazebag journalism.  This week’s Congressional contempt citation to Attorney General Eric Holder has the network presenting extended background coverage as…

  • Ackerman to leave The Union

    George Rebane I was surprised to read this in the 20jun12 online paywalled edition of The Union.  H/T to RR reader. Jeff Ackerman, publisher of The Union, announced today that he will be leaving the newspaper after 10 years of serving the western Nevada County community. Ackerman will be taking an expanded scope of responsibilities…

  • Judea Pearl, Turing Laureate

    George Rebane Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Sciences UCLA, received the A.M. Turing Award last night at the awards banquet of the Association of Computing Machinery at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.  He now joins the forty-three previous laureates of the ‘Nobel prize of computing’, of whom twenty-five were in attendance to honor him. Jo…

  • Silencing and Suppressing the Right

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that will be broadcast early next week due to this week being the station’s regular late spring pledge week.] The debate about who is trying to silence whom continues.  Over the past decades the evidence has favored the Right since McCarthy was accused of…

  • TechTest2012 Survivors Breakfast

    George Rebane Last Friday (25may12) the annual ‘Survivors Breakfast’ was again held at Tofanelli’s.  The event has become a tradition to celebrate the young people who took the year’s test and those who received the top scores on the SESF sponsored merit scholarship exam.  TT2012 top three scorers (in no particular order) were Ben Martin,…

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