Sympathy goes out to the families of these two soldiers who paid the ultimate price. There are some things that show us quite clearly why we have to win this war. The barbarians are truly at the gate and the cost of beating them back is high. I hope the CIA and every intelligence resource [...]

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Here is an interesting quiz you can take that supposedly calculates how much of the earth’s surface your existence uses up for things like agriculture to feed you, living space, roads you drive on, etc. I am quite sure it has some logical fallacies built into it (probably does not consider road usage to be [...]

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Here is CNN’s story on the same IBM breakthrough that the NY Times covered in such an amateurish fashion: From CNN we discover that it is actually a transistor that they are testing, not a full-blown CPU. And when reporting the speed they had this comment: The transistor achieved a speed of 500 gigahertz, which [...]

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Here is good news to technology junkies like myself: Here’s the lead-in to the story: Researchers at I.B.M. and the Georgia Institute of Technology are set to announce today that they have broken the speed record for silicon-based chips with a semiconductor that operates 250 times faster than chips commonly used today. According to the [...]

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OK, so I have for years tried to explain to people that a “missile shield” that could stop even just a few missiles from hitting the United States was worth building not to defend ourselves against a massive Soviet or Chinese attack, but to defend ourselves against a single or a few missiles launched by [...]

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I think I’m going to rename this blog “Deck Building Conservative” since that’s all I talk about anymore…. So if you go back and read my first updates on the deck, you’ll see that I originally was not intending to replace every board in the deck except the foundation posts themselves. When I first started [...]

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