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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:01:37 GMT -8
The first computer dates back to Adam and Eve. It was an Apple with limited memory, just one byte. And then everything crashed.
Should the Russians Be Allowed in the Olympics?
I wouldn’t want to be an Olympic corporate sponsor if the IOC doesn’t reverse course. The global pressure to withdraw will be brutal. The Baltic nations and Poland are already talking about boycotting. I sure as hell won’t watch if Russia and Belarus are allowed to participate.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:03:14 GMT -8
It All Depends On How You Ask the Question
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:07:07 GMT -8
Elite Universities Tend to Help Wealthy White Kids Become Wealthy White Adults.
The New York Times Sunday Magazine featured a long article this weekend about the transformation of college sports now that college athletes are allowed to earn money off their name, image and likeness (NIL). In particular, the Times warns of potentially troubling unintended consequences as a result of this change, which I’ll get to in a moment or two. To back up, following years of litigation against and dogged resistance by the NCAA, the latter rather suddenly relented in July 2021, after a Supreme Court ruling a few weeks earlier on a separate NCAA matter convinced the Association that it could no longer deny athletes their NIL rights.
In the subsequent eighteen months, many nervous insiders and observers have been rueing the emergence of a money besotted Wild West. While the NCAA scrambles to create guidelines to help college athletics departments navigate this new terrain, an unruly and unsettling bidding war has ensued for high profile athletes, especially in football and men’s basketball.
The article notes that, historically, the high revenue generating sports at UNC and elsewhere - football and men’s college basketball - have helped subsidize the scholarships and other expenses on which programs like tennis, field hockey, golf, gymnastics and lacrosse typically rely. But, as I referred to above, it omits any mention of race in this account. In fact, those sports like tennis and golf are overwhelmingly populated by White athletes. And typically, the athletes good enough to play those varsity sports at places like UNC come from affluent families. Therefore, there has long been a stark fact about the nature of wealth transfer in college athletics. As a National Bureau of Economics Research Paper put it a couple of years ago, before the NIL era began - and as countless other analyses have found - “[t}he National Collegiate Athletic Association’s long-standing policy prohibiting profit-sharing with college athletes effectively allows wealthy White students to profit off the labor of poor Black ones.”
Football and Basketball Allow Mostly Black Athletes to Perform In Front of Mostly White Audiences. Who Profits?
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:08:38 GMT -8
The Media Misses the Story Again
The QOP Two-Step
Republicans are criticizing the Biden administration’s handling of a suspected surveillance balloon from China that entered U.S. airspace this past week ― while sidestepping questions about similar incidents happening several times under former President Donald Trump.
According to the Dept of Defense
"The balloon did not pose a military or physical threat. Still its intrusion into American airspace over several days was an unacceptable violation of U.S. sovereignty. The official said Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration."
"Long before the shoot down, U.S. officials took steps to protect against the balloon's collection of sensitive information, mitigating its intelligence value to the Chinese. The senior defense official said the recovery of the balloon will enable U.S. analysts to examine sensitive Chinese equipment. "I would also note that while we took all necessary steps to protect against the PRC surveillance balloon's collection of sensitive information, the surveillance balloon's overflight of U.S. territory was of intelligence value to us," the official said. "I can't go into more detail, but we were able to study and scrutinize the balloon and its equipment, which has been valuable."
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:10:15 GMT -8
The 2024 Doomsday Scenario for the QOP
It’s begun to dawn on Republicans that they face a potentially catastrophic political problem: Donald Trump may lose the GOP presidential primary and, out of spite, wreck Republican prospects in 2024.
That unsettling realization broke through with the release of a Bulwark poll earlier this week. The survey found that a large majority of Republicans are ready to move on from Trump—but at the same time, more than a quarter of likely Republican voters are ready to follow Trump to a third-party bid. Two days after the poll results were released, Trump was asked in an interview whether, if he lost the nomination, he would support the GOP nominee. Trump answered, “It would have to depend on who the nominee was.” Translation: no.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:20:25 GMT -8
Why Do Nazi's Think Leaving People Without Power is a Good Thing?
