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Sunday Feb 14 2010 Hey it's Valentine's Day! Unless you are fascinated with the luge run at Vancouver we suggest you turn to TCM this evening for Casablanca is on everyone's All Time Best Movie List, why? Well intrigue, romance, fabulous ensemble cast and some of the best dialog ever penned. From left Humphrey Bogart,…
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Thursday Feb 11 2010 We completed some presentations in Ethics Class yesterday. The class was presenting their selection of movies with ethical themes. The class discovered, I think. like past classes, that explaining the movie, the plot, the characters, the ethical crisis, and what it meant in metaphysical terms, and well, how and why it…
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Thursday Feb 11 2010 The Chinese are famous for their disregard of copyrights, patents and other IP infringements. BYD is copying entire cars and assembly lines and then attempting to duplicate the effort. So far this is successful. Moving the industrial revolution backwards, they use humans rather than robots, absorbing a huge quantity of unacceptable…
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Wed Feb 10 2010 I see that Michelle Obama has taken up childhood obesity as her signature cause. First Ladies usually have one which is good thing. Lady Bird was known for beautification and Laura Bush for literacy for example. Out of shape kids are nothing new. John Kennedy had an initiative on that back…
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Wednesday Feb 10 2010 It has been said that people can live thru all sorts of changes without ever realizing it. We are there, now. Consider instrumentation, well okay you probably don't think a lot about instrumentation but you should. Within my lifetime we have at one point, and a long point at that, known…
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Friday Feb 5 2010 Jerry Flint comments on Toyota's troubles. I agree that never before has a DOT government man told people to stop driving a particular car. It is hard for me to believe the govt is not punishing non union Toyota at the behest of big Dem donor UAW. As Flint observes, the…
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Sunday Jan 31 2010 Sony Toyota and JAL are having problems. Once Toyota got as big as GM it started making the same kinds of mistakes. As the article points out a one part fits all strategy saves money but raises the possibility of Tipping Point across all model lines if the part fails. Which is…
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The speed of technology that can actually be used is accelerating. Interestingly this happened in previous periods of economic stagnation, the 1930s, just as it is happening now in this period. The 1930s saw commercial passenger aviation begin with the DC 3, already underway with the Ford Tri Motor. Color movies improved, and television was…
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Apple, notoriously secretive about upcoming products, has not commented on the matter. But given the iPhone's success, which propelled competitors to come out with copycat touch-screen phones and centralized "app" stores to sell add-on software, all eyes are on Apple to define what a slate or tablet-style computer should look like and how it…
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I think the whole e book think is really going to take off with the announcement of the Apple Tablet. Amazon's Kindle, Sony Reader, and BN product only connect to the net to download a book. Look for the Apple product to be a big iPhone running all those apps AND connecting to the internet. …
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