Saturday 11 May 2013

Amazon launches cloud photo storage app for iPhone and iPad | The Verge

Wow! This must surely be a winner to reduce Amazon's profit margin while reducing Apple's!

Will the stock market crash? I guess sooooooooo!


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Is texting killing the English language? | GulfNews.com

Not in the slightest!

Texting allows more for words and for greater usage like Pitman or Gregg Shorthand!

Language needs to evolve with use of new technologies. People might like to say 'clr' instead of colour, but the latter will remain in use until its no longer needed in the former!


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Ten consequences of US covert war against Iran | GulfNews.com

Look in the mirror?


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Smog clouding Chinese vision | GulfNews.com

It's freezing?

Fresh air means fossil fuels need to be discontinued? Smog in China means cooler temperatures worldwide?


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Spy! Spy! On the Wall? Who is favourite one of all? Facebook Android App Camera Security - Business Insider

Not a great idea! Like spying?


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Apple's New iOS is Out There?

Side effect can be tracked on all google sites?


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B.C. Liberals a favourite of big pharma

Why? Who? When?

Implications?


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Harper Government propaganda trumps citizen's needs : The Canadian National Newspaper

Correct challenge?


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Justin Trudeau! Hope or holler?

Too early to tell?


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Options for a sustainable US economy over the long term

A few musings from a former energy industry economist!

The Alberta oil exports are a very real threat to the North American manufacturing base if free trade in fossil fuels China is encouraged or allowed. 

What is allowed under the WTO if Obama allows the destructive pipeline?

Free trade is not such a good thing in raw materials. Works between in manufacturing, but theory does not work in a world controlled by economies of scale and multinational firms.

Free trade is a bad thing in the modern world! But, what to put in its place? 

Do we want China to be fossil use intensive?

No!

Our long term reality is that we need to go nuclear or non fissile fuel based with a means of lowering manufacturing costs in North America. 

Exporting oil means slowing down China's conversion to non fossil fuels. 

A pipeline to the gulf would be the best way to destroy the American manufacturing base as the US dollar benefits from energy exports. 

Canada can absorb this exchange rate hike and keep American industry alive, but Canada would lose it's manufacturing base.

The US should really tax oil and fossil fuel use in order to restore its financial credibility? 

The ideas of free trade have not served the world equivalently when one adds in the slowing down of growth in Europe as a result of expensive energy. Being fossil fuel independent, using nuclear resources that can be pollution risk removed would be the solution, as would a major breakthrough in tapping energy from the sun and wind in Spain! 


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Canadian Liberal and Conservative Energy Policy has got things going the wrong direction!

We need industrial growth in Canada without exporting the means to growth to the US and China. Harper and Trudeau need to spread the energy wealth to Canadians and not waste it by buying refined product from the US. 

Not profitable? Or, is it American, Japanese and Chinese interests telling Canadians to stuff it.

Pipeline to Sarnia or Montreal instead of the US gulf?

Why should Canada lose the value added?

Problem with energy produced in Canada?

Can we convert Canada's nuclear energy into energy to drive Canadian industry and vehicles rather that raise the exchange rate that kills Canadian industry.


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Swooning over Art with Guest Curator Athena Calderone | Saatchi Online Magazine : News and Updates for Art Lovers

A fine mix?


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Sell Artwork, Buy Original Paintings, Art Prints, Discover New Artists | Saatchi Online

Life is too short to live without beautiful art!


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Truth Be Told is Better than OxyContin

For those in pain!


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Korean entertainment!

This is probably more productive than worrying about invasion from the North?


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Chicago Tribune - Wood auction off, ownership questioned

Not by me?


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Global warming as a non New Zealand perspective.

The forces and understandings of our universe always reach New Zealand last?  Can't decide why the sun is cooling? 


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Faith, not facts, drives global warming | The National Business Review



Hope you are coping with the cold!

Meanderings of a sleepless mind? I need sunshine! The rain in England is driving me bonkers! Below are musings while Anne visits the local market in Tiverton.

Explaining the difference between science, faith, and religion is not easy, but the article beow gives it a go in New Zealand. So frustrating, our world, what with the sun cooling?

A modern day conundrum emerges from the reality that even Einstein has been replaced by a 'God that throws dice!' 

We don't even know whether three firms of volcano in Iceland might throw our earthly world into chaos within our life times. Such is the fragility of our ability to predict how forces operate in our times, be they a sliver of stability in a vast world of fragmentation and thermo dynamics. 

Or, to be more exact the realisation that the principles of chaos rule from the very essence of the cosmos. There is a duality in reality that influences all events at all levels. At the macro level we explain this through the mathematics of chaos and the eigen values of imaginary numbers the confusing "i's" of complex numbers. 

The non commutability of matrix mathematics lead us to quantum theory with wave based mathematics or matrix algebra showing us that the world as an identifiable and controllable entity does not add up? Cause and effect are only derived as a consequence, not a determinant of our reality. 

Cause and effect are rarely dominant in living forms where chaos rules. There will never be a man that can be God because all men are doomed to their existence as subordinate forms. Jailed within a cosmos that cannot be resolved except in imagination, human kinds reality is indeterminate. 

Yet, between all this is the monstrous chasm between the positive and negative forces that brought about our cosmos and challenges our faith in forces and worlds we cannot see.

Yes, there are other dimensions, but we don't yet know how to enter them. However, our dilemma may be that forces from other dimensions have entered our reality, our cosmos.

In our dream world we are always awake to cause and effect. It is our greatest dilution!

Heisenberg and Shroediner struggled with Einstein in trying to explain the world in terms of cause and effect, waves or particles, only to realise that reality stretched into a chasm of invisible forces that drove all the visible cosmos. Try to see it in its entirety and always fail. The unknowable remains unknowable, unseeable, untouchable. 

Deep within reality are the sub-microscopic mechanisms that govern life and nature. They influence the very roots of matter to tell us that alongside matter is a world of non-material objects of which we glimpse only a fragment when we study light as neither wave nor quantum, but a crack in the cosmos a mismatch between the two realities of material and non material forms. 

Don't have faith in this?


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