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WINGStand iPad keyboard stand receives Kickstarter funding [video]
The WINGStand is a clever two piece plastic stand designed to work with the official Apple Bluetooth keyboard. It clips onto the Apple keyboard and then an iPad can be used in portrait or landscape mode; you can even use the iPad while it is in its case. The stand works with the original iPad, iPad 2, iPhone or even other tablets. If you don't want to use a keyboard, the WINGStand also works fine as a stand for your device.
The WINGStand has been developed by student Daniel Haarburger who is currently studying at Stanford University. It has already reached its target funding figure of $9,500 with more than 38 days remaining; looks like this one is going to be a very popular accessory.
You can still make a pledge and guarantee yourself one of the first ones off the production line. $20 will get you one in white, $30 if you want an exclusive black one and you can even get a package including the Apple keyboard; that will set you back over $100.
I really like the look of this and hopefully it will be available very soon. Take a look at the video after the break!
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WINGStand iPad keyboard stand receives Kickstarter funding [video]
I think the 20 dollars is the price including your Kickstarter funding. It doesn't say the real price hitting the market, right?
You mean the keyboard dock? Unfortunately, it only supports portrait.
Meh. The PadPivot is way cooler. And people could get one for $25 during its Kickstarter run.


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What do you think of the group of derisive comments about young Miss Upton's boobs on the cover of SI this month? I don't usually pay attention to *news* on breasts (really, guys) but the jeering at her 'flapjacks', as one particularly trolly commenter coined her ample and natural-looking bosom, had me thinking about real boobs and why they get such a bad wrap for being flat or floppy or saggy or whatever. (I'll leave it to the others to comment about her relatablity, if her boobs are/are not fake or whatever and the other angles of this over-exposed story.)
I mean, it's just a matter of physics that large pockets of fat that hang suspended from one's chest will eventually end up headed south just like the rest of our physique will without surgical intervention.
Have you seen a set of MOOBS (and boy are they on the rise) with nipples pointing skywards? Me neither. Maybe that's why all the très classy dudes at the beach in the summer swim in XXXL tees. Sexy. I definitely can't see your man boobs straight through that soaked, transparent white t-shirt.
Interestingly, as the media storm around Upton's breasts was consuming the whole of the US last week, I happened upon some images of Marilyn Monroe disrobed more than usual in a magazine (they're from a new book of her photos).
Lo and behold, she has refreshingly natural breasts that do that flatten and spread thing that I think most sizeable boobs do.
Do you think she would have had implants had she been around today? Yes, a totally frivolous speculation, I know, but I do wonder if she would have bowed to the pressure to be even more perfect and have even more surgery than she already did.
I sort of fret for younger people, especially the ones with ready access to internet pornography, lads mags and reality slebs 24/7... I have to imagine that their idea of what boobs should look like is pretty unsettling.
Anyway, the real question I have about Upton's cover is how they convinced her that the microscopic piece of fruit leather covering her hooha is a bikini bottom... have you ever seen such a teeny bikini? Maybe the shoot budget ran short so they had to make do with what was left at craft service?
They surely had to Photoshop out some of her anatomy in that too... like, say, her labia. Entirely. Sheesh.
So, the take away:
Boobs. Sometimes they're real. Sometimes they're not. Gravity affects them too, even those not featured on National Geographic.
Do you think real boobs get a little bit mistreated when they're in the public eye vs. implants (at least the well-done ones), at least from a male crowd? Just a question... putting it out there based local intel (eavesdropping) and online browsing I've been doing.
In other news, I leave for India on Friday and will be there for Holi. That's the festival where they throw colored powder at each other all day. How cool is that?
And I've got a weekend-long Indian wedding to attend that'll ping pong me all around Mumbai, including a Mehendi session, visits to a tailor to have some saris and petticoats fitted (as it's Indian Formal), salon time for threading and other miscellaneous things. Cannot. Wait.


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Dear Mad River Valley residents,
It was very discouraging to attend a select board meeting this week where many hoped that the select board would help the Schoolhouse Market stay at its East Warren location. The Rootswork board of directors has bullied the market out of its location by not renewing its five-year lease -- evicting them on October 31. The Warren Select Board provided absolutely no help whatsoever.
I did not move here to be surrounded by people who would actually do something so devious as the Rootswork board members have done in this situation. I have worked as a volunteer for thousands of hours for the past five years, in an effort to bring local organic foods to our school children under Rootswork's 501 c3 nonprofit umbrella.
Anne Burling, Rootswork founder, and I worked for the past two years on the School Community Rootcellar behind the Schoolhouse Market's cheese-making facility. Anne has funded the project and I coordinated many volunteer work days to finish it along with 50 or more volunteer Valley residents. Anne made the 70 acres of land behind the Schoolhouse Market available for all of Rootswork for-profit ventures.
Anne Burling was asked to leave Rootswork board in January because of a conflict of interest -- she has leased her land to Rootswork for a reasonable fee for the past 10-plus years. This action alone is unforgivable, unforgettable and probably will end up being a huge contribution to the demise of Rootswork.
I urge Valley residents to write the Rootswork board of directors and express your feelings in this matter. I am ashamed of this board and their actions and I hope that if Rootswork is able to recover from this unfortunate and unwarranted eviction that community members will show up to vote for a different board of directors, one that has Rootswork's mission at heart, to support sustainable agriculture.
The Rootswork website is outdated and the board has chosen to keep most of its activities of the past year confidential. So good luck joining Rootswork if that is what you wish to do. It is almost as if this board is setting itself up to destroy itself.
