All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

Yahoo! News – U.S. faces ominous fiscal picture with huge deficit:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=17&u=/chitribts/usfacesominousfiscalpicturewithhugedeficit

Comptroller General David Walker’s most troubling briefing paper shows the federal budget growing progressively larger until spending reaches nearly half the economy’s total output in 2040.

The people of America have failed us today:

As Larry says, “It’s over. Let it go.” Jon is saying, “Don’t complain – organize!” Although the previous post about the wacky voting system is interesting, it’s unlikely that any sort of recount or technicality will change the fact that today, the people of the United States of America have voted for George Bush. It was close, but the Americans have chosen Bush. It’s a sad day, but in a democracy, you get the politicians you deserve/vote for. This was their chance to change their leader and they have failed. For awhile, many of us thought that they had been conned into voting for Bush – that they didn’t know he wanted to be a War President. Many people didn’t equate the US policies with the people of America. We thought they had made a mistake. Now US policies = US Citizens. You Americans have my sympathies, but it’s still your fault.
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Thanks Joi,

Next Stop, Hell In A Handbasket:

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somehow, i think that gary might be on to something with this post

Getting all cute and sexy again:

Election day is drawing to a close, so this blog is returning to its regular schedule of unrepentent perversion, news of the wild and strange, the usual assortment of nerdy scientific studies, and the occasional puppy or kitten photo to make you go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

I’m sure I’ll have many choice words in the weeks ahead, particularly if the future brings us a long and bitter struggle to count and recount votes.

But why fret?

PANGLOSS:
Let us review
Lesson eleven!

STUDENTS:
Paragraph two
Axion seven

PANGLOSS:
Once one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this isThe best of all possible worlds!…
(Thanks to Jay for Fluffy.)

(Thanks to Voltaire for Candide)
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this is an arbitrary cute picture repost by me, and it made me laugh.

Predictable Astonishment:

Like probably all of the World, I watched the election results tonight. And the more I watched, the more I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I still can’t. Intellectually, I fully expected it to be too close to call tonight. But emotionally I guess I was holding onto the hope that sanity would prevail and that we’d have a clean win tonight.

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i can’t believe it either….. i just don’t understand that when people take into account the situation as i understand it, they would vote in the overwhelming majority to support it. sure kerry might win the electoral college, but in the end, it doesn’t matter. the people want bush, they don’t seem to realize what has happened to the u.s. during his presidency….

In other news… | Metafilter:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36699

While you were re-electing a president:

Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers.

Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors.

Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment.

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sweet isn’t it…. these aren’t the type of people i think we need in the senate.

HRL – The Humanoid Robotics Laboratory – The Bar Bot – Content:
http://www.roboticslab.org/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2

finally a useful robot.

Subtle submissions:
The Subtle Technologies Festival will take place May 26-May 29, 2005, in Toronto Canada. Symposium submissions are due January 15th, 2005. This year, in addition to the usual diverse program, there is a special session celebrating the “World Year in Physics”; artists and scientists who investigate physics in their work …

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sounds cool…

Candidate Kerry:
[See also comments here.] ~He’s ready, he’s willing, who knows if he’s able?…

not knowing that he is able…. is better than knowing that he is not, which is where my opinion lies on bush, not able to be president in any real sense and generally defers to the guidance of warmongers and profiteers.

The Personal Internet Communicator for Developing Economies:
50×15 is AMD’s initiative to enable affordable Internet access and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world population by the year 2015. With world population estimated to reach 7.2 billion people in 2015, and current Internet penetration approximately 10 percent, there is tremendous potential for 50×15 on a global scale to bring billions of people into the digital age.
New technology approaches and platforms are needed to meet the unique requirements and economic limitations of high-growth and developing markets. AMD’s first step in bringing new technology to achieve the 50×15 vision is a new device product category called the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC). The (PIC) is a low-cost, consumer-friendly, managed device that will put technology into the hands of first-time technology users in high-growth markets around the world, such as India, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and China.

The Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) is an affordable consumer device designed to provide managed Internet access for people in global, high-growth markets to enhance communications, entertainment and education opportunities. The PIC is an empowering connecting device – a simple and accessible platform designed to work with existing telecom dial-up or broadband infrastructure – that delivers Internet capabilities such as e-mail, downloads, Web browsing and more.
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neat! this is just what the world needs.