A neo-Nazi leader recently released from prison has been arrested again and accused of plotting an attack on the Maryland power grid with a woman he met while incarcerated.
Brandon Russell, 27, and Sarah Clendaniel, 34, are expected to make their first appearance Monday in Baltimore federal court on a charge of conspiring to destroy an energy facility, which carries up to 20 years in prison.
“If we can pull off what I’m hoping … this would be legendary,” Clendaniel said on Jan. 29, according to the court record. She was speaking to a federal informant, who was having similar discussions with Russell.
According to prosecutors, their plan was to attack with gunfire five substations that serve the Baltimore area. The charges come after similar attacks on the power grid in North Carolina and Oregon that remain unsolved; the Department of Homeland Security recently warned that the United States is in a “heightened threat environment” and that critical infrastructure is among the “targets of potential violence.”
In conversations about the plot, according to court documents, one defendant “described how there was a ‘ring’ around Baltimore and if they hit a number of them all in the same day, they ‘would completely destroy this whole city.’”
Do They Think It Will Make Them More Popular? "I Was Just Sitting in the Dark, When I Realized I Should Become a Nazi."
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 6, 2023 10:24:05 GMT -8
This Isn't Likley to Help the Nazis Either
The only Jewish member of the Georgia General Assembly, Rep. Esther Panitch, woke up Sunday morning, along with dozens of residents across Atlanta, to find a disgusting antisemitic flyer thrown onto her front lawn.
Folded into three plastic bags and weighed down by corn kernels, the fliers described the ancient Jewish text, the Talmud, as “satanic.”
Panitch tweeted, “Welcome to being a Jew in Georgia,” along with photos of the flyers as she found them on her Sandy Springs lawn. “I’m coming for you with the weight of the state behind me,” she added.
Panitch is referring to HB 30, a hate crimes measure co-sponsored with Republican Rep. John Carson, that would “provide for the definition of antisemitism” and determine “whether an alleged act was motivated by discriminatory antisemitic intent.” According to The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), several lawmakers say the spate of antisemitic fliers may just help HB 30 get a fresh set of eyes.
True Story About My Daughter in Georgia
She and some friends who were attending Emory in Atlanta were traveling through rural Georgia. When they stopped in a small town, a local saw the Star of David one was wearing and asked if they were Jews. When they told hime they were Jewish, he asked if he could see their horns on their heads. He wasn't joking. He had never met Jewish people before.
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Post by gainsborough on Feb 6, 2023 16:13:56 GMT -8
MH, regarding your daughter's trip through rural Georgia: when did that occur?
I remember hearing and reading similar stories from other people. The most memorable story involved a group of wealthy "end-of-days" enthusiasts who had gotten tired of waiting for the arrival of a red heifer - so they decided to make one. They came up with a hare-brained cloning scheme (or would that be a "hair-brained" scheme?). They engaged some of the leading scientists in the field (I hesitate to use the word "hired"). Most of the scientists were Jews, and they were the first Jews the evangelicals had ever met. The project entailed a good deal of personal interaction, and after a while, one of the evangelicals finally broke down and asked one of the Jews "Please, no offense intended... can I feel the horns on your head?"
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 7, 2023 8:59:12 GMT -8
MH, regarding your daughter's trip through rural Georgia: when did that occur? I remember hearing and reading similar stories from other people. The most memorable story involved a group of wealthy "end-of-days" enthusiasts who had gotten tired of waiting for the arrival of a red heifer - so they decided to make one. They came up with a hare-brained cloning scheme (or would that be a "hair-brained" scheme?). They engaged some of the leading scientists in the field (I hesitate to use the word "hired"). Most of the scientists were Jews, and they were the first Jews the evangelicals had ever met. The project entailed a good deal of personal interaction, and after a while, one of the evangelicals finally broke down and asked one of the Jews "Please, no offense intended... can I feel the horns on your head?" It was around 10 years ago. It's remarkable there are people who have never met a Jewish person. |
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