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Fifty years ago, in the wake of the Allied triumph in the Second World War, the United States stood at a pivot point in history. We faced a new world of threats. Science had split the atom. Ideology had split the world. America's very survival demanded that we think and act anew. One of our greatest acts in doing so was to unify all of our military services under a single Department of Defense – the whole greater than the sum of its remarkable parts.
Today, in the wake of our triumph in the Cold War, America stands at another pivot point. We again face a new world of threats. Chemical and biological weapons are in the hands of rogue regimes and trans-national terrorist organizations which are more likely to use them and less concerned with the consequences. Recent events such as the release of deadly sarin gas into the Japanese subway system by the obscure Aum Shinrikyo cult demonstrate the ease with which determined groups and individuals can put societies at risk As Secretary of Defense William Cohen has said, these weapons have become "the poor man's atomic bomb", which can be transported to our shores "in a bottle or a briefcase."
Once again we are challenged to think and act anew. Once again, we are unifying our efforts and creating a new whole that will be greater than the sum of its remarkable parts.
On October 1, Secretary Cohen established the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). This new umbrella organization reflects lessons learned from the business sector and applied under Secretary Cohen's ongoing Defense Reform Initiative – re-engineering core functions, consolidating programs with similar goals, eliminating duplication and overlap. DTRA brings together outstanding experts from a number of Pentagon agencies and programs – including the successors of the Manhattan Project, who served as guardians of the atom through five decades of Cold War -- to meet head-on the security challenges of the new millenium.
This new defense agency has three primary missions: to maintain America's current nuclear deterrent capability; to reduce the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; and to counter threats posed by those weapons of mass destruction.
Maintaining a robust and credible nuclear deterrent capability – managing and sustaining our nuclear stockpile, equipment and facilities -- is one of the most important challenges facing the United States. DTRA will provide operational and analytical support for our stockpile stewardship duties, and technical support for all nuclear weapons in Defense Department custody. DTRA will also serve as the U.S. Government's focal point for implementing U.S. arms control inspection, escort and monitoring activities and for developing treaty verification monitoring technologies.
For seven years, the Cooperative Threat Reduction program – championed through Congress by former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)—has contributed substantially to our national security by helping to better account for, and eliminate, weapons previously aimed at the United States by countries of the former Soviet Union. DTRA will consolidate and streamline all aspects of the "Nunn-Lugar" program, as we continue to help nations borne of our Cold War adversary destroy and establish safeguards against the proliferation of those weapons. In addition, through its Defense Technology Security Administration, the new DTRA will monitor the international transfers of U.S. technologies that could be misused to support the production and delivery of weapons of mass destruction, to ensure that any and all such transfers are consistent with U.S. national security interests.
Of the challenges to those interests, none pose a more significant threat in the post-Cold War environment than chemical and biological weapons. The relative low cost and simplicity of their design and technology make them the "weapons of choice" for a variety of rogue states and terrorist organizations. DTRA will draw upon our disparate chemical and biological weapons defense expertise to centralize and focus Department of Defense efforts to prepare for and respond to a chemical or biological attack against U.S. or friendly forces. DTRA will also oversee the development and implementation of special weapons technologies to defend against and respond to chemical and biological weapons and materials. Such expertise will provide U.S. military commanders in the field with options for effective targeting against underground or hardened structures, as well as enhanced capabilities to assess battle damage.
When weapons of mass destruction find their way to those determined to threaten American national interests, our leaders must be able to respond. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency will lead Department of Defense efforts in supporting operational forces and developing field systems designed to counter the proliferation of such weapons. In addition to developing defenses for the U.S. and its allies, Pentagon officials must also do everything possible to protect American armed forces and their families from acts of terrorism. DTRA will serve as the field agent for force protection, conducting "vulnerability assessments" designed to protect our men and women in uniform, as well as our civilian employees and their dependents, from acts of terrorism.
Last Thursday, Secretary Cohen told the talented and creative experts now being brought together under one organizational framework that they were "present at a new creation." The new Defense Threat Reduction Agency will not only bring technical and operational synergy to the full spectrum of Pentagon efforts to prevent, deter and defend against weapons of mass destruction. It will, in Secretary Cohen's words, "help catapult America, safe and secure, into a new century."


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LAS CRUCES, NM (Jan 28, 2013)-While the NM State baseball season is only two weeks away from starting, there is much anticipation to see if the Aggies can have a successful repeat of last year with 35 wins and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
As always, strategy is a key element in the team's success. Head coach Rocky Ward is looking for new leadership after losing key players from last season's team. The Aggies have to replace right-hand pitcher Scott Coffman, school record holder for saves in a season and career, along with shortstop Zach Voight.
"Athletic-wise we had a very good fall, we feel like in physical talent we haven't lost anything," Ward said. "It's a matter of where the leadership will come from."
Ward added it's easy for his players to be leaders when they're playing well but the unknown leadership shows when they're not at their top level and can still impact the team.
Ward hopes that returning shortstop Parker Hipp and outfielder Kyle Phillips will lead the team in 2013 along with pitcher Adam Mott and Las Cruces native Michael Ormseth. NM State also has strong and developing newcomers in freshman Kent Blackstone, who is predicted to start at second base, while junior transfer Quinnton Mack looks to be a starter in the outfield.
NM State's Adam Mott, Parker Hipp, Tanner Rust and Kyle Phillips made the College Madness WAC Preseason All-Conference team and Hipp has also been named a Louisville Slugger All-American.
