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Date:December 4th, 2008Statistics
Confronting The Lies About Barack Obama’s Citizenship
The Chicago Tribune looks into the allegations put forward by those questioning Barack Obama’s citizenship: •The birth form released by Obama was “an unsigned, forged and thoroughly discredited” live birth form, Schulz says. Last summer, Obama’s campaign presented a digital...
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Tags: Politics, Dumbasses, Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome
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(more...)Singaporeans share the worry of hunter-gatherers
Singapore is not that far removed from the society of hunter-gatherers. People do worry about where the next meal is coming from. Not having enough food is the Singaporeans’ second biggest fear, overshadowed only by the fear of losing their jobs in the current recession. That’s what market resea...
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Tags: Singapore
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(more...)This has been the most viewed on jeffcalloway.com and it is not just viewed during the Christmas season, but throughout the entire year. I wanted to re-post this one for people who may happen upon this blog and haven't read this. Some of us are alone this Christmas and its so discouraging to be ...
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(more...)Be careful drawing conclusions from this data
StateStats: Explore the popularity of search queries in U.S. states StateStats shows you how popular a particular Google search is in each state. It also shows correlation with other state rankings such as obesity, income, or unemployment. Here are some examples to get you started, and remember that...
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Tags: Visualization, Search, Google, US, statistics, States, Stats, Queries
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(more...)Just How Inefficient is Communications Regulation? The USF Case Study
One of the reasons that so many of us here take issue with proposals to expand regulation of communications, broadband, and media markets is because we have studied the horrendous inefficiencies of economic regulation in practice. We oppose regulatory proposals not because of a “blind faith...
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Tags: Communications, Regulation, Free Markets, FCC, Revolution, Fraud, Markets, Telecom, Abuse, Economic, waste, deregulation, USF, Net Neutrality, tim lee, inefficient, Broadband and Neutrality Regulation, Tech Pork, Telecom and Cable Regulation, PFF, Universal Service, barbara esbin, Robert Crandall, Jerry Ellig, unintended consequenses
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(more...)On the future of voting technologies: simplicity vs. sophistication
Yesterday, I testified before a hearing of Colorado's Election Reform Commission. I made a small plug, at the end of my testimony, for a future generation of electronic voting machines that would use crypto machinery for end-to-end / software independent verification. Normally, the politicos tend to...
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Tags: Security, Usability, Voting, Secrecy, verifiability, end-to-end encryption
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(more...)Mayor Bloomberg Wants a Plastic Bottle Deposit; Lauren Bush Thinks It's a Great Idea
At the UNICEF Snowflake Ball last night at Cipriani's on 42nd Street, the Daily Transom encountered David Lauren (son of Ralph) and his girlfriend, Lauren Bush. (Ms. Bush's cousin Barbara Bush was also present, arriving with socialite Maggie Betts; both refused to speak to the press; in the Septembe...
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Tags: o2, Michael Bloomberg, lauren bush, david lauren
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(more...)English: I basically have three finals. Today I had an in-class essay that was really hard. The topic was about libraries. Saturday I have a department final at 8:00am, it is worth 20% of my grade. Monday I have a skills and concept test worth 5% of my grade. Psychology: I have a test on the 18th ab...
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(more...)In most areas of Galilee, Arabs constitute a majority. They continuously squat on Israeli public lands and private Jewish farms. Returning to the practice of 1920-40s, Arabs engage in low-level attacks on Jewish farms, stealing equipment and livestock, trampling down Jewish fields, and harassing Jew...
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Tags: Morality
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(more...)Collaborative Statistics — An Open Textbook Model
CC BY (Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean) One of the most exciting sub-movements within open education is the current revolution regarding the evolution of textbooks. Old-fashioned publishers would often (and still do) rack up prices to hundreds of dollars per textbook, but this business model is rapi...
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Tags: Education, Publishing, statistics, Community Colleges, textbook, Connexions, cclearn, open platform, Featured Commoners, ccLearn Features, open textbook, Barbara Illowsky, Collaborative Statistics, Maxfield Foundation, open publishing model, publishing model, Susan Dean
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