Good Anti-Right Wing Rant

"Cheap-labor conservative" is a moniker they will never shake, and never live down. Because its exactly what they are. You see, cheap-labor conservatives are defenders of corporate America ? whose fortunes depend on labor. The larger the labor supply, the cheaper it is. The more desperately you need a job, the cheaper youll work, and the more power those "corporate lords" have over you. If you are a wealthy elite ? or a "wannabe" like most dittoheads ? your wealth, power and privilege is enhanced by a labor pool, forced to work cheap.
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AI Depends On Your Point Of View

Even the dumbest people can look at a situation from several different angles. But thats still a problem for even the smartest computer systems. The Real-World Reasoning project, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program, is designed to get computers to start examining situations in more than one way. Its part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the Agencys Information Processing Technology Office, or IPTO, to move toward machines that can think for themselves. Software has gotten a lot smarter in recent years -- computers are now much better at recommending books, guessing your chances for getting appendicitis, and even piloting a spaceship. But each of these efforts requires a different type of reasoning. And programs still stink at switching from one mode to another.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,59799,00.html

Robot Rover Covers 1km Of Rough Terrain Autonomously

Experiments completed. We came to the Atacama this field season to gain information and experience. We will now begin research and development of a comprehensive robotic system that will seek life in desert environments. To enable that process we needed understand the requirements and make basic measurements for system design. We have been working from an experimental plan in which we intended to test components and subsystems and to collect data in the relevant environment.
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/atacama/

Gravity Density Survey Of The Earth

The sweep of colours shows minute variations in the Earths gravitational field. If you were to fly over the red areas, you would be tugged ever so slightly downwards; the blues mark regions where the planets attraction is much weaker. These gravity anomalies, as they are known, are imperceptible to the human senses, and so the scientists have wrapped the data on to a sphere and exaggerated the highs and lows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3093927.stm

Zen In The Workplace

Increasingly, the overstretched and overburdened have a new answer to work lives of gunning harder for what seems like less and less: Dont just do something -- sit there. Companies increasingly are falling for the allure of meditation, too, offering free, on-site classes. Theyre being won over, in part, by findings at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Massachusetts, and the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University that meditation enhances the qualities companies need most from their knowledge workers: increased brain-wave activity, enhanced intuition, better concentration, and the alleviation of the kinds of aches and pains that plague employees most.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_30/b3843076.htm

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