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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
“Our space agencies won’t be able to push out farther into space, to a destination like Mars, until we can learn more about how to strengthen the weakest links in the chain that make space flight possible: the human body and mind… [V]ery little is known about what occurs after month six. The symptoms may get precipitously worse in the ninth…[Read more]
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
” I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like a very old man getting out of a recliner… I make it to my bedroom without incident and close the door behind me. Every part of my body hurts. All my joints and all of my muscles are protesting the crushing pressure of gravity. I’m also nauseated, though I haven’t thrown up……[Read more]
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Astronaut shares his physical experience of a year long mission’s space effects. Wow.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/north-america/astronaut-scott-kelly-on-the-devastating-effects-of-a-year-in-space-20170922-gyn9iw.html -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
This is a good article on the issue of personal data and lack of authority you or I have over it, along with the Equifax crisis being a “chance” for power players to shift to biometric systems:
Biometric ID Fairy: A Misguided Response to the Equifax Mess that Will Only Enrich Cybersecurity Grifters and Strengthen the Surveillance…[Read more] -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Who is wooing whom? Is Japan acting at the behest of its imperial overlords or driving its own agenda? Given some of the recent US statements about India’s role (and chastisement of Pakistan), I suggest there might be some imperial encouragement.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/India-Japan-alliances-emerging-amid-IoT-revolution
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Terrorism tentacles reaching to Malaysia. I wonder who is threatening them about what.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/Malaysia-arrests-eight-over-suspected-terror-links
The origins of one of them are interesting: “Police said the arrested Albanian, a law lecturer at a local public university, has contact with…[Read more] -
Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
“Contrary to recurring rumors that the fire was created from excess money creation, the FDNY said that a generator on the roof of the building caused the fire in a chimney, although the severity of the damage to the building is not known.”
Electromagnetic pulses can set heavy duty electrical equipment on fire. See for instance the Carrington…[Read more]-
They will never show pictures of the inside.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Globalization continues apace, this time it’s Australia’s auto manufacturing industry that is closing down
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/Car-manufacturing-reaches-end-of-the-road-in-Australia -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Finally there is some condemnation of the Yemen atrocities…. if only it actually meant anything of import to be blacklisted at the UN…. But sadly, this is suspicious timing and therefore I think is nothing really to do with condemnation but more to do with Russia hysteria: the blacklisting comes when the Saudi king visits Russia. So this is…[Read more]
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
I think perhaps they were “removed”. I see one of the stories was an investigation into ties between Clinton Foundation and Guatemalan sex trafficking – an investigation being done by the poster. I hope the poster is alive and has not been suicided.
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I hope the same.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Having worked in the tech sector for about 15 years, I can see why people might become unstable:
– constant, incomplete, shifting projects;
– many “products” not really products but just marketing wrap around “happy” accidents of success;
– no real, substantive communication between “sales”, ” engineering” and “finance”;
– “god” complex of…[Read more]-
… – unrealistic deadlines, then throwing more programmers at the problem during the construction phase (waterfall);
– PM’s that allow scope creep;
– burnout;
and my favorite – “That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. It can be a bug in the next release cycle”
But yeah, the god-complex (w/ the associated ego clashes) is a big one.
Like you said:…[Read more]
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
More commentary on the deleterious effects of the current incarnations of technology
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/interrogation/2017/10/why_it_s_time_to_panic_about_the_power_of_big_technology.html-
That was a GREAT find Cara1
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Silicon Valley heretics turning off their phones and disconnecting from the Internet…..
