http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=1 The Frankfort Post Bulletin Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:49 GMT 60 http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32426936 On one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two. In many ways, the split followed predictable patterns, requiring a hybrid newcomer whod already taken baby steps down a new evolutionary path. But playing an unexpected part was chance, and the newcomer singing his own special song. This miniature evolutionary saga is described in a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Its authored by Peter and Rosemary Grant, a husband-and-wife team who have spent much of the last 36 years studying a group of bird species known collectively as Darwins finches.Read the rest and comment here:http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/speciation-in-action/ 32426936-32426936 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:49 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=13827261 selki wrote: Jon wrote:Or a cop or government official who is instructed not to post on the Frankfort Post or other mediums that promote citizen awareness of issues good and bad.Oh my gosh...really??  That's crazy! Realize it's hearsay and I used it as an example.     However, I've only heard it about 10 times now from varying individuals.I can't prove it.   And even if I could, I will not hang anyone out to dry, which I won't do. 13827261-32389825 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:57 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32387774 by Nikola TeslaCentury Illustrated Magazine, June 1900Excerpt:When we speak of man, we have a conception of humanity as a whole, and before applying scientific methods to, the investigation of his movement we must accept this as a physical fact.  But can anyone doubt to-day that all the millions of individuals and all the innumerable types and characters constitute an entity, a unit?  Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable.  These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.  I cut myself in the finger, and it pains me: this finger is a part of me.  I see a friend hurt, and it hurts me, too: my friend and I are one.  And now I see stricken down an enemy, a lump of matter which, of all the lumps of matter in the universe, I care least for, and it still grieves me.  Does this not prove that each of us is only part of a whole?For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth.  The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.  Metaphysical proofs are, however, not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea.  Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in times to come, when our means and methods for investigating psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great perfection.  Still more: this one human being lives on and on.  The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.  Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole.  Therein, too, is to be found the partial explanation of many of those marvelous phenomena of heredity which are the result of countless centuries of feeble but persistent influence.Conceive, then, man as a mass urged on by a force.  Though this movement is not of a translatory character, implying change of place, yet the general laws of mechanical movement are applicable to it, and the energy associated with this mass can be measured, in accordance with well-known principles, by half the product of the mass with the square of a certain velocity.  So, for instance, a cannon-ball which is at rest possesses a certain amount of energy in the form of heat, which we measure in a similar way.  We imagine the ball to consist of innumerable minute particles, called atoms or molecules, which vibrate or whirl around one another.  We determine their masses and velocities, and from them the energy of each of these minute systems, and adding them all together, we get an idea of the total heat-energy contained in the ball, which is only seemingly at rest.  In this purely theoretical estimate this energy may then be calculated by multiplying half of the total massthat is half of the sum of all the small masseswith the square of a velocity which is determined from the velocities of the separate particles.  In like manner we may conceive of human energy being measured by half the human mass multiplied with the square of the velocity which we are not yet able to compute.  But our deficiency in this knowledge will not vitiate the truth of the deductions I shall draw, which rest on the firm basis that the same laws of mass and force govern throughout nature.Man, however, is not an ordinary mass, consisting of spinning atoms and molecules, and containing merely heat-energy.  He is a mass possessed of certain higher qualities by reason of the creative principle of life with which he is endowed.  His mass, as the water in an ocean wave, is being continuously exchanged, new taking the place of the old.  Not only this, but he grows propagates, and dies, thus altering his mass independently, both in bulk and density.  What is most wonderful of all, he is capable of increasing or diminishing his velocity of movement by the mysterious power he possesses by appropriating more or less energy from other substance, and turning it into motive energy.  But in any given moment we may ignore these slow changes and assume that human energy is measured by half the product of man's mass with the square of a certain hypothetical velocity.  However we may compute this velocity, and whatever we may take as the standard of its measure, we must, in harmony with this conception, come to the conclusion that the great problem of science is, and always will be, to increase the energy thus defined.  