Week 8

News

Justice Antoin Scalia has passed away.

Badabim, badabum

Eeeyyyy, why are u busting my balls over heeereee..

Eyyyyy..

Republican Leadership

Obama should not appoint the Scalia replacement.

That is ludicrous

For his third appointment, one could expect Bam, maybe, to be more watchful of the balance of the court as Reagan was for his (he appointed Justice Kennedy who became a swing vote in today's court), but I don't think Republican leadership can demand another ultra-convervative paisan Roman-Catholic from New Jersey. Effin Pope himself would be okay - not another Scalia.

Trump Employees in Chicago

Ha ha ha

His employees have the right idea...

I guess I am not the only one who took a Trump in the Trump Tower. Mine was in NY though - more valuable.

Info

There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court building. It's known as the "highest court in the land".

Nice

Boston Dynamics [owned by Google] released a video of its latest robot, Atlas.

Excellent

Its walking ability, balance seem quite advanced. Exciting development.

Comment

Why are there so many anti-establishment candidates [..]

Anti what?

This word is sometimes used to describe Bernie Sanders for example - but they forget the man has been in Congress for decades, and was a mayor before that. So Bernie is also "the establishment", but he is from a different part of the establishment that won some of the recent elections. That's all.

Broadly speaking, I don't think the public will benefit from simply electing an outsider to work inside the existing system - like The Trump. Either the system changes wholesale, becomes something else obviating this incessant need for saviors, heroes who over-promise and under-deliver, or, incremental improvements are made in the right direction by experienced operators who know the system inside-out. Hillary could probably do that, Bernie as well (my #2 choice). On the Republican side it could be Rubio; he seems to be the least insane among the others.

Want

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#SciHub

"A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down [..]  For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns science. 

"Payment of $32 is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them," Elbakyan told Torrent Freak last year. "Everyone should have access to knowledge regardless of their income or affiliation. And that’s absolutely legal."

If it sounds like a modern day Robin Hood struggle, that's because it kinda is. But in this story, it's not just the poor who don't have access to scientific papers - journal subscriptions have become so expensive that leading universities such as Harvard and Cornell have admitted they can no longer afford them"

One Day..

.. I was walking on 5th Avenue New York and... I really had to go. Really bad. You know, #2. "Red Alert", if u know what I mean. I looked around, "The Trump" Tower was nearby, so I went in to make use of their "facilities". I said to myself, "maybe I should take a Leonardo di Caprio" in here... I could not decide. Then I said.. "maybe I should take a William Shatner". But no no, I was now in Trump Tower, so I have to take a TRUMP. A big TRUMP. So I did it. I dropped it in there man.. Boom! It felt so good... This place was weird by the way; I think the sh..ters were gold plated. I am not joking, it's either that or some other weirdly shiny material, everything was so bright, like, you can't look directly at them, they are blinding your eyes. Freaky environment.

Montessori Vs. Conventional School

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