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia-
More commentary on the deleterious effects of the current incarnations of technology
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/interrogation/2017/10/why_it_s_time_to_panic_about_the_power_of_big_technology.html-
That was a GREAT find Cara1
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
How interesting… it seems someone is trying (has been trying since at least 2010) to get a movie/TV series made that is set in and possibly tells some stories about this South American area, the “Triple Frontier” – and they are dogged with problems…. someone doesn’t want said movie/TV series made?
http://screenrant.com/triple-frontier-ben-affleck-exit/-
I agree… all focus has been on Suni terrorist groups but the Shia ones are also worth watching carefully
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
This is from 2002 but might still be relevant. Re the financing of Hezbollah:
“Although much attention has focused on the flow of Iranian aid to Hezbollah, estimated at $60-100 million per year, the group has also relied extensively on funding from the Shi’ite Lebanese Diaspora in West Africa, the United States and, most importantly, the so-called…[Read more]-
How interesting… it seems someone is trying (has been trying since at least 2010) to get a movie/TV series made that is set in and possibly tells some stories about this South American area, the “Triple Frontier” – and they are dogged with problems…. someone doesn’t want said movie/TV series made?
http://screenrant.com/triple-frontier-ben-affleck-exit/-
I agree… all focus has been on Suni terrorist groups but the Shia ones are also worth watching carefully
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
What will emerge from this Iranian-Turkish dialogue I wonder? Hezbollah is only briefly mentioned but I get the feeling they are more important in this than is being acknowledged
http://www.atimes.com/article/iraqi-kurdistan-fly-regional-spiders-turkey-iraq-iran/-
This is from 2002 but might still be relevant. Re the financing of Hezbollah:
“Although much attention has focused on the flow of Iranian aid to Hezbollah, estimated at $60-100 million per year, the group has also relied extensively on funding from the Shi’ite Lebanese Diaspora in West Africa, the United States and, most importantly, the so-called…[Read more]-
How interesting… it seems someone is trying (has been trying since at least 2010) to get a movie/TV series made that is set in and possibly tells some stories about this South American area, the “Triple Frontier” – and they are dogged with problems…. someone doesn’t want said movie/TV series made?
http://screenrant.com/triple-frontier-ben-affleck-exit/-
I agree… all focus has been on Suni terrorist groups but the Shia ones are also worth watching carefully
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Finland is considering rail link to Russia and China…. I like the name “Ice Silk Road”
http://www.atimes.com/article/finland-confirms-rail-study-underway-ice-silk-road-link-china-russia/-
This Arctic plan is great! There is already rail link connecting Southern Finland to Russia and China. You can travel from Helsinki to Moscow by train, and from there using the Trans-Siberian railway, to Russian Far East and China.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
My goodness! Had a really odd thought while watching this: “these guys look like some of the movies representations of aliens”. I wonder if that was in purpose?
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Good grief…. btw send me your email… I found an old WW2 or pre-war Italian newsreel I think you might be interested in.
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Linksys is owned by Cisco. I used to work with a technology “partner” (read: exploited subcontractor) of Cisco’s. Heard a few strange things about John Chambers (exec chairman and former CEO) during that time. Watch him on some videos done by Cisco: he is very unsettling
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Thank you Cara.
https://wikileaks.org/vault7/
scroll down to Cherry Blossom.You’re right about Chambers. Isn’t it funny how all the tech (leaders ?) people in high positions are, (what’s the word,) unstable ?
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Having worked in the tech sector for about 15 years, I can see why people might become unstable:
– constant, incomplete, shifting projects;
– many “products” not really products but just marketing wrap around “happy” accidents of success;
– no real, substantive communication between “sales”, ” engineering” and “finance”;
– “god” complex of…[Read more]-
… – unrealistic deadlines, then throwing more programmers at the problem during the construction phase (waterfall);
– PM’s that allow scope creep;
– burnout;
and my favorite – “That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. It can be a bug in the next release cycle”
But yeah, the god-complex (w/ the associated ego clashes) is a big one.
Like you said:…[Read more]
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” I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like a very old man getting out of a recliner… I make it to my bedroom without incident and close the door behind me. Every part of my body hurts. All my joints and all of my muscles are protesting the crushing pressure of gravity. I’m also nauseated, though I haven’t thrown up……[Read more]
“Our space agencies won’t be able to push out farther into space, to a destination like Mars, until we can learn more about how to strengthen the weakest links in the chain that make space flight possible: the human body and mind… [V]ery little is known about what occurs after month six. The symptoms may get precipitously worse in the ninth…[Read more]