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  • The Liberal Mind – Profits vs Jobs

            ‘Tax rates have no effect on the behavior of the taxed.’ – deeply held liberal tenet George Rebane This week President Obama made another extremely important statement that reveals his understanding of how the world works.  At a campaign stop he took Romney’s credentials to task, doubting that anyone who has focused on business…

  • Agenda21 on cat’s feet (updated 24may12)

    George Rebane I just returned from the Nevada County Board of Supervisors meeting at the Rood Center.  I went there to hear the report on establishing a 2005 county baseline for CO2 emissions presented by the Sierra Business Council with some mysterious connection to ICLEI.  (You can check the details on the county’s website.)  The…

  • Knowledge Engines

    George Rebane Part of our rush toward Singularity involves the web becoming ‘smarter’.  In case you haven’t noticed, search engine technologies are rapidly evolving from providing ‘information’ to becoming so-called knowledge engines.  Wolfram Alpha was an early one into this functionality, and it is now being joined by Google’s Knowledge Graph Microsoft will soon upgrade…

  • Conspiracy Theories by the Dozen, Oh My! (updated 21may12)

    George Rebane [Correction: This is the submitted form of my column that appeared belatedly in the print edition of the 25may12 Union.  I was informed of the delay due to a rush of political columns and articles on the new marijuana ordnance.] In this election year all the weird stuff we’ve been hearing about seems…

  • Ruminations – 8may12

    George Rebane Happy VE Day!  On 8 May 1945 the Rebanes were in Liederberg – a small German farming village that just a few days ago was firmly brought under the control of Patton’s Third Army (more here) – and ready to be carted off to Augsburg and four years of internment in post-war displaced…

  • ‘… to shift the burden of hardship to the rich …’

    George Rebane That promise is resounding worldwide as socialist/communist politicians promise to ease the long overdue payments for profligate government spending in countries facing financial ruin.  Today France elected Francois Hollande to be its new president.  How did Hollande beat Sarkozy?  by promising to shift the burden of hardship, naturally. The rich are already paying…

  • edX – ‘a revolution in education’ (addended)

    George Rebane MIT and Harvard have announced the launch of edX, a “disruptive” initiative in worldwide online education that will leverage the best teachers with interactive learning technology.  The promise of this newest of such initiatives that follow in the footsteps of the Kahn Academy is that it could well disrupt the careers of incompetent…

  • Education, teacher meritocracy, and our national future

    George Rebane RR has long promoted the idea that education in wealth producing/sustaining fields is the ONLY solution to America’s economic and social problems.  Former SecState and now distinguished senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, George Shultz co-authors ‘Education Is the Key to a Healthy Economy’ with Eric Hanushek in which they acknowledge our broken…

  • Ruminations – 1may12 (updated++)

    George Rebane It looks like getting your college education subsidized will now become a new ‘right’ across the land.  Neither party is willing to let student loan interest rates increase automatically as they were supposed to.  As a taxpayer, I want the government out of the student loan business (among many other businesses they are…

  • Singularity Signposts – The Coming Virtual Cloud

    George Rebane Today it is very difficult to reconfigure networks because you have to deal with hardwired components like routers, switches, and servers which have been manufactured by network suppliers like Cisco and Juniper to handle the stream of data packets in their own specific ways.  Modifying a network is a nightmare of hardware reconfiguration…

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