Aggie fans are encouraged to go and support their baseball team this season with 26 opportunities to see them play at Presley Askew Field. With the continuing development of the returning players and newcomers this season will be nothing less than entertaining.
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%reldate(2012-10-03T14:32:30COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- An automotive company that specializes in plastic parts says it will build a plant in Greenville County that employs nearly 120 workers.
The state Commerce Department said Wednesday that South Carolina Plastics LLC will spend $12 million to build a plant in Fountain Inn.
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Blandford said he has formed an exploratory committee to look at running both as a Republican and a Libertarian candidate. If he loses his bid for either partys nomination, he wont be on the November 2014 ballot.
Blandford recently received 2 percent of the vote in his run against incumbent Republican Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Democratic challenger Bobbie Rose. Blandford acknowledged his fight against Graham will be uphill, in part because the incumbent already has a $4.3 million warchest.
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. unagidon August 15, 2012 - 8:15am
Now that the GOP has gone all serious on us about the economy, it is interesting to see a substantive criticism of Paul Ryan's economic policies (and record) by a significant figure on the Right. David Stockman was Reagan's Budget Director and one of the fathers of "supply side" economics. And he is angry.This article is important, because we need to remember that there aren't just two alternatives. Each economic alternative (Obama's and Romney's) represents various possibilities from within the Right and the Left, and these should be addressed too.
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I have to admit that as a writer, I also very much the like expression "folded like a lawn chair."
Stockman sounds as scarey as Ryan, just in a different way!
True. But his position, unlike Ryan's, is coherent. One can't have small government and the kind of free market that Romney talks about without attacking the monopolies and downsizing the military(-industrial complex).
I can't think of a single Republican President since Calvin Coolidge who has actually pursued a small-government policy. They want big government just as much as the Democrats do, just big in different ways. The one possible exception to that might be Ike, but even he favored big government projects such as the Interstate Highway system. Ike also warned against the 'military-industrial complex,' but only at the end of his administration.
Every time I drive on I-95 from Florida to Pennsylvania I say: "I like Ike" except when I pass through South Carolina and Virginia where I got speeding tickets.
The only way Ike could get into this year's GOP conclave would be by having a heart attack right in front of the door to the convention hall. Ditto T.R. And as for Lincoln, if he had a heart attack there, they'd just roll him into the gutter, or find someone to roll him into the gutter for them. That the inventor of Ronald Reagan's magic asterisk in budgeting (details to come later) should find Paul Ryan's specified tax cuts and unspecified loophole closings appalling shows just how much the party has fallen just since R.R. (And, no, that doesn't mean you have to vote Democratic.)
Maureen Dowd writes her best column (on any subject) on Ryan. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/dowd-when-cruelty-is-cute.html... is just replete with quotable lines. "Hes the cutest package that cruelty ever came in. ""Like Mitt Romney, Ryan truly believes he made it on his own, so everyone else can, too. He shrugs off the advantage of starting as the white guy from an affluent family, able to breeze into a summer internship for a Wisconsin Republican senator as a college student.""Ryan should stop being so lovable. People who intend to hurt other people should wipe the smile off their faces."It is really better than a keynote speech.
Lovable Liberals? Hardly. Dowd has been dour and sour for quite awhile now, Biden says Romney will put blacks folks "back in chains", and CNN snickers and the slavery inference. Democrats demonizing and distorting is more what this campaign is starting to look like.
Oops - ' . . . at the slavery inference'
Rumble on the Right? Not really. In any case, Republicans mend fences quickly, and we will all get behind the Romney-Ryan ticket.
Ken, Some thought -out posts would be desirable once in a while.
I agree with Maureen Dowd. Even before he was the pick, Ryan stood out to me as somewhat dangerous. Smug is what he is when you consider the accumulated wealth from his wife's family and his own. Do we really want an inexperienced foreign policy team in the White House, not to mention the economy? The "tadoo" about Biden's comment is just that. I wasn't even thinking about Black people...he was referring to untethering Wallstreet from their recently imposed restricitons after the 09 collapse. Talk about trumped up politics from the GOP..give us a break!
David Stockman has been an outsider of the conservative movement for years. He has absolutely zero influence on the GOP. This is no "rumble" on the right.
But are his points well taken?
unagidon: of course they are, but not in Teapublican circles, unless he toes whatever line is dictated by Limbaugh, Hannity, FauxNews, Adelson, the Kochs, ad nauseum.
Ryan is also a trumpeter of Ayn Rand. Except when it comes to religion, war and women's rights. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/ayn-rand-wouldnt-approve-of-pa...
I'm not sure which is more amusing: the notion that David Stockman can be credibly quoted as a significant figure on the Right or, given his track record, the notion that he can be credibly quoted at all.
Im not sure which is more amusing: the notion that David Stockman can be credibly quoted as a significant figure on the Right or, given his track record, the notion that he can be credibly quoted at all.
Nice. Sort of reminds me of Stalin killing all the Old Bolsheviks from the original revolution that he could lay his hands on.So Stockman is wrong? Care to tell me how? I know that his standing in the tribe has fallen, but he makes some serious points that are either true or false.
"Sort of reminds me of ..." Wow, that comparison is over the line, no? And I mean waaaaay over the line.
Give Ryan this. He can develop a program. This is why the right embraces him. All they have is negativity. Ryan at least gives them a semblance of a platform.
I agree with Dowd about Ryan and the belief he made it on his own. There's a post at the NYT's philosophy blog about this - the writer calls it the "veil of opulance" - the refusal of sucessful people to credit their debt to luck .... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/the-veil-of-opulence/
Fr. Jack is back! It's amusing how every right-winger here is dutifully repeating the refrain that David Stockman cannot be taken seriously as a Republican. Did anyone read the op-ed? Where is the apostasy? Incidentally, if the economy sank under lo those many years of GOP fiscal policy, why should it grow under the Ryan plan?
