julescrittenden.com - 11/21/2008
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IBM and five universities are teaming up to make a fake brain for the military VentureBeat:
Artificial intelligence has been a dismal failure over many decades of research.
The real stuff has had its problems, too.
But scientists say they’re closer to understanding how the brain works and want ...
Do As We Say …
julescrittenden.com 12/7/2008 — Boston's border control chief busted ... for hiring illegals! Howie puts it best:
This town really does need an enema.
How corrupt has Boston become when we now have illegal alien maids from Brazil wearing wires against six-figure federal immigration ...
What?
julescrittenden.com 11/2/2008 — The military is apparently researching amnesia beams as a treatment for PTSD ... and probably other useful applications ... and scientists have already succeeded in making mice forget things. Danger Room rounds up military and civilian efforts:
A ...
It’s All Over
julescrittenden.com 10/26/2008 — Except for the voting. And the investigations. Roundup:
That it's over, a week and a half out, doesn't mean we get to know just yet who wins. Who's winning right now is irrelevant, though I suspect whoever is going to win is probably determined ...
So, What Next?
julescrittenden.com 12/30/2008 — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants "war to the bitter end." Hamas is on the run, its terrorist infrastructure and personnel being blown to bits as we speak. All good, but at the end of the day, all that gets you is a pile of rubble and a bunch ...
About
julescrittenden.com 1/2/2009 — New Year's Day is a time for reflection, a time for charting new courses. I've advanced beyond weight-loss concerns ... which is to say I've accepted a moderate middle-aged paunch and could give a damn. Like the gray hairs and the wrinkles, I've ...
Great News!
julescrittenden.com 11/21/2008 — According to this U.S. intellgence assessment, United States influence in the world won't entirely go down the toilet under Obama. It will take until 2025. Let's see, that's four administrations. We're going to have Democrats that long? Anyway, guess ...
It’s Not What You Know
julescrittenden.com 2/13/2009 — It's what you plan to do about it. LA Times reads Obama's lips on Iranian nukes, notices he's admitted Iran's up to no good. This part is kind of funny, in a tragic, Middle East arms race, mushroom cloud kind of way:
As the administration moves ...
Two Down
julescrittenden.com 2/17/2009 — It may be quiet, but it isn't over. Two to be buried in Massachusetts this week.
Lance Cpl. Kevin Preach of Bridgewater died of injuries sustained in an IED attack in Afghanistan.
Like the title character of his favorite “Rocky” movies, ...
Thanks, George
julescrittenden.com 11/26/2008 — Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of Defense. Politico:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. ...
Faux Marx
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 1/15/2009 — Laura of 11D says this quote is making the rounds of Wall Street. Owners
of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology,
pushing them to take more and more expensive
credits, until their ...
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