Thursday, 19 December 2013

How to build a backyard hockey rink






Wednesday, 18 December 2013

BBC payoffs damaged its reputation, say MPs | Media | The Guardian






3 Ways The Rich Have Screwed Up America For The Middle Class - Carbonated.TV






Paul Krugman: Inequality is “the defining challenge of our time” - Salon.com






Paul Krugman: Rhetoric on inequality must be matched by deeds - Economic News | Ireland & World Economy Headlines |The Irish Times - Tue, Dec 17, 2013






Noida in India takes initiative to reduce health hazards by mobile towers - Moneycontrol.com

Moving cell towers from residential areas is proper even if the evidence of harm is / was / and for some time will be statistical and people don't understand statistics or the metrics of epidemiology even in national health bases.






Federal Judge Writes Epic Smackdown Of 'Likely Unconstitutional' NSA Phone Record Collection - Forbes






Judge Rules That NSA Can Only Spy On Phone Records Of 6.7 Billion Non-Americans - Forbes






Saturday, 14 December 2013

Bad predictions are natural

The tendency expressed below applies to most professions.






The positive view is that population growth may not really be a problem - it is instead an opportunity.






U.S. Drilling Boom Leaves Some Homeowners in a Big Hole






The Obama Era of Government Downsizing - Instead of Manufacturing Useful Products America makes Guns of Rather Doubtful Utility






By cracking cellphone code, NSA has ability to decode private conversations - The Washington Post

We all probably guessed this, but it's important for experts to state it. NSA has effectively killed the www Internet of people. What will happen with the Internet of things? 






Thursday, 12 December 2013

Corporations That Are Environmentally Responsible - Business Insider







Carriers Switch on Small Cells Slowly | EE Times

And, with femtocells what is obsolete? 

There is a possibility of a massive sickening of the population if the femtocell volume predictions are right and the epidemiology cancer studies are right. 







The rich do not pay the most taxes, they pay ALL the taxes, but they also receive the lions share or almost all of incomes as well.

According to one analyst at least, the fact that taxes serve a redistribution of income role seems noteworthy. Yes! It is. 

The sad fact is that the US economy is not working and the tax figures show it. 

Why do so many Americans need a hand out? 

The missing part of the analysis is that income from monetary expansion is going to the rich and not to employment and incomes of the less well off. The US economy is failing its people big time. The rich know that their income comes from services and so they invest in services. They exclude manufacturing in their real investments and so exclude a huge segment of the livelihood of Americans, hence the non income or low relative income for the vast majority of Americans seeking a job in manufacturing.

Without manufacturing the US economy is doomed.







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