Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance : worldnews. European Citizens' Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income : Futurology. LoveOfProfit comments on What is PRISM? What do we do about the Government spying on us? : AskReddit. Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States. In political science, historical rankings of Presidents of the United States are surveys conducted in order to construct rankings of the success of individuals who have served as President of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The rankings focus on the presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures and faults.[1][2][3] General findings[edit] George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are consistently ranked at the top of the lists. Often ranked just below those Presidents are Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. The remaining places in the top ten are often rounded out by Harry S.
Political scientist Walter Dean Burnham noted the "dichotomous or schizoid profiles" of presidents, which can make some hard to classify. David H. Historian and political scientist Julian E. Notable scholar surveys[edit] The 1948 poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. "George W. Aaron Swartz: howtoget. Talk, as prepared, for the Tathva 2007 computer conference at NIT Calicut. (Additional notes.) Translations: 日本語 The American writer Kurt Vonnegut used to always title his talks "How to Get a Job Like Mine" and then proceed to talk about whatever he felt like. I'm in a bit of the opposite situation. I was told I could talk about whatever I felt like and I decided that, instead of pontificating for a while about the future of the Internet or the power of mass collaboration, the most interesting thing I could talk about was probably "How to Get a Job Like Mine".
So how did I get a job like mine? Undoubtedly, the first step is to choose the right genes: I was born white, male, American. But, on the other hand, when I started I was a very young kid stuck in a small town in the middle of the country. Step 1: Learn The first thing I did, which presumably all of you have already got covered, was to learn about computers, the Internet, and Internet culture. Step 2: Try Step 3: Gab Step 4: Build. Global Capitalism with a Human Face? « AC VOICE. (Pete Suechting)— Why are charity and environmental conscientiousness so widespread, even fashionable, in today’s society? Back in the 1960’s and even earlier than that, these attitudes were anomalies, only practiced by societal outliers. Before Rachel Carson’s landmark work, Silent Spring, most Americans were unaware that humans could have an adverse and discernible impact on the environment.
So, how and why have these attitudes become so prevalent today? Slavoj Zizek, along with the excellent whiteboard animations of the RSAnimate team, attacks the source of this societal transformation with his usual critical, yet deeply perceptive, approach. Zizek characterizes today’s form of capitalism as “global capitalism with a human face”, or more generally, cultural capitalism. Zizek points to Toms as the most “absurd example” of cultural capitalism. Learning of inequality or injustice in the world causes an emotional response. So, how do we address this problem? Like this: Like Loading... Fattest States. Update: CalorieLab has the 2008 rankings, with a map and a detailed table of data. Mississippi has taken over the top spot from Alabama in the 2005 obesity ranking of states by the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH).
Colorado comes in as the leanest state. However, the obesity level for all states but Oregon has increased over the last year; in Oregon, the level remained the same. The obesity rankings were based on averages of three years of data from 2002–2004. The original data analyzed comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and can be found at the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) web site.
In addition to ranking states by obesity, the report analyzes state and federal initiatives to combat obesity, as well as efforts by the health insurance industry and other private sector companies. Update (August 24, 2005): Update (August 25, 2005): A reader from Hawaii asks why Hawaii isn’t ranked. For 2003 the data for Hawaii breaks down as follows: Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff. Compared to previous generations, Millennials seem to have some very different habits that have taken both established companies and small businesses by surprise. One of these is that Generation Y doesn’t seem to enjoy purchasing things. The Atlantic‘s article “Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars?”
Mused recently about Millennials’ tendency to not care about owning a vehicle. The subtitle: “Is this a generational shift, or just a lousy economy at work?” What if it’s not an “age thing” at all? So is technology the culprit, then? And there’s the culprit. Humanity is experiencing an evolution in consciousness. This new attitude toward ownership is occurring everywhere, and once we recognize this change, we can leverage it. A New Form of Competitive Advantage Even in this strange new world, the economic laws of scarcity apply, and they are precisely what’s shifting. The biggest insight we can glean from the death of ownership is about connection. 1. 2. 3. Social Media By Gender: Women Dominate Pinterest, Twitter, Men Dominate Reddit, YouTube (INFOGRAPHIC)
21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity. 2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today. All young adults who think they’re getting a raw deal in today’s economy, let me tell you about how it was back in my day. In 1984, my final undergraduate year of university, tuition cost more or less $1,000. I earned that much in a summer without breaking a sweat. When I went looking for a new car in 1986, the average cost was roughly half of what it is now. It was totally affordable. The average price of a house in Toronto back in 1984 was just over $96,000.
I had it easier than today’s twentysomethings, and I have no problem saying so. This became clear as responses poured in to last week’s column tying the Quebec student protests to the financial challenges faced by people who are trying to make the jump from college and university into the work force. Some responses were heartfelt, like the one from a 78-year-old gentleman who said he grew up “in abject poverty on a farm” and worked to pay for his education. My sense is that’s what they’re trying to do. Back in my day? Gay rights in the US, state by state | World news. The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level. It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.)
In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the world's 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. The data stored in Bluffdale will naturally go far beyond the world's billions of public web pages. Once it's operational, the Utah Data Center will become, in effect, the NSA's cloud. 1 Geostationary satellites Four satellites positioned around the globe monitor frequencies carrying everything from walkie-talkies and cell phones in Libya to radar systems in North Korea. 2 Aerospace Data Facility, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado 3 NSA Georgia, Fort Gordon, Augusta, Georgia 5 NSA Hawaii, Oahu.
Video Channel Chromeless w/ quality selector. Legal Trips to Cuba Made Easier for Americans. Don’t expect to stock up on those coveted Cuban cigars, however. Travelers aren’t allowed to bring cigars or rum back to the States, according to the Treasury Department. Demand for Cuba is so strong that tour operators say that many of the trips already have long waiting lists. Learning in Retirement, an educational program associated with the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse, which is offering a 10-day people-to-people trip in April, said more than 65 people have already expressed interest for its 35 spots. “That’s just through word of mouth,” said Burt Altman, a retired professor who organized the trip.
“We haven’t even put out the itinerary.” “It’s the forbidden fruit,” said Mr. Following is a list of planned people-to-people trips to Cuba. LEARNING IN RETIREMENT, uwlax.edu/conted/lir/index.html, is offering a 10-day trip in April 2012 visiting a range of professionals from Santiago de Cuba to Trinidad including a violin maker and a dairy farm operator.