Many years ago, stimulated by the perusal of that deeply interesting work, Draper's "History of the Intellectual Development of Europe," depicting so vividly human movement, I recognized that to solve this eternal problem must ever be the chief task of the man of science.  Some results of my own efforts to this end I shall endeavor briefly to describe here.Read the rest, if you can, and comment here:   :)http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1900-06-00.htm 32387774-32387774 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:30:25 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32384001 No problem.  Just call a cop and ask him to electrocute her. 32384001-32384001 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:24:29 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32156142 What's the friend of the family rate today?  I'll be calling you.    Punk 32156142-32368020 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:17:00 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32366279 by one of my favorite people, Peter Schiff.As the unemployment rate crossed the double digit barrier for the first time since Michael Jackson learned to moonwalk, President Obama announced that he will convene a “jobs summit” to finally bring the problem under control. Using all the analytic skill that his administration can muster, the President is determined to figure out why so many people are losing their jobs and then formulate a solution. That's a relief; for a while there, I thought we were in real trouble! In fact, the absolute last thing our economy needs is more federal government interference. If Obama really wants to know what's behind entrenched joblessness, he should start by looking at the man in the mirror. Obama is pursuing, with unprecedented vigor, the same policies that have for decades undermined our industrial base and yoked us to an unsustainable consumer/credit driven economy. This doubling down on Washington's past failures is destroying jobs at an alarming rate. Today we learned that the September trade deficit surged by 18.2%, the largest gain in ten years. Much of the deficit resulted from Americans spending Cash-for-Clunkers stimulus money on imported cars – or “American” cars loaded to the sunroof with imported parts. In exchange for more domestic debt, we have succeeded only in creating foreign jobs.Read the rest and comment here:http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff57.1.html 32366279-32366279 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:57:16 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32341041 It's tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees' e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash to TechCrunch, which has since published notes from meetings in which Twitter execs discussed their very lofty goals. (The company wants to be the first Web service to reach 1 billion users.) How'd the hacker get all this stuff? Like a lot of tech startups, Twitter runs without papermuch of the company's discussions take place in e-mail and over shared Google documents. All of these corporate secrets are kept secure with a very thin wall of protection: the employees' passwords, which the intruder managed to guess because some people at Twitter used the same passwords for many different sites. In other words, Twitter had it coming. The trouble is, so do the rest of us.Read the Rest and Comment Here:http://www.slate.com/id/2235503/ 32341041-32341041 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:17:19 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32094263 I think they should carve thier faces in that mountain of trash at the dump.We could call it Mt Trashmore. 32094263-32334708 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:19 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32322526 I am looking for a desk that is not exactly a computer desk. I would like for it to have the middle drawer along with some side drawers. It doesn't need to be very big, a md size desk is actually needed. If you have something that fits this description please call 765-242-7058.-- Edited by cool_hand on Monday 16th of November 2009 11:36:51 PM 32322526-32322526 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:31:43 GMT http://frankfortpost.net/index.spark?aBID=115027&p=3&topicID=32252286 Do you think ideas don't matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest. A new BBC poll finds that only 11 percent of people questioned around the world and 29,000 people were asked their opinions think that free-market capitalism is a good thing. The rest believe in more government regulation. Only a small percentage of the world's population believes that capitalism works well and that more regulation will reduce efficiency. One-quarter of those asked said that capitalism is "fatally flawed." In France, 43 percent believe this. In Mexico, it is 38 percent. A majority believes that government should rob the rich to give money to poor countries. In only one country, Turkey, did a majority say that less government is better. It gets even worse. While most Europeans and Americans think it was a good thing for the Soviet Union to disintegrate, people in India, Indonesia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Russia, and Egypt mostly think it was a bad thing. Yes, you read that right: millions freed from socialist slavery: bad thing. Read the rest and comment here:http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/triumph-of-socialism134.html 32252286-32252286 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:45:13 GMT