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This is my personal journal and day book. For computer related reviews and mail, see Chaos Manor Reviews, which is a continuation of the old BYTE column I began in 1980 with BYTE Magazine.  For the old home page click here. For more on what this place is about, click here.

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Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:38 PM

Escape From Hell by Niven and Pournelle Now Available

Washington Post bash; GM and CAFE

More on Firefighters, IQ, and SCOTUS

Whom the gods would destroy

Ideas and consequences: climate and public domain

A note on Iran and a screed on education

Some skills still in demand

Another publisher collapses; Iran and democracy

AIDS Denial and consensus science

Thoughts on Iran

Are MAC Users Satanists?

Regulation reform

Principles and Parties

We owe it to ourselves?

Finding a theory of bureaucracy

Continuing discussion of Dyson and science

Comments on Dyson

Dyson and Global Warming Again

Note on Judicial Activism

Sotomayor, Civil Rights, and the Firemen

Pravda Pities America

Judicial activism and the separation of powers

Judicial Activism and reality

On Proposition 8 and Sotomayor and other matters.

Carbonated town?

Climate Change and Taxes

Survival

Health care discussion continues

Redistributing the wealth

Parties and Movements

Totalitarian science and national education

Tarquin's Poppies

Chrysler; eBooks

Porkulus

Toxic Second Mortgages

NK Nukes

Tortures

Libraries and Gatekeepers

Hotspots and third parties

Opera and Mars travel

Inquiry on Climate Models

Zombie Macs; EPA and CO2

Tea Parties and future plans

Taxes and tea parties

Pirates and Education

Piracy Incident Ends; what next?

The quiet sun; and some threats

Boggle your mind

The Ratings System; And who's out to get whom?

Niven and I will be at Space Access 2009

Conficker and Malware: Warning

GM CEO Resigns

AIG Executive resigns: his story

Kristol, Dyson, and other matters

Obama on global financial action

New Mailbag; New Treasury Plan

Europeanization of America

Rating Credit Default Swaps

Bonuses and Bailouts

Melting pots and schools

Big Bonuses for AIG Executives. Wow.

Pollution and Green Energy

Success, failure, wishing, opposition, and a Naval Test

Das Rheingold, pictures, and other matters

The Economy continues

More on Limbaugh and the Iron Law

Obama the Fireman

Limbaugh, Obama, Success; And the Iron Law at work

Missions and Force Structures

Musing about copyright

Withdrawing from Iraq and a Strategy of Technology

Bailouts, Kindle, Climate, and MOLES

Obama and the economy

Continuing discussion on the future of air power:

Future of airpower and other matters.

Booksigning done

Sir Terry Pratchett; California Raises Taxes

Smashword and other matters

Are we Stimulated?

Stimulus Mail

Stimulus; the Author's Guild on Kindle; and other interesting mail

Stimulus and Death to the Elderly

The Keynesian Solution

Sunday: mostly good mail

On Progress and more on Stimulus

On Stimulus

Oncologist today

More on education, singularity, and civilization

Education and a grab bag of links

 

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    Some topics of continuing importance

      How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.

    Want to teach anyone to read English?

    George Mosse Lectures

     Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

    How To Publish Your Book as an Ebook

    Pournelle's Iron Law and a Defense of the Teacher's Unions

    Work In Progress at Chaos Manor

    "If a foreign nation had imposed this system of education on the United States we would rightly consider it an act of war."

    Want to teach your kids to read?

    Why the Kids Can't Read

    Ice Age and Fallen Angels  

    What this place is about: Jerry Pournelle's Web Site, including Chaos Manor Mail. Accept no Substitutes. This page is generally updated daily. Most of the action here is in The View from Chaos Manor, and Chaos Manor Mail. Many of my observations are given as comments on  Mail. View is mostly my comments and mini-essays on many topics. One popular permanent item is HOW TO GET MY JOB.

    Extensive discussions on technology and civilization, education, the space program, the future of freedom, etc. With contributions by a lot of smart people. See Current Mail and Current View.  For more on what this place is about, including permanent features, see below. For Topics of continuing interest, see below. And for more on what we are doing here, including saving the space program and desert adventures, click here. For my computer columns which formerly appeared in BYTE, see Chaos Manor Reviews. And be sure to have a look at the various Reports which include trip reports, adventures, and other special topics. For Roberta Pournelle's Reading Program, look here.

