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  • Whouda Thunk It?! (updated 19jan2011)

    George Rebane I don’t recall a sitting President ever writing an op-ed piece in a newspaper.  This has changed with President Obama penning ‘Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System’ in today’s (18jan11) WSJ.  Yes, in the Wall Street Journal and not the New York Times or any of the other national liberal rags.  We must recall that…

  • Upload me Watson!

    George Rebane IBM’s Watson supercomputer has bested humans at the TV game Jeopardy.  Furthermore, it promises to give a definitive performance on 13, 14, 15 February.  Big deal?  Yes it is; and please don’t confuse this advance in machine intelligence with the 1997 victory over chess master Gary Gasparov by IBM’s then hotshot Deep Blue.  The…

  • Arizona loses to California

    George Rebane Associated Press reports on a Mexican study on the disposition of Arizona’s illegal aliens (aka “migrants”) since SB1070 became state law.  It turns out that about 100,000 Mexicans left the state with fewer than 25% returning home.  The rest presumably crossed the Colorado River to California that has the most lenient laws about…

  • New Robots in Manufacturing

    George Rebane This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featured advances in robotics.  They are now coming out of the R&D pipeline in droves showing all kinds of capabilities in vision, manipulation, mobility, smarts, and even emotion.  One of the featured robots was the ‘Little Helper’ robot that is designed to work in manufacturing…

  • Where Were the Law Abiding Guns?

    George Rebane While the looney left is having problems coordinating its fabrication of rightwing guilt for the Tucson atrocity as they play defense against the emerging facts about the shooter’s politics, there is another aspect about this tragedy that has yet to be discussed.  In an open public gathering involving political figures and a large…

  • Politically Endorsed Science (updated 11jan2011)

    George Rebane The newly proposed lecture series ‘What’s Next in Science?’ is causing a dust-up in the local blogs, and as a former scientist who has worked on the frontiers of knowledge, I should weigh in.  At issue is how the Nevada County Board of Supervisors should respond to the lecture series that is being…

  • Pleasant surprise on the long drive home

    George Rebane We got back this afternoon from a Christmas visit to our ‘Northern Tribe’ in the Seattle area.  The ‘Southern Tribe’ (from SoCal) was able to join in to make a big family get together with our kids and grandkids.  Jo Ann and I said our good-byes on Sunday morning and drove away into…

  • Scattershots – 20dec2010 (updated 21dec2010)

    George Rebane FCC commissioner Robert McDowell concludes his 20dec2010 WSJ piece on ‘net neutrality’ with – “On this winter solstice, we will witness jaw-dropping interventionist chutzpah as the FCC bypasses branches of our government in the dogged pursuit of needless and harmful regulation. The darkest day of the year may end up marking the beginning of…

  • County fails to deliver Diaz documents – cost $20,250? (updated 21dec2010)

    George Rebane My sources tell me that – “On December 9, 2010, Magistrate Kimberly Mueller ordered Nevada County to reimburse AtPac for fees incurred in the amount of $20,250 for failing to produce documents as required by law. Magistrate Mueller found that AtPac was diligent in its attempts to obtain the documents, but that Nevada…

  • Ruminations – 10dec2010

    George Rebane Yes, the ‘rich’ can pay more taxes.  But when you make them do that, they will make fewer wealth generating decisions and take the attendant risks that make those increased government revenues possible. - British students riot for more OPM- The religious give more than the irreligious- Nevada City protects its downtown businesses- Where to put the…

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