Posted: May 20, 2013, 11:55 pm PDT - Last updated: May 21, 2013, 12:04 am PDT Mail 775 Monday, May 20, 2013
Harlan Ellison at his best
Dr Pournelle
In a 1994 interview <http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/05/video-tom-snyders-1994-interview-with-harlan-ellison/> , Tom Snyder shocked Harlan Ellison into silence. Hard to believe but true.
Live long and prosper
h lynn keith
That is definitely Harlan at his [...]
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Posted: May 15, 2013, 11:38 pm PDT - Last updated: May 16, 2013, 12:22 am PDT Mail 773 Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Concerning the schools and discipline (see View http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/?p=13822)
And here is an excerpt from a Wiki article on Albert Einstein.
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When the family moved to Pavia, Einstein stayed in Munich to finish his studies at the Luitpold Gymnasium. His father intended for [...]
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Posted: May 8, 2013, 5:31 pm PDT - Last updated: May 9, 2013, 11:45 am PDT Mail 772 Wednesday, May 08, 2013
We have paid a lot of attention to Cosmology recently so this is a mailbag catchup on other subjects. It is a mixed bag on a variety of subjects.
NIMH Delivers A Kill Shot To DSM-5,
Jerry
NIMH Delivers A [...]
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Posted: April 17, 2013, 8:48 pm PDT - Last updated: April 18, 2013, 11:59 am PDT Mail 770 Wednesday, April 17, 2013
First a few words on security:
WordPress Attack
Dr. Pournelle:
It appears there is an attack against WordPress installations that is placing a phony ’500′ error page on the site that allows additional commands to be executed. I don’t have all the details [...]
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Posted: April 2, 2013, 10:27 pm PDT - Last updated: April 2, 2013, 10:27 pm PDT Mail 769 Tuesday, April 02, 2013
One of the lessons I learned from Katrina was that the banks might be inaccessible, and for an extended time. I was switching from one card to another right before the storm, and so was lower than normal on cash on hand when [...]
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Posted: March 29, 2013, 12:41 am PDT - Last updated: March 29, 2013, 12:50 am PDT Mail 768 Thursday, March 28, 2013
Every now and then I am reminded that I covered a pile of subjects long ago and most of that remains available if a bit obscured. I recently had reason to dig about in my old Reports, and found this one which is [...]
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Posted: March 25, 2013, 12:24 am PDT - Last updated: March 25, 2013, 11:19 am PDT Mail 768 Sunday, March 24, 2013
I have a huge backlog of interesting mail. I will try to group it into subjects and clean it up this week. Except that it is tax season..
In today’s View http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/?p=13050 we discuss fracking and natural gas flareoff.
flare off
Dr. Pournelle,
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Posted: March 18, 2013, 12:02 am PDT - Last updated: March 19, 2013, 11:50 pm PDT Mail 767 Sunday, March 17, 2013
Mark Steyn on Overreach
Jerry,
Mark Steyn in his piece "Axis of Torpor" starts with a sarcastic strafing pass on Hollywood international relations – "I greatly enjoy the new Hollywood genre in which dysfunctional American families fly to a foreign city and [...]
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Posted: March 11, 2013, 11:13 pm PDT - Last updated: March 11, 2013, 11:56 pm PDT Mail 766 Monday, March 11, 2013
NASA warns ‘something unexpected is happening to the Sun’ in year that is supposed to be the peak the sunspot cycle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2290289/NASA-warns-unexpected-happening-Sun-year-supposed-peak-sunspot-cycle.html
The solar wind’s energy source has been discovered:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08mar_solarwind/
And the probe with the data? "After all these years, Wind [...]
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Posted: March 6, 2013, 10:58 pm PDT - Last updated: March 7, 2013, 4:37 pm PDT Mail 765 Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Drone Strikes On US Soil Possible
Jerry,
The Obama administration just keeps getting more interesting, with the US Attorney General telling Congress that drone strikes could be ordered against Americans on American soil. http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/politics/obama-drones-cia/index.html?hpt=us_c1
Will it read your Miranda rights first? Or is [...]
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