Wow, that comparison is over the line, no? And I mean waaaaay over the line.
I have watched as the Republican Party has moved waaaaay beyond Reagan and yet it still wants to claim His Immortal Mantle. Stockman was speaking as an angry Reaganite, but the current flavor is to claim that people like him are not really Reaganites, which is like saying that Trotsky wasn't really a Communist. There haven't been judicial murders in the Party, but there has certainly been a purge.By the way, I wasn't implying that you were like Stalin and if I made you cry I deeply apologize.
Crystal --Interesting article. But I do think that criticisms of Rand because of her atheism are rather irrelevant. You can be a good atheist and wise in the ways of politics. I also think that anti-Randians over-simplify her appeal, making her the antithesis of such tried and true political sages as Aquinas. In fact, Rand, like Aquinas, was a great admirer of Aristotle (or so she said), and in fact she did incorporate some basic Aristotelian principles into her philosophy. She agreed that the purpose of man's life is to be happy, that human happiness is to be found in the actualization of our superior potentials, and that we are each responsible for ourselves. He would have applauded all of this, and so should we. But he also held (unlike her) that man as a social animal, a being whose fulfillment can be realized only in conjunction with other human beings, and that the state hss the right to make demands of the individual for the sake of he common good.Ryan says he admires Aquinas more than Rand, but we have yet to hear what he says about the necessity at times of sacrificing one's own good for the sake of the whole social unit.I must admit, however, that Ryan is 10 cuts above Romney, who doesn't seem to have thought any further than tomorrow's Dow-Jones average. At least he thinks, however imperfectly.Oh, by the way, there is one thing about Rand I really admire -- she insists that to live a human life one *must think* and think rationally and deeply about what one's life will be, and, I'd say, should be. No going through life just weighing the merits of this columnist latest words of wisdom against another's latest column. We need to do the hard stuff ourselves for ourselves. She's very ARistotelian in this -- man is a rational animal, and when we do not use our reasoning powers full force we will descend to the level of clowns and beasts.
Hi Ann,I haven't read any of Rand's books myself but I've read about her, that she thought the only great philosophers were the "three As" - Aristotle, Aquinas, and herself ;) Maybe I'm not a good Catholic, but I don't really like Aristotle/Aquinas. I vote for Plato :)About Ryan's education - the aquisition of knowledge is good and so is intelligence but they can't take the place of empathy, compassion, or the will to do good.
Crystal --Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be a Thomist to be a Catholic (though some people do seem to think so). I too have only read about Rand's philosophy, though I did read "The Fountainhead". It's about some thoroughly repulsive people, so that was enough for me.I'm not a Thomist myself (I disagree with some of his metaphysics, ethics and epistemology), though I do recognize his greatness in many areas. He really does have a tremendous amount to offer. Let me recommend Edward Feser's little book "Aquinas". It's the best introduction I've ever seen. Amazingly clear. Feser is a conservative politically, but he does give reasons for it, so I forgive him :-) But don't read his "The New Superstition". It's a nasty polemic against some neo-atheists who also write nasty polemics. "Aquinas" isn't like that.
Can't believe you are giving any credence to David Stockman. Oh, I forgot, whatever serves the interest of bashing those who oppose Obama. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are two of the most competent individuals to run for office. They both also happen to be gentlemen of great character. Their proposals are reasonable alternatives to grow our economy.
Can't believe St. Ronald Reagan gave any credence to David Stockman. So wonder why he made Stockman his budget director. Oh, I forgot. That was the historical Ronald Reagan. Now the mythical Ronald Reagan is ascendant in a party that would be suspicious of him if he were still alive.
Stockman has a certain amount of credibility as a conservative because he's liberals' second favorite kind: a "reformed" one (only a dead one is preferable). But I cannot help but find it ironic that some here are citing a column in which he writes this:"Mr. Ryan showed his conservative mettle in 2008 when he folded like a lawn chair on the auto bailout and the Wall Street bailout. But the greater hypocrisy is his phony plan to solve the entitlements mess by deferring changes to social insurance by at least a decade."Or this: "A true agenda to reform the welfare state would require a sweeping, income-based eligibility test, which would reduce or eliminate social insurance benefits for millions of affluent retirees."Or this: "We need a national sales tax a consumption tax, like the dreaded but efficient value-added tax but Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan dont have the gumption to support it. "Since when did folks here think the auto bailout & TARP were unacceptable? Or agree that the welfare state is riddled with "millions of affluent retirees"? Or that a sales/consumption tax is acceptable (remember, a national sales tax is the basis for most "flat tax" proposals)? Are we to believe that Ryan is, simultaneously, so conservative as to be out of the mainstream (Look - there's Ayn Rand!) AND a total sell-out to big government? If the byline of the column read "Ron Paul", I can imagine the treatment here.By the way, with the addition of Steve Rattner to the op-ed pages, since when did the Grey Lady conclude that hedge funders charged with defrauding their investors should lead the charge against the righties? I guess criticism of the right covereth a multitude of sins.