    I can make some claim to this being The Original Blog and Daybook. I certainly started keeping a day book well before most, and long before the term "blog" or Web Log was invented. BIX, the Byte exchange, preceded the Web by a lot, and I also had a daily journal on GE Genie.

    I note that a Google Search on Blog doesn't show me, at least not in the first 10 or so pages, but then I long insisted I don't "blog" because I find the word ugly. But I have a fair amount of traffic and a quality readership, so I can hardly complain. This site is supported by subscribers on the "Public Radio" model: if you think it is worthwhile, please subscribe.

    This Web Site supplements my column that ran in the print version of BYTE for twenty years and continues weekly at Chaos Manor Reviews. This web page adds more, including mail to both me and the column. You'll find: Computers, Blogs, Blogging, Operating systems, Linux, Features, Journals, Day Books, Mail, Discussions, Current Topics, Science Fact and Fiction, Space Policy, Defense Policy, Population Density, Global Warming, History, Republic or Empire?, and Other Stuff I think is interesting. It is mostly text. The main action here is in VIEW and MAIL which are updated more or less daily. There is also my work in progress. If you have not the foggiest notion of what you've found, click here. 

    NOTE: Mail sent to me not intended for publication should be clearly marked as such.

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    Report Electronic Piracy Sites to epiracy@sfwa.org

    REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE: A continuing discussion

    The Topics Page

    A Serving Officer in Iraq: Letters

    The Sons of Martha

    How the Ashkenazi Got Their Smarts

     

    See Chaos Manor Reviews for regular columns and show reports.

    Saving the space program: things change slowly. The latest is Getting to Space: Prizes. The older relevant papers are still relevant. Start with Getting To Space. You might also look at The Megamissions Paper about military policy. For my testimony to Congress about what to do with NASA and what we learned from DC/X, see Why Have Nasa? Most 0f the space papers are summarized in this Space Reports index page.

    You will find my essay on The Voodoo Sciences (what's wrong with social science) here.

    Much of what we do here ends up in  Reports. The summary page is here. There are many subjects.

    There are a lot of reports. Each reports folder has a summary page. Contents vary among from Republic vs. Empire (and incompetent empire) to the Yorktown Incident through Christening of a godchild to the opening of a corpse plant to picture reports of rolling my Bronco in Death Valley to a stroll along a canal in Japan. How a report ends up in one folder rather than another seems largely to be whim, but they all have quite a bit of good stuff accumulated over the years.

    There also photoessays about trips to Paris and Rome.

    How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.

    SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX

    Summary Pages:

    Chaos Manor Reports

    Are you a professional?

    More Chaos Reports

    How to get my job.

    Reviews

    The SSX Concept

    If you got here looking for the MegaMissions paper, click here. I find that my space papers are not well organized or indexed and are very hard to find. I'll try to do something about that. The other paper referenced in my recent talk is Getting to Space.

    Some not very Current Topics which continue to generate interest:

    How to get my job: the secret of becoming a professional writer.

    SURVIVAL in DEATH VALLEY: With PIX

    THE STRATEGY OF TECHNOLOGY

    George Mosse Lectures

    Special Reports on many subjects:

    Reports

    THE VOODOO SCIENCES

    The Chaos Manor Columns

    Paying for This Place

    The Chaos Manor Reports Page Index: various reports of interest.

    This is a content oriented site. You are not likely to find pretty new graphics here. This is not a course on web design. I do try to make things readable, and keep the download times small. Topics include: New machines, chip reports, book and game reviews, musings on many matters.  The View From Chaos Manor is updated almost every day. There is a great deal of mail, on many topics. If you don't know why you're here, try VIEW, then  "What Is This Place?"     It can be confusing here, but many like it that way. Reminds them of The Adventure Game.

    WARNING: this place is updated frequently. RELOAD/REFRESH early and often. Good Luck.

    We have testimonials for my wife's READING PROGRAM. If you know anyone having problems reading English, you should look into this. If you home school or know people who do you need to know about this.

    I have prepared a TOUR GUIDE to this place. It may give a bit more about what is going on here.

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