Author: Simon

It has some people wondering. He said he could not guess how long it will take to determine the cause of the accident and to make repairs. Culbertson said the company carried insurance on the mission, which he valued at more than $200 million, not counting repair costs. He stressed that it was too soon…

It looks like we are having a bout of corruption supported by big pharma. VICE has found that many of the researchers who have advocated against legalizing pot have also been on the payroll of leading pharmaceutical firms with products that could be easily replaced by using marijuana. When these individuals have been quoted in…

A top computer scientist discusses what the brain scientists get wrong. Well, these are metaphors, which can be useful. Flows and pipelines are metaphors that come out of circuits of various kinds. I think in the early 1980s, computer science was dominated by sequential architectures, by the von Neumann paradigm of a stored program that…

I took two of my recent favorite topics and combined them for a ‘net search. Just to see what came up. And what came up was interesting. To say the least. First off, in business news. Ebola.com Purchased for $200K by Marijuana Company. And It Gets Stranger From There. Yes it does. Ebola.com was sold…

Eric brought to my attention that although it is generally true that Prohibitionists reside on the conservative right it is not strictly true. In Louisiana Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu opposes medical cannabis while her main opponent Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La favors medical cannabis. There’s no reason Landrieu shouldn’t be for legalizing marijuana in such situations.…

Let us say that by transmission methods encouraged by the left Ebola doubles every 21 days. In 31 doublings there will be 4 billion dead. Lets do the math 31 *21 = 651 days. A little less than two years. A commenter elsewhere who made a similar calculation says: The above post is a bit…

A screed by ChiefIO on Ebola: F*#king Hubris of Ebola Doctors and Loony Left. So we’ve already dodged the bullet once (maybe – we still have about 3 weeks to know) in Dallas. So what happens? ANOTHER brilliantly clueless idiot who is enamored of his own specialness and noble cause manages to put all of…

I last visited this subject in March of 2013. In light of my many posts on how cannabis can cure cancer at least in some people and given this is breast cancer awareness month, and in recognition of the GOP effort to continue drug prohibition I thought the subject could use a revisit. A definition…

Eric covered the nomination of Vanita Gupta, as acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, runnning down the Drug War aspects of her nomination. Surprisingly, a pro drug site, The Weed Blog, covered some other aspects. The Washington Post reports that Obama intends to nominate Vanita Gupta, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Deputy…

This is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And it is a Big Deal. So big our local paper made its front page pink. Evidently no one is aware that cannabis can cure some (maybe all) breast cancer. From the US Government. Copious links omitted here are available at the link. Antitumor Effects One study in mice…

In other news: Asking If ‘Big Gov’t Sucks’ Got This Girl Kicked Off Campus. Because you only have free speech rights in free speech zones. The rest of the country is zoned unfree. And a real surprise here: A Heart Warming Police Story. Sort of. At least no one was shot. And no puppies were…

I’m reading (well skimming more like) a long article on the woes of being an Alzheimer’s care giver in National Journal. No where in the article is there anything about how cannabis can help. Extremely low levels of the compound in marijuana known as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, may slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s…

Dave has already touched on it, but I just couldn’t resist. pResident Obama appoints a lawyer to head ebola response. Not a doctor or a nurse, not a public health specialist or a disease researcher. A lawyer. Normally when you want to solve a problem you bring on some one who has relevant training and…

NASA confirms ‘impossible’ thruster actually works, could revolutionize space travel By Drew Prindle — August 1, 2014 You just bounce microwaves in a cavity. So far about 50 micro Newtons of constant force. Not a lot. Now put this sucker in a circular orbit and watch it go. A nuclear battery would do nicely for…

At Samizdata. Which also suggests Why I Am Not A Muslim. And just for the jokers among us. I did read it all.

I just found out about it from Ulsterman. The “gentleman” doing the carving was a recent convert to Islam. And of course the usual suspects have chimed in. No evidence Oklahoma beheading linked to terrorism – MSNBC. Well of course it is not linked to terrorism. It is terrorism. What they mean I think is…

As you may have noted my postings have been a bit sporadic of late. It is because I have been designing a Stepper Motor Controller. Good for table top machining and 3D printers. I wrote the main elements of the software about 10 years ago to run a Bridgeport Milling machine. To work with modern…

It turns out that Miguel de Cervantes, writing about Don Quixote was prescient. The Don was titling at windmills out of what was then thought to be imaginary fears. It turns out the fears are all too real. European Union leaders announced they will be consolidating energy and environmental goals under a new commissioner, effectively…

The home of the religion of peace, Saudi Arabia, is rounding up unbelievers. Islamist police in Saudi Arabia have stormed a Christian prayer meeting and arrested its entire congregation, including women and children, and confiscated their bibles, it has been reported. The raid was the latest incident of a swingeing crackdown on religious minorities in…