The IRS Scandal, Harlan at his best, economics, and other interesting matters in a mixed mail bag.

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 [...]

Schools, discipline, Feynman, physiology and crime, ice tsunami, and other matters of interest.

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 [...]

DSM Going Down? Navy futures; X-15; Quantum networks; Penguins in space; entangling alliances; Saving slow learners; Science and politics; Gelzinis and the Martha Stewart dilemma; and other matters of interest in a mixed mailbag

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 [...]

A Word on Security; Dark matter stories; Space Access; NASA revives the F-1; SAGE; Tax Time; and other important matters.

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 [...]

Learning from Cyprus, carbon based computers, aluminum batteries, dissent on Dane-geld, and Korean dragons

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 [...]

Korea and the Easter Bunny; Global temperature; when is a cut not a cut; technology and where sf writers got it wrong; and elections and the middle class.

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 [...]

Fracking, The Fall of the Wall, minimum wages, dinosaur killers, and other interesting matters

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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Republic and empire, cutting off his right hand with his left, water and energy for all; tri-focals, reading, and other important matters

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 [...]

Solar winds, ex parte Milligan, TSA stories, and many other interesting things…

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 [...]

Proscription, plain talk about the Holocaust, Security Kabuki, Correlation and Causation, North Korea, and other matters.

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 [...]