Many thanks to Ann Olivier for her remarks about Rand. I'm not a Rand expert, just someone who has read her novels and wants those hours of my life back.A good place to get a taste of Rand without wasting a lot of time, however, is with "Anthem," a very short dystopian novel written in the 1930s (which, IMO, seems to have been heavily influenced by Zamyatin's "We," a much better book).For Rand, the common good IS the good of the individual. And that seems to me to be a very odd idea for a Catholic like Ryan at a time when many Church leaders are preaching against the evils of individuality.In "Anthem," Rand makes it clear that when people are free to pursue their potential and choose the people with whom they wish to associate out of affection and common purpose, community with thrive. She sees the corporation in romanticized terms (she called herself a romantic), and, ironically, I see a good deal of what the Soviets envisioned for their collectives in her notion of the corporation. Sadly, collectives in communist tyrannies were grim and inept operations because they didn't foster affection and common purpose. Instead, collective members often watched for opportunities to turn hated co-workers into the party boss, and nobody really cared if the means of production were efficient or produced any quality items. If anyone sees parallels with today's corporate culture, well, you're not the only one. I hasten to add that if interdepartmental intrigue, jealousies and hatreds get you fired in today's corporations, you only lose your job. You aren't sent to Siberia or some other hinterland for starvation and re-education.Rand's own experiences with totalitarian communism were interesting. She was very brainy and received a top-notch education under the Soviet regime--an education not open to women under the czars. But she wanted to live her OWN life, not become an intellectual cog that served the Soviet machinery. She managed to get into the U.S. on a tourist visa saying she had a fiance back in Russia (she didn't), and wouldn't be staying. She married Frank O'Connor before her visa ran out, which allowed her to stay and pursue naturalization.
Josh--I mean Jeff: "Stockman has a certain amount of credibility as a conservative because hes liberals second favorite kind: a 'reformed' one (only a dead one is preferable)." What are you talking about? You go on to cite examples of Stockman's unreformed fiscal conservatism. I know it's difficult, but try to take in the point of unagidon's post here.
"It would be best if you used your real name when commenting, but if you have a good reason not to, we require persistent pseudonyms. That is, pick a handle and stick with it. If you post under multiple names, your accounts will be blocked."Or are only people who agree with you (unagidon) allowed the benefit of this rule? If you have a problem with my use of this rule, then feel free to contact me directly, because, frankly, your tactic above is childish.Beyond that, I take unagidon's point as: "This article is important, because we need to remember that there arent just two alternatives. Each economic alternative (Obamas and Romneys) represents various possibilities from within the Right and the Left, and these should be addressed too."I'm evaluating Stockman's alternative conservative proposal by pointing out that Stockman's proposals are actually more extreme than Ryan's, which I would think would make Stockman an uneasy ally for left-leaning critics of Ryan.
I have only and ever posted as unagidon, so you don't need to worry about that.I don't agree with Stockman any more than I agree with Ryan. What was interesting about Stockman's piece are his claims for what Ryan is really doing as opposed to what he says he's doing.
"I have only and ever posted as unagidon, so you dont need to worry about that."Then the rule should be applied to all who consistently follow it, not just insurance executives.
unagidonHis assertion that defense spending is a primary driver of our fiscal problems is absolute rubbish and his use of statistics to "prove" it is misleading. Who cares whether the defense budget, adjusted for inflation, is double what it was in the 50's. As a percentage of the federal budget, it is less than a third what it was then - 70% vs. >25%. More importantly, as a percentage of GDP in the post-war era, it is historically low and significantly lower than in the 50's and 60's when it was at its peak.Also, his discussion of the threat and what is needed for defense display a gross ignorance of what money is being spent on what aspects of the "warfare state" budget. First, the vast majority of that budget is spent on personnel costs, and as the numbers of forces draw down, so does that part of the budget. Also, claiming we have no "advanced industrial state enemies" doesn't address what spending is occuring and why it is necessary. Much of this spending is going towards new types of warfare and defense like cyber and information warfare and systems that can be used in many levels of warfare like drones, command and control, communication and intelligence systems. In these areas our enemies may not be, and usually aren't, large industrial countries, but the threat is real and serious. As for those big ticket systems like fighters, bombers, tanks, and warships, we are buying far fewer, but far more sophisticated weapons. Why? Well maybe because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are operating, in many cases, on systems that their grandfathers used. This is no exageration. China may not be making as many aircraft as the Soviets did, but we will be at a disadvantage if we are trying to detect them with radars that were made in the 1960's. Finally, while it costs a fortune to buy some of these new systems, it costs even more to operate the old ones. Everything from fuel efficiency to being able to find parts for 30-50 year old machines or completely re-equipping 20th century systems with 21st century technology is making these Cold War systems cost prohibitive.He has some points about needs testing and sales taxes or a VAT.My point above was not to address his arguments, but to point out that his opinion hardly indicates some rift on the right.
Fine argument about the defense budget as a percentage of GDP, Sean. The problem is, once you make it, you have to support entitlements as a percent of GDP on the same basis. Also, you are making the "deficits don't matter" argument (at least Cheney's version of it) and supporting those who think that a new and very strong stimulus package, which would create growth and raise GDP would be the way to go
Ann,Thanks for the book recommendation - I'll take a look.
Jean --Very interesting analogy -- Rand's conflating of collectives and corporations. Ideas do survive in surprising ways, don't they. Hmm. I wonder if the sociologists have studied the cultures of the lower levels of employees in corporations. It seems to me that many corporations do manage to win the loyalty of the underlings while others hate them. Hmm. I wonder what it's like to work for a bank these days! Are the tellers despised like their policy makers are?
