http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 May 2013 21:18:21 Sat, 25 May 2013 21:18:21 (I am assuming that the Occupation will be happy to have this copied in its entirety at every opportunity)

[div class="excerpt"]As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wron... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/29 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:55:32 Of course we also see this priority system in govt budgets, where the business of war (also about killing people) is the only budget item off limits for "deficit reduction," but any govt program involving helping people is "fat that needs to be cut"

[div class="excerpt"]The current field of Repub... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/27 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:11:41 [div class="excerpt"]Hundreds of villagers in eastern China have been demonstrating against pollution they say is caused by a solar panel factory. Some protesters have stormed the compound and overturned vehicles.

The government of Haining city said Sunday that more than 500 villagers in the city... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/28 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:49:44 [div class="excerpt"]The vector worked, and works, like this:

(a) (Rush Limbaugh) teaches his millions of followers that everything the president says is a priori a lie;

b) The mainstream media that acts as if anything his millions of followers believe is a priori deserving of respect as heart... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/26 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:10:08 How to make a hand turkey!

http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzygm/rants/fubar/funny/turkey3.gif

http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzygm/rants/fubar/funny/turkey.shtml

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/25 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:44:15 Another great NPR program. It reminded me of a related question I've been pondering: how did other countries [i]get[/i] universal/govt-funded health care? What's their history?

[div class="excerpt"]Soon, Blue Cross coverage was available in almost every state, though not many people bought in.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/23 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:11:06 I caught most of this on NPR the other day. Very good. I'd like to read her New Yorker article too.

[div class="excerpt"]Jane Mayer, a political journalist based in Washington, D.C., is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she covers politics for the weekly magazine. In the October 26 issue... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/24 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:03:43 of our energy sources. For example, being a pro-nuke, it's my responsibility to own things like Chernobyl and TMI, and Navajo cancer rates.

The point I'm trying to make is... On the one hand, I am told that 750 acres of wetlands is an [link:www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wetlands/article9995... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/22 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:23:15 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595.html

GAOLONG, China -- The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn't believe what happened. Stopping between the cornfields and the primary school playground... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/21 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:10:07 I think I'll make this one simpler than last time.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/20 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:36:12 [div class="excerpt"]The very diversity of the economic web is autocatalytic.

If this view is correct, then the very diversity of economic goods and services is a major driver of economic growth. Indeed, I believe that the role of diversity of goods and services is the major unrecognized factor ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/19 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:35:39 There is a reason that Moore's Law works for computation and not for other technologies. Computation (and data storage) is all about patterns. Patterns of logic gates. To make a computation device faster and cheaper, all you need to do is reduce the size of the pattern. I don't want to belittle ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/18 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:08:02 That seems to be the core of the argument [i]for[/i] the pardon. That we all had to "move on" as quickly as possible. Why? What, exactly, was going to happen if Nixon faced trial?

Seriously, I don't understand the argument. I saw an interview with Ford a few days ago, where he said that he j... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/17 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:37:57 At the temple there is a poem called "lost", carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read "lost," only feel it.
--from [i]Memoirs of a Geisha[/i]
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/16 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:45:27 The following excerpt is actually an article by Chris Hayes, as quoted by Digby. The message here is that 1/3 of American voteres are not just uninformed about political issues, [i]they aren't aware that "political issues" exist[/i]. The idea that various problems might [i]have[/i] political solut... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/15 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:14:52 Subtle logical parsings are politically irrelevant. It's the first, gut-level reaction that matters. No potential voter is going to sit around saying "Well, in a strict logical sense, she never said it would be off the table forever!"

The first, gut-level impression is "She caved to the GOP. S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/14 Fri, 12 May 2006 18:24:28 In Which The RealClimate Scientists Give William Gray A Right Smarte Flogging:

[div class="excerpt"]The heart of the problem with Gray's new version of the THC story is that he labors under the misconception that the THC primarily upwells in the tropics, so that any reduction in the THC cools the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/13 Fri, 05 May 2006 12:49:16 http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/at.html... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/12 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:30:26 [div class="excerpt"]I have said that I saw a judgement upon life, and that it was not passed by men. Those who stare at birds in cages or who test minds by their closeness to our own may not care for it. It comes from far away out of my past, in a place of pouring waters and green leaves. I shall n... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/11 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:05:54 Fred Pearce is the author of [i]When the Rivers Run Dry[/i].

[div class="excerpt"]Pearce, a longtime editor for New Scientist, who is now an environmental consultant for the magazine, calculates that it takes 40 gallons of water to grow the ingredients for the bread in a single sandwich, not to m... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/10 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:03:26 Hmmm. They need lots of new geologists. It's almost as if they are expending more manpower to find new oil...

[div class="excerpt"]"Big Oil" has been doing some big recruiting on U.S. campuses this year -- as have many smaller companies in the petroleum and natural gas business. The combinatio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/9 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:20:56 I can see how it encourages more responsible land use, but (for instance) suppose I run a copper mine. The supply of copper in that mine is finite. No matter how responsible I am, I will eventually use up the copper in that mine, unless I simply stop mining it, which amounts to the same thing: no ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/7 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:01:27 Fossil fuels, blah blah blah... supply-side, blah blah blah... Business-friendly blah blah blah...
:boring:

Conspicuously absent was any discussion of GHG impacts on earth's climate. Which, in other news, is [i]coming off the rails[/i].

[div class="excerpt"]March 16,2006 | MOSCOW -- Energy ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/6 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:28:26 The season's second South Atlantic tropical/sub-tropical disturbance has formed off of the coast of Brazil today. The disturbance formed from the remains of a cold-core low, which sat over warm waters of 27 degrees C long enough to start acquiring tropical characteristics. We saw this same behavior ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/5 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:56:45 [div class="excerpt"]You might notice in the upper left a new cause du jour around here, Stephen Heller, courtesy an email alert from an old friend who knows him. Short version:

Temp worker, regular guy with a wife and a dog and a mortgage and all, stumbles across legal documents indicating that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/phantom power/4 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:43:28