The New York Times calls Cochran’s Ski Area “a Vermont version of the movie ‘Field of Dreams.'”
January 2013
Salon has a list of seven quotes that reveal just how extreme the NRA has become.
I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.
That’s NRA President Karl T. Frederick, testifying in Congress before the 1938 federal gun control law passed.
The seahorse is not the strongest of swimmers … [it’s] more of an aggressive floating. Imagine trying to propel yourself on a skateboard solely by waving a Denny’s menu back and forth really fast. That is how a seahorse do.
See also: True Facts About Morgan Freeman
Bill Bilverstone, a Vietnam veteran, had been out of school for 25 years when he enrolled in the film and television program at Montana State. In an effort to save money, he built himself a tiny cabin behind a junkyard. He’s still there today, nearly 20 years later.
My low-impact life did not grow out of my concern for the environment, or anything the least bit altruistic. It sprang from my desire to get an education without falling into debt. Just back from caretaking an isolated Canadian fishing camp, I faced the challenge of finding an inexpensive place to rent in Bozeman, Mont., where the housing market had gone berserk. …
One glum evening as I trudged over to Bozeman Hot Springs for a shower and a soak, I noticed a row of pint-sized cabins hired out to tourists. Next morning, I found Joe changing the oil in a battered green Civic and suggested I build a cabin in the junkyard. Build it on skids and rent the ground until I graduated and hauled it away.
Bruce Sterling, of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, says the Singularity (“in which superhuman intelligence abruptly ends the human era”) is a looong way off. (phew)
It’s just not happening. All the symptoms are absent. Computer hardware is not accelerating on any exponential runway beyond all hope of control. We’re no closer to “self-aware” machines than we were in the remote 1960s. Modern wireless devices in a modern Cloud are an entirely different cyber-paradigm than imaginary 1990s “minds on nonbiological substrates” that might allegedly have the “computational power of a human brain.” A Singularity has no business model, no major power group in our society is interested in provoking one, nobody who matters sees any reason to create one, there’s no there there.
Unless it’s already happening and that’s just what the robots want us to think…
Here is what you should be worried about.
via the Dish
In related news, the World Economic Forum starts today in Davos, Switzerland. Don’t believe what you hear.