OK - I will - entitlement spending has increased from 2.5% to nearly 10% of GDP between 1965 and 2012 - so I don't get you point.I am not making the deficits don't matter argument. I am simply saying that defense spending is not the primary driver of deficits, and never has been. Perhaps my take on this is facile, but both in my experience in life and observation of history, the more difficult and costly you make a thing, the less of it you will have, and the more you subsidize and support a thing the more of it you get. It seems to me that over taxing wealth creation and subsidizing dependency is a unsustainable and a recipe for disaster in any economy.
God help the poor oppressed conservatives. J: I don't like pseudonyms, but recognize they are sometimes a necessary evil. (We have, from time to time, considered going with Facebook logins. Still a live option.) But if you're going to pick one, best not to go with something that looks like an actual name. Especially when it's the name of a sitting congressman. Especially when you have claimed that you "share the name with a Republican Congressman from Louisiana." See, that makes you look deceptive. And makes me doubt you have a good reason to use it. No one was ever under the impression that unagidon was his Christian name.
For the record, I have used the name consistently on this and other sites well before the Republican Congressman was a Congressman. I have changed it one other sites when their rules were changed to require actual names. I have not done so here, primarily out of laziness.And I was never under the impression that I was oppressed. Only confused that apparently you choose to enforce your own rules when and where you seem fit.But happy to know you consider me deceptive. Real civil of you.
There are less civil terms for people who deliberately mislead others.
Unagidon--There's no need to be snarky, or to apologize to me, as I was not the one slighted by your comment. The ones slighted were those murdered by a Communist dictator, whose suffering you were reminded of when a former government bureaucrat suffered the indignity of having someone opine that he has no credibility on the impact that tax rates have on tax revenues.You might want to consider apologizing to them. Or simply retract your comment. We all go too far from time to time--I'm sure I have.
"There are less civil terms for people who deliberately mislead others."As there are for people who impugn others. I have followed the rule set forth on this board. If you had a problem with it, you could have requested I address it.
His assertion that defense spending is a primary driver of our fiscal problems is absolute rubbish and his use of statistics to prove it is misleading. Who cares whether the defense budget, adjusted for inflation, is double what it was in the 50s. As a percentage of the federal budget, it is less than a third what it was then 70% vs. >25%. More importantly, as a percentage of GDP in the post-war era, it is historically low and significantly lower than in the 50s and 60s when it was at its peak.
You forgot to include the interest on the debt of our earlier military expenditures (since you have included it entitlements), plus homeland security, military's increasing piece of discretionary spending, Veterans' Affairs, etc. Starts to add up and starts to approach entitlements as a percentage of GDP. And again, if you talk about the Federal Debt in terms of itself, military spending is both a big piece of it and a big contributor to the deficit.Do we need to spend 40 to 48 percent of all defense spending in the world? You haven't convinced me that it's necessary. Talking about old weapons systems seems to me to be an argument that says that we spent so much before, so we have to keep spending at that rate in the future.
Theres no need to be snarky, or to apologize to me, as I was not the one slighted by your comment. The ones slighted were those murdered by a Communist dictator, whose suffering you were reminded of when a former government bureaucrat suffered the indignity of having someone opine that he has no credibility on the impact that tax rates have on tax revenues.
You weren't talking about tax rates. You said that Stockman had no credibility. I pointed out that he was a Reaganite and one of the founders of Reaganomics, which is what the currently degraded Republican Party is supposedly appealing to. Stockman disagrees and all you can say is that he is out of favor, without in fact addressing him directly.As for Stalin, I have no idea what you are trying to get at.
I generally dont like to do this, but some time there are so many inaccuraciesYou werent talking about tax rates. Sure I was.You said that Stockman had no credibility. Yep, when it comes to his ability to forecast the impact of tax rates on tax revenue.I pointed out that he was a Reaganite Well, he was once in Reagans cabinet, but while there, in an interview with the Atlantic Monthly, he made it clear he was not a Reaganite.and one of the founders of Reaganomics,A laughable assertion, he mocked Reaganomics.which is what the currently degraded Wishful thinking, clearly.Republican Party is supposedly appealing to. No supposedly about it.Stockman disagreesMore accurately, Stockman has never agreed.and all you can sayOh, Ive said a whole lot more. is that he is out of favor, More accurately, he has never been in favor.without in fact addressing him directly.Actually, I did address Stockman, and quite directly. What I did not address is his interview in the NYT. As I think Ive made abundantly clear, hes not credible enough to listen to, given the embarrassingly incorrect predictions he made re Reaganomics.As for Stalin, I have no idea what you are trying to get at.Thats simply not believable.
David Stockman was Reagan's budget director and one of the architects of what came to be called Reaganomics. He disavowed Reaganomics and especially what Reagan's other advisers did with things like the Laffer Curve. (Laffer said that a reduction in taxes would lead to an increase in investment/revenue under certain circumstances. Stockman did not disagree with Laffer's ideas, but said that these circumstances did not exist in the 1980's. But it has become a matter of GOP theology that cutting taxes always produces more capital and stimulates investment. THIS is what he disagrees with on the tax question.) Stockman disavowed "Reaganomics" because it didn't fulfill its promises and came to look like just those things he is criticizing Ryan for. The point of the NYT article was that Ryan is in fact not a small government supporter and is, in fact, pro-monopoly pro-crony capitalist. His points are well taken. One can disagree with him, but what one cannot do is to say that he is discredited on the subject of taxes and that therefore what he says isn't true. It might not be relevant to Tea Party circles (like so much of what Reagan did), but it does constitute a criticism from the Right and you still have not addressed it.With my Stalin reference I was saying that the current Right is disavowing its own legacy while claiming the mantle of the people being disavowed. I was equating Reagan with the "Old Bolsheviks". Since you claim that I should apologize to these victims of Stalin, I hereby apologize to the Old Bolsheviks for equating them with Republicans.
