Can someone please help me logically justify the rate of return on “investing” $12 billion a month on the war in Iraq? Is that really what the oil reserve in Iraq is valued at? I assume more if you include inflation over the past 5 years. WTF.
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Entries from November 2008
November 25, 2008
And we really wonder why we are in a financial crisis!?
November 18, 2008
The Driving Plane
I love ideas which turn accepted orthodoxies on their heads. In this case, the science, fiction, and science fiction perspective on the future of transportation has long been the flying car. Imagine being stuck in traffic and then blasting over the jam, touching down and taxiing right into your driveway. Cool, but I’ve never seen [...]
November 18, 2008
Will humans live to see 10G or even 20G wireless technology???
From the creation of the internet by Tim Burners Lee in 1989 to the latest technology running in 3G wireless networks, the world has literally seen what some call the greatest human invention of all time grow up right before their eyes. (Always funny to think about what work must have been like before 1990… [...]
November 14, 2008
CharterforCompassion.com
Basically describes my thoughts on the meaning and purpose of religion… charterforcompassion.com
Check out the 2008 TED Prize Wish: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/karen_armstrong_makes_her_ted_prize_wish_the_charter_for_compassion.html
November 1, 2008
Bioethanol from Olive Stones
I read this article on Gizmag Bioethanol from Olive Stones and it slapped me in the face. Living in Turkey, I see a lot of olive trees. Not just a lot but A LOT. Albeit I absolutely despise the taste of olives, I love every other product that comes out of the incredible fruit. And [...]
