| Friday,
June 24, 2011 TSA shakedown in Tampa -
Dear Jerry,
It is late and I was just running through stuff on my
computer before heading for bed when I saw the story about VIPR and the TSA
shaking down a bus station on your site. I tried looking for it online and
found no major outlet talking about it. I searched "TSA" on the Fox channel
13 site for the Tampa area and did not come up with it. I tried on another
major news site-no joy. I see a rather sketchy clip on YouTube. Admittedly
this is not extensive research.
Now I would not put this incident as being beyond
something TSA would do. However, I would expect to see something on a major
news outlet, and would also expect to hear at least token yelling by some
civil rights organization. Maybe things really are this bad already, but I
would really like to find a mainstream source for this story.
If this is true, it is chilling. If it is a hoax, it
says something about the fears building in our nation. If it is a hoax I
wish "they" would consider that fake footage will steal the strength of
anything that is real.
Respectfully, Rose
I have looked -- not very hard -- for
confirmations, and found none, and I have asked in a couple of conferences
of people who have better connections than most.
I am concerned mostly that we can't just say,
"nonsense!" and have done with it -which we most certainly could have any
time in the last Millennium. I hat to think that such things are possible;
but then I would have said it was impossible that a Federal Agent woud try
to confiscate a retired general's Medal of Honor on the grounds that it
might be used as a weapon on an airplane flight, and that, alas, was
entirely true. I would have thought that any Federal Officer who tried
that needed to be dismissed, on the grounds of stupidity, but if not on
that, on the grounds that we do not want anyone who would do that to be a
federal officer.
==
Here is another that one hopes cannot possibly be
true.
A woman was arrested for videotaping police from her
front yard in Rochester, New York.
The woman, who is unidentified at this point, was
recording a traffic stop where police had a man handcuffed on May 12th. The
video was uploaded to Blip TV today.
The cops noticed her recording and started hassling
her with absurd notions.
“I don’t feel safe with you standing behind me, so I’m
going to ask you to go into your house,” the cop said.
“You seem very anti-police … due to what you said to
me before you started taping me.”
It is not clear what she said before she started
recording, but if she said anything threatening, they would have arrested
her at that moment.
She ended up getting handcuffed and taken away after
she refused to walk into her house, even though she was clearly on her own
property. </>
http://www.pixiq.com/rochester-police-
arrest-woman-for-videotaping-them.html
-------- Most Respectfully,
Joshua Jordan, KSC
==
But we have
Now this is something I found in a mainstream
Florida news source -
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/
orl-travel-troubleshooter-2-062111,0,7986388.column
Don't shoot photos or video? But it's a public space
R, Rose
But this is the most open administration in the
history of the nation
==
FBI
Jerry,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43488005/
ns/technology_and_science-the_new_york_times/
The F.B.I. seized Web servers in a raid on a data
center early Tuesday, causing several Web sites, including those run by the
New York publisher Curbed Network, to go offline.
<snip>Mr. Ostroumow said that the F.B.I. was only
interested in one of the company’s clients but had taken servers used by
“tens of clients.”<snip>It is not clear what the F.B.I. was looking for, or
whether the raid was in response to recent attacks by hacker groups on
corporate and government sites.
A government official who declined to be named said
earlier in the day that the F.B.I. was actively investigating the Lulz
Security group and any affiliated hackers. The official said the F.B.I. had
teamed up with other agencies in this effort, including the Central
Intelligence Agency and cybercrime bureaus in Europe.<snip>
Jim
=============
DailyTech - USC Researchers Switch Rat Memories On
and Off,
Researchers Switch Rat Memories On and Off with
chemicals:
http://www.dailytech.com/USC+Researchers+
Switch+Rat+Memories+On+and+Off/article21964.htm
OK. We expected this would come someday. But this next
is fascinating: “In addition, the researchers built an artificial
hippocampal system that could mimic the interactions between the CA3 and
CA1. When the electronic device was activated, the pharmacologically blocked
rats were able to remember their long-term training once again.”
Ed
=============
Good News
<.> Increasing federal debt will be a growing burden
on government action, crowding out lawmakers’ ability to adopt tax and
spending priorities in good times and reducing flexibility during
recessions, all while making a fiscal crisis more likely and hindering
long-term growth, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said
Wednesday. </> http://www.nationaljournal.com/budget/cbo-releases-daunting-long-term-outlook-20110622
Now I know that seems like bad news at first, but the
operative words are: "a growing burden on government action". You see, when
they can't act we won't suffer! =) If only that were true...
-------- Most Respectfully, Joshua Jordan, KSC
Good news. Yes, of course.
===========
Sea Shadow
Not an example of a Naval reduction in force.
The Navy will scrap a twenty-six year old X-Project
test vehicle. They tried for five years to get a museum to take it, no
takers.
I cannot imagine the Navy failed to wring everything
out of the Sea Shadow she had to give, not in twenty-one years of
operation's. You can see design features obviously based on her in the
latest classes of USN destroyers and frigates.
Not to mention that the ultimate stealth ship was
invented about two hundred years ago.
By Robert Fulton.
But the Surface Warfare guys are clever, and equipped
with iron rice bowls. Kind of like the fighter jocks. Fortunately the Army
finally got rid of the cavalry, or we might still have those dashing
troopers insisting they were still relevant.
Then again, a horse is fairly stealthy, at least
compared to a tank, and as long as you keep the Old Grey Mare downwind of
the enemy.
Petronius
I expect you are right. Good news. One less thing
to be concerned about.
==========
But where to put the turtles ?
Jay Lake fans rejoice: a copy of the long lost Mother
of all Flat Earth maps has been found!
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/
uploads/2011/06/Orlando-Ferguson-flat-earth-map.jpg
-- Russell Seitz
It's turtles all the way down...
==============
ethanol "myths"
Jerry,
Here is a defense of ethanol… Do any of your experts
know if the statements in the article are true?
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/
five-ethanol-myths-busted-2/?hpt=hp_bn11
In a nutshell, the article essentially states that
nearly all of the criticisms of ethanol use for automotive fuel have been
addressed through increased production efficiency, and future efficiency
gains (such as engines optimized for ethanol use) will make ethanol even
better overall than petroleum fuels.
It seems a bit too optimistic and the expert certainly
has a personal interest in ethanol production, working for Argonne Natl. Lab
to make ethanol fuels work. So is he right or…?
Sean
I have not done a serious study of ethanol for
years, but I do wonder why it needs subsidies if it's so useful?
Harnessing solar power to make storable energy is inefficient. Ethanol is
inefficient. The numbers count, and I have not done them in a while. But I
worry about systems that require subsidies.
============w
f
g
TOP
CURRENT
VIEW Friday
|