Last comment on this subject (sorry, unagidon): J, you impugned yourself when you said you happened to have the same name as a congressman from Louisiana, and later suggested you were just using a nom de web.
1. Again, it's not against YOUR rules. When confusion arose as to the matter, I was clear that I was NOT a Congressman from Louisiana. 2. Again, if there was concern over the matter, you could have requested a change. I have done so on other sites. You didn't. Don't blame me for not doing your job.


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Hi Molly, I am only asking this because you said it to me.You stated Obama is irrevalent, so why do I need to worry about what you posted about him?
Quote from: Paul Hazelwood on April 03, 2009, 11:16:41 PMHi Molly, I am only asking this because you said it to me.You stated Obama is irrevalent, so why do I need to worry about what you posted about him?At this point he is irrelevant because he is no longer an issue in that we are stuck with him for at least four years. Congress comes up for review by the voters much sooner than that.That's what I meant.
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That's actually what it says.Quote from: Molly on April 04, 2009, 07:06:06 PM2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved... bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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OPEN INTERNET (2011) - Aram Bartholl
Homebrew Electronics: A Studio Visit with Phillip Stearns
I met with artist Phillip Stearns last weekend, who took me around his studio. Phillip is giving a class through Harvestworks beginning Monday titled DIY Synth Building Intensive, and he began by showing me the kind of projects he intends to teach students to build in the workshop.
Phillip explained that he enjoys the opaque process of working with CMOS logic integrated circuits, which he finds to be more physical, user-friendly and transparent than working with Arduino. CMOS allows him to essentially program without a computer. Sounds in the instrument below can be modified by moving the patch cables around the breadboard. Phillip demonstrates:
There is one single oscillator, and the pins control the octaves. In his workshop, Phillip will instruct students on how to build an oscillator. Once one learns this basic step, they can then take the instrument further by making multiple oscillators or by mixing or dividing signals.
Paik Raster Manipulation Unit or Wobbulator
Demo video of the Paik Raster Manipulation Unit or Wobbulator, an example of Paik's "prepared television" which distorts broadcast signals or, if used as a monitor, images from a live or prerecorded source. Experimental Television Center provides a lengthy description and diagrams for building a Wobbulator, here.
The Sound of Hard Drives: Jin Sangtae
It's ironic that Jin Sangtae learned computer repair working at a mammoth South Korean tech market, since he eventually applied those skills to creatively destroying electronics. One of Seoul's most important audio artists, Jin Sangtae creates glitched noise improvisations by manipulating exposed computer hard drive parts.
Jin produces his initial signal in Clanger Theremin, a digital theremin available as freeware designed for use on PDA devices. Controlling pitch, volume and modular effects with a stylus, Jin leads the signal through several exposed computer hard drives, each fed to a separate track on a mixer, a process that methodically undermines his instrument.
Jin's impressive level of control over hardware errors does generally overshadow the theremin signal. A repeated series of staccatos resembling vinyl skips can be gradually protracted into a striated drone and then diminished into a paper-thin hiss. High-pitched sounds are emphasized; although harsh noise artists Otomo Yoshihide and Merzbow are certainly influences on Jin, his squealing feedback evokes scientific, mechanical imagery rather than a nihilistic anti-aesthetic. Although Park's improvisations are structureless, his decisions of which ideas to develop at length and which to briefly interject reward deep listening.
Professionally, Jin Sangtae runs an audiovisual supplies distribution company, but Jin's office doubles as a small experimental performance space called Dotolim. Along with a few other venues in Seoul like Park Chang Soo's Houseconcert and Lee Han Joo's Yogiga gallery, Jin Sangtae's Dotolim concert has made him central to Seoul's experimental scene. While Houseconcert emphazises acoustic free jazz and Yogiga is a freeform sprawl, the circle of musicians surrounding Dotolim concerts is an erudite group of tech-savvy electroacoustic noise artists. The Balloon and Needle label, run by noise musicians Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki ...
Interview with Olga Goriunova, Curator of Fun with Software
Humor, fun and nonsense often figure greatly in the current modes of communication on the web, whereby memes and sardonic blog comments are commonplace -- if not expected. Such trappings have found their way into media art practices from Cory Arcangel's cover of Arnold Schoenberg's op.11 Drie Klavierstucke using cat videos on YouTube to F.A.T. Lab's Kanye West Interrupt bookmarklet. The question that these works and others like it raises is this: does humor appear to be a synergistic outgrowth of technology (and how does it relate to its development)?
In the latest exhibition "Fun with Software" at Bristol's Arnolfini, curator Olga Goriunova seeks to document and explore how humorous approaches to software lead to innovation. Working with early net and media artists from JODI to Graham Harwood, the exhibition is a retrospective of peculiar approaches to computation. I sat down with Goriunova to talk about the show's premise and how that premise contextualizes and contrasts the current era of humor and technology.
Code Eroded: At GLI.TC/H
In the inverted world of glitch art, functionality is just a sterile enclosure of creative space and degradation an agent of renewal.
Such was the spirit in the air at GLI.TC/H, a five-day conference in Chicago organized by Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman and Jon Satrom that included workshops, lectures, performances, installations and screenings. Intuitively, most people involved with new media know what glitch art is - it's art that tweaks technology and causes either hardware or software to sputter, fail, misfire or otherwise wig out. Narrowing in on a more precise definition can be perilous, though. Purists would insist on a distinction between art that uses actual malfunctions and art that imitates malfunctions, but the organizers of GLI.TC/H took a catholic approach to their programming.
