Book Of Norm

This is my blog. I say what I want. I use similes, metaphors, and the occasional lol cat.  I might call Obama the most useless leader since Frosty the snowman tried to lead the North African campaign. I might end a sentence with a preposition. But there is one thing up with which I will not put. The use of "bitch" is out of control. Why, says your inner Yoda, does the libertarian swear words about worry, hmmm? The problem I have is that it is the only swear word allowed. You can't say pretty much anything else. To the best of my knowledge you can't even say "dick" or at least it is rarely used. So why "bitch" which is far more derogatory? I would like to give an explanation here other than massive sexism, but I dont really see any other options. By saying "bitch"  all the time on regular programming but nothing else, we giving the green light to its general use. Deregulate TV and let people talk like real people. Letting writers use jus...

Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs. Different geographical locations, climatic conditions and even seasons offer the widest variety of natural wonders: pink lakes, stunning lavender or tulip fields, breath-taking canyons and mountains, and other places you can hardly believe actually exist!

Unions right now are standing in the way of growth. They helped elect Obama, who has probably done more to harm the greatest common good than any other global first world leader in the last 20 years (don't count Russia as 1st world). Why do I say this? Because he will cripple our economy for years to come, ruin our healthcare system, and damage our world standing. Not only were unions instrumental in getting him elected, they were also instrumental in supporting Obamacare. Thank you, unions. However, there are more direct reasons. The UAW with GM. Thanks to the Obama shakedown we gave the company to the union which ruined it rather than the secured debt holders. What the hell are laws for anyway when might and right are on your side? But right now, one of main things which is pissing me of is the teachers unions. Their job is to protect under-performing teachers. That's just about it. They take a cut from everyone's paycheck and they make sure that no how good or bad ...

IBM - Doing cool shit for the hell of it science since 1938 Yes - IBM made an animated movie.. with atoms. Because they just wanted to show how they were pretty much better than everyone else at bending the rules of physics to their will. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22364761 Atoms star in world's smallest movie from IBM By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A clip from A Boy and His Atom, courtesy IBM Continue reading the main story Related Stories IBM makes 12-atom magnetic memory Striking image shows atomic bonds 'Olympic rings' molecule imaged Researchers at IBM have created the world's smallest movie by manipulating single atoms on a copper surface. The stop-motion animation uses dozens of carbon monoxide molecules, moved with the tiny tip of what is called a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). It would take about 1,000 of the frames of the film laid side by side to span a single human hair. Th...

How old is a startup company? I run one right now, and we have been operational for just over a year, and I have been working on the idea for a year or two more than that. Right now we have 4 employees and are doing pretty well - clearly still a startup. How about if you are disruptive giant who is the biggest competitor to Google, Apple, Walmart & Netflix AT THE SAME TIME. Yeah. Amazon. Amazing. Amazon maintains solid rep as 16-year-old startup, increasing revenue and decreasing profit yet again April 25, 2013 2:15 PM John Koetsier 57   76   0   8   2 Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Updated 2:58 p.m. Pacific with new Amazon stock price data. Amazon stock is up down $10 in after-hours trading today as the company reported first quarter sales that grew 22 percent to $16.07 billion — and income that decreased 37 percent to $82 million. It’s like the opposite of Winston ...

How afraid are you of losing "self" in order to enhance your own abilities? It's an interesting question, and I wonder (if everyone had the $ and access) how far most people would go. Would more intelligent people always looking for more push further? Or would less intelligent people want to spend to catch up? We are now reaching the point where such discussions will become practical matters rather than philosophical debates. The furthest along is probably electrical brain stimulation, but there are others working on new ways of improving brain function. This one I really need. Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, envisions a day in the not too distant future when a patient with severe memory loss can get help from an electronic implant. In people whose brains have suffered damage from Alzheimer’s, stroke, or injury, disrupted neuronal networks often prevent long-term memories from formin...

You probably haven’t heard of HD Moore, but up to a few weeks ago every Internet device in the world, perhaps including some in your own home, was contacted roughly three times a day by a stack of computers that sit overheating his spare room. “I have a lot of cooling equipment to make sure my house doesn’t catch on fire,” says Moore, who leads research at computer security company  Rapid7 . In February last year he decided to carry out a personal census of every device on the Internet as a hobby. “This is not my day job; it’s what I do for fun,” he says. Moore has now put that fun on hold. “[It] drew quite a lot of complaints, hate mail, and calls from law enforcement,” he says. But the data collected has revealed some serious security problems, and exposed some vulnerable business and industrial systems of a kind used to control everything from traffic lights to power infrastructure. Moore’s census involved regularly sending simple, automated messages to each one of th...

Yes, Obama is scary. He's probably the worst 2-term President in the history of the Presidency. But.. I'm also pretty confident that he isn't a lizard. However, 12 million Americans disagree... and 12 million people can't be wrong... right? 12 Million Americans Believe Lizard People Run Our Country Reuters / Atlantic Wire   Share   Print article   Email article   Comments (285) PHILIP BUMP 94,629 Views APR 2, 2013 About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there's a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want. Public Policy Polling has raised weird polls to an art form. During last year's presidential campaign, the firm earned  a bit of a reputation  for its unorthodox questions; for example, "If God exists, do you approve of its handling of natural disasters?" Today PPP released  the res...