March, 2010

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Mar 10

Antarctic Weather, Condition 1

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Mar 10

Artificial intelligence and machine vision for unmanned vehicle smart cameras is aim of DARPA Mind’s Eye program – Military & Aerospace Electronics

Artificial intelligence and machine vision experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop machine visual intelligence, which would enable machines to recognize not only objects, but also actions and how actions influence objects.

via Artificial intelligence and machine vision for unmanned vehicle smart cameras is aim of DARPA Mind’s Eye program – Military & Aerospace Electronics.

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Mar 10

Super-Genius Economics

Martin Armstrong is an outsider macroeconomic financial analyst who is doing time for pissing off some powerful people.
Among the more noteworthy events of his life, he is known for accumulating $1 million USD at fifteen years of age through rare coin and stamp trading and 2) pinpointing the 1989 high watermark of the Nikkei
He recently authored this brief on the European debt crisis from solitary confinement. I’ve done my best to digitize the prose here.
ARMSTRONG ECONOMICS
FROM THE HOLE
I am now in the Hole/Box under “investigation” because I wrotea a habeas corpus for another inmate who wrongl mailed a copy to another prisoner I did not know. I had no connection to his mailing and I believe this is just an excuse.
I am writing this because it is urgent. We are entering Phase II of The Debt Crisis. When the Euro was being born, a special commission came to my London lecture by special request. I explained they had to adopt the original Fed model so that each country had its own interest rate. That they adopted just as the 12 branches of the Fed at first had a separate interest rate to manage capital flow. But now the EC is in dire position and a debt crisis at sovereign level is starting to materialize. This will spread to US/State debt and the CFTC move to limit currency trading by the public from 100:1 to 10: can cuase a liquidity crisis that backfires, magnifying everything.
EURO
/                            \
DEFAULT                 CIVIL UNREST
This is the simple European model. Greece, Spain, Italy and Ireland are trapped. Their interest rate will rise and cause only an outflow of national wealth. The have no way to address the problem that is accumulative.
I have burned my brain raw trying to come up with a solution. But there is only one. A complete restructure that is a debt for equity swap. Debts will never be paid.
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Mar 10

DARPA’s Voltron

“Form of — an aircraft carrier!”

US Navy plans self-building floating fortresses • The Register.

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Mar 10

Dear Leader Repels Invading Sea Forces

Dear Leader repels invading sea forces with superior North Korean “infant torpedoes.”

A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday in waters near North Korea and Seoul was investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo attack by the North, South Korean media said.

via Reuters AlertNet – S.Korean ship sinking, North attack suspected-media.

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Mar 10

Win a Trip to North Korea

Viceland is giving away a trip to North Korea. Enter now, before the country is wiped off the face of the earth.

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Mar 10

All Hail The Nanobots

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Mar 10

Bill Murray Bartends (poorly) At SXSW

So, apparently Bill Murray was at SXSW. He wandered in to some bar and started serving drinks. Pretty much serving everyone tequila shots, regardless of what they ordered.

Unless they ordered tequila shots, in which case they got whiskey.

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