FREE KEVIN at Art in General
Next week, on October 14th at 6pm, Laurel Ptak of photography blog iheartphotograph will host FREE KEVIN at Art in General. The screening will present films depicting hackers and computer culture from the past 30 years, all sourced from Pirate Bay member pirateturk. For the AIG event, Ptak will show WarGames (1983) and Hackers (1995) from pirateturk's 15.4 GB collection, and the screening will also be an informal ripping party, so attendees are encouraged to bring their USB sticks and laptops to lift material for later viewing. Named for Kevin Mitnick, a hacker arrested in 1995 by the U.S. Government for computer fraud, FREE KEVIN examines the representation of hackers in popular culture and its relation to concerns about security, intellectual property, and technology. A roving, evolving project at its core, FREE KEVIN is realized as a website as well, with a smattering of clips from the films in the collection, and the organizers invite other, parallel FREE KEVIN screenings around the globe. (To arrange a screening in your town, email screening [at] freekevin [dot] info.)
Group Chatting with gli.tc/h Organizers from Bad At Sports
In this clip, Nicholas O'Brien interviews via tinychat the organizers behind the gli.ct/h festival (going on right now in Chicago) for Bad At Sports. The festival organizers - Nick Briz (not in the video), Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman, and Jon Satrom - are all artists themselves, and they aimed to create a collaborative, creative space in their programming for this event, a motivation that comes across in the conversation, as well as larger issues, such as the genre's historicization, facing glitch culture.
Note: Tom McCormack is at the festival right now, and he'll be writing it up for Rhizome's blog soon!
Required Reading
Is it still necessary to define art by intent and context? The gallery world would have us believe this to be the case, but the internet tells a more mutable story. Contrary to the long held belief that art needs intent and context, I suggest that if we look outside of galleries, we'll find the actions, events and people that create contemporary art with or without the art world's label.
Over the past 20 years, the theory Relational Aesthetics (referred to in this essay as RA) has interpreted social exchanges as an art form. Founding theoretician Nicholas Bourriaud describes this development as "a set of artistic practices that take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context"[1]. In reality, art erroneously known to typify RA's theorization hasn't strayed far from the model of the 1960's Happening, an event beholden to the conventions of the gallery and the direction of its individual creator. In her essay Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, Claire Bishop describes Rikrit Tiravanija's dinners as events circumscribed in advance, using their location as a crutch to differentiate the otherwise ordinary action of eating a meal as art[2]. A better example of the theory of RA succinctly put into action can be seen in anonymous group activities on the internet, where people form relations and meaning without hierarchy.
Started in 2003, 4Chan.org is one such site, and host to 50 image posting message boards, (though one board in particular, simply titled '/b/', is responsible for originating many of the memes we use to burn our free time.) The site's 700,000 daily users post and comment in complete anonymity; a bathroom-stall culture generating posts that alternate between comedic brilliance, virulent hate ...
1 Question Interview with Billy Rennekamp
This weekend, DIY storefront art space Cleopatra's in Brooklyn will be hosting an exhibition for Billy Rennekamp's WIN WIN. The event kicks off tonight with a talk on video games and cheats hosted by designers/writers Charles Pratt and Simon Ferrari. This exhibit is an extension of Rennekamp's BA thesis project at Bard, titled Big Head Mode. Focused on the idea of cheats in video games, and especially the agency yielded by the use and development of cheats in game play, the works in this installation comprise a 3D video game made by the artist, a prepared version of a Pokemon ROM, and a mix of hand sewn and store-bought sports balls littered throughout the space. In anticipation of the show, I conducted a one question interview with Rennekamp, à la Rafael Rozendaal's One Question Interview blog.
(Full disclosure - Billy is a former Rhizome intern extraordinaire and a member of badass internet surf club Loshadka.)
What makes cheats so satisfying?
We spend our life building up this little rule book that describes how everything works. So when we see something that defies these fundamental rules, we freak out. The unusual and unexplained are always fascinating.
Things are supposed to work a certain way. They've worked that way forever. But then they stop and the rules might bend or even break. When that happens a special energy is produced. Every time something rare occurs--something outside the ordinary--people make wishes and try to harness that power. Needless to say the power is felt. When I was three I got bitten by a Brown Recluse. My arm was swollen with pustules for weeks and the necrosis on my hand left a permanent scar. There's nothing beneficial about a scar, but I ...


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I have come across a wonderful bizarre fanzine/CD called 'Da Liverpool a San Siro' which is basically a tribute to the football culture the Spion Kop at Liverpool FC created.
The fanzine/cd was created by the Milan (fans)Commandos at AC Milan Curva Sud section of the ground.
The fanzine is completely in Italian-which I don't speak-and it seems to draw parellels between the Milan Commandos and their idols Liverpool's Kop.
The CD features samples of both crowds and other football related songs (Barmy Army)and Italian cheesy house.
So just glancing through a fanzine about Italian terrace culture and its influences in Italian and what do I see ?
808 State's name jumps out at me in an article.
Maybe Franco could translate please ?
"Arrivamo fino ai nostri giorni,chiaramente,con le musiche attuali,ricordando il gruppo house-techno 808 State che,come dichiarano i suoi componeti, 'scrivano musica pensando di essere sulle terraces a guardarsi la partita ricreando gli stessi momenti:il prima-e il dopo-parti-ta,i ritmi e la tensione del tempo dio gioco,le occasion mancate,l'esultanza del gol ' "