The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
You won’t read any of this in the US:
Robert Fisk: Madness is not the reason for this massacre
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-madness-is-not-the-reason-for-this-massacre-7575737.html
Even if we accept that the accused legitimately doesn’t remember killing those people, that doesn’t change the act or what …
But it seems 5-6 hours a day is the max for a so-called ‘knowledge worker’:
Bring back the 40-hour work week
150 years of research proves that long hours at work kill profits, productivity and employees
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/singleton/
On the few …
The cost of America’s police state
Hundreds of billions have been spent to militarize our nation against a terrorism threat that barely exists
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/05/the_cost_of_americas_police_state/singleton/
I don’t have much to offer that I haven’t already but thought in the interests of …
Privacy versus Efficiency
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/privacy_versus_efficiency/
Adams makes the idea of zero privacy sound very attractive. I am sure that for youth of today (probably anyone under 35) this ‘loss’ of privacy wouldn’t even be noticed. Barring biblical apocalypse or some such …
America’s endless apocalypse
Over the last decade, we’ve become obsessed with the end of the world — and it’s hurting us all
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/26/americas_endless_apocalypse/singleton/
OK, I freely admit that I engage in apocalyptic talk from time to time (sometimes way more …
Hypnotized into an endless dirty war
America has decided it has the right to kill whoever it wants, whenever it wants.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/20/hypnotized_into_an_endless_dirty_war/singleton/
This is a topic I have felt strongly about for a long while. We are acting in a …
The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Read
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-afghanistan-report-the-pentagon-doesnt-want-you-to-read-20120210
Once again something I meant to publish got lost in limbo as a draft…
Very interesting reading. I am about a third through the report now. I won’t link …
Another March to War?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-march-to-war-20120217
Bla bla bla war with Iran bla bla bla.
This is getting so boring, just like that police state thing I babble about all the time. Can’t I talk about anything else?
I was speaking …
Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/high-speed-trading/
Man, there is money to be made here! Of course, it is very expensive to get sub millisecond access, let alone programming analysis algorithms that can make decisions in this time frame, …
America’s failed promise of equal opportunity
To achieve a truly fair society, we need to look to Lincoln, not Jefferson
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/12/americas_failed_promise_of_equal_opportunity/singleton/
I read this article thinking that I have always been an ‘and’ sort of guy. The article’s author implies …